"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message ink.net...
"Fred the Red Shirt" wrote in message
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As you know, he did not volunteer for deployment in Vietnam.
When he enlisted in the ANG he indicated that he did not want
to be stationsed overseas. Later, when he had only a couple of
years left, he did volunteer for a program that could have
deployed him overseas, but not necessarily in Vietnam. He didn't
have enough expience, and the aircraft for which he was qualified
was being phased out so, one does wonder why he did.


Being phased out, but in USAF service until mid 1973.

Here we a

http://www.warbirdforum.com/bushf102.htm

Bush recalls that toward the end of his training, he
volunteered for the "Palace Alert" program which sent
F-102 pilots to Europe and Asia for six-month tours.
He was turned down, no doubt because he didn't have
the flying time to qualify for the program. In any event,
he couldn't have been sent to Southeast Asia to take
part in the Vietnam War, at least not to fly a Delta
Dagger: the F-102 detachments in Vietnam and Thailand
were shut down in December 1969, before Bush got his wings.

I note that the source for the story that he volunteered is
Bush himself.

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FF