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01 Feb 2005 09:59:47 PM |
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"If you don't show up, you're absent without leave, by definition" |
"If you don't show up, you're absent without leave, by definition"
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"If you don't show up, you're absent without leave, by definition,"
said Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs,
Installations and Logistics under Ronald Reagan from 1981-1985,
Lawrence J. Korb.
"You would be put on active duty and sent wherever they needed you."
Harry
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=178
8/4/2004
Reagan official confirms Bush should have been put on active duty
after failing to train while at Harvard
By John Byrne
In yet another stunning indictment of President George W. Bush’s
failure to complete his required military service, a senior Reagan
defense official confirmed that Bush should have been placed on active
duty when he failed to find a Guard unit to serve with after
transferring to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Business school.
When asked if Bush should have been put on active duty when he failed
to find another unit to train with, Korb said, "Yes."
The Air Force has declined to comment after being reached several
times during the last three days.
Bush began classes at Harvard in September 1973, and transferred out of
the Texas Air National Guard in October.
After receiving his discharge papers, which were postmarked October
16, he was assigned to the Air Reserve Personnel Center (the default
non-location based assignment center).
He then had 60 days to find a new unit.
He didn't.
Under regulations, he was then absent without leave for a second time,
the first being for five months in 1972.
He would remain so until he was put in an executive officer support
position on March 7, 1974.
He is then listed as being on active status, although there are no
orders or documents to account for why he had changed positions and
had been reactivated.
Nor was he qualified for this position, which under Air Force
Regulations, mandates a full year of training.
Moreover, he did not serve in any executive position while training as
a pilot.
More importantly, however, Bush never showed up for another drill ever
again.
The last drill he completed credited him though September 1973 -- a
little more than five years into his six-year requirement, which
should have ended in May of 1974.
"You have an obligation," Korb asserted.
"Back then if you joined the Guard you had to go into a selected
reserve for six years."
The only explanation for such a gross violation of military
regulations was for someone to have "fixed" Bush’s status, put him in
a position for which he was not qualified, and eventually discharged
him.
But it would have been impossible for Bush to have actually fulfilled
his six-year service requirement.
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And ya wanna read
Bush never completed five months of National Guard service
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=163
Deserter: The Story of George W. Bush After He Quit the Texas Air National Guard
http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm
Bush Records of Service Were "accidentally" Destroyed
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/campaign/09records.html
No Proof Bush Completed Military Service
http://snipurl.com/cgxm
Harry
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