Pentagon Finds Bush's Military Payroll Records
July 23, 2004 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Payroll records related to
President Bush's service in the Air National Guard three decades ago that
the Pentagon said earlier this month were accidentally destroyed now have
been located, defense officials said on Friday.
Bush's whereabouts during his service as a pilot in the Texas Air
National Guard in the United States during the Vietnam War have become an
election-year issue, with some Democrats accusing him of shirking his
duty.
Defense Finance and Accounting Service spokesman Bryan Hubbard said
the microfilm payroll records were found in Denver, and blamed a clerical
error for the Pentagon's previous failure to find the records.
"We're talking about a manual process for records that are over 30
years old," Hubbard said.
The Pentagon previously said microfilm payroll records of large
numbers of service members, including Bush, were ruined in 1996 and 1997
in a project to save large, brittle rolls of microfilm.
Bush moved to Alabama in May 1972 to work on a political campaign
and, he has said, to perform his Guard service there for a year. But other
Guard officers have said they had no recollection of seeing him there.
Last February, the White House released hundreds of pages of Bush's
military records. Those records did not provide new evidence to place Bush
in Alabama during the latter part of 1972, when some Democrats had said he
was basically absent without leave.
photo credit and caption: Some of President George W. Bush's missing
Air National Guard records during the Vietnam War years, previously said
to be destroyed, turned up on July 23, 2004 but offered no new evidence to
dispel charges by Democrats that he was absent without leave. Bush is seen
during his service with Texas Air National Guard in this undated file
photo. Photo by Reuters
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So then he did pay all of his taxes afte all!
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