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2004 US Presidential Election
October 16, 2004
| AP Finds New Documents on Bush's Service

From The Australian :

Weeks after National Guard officials in Texas signed an oath swearing they had turned over all of US President George W. Bush’s military records, independent examiners have found more than two dozen pages of previously unreleased documents about Mr Bush.

The two retired army lawyers went through Texas files under an agreement between the Texas Guard and The Associated Press, which sued to gain access to the files.

The 31 pages of documents turned over to AP last night include orders for high-altitude training in 1972, less than three months before Mr Bush abruptly quit flying as a fighter pilot.

The discovery is the latest in a series of embarrassments for Pentagon and Texas National Guard officials who have repeatedly said they found and released all of Mr Bush’s Vietnam-era military files, only to belatedly discover more records.
[…]
A Texas National Guard spokesman defended the continuing discoveries, saying Guard officials didn’t find all of Mr Bush’s records because they are disorganised and in poor shape.

These boxes are full of dirt and rat (excrement) and dead bugs. They have (…) been sitting in an uncontrolled climate,” said Lieutenant Colonel John Stanford. “It’s a tough task to go through archives that were not set up in a way that you could easily go through them.

Two Texas officials had signed sworn affidavits insisting they had reviewed the files in those boxes and released copies of all that related to Mr Bush’s 1968-1973 Guard service, however.
[…]
The newly released documents shed no new light on the most controversial periods of Mr Bush’s guard tenure.

Texas Tech University law school professors Richard Rosen and Calvin Lewis, both former army lawyers, reviewed the boxes of files earlier this week under an agreement in the AP lawsuit. They found three other boxes with files from Mr Bush’s unit that previous searches did not turn up, Lt-Colonel Stanford said.

The newly released documents include a January 1972 order for Mr Bush to attend three days of “physiological training” at Laredo Air Force Base in Texas. His Texas payroll and attendance records, released earlier, show Mr Bush was credited for serving on active duty training for the three days involved.

That training came six weeks before Mr Bush began an unexplained string of flights on two-seat training jets and simulators. On April 12, 1972, Mr Bush took his last flight in the single-seat F-102A fighter.

Meanwhile, Senator Kerry refuses to authorise examination of his own controversial service records, which remains safely hidden from prying eyes.

And I doubt that the spokesman said “excrement” too.



Posted by Alan Brain at October 16, 2004 02:43 AM | TrackBack
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LOL. I‘ll bet it wasn’t MoonBatShit. Of course, that never sees the light of day, either.

Posted by: Cap'n DOC [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 16, 2004 10:28 AM

This is a non-issue. Why not go in to the more controversial and significant question of why John Kerry received his “honorable” discharge in 1978 after Jimmy Carter’s amnesty - and not 1972, six years after he joined the naval reserve.

Posted by: Jim [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 16, 2004 01:15 PM

It seems to me that ‘Jim’ was never in the US miltrary. You don’t gernally get a discharge till AFTER you complete all the contracted service. This means until a person completes both the active and reserve parts they get the discharge.

Posted by: colddog [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 16, 2004 05:02 PM

Hey Colddog,

I was in the military during that same period and Jim is right. Mr. Kerry’s discharge should have been issued six years after he enlisted which would have been in 1972, not 1978.

There is a reason that Kerry will not release all his records and I’d bet that his less than honorable discharge issued in 1972 is first on his list. Unfortunately, we’ll probably never know.

Posted by: Trinitytim [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 16, 2004 05:26 PM

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