Fast-track Flyboy

> Thursday, May 18, 2006
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> Fast-track Flyboy
> from Michael Graham
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> May 17, 2006 (apj.us)
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> I used to be a prize-winning reporter, so hear me out. Before that, I served in the real Air Force, as a commissioned officer in counterintelligence, at the same time George W. Bush was hiding out in the Texas Guard. At that time, the Guard did relatively little unless there was a hurricane or something. They certainly didn't have to worry about combat.
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> But here is something that is provable. No one in journalism has picked up one aspect of Bush's past: He never was properly trained to be a second lieutenant in the first place! I'm talking about before flight school, entrance to which requires an officer's commission.
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> Those of us in the real Air Force got commissioned in one of three ways: The Air Force Academy, ROTC, or -- if already college graduates -- the Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. If you saw the film An Officer and a Gentleman, depicting the Navy's version, you have a rough idea of what that training was like. It was goddamned hard.
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> But young Georgie didn't have to go through it. If you examine his records, you will find that he was given a direct commission as a second lieutenant after completing enlisted basic training and nothing more! Bang: He went directly from Airman Third Class, which is the rank of someone just out of basic, to a second lieutenant with a few typewriter keystrokes. Then he went to flight school.

The Btd can't be re-elected, that GOD, and the media nor the public cared about his military record before the 2000 election, and they sure as hell won't care now!

The history books will take care of it, and he'll have to face it in his old age.

and it will be a shame on all those who voted for him, his enablers.

Most of us knew it anyway. He couldn't be found for a while during his "service", then he was located in Alabama working on a Republican campaign. His service was a sham and few now will contest it.