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September 8th 04, 01:24 PM
Kevin Brooks
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Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard?
From: Ian MacLure
Date: 9/7/2004 9:36 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Subject: Why did Bush join the national guard?
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Date: 9/7/2004 1:52 PM Pacific Standard Time
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I'll bet he saw more combat than you did and he flew C-54s.
A C-54 is not a combat aircraft. Seeing "action" implies that you have
done harm to the enemy. You can't do harm to the enemy in an unarmed
So being fired on multiple times doesn't count.
Taxiing in wearing substantial portions of your
deceased copilot and good friend doesn't count.
Having a second copilot killed during landing doesn't count.
Flying onto disputed airfields doesn't count?
Losing 20 ft of fuselage to an artillery round and flying whats
left of the airplane to Guam doesn't count?
So I guess whatever it was he was delivering under fire could not
have been that important.
Well, I'm glad you cleared that up.
I have a friend who was a C-47 driver on D-Day, dropped paras.
I guess what he did doesn't count.
A gentleman I sat next to in our town band went ashore with the
first wave on D-Day but he was only a doctor so I guess he doesn't
count.
airliner. Flying combat airccraft is one thing, Flying airliners is
something else.
Does the word tactical transport mean anything to you?
Do you know what day it is even?
IBM
There is the tip of the spear. Then there is everything else. The very
best are
at the tip of the spear. Where were you?
Then you must not have been at the "tip of the spear", being as you have
repeatedly proven to be anything but "the very best" (how can a pilot
washout call himself the "very best"?).
Brooks
Arthur Kramer
Kevin Brooks