Ed Rasimus wrote:
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 14:58:33 GMT, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
wrote:

Ed Rasimus wrote:
Further, I really don't like Senator Kerry's comments regarding the
President and his qualifications to welcome home the troops he
commands by flying aboard a carrier. George W. Bush was both a
commissioned officer (like Kerry) and a fully qualified AF fighter
pilot (unlike Kerry.) No president we've ever had is more qualified to
don the Nomex and carry a helmet.


His father?

Good point. Now I have to nit-pick and create a rationale for who is
"most qualified".

Bush 41 is most qualified for a leather helmet and cotton flying suit.
Bush 43 is most qualified to wear the Nomex and carry a Kevlar helmet.
He also carries G-suit qualification and high altitude aviation
physiology training.

Both, however, are military rated pilots. Which places them
considerably above two stripe enlisted journalist assistants with
curtailed combat tours and personal body-guards in terms of their
military service.

Without nit picking too much, why don't we use the past tense in talking about
the ratings held by the Bush family. Daddy's expired when he was demobilized at
the end of WWII, and Junior's expired when he deliberately failed to update his
flight physical. Just one small difference.

And while we're at it, I may have missed the early part of this exchange, but I
thought we were talking about Kerry.....I didn't know he was a two stripe
enlisted journalist assistant. The stripes he had were the kind Navy
commissioned officers wear, I do believe.

George Z.