On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:26:21 -0700, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

The pay records indicate his whereabouts throughout his service. The
relevance of my statement is that during the period from 1970 to 1975,
from the start of "Vietnamization" the requirement for pilots was
drastically reduced. Had GWB wanted out of his commitment, he could
have had it for the asking at any time.

Ed, if had done so, what would have been the result? Would he have
been transferred to non-flying duty in the ANG (which is essentially
what happened, by all accounts), would he have been transferred to a
different Guard unit, or would he have been transferred to the
inactive reserve (which, again, is essentially what happened for the
last six months of his six-year requirement)?

In the local cocktail party circuit, there are only three of us who
served in the military: one as a draftee, one as draftee who became RA
in order to go to language school, and one who went in as Enlisted
Reserve--to wit, six months active duty followed by a supposed hitch
in the reserves. Not one of the three of us ever attended a reserve
meeting after we got out of the army, though all of us was assigned in
theory to a duty station in case we were called back (at one time, I
was supposed to report to the American consul in Frankfurt--yes,
certainly!).

all the best -- Dan Ford
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