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Old February 16th 04, 12:42 AM
David Hartung
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"Mark T. Evert" wrote in message
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OK. I have seen the debate over GWB as an F-102 pilot, so I was

wondering
about a couple of things.

First, was the F-102 taken out of service in the early 1970s?


Yes....the Duece as it was called in Air Force circles was phased out of
most National Guard units in the early 70's. I recall the Pennsylvania
National Guard replacing them with A7 Corsairs while in Texas they were
replaced with F101 VooDoos.

Second, if GWB was trained on the F-102, and had asked about other

planes,
would he have been assigned to the -106 or was Texas going to a

different
fighter?


The Texas Guard transitioned to the F101 Voodoo which they flew till the
early 80's when they moved to the F4 and now they fly F16's


Somewhere around 1979-1980, we at Luke, were training the Texas ANG to fly
F4Cs.