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Republican Double Standard wrote:

Why is that Kerry's statements to congress in 1971 are of
critical importance, but Bush AWOL/Desertion/HRP
failure/failure to show up for a drug test all "ancient
history"?

Because there are documents and witnesses to *support* the Kerry
story, but all of the documents and witnesses *disprove* the
Bush story.


Well, in fairness, there is a dentist who can corroborate Bush's
presence at Danelly at least one day in that year. Unfortunately,
Bush's transfer
to
Dannelly was rejected.

Meaningless. He did not require a transfer in order to perform ET
with

What? He didn't need a transfer order in order to transfer his active
duty? Then why did other guardsmen get court martialled for
"transfering" without orders?

Are you dumber than a stump, or what? What about the clause, "...in
order to perform ET" is it that you are having a problem grasping?
Geeze.

Who gave him permission to do so?

Depends upon how the unit commander wants to run it. Not unheard of for one
of the FTM personnel to handle it on a routine basis. Should the commander
know the status of each of his subordinate officers in that regard? Yeah,
within reason. Does he always? No.

Or are you claiming that you don't need
permission?

Nope. My guy had permission--he was still counted as "AWOL" by his home
unit. In the end the time it took to get his OER corrected proved critical,
as he was passed over for promotion in part because he had no recent OER.
You folks who think the military is some kind of perfect operating
organization don't have a clue as to how screwed up the record keeping, not
to mention keeping track of the specific wherabouts of each and every one of
a slew of JO's under your command who are floating around between formal
schools, split assemblies, and ET can get.

What does "ET" stand for?

What? You have been hammering the guy because you THOUGHT this was all
definitely tied to his denied transfer request, and come to find out you
have no earthly idea what ET is? OK, I'll let you off the hook a
bit--equivalent training. Performed by a Guardsman who can't attend the
normally scheduled drills with his unit; may be performed either with the
home unit or another unit (as in this case). Not uncommon at all.
Unfortunately, in my experience, screwing up the tracking and recordation of
ET is also not uncommon.

My understanding was that Bush
transfered (without permission) for "civilian occupation"

Your understanding is wrong. He did indeed request a transfer, and it was
ultimately denied. Which is why he instead performed ET with that ALANG
unit. No special favors required--very common in the Guard.

- IOW the
campaign in Alabama. Either way, you still need permission. BUsh had no
permission.

Says you, with nothing to support that accusation. Either way, he ended up
performing enough duty days to be credited for good time through this
period. We know he performed training with the ALANG, based upon both the
dental record and the statement of the former unit member who recalled him
being there. Now, who in his chain of command was authorized to grant him
permission to perform ET? Did that individual inform the squadron and group
commander of that authorization? We do not know the answers to either
question, but experience indicates that the latter can be a "no". In the
absence of any reputable, definite proof otherwise, then the fact that he
ended up performing enough duty days to be credited with good time and to
get his honorable discharge weighs in his favor.

If he did, produce the document. I produced a document
clearly stating that his transfer to air reserve was denied.

Geeze, would you finally drop that stupid transfer argument? It is a
non-starter, for gosh sakes, Mr. "What's ET". As to documentation at this
point in time, over thirty years later--you have GOT to be joking. You think
the military has the capacity to store every scrap of paper, including all
of those equivalent training performance certificates, that is generated for
every servicemember for an infinite time period? Get freakin' real. The
admin minions scrub personnel records on about a yearly basis *while you are
still serving* and dump out the "no longer required" junk (if you are lucky,
it gets returned to you).

Now, using this same "if there is no paperwork remaining thirty years later,
then he is obviously guilty" argument you have so laborously constructed,
tell us again how you are gonna *prove* that JFKII performed *his own*
reserve duty? He was released from active duty early, and he himself has
claimed he then spent time in the USNR (while spouting off recycled BS from
the Winter Soldier Investigation and calling his fellow servicemembers war
criminals, no less)--so where is the documentation that he successfully
completed that duty? Huh?

Brooks