Sure, it proves that he spent 12 months in the inactive reserve in
exchange for having 6 months chopped off his Guard duty.

No, it's all out now.

The records released by the DOD recently show conclusively that Bush failed to
attend or make up five drills. And there's more.

"A RESEARCHER UNCOVERS THE FACTS

As it turned out, the key was a willingness to dive deep into these documents,
and knowing how to read them. Rove counted on the essential laziness and
ignorance of ordinary mainstream reporters, who wouldn't be aware of what all
those military codes and numbers and jargon-terms meant.

Once again, as in so many other areas, the "underground" journalists - in our
time, those working on the internet - rode to the rescue. On this issue, the
energy and laser-like focus came from one Paul Lukasiak of Philadelphia.

It turns out that, unlike the great majority of ordinary journalists, Lukasiak
was undaunted by the hundreds of pages of dry military records distributed by
the White House. He was a bloodhound on the hunt. And, he possessed some
experience in working with old documents, especially old military punch-card
records from 30 years ago.

In a recent email, Lukasiak described how he pieced the story together:


I spent a couple of months reading the statutes, DoD regulation, and Air Force
policies and procedures, and spent a great deal of time figuring out the rest
of the payroll records and 'points records' themselves. Having acquired a
certain amount of knowledge, the nature and the meaning of the pattern in the
payroll data became self-evident....Just by looking at the data lines found in
the payroll records, there are obvious patterns that anyone could detect.

And so, piece by piece, Lukasiak pulled together the jigsaw puzzle that was
George W. Bush's long-ago, much-abbreviated military service. And, lo and
behold, he figured it out. His four months of research led him to a number of
incendiary conclusions, documented with his meticulous research, which were
picked up by a relatively small number of online websites - Corrente, Kevin
Drum, Democrats.com, The Crisis Papers. For example, here's what Lukasiak
furnished The Crisis Papers, as a way of summing up his four months of
research; the emphasis is supplied:

BUSH'S SERVICE WAS "MISREPRESENTED"

An examination of U.S. Statutory Law, Department of Defense Regulations, and
Air Force policies and procedures from the early seventies proves that George
W. Bush and his spokesmen have consistently misrepresented the nature and
extent of his obligations as a member of the United States armed forces.

When considered within their proper legal and policy context, the Bush records
effectively rebut the White House claim that Bush 'fulfilled his duty.' When
considered as a whole, these documents reveal that Bush spent the last two
years of his six-year Military Service Obligation in an active effort to avoid
fulfilling the obligations and commitments he incurred upon entering the Texas
Air National Guard.

They also show that while some Texas officials aided and abetted Bush's efforts
(and others apparently acquiesced to what was happening), there is no reason to
question the character of Alabama officials, or Air Reserve Forces personnel as
a whole. Finally, the only conclusion that can be reached from an examination
of Bush's records for the period after he quit the Air National Guard is that
the Air Force attempted to take punitive measures against Bush, but that
political pressure prevented those measures from being carried out.

Lawrence Korb - who was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve
Affairs, Installations and Logistics under Reagan from 1981-85 - appears to
agree with the conclusion based on the key five-month period of Bush's service
when there are no records that he reported for duty: "If you don't show up,
you're absent without leave, by definition."

Dynamite stuff, yes? "

http://www.democraticunderground.com...8/12_awol.html

Aniother link:

http://www.glcq.com/

"On February 10. 2004, the White House released a number of documents[1]
related to George W. Bush’s military service in the Texas Air National Guard.
(TXANG). The White House claimed repeatedly (twelve time in fact, see box)
that these documents proved that Bush had fulfilled his duty.


In fact, not only did those documents fail to prove that Bush had “fulfilled
his duties”, they prove the opposite.


On Friday, February 13, 2004, the White House released what it described as all
the documents[2] in Bush’s personnel files. Most accurately described as a
“document dump” the hundreds of pages were thoroughly disorganized and
filled with scores of duplicate pages.


The mainstream press was confronted with this massive amount of information to
sift through, and had no expertise with which to evaluate the information
contained in the documents. As a result, virtually no real reporting was done
on the documents, other than to state that there was “no smoking gun”
found, apparently because none of the documents announced in bold type “BUSH
WAS AWOL”.

But the records released by the White House contained more than a “smoking
gun”. They contained a whole arsenal of documents that, if you know the
context in which they were written, establish beyond a shadow of a doubt that
“Bush was AWOL.”


These documents include:

1) “Points” records showing that for two straight years, Bush did not
perform the training that was mandated by law, and which could not be excused
by his superior officers. (See The Points Scam)

2) Payroll records showing that Bush requested and received pay and point
credit for which he was ineligible under Air Force policy (See Fraud—The
Secrets of Bush’s Payroll Records Revealed)

3) Documents related to Bush’s attempted transfer to the “9921st Air
Reserve Squadron” showing that the request was an attempt by Bush to
fraudulently escape his obligations as a member of the United States Armed
Forces (See The Transfer Scam)

4) Documents showing that Bush’s superior officers attempted to cover up
for Bush being “AWOL”, but eventually had to admit that they had lost track
of Bush for an entire year. (See The Cover-up in Texas).

5) Documents showing that Bush intended to desert the Armed Forces with
almost a year of his statutory six year participation requirement unfulfilled
(See Discharge, or Desertion?)

6) Documents showing that the Air Force understood that Bush was a
“deserter”, and had taken the steps necessary to deal with someone in
Bush’s position who had abandoned their commitment to the US Government. See
(Deserter: Bush After TXANG)

The Bush documents also reveal that

1) Bush’s personnel files were tampered with to disguise what had
occurred.

2) The person upon whom the media has relied upon for its interpretation of
Bush’s military records (an individual who was specifically engaged by the
2000 Bush campaign to “clear” Bush) was directly involved in providing Bush
with favorable treatment as a member of the Texas Air National Guard, and

3) This person has lied about the nature of Bush’s records, and made
claims regarding Bush’s obligations as a member of the United States Armed
Forces that have absolutely no basis in fact

For the past four years, Bush and his supporters have done everything in their
power to obscure the facts concerning Bush’s military service. This series
will reveal those facts, and in the process, reveal the character of George W.
Bush, and those who defend and support him."


Walt