After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, "Paul J.
Adam" confessed the following:

Nice piece of work there, Dan, thank you. Unemotive, backed by facts,
separates fact from opinion, and punchy and readable to boot.

Minor corrections:

[quote]"Bush got his pilot's wings in March 1970. (Again, this is
somewhat unusual. He ought to have received them at the end of his
flight training at Moody AFB.) "[unquote]

gwb got them along with the rest of his class at graduation of UPT. In
the catalog of USAF training courses one would find that in order to
attend F-102 RTU the stud would have to be a graduate of UPT (or USN
Flight School). Being a UPT graduate means you've received your wings.
They hand them out at graduation.

[quote]"Updated: Pentagon records released in September 2004 show that
Bush flew a total of 326.4 hours as pilot-in-command over the three
years 1970-1972. "[unquote]

The pedant would point out that the phrase 'over the three years
1970-72' might lead casual readers to think, "Ah three years, 36
months."

When in fact from 23 June 1970 (when gwb completed RTU) until April
1972 (month of his last flight) is merely 22 months...not even two
full years. But I certainly understand Dan being charitable, nor do I
expect him to edit this.

[quote]"In May 1973, Bush took his last physical, which identified him
as a "crew member on flight status," so he evidently wasn't grounded
during his final year in the Guard."[unquote]

Big jump to conclusion on your part. Incorrect conclusion IMO.

Without orders returning him to flying status, somebody, a Med Tech
checking the box on his physical doesn't put gwb on flying status.
Besides that would contradict your implication that there were no
F-102s for him to fly in 1973

[quote]"In 1972, the 111th FIS transitioned to a new aircraft, the
McDonnell-Douglas F-101B Voodoo fighter." [unquote]

Without an aircraft to fly, or a mission to perform there was no
reason to re-instate him to flying status, not to mention his intent
to leave the unit (hell leave the ANG). Folks see a guy with wings on
his uniform they assume he's on flying status...doesn't make it so.

It will be interesting to see how Dan incorporates the Killian memos.

Robey