"Pete" wrote in message
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"ArtKramr" wrote

Colin Powell was once outraged by elites who "wrangle slots in Reserve and
Guard units." Now he defends George Bush, who wrangled himself into a
Guard
unit.
By John Greeley

Powell should be outraged at people who "wrangle" Guard slots to avoid other
duty to which they have been called. What evidence is there that Bush
"wrangled" (used undue influence) his Guard slot? Many people joined the
Guard/Reserve during that period without "wrangling".

There was a waiting list for those slots at that time, and his application found
its way to the top of the pile in no time flat and clearly out of turn. How
would you explain that? Even the Bush camp doesn't argue too hard that it
didn't happen.....there are records of phone calls made by the congressman to
friends, who then made similar calls to highly placed officers in the TANG (I
believe in their AG's Department), and suddenly a slot is offered without much
waiting while other previous applicants continued to wait. And it wasn't
because his AFOQT scores were so high that they didn't want him to get
away.....they were the minimum available that they accepted for one of their
slots (25th percentile).

I think "wrangling" is a reasonably accurate adjective that describes what went
on.

George Z.