Military Flight Training

Bush's last physical was in May 1971. He refused to take his next scheduled
physical and was grounded and never flew again in the Air National Guard.

Wrong, on several accounts.

First, he didn't refuse! Nobody refuses in the military! He didn't
take it because he wasn't in Texas. He *missed* his physical.

Second, the year was 1972.

Third, when he took his last physical in 1973, he was listed as "crew
member on flight status."

The reason he didn't fly a jet fighter in his last two years that the
111th TFS transitioned to a new fighter in 1972. With less than two
years remaining in his hitch, and with a flood of well-trained pilots
released from the Vietnam War, it wasn't worth anyone's time training
him in the new airplane.

www.warbirdforum.com/bushf102.htm

Bush did good. In fact, he did excellent for his first four years in
the Guard, and for a variety of reasons slacked off after that. But he
filled his obligation and a bit more.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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