Countering Widespread Ignorance About the National Guard

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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ubject: Countering Widespread Ignorance About the National Guard
From: "Ragnar"
Date: 3/1/04 6:44 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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Thank you John. Friends are hard to find around here. (sigh)

If you just stopped lying, and started admitting when you had screwed
the
pooch (i.e., the whole "Guard was back home while we did the
fightin'"
crap)
you'd have more friends. Continuing to deny reality after you have
been
corrected by umpteen other posters does little to enamor the average
poster.

Brooks


Neither of you are exactly covering yourselves with glory in this
****ing
match. Both of you are splashing yourselves AND the bystanders.

A pox on both your houses! Anyone else feel the same way?

Actually, it would be a pox on Art's house. Art has lied and been caught
out by Kevin. Its quite entertaining.


And exactly what was that lie ****head?

Well, just to specify the *last* lie you uttered, it would be your continued
assertions, despite repeated corrections from numerous posters, that Guard
units were still sitting around their armories during WWII (when in fact the
ENTIRE National Guard had been serving on active duty since spring 1941 at
the latest, with some units having actually reported in during 1940), that
they were the "laughingstock" of fellows like you (despite the fact that
many Guard units had been in *combat* for almost two years before you even
put on a uniform), etc.

After that, we have to delve into your recent statement that you recieved a
call-up notice on your eighteenth birthday, leading to the question of just
how much of a "volunteer" you actually were. And BTW, these claims of yours
that the only way to get into the USAAF and into a flight crew was by
volunteering? More false claims from Art-- as verified by the following:

The USAF's Air University resources include reference to the fact that the
majority of the USAAF medics came from the draft pool (
www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/afhistory/ aaf_medical_services_wwii.pdf )

As to flight personnel, we have:

"The search for qualified pilots intensified in 1942. Early on, the Ferrying
Command scoured the country for all available civilian fliers; bush pilots,
test pilots, crop dusters, stunt pilots, barnstormers, and pilots who flew
on personal business or for fun all became candidates. These draftees were
expected to have five hundred hours of flying experience, a requirement that
soon dropped to two hundred to three hundred hours, depending on the
military's need. If they could pass a ninety-day probation period, they
became commissioned officers. By the end of 1942, a total of 1,372 pilots
had been commissioned, but the AAF's own flight-training programs began to
replace these conscripts after that date."

http://www.usaaf.net/ww2/airlift/airliftpg3.htm


Brooks



Arthur Kramer