Bush AWOL Story - New theory comes to light

"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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HRP/PRP pre-qual would be just like you are in it.

This is extremely difficult for traditional reservists and guardsman. PRP
means
you can only be seen by an Air Force Flight Surgeon or, in the case of
emergency, seen as soon as possible following care from a non USAF Flight
Surgeon. Most traditional reservist and guardsmen do not live around USAF
bases
and are not seen by *any* military physians let alone USAF Flight
Surgeons.
Then there is the monitoring aspect of PRP. According to the program, you
are
to be monitored by your commander as well as by your peers. How is your
commander to know if you have been under any unusual stress that should
preclude you from working around nuclear weapons if he only sees you one
weekend a month? The answer is, he can't. I'm not sure how these guard
units
operated in the 60's and 70's, but today very few (if any) non-active duty
personnel are PRP certified. The B-52 Reserve Squadron has no nuclear
mission
simply because of the PRP issue and this includes their ART guys.

There are no nuclear capable Guard/Reserve units any longer (OK, the F-16's
and F/A-18's in the reserve components still are "nuclear capable", I
imagine, but not so tasked), so your assessment that PRP no longer applies
to the Guard is probably correct; AFAIK, the last such nuclear capable (and
tasked) units would likely have been maybe some of the corps-level artillery
outfits equipped with 155mm and 8 inch guns back in the days before the
1990-92 retirement of the Army's tactical nuclear rounds. But you bring up
an interesting question, as there 8were* nuclear armed Guard units around
not all that long ago--ANG F-101/106 interceptor units armed with AIR-2
Genie, and ARNG Nike Hercules units. The PRP program had to be handled
differently for those units, I'd think; knew a lot of guys who served in the
latter, and never heard of any overly taxing PRP requirements.

Brooks



BUFDRVR

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harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"