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Ron wrote:
No, that is legacy in terms of points for university acceptance. But that does not help you pass your classe or get you your degree. Never heard of a legacy degree...But it can apply for acceptance into school and frats. Even my old Chinese launderyman understood the concept of "no tickee, no washee". University fundraisers understand "no degree, no contributions" well enough the know how to keep the money flowing. You're kidding yourself if you think it works some other way......it doesn't! But now you are heading toward a grand conspiracy involving university faculty and professors too. Legacy can help get you in, but it does not get you a degree. No conspiracy....merely facing reality. It happens, perhaps not often, but then again, not rarely either. I have read often that he was a very good stick at UPT, and he was damn good at ACM while as an F-102 pilot I guess we must have read different stuff. I read that his flying abilities were so limited that his ANG supervisors were pleased when they learned that he grounded himself (by not getting a current flight physical) before he killed himself and destroyed one of their airplanes in the process. Incidentally, I hope you weren't relying on what was said about his performance on those OERs that were written about him....if I was writing one on the son of an influential congressman, I wouldn't have been brutally frank or honest unless my retirement papers had already been approved. Doing something like that was not conducive to a long and satisfying career for the evaluator. "advertisement In late 1969, when George W. Bush showed up at Ellington Air Force Base in Texas for flight training, his instructor was a 270-pound judo black belt and self-described "mean S.O.B." named Maury Udell. "I know your dad is a congressman, but that doesn't mean a thing to me," Udell told Bush. After Bush had learned to fly jets, Udell tried to rattle him by getting on his tail in mock dogfights. Bush gave his instructor a hard look and began doing his own high-speed zigzags, "doing his damnedest to lose me," Udell recalled to NEWSWEEK. "He was not a candy a--." Udell rates Bush "among the top 5 percent of fighter pilots I've ever trained." That's one pilot's opinion of another and hardly definitive. BTW, in earlier days, anybody weighing 270 pounds would not have been able to fit into a fighter cockpit. The tall guys inevitably ended up in bombers or transports, and the real heavy guys (like 270 lbs.) ended up as the flight surgeon's medically grounded annual project. Century series cockpits might be far more forgiving and I'd certainly defer to someone like Ed Rasmussen, who'd be far more knowledgeable than I on that subject. Anyway, one might be forgiven for wondering what Udell's supervisors thought of him, and if Udell admired Bush so much because they were cut from the same cloth and excelled at juvenile drinking games in the O Club bar. George Z. |
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