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Ed:
To a UPT washout/dropout, exactly what career field *would* have been desireable? Personally, I would say none. Okay- maybe wizzo- but even that would have been a disappointment, right? So what conclusions are we to draw from "missile duty being undesireable to a pilot training washout?" Steve Swartz "Ed Rasimus" wrote in message news On 17 Jul 2004 22:54:28 GMT, (BUFDRVR) wrote: Ed Rasimus wrote: I don't recall anyone facing the assignment to missiles as being particularly grateful nor viewing it as "fine duty." For the life of me Ed, I can't figure out why you impugn the service of missileers. Did you have a run in with one at the O' Club? Honestly Ed, you sound like Art Kramer every time you discuss the "dreaded missileer" and ICBM duty. BUFDRVR Seek not offense between the lines. If I wish to offend it will be in plain view. I do not impugn the service of missileers. I simply stated that the missile and weapons controller fields were the two main assignment channels for flying training washouts when I was in that business. And, I further stated that neither assignment was viewed as particularly desireable. That's a long way from impugning the service of those who got the job. Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" Smithsonian Institution Press ISBN #1-58834-103-8 |
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 12:23:08 -0400, "Leslie Swartz"
wrote: Ed: To a UPT washout/dropout, exactly what career field *would* have been desireable? Personally, I would say none. Okay- maybe wizzo- but even that would have been a disappointment, right? So what conclusions are we to draw from "missile duty being undesireable to a pilot training washout?" Steve Swartz Actually, during the period in question (I was in the UPT business after F-105s as an IP/Academic instructor and then at ATC as personnel from 1967-1972), the route into the AF as an officer through OTS required flying training candidates. In other words, there were very few accessions for non-rated jobs for college grads who hadn't gone to the Academy or four-years of AFROTC. The result was that as guys graduated from college, they suddenly found their draft exemption expired and they faced Army enlisted time. (Note to BUFDRVR, I'm not impugning Army enlisted service.) These folks went to the recruiter and found that they could get into OTS if they qualified for a UPT/UNT/UPT-H slot. They often really didn't want to fly. It led to a lot of guys showing up at their UPT base as brand new 2/Lts and going directly to personnel to SIE (Self-Initiated Elimination). They then were active duty and out of the flying game. Other dropouts came from MOA (Manifestation of Apprehension/uncontrolled airsickness), FOF (Fear of Flying), academic deficiency or flying deficiency. Only flying deficiency washouts could go to nav training. All others got reassigned by "needs of the service." Desireable jobs would be duties that related to their college major or long-term career goals. Civil engineering, maintenance, weather, accounting, R & D, procurement, computers, etc. would all be desireable. These slots, however, were usually filled through programmed accessions from AFA and AFROTC. The AF has a lot of non-flying jobs that would be desireable for a new college grad who either didn't want to fly or wasn't able to. There isn't, however, much transferability for missileers or weapons controllers in the civilian job market. Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret) "When Thunder Rolled" Smithsonian Institution Press ISBN #1-58834-103-8 |
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"R. David Steele" /OMEGA wrote in message [...] And if GWB had been a Missile officer, we would be hearing how his daddy arranged that he could sit out the war in Montana...... Sorry but a one term republican congressman in a Texas controlled by democrats does not have that type of power. LBJ had power. Senator Gore, D-TN, had power. Congressman Bush did not. I do believe that you are incorrect about how powerful and influential Congressman Bush was: http://www.usa-presidents.info/bush.htm http://www.who2.com/prescottbush.html W.'s Grandfather, Prescott Bush, served as Senator from Connecticut from 1952 (mid-term election) to 1963. W.'s Father, GW Bush, served TWO terms as Congressman from the 7th District of Texas, 1966 to 1969. Both Father and Grandfather Bush were members of the Yale Skull and Bones Society, just like W. I would think that the son a two-term Congressman and grandson of a 1.5 term Senator could rightfully be said to be "connected," at least compared to most of us. BTW, Prescott Bush, according to legend, was said to be involved in one of the most famous of all Skull and Bones Society pranks, the theft of Geronimo's skull, so even in that circle, he's literally something of a mythical creatu http://www.post-gazette.com/columnis...00923roddy.asp W.'s general family background is a bit more connected than I realized: http://archive.salon.com/politics200...sh/index1.html [...] "In the 20th century, Bush's family didn't hobnob with kings, but they certainly mingled with presidents before taking over the White House themselves. Bush's great-grandfather was a steel and railroad magnate who became a personal advisor to President Hoover, who was in fact a distant relative. Grandfather Prescott Bush, the Connecticut senator, was a favored golf partner of President Eisenhower (not a relative). Grandmother Dorothy Walker Bush's father founded a Wall Street investment house and was a close advisor to FDR, another Bush relative. George W. Bush spent his childhood between the Bush homes in New York, Long Island and Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; the 10,000-acre plantation in South Carolina; and the island retreat in Florida, where their neighbors were Doubledays, Fords, Roosevelts and Vanderbilts." Here's what one former professor has to say about W: Originally published on Friday, July 16, 2004 in the News section of The Harvard Crimson. Former HBS Prof Blasts Bush By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON Crimson Staff Writer As the race for the White House heats up and the nation's left-leaning heads come together to unearth potential skeletons in President Bush's closet, one line in his resume has avoided major scrutiny: the time Bush spent just across the Charles River, earning an MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS) in the 1970s. Now, as some fervently question the commander-in-chief's performance in the Texas National Guard decades ago and more current-minded politicos take aim at the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq, one former HBS professor is doing his best to publicize his recollections of what he calls a sarcastic, mediocre student who went on to lead the United States. Yoshihiro Tsurumi, an avowed opponent of Bush's current views and policies who was a visiting associate professor of international business at HBS between 1972 and 1976, said Bush was among 85 students he taught one year in a required first-year course. In the class on "Environment Analysis for Management," incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week. Tsurumi-now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York-said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class. Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush's statements and behavior-"always very shallow"-still stand out in his mind. "Whenever [Bush] just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make," said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. "The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice." The White House did not reply to requests for comment on Bush's time at HBS. Tsurumi said he particularly recalls Bush's right-wing extremism at the time, which he said was reflected in off-hand comments equating the New Deal of the 1930s with socialism and the corporation-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission with "an enemy of capitalism." "I vividly remember that he made a comment saying that people are poor because they're lazy," Tsurumi said. Tsurumi also said Bush displayed a sense of arrogance about his prominent family, including his father, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. "[George W. Bush] didn't stand out as the most promising student, but...he made it sure we understood how well he was connected," Tsurumi said. "He wasn't bashful about how he was being pushed upward by Dad's connections." Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father's political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China. In addition, Tsurumi is still sore about what he recalls as Bush's slight to his cinematic taste. When he arranged for students to view the film of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath during their study of the Great Depression, Tsurumi said, Bush derided the film as "corny." At the time, Tsurumi said his worries about his student extended no further than the boardroom. "All Harvard Business School students want to become president of a company one day," Tsurumi said. "I remember saying, if you become president of a company some day, may God help your customers and employees." When he discovered that his former pupil was vying for the presidency in 2000, Tsurumi said he tried to inform the public about his experience with the then-Texas governor at HBS-but got few results beyond hate mail. "Last election time, if you recall, the American mass media did a shameful job of vetting [the presidential candidates]," Tsurumi said. As another November approaches, Tsurumi is trying again to air his criticisms of the man he once taught and his actions as president. "This time it seems to be getting around a bit more widely," he said. "After three years of dismal record, people seem more inclined to believe that all his failed leadership was apparent during the Harvard Business School years." In a July 2 speech to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo, Tsurumi repeated the broadside he has launched repeatedly in the past. "I always remember two groups of students," Tsurumi said then, according to published reports. "One is the really good students, not only intelligent, but with leadership qualities, courage. The other is the total opposite, unfortunately to which George belonged." -Staff writer Simon W. Vozick-Levinson can be reached at . Copyright © 2004, The Harvard Crimson Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=503 |
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"LawsonE" wrote in message link.net...
"R. David Steele" /OMEGA wrote in message [...] And if GWB had been a Missile officer, we would be hearing how his daddy arranged that he could sit out the war in Montana...... Sorry but a one term republican congressman in a Texas controlled by democrats does not have that type of power. LBJ had power. Senator Gore, D-TN, had power. Congressman Bush did not. I do believe that you are incorrect about how powerful and influential Congressman Bush was: http://www.usa-presidents.info/bush.htm http://www.who2.com/prescottbush.html W.'s Grandfather, Prescott Bush, served as Senator from Connecticut from 1952 (mid-term election) to 1963. W.'s Father, GW Bush, served TWO terms as Congressman from the 7th District of Texas, 1966 to 1969. Both Father and Grandfather Bush were members of the Yale Skull and Bones Society, just like W. I would think that the son a two-term Congressman and grandson of a 1.5 term Senator could rightfully be said to be "connected," at least compared to most of us. BTW, Prescott Bush, according to legend, was said to be involved in one of the most famous of all Skull and Bones Society pranks, the theft of Geronimo's skull, so even in that circle, he's literally something of a mythical creatu http://www.post-gazette.com/columnis...00923roddy.asp W.'s general family background is a bit more connected than I realized: http://archive.salon.com/politics200...sh/index1.html [...] "In the 20th century, Bush's family didn't hobnob with kings, but they certainly mingled with presidents before taking over the White House themselves. Bush's great-grandfather was a steel and railroad magnate who became a personal advisor to President Hoover, who was in fact a distant relative. Grandfather Prescott Bush, the Connecticut senator, was a favored golf partner of President Eisenhower (not a relative). Grandmother Dorothy Walker Bush's father founded a Wall Street investment house and was a close advisor to FDR, another Bush relative. George W. Bush spent his childhood between the Bush homes in New York, Long Island and Connecticut; the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine; the 10,000-acre plantation in South Carolina; and the island retreat in Florida, where their neighbors were Doubledays, Fords, Roosevelts and Vanderbilts." Here's what one former professor has to say about W: Originally published on Friday, July 16, 2004 in the News section of The Harvard Crimson. Former HBS Prof Blasts Bush By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON Crimson Staff Writer As the race for the White House heats up and the nation's left-leaning heads come together to unearth potential skeletons in President Bush's closet, one line in his resume has avoided major scrutiny: the time Bush spent just across the Charles River, earning an MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS) in the 1970s. Now, as some fervently question the commander-in-chief's performance in the Texas National Guard decades ago and more current-minded politicos take aim at the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq, one former HBS professor is doing his best to publicize his recollections of what he calls a sarcastic, mediocre student who went on to lead the United States. Yoshihiro Tsurumi, an avowed opponent of Bush's current views and policies who was a visiting associate professor of international business at HBS between 1972 and 1976, said Bush was among 85 students he taught one year in a required first-year course. In the class on "Environment Analysis for Management," incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week. Tsurumi-now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York-said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class. Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush's statements and behavior-"always very shallow"-still stand out in his mind. "Whenever [Bush] just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make," said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. "The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice." The White House did not reply to requests for comment on Bush's time at HBS. Tsurumi said he particularly recalls Bush's right-wing extremism at the time, which he said was reflected in off-hand comments equating the New Deal of the 1930s with socialism and the corporation-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission with "an enemy of capitalism." "I vividly remember that he made a comment saying that people are poor because they're lazy," Tsurumi said. Tsurumi also said Bush displayed a sense of arrogance about his prominent family, including his father, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. "[George W. Bush] didn't stand out as the most promising student, but...he made it sure we understood how well he was connected," Tsurumi said. "He wasn't bashful about how he was being pushed upward by Dad's connections." Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father's political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China. In addition, Tsurumi is still sore about what he recalls as Bush's slight to his cinematic taste. When he arranged for students to view the film of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath during their study of the Great Depression, Tsurumi said, Bush derided the film as "corny." Well, that's always a touchy issue with Republicans, since they wiped out their own states with they're own oil and farming policies in 1930s. And then they decided on the ingenious solution to elect General "Plastic Wall" Johnson as their historic revenge on California Energy policy. |
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