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Using your example, if someone set fire to a house and a fireman ran in to fight the fire and was killed, then it would be his fault for signing up to be a fireman. The person who set the fire isn't responsible? That's just dumb. You think the C.I.C. isn't responsible for where he sends the troops because they "signed for the dotted line".
Brilliant
Pulled alert for about 3 years, with nuclear armed Air to Air rockets. I am glad those pilots never were sent to down Soviet bombers.
But there were ANG pilots lost in Vietnam, and some F-102s. The unfortunate trashing of the Air National Guard, by those who know little about it, is rather sad, and silly.
Yeah he miraculously pulled a UPT slot in the Texas ANG to play fighter pilot while other qualified pilots that would love to fill that slot got to hang out in Vietnam and get shot at. Other kids his age got to go live in the mud.
He also neglected to fulfill his ANG obligation.
I can't stand the "Fokker Airplane Company" guy now even though I voted for him, but will give him credit when it's due.
"Hiding out" in a Century series 1950's fighter is probably one of the most unsafe jobs a guy could do outside of frontline combat. Bush was certainly more at risk to his life than Al Gore was with his bodyguards.
In almost 20 years at my airline, there have been many company messages about guys doing ANG/RES flying like Bush did who lost their lives.
As for his obligation, it seems a little fishy, but wasn't the ANG system a little looser especially with the Mil drawdown towards the latter parts of the war?
This just in!
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