Bush is a good little soldier? Real story...RAT

The original posting and the website were sent to a classmate of mine. Thus, you have to know we both are from Missouri! YOU HAVE TO SHOW US!

I was deeply disturbed at all the political postings and tried to validate. My classmate served with and was the instructor for George W. Bush. Here is his response:

Yes, I have some rebuttal to that "detailed crap" on G.W. Bush! First, I was George W.Bush's Fighter Pilot Instructor, and at that time, George W.Bush was signed up or assigned or however you want to say it...He was a "Part-time" Air Guardsman....which is as many would say.... a "Week End Warrior"! When he signed up in the Texas ANG, he was required to go to Undergraduate Pilot Training.....Which he did! Then he was required , after graduation, to return to Ellington to go through Air Combat Training, which was Training in the F-102A Interceptor,and graduate from this training course....as a school , which took about 8 months.

After that time, if the Air Force needed or wanted him to go on active duty and fly the F-102A, they could have requested that to happen. That didn't happen because I came back from Vietnam in 1969 and I was flying the F-102 Interceptor in Combat at that time. After '69, the Air Force did not want F-102's in SEA combat and replaced the F-102 with the F-4C. Lt G.W. Bush was not an F-4 Pilot, and he was a "part-time"Air Guardsman in the Texas 111 FIS , F-102 Squadron!

His only "requirement" after graduating from Air Combat Training, which he did, and I instructed him the whole time was to be a "Part Time" Pilot in the F-102 Squadron. We were a training Unit and the Air Force was not taking anymore F-102 Pilots. George W. was a rated pilot and a graduate of the Interceptor School, but he was only required to attend the Unit Training Assemblies and get the Additional Flying Training Periods. At that time....the 111th had all Instructor Pilots with high flying time as Instructors and we did not need Lt G.W. Bush to fly in the Training School.

Being a part timer....he could stay in the Texas Unit, or he could, if he chose to do so move any place in the Country as a Civilian. He was not required to be at the Unit as a full time Air Force Pilot. He was signed up for 6 years, and....if the Air Force wanted him they could have activated him. They did not want another F-102 Pilot!!! He still had the 6 years to be on call, but he was not an active Air Force pilot, and he had to perform the Drills I mentioned ....or do what was asked by the Commander! He could separate from the Unit should he move to a place that he could not attend UTA drills. He was still under the 6 year umbrella of the USAF "if"???? they wanted to bring him on active duty.

So.....whoever wrote all that crap did not understand the Air National Guard Personnel and Pilot Training Program for a "Part Time" Guardsman!!!! G.W. Bush did not do anything wrong.....and he asked and received permission to go to Alabama.....(the Birmingham Unit). I had been in the Birmingham Unit and I was flying F-84F airplanes. The Montgomery Unit had RF4 Phantom airplanes , but they were another separate unit. That Unit was Commanded by a very staunch Democrat, and he did not like Republicans, nor did he have any military reason to make comments about Bush.... G.W.Bush had permission from Colonel "Buck Staudt" to go to Alabama.....and that was the proper thing.

Again, Lt Bush was not a "Full Time" Air Force, or Full Time Air Guard Pilot......The Full Time Air Guard Pilots were either on Air Defense Detail, as designated by the Squadron Commander , or they were Full Time Civil Service Employees.

Again, Lt G.W. Bush was a Part Timer, and he did not do anything wrong! Those saying he did are simply uninformed on Pilots, or they simply want to say George W. did something wrong, because "they" weren't selected for something!!! And that is really the truth!!!! I was a Major and I was a Civil Service Employee, and I was G. W. Bush's Instructor and I was in the 111 th when G.W. came into the unit, and I was in the 111th when G.W. moved to West Texas. So......Please tell the ones who are putting out all that B.S. that it is not true....and they are simply trying to make George look bad!

Maurice Udell, Colonel (Ret) and GM 14M Retired .