Re: Response:Bush and the F 102

["Craven, Jim" <JCraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

You bet it is. Try "Fortunate Son" by J.H. Hatfield, 3rd ed. (found dead
in a motel rooom in Alabama supposed suicide). Hatfield actually started
out to write a pro-Bush book and wound up with the most devastating and
most detailed book yet. He is an ex-convict who was noted as a
journalist before going to jail. The Bushies tried to use his ex-con
status to impeach him but the scholarship is first--rate and
irrefutable.

Jim C


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Fascinating stuff, Jim Craven. Never knew the details. Is it all
documented in one place?

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Subject: [PEN-L] Response:Bush and the F 102


Bush and the Texas Guard flew the F 102.  An aviation buddy points out
that the F 102 had no conceivable mission in Vietnam.  So even if he
showed up, his unit wasn't going to go.

Gene Coyle


Response (Jim C) Absolutely true. At the time Bush got into the Texas
Air Guard (with a national waiting list of over 150,000, got in the same
day he applied--with 12 days left until his deferment was up, and with a
waiting list of 160 in Texas for 2 pilot slots max, and with a score of
25% on the airman exam--lowest possible passing) The F-102 was being
phased out. Then he gets a direct commission to 2nd Lt. bypassing a
requirement for 23 weeks OCS, then he goes to flight school and finishes
100 hours or so short of the hours requirement, then he is transferred
to the Alabama Air Guard with no aircraft (to work on the Senate
campaign of his daddy's buddy Winston Blount) then he is missing for 13
months (records since lifted from the Guard records in 1994 by two
shadowy characters who paid a visit), then in April 1972 the medical
exams are changed to include random drug testing, and he is due for an
exam in May of 1972 but in September 1972, he and his buddy James R.
Bath (then a principal representative of the Bin Laden family in
Houston) refuse to take a medical exam and are taken off flight
status--with a pilot shortage existing at the time. Then he gets out 8
months early to go to Harvard Business school after first being denied
entrance to Univ of Texas Law School for bad grades. Bush "served" a
total of 51 months out of a 72 month Guard obligation.

Jim C.