hsuB's honorable discharge

Started by DonDurbin, 10/27/2004 11:40AM
Posted 10/27/2004 11:40AM Opening Post
Can you see this guy in 1968-1972. His daddy is a Texas Congressman/Senate candidate/U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and so he gets to be a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard. Safe in the knowledge his daddy will protect him, he decides which meetings he will be able to attend, and which ones he can blow off because he is too drunk to drive.

Deciding early that he wants to get into politics like his daddy, he pulls a few strings and transfers himself to the Alabama Air National Guard to work on a campaign for one of daddy's new friends. The other campaign workers say that most of hsuB work was done from a bar stool. In Alabama he decides that he is just too busy on the campaign to bother with the Alabama Air National Guard meetings. In 1972 he refuses a direct order to get a physical. In 1972 a urine test would have been required. His excuse is that he does not need a physical because he is not on flight status. Finally after enough officers had their careers threatened by hsuB and his family, hsuB is honorably discharged. This honorable discharge is later used as evidence that hsuB served honorably.

hsuB often says if his unit would have been called up, he would have gone to Vietnam. Can you really see an Air Guard unit filled with wealthy and privileged people being sent into a combat zone? If by some chance this had happened, do you really think hsub wouldn't have simply transferred to another unit?

When he was finally caught driving while intoxicated, the officers said how cooperative he was. hsuB knew that it was no big deal for him. Of course the one DWI is all we really know about.
Posted 10/27/2004 02:26PM #1
I can see why you both envy and admire this man Donald. - Jim -