{"id":2224,"date":"2004-02-09T19:04:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/10\/examining-bushs-military-record\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:13:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:13:23","slug":"examining-bushs-military-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/09\/examining-bushs-military-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining Bush&#8217;s military record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11786,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cjr.org\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/cat_fact_check.asp#000114&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cjr.org\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/cat_fact_check.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11787,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.calpundit.com\\\/archives\\\/003220.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.hugedomains.com\\\/domain_profile.cfm?d=calpundit.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11788,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/2\\\/9\\\/20361\\\/48876&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050505131430\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com:80\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/2\\\/9\\\/20361\\\/48876&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 19:14:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 04:52:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 04:52:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>More and more, people are getting to the bottom of Bush&#8217;s military record &#8212; the <em>real<\/em> one, that is, not the glossed-over propagand-ized version he&#8217;d like us to believe.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia Journalism Review is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/blog\/archives\/cat_fact_check.asp#000114\" title=\"The Floodgates Open\">calling for more detailed investigations<\/a> into the &#8220;torn document&#8221; giving details of Bush&#8217;s service record:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The now-infamous &#8220;torn document,&#8221; which the Bush administration produced in the spring of 2000 is a statement of service credit that Bush apparently earned for guard service in 1972-73. However, most of the dates and Bush&#8217;s name, except for the &#8220;W,&#8221; have been torn off.<\/p>\n<p>  At first, this document was often included in media summaries of Bush&#8217;s National Guard service. However, it has been notably absent from many recent accounts, simply because most reporters find it so incomplete as to be useless.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8230;But now that Bush has gone on record saying that he will release all records necessary to settle this issue, it&#8217;s up to the press corps to decide just how high or low to set the bar of disclosure necessary to get to the bottom of things.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mainstream media will be a bit late to the game, though, as Calpundit already has a good look at the document in question &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpundit.com\/archives\/003220.html\" title=\"ARF!\">not the torn version, though<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  To make a long story short, Bush apparently blew off drills beginning in May 1972, failed to show up for his physical, and was then grounded and transferred to &#91;the Air Reserve Force&#93; as a disciplinary measure. He didn&#8217;t return to his original Texas Guard unit and cram in 36 days of active duty in 1973 &#8212; as Time magazine and others continue to assert based on a mistaken interpretation of Bush&#8217;s 1973-74 ARF record &#8212; but rather accumulated only ARF points during that period. In fact, it&#8217;s unclear even what the points on the ARF record are for, but what is clear is that Bush&#8217;s official records from Texas show no actual duty after May 1972, as his Form 712 Master Personnel Record from the Texas Air National Guard clearly indicates&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  Bush&#8217;s record shows three years of service, followed by a fourth year in which he accumulated only a dismal 22 days of active service, followed by no service at all in his fifth and sixth years. This is because ARF duty isn&#8217;t counted as official duty by the Texas guard.<\/p>\n<p>  So Bush may indeed have &#8220;fulfilled his obligation,&#8221; as he says, but only because he had essentially been relieved of any further obligation after his transfer to ARF. It&#8217;s pretty clear that no one in the Texas Air National Guard had much interest in pursuing anything more serious in the way of disciplinary action.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truly a sterling service record for our Commander in Chief.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/2\/9\/20361\/48876\" title=\"More on AWOL\">Daily Kos<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more, people are getting to the bottom of Bush&#8217;s military record &mdash; the real one, that is, not the glossed-over propagand-ized version he&#8217;d like us to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}