Isn't it difficult to even get waitlisted for the National Guards during the Vietnam War? How did Bush manage

Question

How was Bush able to serve under the Texas National Guards? Was his father that desperate for him to dodge the draft

Answer 1

There was a long waiting list to get into the National Guard during Vietnam, and in Texas! May 27, 1967 George W. Bush applies to join the Texas National Guard. Despite a waiting list of 18 months, Bush is signed in the same day

Texas Speaker Reportedly Helped Bush Get Into Guard

Former Texas Lieutenant Gov. Ben Barnes. (AP)

By George Lardner Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 21, 1999; Page A4


The speaker of the Texas legislature personally asked the top official of the Texas Air National Guard to help George W. Bush obtain a pilot's slot in a Guard fighter squadron during the war in Vietnam, according to informed sources.
The speaker, Ben Barnes, intervened on Bush's behalf sometime in late 1967 or early 1968 at the request of a good friend of Bush's father, then a Republican congressman from Houston, the sources said. The friend, Sidney A. Adger, was a prominent Houston business executive who died in 1996. The Guard official contacted at his behest, Brig. Gen. James M. Rose, died in 1993.

Both Bush, now governor of Texas and front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, and his father, the former president, say they did not ask for any help with Guard officials and have no knowledge of any assistance from Adger or anyone else.

"Gov. Bush did not need and did not ask anybody for help," said a Bush campaign spokesman, Scott McClellan. "President Bush has said he did not seek any help for his son in getting into the National Guard."

Jean Becker, a spokeswoman for former president Bush, confirmed that the senior Bush and Adger were good friends, but she said Bush firmly denies talking to Adger about helping his son get into the Guard.

Answer 2

Not really alot of people enlisted in the Guard to not have to go to war and are still doing so.It typically means less time in a warzone and more time at home the Guard unit you are stationed to is determined by where you live while in the guard.Its not assigned to you. Rank is earned similarly to the regular military but is also earned by completing certain educational requirements.If he had truly wanted to avoid the draft he would have had to leave the country.Did strings get pulled to get him better duty stations probably but we'll never know .Especially after the faked record scandall from the election.Now everyone will look at the records alot closer to make sure they ahven't been doctored in any way.

At the time of that article both of the people who could be directly questioned about those statements were dead thats why the article says "REPORTEDLY" and staes ni where within it that they were able to 100% coroborate it.

Answer 3

dan rather lost his job for making up stupid crap like this. your lucky u dont have one!!

Answer 4

no, that was clinton.