{"id":1116,"date":"2004-07-04T21:40:35","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-07-04T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T04:40:35","slug":"awol-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/04\/awol-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"AWOL Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting.  <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glcq.com\/bush_at_arpc1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">DESERTER<\/p>\n<p>THE STORY OF GEORGE W. BUSH AFTER HE QUIT THE TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An examination of the Bush military files within the context of US Statutory Law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures of that era lead to a single conclusion:  George W. Bush was considered a deserter by the United States Air Force. <\/p>\n<p>After Bush quit TXANG, he still had nine months of his six-year military commitment left to serve.   As a result, Bush became a member of the Air Force Reserves and was transferred to the authority of the Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) in Denver, Colorado.   Because this was supposed to be a temporary assignment, ARPC had to review Bush\u2019s records to determine where he should ultimately be assigned.  That examination would have led to three conclusions: That Bush had \u201cfailed to satisfactorily participate\u201d as defined by United States law and Air Force policy, that TXANG could not account for Bush\u2019s actions for an entire year, and that Bush\u2019s medical records were not up to date.  Regardless of what actions ARPC contemplated when reviewing Bush\u2019s records, all options required that Bush be certified as physically fit to serve, or as unfit to serve.   ARPC thus had to order Bush to get a physical examination, for which Bush did not show up.  ARPC then designated Bush as AWOL and a \u201cnon-locatee\u201d (i.e. a deserter) who had failed to satisfactorily participate in TXANG, and certified him for immediate induction through his local draft board.  Once the Houston draft board got wind of the situation, strings were pulled; and documents were generated which directly contradict Air Force policy, and which were inconsistent with the rest of the records released by the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he appears to prove it, too.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 <\/a> for the link.  He says he&#8217;s the ten-thousandth lefty blogger to post about this, but since I was off the net for over a week, I&#8217;m glad he posted it when he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting. DESERTER THE STORY OF GEORGE W. BUSH AFTER HE QUIT THE TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD An examination of the Bush military files within the context of US Statutory Law, Department of Defense regulations, and Air Force policies and procedures of that era lead to a single conclusion: George W. Bush was considered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}