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Originally posted by onetime2
I call bull. The reason it's a big deal is because you and others don't like him. As pointed out, his plane was being phased out and there was an excess of pilots available. To make him capable of flying another plane it would have taken more than 6 months of training.
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Those planes were obsolete and planned to be phased out before Bush even joined the ANG. Yet they thought it worthwhile to train Bush to fly one. And then decide to just let his flight credentials lapse, no harm no foul, after only 2 years?
Nah.
He was getting a physical for a reason, aside from just being an annual checkup, and that was to ensure he was physically fit to keep flying. He didn't make the checkup, didn't schedule a followup and was going to be just an expensive grounded pilot for the next two scheduled years of his service.
He requested the early discharge much later.