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The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 9
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 26, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
Krusty: (broadcasing from the civil defense shed, via the Emergency Broadcast System) Kids...Itchy and Scratchy can't be here today. But instead, we've got the next best thing! It's the Stingy and Battery show! (sings to the familiar score) They bite, and light. And bite and light and ... (quits singing) yatta, yatta ... you know what I'm talking about!
Space: Above and Beyond
Choice or Chance - Part 2
Sunday 26 November 1995
Episode 9 Season 1 DVD video:
00:20:39
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Not enough power left to transmit.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: I'll bet they heard it.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Not even an A.I. would take that bet, Cooper.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: We got to find the others.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: A.I.'s are networked through their modems. So when you re-initialize them, they give up their home location. Near the end of the A.I. War I was a P.O.W.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: They do, uh, stuff to you?
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: It's frightening how much pain an InVitro - a human body can stand. You'd like to believe the body would break before the will. I held out three days. Then - once when they were - doing stuff to me - I heard screaming. Sounded far off, down the hall. I remember thinking "That poor bastard. What must he be going through?" Then when I came to I realized the screams had come from me.
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 5504 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/27/1980 ( premiere US TV series "Bosom Buddies" ) is 5504 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 5504 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/27/1980 ( premiere US TV series "Bosom Buddies" ) is 5504 days
From 8/17/1955 ( premiere US film "To Hell and Back" ) To 11/26/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"Choice or Chance" ) is 14711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 14711 days
From 8/17/1955 ( premiere US film "To Hell and Back" ) To 11/26/1995 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" ) is 14711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 14711 days
From 3/16/1951 ( premiere US film "The Red Badge of Courage" ) To 6/25/1991 ( Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia ) is 14711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 14711 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 5162 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/21/1979 ( premiere US film "Cuba" ) is 5162 days
From 6/8/1984 ( premiere US film "Gremlins" ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 7918 days
7918 = 3959 + 3959
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/4/1976 ( the unpublished true birthdate of Destiny's Child singer Beyonce Knowles ) is 3959 days
From 6/8/1984 ( premiere US film "Gremlins" ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 7918 days
7918 = 3959 + 3959
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/4/1976 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States arrested again by police in the United States ) is 3959 days
From 7/23/1972 ( the United States Landsat 1 satellite launched into orbit of the planet Earth ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 12256 days
12256 = 6128 + 6128
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/13/1982 ( premiere US film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 6128 days
From 9/10/1954 ( premiere US TV series "Dear Phoebe"::series premiere episode "Bill Gets a Job" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 14711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 14711 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 4071 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1976 ( W.C. Fields deceased ) is 4071 days
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the US space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the US Marine Corps officer and STS-71 pilot astronaut ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 3880 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/17/1976 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Lanigan's Rabbi" ) is 3880 days
From 1/27/1954 ( premiere US film "Highway Dragnet" ) To 5/8/1994 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - premiere US TV miniseries Stephen King's "The Stand" ) is 14711 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 14711 days
From 10/29/1993 ( premiere US TV series "Diagnosis Murder" ) To 2/11/2006 ( premiere US TV movie "Honor Deferred" ) is 4488 days
4488 = 2244 + 2244
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days
[ See also: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:08 AM Monday, November 28, 2011 ]
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Honor Deferred (2006 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 11 February 2006
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Honor Deferred (2006 TV Movie)
Plot Summary
During World War II, it was an unwritten order in the US military to avoid recommending African-American soldiers for the highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, no matter how worthy they were of it. Decades later, the Clinton administration ordered this old injustice systematically assessed and corrected. This film profiles the stories of African-Americans who displayed extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty who were finally given their proper due.
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-above-and-beyond/choice-or-chance-2-72598
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Space: Above and Beyond FOX (Ended 1996)
Choice or Chance (2)
Air Date
Sunday November 26, 1995
Quotes
(Wang screams in the distance)
Damphousse: Paul!
Vansen: In a little while... it'll be us.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079013/releaseinfo
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Cuba (1979)
Release Info
USA 21 December 1979
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Cuba (1979)
Full Cast & Crew
Sean Connery ... Maj. Robert Dapes
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Cuba (1979)
Quotes
Maj. Robert Dapes: Why were those people shot?
Capt. Raphael Ramirez: Perhaps they tried to escape.
Maj. Robert Dapes: From what?
Capt. Raphael Ramirez: From being shot.
Maj. Robert Dapes: But how did they know they were rebels?
Capt. Raphael Ramirez: Because they tried to escape.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F14
The Trouble With Trillions
Original airdate on FOX: 05-Apr-1998
% One of Castro's workers tells him some men with a trillion dollar bill are
% here to see him.
Mr. Burns: Oh, so the island's not for sale, eh? Well, will you at least permit us to live in your socialist paradise?
Castro: You talking about Cuba?
-- "The Trouble With Trillions"
Mr. Burns: All we ask is preferential treatment because of my fabulous wealth!
[Burns holds the trillion dollar bill up.]
Castro: May I see?
Mr. Burns: Ho ho ho, see with your eyes, not with your hands!
Castro: Please, we are all amigos here!
Homer: Mr. Burns.. I think we can trust the president of Cuba..
Mr. Burns: [hands it to Castro, and waits a couple of seconds.] Now, give it back...
Castro: Give what back?
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F14
The Trouble With Trillions
Original airdate on FOX: 05-Apr-1998
Smithers: Sir, aren't you facing some serious jail time?
Mr. Burns: Well, if it's a crime to love one's country, then I'm guilty. And if it's a crime to steal a trillion dollars from our government and hand it over to communist Cuba, then I'm guilty of that too. And if it's a crime to bribe a jury, then so help me, I'll soon be guilty of that!
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F08.html
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
The plane hits the shed and bounces off of it, knocking Sideshow Bob and Bart to the ground. A tank rolls in and then over the plane, crushing it.
Soldier: Ooh, sorry. We don't normally drive these in the Air Force.
Wiggum: [cuffing Bob] Got ya, ha ha, you...TV-hating mutant!
Hapablap: What is your major malfunction, Sideshow Bob?
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/03/news/mn-46389
Los Angeles Times
Bush's 1976 Arrest in Maine Is Revealed
November 03, 2000 MARK Z. BARABAK TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
Responding to reports Thursday
Bush repeatedly questioned the timing of the Maine news reports. "I think that's an interesting question," he told reporters. "Why now? . . . I've got my suspicions."
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F08.html
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Original airdate in N.A.: 26-Nov-95
Bart: So, Krusty double crossed you. But your basic plan was pure genius. Where do you get your ideas?
Bob: Oh please.
From 8/4/1987 ( the Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine ) To 11/17/1999 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George W. Bush "A Charge to Keep" ) is 4488 days
4488 = 2244 + 2244
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days
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HarperCollinsPublishers
A Charge to Keep
By George W. Bush
On Sale: 11/17/1999
Formats: Hardcover
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by George W. Bush
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: William Morrow; 1st ed edition (November 17, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0688174418
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/791702/Bush-back-on-track-after-DUI-flap.html
Desert News
Bush back on track after DUI flap
By Peter Nicholas
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Published: Sunday, Nov. 5 2000 12:00 a.m. MST
PHILADELPHIA — The Bush campaign's 757 was grounded briefly in St. Louis as mechanics fixed one of the plane's eight brakes. "There's no stopping us now," joked Bush's communications director, Karen Hughes.
In the span of a few hours, the campaign would snag on something far more serious: Thursday's disclosure of a drunken-driving conviction in Bush's past.
By Saturday, the campaign was back on track. Bush aides believed they had patched the problem quickly and neutralized the damage by aggressively raising questions about Democratic "dirty tricks."
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/sideshow-bobs-last-gleaming-1422/
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The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 9
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Nov 26, 1995 on FOX
AIRED: 11/26/95
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Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 10
Choice or Chance (2)
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Nov 26, 1995 on FOX
Quotes
Hawkes: Most tanks sat out the AI war. Why would you give your life for a human?
McQueen: I did it... I do it for every InVitro who has ever been called a tank or a nipple neck. I do it so no one, human or InVitro, will ever be able to say that all InVitros are lazy, or cowards, or don't stand for anything.
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Space: Above and Beyond Season 1 Episode 10
Choice or Chance (2)
Aired Sunday 7:00 PM Nov 26, 1995 on FOX
After narrowly escaping the crippled alien battleship, the 58th finds itself imprisoned in the catacombs of a Chig penal colony, ran by AIs. While Wang suffers in an alien torture chamber, Nathan encounters someone he had only dreamed of seeing again.
AIRED: 11/26/95
Space: Above and Beyond [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Choice or Chance - Part 2
Sunday 26 November 1995
Episode 9 Season 1 DVD video:
00:20:39
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Not enough power left to transmit.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: I'll bet they heard it.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Not even an A.I. would take that bet, Cooper.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: We got to find the others.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: A.I.'s are networked through their modems. So when you re-initialize them, they give up their home location. Near the end of the A.I. War I was a P.O.W.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: They do, uh, stuff to you?
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: It's frightening how much pain an InVitro - a human body can stand. You'd like to believe the body would break before the will. I held out three days. Then - once when they were - doing stuff to me - I heard screaming. Sounded far off, down the hall. I remember thinking "That poor bastard. What must he be going through?" Then when I came to I realized the screams had come from me. Save your last bullet, Hawkes.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: Why'd you come on this mission? How come - how come you're willing to die for humans?
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: I could ask you the same question. You're an InVitro too.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: This ain't my idea. Damn judge decided I ought to be a grunt. That's not your story. I mean, most Tanks just sat out the A.I. War. Why would you give your life for a human?
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: I did it - I do it for every InVitro who's ever been called a Tank or a Nippleneck. I do it so no one - human or InVitro - will ever be able to say that all InVitros are lazy, or cowards or don't stand for anything.
A.I. modem transmission: Transmission received. 140219. Kazbek Penal Colony, GPS grid number 9, Baker, 3.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Found them.
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USGS
Landsat 1 History
Participants
NASA
Department of the Interior (DOI) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Manufacturer: General Electric's (GE's) Space Division in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
Launch
Date: July 23, 1972
Vehicle: Delta 900
Launched by: NASA
Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Space: Above and Beyond [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Choice or Chance - Part 2
Sunday 26 November 1995
Episode 9 Season 1 DVD video:
00:20:39
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Not enough power left to transmit.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: I'll bet they heard it.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Not even an A.I. would take that bet, Cooper.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: We got to find the others.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: A.I.'s are networked through their modems. So when you re-initialize them, they give up their home location. Near the end of the A.I. War I was a P.O.W.
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Cooper Hawkes: They do, uh, stuff to you?
Space: Above and Beyond [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Choice or Chance - Part 2
Sunday 26 November 1995
Episode 9 Season 1 DVD video:
00:43:32
US Marine Corps first lieutenant Stroud: Welcome home. I said this was yours when you got back. You're a hero. Paul. Paul.
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Highway Dragnet (1954)
Release Info
USA 27 January 1954
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Stephen King's The Stand Season 1 Episode 1
The Plague
Aired Sunday 12:00 AM May 08, 1994 on ABC
AIRED: 5/8/94
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Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 39
“Now you’re a man who must appreciate the value of a good key,” the man said. The dark stone disappeared in his clenched fist and suddenly reappeared in his other hand, where it began to finger-walk again. “I’m sure you are. Because what a key is for is opening doors. Is there anything more important in life than opening doors, Lloyd?”
“Mister, I’m awfully hungry…”
“Sure you are,” the man said. An expression of concern spread over his face, an expression so magnified that it became grotesque. “Jesus Christ, a rat isn’t anything to eat! Why, do you know what I had for lunch? I had a nice rare roast beef sandwich on Vienna bread with a few onions and a lot of Gulden’s Spicy Brown. Sound good?”
Lloyd nodded his head, tears oozing slowly out of his overbright eyes.
“Had some homefries and chocolate milk to go with it, and then for dessert… holy crow, I’m torturing you, ain’t I? Someone ought to take a hosswhip to me, that’s what they ought to do. I’m sorry. I’ll let you right out and then we’ll go get something to eat, okay?”
Lloyd was too stunned to even nod. He had decided that the man with the key was indeed a devil, or even more likely a mirage, and the mirage would stand outside his cell until Lloyd finally dropped dead, talking happily about God and Jesus and Gulden’s Spicy Brown mustard as he made the strange black stone appear and disappear. But now the compassion on the man’s face seemed real enough, and he sounded genuinely disgusted with himself. The black stone disappeared into his clenched fist again. And when the fist opened, Lloyd’s wondering eyes beheld a flat silver key with an ornate grip lying on the stranger’s palm.
“My—dear—God! ” Lloyd croaked.
“You like that?” the dark man asked, pleased. “I learned that trick from a massage parlor honey in Secaucus, New Jersey, Lloyd. Secaucus, home of the world’s greatest pig farms.”
He bent and seated the key in the lock of Lloyd’s cell. And that was strange, because as well as his memory served him (which right now was not very well), these cells had no keyways, because they were all opened and shut electronically. But he had no doubt that the silver key would work.
Just as it rattled home, Flagg stopped and looked at Lloyd, grinning slyly, and Lloyd felt despair wash over him again. It was all just a trick.
“Did I introduce myself? The name is Flagg, with the double g. Pleased to meet you.”
“Likewise,” Lloyd croaked.
“And I think, before I open this cell and we go get some dinner, we ought to have a little understanding, Lloyd.”
“Sure thing,” Lloyd croaked, and began to cry again.
“I’m going to make you my righthand man, Lloyd. Going to put you right up there with Saint Peter. When I open this door, I’m going to slip the keys to the kingdom right into your hand. What a deal, right?”
“Yeah,” Lloyd whispered
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-11-02/news/0011020310_1_bush-campaign-george-w-bush-air-guard
Chicago Tribune
THE CHARACTER ISSUE.
Discrepancies, Questions Surface About Bush's Service In Air Guard
November 02, 2000 By Walter V. Robinson, The Boston Globe.
"The responsibility to show up and do your job."
-- Texas Gov. George W. Bush, reflecting on the values he learned as a Texas Air National Guard pilot during the Vietnam War era, in a 1998 interview with the National Guard Review.
For Vice President Al Gore, the character issue is like chewing gum stuck to the sole of his shoe: Hardly a day passes without Republicans challenging Gore's character, especially his storied tendency to embellish facts.
But Democrats are crying foul, saying that Bush has overstated his own record and with far less political consequence. Belatedly, they are calling attention to misleading claims Bush and his campaign have made about his Vietnam-era service as a fighter pilot with the Texas Air National Guard, and to documents that contradict Bush's insistence that he attended required drills in Alabama and Texas in 1972 and 1973.
Bush's campaign has said he served as a pilot in the Texas Guard from 1968 to 1973. In fact, Bush flew with the 111th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Ellington Field in Houston only from June 1970 until April 1972. That month he stopped flying altogether, two years before his military commitment ended, an unusual step that has left some veteran fighter pilots puzzled.
In Alabama, a group of Vietnam veterans recently offered a reward to anyone who can verify Bush's claim that he performed service at a Montgomery Guard unit in 1972, when Bush was temporarily in Alabama working on a political campaign. No one has claimed the reward, which is up to $3,500.
A Bush campaign spokesman acknowledged last week that he knows of no witnesses who can attest to Bush's attendance at drills after he returned to Houston in late 1972 and before his early release from the Guard in September 1973.
There is strong evidence that Bush performed no military service when he moved from Houston to Alabama to work on a U.S. Senate campaign from May to November 1972. There are no records of any service, and the commanding officer of the unit Bush was assigned to said he never saw him.
During Bush's Alabama sojourn, he was suspended from flight duty for failing to take his annual flight physical.
The Bush campaign's initial explanation for the lapse, it now acknowledges, was wrong.
Dan Bartlett, a Bush campaign spokesman, pointed to incomplete records--one a torn page without Bush's name or any discernible dates--as evidence that he did enough drills in Houston in the closing months of his service to satisfy military obligations.
Maj. Thomas A. Deall, a spokesman for the Air Reserve Personnel Center in Denver, said last week that officials there believe Bush's records show he did meet minimum drill requirements.
Still, as the Globe reported in May, two documents and the recollections of officers who said they believe that Bush did not return to his Houston base after leaving for Alabama raise questions about whether Bush performed any duty between April 1972 and September 1973, the month Bush entered Harvard Business School.
Other current and retired Air Force officers said Bush's military records are much like those of countless other Guardsmen at the time, when the federal government was reducing its force as the Vietnam War came to a close: Guardsmen lost interest in their units, and commanders found it easier to muster them out than hold them to a commitment many made to avoid service in Vietnam.
Jesse Brown, the former Veterans Affairs secretary who was seriously wounded while serving as a Marine in Vietnam, said he is irritated that Bush's military service lapses have not become part of the campaign debate.
"It goes right to the heart of the character issue," Brown said. "If you served on active duty during that time, you knew that people went into the Guard and Reserves so they wouldn't have to put their asses on the line. But once they made that decision, they should honor the obligation, do their duty and do it well. Bush did not."
Retorted Bartlett, Bush's spokesman: "Jesse Brown served honorably, but you mean to tell me he has no problem with Bill Clinton's avoidance of military service?"
Bush's approach to his six-year obligation might have attracted more attention had he not been running to succeed a president who actively avoided military service.
Even so, enough unanswered questions remain to draw the interest of historians. The evidence is strong that political influence got Bush into the Guard. The mystery is whether political clout accounts for Bush's abbreviated career as a Guard pilot.
In his autobiography, "A Charge to Keep," Bush said he flew with his unit for "several years" after finishing flight training in June 1970. His campaign biography states that he flew with the unit until he won release from the service in September 1973, nine months early, to attend graduate school.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-11-02/news/0011020310_1_bush-campaign-george-w-bush-air-guard/2
Chicago Tribune
(Page 2 of 2)
THE CHARACTER ISSUE.
Discrepancies, Questions Surface About Bush's Service In Air Guard
November 02, 2000 By Walter V. Robinson, The Boston Globe.
Neither is true. Bush flew with the 111th for 22 months, until April 1972, and never flew again. Bartlett said last week that he could say unequivocally that Bush was not grounded by his superiors. Asked that question last July, Bartlett, after conferring with Bush, was more equivocal: He said Bush could not recall ever being grounded.
What happened to 1st Lt. Bush after April 1972?
Bush and his campaign have said he performed "alternative" duty at the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron in Montgomery from May to November 1972, while he was working on a Senate race in Alabama. Such duty was normal for Guardsmen who were temporarily away from their home units.
But Bush's own records contradict that assertion.
First, with the approval of his superiors, Bush in May 1972 sought a permanent transfer to a postal unit in Alabama that didn't require weekend drills or active duty. Guard headquarters overruled that decision. Bush did not do any drills from May through September 1972.
In July 1972, Bush failed to take his annual flight physical. In August, National Guard headquarters suspended him from flying status. Last year, the Bush campaign erroneously claimed that Bush did not take the physical because his personal physician was in Houston. In fact, only Air Force flight surgeons can give annual flight physicals to pilots.
In September 1972, Bush won approval to do temporary "alternative" training at the 187th Squadron in Montgomery. He was cleared to attend weekend drills in October and November. But two of the 187th's officers said Bush never appeared. "I'm dead-certain he didn't show up," said the unit's commander, retired Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed.
Bush, who declined requests for an interview on the issue, has said he did appear though he does not recall what he did. There are no records in his file to show that he did any training in Alabama.
What happened when Bush returned to Houston in late 1972?
Bush and his spokesman have said that Bush did not fly again because he planned to go to graduate school. Also, they say that as the unit was upgrading to a newer fighter, the F-101, it made little sense for the Guard to retrain him for that jet. In fact, the unit flew the F-102 for a year after Bush left the service.
Bush has said he performed administrative duties with the 111th's parent unit, the 147th Fighter Group, though Bartlett has said Bush cannot recall what those duties were.
On May 2, 1972, Bush's two immediate superiors at the 111th, one of them a friend, signed a document stating they could not perform his annual officer efficiency report for the period of May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973, because Bush "has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report" and "has been performing equivalent training" at the Montgomery unit.
The document is dated a day after Bush was supposed to have done duty in the unit. Both men are deceased.
The official record that chronologically lists Bush's service includes no evidence of service between May 1972 and October 1, 1973, the official date of his discharge.
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 67
But if Lloyd had known about the red list, none of this would have —
“Shut up,” he muttered. “Just… shut… up!”
But the thought wouldn’t go away that easily. Why hadn’t he given Lloyd the names of the top-echelon Free Zone people? He didn’t know, couldn’t remember. It seemed there had been a perfectly good reason at the time, but the more he tried to grasp it, the more it slipped through his fingers. Had it only been a sly-stupid decision not to put too many of his eggs in one basket—a feeling that not too many secrets should be stored with any one person, even a person as stupid and loyal as Lloyd Henreid?
An expression of bewilderment rippled across his face. Had he been making such stupid decisions all along?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:55 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Friday 28 February 2014
