Bush Military History Project #8

Journal entry #8

In BMHP #7 we discussed more of the ramifications of the falsified OER of May 1973, covering the year May1 1972 to Apr 30, 1973.
Killian and Harris knew when they wrote “Lt Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report…He cleared this base on May 15th…” that it was false because there was a paper trail of more than a dozen documents showing that George Bush was under their command until September of that year. They approved his transfer twice, suspended him, etc. We also talked about the link to this falsification in the CBS papers (“…I will backdate but not rate…” Jerry Killian)
Documents like This for instance: George Bush’s 2d request for transfer to Alabama. This absolutely puts Bush in the 111th in September—he’s applying -->to his commander!<-- for permission to do equivalent service in Alabama. That inarguably puts him in the 111th untill Sep 5th!
This is a different kind of request from the first—the first was to an Air Reserve unit for a permanent non flying job. This 2d is for a temporary assignment in a Ready Reserve unit. The difference stems from the turndown for the 1st request—the 2d time they fluffed it up better, coming closer—but not all the way-- to meeting the requirements.
Ive mentioned before what a smoking gun their approval of this request is for Killian and Hodges (signed by them full signature, as commanders of the 111th and 147th, on Sep 6 & 8 respectively). It means they bboth know the May 15th date is false. This approval is hard to find on the internet but its on page 261 of Unfit Commander by G Smith. It absolutely gives the lie to Killian’s statement that George Bush had left his unit on May 15th—or else why is Bush applying to his commander of the 111th for a transfer and them approving it??
Now look at the 2d transfer request again—who does that give the lie to?
George Bush you say? Go to the head of the class! George Bush’s signature on this 2d transfer request—or just the fact that he had to write it to Killian-->his commander<-- on Sep 5th—proves absolutely that George Bush knows that the OER is as false as a $3 bill with Nixon’s picture on it, that he was in the 111th (and 147th) at least until September 5th. There’s no way he doesn’t know that the exit date on the OER is false. And that means Rove, Bartlett and others know its false too. It also means there’s people in the USAF and TANG that know its false—I’m not the only one who knows how to put scrambled papers in order and understand their meaning, although this talent certainly is lacking in the media.
This is one of the reasons they scrambled up Bush’s records when they released them—when they’re put in proper order, all becomes clearer. Is that what an Honest Man would do?
I know I’m dwelling a long time on this OER but its extremely significant because it shows the bind that Bush and his superiors were in. One of the most important falsifications I haven’t mentioned yet is that they kept Bush listed as a pilot---9 months after he’d been suspended from flying duty.
This was the essence of their scheme—to keep Bush listed as a pilot while having him “ghost” (to goldbrick, to be on the roles but not there) until they could get him close enough to his discharge date that they could get him out with an honorable discharge. He still had to years on his MSO enlistment when he quit flying in Apr 1972—that’s a long way to stretch a “temporary assignment.” ( “… A review of his Master Personnel File shows he has a Military Service Obligation until 26 May 1974…)
So they kept him listed as a pilot long after he had been suspended from flying. Example: (Page 291, Unfit commander) 9/18/73 Hodges recommends approval of Bush’s discharge: “….Duty title and AFSC: Pilot, Ftr Intcp, 1125D, UDL grade…”
But by this time Bush had been suspended from flying for 13 months—a fact that Hodges knows full well, but is still pretending (falsely claiming) that Bush is still a pilot. The information on this is false and Hodges knows it —he has his signature on the Sep 5th, 1972 confirmation of Bush’s suspension. (Page 256 Unfit Commander) So does Rufus Martin, personnel officer, who also signed it.
Bush was suspended on August 1st, 1972. He lost his pilots rating then and all of his other qualifications according to his discharge Qualifications: NONE (Capitals in the original, not my emphasis) He SHOULD have been reclassified and reassigned according to the Correction Demand for the OER (referenced above: “…This officer should have been reassigned in May 1972…”)
Therefore ANY document that lists him as a pilot in the AFSC (job title) of pilot is a falsification---and guess what? They all do!!
That’s what some of the more exotic redactions of Bush’s papers are about. Every place that Bush is listed as a pilot after 1 August 1972 is a falsification—and many redactions (black outs) in Bush’s records are right where his AFSC should be. I see this done on Pages 284-286, Page 290, Unfit commander and other places. This is a curious—why shokld his jobtitle be blanked out.
Because every place he is listed as a pilot after Aug 1, 1972 is a smoking gun for whoever cooked his books (think: Hodges and Rufus Martin) His command must answer to why they kept him listed as a pilot for well over a year after he had lost his pilots qualification and did no flying—a fact they were well aware of. Why did they evade calling for a Flight Evaluation Board and immediately take illegal steps to get Bush out of their unit when they were required to discipline him?
If there’s one person in the world who knows the answers to those and more, its Bobby Hodges—he’s got his name all over falsified documents like the discharge approval cited above. Yet Mary Mapes never bothered to ask him why he refused to look at the CBS documents and identify them. “…I offered to show him the documents but he said he didn’t want to see them…) (truth and Duty, page173) Nor does eshe demand the specifics of Bush’s suspension NOR a yes or not answer as to whether Bush was ordered to take the physical or not, another fact Hodges knows for sure. No follow up there at all, Little Miss Peabody Award?

OK this is getting long but there’s still lots to cover. I’ll end this one shortly but there’s still more to be understoof here.
Here’s something else about this OER that puts a nail in the coffin of Bush’s “honorable service:” “…Lt Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report…” (May 1972—73)
Put this together with the fact that The commander of the Alabama unit said he never showed up and the Alabama units record reflects that. Put that together with the fact that the unit records of the 111th show Bush did not attend from May 1972 on.
That means that both commanders of the only two units that Bush could have attended during that year both say he wasn’t there—and their unit records confirm it.
But Bush said he remembered serving there and that was that—no more reason to look any further said the MSM, no no no no, especially when there’s a Democrat’s Silver Star to help the Republicans piss on. YABBADABBA DOOO!
So where WAS Bush during that year?? And what was he paid for doing when the commanders of the only two units he could have been in say he wasn’t there? Why is his attendance marked ONLY in his pay records, not the unit’s records?
Next installment: The monetary fraud of Bush himself

They always refer to Blount campaign as the reason for his transfer to Alabama, however he didn't seem to there much either and Allisson did the real campaign work instead of George Bush.

I think the Blount campaign was an excuse for Bush running away from the Guard Duty. If youve been following the series, you see that Bush's superiors were desperate to get him out of their unit where time constraints were forcing them to suspend/discipline him. I think the whole Blount campaignj job was pogued together as an excuse for Bush to geet out of town.
The job sholdn't have forced Bush to quit the TXANG anyway. Every square inch of Alabam is closer to Ellington AFB than El Paso or Amarillo and Bush could have driven back to Ellington one weekend a month. It was, after all, his PATRIOTIC DUTY--which he ran away from to go play politics in ANY scenario. The whole "he had to quit the TANG to go to work in ALabama" notion is fishy therefore. Other people were coming farther to do their service there. And GHWB was a pilot (so was GWB) and owned an airplane that may have been used in the Blount campaign. There's no doubt that Bush could have gone on flying out of Ellington with little difficulty if he was working in Alabama.
Don't forget that during this time, Bush was in the throes (cool word) of substance abuse. This December (1972) was the time of the famous drunken confrontation with GHWB, when GWB, after a night of heavy drinking and driving drove up into GHWBs driveay dragging aa garbage can he'd hit. When GHWB confronted him about it (including getting his 16 year old brother Marvin drunk) GWB challenged him to go "mano to mano" with him.
The spring of '73 is when Bush did the service with PUSH in Houston, which many think was order by a court as community service for a drug bust.
All of this backs up and fits in with the long story I'm telling. Thanks for your interst, I hope this answers your question

Because the Blount campaign didn't need Bush's presence and was more likely an excuse set up by George, the Elder, because Blount seemed to be well connected with Nixon, Connolly and later the Saudi Royal family which is the same group of people which usually tends to include George H.W. Bush. His campaign was not relevant for the Republican Party either, since John Sparkman was destined to win anyhow.

Talking about using planes, there is also Bush's previous job at Stratford in Texas which is equally vague and contains a very strange statement that he sometimes took his Texas Guard F-102 to fly to Orlando for his job. ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm ) Seriously, you can't just take your plane and fly to Florida and George's former boss just makes that casual statement. I have a compilation of the Startford story which has very interesting angles and is extremely vague like most of George's biography.


I didn't notice your posts before, so I had some reading up to. The analysis is much appreciated. Even though it's not really a discussion topic, it is a very interesting part of the George W. Bush saga.