Trolling for Truth

Bob Fertig's Feb 12, summary covers the dental exam, among other things.

January duty in Alabama would conflict with the permission he sought and received for Alabama service, which was only for Sept-Nov. After that period, he was expected to return to his home base in Houston.

According to former ANG pilot Robert A. Rogers, National Guard personnel are not entitled to dental services by military doctors. "For the ordinary Guardsman, this would be illegal and subject to disciplinary action." Was Bush punished for this? This is one more reason why we need to see Bush's disciplinary records.

If the "pay" records are accurate and Bush got paid for Guard duty on Jan. 6, did his actual duty consist of getting a dental exam? The media wants to know what Bush did after he stopped flying - this could be a perfect symbol of Bush's last two years.

We know he was grounded by verbal orders on August 1, 1972, for not taking his flight physical. On September 29, 1972, official written orders issued by a major general confirmed the grounding, and, most important, ordered him to take a flight physical: "Off[icer] will comply with para[graph] 2-10, AFM 35-13." There is no evidence he ever complied with the order. Did he have time to go for a dental exam but no time to carry out a lawful order? In fact, there is no evidence that he ever complied with this order, even after he returned to Texas sometime in the winter 1972, after the candidate he was working for lost the election.

el - I don't know enough about the dental records to comment on them.