Bull, T.... Pure unalterated bull... I mean, 100% bull... The kinda bull that keeps cows up dreamin' at night!!!

First of all your defense of Bush is that, if I get it right, that it ain't AWOL unless you get caught... That is bull-plus... Absent Without Leave is juts that... You, apparently, have no understanding about what "The Guard" was during Vietnam, do you??? Especially the Air Nationmal Guard where you aren't expected to take two weeks off every summer and go play war at a US military base... The Air National Guard was a lot looser than that... It was just above honor system after you got trained... Very flexible... Not like the real military at all... Do you know that???

And yes, it is perfectly fiesable for a secretary to remember stuff, especially when at the time she may have thought that this guy was gettin' a pass because his father was well connected... I rememeber each and every one of my classmates who were killed in Vietnam... It was a time when people were paying close attention to stuff... I can't much tell you what I did from month to month or year to year in the 80's but from 1964 until the end of the Vietnam War I can recall pretty much happened month by month and where I was and what I was doing... Most people who were effected by the events of the 60's, maybe you T being the exception, have very good abilities to pull up what happened and when...

Bush didn't sign up to complete points... He signed up for a period of time... He didn't do the time... That is what is referred to as AWOL...

Maybe its diffferent where you were but that was the reality here in the US ... I knew lots of Guardsmen... Because there was a draft they were Guardsman for one reason: Vietnam and thought is was safer there... And it was...

Bush went into the Guard to avoid Vietnam... 99% of kids went into the Guard to aviod Vietnam...

You need to recheck your requirments for satisfactory completeion of one Guard duty... You have it completely wrong...

B~