Re: Another 2000 election redux (actually, still Politics)

[Guest guest]

adamsCLAYADAMS@... wrote:

> So Bush, being in the National Guard, which only meets like one

> weekend a month, Should have been charged with desertion right after

> he missed the first training session!

Now, come on. Is that typically what they do when someone misses a

training day in the National Guard?

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> Now, come on. Is that typically what they do when

> someone misses a training day in the National Guard?

Not just a day, but an entire weekend! <g>

Okay, I have no way of knowing what they do

when that happens in the National Guard, but

a month is a month, and the law is the law.

The ordinary Joe would have been in heap big

Trouble!

Clay

[Guest guest]

Clay wrote:

> wrote:

>

> > Now, come on. Is that typically what they do when someone misses a

> > training day in the National Guard?

>

> Not just a day, but an entire weekend! <g> Okay, I have no way of

> knowing what they do when that happens in the National Guard, but a

> month is a month, and the law is the law. The ordinary Joe would have

> been in heap big Trouble!

But for an active-duty military person, a month missed means " 30 days of

active duty missed, " right? So for a Guardsman, it could take over a

year to miss 30 days of duty.

And, not only that, I am sure we both know that Bush did it because he

could. If he was an ordinary guy, I bet he would have been there right

on time. His that he exploited an opportunity that was handed to him,

not because of anything he did personally, but because he was lucky

enough to be of a privileged family. People in the ruling caste like

that don't even have a mindset of having to play by the rules. They

make rules for us... sometimes pretty nasty rules, like the USA PATRIOT

act, but they don't have to live under them. You know that Bush or

Ashcroft will never suffer under the PATRIOT act.

[Guest guest]

> Now, come on. Is that typically what they do when someone misses a

> training day in the National Guard?

No, I had a roommate that missed a few of them.

I do remember one message on the answering machine, though:

" Private <last name>, this is your Sargent, Sargent <whatever>. I don't

know where you are right now, but I suggest you show up within the next 10

minutes or face court marshal. "

This was after missing several of these trainings, over several months.

But what is significant is that this person had no political connections,

was not rich, was not powerful, etc. He was an ordinary person. One

missed training gets your superiors mad at you but doesn't get you court

Marshalled or significantly harmed. I believe he had to do some extra

duty cleaning floors or something.

--

[Guest guest]

asked:

> Now, come on. Is that typically what they do when

> someone misses a training day in the National Guard?

Since my husband is in the National Guard and has missed the occasional

weekend, I can say that they do not get too worked up about it. They either

call or e-mail him to find out why he was absent, unless he has called and

e-mailed them first.

Take care,

Gail :-)

[Guest guest]

Gail Pennington wrote:

> asked:

> > Now, come on. Is that typically what they do when someone misses a

> > training day in the National Guard?

>

> Since my husband is in the National Guard and has missed the

> occasional weekend, I can say that they do not get too worked up

> about it. They either call or e-mail him to find out why he was

> absent, unless he has called and e-mailed them first.

No 20 years in Leavenworth or firing squad?

[Guest guest]

quipped:

> No 20 years in Leavenworth or firing squad?

Nope! No raids on our home and carting him off either. ;-)

Take care,

Gail :-)

[Guest guest]

Gail wrote:

> quipped:

> > No 20 years in Leavenworth or firing squad?

> Nope! No raids on our home and carting him off either. ;-)

Well, that's just un-military! We used to call them

" Weekend Warriors " . (No offense)

Clay

[Guest guest]

Clay wrote:

> Well, that's just un-military! We used to call them

> " Weekend Warriors " . (No offense)

They are still called that. :-)

Take care,

Gail :-)