Posted by John Spurrell How did W avoid this service? I think this may be more of a story than his being jumped ahead of hundreds of other candidates for the guard. At that time we were losing a lot of Thud drivers over Hanoi, and the Air Force was in need of lots of active duty pilots.
on 2/26/2004, 12:14 pm
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The question I haven't seen raised is concerning the active duty requirement required for flight training. I was under the impression that several years of active duty was required to compensate for the hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs to train a fighter pilot. I was under the impression that pilots are the least hard to keep members of a guard unit; the only way retired pilots can strap on heavy iron and turn and burn is by joining a guard or reserve unit. They can't acquire or afford the aircraft otherwise. Maintenance and logistics personnel are hard to keep in reserve units, but not the ex fighter jocks who like to show up to stay current in and fly the hot rods and get out of the cockpit of their commercial aircraft.
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