Satisfactory participation during my membership in the Air National Guard of the United States will be attendance and satisfactory performance of assigned duties at 48 scheduled inactive duty training periods and 15 days field training annually... statement Bush had agreed to.

Bush admits his attendance was spotty. During one interval he skipped all drills between May 1,1972 and (at least) November 29, 1972. That period of time would have encompassed 24 training periods.

But Bush was serving in a champagne unit that was refuge for the area sons of privilege. Its ranks included John Conally's son, Lloyd Bentson's son, John Tower's son, SEVEN Dallas Cowboys, and two sons of the businessman who got G W Bush into the Guard ahead of hundreds of others on a waiting list.

5 January 1969 NYT (p. 76, col. 1)

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Goldbricks - like Bush- malingerers and others who shirked their duty were a real problem in the National Guard at this time.

30 May 1969 NYT (p. 5, col. 1)

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Other less privileged men face penalties

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...........NYT 7 July, 1967, pg. 2, col. 7........................NYT 18 July, 1968, pg. 9, col. 5

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