Discussion: George W. Bush was a Deserter?

Moreover, since he should already have been put in the immediate draft pool in September when the annual review of people with draft deferments was done. Thus the Air Force backdated his expulsion to two weeks before his discharge, thus invalidating the discharge. Then, magically, strings were pulled and he was rehabilitated. He was reassigned from pilot to executive support officer (for which he was not qualified). Somehow (the documents are lost) he was transferred back to active status and thence (document exists) to the "Inactive Standby Reserve List Section". After 2 days less than the required waiting period of 180 in the ISRLS he finally got a second honorable discharge. There are signs that the last few documents were issued irregularly - they're stamped but not signed, and the stamp is the same even though they would normally have been generated in different offices.

The bottom line is that Bush appears to have been both AWOL and a deserter and at least one, and probably both, of his "honorable discharges" were invalid.

Was George W. Bush a deserter and AWOL? Those are serious charges, but it appears as though there is serious evidence to back them up. At the very least, the evidence points to a very bad looking situation which requires a good explanation. Has anything like that been forthcoming from the White House? Read More...