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By Lois Romano and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, February 10, 2004; 5:00 PM
The White House today released records of President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard and said they show that he was paid--and therefore was in service--during a year when his presence at drills has not been publicly documented.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the records "show that he was paid for his service, and you get paid for the days on which you serve."
The documents released today include an Air Force personnel record card for Bush from May 27, 1972, until May 26, 1973, and a summary prepared by the Defense Financing Accounting Service that shows what days Bush served in 1972 and 1973.
At issue is a 12-month period, commencing in May 1972, when Bush moved to Alabama to work on a senatorial campaign. … The records indicate that between May 1972 and May 1973, Bush served 14 days -- two days in October, four days in November, six days in January and two days in April. There is no indication, however, what duties Bush performed on those 14 days.
At a standard eight hours a day, fourteen days of effort works out to 102 hours, suspiciously close to the 100-hour community service requirements that many high schools have imposed on their students. Bush aides, however, condemned the comparison. "High school students typically have four years in which to do their 100 hours of service. The President had only one year in which to do his, so you can imagine how hard he had to work."
Even some Vietnam Veterans agreed. "A hundred hours? Hell, yeah, that's a hard stretch to pull," said former Lance Corporal Hazeltine Hound, USMC. "I had to pull 72 hours straight on the perimeter at Khe Sanh in '68, couldn't sleep for a minute, the way the VC kept coming at us… I nearly died from exhaustion, not to mention those Goddamn RPG's." Informed that the President's 102 hours were nto four straight days, but fourteen different eight-hour days over twelve months, Hound shook his head and said "[BLEEP]ing flyboys."
Asked how the President's 102 hours of service could legitimately be called a hobby, much less full-time service, one Republican analyst compared the situation to Iraq. "Did we find WMD? No. Does it matter? No- because we found "WMD-Related program activities" that is, we found evidence Iraq was thinking about WMD. Clearly, the President, even though he wasn't actually serving, was engaging in National Guard-Related Program Activities."
Another possible answer was suggested by a writer who noted that the First Lady is a former school teacher. "The President is clearly is a big believer in the concept of getting partial credit."
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