Why don't you admit that anyone who strapped into that rocket had the guts to do the job?
Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - F-102 in Vietnam
Notice that the link is not Wiki.............
I totally get that you want Bush to be more then a failure and a scandal, but info such as this, from your article, don't help:
After being accepted into the ANG, Airman Basic Bush was selected to attend pilot training even though his test scores were the lowest acceptable for that position
and this part here:
a deadly flaw in the aircraft's design that caused an engine stall and loss of control under a certain combination of angle of attack and airspeed frequently encountered during takeoff. According to a former F-102 pilot we've interviewed, this problem caused the plane to roll inverted and resulted in several fatal crashes. Numerous accidents were also encountered during landing because of the plane's steep angle of attack and high airspeed that reduced the pilot's visibility and reaction time
Huh? The Air Force is going to put pilots into jets with deadly flaws to what? Test their bravery???? This story is so ridiculous who could possibly believe it? Oops, sorry. Unless someone really wanted to believe it so badly.
The Vietnam war ended well into 1975, the year I enlisted. But Bush was disqualified from flying in 1972. Bush was never even close to being sent to Vietnam.
I totally get it. A lot of the Republican base is ashamed at what has become of their party. I've seen it again and again.
The two unpaid for wars. The lack of WMD's. The tens of thousands maimed for life and that cost to the nation for the next 50 years - that didn't have to happen. Letting Bin Laden go. A "black Muslim" president taking out Bin Laden and most of al Qaeda - he wasn't supposed to do that. He was born in Kenya, right?
Then there is the deregulation that caused the economic meltdown. And remember "reconciliation"? Republicans used it THREE times for all the tax cuts and the unfunded votes for drugs bill. Remember how Republicans SCREAMED because Democrats used reconciliation for Obamacare? And look at the difference. The tax cuts were mainly to help the very wealthy and Obamacare to help the poor and middle class. A no no. Today's Republican party wants to punish and hurt the poor and middle class. 47%?
I get it. I just have a different perspective.