re: #148 LudwigVanQuixote

NO hardly. Not what I said at all. I said I suspect, and that I could be wrong, that the Bush family knew that plane was slated for decommission and saw to it that W. was assigned there. It really does not make sense to train a pilot for a year on a plane that is being decommissioned at the end of that year.

Now I could be wrong. The military moves in mysterious ways on its own sometimes without having to assume there was a fix.

My suspicion, which I could be wrong about, is predicated on the idea that military orders should make sense. We all know that is not always the case.

I do believe that W. wanted to go.

Occam’s razor - simplest explanation is that the military wasn’t proceeding in the smartest manner and/or there was a lack of communication between the guys in the Pentagon who decided to decommission the plane and the guys out in the Texas ANG still using them.