Reply #25: One thing I'd like to see... [View All]

[gcomeau]

>I'll tell you one thing, though, this is not the end of me
>researching issues about these criminals.

Is someone seriously look into the changed pilot aptitude score on Bush's records. I mean, at first glance:

1. The score was obviously changed. One score has been scribbled out and a second (the 25) written in it's place. Anyone here think it was changed downward as opposed to bumped up to get it above the point where it would have absolutely disqualified Bush from a slot?

Didn't think so.

2. I don't know about 1968, but the regs right now say you're not allowed to retake the test for 180 days, and if that held then there's no way the change was from a retest since any retest would have been possible only after he had already been accepted as a pilot. A little too late to be trying to qualify. If it wasn't changed from a retest, then why was it changed?

3. The changed score appears to be initialed by "RJI" which almost has to be the test control officer who signed the bottom of the score sheet, Ralph J Ianuzzi, so if he can be tracked down some questions could be asked.

4. I know the current guidelines say the minimum pilot aptitude score is 25 but I also know that the Air Force "highly recommends" that pilot candidates score in the 70s. How often has anyone who scored a 25 actually been *accepted* as a pilot? What's the mean score of pilot applicants accepted for slots? Has it EVER happened except in Bush's case? If it has, who was that lucky applicants father?

Etc...

It all just goes to piling on to the evidence that serious strings were being pulled to keep young shrub out of Vietnam.

-Grant