Bush political heir going to be deployed in war
October 28th, 2009 - 4:03 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
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Washington DC, Oct 27 (THAINDIAN NEWS) George P. Bush, the Bush family’s fourth-generation heir, is going to be deployed in war either in Iraq or Afghanistan. The thirty three year old Lt. Junior Grade Bush, joined the Navy Reserve in 2007 as an intelligence officer. The Navy recently told him, like thousands of others, that the two ongoing wars required him to go active-duty overseas, potentially in Iraq or Afghanistan.
“It’s been communicated to me that it’s not a question of ‘if,’ it’s a question of ‘when,’” Bush revealed. “It’s just a matter of time.”
There are very strong rumors that he is all set to start his political innings by running for a political office in Texas in the coming years. He had signed up for an eight-year term in the Navy Reserve in 2007. When word got out about his enlistment, then Bush told Politico that he was “disappointed” as he’d intended to keep it under wraps, saying, “I was hoping to keep this as confidential as possible. I’m not doing it for political purposes or anything along those lines.”
Bush was born and raised in Florida. George P. Bush high school classmate was pop star Enrique Iglesias. After high school, he attended Rice University in Houston, where, just like his presidential uncle and grandfather, he was active in the school’s baseball squad too.
After earning a degree in history from Rice, Bush got a teaching job at a Miami-area agricultural community. After leaving that job to hit the campaign trail in 2000, he entered law school at the University of Texas.
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October 28th, 2009 at 5:42 am
“Intelligence Officer”? So why didn’t he sign up as an Infantryman in the Army, or perhaps try-out for the Navy Seals, or as a Marine Riflemen or the Rcon Marines.
I’ll tell you why. Because he and his lineage did not and do not have the stones to go in as real combatants.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:17 am
Every American who enters the Armed Forces signs a blank check to Uncle Sam “payable up to and including my life.”
October 30th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Maybe so, GWOT Vet, but only in theory, only in theory. I too am a vet. And my Dad is a WWII US Marine infanttryman vet who never once in his life bragged about his REAL WWII war time contibutions and sacrifices, a penchant that is all too often seen today.
And I know darn well that the vast majority of active duty serve in support roles, including many who perform quite safe and secure and clean functions such as literal doughnuts bakers and cookie chefs, and guys and gals who volunteered as desk clerks whose only dangerous assignment comes when they step up to paper shredding machines in their nice air conditioned offices in Hawaii, San Diego, Key West and Bermuda.
Stop attmepting to dilute the sacrifices and dangers, REAL dangers faced by the real warfigheters.
October 31st, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I think it is unfair to be so critical. We can only ask soldiers to successfully complete their mission.
There is not room for everyone to be a “fighter pilot”, “Navy Seal”, “Green Beret”, or combat
physician/corpsman. I would always respect the uniform and
the person in it. They love our country and fight everyday toprotect the freedoms that so many take for granted.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Joe,
There’s plent of room fopr infanry, armor, recon marines, platoon mariens, etc. It’s jus that the vast majority of enlistees opt to take on more safe and secure roles, such as doughnut bakers, supply clerks, and the like.
Don’t youy even know that the military has high enlistment bonuses for thie that opt to go into conbatnat roles?
And your misinformed comment that they ‘fight’ every day, do you mean those few who are actually engaged in combat in Iraq or Afganistann, or do you mean those that ‘fight’ to the off early that day to go surfing, or perhaps that that ‘fight’ to get the nest spot in the on duty class?
Stop attempting to dilute the dangerous service of REAL combatants.