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Article: BUSH HOLDS FIRM ABOUT SERVICE IN AIR FORCE IN FACT, CANDIDATE WAS IN AIR NATIONAL GUARD.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 14, 1999
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In 1978 campaign literature, George W. Bush said he served in the Air Force, a claim his presidential campaign says is legitimate based on time he spent training and on alert while a member of the Texas Air National Guard.
The Air Force says once a guardsman always a guardsman, even if called to active duty for training or another temporary assignment.
The Republican presidential front-runner already had faced questions about whether he received preferential treatment when he joined the Guard during the Vietnam War.
A pullout ad from The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on May 4, 1978, shows a huge picture of Bush with a ``Bush for Congress'' logo on ...