--- Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC Bush flew either F-102s or F-106s for the Texas > ANG. Although a handful were deployed to Vietnam for > air defence, the aircraft was designed to be a > bomber > intereceptor in the event of a Nuclear War. Not > really > a front line fighter. Not really comparable to, say, > George Sr., who flew Dauntless Dive Bombers in the > tail end of WWII... > > Damon.
And won the DFC, as I recall. He was also (still is, I believe) the youngest person ever to fly an airplane off a carrier, since he lied about his age in order to join the Navy. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
