Bush's ANG unit

[snopes]

Comment: From a political debate with a friend...

"The fact is that Bush's Texas ANG unit was slated to be rotated into
Vietnam when he signed up to join, and he knew this. However, there were
sufficient active duty Air Force pilots who also joined (the Air Force was
always a volunteer force after its creation post W.W.II) so that the
Pentagon stopped rotating ANG units into the war."

Is this correct?

[RBCal]

From Wikipedia, admittedly not a reliable source.

Champagne unit is a pejorative term used to describe US military units that had been staffed by celebrities or people from wealthy or politically powerful families. Such units were often part of the National Guard, and assigned to lower-risk duty inside the United States. The connotation is that such units were havens for those with connections who wish to avoid conscription into more dangerous duty while still gaining the prestige afforded in the United States to military service.

147th Fighter Group
The most infamous champagne unit was the Texas Air National Guard 147th Fighter Group, at Ellington Air Base in Houston. During the Vietnam War many well-connected sons landed in this posting, sometimes with the help of politicians such as Ben Barnes.

Lloyd Bentsen Jr., son of Lloyd Bentsen
George W. Bush, son of George H. W. Bush
John Connally III, son of John Connally Jr.
the son of John Tower
James R. Bath
seven members of the Dallas Cowboys

It appears that Wikipedia got much of the information from the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...bush072899.htm

[Ramblin' Dave]

If it were true, I doubt there would have been a year-and-change waiting list to get in, or that Bush's father would have had a family friend pull strings to get Dubya in. Admittedly, neither is conclusive proof that they weren't "about to be sent over there," but they're both pretty strong indications to that end.