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David AtkatzSometimes academics--in particular the ability to parse a sentence and follow the logic of an argument--can be pretty useful.
Ted's argument--and you seem to take it as "first hand experience"--was not that the F102 was phased out, but rather that the reason Dubya never saw action was that phase out. How many former F102 pilots did see action in 'nam in a different aircraft? If there was even one, then Ted's argument is fallacious.
Care to bet?
And Ted was wrong--the F102 did see action in Vietnam.
And, yes, I reached a conclusion without knowing all the facts.
Doesn't mean I'm wrong, though.
I will unequivocally state, even before Ted answers the question, that I have spent more time flying airplanes with fighter pilots than he has. In fact I'm sure--even before all the facts are in--that Ted hasn't spent any time flying airplanes with a fighter pilot.