Reply #20: Saw him last night on freshly-minted punditwhore Deborah Norville's show

[SerpentX]

He's an ass. This isn't spin, it's a disinformation campaign. Campenni said the 147th could have been called up at any time as if they were constant peril of being shipped over. That's Bull! Dumbellya was assigned to the 147th in December of 1969. Earlier that year, the unit had finished a two year tour in Vietnam and returned to Texas. The chances of them being sent back would have been pretty slim anyways, but when the unit was re-designated the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group (Training), those chances dropped to near zero. According to this source:

With the continued draw-down of air defense units in the United States, the 147th FIG came off runway alert on Jan. 1, 1970 to start a new mission: training all F-102 pilots in the United States for the Air National Guard.

Kiss my butt, Campenni. You weren't going anywhere.