os grandes do mundo

Faz hoje 40 anos… alguém está a comemorar… ou se calhar nem se lembra…

“1968/01/17 George W Bush took the Air Force officer and pilot qualification tests, scoring 25%, the lowest possible passing grade on the pilot aptitude portion. Yet on May 27, after just six weeks of basic airman training, the son of George HW Bush received a commission as a second lieutenant by means of a ‘special appointment’ by the commanding officer of his squadron, with the approval of a panel of three senior officers. This achievement normally required eight full semesters of college ROTC courses or eighteen months of military service or completion of Air Force officer training school.

“Speaker of the House in Texas at the time, Ben Barnes, admitted he had received a request from a longtime Bush family friend, Sidney Adger of Houston, to help Bush get into the Air National Guard. Barnes further testified that he contacted the head of the Texas Air National Guard, Brig. Gen. James Rose.”

                                                                                             in Wilsons Almanac

E nós queixamo-nos dos nossos cursos de Engenharia tirados aos domingos !!!!  Então? se até à Elena Petrescu, desculpem Elena Ceauşescu (de nome de casada) foi “dado” um curso de Engª Química e um Doutoramento em Polímeros já que tinha trabalhado numa fábrica de têxteis !!!! para não parecer tão estranho.

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