WTF Is It Now?!?

Steady and resolute drunken coward
Janet Linke, whose husband replaced the AWOL Bush in the Texas ANG in the summer of 1972, remembers...

Contrary to some news reports that suggest Killian admired Bush, Linke says the officer didn't have much use for the young Lieutenant.

He mentioned that Bush appeared to have a drinking problem, she recalls, but he was most offended by another incapacity: his fear of flying. According to Linke, Killian said Bush was grounded in his fourth year of flying after he became incapable of flying or properly landing a plane.

"He was mucking up bad, Killian told us. He just became afraid to fly," Janet Linke said.

"He just couldn't cut it," she added. "I was let to believe he was kind of a coward."