Before graduating, he joined the Texas Air National Guard. He was accepted through the uninvited help of a family friend. Here he earned his fighter pilot certification in June 1970. Bush was honorably discharged from the Air Force Reserve on November 21, 1974, because of …show more content…
He won the victory for president between him and Al Gore. On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US commercial jetliners and three of them hit their targets in New York and Washington DC. The fourth plane crashed into farmer’s field in Pennsylvania. In 2002, the Bush administration announced that the United States would use military force if necessary to prevent threats to its national security by terrorists. It successfully obtained a UN Security Council resolution to return weapons inspectors to Iraq. Soon, Bush declared that Iraq hadn’t compiled with inspections, and the US launched a successful invasion of Iraq and defeated the Iraqi military on March 20, 2003. He declared an end to major combat operations on March 1,