He then attended Air Intelligence Officers
School, and served at Westover AFB, Mass.,
where, among his other activities, he taught
undergraduate political science courses at
American International College. After becoming
fluent in the Vietnamese language at Sanz
Language School, in Washington, D.C, he was
assigned to Vietnam in 1967as an intelligence
officer.
In Vietnam, he was responsible for the
deployment and operations of six intelligence
teams operating from a number of sites,
including Saigon, Bien Hoa, Nha Trang, Pleiku,
Da Nang and Can Tho. The teams were involved
with significant intelligence operations,
particularly involving the attack on Tan Son
Nhut Air Base during the Tet Offensive of 1968,
and the defense of the Marines and South
Vietnamese at the Battle of Khe Sanh.
Returning to the United States in May 1968, Bush
was again assigned to Headquarters Air Force
Special Projects Production Facility, at
Westover AFB, as chief, Technical Analysis
Division. He resumed teaching political science
courses at American International College.
In 1970, Bush resigned his commission, then
attended Harvard Business School, majoring in
Finance. He spent the rest of his professional
career in numerous business enterprises, serving
as manager and senior corporate executive in
such companies as Merrill Lynch-White Weld
Capital Group, Max Factor, and Hughes
Electronics.
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