Posted on 08/27/2004 4:21:09 PM PDT by ketchikan
94 Pages of Records Unreleased:
Questions have been raised about President Bush's drill attendance in the reserves, but Bush received his honorable discharge on schedule. Kerry, who should have been discharged from the Navy about the same time -- July 1, 1972 -- wasn't given the discharge he has on his campaign Web site until July 13, 1978. What delayed the discharge for six years? This raises serious questions about Kerry's performance while in the reserves that are far more potentialy damaging than those raised against Bush.
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I was wondering when I would finally see something on this. Big BTTT.
AWOL?!?!?!?!
Uhhh....Viagra hadn't been invented yet?
Worse... My guess is some form of disciplinary action and procedure, which was probably dropped due to political pressure from Democrats.
Kerry's discharge was probably delayed when some bureaucrat at the Pentagon changed the title of the thread they were posting.
"Plot thickens after checking records"
No! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Journalist! 1987 - 1972 = 6. We had a six year obligation back then. You got released form active duty, and but were not finally discharged until the full six years was up.
It's called a committment to the inactive reserve. I was drafted for two years in 1952. After I was discharged I had a six or eight year committment to the inactive reserve. I forget which. Didn't affect me one way the other.
They had to find him first? The coward was probably AWOL.
I'm sure the press will give this the same level of coverage it gave to the Bush AWOL story.
I'd notified DOD of an address change just a few weeks before getting my final discharge (after 6 years of obligation), but they used my old address, and the piece had to be forwarded.
The letter carrier who marked up the piece ran a ballpoint pen through the glassine window and defaced my discharge.
This was done on purpose by someone who didn't like veterans of that period.
I had him fired!
Kerry enlisted in '66. 78-66=12. War basically ended in '73 and was totally over in '75. Whats Kerry doing in IR until 78????
Obviously George Bush and Halliburton.
I'm sure you're right, but I like my explanation better. LOL :-)
Well, the Navy was pretty screwed up back then. I had only 1 month left on my 6 year obligation when I was transfered to the inactive reserve, as a LTJG, in June 1974. In about 1976 they promoted me to LT, and I tried to refuse the appointment because I would have had to to take a physical, and I was too busy putting the FCS Mk 113 Mod 10 on the Los Angeles. They told me that I still had six years to do from when I transfered to the inactive reserve, so I took the physical and the promotion. The same thing must have happened to Kerry.
Not everything about his service is a big deal, or questionable.
I agree. I was an emnlisted grunt so I don't know but didn't Navy Gentleman :}, incur an additional 6 year obligation at time of war?
I've been wondering how Kerry went through OCS, served from 1966-1970, and appears not to have any Reserve time. Would he have had to do yearly ACDUTRA?
No need to release all those darn military records. They're way too confusing for the voters anyway. Lanny Davis will take quick peak, and make sure nothing is amiss.
I've tried time and again to make this point, during the Viet Nam War, filling the reserve components were NOT A PROBLEM.
In my case I was exempted from any reserve duty after my active duty in the Infantry! Of course I had to ask for it, but they were more than willing to give it.
Recall, if you will, not everybody in the military at that time (Viet Nam War Era(s)) agreed with the way the Democrats had conducted the war. Slightly fewer agreed with the way the Republicans conducted it.
The government had worked real hard to make defending the country an undesirable occupation. We've all spent the last 35 years fixing that situation. Some, like Kerry, seem to have "gone over" however. That's not to be forgotten.
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