[rocklobster11]

1> Bush was not due for his flight physical for more than two months.

That was the whole purpose of the forged memos, to change the timeline from "Bush went to run a campaign in May, so he missed his physical in July" to "Bush was ordered to take a physical in May (10 days from date of order) and disappeared from the base 1 day after missing the newly ordered physical". The memos were the only way to make it look like Bush went to Alabama in a panic as a result of a direct order to get a physical on short notice.

[reformedliberal]

The memos were the only way to make it look like Bush went to Alabama in a panic as a result of a direct order to get a physical on short notice.

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Except, from the descriptions by vets of how these things worked then, no physicals were given on short notice. No administrator ordered the physicals. They were done within a known time frame and the reminders came from the Medical Officer or the Corpsman.

Not disputing your theory, which I think has merit and may be accurate. I am just noting another gap in the knowledge of the forger.

Given these gaffes based on lack of knowledge of how things worked, I am not prone to place this on Burkett (sp), the disgruntled Guardsman w/a history of mental/emotional instability. Seems to me, he would know those details cold.
He's there as a conduit in making the link, IMO.

On another facet:
Is there some way to track down the other typists in the pool that were used by Lt Col Killian? Killian's son and widow say this 86-year-old secretary (sorry, I forget her name) wasn't a private secretary, just another typist in the pool. My experience is that typist pools are full of catty backstabbing and gossip. It would be instructive to find out more about this woman from her then-peers.