Posted on 09/19/2004 8:38:35 PM PDT by grace522
Precisely why I think that question NEEDS to be asked during the debates, especially when the Kerry camp has thwon so many allegations toward Bush's Guard service.
That should be thrown...
"At Yale, Kerry was chairman of the Political Union and later, as Commencement speaker, urged the United States to withdraw from Vietnam and to scale down foreign military operations. And this was way back in 1966.
When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy.
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Both of your statements are accurate, but for added impact you should also add that he was already in the Naval Reserve when he made the antiwar commencement speech, or put the second statement first.
Kerry received an honorable discharge. His progression through the Reserve system was normal. He was released into the inactive reserves on Jan 3, 1970 with no drill requirement, only the requirement to keep the Navy informed of his whereabouts. He was transferred on July 1, 1972 into the Standby Reserves, inactive and received his honorable discharge on Feb 16, 1978.
As a former naval officer who resigned his commission in 1972 and was released from active duty, I had a similar experience. I was transferred into the Standby Reserves and then received my honorable discharge on Feb 16, 1978. A Navy board convenes at least annually to decide who to drop from the Standby Reserves. Kerry and I happened to have been transferred into the Standby Reserves in the same year, hence the same date for our honorable discharges.
Ping for later reading!
There may not be a certificate kept on file, but there is a record that states he did receive an honorable discharge.
When was the second DD214 typed?
Read the comments..Re:1991 discharge or separated from the Navy..
Not true.
Yes. I saw that and decided not to post that, but to my dismay I realized later that it did post! Duh! So I asked the mod to delete it. The entry on the 1st page for the service medal is what had begun to throw me, plus the fact that there was a reference to a second page on one of them, the deleted date on the second page, the different type set on the same page, etc. But I realized they were two separate DD214. Thanks for mentioning it though. :) Is that post still there? Sheesh! LOL.
You receive a DD214 when you are released from active duty. The effective date is Jan 3, 1970.
The post is still on findlaw under the link I provided to you.
If this is true, maye this is why he does not want the book about his service published.
So, you are saying that he has included a DD214 and/or honorable discharge among those papers he has released as of this date? Is that correct?
Yes, he has released his DD214 as of that date. We also have a letter giving him his honorable discharge. See http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/jkerry/hondisres.pdf
http://www.cattletoday.com/forum/post-42620.html
As you can see Nash's story has been floating around for a while as the dated link of August 28th.
I noitce I mentioned Kerry received his commission on Dec 16, 2004. Of course, it should have been 1966 vice 2004. Sorry about that.
His website has changed since people have looked at the details posted and the media has also produced some glaring differences.
On Jan. 3, 1970, Kerry requested that his superior, Rear Admiral Walter F. Schlech, Jr., grant him an early discharge so that he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform. "I just said to the admiral: `I've got to get out. I've got to go do what I came back here to do, which is, end this thing,'" Kerry recalled, referring to the war. The request was approved, and Kerry was honorably discharged, which he said shaved six months from his commitment.
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml
HUH? What post?
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