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If they really tried they could do a FOIA request and get them from St. Louis where the military records repository is. And they would get a copy of his 201 file. The only files that Kerry, IMHO as a journalist, could claim privacy rights is if they were papers in his personal poession. The 201 file is still DN (Dept. of the Navy) property. The Globe is just, yet again, doing sloppy journalizm.

Here's an excerpt from the article I mentioned:

"Kerry had been wounded three times and received three Purple Hearts. Asked about the severity of the wounds, Kerry said that one of them cost him about two days of service, and that the other two did not interrupt his duty. "Walking wounded," as Kerry put it. A shrapnel wound in his left arm gave Kerry pain for years. Kerry declined a request from the Globe to sign a waiver authorizing the release of military documents that are covered under the Privacy Act and that might shed more light on the extent of the treatment Kerry needed as a result of the wounds."

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml