[Blood of Tyrants]

I don't think so. They still remain his personal records.

[mystery-ak]

The reason I ask is, that over the weekend I noticed on a thread that a freeper has done just that...but I always thought that military records were private and had to have the approval of the soldier in question.

[kcvl]

John F. Kerry...

"In our opinion and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy."

"We veterans can only look with amazement on the fact that this country has been unable to see there is absolutely no difference between ground troops and a helicopter crew, and yet people have accepted a differentiation fed them by the administration. No ground troops are in Laos, so it is all right to kill Laotians by remote control. But believe me the helicopter crews fill the same body bags and they wreak the same kind of damage on the Vietnamese and Laotian country- side as anybody else, and the President is talking about allowing that to go on for many years to come. One can only ask if we will really be satisfied only when the troops march into Hanoi."

[NutmegDevil]

Personnel files - not personal. I think one could make the case through FOIA for access with "personal" info redacted. The write-ups for awards should be public info. How else can we determine if minorities doing the same things were not recipients?

It was my experience that the guys who could write best & had no compunctions about self-engrandisement got the bulk of awards in the military. Just had his boss sign a prepared/typed recommendation. Piece of cake.

I'm sure JF'ingK could type & being the Class Orator at Yale, he certainly could write flowery & (even) appropriate buzz words for his recommendations.