[Keith in Iowa]

As a reservist, he certainly had some sort of reporting/drill requirements like a National Guard person would...did he fulfill his obligations? Where are the records? Will the media go after J.F'ing.K. Like they did Bush? They might on the 5th Tuesday of the next month where the name of the month does not contain the letter "R".

[Dacus943]

"Will the media go after J.F'ing.K. Like they did Bush?"

Damn right they will! After Fox News, Rush, Dennis Miller, Matt Drudge, etc. work this Story for at least a week!!!

[An.American.Expatriate]

Not necessarily . . . upon discharge from active duty, you can be placed in the so-called "inactive" reserves. There are no reporting requirements, no pay, etc....

However, it is significant that, as an officer - he retained his commission (if he had resigned it, he probably wouldn't have been in the reserves).

Some who may be more familiar with these matters may correct me here, but, since he accepted a promotion to full Lieutenant on January 1 1970 and was discharged from active duty 3 months later, he still had an "unfulfilled" commitment and COULD have been recalled to active duty.

[Arkie2]

Maybe in an inactive status? Even though I'm retired from the Air Force I'm still carried on a reserve list. If his status was inactive he wouldn't have had any duties. The more intersting question by far would be his activities with the peace groups after returning from Vietnam. If he still had his commision at that point he was dishonoring his uniform. We already know he dishonored his country. Sounds like fertile ground for Rush and Sean if it's true.

[BlueNgold]

An officer often retains his commision in an 'inactive' status. I still hold mine without any drill requirements. There are several levels of reserve status.

Freegards .. BNG

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

No doubt, let's see Johnbo justify his time and pay records. Since he was such a diehard naysayer about Bush's service even after all records were released, let's see Kerry defend his.

The Purple Hearts that he was awarded were bogus (his worst injury took him out of action for 2 days). His other awards are suspicious, and JFKerry hasn't authorized release of his records like GW Bush did. I have no respect for Ted Kennedy's golden boy who went to VietNam for 4 months, messed around in the bush away from the action, then brought home a bunch of fraudulent medals so that he could throw it back in the face of the military. What a scumbag.

[helpmycountry]

do you know if we can get our hands on papers showing John Kerry was dishonorable discharged and the papers be real