[Agnes Heep]

Back then, the verbal descriptions of an officer’s service were always laudatory, and virtually meaningless. Many raters used standard paragraphs to describe every subordinate from a future member of the Joint Chiefs to “Beatle Bailey with gold bars" in glowing terms.

I work with Air Force personnel and this apparently is still true.

[Wooly]

When I take what I know from serving in the Navy and apply it to John Kerry, what I come up with is an Officer who the command was wanting to get rid of. So in the Vietnam era this meant giving an Officer a medal to make him a hero and transferring his butt out of the command.