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To: HRoarke
I don't know when you served, or if you are on active duty now. But back then, at least in the Air Force, anything less than perfect was the kiss of death.

The system was so flawed that it was useless except to identify a real problem child (such as Kerry). It was changed in the early 70s (I do not recall the exact year).
65 posted on 04/21/2004 9:32:04 AM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: EternalHope
I just left active duty a year ago...still a reservist. I certainly can't comment definitively on late 60's, early 70's Navy fitreps. Perhaps I lived under a system that was altered because of the inflationary nonsense that wen on before.

The way officers were ranked in my squadrons was that the new guy almost invariably got used as fodder on the first fitrep and was then walked up as far as he deserved. Many posts have pointed out that the really important numbers are the peer rankings and the reporting senior's average.

I must also plead ignorance as to how many officers were in his unit and how many LTjg's. If there were only a handful, then the lower marks mean a lot more.

The real issue of course is that even if Kerry slipped up and did one good thing in his life 30 years ago, he's certainly F'd up the rest of it...
81 posted on 04/21/2004 9:47:26 AM PDT by HRoarke (F. John Kerry)
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