Active Navy reserves? Inactive?
I wish I knew the ANSWER to that but I do know that one had to serve for 8 years back then. Divided between active and reserve duty. A cursory check of Kerry's website ( I will not do) will probably tell you when he enlisted. Add 8 years and I am positive his 1971 speech was well within that timeframe.
Kerry was discharged from the Navy January 3,1970 at his request so that he could run for Congress.Request granted.
"Can someone please answer this question: What was K's status when he testified before Congress, went to Paris, etc??.
Active Navy reserves? Inactive?" ......
I think he resigned his commision. Not sure when, tho. If he was no longer in the Navy, why was he in uniform?
Can someone please answer this question: What was K's status when he testified before Congress, went to Paris, etc??.
Active Navy reserves? Inactive?
Not sure but he was probably inactive reserve. Depending on the circumstances behind his commission. I'm not too sure how it works for Officers.
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Yet another excellent, relevant question that Unfit for Command raises and answers. Kerry was inactive in the Navy Reserve until July '72, when he was moved to the Standby Reserve; it was only at that point that he could call himself a civilian. In other words, when he committed perjury before Congress, gave aid and comfort to the enemy, and met with a hostile foreign power to negotiate a separate peace, he was still subject to the UCMJ. Kerry is, in the narrow legal definition of the word, a traitor.