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Posted on 08/29/2004 9:27:56 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
Good, but not much fun to watch. You just get a little vibration and a few less knots.
Why would he need to update his DD-214?
BTW, what is a DD-214?
Is this article wrong then?
From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201469/posts:
Kerry's Web site also carries a DD215 form revising his DD214, issued March 12, 2001, which adds four bronze campaign stars to his Vietnam service medal. The campaign stars are issued for participation in any of the 17 Department of Defense named campaigns that extended from 1962 to the cease-fire in 1973.
However, according to the Navy spokesman, Kerry should only have two campaign stars: one for "Counteroffensive, Phase VI," and one for "Tet69, Counteroffensive."
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Judging by those pants, a deluge of biblical proportions was imminent.
However, according to the Navy spokesman, Kerry should only have two campaign stars: one for "Counteroffensive, Phase VI," and one for "Tet69, Counteroffensive."
Yes, they're wrong.
The transition between those two campaigns occurred during Kerry's Swift boat duty. The transition date between them was in late February 1969. He qualified for two stars based on serving during both of those periods.
What's being missed is that Kerry's Gridley cruise also overlapped two campaign periods: Tet Counteroffensive and Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase IV. The transition date between them was April 1-2, 1968. Those two campaign periods were in effect while Gridley was operating in the Tonkin Gulf so he qualified for the other two stars based on that time spent in-theater.
Thanks for the clarification.
Here's my theory:
Yesterday's little wind-surfing photo-op is the last live appearance we'll see of Kerry. He's been avoiding the media since the first week of August when the Swift Boat ads hit the air, and any other appearances he makes from here on out will be pre-recorded and delivered through Chris Matthews' "Hardball" show or al-Jazeera. In them, Kerry will be sitting awkwardly and stiffly (or even more so than normal), the audio and video won't match up, and his speech pattern will not be normal (as though what he says is composed of snippets from previous speeches and interviews).
I call this scenario...
I bin using that DD-214 stuff on my front lawn t' git rid of pests an' such. It werks good on the chiggers, but I still git salesmen and Yankees at my door sometimes! You know of anythin' more p'awrful 'n DD-214?
More powerful than DD-214? MaryLou gots a pair of D... oh, ... nevermind.
Once the oldest gal child started blossomin *had to wait till she was 13), we couldn't keep the salesman and all away. Then I started makin' 'em drink a bit of the ol' special brew - corn likker, hot sauce and branch water (I don't even drink it). If they said no I grabbed my shotgun an accused them of being prejudiced. They'd pop the cork, take a little swig, turn green, their hair'd stand stright up and they's pass out.
Ol' Red'd go over and start licking them on the face, sometimes he even slipped 'em some tung, they'd finally wake up, take on look at ol' Red, then take off breakin the hunnert yard dash record. Last'n I herd, a few had to be checked into the hospital over in Putnam County. They don't come back. I can send you a jug if you like, but ye gotta send over that asbestos blanket to wrap it in.
Well, I gotta figger sumthin' else out, cuz Lucy May Belle came down with a bad case of the flu or sumthin' last week. Henry III sez its from playin' near the coolin' tower over at the nook'ler plant - he's all full o' hisself now that he done gradeate the sixth grade! Its just a cold or sumthin', but anyway, Lucy May Belle took to usin' the asbestos blanket fer the chills an' won't give it up now! My naybor got a El Camino with a tarp in the back - that may do the trick - he ain't never got caught when runnin' a load, so I may have t' borry it t' pick up a batch o' yer special brew.
bttt
Post of the year, sir.
Thank you M'am.
JFK2 will soon know that a high tide is not going to float his boat. Good one. Bye bye, Johnnie boy.
Mother of ...! That's a whole can of whoopass in one little ol'picture.
If the Navy was like the Army in the mid to late '70s, if you did not stay on active duty for one year in your new rank, the promotion was not made permanent.
If he leave in 5-day increments so he wouldn't have to use it up on weekends, that would cover that time framce. Then the question would be did he actually sign in and out each week. I doubt it and his records on that should be demanded.
bttt
But terminal leave doesn't work that way. You are released from active duty, you just continue to be paid. YOu neither sign in or sign out. You're just gone. You also continue to have access to the commissary and so forth, which is handy for re-stocking your new domicile I'll have to look at my own DD-214 to see how that was handled in 1975.
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