[A Navy Vet]

"It clearly lists "SILVER STAR WITH COMBAT 'V'..."

That's my question...how did it get through the entire separation process without someone noticing, both the orginal 0-3 214 and the corrected 215?

Another good read about these multiple citations:
John Kerry's Puzzling Silver Star Citations: FrontPage magazine

[Ed_in_NJ]

Suppose he asked, several years later (while a Senator), to have it 'corrected' - and some clerk in DC typed it up the way he asked?