Posted on 09/05/2004 7:29:43 AM PDT by Tacis
A correspondent on a list I read recently noted the following. Your conjecture and research may hold the answer to his query:
"...Then I looked at this document.
found at: http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Service_Record.pdf
It shows the various dates Kerry served on active and reserve duty. It was prepared on January 25, 1985. Down at the bottom it shows that it is Enclosure (1) to something. What's the main document? It wasn't prepared by the National Archives Retired Records Section (as was the DD215 on March 12, 2001). It was prepared by the Naval Military Personnel Command, Office of Legal Counsel. Why would a lawyer have to prepare this sort of thing? Very odd."
"Mr. Carter invoked his powers as commander in chief and ordered that the "bad paper" military discharges of hundreds of thousands of deserters, malcontents and nonperformers be mandatorily upgraded, so long as they met one of six easily attained criteria."
http://www.jameswebb.com/Articles/wallstreetjrnl/carterinsult.htm
The following link pertains to the draft and Selective Service:
"Pardons Granted to Evaders of Vietnam War (1977): Carter grants full pardons to the Americans who fled to Canada to avoid being drafted for the Vietnam War."
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~cgehrm1/pres_site/presidents/jc.html
Was not aware of that one. Thanks.
All the more anti-American actions staining the peranut-gallery president.
Just throwing this out there from a search. I have no background in MIL
http://www.military.com/InstallationGuides/InstallationDetails?lb_installation_code=4330
The Bureau of Navigation was established in 1862 and three years later the office of Detail was placed under it. In 1889, The Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting transferred its enlisted personnel activities to the Bureau of Navigation as well. On 13 May 1942, the command's name changed to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, and in 1982 it changed to Naval Military Personnel Command. In 1991, the name changed back to the Bureau of Naval Personnel or "BUPERS" for short. BUPERS is led by the Chief of Naval Personnel. The organizational chart for Navy Personnel Command is as follows: NPC-00, Commander, Navy Personnel Command; NPC-01, Administrative Officer; NPC-02, Comptroller/Resources Management Office; NPC-03, Management & Organizational Services Office; NPC-05, Public Affairs Office; NPC-06, Office of Legal Counsel; NPC-3, Business Operations; NPC-4, Distribution; NPC-6, Personal Readiness & Community Support; NPC-8, Pers Progression, Performance & Security; and NPC-9, Reserve Personnel Management.
Thank you so much for the information!
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Aw, don't hold back; tell how you really feel.
Editor's Note:
Please retype to read: Wouldn't it be typical that PEAnuts is involved in this mess.
Uh....OK.
No, it's not true that Kerry served two tours of duty in VN. He served aboard the Gridley which was on assignment in the Pacific that included about five weeks of shore patrol (ferrying officers back and forth from ships to Cam Rahn Bay). This was not a combat tour of duty.
Probably suffering from an occupational disease. Got too close to the core while examining the rods. He's a nukalar kind of a guy, you know.
Is it possible that Bubba Clinton pardoned him instead of Carter. I'm wondering only because the form DD215 that corrected his original DD214, was completed on 3/12/2001.
When Kerry testified in the Senate committee about the meeting in Paris, no one there seemed surprised or shocked by it. IMO, it seemed like his Paris activities were well known to all of the members of the committee, as no one questioned him further about it. Has anyone gone over the rest of the Senate committee's activities?
Was Kerry a member of any Senator's or Congressman's staff at the time of the trip or his testimony? Could he have gone under the auspices of being on an authorized fact finding mission of some sort?
IMO, he was wrong to come back to promote the enemy's talking points, but he might have legal cover on the purpose of his mission there.
"Mr. Carter invoked his powers as commander in chief and ordered that the "bad paper" military discharges of hundreds of thousands of deserters, malcontents and nonperformers be mandatorily upgraded, so long as they met one of six easily attained criteria."
http://www.jameswebb.com/Articles/wallstreetjrnl/carterinsult.htm
GEEZ! This article deserves a thread and title of its own, so many will explore it to its fullest!
If he's a member of the American Legion, he must submit a copy of his DD214 to join.
Just a thought.
Does tour of duty always imply combat?
Thanks.
I do not think there is any question that there is something in Kerry's files and background he does not want the public to see. Hopefully it will come out before the election so that we can be rid of this guy once and for all.
Have you made contact with them (thru their website)?
Thanks! Great stuff!
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