"In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts."
I hope you are right about this and these are forgeries. However, I am looking at my own military records from that same time frame 1972-1976 that were done with a typewriter. I cannot see an obvious font problem. My documents from then look the same. Back then, I was a military clerk, and the most predominate typewriter was an IBM Selectrix using a ball with the characters on it. These documents look real to me and consistent with my own
from that time.
The copies of copies look is allfully suspicious though. Also, it was common practice to use preprinted letterhead then - these are not? Did Dan Bather explain where these documents were found?
They probably are forgeries, but I don't know that the font arguement will hold up.
Not sure about the fonts - I served in the late eighties, and all my stuff was done with typewriter - nothing like these. Hard to believe a lowly Texas ANG unit would get the state of the art word-rpocessing in 1972 that my forward-deployed tank battalion didn't have in 1988...