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I have direct and specific experience.

I was a personnel clerk in the USAF reserve in 1972 stationed at Ellington AFB (same home base as Bush). We had "better" equipment than the TANG had. They usually got our hand-me-downs. We had 0 (zero) electric typewriters in the person el headquarters for the group.

I know this because I spent a good part of the day typing re-assignment orders.

All our typewriters were manual.

In addition, we never typed anything on plain paper stock. It was either on unit letterhead or standardized forms for orders.

You might also notice the use of a superscript (187th) on one of the docs. Even if they had an early Selectric typewriter, it is pretty unlikely they had a superscript capability.

This should be easy to check. If they are forgeries the paper and ink will not show the age it should (these docs would be over 30 years old). CBS says they had the handwriting analyzed but said nothing about the docs themselves.

And how about the person that typed the documents. I guarantee you nobody above the rank of sgt ever touched a typewriter keyboard. Surely someone is out there who held my equivelent position in the TANG can answer some of these questions.

Bump.

I have a question, is falsifing Gov docs (no matter how old)a crime?

"I was a personnel clerk in the USAF reserve in 1972 stationed at Ellington AFB (same home base as Bush). We had "better" equipment than the TANG had. They usually got our hand-me-downs. We had 0 (zero) electric typewriters in the person el headquarters for the group.

I know this because I spent a good part of the day typing re-assignment orders.

All our typewriters were manual.
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Interesting. I was also in the USAF, from 1965-69. Every typewriter I typed on was an IBM Selectric. Some had Cyrillic balls, since I had to type in Russian part of the time.

In the headquarters office for our detachment at Ft. Meade in 1969, there were three IBM Executive typewriters...the very ones that produce proportional spacing like this. They were used for all sorts of documents.

These memos are not official memos, to be disseminated. They're memos for this person's personal file...I suppose to be use to cover his butt under some circumstance.

I'm not saying they aren't faked. I'm saying that they could have been prepared using the equipment at the time.

BTW, the IBM Executive I used to use to typeset that little magazine had a couple of interesting characters. Two of them were a "th" and an "st" as upper case on the number row. They were smaller than the regular font and printed in superscript position. Very useful.

I hate to jump off subject but I've never heard of Ellington AFB.

Where was it located in Alabama and what year was it closed?

And didn't we used to put CCs on the bottom of memos?