[Robert A Cook PE]

Flight physicals are a bit different for pilots, so even my experience is meaningless.

Have you heard of any AFM 35-15, or 35-12, or any Army reg's by that name: The dnc is referring to it by chapter and verse, the forger is referring to it by chapter and verse by calling for a "court of inquiry" to Bush's flight status, and Col Killian also refers to it ..

But nobody in any branch of any service knows what they're talking about! Do you know anybody, in any branch, who knows somebody who knows something legit about this thing?

[DRILL SGT. D]

In the Army, an FM is a Field Manual ( as a Drill Sgt., I know them well), and when I want a field manual, I download them from the internet...usually by a google search.
Based on that, I assumed that maybe an AFM was an Air Field Manual, or an Air Force Manual, so i did a google search.

There is no record, in my short search, of an AFM35-12, But an AFM 35-15, as i found at:

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NXL/is_4_16/ai_97737373

is a Leadership Manual, the ANG version of the Army FM 22-10 (I think). This website explains the origin of the manual. It says, in part;

"A significant departure from the established field-manual format for Army leadership, AFM 35-15 outlined the mission, roles, functions, and guiding principles of the Air Force and incorporated details of the latest scientific findings on leadership."

So the memo is just referencing specific regulations from the manual. Its nothing big and bad, it's actually standard. If anyone is making a big deal of that, you can be sure that they know nothing about the military.