[RightField]

#86 he still has to put the typewriter at the ".xxx point" position to start typing!

Most "repro" typing was done on light card stock, known as blue line masters. The sheets had several markings around the edges and down the center. The blue did not reproduce with standard xerox machines. It was very easy to make sure you always started at exactly the same point on the center line. The typewriter had a key that was a "place finder" and you set it to the same place each line.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And so this military officer, a fighter pilot commanding a squadron of fighter pilots, writing a "Cover Your ASS memo (and who the hell is going to write THAT as a title block?!?) to HIMSELF, by himself (no clerk initials, and author's initials, no subject number, no file reference!) is going to DO that! much work for a memo THAT NOBODY ELSE IS EVER GOING TO SEE?

It was/is illegal to keep PERSONAL paperwork affecting another officer's career records AT HOME.....