Posted on 09/09/2004 11:57:05 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
2. The two memos refer to a flight physical and a flight review board, both IAW ("in accordance with") AFM 35-13. But that would stand for "Air Force Manual" 35-13, and manuals are guidelines only. They have no regulatory authority. No one takes a physical exam, flight or not, IAW a manual. Manuals relate to operational procedures, not enforcement of standards. Especially would a "flight review board" not be convened IAW a manual. Enforceable regulatory authority in the military derives only from two sources: the Uniform Code of Military Justice and orders. Regulations are a type of written order issued under the authority of a flag-rank officer. (In the Army, for example, regulations are issued under the authority of the Chief of Staff down to installation-commander level.)
What governs official procedures or requirements for physicals is a regulation, not a manual, because a regulation is an order and a manual is not. A regulation has much the same effect as law. Regulations are governing documents that must be adhered to, not advisory publications that permit ad-hoc deviations, as manuals do.
So I browsed over to the Air Force's official web site for its publications, http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/. There I searched for AFM 35-13 without success. The intelligent search engine recommended using only the numbers, so I searched using only 35-13. Result:
35-13 has been rescinded or superceded by another publication. Additional information is available at Obsolete Publications.
So I went there and discovered, sure enough, that there was an Air Force Regulation 35-13, but no AF Manual 35-13 is listed. AFR 35-13 was superceded in 1990 by AFI36-2605 (Air Force Instruction, i.e., the same as a regulation).
So I Googled AFI36-2605 and voilá! Here it is.
This instruction implements Air Force Policy Directive 36-26, Military Force Management, and Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 7280.3, Special Pay for Foreign Language Proficiency. It prescribes all procedures for administering the Air Force Military Personnel Testing System and Foreign Language Proficiency Pay (FLPP) program.
Which is to say, this publication has nothing to do with flight physicals.
From all this I conclude that the Killian-signed documents are forgeries, forged by someone without a very good knowledge of military correspondence or Air Force publications or procedures. Based on the Air Force's own online library of current and obsolete publications, I conclude that there never was an Air Force Manual 35-13, although there was an AF Regulation by that number. But a lieutenant colonel would never have made such a fundamental error as using "AFM" twice when he meant AFR.
Furthermore, it is likely that whatever AFR 35-13 governed, flight physicals wasn't it. My contention is buttressed by two points:
A. AFR 35-13's successor publication is a personnel management instruction (regulation).
B. This online copy of a senior NCO's routine reassignment orders, dated 1954, which cites AFR 35-13 as an authority for the transfer. A publication governing personnel assignments doesn't also govern enforcement of flight physicals.
So the forger said the physical was to be done IAW a manual, not a regulation, and named a manual that never existed anyway, and used a numeric that belonged to a personnel-management reg, not a flight-standards reg.
I love the smell of Dan Rather sizzing in the morning.
BTTT
DEMAND CBS TO FIRE THAT MOFO RATHER!!!
All of which takes me back to a bit of classic TV comedy:
"They'll be so full of cake and punch, they won't know the difference"
At least, that's what the Kerry camp was counting on.
I love it, the dems are screwing up one time after another.
Demand CBS surrender to FreeRepublic.
Jim Robinson for CBS CEO!
Election 2000: Chads
Election 2004: Fonts
WOW !!! (Rush & Hannity ?????...maybe could see this??ASAP?)
BTTT !!!
Oh GOODY! Immediately send this info to the N.Y. Post,Rush,Sean Hannity,and anyone else you can think of.And I just pinged Mark Levin. :-)
Rodney Dangerfield, before going into surgery, said:
"If everything goes OK, I'll be in the hospital for a week"
"If not, I'll be there about an hour and a half"....
LOL! That's why he's my idol!
I believe there's a historical repository of ALL classified and unclassified regulations, manuals, instructions, etc., ever issued at the Air University Library, located at (none other) Maxwell AFB, AL.
I can't wait to see Dan Rather's smug mug on screen explaining how and why he allowed phony docs to be used on 60 minutes. No doubt it will all be somebody else's fault. Rather will be blameless.
Do we realize how huge this is??? This is GIGANTIC. It would have been better for the democRATS if these allegations had never aired, period. It's much worse for them to have it exposed as a fraud. This does 2 VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. #1 It shows that democrats are willing to produce phony documents to smear Bush. Of course we all knew this, but NOW it's out in the open. #2. This effectively ends the democRAT attack on Bush's NG days. After this they have ZERO credibility on the issue.
Kerry must be apoplectic. He's been getting hammered by the Swifties and wanted to go on the offensive, so the dems come up with these docs and it turns out they are frauds. It has completely backfired on Kerry, the dems, and the liberal media. This WILL give Bush an additional bump in the polls. It shows who the real mudslingers are and it knocks Kerry off "message" (whatever that is) once again.
I think we should send CBS some of those band-aids with Purple Hearts. After all, if Kerry deserved a Purple Heart for self-inflicted wounds, shouldn't Rather and CBS get theirs???
http://www.usatoday.com/news/bushdocs/10-2_2000_Personnel_File.pdf
I hate to pop your bubble but see page 16 of these official docs...paragraph 2-29 AFM 35-13 is quoted
This has more legs than a centipede
Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."
- - - Mary McCarthy (about Lillian Hellman)
And here's another quote about one of our favorite old sows. It bears no relevence to this thread, but everyone needs to read it:
She bellies up to the gourmet cracker-barrel and delivers laid-back wisdom with the serenity of a down-home Buddha who has discovered that stool softeners really work.
- - - Florence King (about Molly Ivins)
Interesting analysis!
Line of the Day, and the day's only 12 minutes old!
Horry smokes. You not yust ristling dixie...
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