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To: billorites
I've read a thread or two on these documents and I have questions. Why does anyone think the CBS, or anybody else, was fooled by those documents? Why does anyone think it wouldn't be well known that the Bush Campaign would go over the document with a microscope?

Proportional spacing and superscripts? Oh, please. Does anyone seriously think that CBS would seriously think that the public in general, and the Bush Campaign in particular, would think there were typewriters in 1972 that had a row of 0-9 for each of the st, nd, rd, th superscripts.

Come on people, there is another level to this fraud. This is a judo move, not a yoga pose.

26 posted on 09/10/2004 5:39:17 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell

They would be "fooled" in their rush to judgement,
They got their a$$ beat by Fox in the ratings and are desperate for ratings.
They blinded by their hate for Bush.

They word processing questions you dismiss aside, please explain this away:

"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. ...

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 AFR 35-13 was superceded in 1990 by AFI36-2605 (Air Force Instruction, i.e., the same as a regulation).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."

Translation....the references in the docs are all wrong and BS.


28 posted on 09/10/2004 5:46:52 AM PDT by Smartaleck
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