From the comments page of http://wizbangblog.com/archives/003629.php:
Author: Timmer
Web Site: http://digitalwarfighter.com
Comment:
Old AF Admin Wheenie with 20 years in service here. One thing I haven't heard a lot about, only a little, is the format of some of the documents. They're just wrong. The headers are wrong. The signature blocks are wrong. They're just WRONG.
There's no such thing as a Memo for file. There's a Memorandum for Record, but no Memo for file. NO SUCH THING.
Addressing an official document with
MEMORANDUM FOR:
didn't occur until the 1990s. The AF didn't move their signature blocks over to the right of the documents until the same time, before then they were anchored four clear lines down the left margin.
An official signature block looks like this.
JOHN S. SUPERTROOP, Rank, USAF
Duty Title
Three line signature blocks are reserved for flag officers (Generals) and Colonels sitting in a General's billet. But they look like
JOHN S. SUPERTROOP
General, USAF
Duty Title
Now civilians may scoff and say so what? Who cares about admin details like that? Ummmmm, the military does...quite a bit too much actually. I've seen inspection teams tear entire careers apart over the admin details being mucked up.
There isn't an admin guy in any branch of the service who wouldn't have taken one look at these documents and waved the bullshit flag. You could show those documents to any airman coming fresh out of school down at Keesler and they'd have a blast tearing them apart.
Those documents aren't just fakes...they're really really bad fakes. And all it would have taken was someone with some sense of how these things are done. The more I look at them...the more I get the feeling that someone sort of scanned through http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/33/afman33-326/afman33-326.pdf AFM 33-326 and shoved all this together. Before that we had AFR 10-1 and it had the formats I mentioned above.
Remember though, before anyone goes, "Hey, that looks right." We didn't use that manual until 1996 and it's been updated since then.
Bottom line, wrong fonts, wrong headers, wrong formats. It's bullshit, you can't hide from it.
To bad the guy didn't sign his name to it so it could be used as a source.