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Here's a partial list compiled by another FReeper (sorry, don't remember who). My understanding is that the list is well into the 40s now. I'll see if I can locate the additional discrepancies.

1-- proportional spacing not generally available
2 -- superscripts not generally available
3 - small "th" single element not generally available
4 - Smart quotes. Curved apostrophes and quotation marks were not available
5-The blurriness of the copy indicates it was recopied dozens of times, tactic of forgers
6--Signature block. Typical authentic military signature block has name, then rank, then on the next line the person's position. This just has rank beneath the name.
7--Margins. These look like a computer's unjustified default, not the way a person typing would have done it.
8 -- Date usually with three letters, or in form as 110471.
9 - words run over consistent with word processor
10 - may be a Times Roman or similar font not generally available then (per Haas Atlas)
11 - signature looks faked
12 - no errors and whiteout
13 - no letterhead
14 - exact match for Microsoft Word Processor
15 - Paper size problem, Air Force and Guard did not use 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper until the 1980s.
16 - Overlap analysis is an exact match
17 - absence of hyphens to split words between lines, c/w 1970's typewriter.
18 - 5000 Longmont #8 in Houston Tx. does not exist
19 - Box 34567 is suspicious, at best. The current use of the po box 34567 is Ashland Chemical Company, A Division of Ashland Oil, Incorporated P. O. Box 34567 Houston
20 - it would have been nearly impossible to center a letterhead with proportional spacing without a computer.
21 - Bush's grade would "normally" be abbreviated "1Lt" not "1st Lt"
22 - Subject matter bizarre (CYA???)
23 - Air Force did not use street addresses for their offices, rather HQ AFLC/CC, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433.
24 - kerning was not available
25 - In the August 18, 1973 memo, Jerry Killian purportedly writes: "Staudt has obviously pressured Hodges more about Bush. I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job." but General Staudt, who thought very highly of Lt. Bush, retired in 1972.
26 - Language not generally used by military
27 - Not signed or initialed
28 - Not in any format that a military person would use, e.g. orders not given by Memo.

That CYA memo is the most puzzling to me. Why would a man who did not type, type a memo to himself, sign this memo, and trust it to the keeping of another party when it is, obviously, supposed to be a personal document (with the potential to be damaging to the writer himself)?!! It makes no sense.

When you consider the fact that the Colonel had no home office and did not keep personal files (i.e., documents did not come from his heirs) it becomes perplexing indeed. What really needs to be investigated: Who would/could possibly have access to these personal documents, other than the colonel's family? Is there anyone who could legitimately determine this?

Re the 3 - small "th" single element not generally available I did a thorough check in all the documment and found only one small "th". I am not even sure if that qualifies as one

See line with date 4 September 68.

I also several screen captures of the signature of LT Colonel Killian

Alledged CBS signature01

I am not an expert, but the signature from CBS is definitely a fake. What do you think?