[Bob]

Also, I recall one memo uses the acronym NLT, but spells it out first, so it reads "not later than (NLT)"

Why would you use an acronym if you are going to use the longhand version as well?

You wouldn't. Common acronyms are expected to be understood without spelling them out.

Doesn't make sense or is some peculiarlity of the military?

It looks to me as if the forger looked up the acronym in some lexicon and pasted it along with it's explanation, by mistake.

Bingo! The purpose was to ensure that when civilians read the memo, they would understand it and still make it look 'more military'.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Did you ever get your answer to this?

An OETR does exist: it is the Officer Education training Repository in Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

The ONLY use of OETR in Google search is from web pages linked to democratic/Kerry sites, or from web sites quoting links to those sites.

Freeper this morning, some 4000 posts ago!, told me this:

First use anybody's found of EOTR is a "heading" (tit;e block) in a ??? democratic site (can't find it in my notes) where it looks like the innocent webmaster read the OER form, but was reading from a section with holes in it (top of the page. Anyway, the holes block out part of the form, and the result accidentally looks like Officer Effectiveness (hole) Training Report

So that's what he typed in as the title.

And the democrats have been repeating it ever since.