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"The information in here was correct, but it was picked up from the real ones,” she said.
She said that the culture of the time was that men didn’t type office-related documents, and she expressed doubt that Lt. Col. Killian would have typed the memos. She said she would typically type his memos from his handwritten notes, which she would then destroy.
Mrs. Knox, who left the Guard before Lt. Col. Killian died, said she was not sure of the disposition of his personal files when he died while still serving at Ellington. But, she said, it would have been logical that a master sergeant who worked in the squadron headquarters would have destroyed any such nonofficial documents after Lt. Col. Killian’s death.
That man, reached Tuesday, declined to comment. “I don’t know anything about the matter,” he said.
She also said the memos may have been constructed from memory by someone who had seen Lt. Col. Killian’s private file but were not transcriptions because the language and terminology did not match what he would have used.
For instance, she said, the use of the words “billets” and a reference to the “administrative officer” of Mr. Bush’s squadron reflect Army terminology rather than the Air National Guard. Some news reports attribute the CBS reports to a former Army National Guard officer who has a longstanding dispute with the Guard and has previously maintained that the president’s record was sanitized.

Mrs. Knox also cited stylistic differences in the form of the notes, such as the signature on the right side of the document, rather than the left, where she would have put it.

This woman sounds confused, to me.

You can't deduce anything wrong period.

When I hit 40, I got an order (memo) to report for an over-40 physical.

I showed up 3 years later.

I know we like to think that it's "Patton ordered them to take the hill, and the Captain saluted sharply, spun to his men behind him and began issuing directions."

But some things aren't that pressing, and it's understood that some orders are different than others.

You also get an order every year to go for your annual dental exam during your birth month. Sometimes it just doesn't work out.

Sometimes your boss looks you right in the eyeballs and says, "I order you to....." and you know that it's an issue. But you know your boss.

Annual flight physicals are blown off by those who are going into non-flying slots. It's very common. You can let it lapse and then if you get put back into flight slot, then you can renew a physical in a matter of days. No one wants to waste precious flight hour dollars on guys who aren't in slots, and everyone knows it.