Kerry was honorably discharged in Feb 1978. He was released from active duty into the inactive reserves on Jan 3, 1970 with no drill obligation and just had the requirement to keep the Navy informed of his whereabouts since he was subject to recall. Kerry was placed into the inactive Standby Reserves on July 1, 1972. We have the official records to document this. This old canard about Kerry not receiving an honorable discharge has been surfacing again and again despite no factual basis.
See my Post 39 and my Post 19.
The question is, "Why did Kerry get an Honorable Discharge in 1978, during the Carter Administration?
His obligated service contract made him eligible for an Honorable Discharge years earlier?"
A very plausible answer is that 1978 was the year when a Less Than Honorable Discharge was upgraded to an Honorable Discharge as a result of the Carter Amnesty Program.
On January 3, 1970, Kerry allegedly "requested a discharge". Why, after his obligated service was completed years before 1978, would Kerry not have jumped at the chance to get that Honorable Discharge as soon as he possibly could?
Sounds just like what the Bush folks are saying about their man's ANG service. Difference is they've released his records and been subject to falsified documents by Kerry supporters. Yet your kind continue to demand proof without actually presenting your own proof. Tell your man to sign the release and to stop throwing around charges of lying until he's willing to meet the same burden of proof he demands of others.
Then he WAS subject to the UCMJ in 70 and 71. Therefore he should have been given prison time or at a minimum, other than honorable discharge. You made the case for us.
So there's no reason not to disclose everything, right?
Nobody is convincing me that Kerry's record is clean until he signs that release. Until then, his record stinks to high heaven and is completely untrustworthy (like him).