Posted on 10/09/2004 10:40:49 PM PDT by quidnunc
Speculations are rife, from his Purple Hearts, to criteria about his medals, and why Kerry did not receive an honorable discharge until March 2001,
Upon further scrutiny, it looks like a moot point. Bill was already gone when the HD came through.
It makes me downright tingly inside. ;-)
With all due respect to this reporter, he really needs to be more careful with his research.
Kerry was NOT Honorably Discharged in 2001.
The only document with a 2001 date is a DD-215 that he used to "correct" two campaign stars on his Vietnam Service Medal to four campaign stars. It turns out that Karry was only entitled to the original two.
Kerry was Honorably Discharged on 16 February 1978 during the Carter Administration.
That still leaves open the question as to why such a late discharge since Kerry's obligated service, including service in the Ready Reserve and Inactive Standby Reserve would have been completed in 1972.
Although this reporter flat out blows it with his "Kerry was Honorably Discharged in 2001" blooper, it is very plausible that Kerry may have upgraded a General Discharge in the early 1970's during the Carter Amnesty program.
That may be why the Kerry campaign has tried to hard to deceive the news media into believing that Kerry was Honorably Discharged in 1970 and that Kerry was Honorably Discharged prior to his Vietnam veterans Against the War activities.
Kerry Deceives News Media About His Navy Discharge on JohnKerry.com
Pittsburgh Tribune Review is owned by Mellon-Schaif. Conservative. Currently they are one of many after the estate records of the late Senator John Heinz III. THK wants them kept sealed.
I'd like to know about Kerry's divorce.
It was not a divorce. He got an annulment after 18? years of marriage. I cannot see how anyone can get an annulment after being married that long.
See my Post 43.
The 2001 date is just sloppy research by this reporter.
Kerry's Honorable Discharge was on 16 February 1978......During the Carter Administration.....Six years AFTER he would have been eligible for one.
Guess that makes his daughters bastards.
My first hitch was Nov 1976 to Feb 1981. I got my first honorable discharge Nov 1982. I think that any discharge delayed beyond the six year commitment is probably not routine and is suspicious.
"and why Kerry did not receive an honorable discharge until March 2001, nearly 30 years after his service ended on July 1, 1972.
And this was under Bush's watch?"
There a corrected DD Form 215 made on March 12, 2001 on John Forbes Kerry?
Not the same as the discharge date?
See PDF link below.
http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/DD-215_Correction.pdf
No comment. LOL!
Consider this, wouldn't post-dating this document be to Kerry's advantage? The approval to upgrade would have been granted late in the Clinton administration-his last night in the Whitehouse was spent inking pardons. Finally, how long does it take for a "under the radar" administrative action take to move through the in-baskets at the Pentagon? Official orders for PCS are often 2-3 months in the making. The reserve community of the military (specifically navy) are even slower than the active forces in moving "routine" paperwork.
If it happened (I believe the odds are overwhelming; he won't release his records, he has been caught on 2 of 3 purple hearts, and the "V" for valor on his "Silver Star" etc. etc.), the records will come out. Even if Bush has no part in it, and I truly believe Bush will not have any involvement, there are enough people willing to act on their own within DoD to expose the real record of Senator John F. Kerry.
Wait and see.
I agree with your post.
I've been looking up data while you posted your summary.
Have reached the same conclusion.
Signed by Dena M. Martin, GS-12.
2001 0312 That's March 12 2001.
1. If Kerry did receive a general discharge it may have been because he didn't fulfill his military committment.
2. This could explain why '60 Minutes' and the AP have beren so dogged in their attempts to get evidence that Bush didn't fulfill his TANG committment.
Thanks, Polybius. Good documentation.
(ahem..) Upon further reflection, I have concluded that Bill could not possibly have been involved in this. In February 1978, he was in Arkansas getting prepared to rape Juanita Broaddrick.
During a campaign stop at her Van Buren facility, she said, Clinton talked with her and invited her to visit his campaign office in Little Rock. Broaddrick, then 35, agreed to do so a week later, on April 25, while in the capital with a friend for a conference sponsored by the American College of Nursing Home Administrators. "We were very excited," she said. "We were going to pick up all that neat stuff, T-shirts, buttons." Another Clinton Accuser Goes Public)
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I'll tell you why: BECAUSE NO ONE IN THE MAINSTREAM OF THE BATTLE IS DEMANDING AN EXPLANATION. Not the Prez, not debate moderators, not the media... NO one.
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