[AFPhys]

Several people have wondered how sKerry's Release from Active Duty documents compare with a run of the mill officer of that era.

I just took the trouble of getting out my DD214 and posting certain specific information from it. I entered active duty 8yrs after sKerry did, but I apparently was discharged before he got his final discharge in 1985 or so... I have gotten NO other official communications regarding my release from Active Duty from DoD since my separation in 1981. This DD214 was the last official action they took on my behalf regarding whether or not I was honorably discharged.

You might like to take a look at the items I posted, in #238...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1243544/posts?page=238#238

I like Arizona Carolyn's take on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1243544/posts?page=27#27

I now believe it is absolutely safe to state that sKerry DID NOT get an honorable discharge. After he became a liberal politician in Massachuetts he managed to buy or wheedle one somehow. He can prove me wrong by producing his original DD214 as I am able to myself, instead of records from later than 1973.

Sen.Kerry: Please SIGN STANDARD FORM 180 and show us the truth.

[[Please feel free to copy this to other threads if it seems appropriate.]]

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[js1138]

I think by the end of the day it will be safe to ask Kerry very bluntly, what happened? Why not post the certificate?

[Soaring Feather]

bump to the top!

[capitan_refugio]

BTTT

[madison46]

Wonder if this is why Bush keeps saying he 'is proud to have served and was honorably discharged'?

[hiredhand]

Hey Capt.,

You raised my curiousity...SOOOO....I just dug up BOTH my DD Form 214s. Yep...that's right! I've got TWO of the suckers!

I had a break in service in 1988, which is why I have TWO. I never really took a GOOD look at them, but BOTH of them have the SAME thing in "SPECIAL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION"...block 24. CHARACTER OF SERVICE (Include upgrades)....

HONORABLE

Now certainly Senator Kerry can produce HIS DD Form 214! :-) For certain his will also bear truth to his story!

By the way...It took me 30 minutes to find one of my 214s and I nearly went into PANIC mode. These aren't the types of things we want to lose! :-)

I think we should ride this issue like a horse that needs to be broken....until we either make so much noise that it's NOT ignorable by the media, OR we get to see his records.

It's laughable really....a man who aspires to be CINC of the most powerful nation on the planet, and he won't divulge his military records! Do you think that any sane "heavy" pilot would hand over control of the aircraft just because he "says" he can fly the thing? What if he had a KNOWN habit of flying aircraft into the ground?! We WANT to see his "pilot's certification", but I have a suspicion that it will tell us that he FAILED ground school after four months.

I just went thru MOST of my military records (30 inches worth of paper from nearly 13 years of service!) looking for this other DD Form 214, and I didn't see ANYTHING that I would mind divulging publicly.

Anybody running for a public office on the basis of military service should do the same!

[Just mythoughts]

bump

[LowNslow]

Normal Honorable Discharge DD-214 in the era like mine reference the service regulations not US Code.

Appeals of discharge I believe would site US Code.