Bingo, good spot.
The two forms without requestor checked probably will be rejected.
The check is also missing as to whether he was retired from service or not (In Section 1).
However, it appears that he did request that the *undeleted* report of separation, which would contain any smoking guns, was requested for "all years". That would imply there might have more than one such report.
The form says:
"1. REPORT OF SEPARATION(DD Form 214 or equivalent). This contains information normally needed to verify military service. A copy may be sent to the veteran, the deceased veteran's next of kin, or other persons or organizations if authorized in Section III, below. NOTE: If more than one period of service was performed, even in the same branch, there may be more than one Report of Separation. Be sure to show EACH year that a Report of Separation was issued, for which you need a copy. An UNDELETED Report of Separation is requested for the year(s) This normally will be a copy of the full separation document including such sensitive items as the character of separation, authority for separation, reason for separation, reenlistment eligibility code, separation (SPD/SPN) code, and dates of time lost. An undeleted version is ordinarily required to determine eligibility for benefits.
I'm not saying that it would automatically result in a records request for a U.S. Senator being rejected, but
A) the 'requestor' box isn't checked
B) the 'years of service' and 'officer/enlisted' boxes aren't filled in (when it pointedly says that "For an effective records search it is important all service be shown below")
C) there are three restrictions on the types of records, just
1) U.S. Navy; (when it pointedly says that "For an effective records search it is important all service be shown below," and he was in the Reserves)
2) military service; and
3) medical records
Now, call me crazy, but I would be very surprised to discover the records folks would kick out records without that form filled out to a T. I also wouldn't think that if you asked for all records pertaining to "military service," medical records would normally be excluded UNLESS there are other types of records we don't know about that weren't included, either. And others have noted that this doesn't necessarily include the Naval Reserve years he served.
That said, even if this were all that was required and we had a blank check for his records, I'd be suspicious anyway. WTF took so long if it was all about his grades? Why not just release everything to everyone like Bush did? I don't buy it.