Buckhead's sharp eye saved the day on this one, and it's just plain astonishing that Mapes and her apologists can continue asserting those memos' veracity is "undetermined."
All they have to do is type the thing in Word and compare! An almost exact match.
They are in the most COMPLETE denial I have ever seen.
The substance falls apart as well. Lieutenant Bush wasn't due to take the exam until August, and there are existing documents which support that his command did not expect him to take the exam until August.
Further, pilot qualification is voluntary.
Further, one does not not give orders for a member of the one-drill-a-month National Guard to not only make arrangements for an appointment but to further have the appointment at a hospital which is not always fully manned, for a specialized test to be done contrary to standard operating procedures, within two weeks. One also does not refer to a fellow officer by only their last name in anything intended to be presentable. Further, if "orders" are not delivered to the intended recipient, they are not orders.
We could go on and on...