Is this a military form or for all medical information? The debate is whether he really earned his purple hearts.
I believe the SF 180, which he has never signed, releases the entirety of his records, medical and otherwise.
“The debate is whether he really earned his purple hearts.”
I’ll make it easy for you. No.
It is DoD Standard form once he signs it everything gets released.
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/a/sf180.htm
If there’s questions about form SF 180, you can download the form and read it yourself to see what it authorizes and what it does not.
That’ll give you a more solid base from which to counter some of the potential crap the monkeys will try to fling.
Your best bet is to go to a bookstore or Amazon and buy “Unfit for Command” by John O’Neill. It’s authoritative and well documented and referenced. Much of the evidence includes Lurch’s own words. After you’re done reading it, highlight the areas you are most interested in and show it to them.
Some things to bear in mind as you debate these people:
** Purple Hearts that are truly earned are very rarely questioned, as the wounds are serious and the scars lasting.
** Purple Hearts that are awarded for lesser wounds usually have to be 'pushed' for, be that by a zealous commander who wants to reward his men or a person trying to satisfy his own ego.
** Three PH's, allowing a 'man' to leave the combat area, all given for lesser wounds requires a very rare and despicable person, who had to push three times for a PH, and then push again for his release.
Side story:
My brother in law served a tour in Vietnam in '67-'68 and received three minor wounds (bullet graze, shrapnel graze and pun-gee (sp?) stick). No PH was awarded to him. He also says he could never ask for one for those wounds after seeing some of the guys who truly deserved them.
My B-I-L despises Kerry.
Well, according to Kerry's diary he kept at the time, 8 days after he received his first purple heart, he claimed he'd not yet seen combat.