[RVN Airplane Driver]

I tried to join VFW 15 years ago. Over the course of almost a year and a half and many restarts the organization could not get my name or service number right and could not get military verification for my eligibility because they would not spell my name right or even use the right name. I would go over it letter by letter and digit by digit but when the paper came back it would always be wrong, sometimes in highly creative ways, usually with name order reversed. I gave it up. That level of incompetence was astounding to me and I no longer desired to be part of such an organization.

I call bovine secretions....I guess you and John Kerry must have the same problem....inability to produce a DD 214...

[blaveda]

Let’s not be hasty and cast aspersions here at Freerepublic, let’s preserve the dignity of those who post; judge not please. I’ve seen too many freepers go by the way side. Without posters, we lose the glue that holds us together.

[arthurus]

DD214 didn’t seem to accomplish anything. They could not seem to transcribe anything off of it correctly. The DD214 does not directly place me in VN because it was a Security AFSC and VFW had to get the info from the USAF. They got that right at least once but could not connect that with the name and number they could not get right. I have since joined American Legion but the local VFW has revived quite a bit while the Legion is moribund hereabouts.