[coconutt2000]

Below is the discharge request. Note the signature of said Lt. Colonel Killian.

[coconutt2000]

I was wondering if anyone noticed the curl of the upper right branch of the "K".

[coconutt2000]

Oh yeah, the spacing of Killian's cursive signature is different from other documents that he has presumably signed.

I wonder if that makes a difference...

[The G Man]

Compare for yourself:

[nikos1121]

I think that's a period on the upper limb of the K. This document, I presume is legit right?

nick

[sauropod]

W. abbrieviated as 1st Lt. Comments?

[citizen]

Can you post one of the fakes to compare with this one?

[BushisTheMan]

My question: Is the military that competent or fast to receive the request one day and approve it the next? Just asking.

My son is in the Guard and it took several weeks to get a simple question answered.

[Kaslin]

I did a screen capture of the signatures and pated them to a new image using Paintshop pro for you to compare. One has to be blind not to see the difference.

[The_Reader_David]

Perfect! The discharge request proves a point I made on another thread which I've not seen anyone else bring up: we've heard about the kerning and the superscripts from others. My point is about the lack of superscripts: the places where an ordinal appears in the CBS documents with the suffix not superscripted are of one of two types, and two types only: either there is a space between the numerals and the suffix (e.g. 147 th) or the last numeral is a 1, acutally a lower case L.

MS Word will not auto superscript if there is a space between the numeral and the suffix, nor if the last 'numeral' is really a lower case L.

Now look at the discharge papers: 147th no space. A typist trained in the 1970's or before (I'm one, having taken typing in HS right about the time the forgeries purport to have been made, and from an old typing teacher to boot) would not have put a space in between the numerals and the suffix. 1st, 2nd, 3rd. . .147th, not 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd . . .147 th. (I even had trouble typing that, putting the spaces in required suppressing an automatic reflex.)

The forger in fact made three glaring mistakes: putting in the extra space, forgetting to put it in, resulting in the superscripts, and typing a one instead of a lower case L in the one place where 111th occurs with a superscript.

I think this is the first time I've ever been happy that MS Word has idiotic defaults which are almost impossible to change since the change buttons are buried so deep in the menus. (Gloat, gloat.)