[claudiustg]

---Do I think it is possible that the National Guard had this "professional typewriter" in '72? It had been available for at least 3 years, and if you were accurate, it was easy to use.---

But the type writer used mechanical means for it's proportional spacing, something like 5 micro-spaces for an m and 2 for an i. What are the chances that an electronically spaced font like Times New Roman would give the exact same spacing?

[TaxRelief]

Times New Roman was a standard font in 1969, and it was available in 10 and 12 with proportional spacing. We had 6 little balls for our Selectric. We had a cursive font, at least one Times New Roman fonts, a Courier font, a symbols font, and Greek letters.

[Paleo Conservative]

What are the chances that an electronically spaced font like Times New Roman would give the exact same spacing?

You wouldn't get the exact spacing if unless the exact same typeface was used. Even TrueType and Adobe versions of a font often have subtle differences from each other.