[BookaT]

Dont you get an honorable discharge seconds before you re-enlist? I know JK was an Officer but as far as waiting the the IRR to get an honorable discharge. I dont know about that. I believe you get it at the end of active service. I know this.

[datura]

I know I got my honorable at the end of my service, since I had no IRR time after being in 10 years. No matter what, it just isn't likely that Kerry doesn't have something MAJOR to hide in those files or he would've done so immediately. His ego woudn't have it any other way.

Heck, he might have even had a BCD for his actions in 1971 instead of just a dishonorable. That would require more strings than the Carter amnesty to clean up completely.

[familyop]

"Dont you get an honorable discharge seconds before you re-enlist?"

...not normally, IIRC, if one re-ups at the end of his time in training. For example, I was reserve component for six years with two years IRR. ...re-up'd at the end of the six years training time for another year to try a rear echelon unit. ...went ahead and got out at the end of that year. IIRC, the Honorable came a few weeks or months later. The two years IRR started the day my training time ended (for which the Discharge certificate came afterward). It was a long time ago, though.