Clearly the above document was produced on a word processor (fully justified text). I have documents from the Navy from the late seventies that do not look anything like that. Just because it is on his website, does not mean that it is not a fake.
Concur. I'm an Army Brat from that era, and have all of Dad's old correspondence, and nothing looks even remotely like that doc. At best, it's all done on Selectrics with fixed-pitch Courier balls.
C'mon, it is a preprinted form with the Kerry info dropped in by computer. No different from my high school grades mailing from the early 70's
The other thing is that Kerry's discharge is actually fairly typical for someone who does not resign their commission. Even though he was inactive, his records would have gone through two tries fot Lt. Commander. After that, he would have been discharged - 1978 seems to be the proper time. You guys need to spend a little time over at Swiftvets forum.
I know the guy is a skunk - but there are two main things for our focus. First are the lies he told after he came home that still today torture the veterans' minds. The other is that there is no evidence that that the supposed falsified reports that support Kerry's medals came from anyone other than John Kerry. The Swifties are doing the harder job of trying to prove that ONLY Kerry did or could write those reports.
The 'boilerplate' standard form verbiage is typeset (justified). Individual details (date, name, etc.) were added with a typewriter.
Common practice. Nothing suspicious about that...
It appears to be a standard typeset form with Kerry's name and discharge date about the only things typed (and hard to read.)
You are right, Kerry could have posted a "Fake" discharge document on his Web site.
I would attack this angle rather than the March 2001 doc which we can't get our hands on.