The enclosed brings up a new issue. I had noticed that his discharge >was dated in 2001 but didn't think much about it. The enclosed raises >some interesting aspects.
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"Unlike McCain, Bush, and Gore, while Kerry has adamantly refused to >authorize the release of his military records. Most think it's because >of his phony battle medals. I think the real reason is below. He was >not granted an Honorable Discharge until March 2001, almost 30 years >after his ostensible service term had ended! This is very much out of >the ordinary, and highly suspect.
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There are 5 classes of Discharge: Honorable, General, Other Than Honorable, >Bad Conduct, and Dishonorable. My guess is that he was Discharged in >the '70s, but not Honorably. He appealed this sometime while Clinton >was doing trouser-tricks in the Oval Office. Political pressure was >applied, and the Honorable Discharge was then granted. His file is >probably rife with reports of this, submissions and hearings on the >appeal, reports of his "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy, along >with protests that were filed with respect to his alleged valor under fire.
> This will blow up in his face before October 15th.
On Kerry's reserve discharge paper, I noticed two things:
1) Item one was the line: "By Direction of the President and pursuant to reference (a)( 10USC1162) you are hereby honorably discharged from the US Naval Reserve effective this date
( February 16, 1978)(six years after the initial reserve obligation ended and during the Carter Administration)
They cited 10 USC 1162 as the authority for the reserve separation. There are three administrative laws that feed into 10USC 1162. Two dont apply ( one being for the Army and Air National Guard, and one being for Chaplains) so this administrative law had to apply to him:
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§ 12684. Reserves: separation for absence without authority or sentence to imprisonment
Release date: 2004-03-18
The President or the Secretary concerned may drop from the rolls of the armed force concerned any Reserve—
(1) who has been absent without authority for at least three months;
(2) who may be separated under section 12687 of this title by reason of a sentence to confinement adjudged by a court-martial; or
(3) who is sentenced to confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary or correctional institution after having been found guilty of an offense by a court other than a court-martial or other military court, and whose sentence has become final.
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The action was taken under the approved recommendations of a board of officers acting under 10USC 1162 ( cited above) and subject to a review of his records.
This reeks folks!