Posted on 09/10/2004 6:44:47 PM PDT by train152
I was in the Air Force and now am in the Air National Guard. Looking back at official documents from the late 1980s that I have from the Air Force, I can conclude that the font is definitely different in that period. It appears that Arial was the font of choice.
"Tongue and Quill" is book that is used by the Air Force to prescribe formats and methods for producing official documents. I would expect that Lt. Col. Killian would have ascribed to this book. Most telling on these documents, save the superscript, is the date format. 01 August 1972 on the fake would have been 01 AUG 72 on an original. The military didn't concern itself with the century part of the year until the Y2K scare and the widespread use of computer databases required such.
You are quite correct! BUMP!
IIRC: The standard type used was Courier 12, not Arial.
Right on. Ariel is proportional; Courier's not.
Incorrect. I've got orders, promotion warrants, training certificates, et al, dated 19XX.
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I have to tell you AFR 10-1 was the bible for AF correspondence when I worked for the AF and to this day I still have my copy of Tongue & Quill which was written by a student at the Air Command & Staff College at Maxwell AFB, AL. those are what were used (and still being used for all I know)...and these four documents do not appear to have been written based on either of these two manuels....and I just watched Alan Colmes and he makes me want to puke!
According to this article "Tongue and Quill" wasn't available until 1975. You had peaked my curiosity about this and I was just looking to see if it is online. Maybe you know whether or not this is true.
Revised 'Tongue and Quill' now available online
by Carl Bergquist
Air University Public Affairs
8/18/2004 - MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFPN) -- What started as a research paper here nearly 30 years ago has become the Air Forces leading reference on writing and speaking.
In 1975, then-Air Command and Staff College student Maj. Hank Staley submitted as his research paper the first version of what is now The Tongue and Quill.
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008442
I just checked my husband's discharge papers from the National Guard in 1972. And you're right, the dates are written: 18Nov72. Just like that--no space in between.
Correction:
Courier 10 was the official type in use (State Department used Courier 12), but pica was an alternative (date unknown).
I agree. I'm am confused, however, at why it was written with an "01" for the date.
Don't know what the conventions were in the military back then, but in 21 years in the military I've never seen someone write 01 August...it would be just 1 August 1972.
Any ideas?
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