Posted on 09/09/2004 12:16:21 PM PDT by Hank All-American
How do we get this into the MSM? You'd think at least ABC & NBC would jump on this to pound CBS. We'll see.
Woah, check LGF: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=12526
Also check out the two different '3's in the 'AFM 35-13' portion of the document. One 3 is obviously different than the other. If it were typed, or even done on with a computer; Why would one 3 be diffent than the other?
I posted this question on another thread, but how were corrections made? Is this before auto-correct on typewriters? It's unlikely these were typed with no mistakes isn't it?
If it was "Cut OFF" at the top it could have been at least Jewish....
While I hope you know what you're talking about, why don't you know that Lt. Col is always written " LTC "?
The next time you post anything on FR, look at the "Your Reply" window, which you type in and the "If you posted your comment as-is, it would look like" preview window. The window you type in is evenly spaced. The preview window uses proportional fonts.
Try typing iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.
See how long that string looks like in the typing window and how short it is in the preview window? Pretty cool, huh?
The dead givaway that something is in even spaced fonts is the "i", the "j" and the "m". The narrow letters have these big, honkin' serifs whose only job is to take up space. The "m", OTOH, is so bunched up it is hard to read.
Maybe the same stupid person faked John Kerry's medals documents, unaware that they weren't awarding V's for valor.
LOL.
We've still got a lot of September to get through, B. I can't wait until Nov 3rd; I so damned tired of all this slimy liberal-demokkkRAT crap.
Whenever possible and sometimes when not very possible always, always take a shortcut.
Military orders are generally full of shortcuts. JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC were all the months.
"Off WP" instead of "officer will proceed" never "you will go" or "you will proceed".
"AR NLT" instead of "arrive not later than" or "arrive no later than" the memo actually has "not later than" and then (NLT) in parentheses. WHY?
Lastly - Rank was always ASAP(As Short As Possible) 1st Lieut, nope, it was always 1LT.
Oh, and lest we forget. National Guard units were always the ugly stepchildren of the military and getting hand-me-downs, not top of the line typewriters, especially since no one above the rank of buck Sargent ever typed anything longer than a brief "Reply by Endorsement."
These documents look to be the work of someone who had a couple of years or ROTC and quit before advanced ROTC because he realized he had to be in more than a couple of years to make 5 stars.
At best they are the work of a fresh recruit to the TANG and LTC Killian was not a man who knew how to constructively chew ass.
A proportional spaced font is one, like the most generally used Times New Roman, where the amount of horizontal space taken by each letter varies depending on the width of that letter. For example, a "W" is much wider than an "l" in a proportionally spaced font. A monospaced font, like Curier, deliberately makes the size of each letter the same.
Proportionally spaced fonts therefore allow printers to put more words on a line because the narrow letters are narrow and the wide letters are wide. Proporrtional spacing was very hard to put into typewriters because the gears that drove the machines would havee to be designed to provide different horizontal spacing depending on which letter the typist struck. Thus, it was much easier and vastly less expensive to make each of the letters the same horizontal size so the typewriter would only have to use a space of the same size as each letter key was stuck.
All of changed with computers, lazer, and ink jet printers, all of which easily do this with software, instead of mechanically.
Thanks you guys for the typesetting tutorial. Much appreciated and it makes following this whole forgery story easier.
OK. I've become a believer. Howlin, I will never again accuse anyone on FreeRepublic of mindlessly babbling.
I don't specifically recall that being the case (that LTC was the only abbreviation for Lt. Colonel) in the Air Force. I'm not saying it wasn't. I just don't recall. The use of "1st Lt." as an abbreviation likewise did not jump out at me as being a strong indicator, even though 1Lt does seem more appropriate. I tried to limit my points to just a few that I thought were enough to conclude the document I specifically reviewed--the "01 August 1972" memorandum--was fake. I think it is.
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