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Posted on 10/13/2004 7:26:00 AM PDT by gunnygail
An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service.
The document is a form cover letter in the name of the Carter administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." This in it self is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in the Navy that requires a review by a board of officers.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Let's see if this reaches beyond the NY Sun. Keep posting it and keep sending it to your lists.
It's about time!
I just post willy-nilly. Same way I drive down the road. Left lane, right lane, all the same to me. How about you?
This is the third time I've seen this article today ... same title each time.
Congratulations.
LVM
The article says "There is one odd coincidence that gives some weight to the possibility that Mr. Kerry was dishonorably discharged." Technically incorrect.
Unless the law was very different in 1972 (and I doubt it was), an officer like Kerry could not have been "dishonorably discharged." He could have been "dismissed" (the functional equivalent of a DD), but only pursuant to a court-martial. I see no indication that he was ever court-martialed, and since courts-martial are a matter of public record, we would all know about it if he had been.
On the other hand, he could have received an involuntary administrative discharge, which could have been characterized as "honorable," "general," or "under other than honorable conditions (UOTHC)."
These may sound like technical points, but unlike the MSM, we need to be accurate and credible. A DD (or dismissal) implies a criminal conviction. An administrative separation does not.
Eddie Slovik was executed for less.
That is what I always thought as well. Officers get OTH's and a dismissal. Pretty serious stuff. Only saw a couple of zero's get hammered like that and they seriously deserved it. I've read that Hanoi John applied for an upgrade to his dischrge under Slick Willie's Admin. Truth to this anyone?
Very true. Could you imagine what would have happened to some schmoe in WW2 who tried to deal with the Japanese/Germans and the public got their hands on him/her?
Heck, Tokyo Rose did 12 YEARS for her gig.
ROFLMAOASTD Geez! I just LOVE a woman with a sense of humor!
Uh, Cultural Jihad.....I'm not sure but I THINK that that is a GOTCHA! :-)
Please use the Search tool or look at the sidebar. How many of these threads will there be? It's just too hard to try to read them all. It's much better when you can just go to one thread to see the discussion.
1. I'm a man. Retired Marine.
2. Just a tweak to CJ, nothing major. Some news items need to be seen again and again for those of us who pop in and out and have slowwwwwwwwwwwwwww PC's.
Generally, by 11:00am, stories like this have been posted at least 15 times. This one was quite active when I checked at 7:30.
Well, like Chesty Puller always said, "There's always some poor bastard who doesn't get the word."
Better to over publicize vice not. This election is to crucial NOT to hit Hanoi John from every angle.
Lol, I miss the old days when you could bump a worthy post to the top to keep it on fhe front page. All post should be ranked by interest.
This was worth reposting.
Lurch, if this less than honorable discharge story is true, you're too stupid to be President.
October Surprise?
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