It is his original DD-214 we’d like to see. The unrestricted .SF-180 is the means to that end
The DD-214 is a Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty. I have a DD-214 from when I was released from Active duty, but not one from my transfer to the retired reserve. (w/o enough good years to be entitled to retired pay or benefits)
If Kerry got in trouble over his activities in Gay Paris *after* his release from active duty, but while still in the inactive reserve, it won't show up on his original DD-214. His purple hearts would of course, but not the original citations, just the information that he'd gotten them... somehow or another.