[Errant]

Seems from indications that I've seen, requests for individual service/draft records are honored routinely. This denial begs the questioned, what's the problem in this instance?

[TheCipher]

Those are FOIA requests ( which are basically photcopies of the record )What he has is the FOIA request. What he wants is access to the original. They are reluctant to produce it since they probably know what a forensic examination would reveal. An examiner would take a sample of the ink used in the stamp. Ink manufacturers put chemical tags in their ink that identifies the manufacturer and the year it was made. That is kept in a national database. Selective Service would have a hard time explaining how an ink manufactured in 2008 appeared on a document supposedly stamped in 1980.

[bluecat6]

http://www.hillbillyreport.com/blog/2008/10/questions-about-senator-mitch-mcconnells-military-record.html

From Flahavan:

“the U.S. Army ordered him to undergo an Armed Forces Physical Examination which he did July 9, 1967. Apparently, he did not pass because he was released from the U.S. Army Reserve August 15, 1967.”

http://www.hillbillyreport.com/Kaner/physical1.jpg

“...when we looked under column 7 Armed Forces Physical Examination it was blank, indicating that Mitch McConnell did not receive a Armed Forces Physical Examination as stated by Richard Flahavan, in his extract. If the Selective Service Classification Record is correct and Mitch McConnell didn’t receive Armed Forces Physical Examination, then how could he flunk the Armed Forces Physical Examination he didn’t take and what is the real reason Mitch McConnell didn’t serve his country during the Vietnam war?”

Obviously, Mr. Flahavan is a career employee and crosses administrations. In 2007 he had to ‘fix’ a prominent republican. In 2009 he had to ‘fix’ a very prominent Democrat.

Regardless he seems like a good ‘person of interest’. He may be a pawn, but pawns are the first to go in a chess game.