[Rutles4Ever]

Interesting. Can any military Freepers corroborate?

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[ladtx]

After 20 years in the Army I can testify to the fact that rank abbreviations was/is a sore point in all military correspondence. I've never, never seen it abbreviated 1stLt. except by journalists in the press.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Just another democratic forged document. Put them in prison for life.

[Americanwolf]

I can corroborate that the military regardless of which branch you are referring to is anal retentive when it comes to paperwork and how it is written. I was a Mag rat for my squadron in the navy. So I was responsible for order initiating explosives, Fuze's, bomb, missiles, etc for the squadron for our daily loads. The first 5 weeks that I had to do this I had to re-type the order chits several times due to leaving information out or mistyping one letter. and Yes to back up what pabianice is saying if you mark the rank wrong on other pertinent information on order chits, records, evals, etc.. they will make you redo it. I am sure this is pretty standard across the services.

[ops33]

The structure of the first letter is also wrong. First, this would be typed on squadron letterhead. Second, ALL USAF correspondance follows a standard format. The first item on the left margin would be the date. Then there would be a TO line and President Bush's name and rank would be entered. Next would be a Subject line that would summarize the content of the letter. Last would be a From line that would NOT be the sender's name but rather the sender's unit followed by the office symbol. If it was from the Commander it would be the unit number followed by a slant and the abbreviation CC (for Commander). If it was from the Executive Officer for the unit the office symbol would be CV.

The second letter is what is called a Memo for Record. I have written many of them where I documented counselling a person on their appearance, job performance, etc. But it is lacking a signature or even the initials of the writer. Without those, there is no way of knowing who wrote the document.

The third memo has an incorrect signature block. A correct signature block would have name, rank, and position, e.g. John Smith, Capt, USAF, Commander. Again, for every piece of correspondance that I wrote, whether a memo, letter, directive, etc., the signature block would be the same.

The fourth memo has the same problem as the second, no signature or set of initials to say who wrote the document.

[Not A Snowbird]

"1stLt"

Interesting. That abbreviation is used by the Marine Corps, but I don't know about national guard. Doesn't look right for them.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Yeah. I can. I was a 1LT. I have 13yrs in the Army and have worked for the AF for 3 years as a civilian. All ranks are in three letters: 2LT, 1LT, CPT, MAJ...

1stLT is not a correct abbreviation. Any LTC would know that.