Posted on 09/29/2004 11:13:03 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier
This business about Kerry not receiving an honorable discharge until 2000 is simply untrue. The real story of Kerry's discharge is interesting enough, we don't need to be making things up.
Kerry actually received his honorable discharge in February 1978, not 30 years after his service ended, as so many threads here on FR have alleged. Here is the document:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Honorable_Discharge_From_Reserve.pdf
Here is the full timeline, which Kerry was given by the Navy years later:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Request_For_History_of_Service.pdf
Note that that's quite a long time as an inactive standby reservist--six years. Kerry left active duty in 1970. He left the naval reserves in July 1972 to become an inactive standby reservist. This notice of his upcoming change in status was sent to him in March 1972:
http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Transfer_To_Standby_Reserve.pdf
Yet as one FReeper notes regarding the above document, "John Kerry's letter of transfer to the Standby Reserves is conspicuously missing a page. The first page posted on his campaign website has a final line that ends in a colon. After the colon was supposed to follow a list of Kerry's obligations while in the Standby Reserves. What were those obligations, and did Kerry fulfill them?"
As a naval reservist between 70 and 72, Kerry would have had certain obligations--keeping the govt notified on his whereabouts, and drilling, for example. Someone should ask the question of whether Kerry properly notified the Navy when he travelled to Paris in 1971 (see note at the end) and met with the communists. He would have been required to do so as a standby reservist.
Presumably, he also would have been required to drill. Was he drilling during the same period when he was out giving speeches that compared Ho Chi Minh to George Washington? Or even better, did he skip drills to do events with Jane Fonda? Did he skip drills to do Dewey Canyon and Valley Forge and the protest on the mall, and other such anti-war events?
Maybe Kerry did not fulfill those obligations, and that's why his discharge came so much later. Could Kerry have gotten a less-than-honorable discharge (perhaps general) at some point later than 1972 and earlier than 1978, then got it smoothed over later on? No one will be able to know this unless Kerry releases his full record to the press, without filtering it through his campaign.
The Washington Post noted on August 22 that, contrary to his claims, Kerry has not released his records:
"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records. A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages."
Most services have something like PerFormPro--automated document software which loads a particular form number (e.g. DD-215, etc.) onto a PC and allows the user to fill in the document blanks and print it out. It automatically sized the spaces to fill and did word wrap, etc. Mucho different from what one would expect in the 1970's.
The boilerplate text of the form appears to be typeset, and was probably printed in large quantity with an offset method (i.e. Gutenberg). The perforations at top and bottom indicate a continuous form.
The malformed monospaced letters from the computer printer - Kerry's name, for instance - could be explained as the last carbon copy in a multi-part form. Perhaps that's what "Part 4" at the bottom of the page refers to - the fourth copy.
BTTT!
Sounds reasonable. thx.
The bottom line, tho, is kerry's refusal to sign 180 and release ALL of his records.
Kerry is hiding something... and it's likely something related to his seditious activity...
Will the old media 'interrogators' ask him why he refuses to sign form 180? Or are they still operating in the manner of Dan Rather?
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Is the statute of limitations expired? If not, could someone perform a citizens' arrest for that crime, or does it have to be a MP?
The UCMJ has no statue of limitations for death penalty crimes.
Eww, Kerry has a discharge? Does it have something to do with tha orange jaundice he's taken? He needs to see a doctor!
As a member of the inactive reserve Kerry was not subject to the UCMJ. I read Article 2 of the UCMJ and cannot find anywhere in it that a person in his status was subject to the provisions of the UCMJ. As much as I would like to nail Kerry for his treasonous conduct, the UCMJ would not apply to him.
BUMP For later
Detailed analysis of Kerry discharge now online at
http://www.vetsforbush.net/kerry-oth-discharge.pdf
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