[GOP_1900AD]

You are quite correct! BUMP!

[ProxyAccount]

IIRC: The standard type used was Courier 12, not Arial.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The military didn't concern itself with the century part of the year until the Y2K scare and the widespread use of computer databases required such.

Incorrect. I've got orders, promotion warrants, training certificates, et al, dated 19XX.

[Mrs Zip]

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[AUsome Joy]

According to this article "Tongue and Quill" wasn't available until 1975. You had peaked my curiosity about this and I was just looking to see if it is online. Maybe you know whether or not this is true.

Revised 'Tongue and Quill' now available online

by Carl Bergquist
Air University Public Affairs

8/18/2004 - MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. (AFPN) -- What started as a research paper here nearly 30 years ago has become the Air Force’s leading reference on writing and speaking.

In 1975, then-Air Command and Staff College student Maj. Hank Staley submitted as his research paper the first version of what is now “The Tongue and Quill.”

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123008442

[spitlana]

I just checked my husband's discharge papers from the National Guard in 1972. And you're right, the dates are written: 18Nov72. Just like that--no space in between.

[RexRichard]

Re: 01 August 1972 on the fake would have been 01 AUG 72 on an original. The military didn't concern itself with the century part of the year until the Y2K scare and the widespread use of computer databases required such.

Although I think the documents are fake, I cannot agree with this part of your analysis. I have worked for the Army for 39 years and in that time the correspondence rule for dates has been that if the Month is abbreviated then the year is abbreviated. If the month is spelled out, the year is also in long form, i.e,. 01 Aug 72, or 01 August 1972. That's my experience with the Army. Perhaps the Air National Guard has a different rule.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I will pull mine and my husband's DD 214 out tomorrow and check to see how it is written. They were both written in the 70's