Superscript example cited by CBS doesn't look at all like superscript.

Vanity ^ | Sept. 11, 2004 | AaronInCarolina

[Frank JT]

Apparently the docs in question bear very little resemblance to the military's requirements for formatting written communications. (The following is copied from the GOP site.) -- Frank JT


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Joined: July 2004 Posted: Sep. 09, 2004 -- 9:30 pm

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I would say that the so called "document experts" CBS consulted for authenticity of this document should have included an Air Force company clerk. I daresay they would have caught a number of errors. I spent 10 years in the USAR as a 71L Administrative Specialist, honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant. There is little if any difference in correspondence regulations between the branches of service. I dug out my old AR 25-50 "Preparing and Managing Correspondence" and came up with a number of issues with this document. This document is either a forgery or done by an incredibly inept company clerk.

Problem 1: While it is legitimate to use a typewritten letterhead, the letterhead in this document is incorrect. It should show "Department of the Air Force" as the first line. The use of a P.O. box is very questionable

Problem 2: Military memorandums have an "OFFICE SYMBOL" field as the next line below the letterhead (or suspense date if one is required) on the same line as the current date.

Problem 3. I quote: "Stamp or type the DATE on the same line as the office symbol, ending at the right margin." The date in this document should be all the way over to the right, yet it begins just slightly to the right of center.

Problem 4: The second line of the MEMORANDUM FOR has a glaring error. By regulation: “if the MEMORANDUM FOR address extends more than one line, begin the second line under the third letter of the first word after MEMORANDUM FOR. The second line of this address begins under the fifth character of the line above.

Problem 5: Almost as glaring an error as the superscript "th" is something that no military person would do...rank abbreviation in military correspondence is very specific. "1st Lt." is *never* used. This abbreviation is "1LT" Every rank in every branch of the military is *always* abbreviated with a 3 character abbreviation.

Problem 6: I never saw anyone go to the trouble of typing "not later than (NLT)" The military is awash with acronyms, NLT being one of them. No company clerk would use both the acronym *and* the fully written form in the same sentence.

Problem 7: The beginning of the signature block in the CBS document starts directly below the misplace date field. Actually, the signature block is supposed to start at the horizontal center of the document.

Problem 8: The rank for the commander is incorrect-see problem 5. In a signature block the rank is to be spelled out completely or use correct abbreviations. It should read either Lieutenant Colonel or LTC, not “Lt. Colonel”

Problem 9: The signature block is incomplete. It is missing the branch of service. I should read “LTC, USANG” for Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air National Guard.

That’s nine errors in a 2 paragraph memorandum. If any of the clerks under me in my unit had turned in a mess like this, they’d have been doing pushups until I got tired.
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[McGavin999]

ROTFLMCO!!

[beaversmom]

Wow--very incriminating and very funny.

[magellan]

Man, you nailed it. Converting to PDF elevates the superscript further than MS Word alone.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

ROFL uncontrollably!!!

[mikegi]

That's hilarious. A true LOL. "... which is now"!

[Polybius]

Also, your date stamp is far too legitimate. You should have "18 June 1973".

Actually, the date in one of the CBS forgeries had a comma after the month:

14 May, 1970

Never, in my entire Navy career, did I even see a date written like that.

[ChiefKujo]

This is my comparrison, using MS Word...

[Charles Henrickson]

Ra^ther is toa^st.

[americanwoman29]

That is hilarious!!! LOL!

[thpwat]

Coca-cola snot stings... p.s. I'm sending my keyboard cleaning bill to you :)

[ashtanga]

God! Thanks for the belly laugh.

[drwiii]

It's not so much the PDF that did it. MS Word has certain oddities with its WYSIWYG engine. If you use advanced text layout features, you'll often see certain text attributes (superscript, for one) print out differently than they show up on the screen.

I used PDF as an emulated printer in this example so I could match my typed MS Word copy with CBS's typed and printed MS Word copy. Once the two documents are on a level playing field, it's much easier to show the similarities.

It's also worth noting that I just created a new MS Word document and started typing. What I typed into MS Word has all the default MS Word margins, spacing, typeface, and font size. Text wrapped itself at precisely the same point as the CBS document does.

Unless CBS has managed to create a time machine (aside from David Letterman), I'd say that we've SeenBS.

[eddie willers]

That is just toooooo funny!

[sandbar]

This is funny!!!

[Spunky]

Marking for later reading.

[Pikachu_Dad]

On a manual typewritter, to superscript the 'th', you would roll the platten back 1 click. It should be fairly obvious.

[dickmc]

Could you take a look at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1212788/posts?page=51,47 and post as bullets anything that you think is not included in the list.

Regards,

[technoCon]

Of course the Democrats and CBS have a time machine. They've used it since the '60s when they sent Kerry back in time to pick up his first purple heart AFTER writing in his journal that he hadn't seen enemy action.