In my mind Kerry got a less-than-honorable discharge in 1971-72.....the weasel Jimmy Carter gave him and other traitors amnesty.....otherwise this sorry S.O.B. never could have run for dog catcher let alone the US Senate.
I would bet that it is much worse. It is probably a Dishonorable. This based on the fact that the statements he made as to why his medals were reissued is because he lost them. The facts are the military does not "reissue" medals that are lost they will instead provide a certified copy that the medals were indeed issued to that individual. The only way a medal could be "reissued" is if the original recipient had been stripped of them, such as through a courts martial, and someone with a lot of political pull applied pressure.(The Peanut Farmer?)