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This is errant nonsense. Kerry received an honorable discharge from his active duty service on 3JAN70. He received an honorable discharge from his inactive reserve service in 1978 due to his non-parti ...

Mark,

Kerry extended on active duty to get the admiral's aide billet that rocketed him out of Vietnam. This ammended the OCS contract and negated the 2 year SELRES obligation. Once in Brooklyn, whe ...

If you serve in a unit in the time period for which it receives a unit award such as the Navy Unit Commendation, you are entiltled to the award, even if you did not personaly participate in events tha ...

See Jed Babbin, "It's the War; Stupid" The American Spectator, October 2004, pg. 36.

". . . By [May 1969] Tedd Peck was recuperating from his wounds in a New York naval hospital. When [RADM] Sc ...

Kerry was a false churl in conniving with the enemy in 1970 and 1971, but he was not subject to the UCMJ at the time. THIS IS A SETTLED MATTER OF LAW AND NOT SUBJECT TO DEBATE. ONE MUST BE ON ACTIVE D ...

Pages 3 of 4 and 4 of 4:

http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Naval_Messages.pdf

The orders and ordmod flew in less time than it takes us mere mortals to get an open AUTOVON line to talk to ...

CAPT Calligan:

Presumably you majored in Mechanical Engineering and were plausably of some use to the submarine community. Kerry majored in PoliSci, never qualified as an OOD(F), and was a sorehead ...

Hondo:

As a NAVMARCORRESCEN CO from 1984-86, I am aware that reservists may be subject to UCMJ during drill periods, but advice from JAG types and common sense always steered me away from this. The ...

Kerry would have enlisted as an OCUISA (E-2) in the USNR after his OCS application was approved. The inactive service allowed for him to finish up at Yale and be scheduled for an open OCS class. His i ...

...Throughout the 70-78 inactive reserve period, he was not subject to the UCMJ and could be Ho Chi Kerry to his heart's content....
Or just Ho for short? LOL

Not True I think.

Reserve off ...

Misty:

You are correct that Kerry originally executed a 3/2 agreement which would have ended his active commissioned service in DEC69 and begun a 2 year drilling obligation ending DEC71, but notice ...

In the photpgraphs in question, Sen. Kerry clearly is not executing a proper military salute, but rather a slovenly narrow passageway fly-swat emblematic of his naval career.

No drilling obligation. Kerry signed up for 4 yrs active commissioned service followed by IRR for the balance of the 6 year commitment.

His politically arranged early out aftter only 3 years and so ...

The letter desination at the end of a form number (DD-214N, DD-214O, etc.) refer to revisions of the blank form. You get a DD-214 at the end of each period of active service; it is typed on what ever ...

My first DD-214, a DD FORM 214N, was published 1NOV72 and issued to me (filled out) on 13JUL79, recording my separation from USNR enlisted and accepting a commission as Ensign, USNR. The form's stock ...