The REAL reason John Kerry Won't Release His Complete Military Records?

Looks like there might be evidence of a Dishonorable Discharge in those missing 94 pages he won't release. It seems that when Mr. Kerry took it upon himself to parley w/ the Communist North Vietnamese delegation in Paris, he wasn't a private citizen, but rather, still a Lieutenant in the United States Navy Reserve. In short, he committed a serious court-martial offense by going over there.


Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge
BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB - Special to the Sun
October 13, 2004

An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service.

The document is a form cover letter in the name of the Carter administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." This in it self is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in the Navy that requires a review by a board of officers.

According to the secretary of the Navy's document, the "authority of reference" this board was using in considering Mr. Kerry's record was "Title 10, U.S. Code Section 1162 and 1163. "This section refers to the grounds for involuntary separation from the service. What was being reviewed, then, was Mr. Kerry's involuntary separation from the service. And it couldn't have been an honorable discharge, or there would have been no point in any review at all. The review was likely held to improve Mr. Kerry's status of discharge from a less than honorable discharge to an honorable discharge.

A Kerry campaign spokesman, David Wade, was asked whether Mr. Kerry had ever been a victim of an attempt to deny him an honorable discharge. There has been no response to that inquiry.

http://www.nysun.com/article/3107

 

Mystery? There's no "mystery"...

Republicans are at it again, trying to smear Kerry's heroic military service because their own candidate sent somebody over there in his place, then partied, then went AWOL.

 

Then perhaps you can explain why Mr. Kerry won't simply sign a DD Form 180, authorizing the release of the remaining 94 pages of his military records? It's a simple thing, Rex...if he's got nothing to hide, why not sign it and put it past him?

In any event, I think that anybody who's so deperately grasping at straws over a conspiracy theory that Pres. Bush might have been wearing a wire during the debate is hardly qualified to make a judgement. You're on the Titanic and you know it.

 

We already elected 1 traitor, who protested in Russia during the height of the cold war, I certainly hope this populace is smart enough not to elect a 3 band-aid, conspiring with the enemy coward, like Kerry to the highest office in the land.:thumb:

 

Did you read the link, Red? If did, you couldn't have possibly missed this:

Mr. Kerry has repeatedly refused to sign Standard Form 180, which would allow the release of all his military records. And some of his various spokesmen have claimed that all his records are already posted on his Web site. But the Washington Post already noted that the Naval Personnel Office admitted that they were still withholding about 100 pages of files.

I'd hardly call a report by The Washington Post "hearsay by republican detractors"...on the contrary, the Washington Post is about as liberal an organ as there is.

Why WON'T he sign Form 180, Red? And now that we're on the subject, how is it that a Lt. in the USNR can go to Paris of his own accord and meet with representatives of the enemy at peace talks, and face absolutely NO disciplinary action, whatsoever? I know you never served, Red, but even you have to know that such things are frowned upon by the military establishment.

 

BTW, Red, don't know if you noticed it, but the honorable discharge orders you posted are the ones mentioned in the article...dated 1978, a full 6 years after John Kerry's active duty obligation had ended. The document you posted proves nothing...all it means is that he could have gone to an attorney after a specified length of time, and had his discharge upgraded...it's done all the time. And it would have been especially easy to do in 1978, since Jimmy Carter had just declared a general amnesty.

 

Old enough for vietnam, and anyone with 3 purple hearts in 41/2 months that won't release his records is either a chickensh!t or a coward.

During that same time frame bubba is in russia. What do you call him? Sir or traitor?

EDIT: Meeting with the enemy of your country is treasonous or traitorous. Take your pick.

I don't recall either of these two countries being our friend at the time>