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Saturday, August 28, 2004
Update on "Kerry Fatigue"
According to the Telegraph, Kerry didn't join the Reserves (scroll down to see what I'd heard earlier). He tried to defer his military service for a year to study in Paris (go figure). Here's the Kerry team response (which is scheduled for a Flip Flop in 3...2...1...)
Anyone? Bueller?
Sen Kerry's campaign headquarters in Washington refused an opportunity to deny the report. Despite repeated telephone calls from The Telegraph, a spokesman refused to comment. Another Democrat official said merely: "In Vietnam, John Kerry proved his patriotism beyond question. Everyone knows that."The other thing that makes you go "hmmm..." is the whole discharge date controversy. He went off active duty and into the Reserves in order to run for office way back in the day. But the dates are weird- for someone who hated serving in the Navy so much... why was his disharge date not until '78? I'm not saying anything... I'm just putting it out there for someone else to say something.
Anyone? Bueller?
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The "reserve" time Kerry logged was in the Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR). Everyone who serves in the military spends a certain amount of time as IRR. For me it was 8 years after an 11 year enlistment. You don't report to a unit - there are no committments. You are just a name on a list somewhere. The IRR is established in order to have an "emergency supply" of veterans in case something really big broke out and they needed a few million soldiers real quick-like.
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