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To: unclewest who wrote (68924)9/10/2004 7:10:58 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793562
 
"Kerry AWOL" Goes DOA
By The MinuteMan - Just one minute blog

Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe dismisses today a potential Kerry scandal that I dismissed (on a hunch) last week:

...With the revival of questions about whether President Bush fulfilled his National Guard duty, some of Kerry's critics have begun to focus on what Kerry did in the Naval Reserve, asking why he hasn't released records of his reserve service. The Kerry campaign says that he was on inactive status at the time and did not have to appear for Naval Reserve duty.

"He had no obligation," Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said.

"The only obligation was that he inform the Navy where he could be reached."

Meehan said that Kerry was not paid for being in the Naval Reserve and would have been called to duty only if the US government had exhausted other means of finding sailors, such as the draft.

Two knowledgeable people contacted by the Globe reviewed Kerry's record and agreed with that conclusion. "Everything looks in order," said Stephen Keith, a retired admiral who is executive director of the nonpartisan Naval Reserve Association. "It is very, very normal."

Keith said critics who have suggested that Kerry should have shown up for drills in the Naval Reserve are mistaken. "He doesn't have an obligation to drill."
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