Brucie:

Did Kerry apply for a deferment?

Did kerry join the USNR?

Reservists are not called individually. Is it possible for someone to pull strings to keep someone's Reserve Unit from being called up for active service?

How do the answers to these questions jive with the accusations against Bush and Cheney?

http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/guardandreserve/a/reservecallup.htm

"Branch & class of Service: USNR-R"
http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Enlistment_Contract.pdf

"Kerry applied for a deferment in 1966 so he could study in France for a year. Only when he was denied this deferment did he opt to volunteer for the Navy signing an Officer Candidate contract to join the Naval Reserves."
"John Kerry was discharged from active duty, not the military, on January 3, 1970 after serving only three years and eighteen days of his contract with the Navy. At this time he was obligated to attend 48 Naval Reserve drills per year and complete 17 days of active training during each of the years required."
http://www.americandaily.com/article/4993

Did Kerry complete his obligations? He has not signed form 180 to have ALL of his records released, only some of them which are displayed on his website.

By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff, 6/17/2003

John Kerry flew Walinsky around New York to deliver speeches against the war. Kerry did not wear his uniform and did not speak at the events, but the experience helped convince him that he wanted to become a public leader of the antiwar movement. On Jan. 3, 1970, Kerry requested that his superior, Rear Admiral Walter F. Schlech, Jr., grant him an early discharge so that he could run for Congress on an antiwar platform.

"I just said to the admiral: `I've got to get out. I've got to go do what I came back here to do, which is, end this thing,'" Kerry recalled, referring to the war. The request was approved, and Kerry was honorably discharged, which he said shaved six months from his commitment.
http://www.tinyvital.com/BlogArchives/000803.html

Bobby Kennedy speechwriter Adam Walinsky wrote Kerry's famous 1971 anti-war Washington speech.

Are these facts to be looked in the face?

Old Guy