On 10-08-08, BOB ACKLEY said to TIM RICHARDSON:



TR> I took basic at Ft Dix, NJ, but I was discharged at Ft Lewis, WA. And
TR> it says Ft Lewis, WA on my discharge.


BA>At the time of separation I presume you were physically located at Fort
BA>Lewis.


We arrived from Vietnam on a flight into Seattle\Tacoma, were bussed to Ft
Lewis, taken to a mess hall for breakfast (it was around 6 AM), taken to the
processing center afterward and discharged.



TR> Why would Sauer's discharge be issued at Lackland Air Force
TR>Base if he was at Lowry in Colorado?


BA>Because the parent unit with the personnel/command function was at
BA>Lackland rather than Lowry.


BA>Hundreds, probably thousands, of AF people were separated at Travis AFB,
BA>CA, and at Dover AFB, DE, even though they'd never been stationed there.


I had never been stationed at Ft Lewis.


BA>These were people who had only a few months remaining on their hitches
BA>when their overseas tours were up, and it was cheaper to discharge them on
BA>arrival at the port than move them to some stateside base for a couple of
BA>months and then discharge them there.


They were given a `drop', in other words.


I wasn't given a `drop'. In fact, I was a month or more past the end of my
hitch.


Sauer wouldn't have been past any of his hitch. And Lowry would have been his
discharge point, not Lackland, *if* he were actually `at' Lowry. Why would
they go to the expense of sending him back to Lackland from Lowry, only to
discharge him? Not very likely.


We've punched holes in this little story of his for years, now, even shown
that there weren't any A-10's there (Lowry) for him to have `worked on' until
long after he left the Air Force. I don't know how much more mileage you and
your friends are going to be able to get out of it. But its fun watching you
stretch and stretch for more `possibilities' of his tale having an ounce of
truth in it.


Sauer has left you guys twisting in the wind over his little Air Force
`career' that unfolded in a grand total of 65 days so many times, I'd have
thought you would have seen him as the pathological liar he is, by now, and
left him on his own.


Are you so desperate for allies that you take anyone in? Even Sauer? Thats
pathetic!







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