Well, what I really was looking for was evidence that he was “drummed out,” as you claimed. And since I’m unfamiliar with the acronyms, I’m not sure what this paper means.
What does having been AWOL over 40 years ago have to do with recent events?
How did the Phillips haters get their hands on his military records? When I requested my father ‘s records, i had to attest to the fact that he was deceased, and that i was his daughter.
why did they bother to get his records, presumably under false pretenses (given that I only had standing to request Dad’s records because he was deceased and i was a close enough relative)? That they had the records in the first place, and that they’ve already used them for nefarious purposes (to destroy him) shows their dishonorable intentions.
Getting records is very easy, I have already explained that in here many times.
His being kicked out is covered on the first page, his rank primarily.
Most Marines achieve the rank of Private First Class E-2 after 6 months or less. Lance Corporal E-3 at 12-18 months. Corporal after 3 years or so in service. This gut went AWOL 3 different times, spent time in the Brig (2 months in fact), and got out the same rank he was when he entered the service. Yea, he was kicked out.
And the top 3 lines really tell you all you need to know here. Here, let me break it down a bit for you.
19 May 1975, individual was reported UA - AWOL (Unauthorized Absence is the term the Marines uses for AWOL)
21 May 1975, he was assigned to "confinement". In other words the brig, military jail.
22 July 1975, he was released from confinement and returned to duty.
Now this is rather telling, in that he was confined for 60 days. If I have to guess, he was captured or returned by civilian authorities, then faces a Summary Court Martial. Now that is the lowest form of Court Martial, and they have some say in the punishments they can hand out. One of them is reduction in rank and up to 30 days confinement, or retention at their current rank and 60 days confinement. Since the latter was done, I am assuming that he likely had no rank to loose. Hence, the Summary for only a few days UA. He was already probably a problem child, hence he had no rank to loose.
He then went UA again in September, and again in December. At that time they seem to have had enough, and started the work to kick him out. We see him no longer assigned as a "RefrigMan", but to "Carpenter". In other words, he was stripped of his duties and then placed into a holding status in his own unit.
At this point, Christmas is right around the corner, so any disciplinary actions were put on hold until the new year.
Next entry is in April, where he is transferred yet again. But this is the most telling. on 27 April 76 his status is "Transfer", and on 28 April it is "Awaiting Relaxed Duty".
Yea, that is the most telling of all. "Relaxed Duty" means he has been stripped of all duties, and transferred into a special unit that is nothing but people who are waiting to get kicked out of the military. Now not everybody in this unit is getting "kicked out". They can be there because they have PTSD and can no longer perform their duties. They may be awaiting a hardship discharge (death of family member), it may be that something about their discharge was fraudulent and they are simply being sent home.
But yea, most members in a "Relaxed Duty" unit are getting the boot. Either an Article 15 or Summary Court Martial has made a finding that their behavior is not consistent of a member of the military, and they are being kicked out. Generally with an "Other Than Honorable" discharge. He was there until 5 May 76, where he was kicked out. Just in time to go home and celebrate the Bicentennial.
But to answer your next question, since you were the next of kin the records you could have gotten would have been much more complete. Nothing would have been redacted out, and a full and clear copy of his DD-214 would have been provided, which you could have used to apply for death benefits from the VA. This is not available for another individual who requests the records through FOIA.
But then you go right off the rails in the last paragraph. Nothing "nefarious" about requesting records, it is done all the time. In fact, if more reporters would request such records before or after interviewing somebody then a lot less cases like this would happen. Vogue wrote glowing articles about this guy several times. And never once did they even bother to verify his military record. And the rest of this really (along with your admitting that you are unfamiliar with any of the terminology) shows that you apparently are not even interested in the truth, you are trying to bend and twist things to come out the way you want.