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Digitized from Box 35 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 19, 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
By separate memoranda, I have directed the Secretaries
of the Army, Air Force, and Navy and the Commandant of
the Coast Guard to take all necessary action to insure
that the other than honorable discharges of former
service members who were wounded in combat or who
received decorations for valor in combat in Vietnam
and who applied to the clemency program be reviewed on
an individual basis. I have further directed that
these discharges be recharacterized as under honorable
conditions, unless there is a compelling reason to the
contrary in any case.
In order to assist the identification process, I am
requesting that you provide to the Secretaries of
Defense and Transportation, as appropriate, the names
and service numbers of all former service members who
applied to the Presidential Clemency Board program and
whose records indicate that they were wounded in combat
or that they received decorations for valor in combat.
Herald R. last
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