You obviously have absolutely no idea what the National Guard was like in
the'60s. Sure, when we had to send forms up the line or make out orders
they were typed to official specs but notes back and forth between officers
at Division HQ were typed with what ever was on the typewriter at the time.
It appears that these memos were not "official" correspondence but notes to
his immediate superior officer explaining is actions and as the note said,
"covering his ass".

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First, The culture of the memo is 20 years too late. If it had been
written at all, it would have been a "Memorandum for Record", not a
CYA letter and although CYA was a concept, and was occasionally spoken
of, it would not have been used as a title on official correspondence.
Who ever wrote this learned it from TV shows. Second, who was this
LT Bush, in 1973, that a Col and General Officer would give a rats ass
what happened to him over something this minor. The First Sergeant
might give him a piece of his mind, a Company Commander might get
involved, possibly the S1 might report in a staff meeting to the
Squadron Commander that X number of pilots hadn't got their pysicals
yet. In 1973 the military was under Congressional mandate to
downsize. There was a surplus of Officers. This just doesn't ring
true by any test. Third, there were only a couple of fonts allowed in
military correspondence, no matter what was out there, and none of
them had non standard characters. Compliance with the rules of
correspondence was a BIG DEAL, everybody froms the clerks on up
enforced it. You couldn't type something at home on your wife's
portable and put it into the system, you had to have it retyped on an
officially recognized font, spacing, and so forth.
Paul