Proportional typewriter font - in 1969 - in Vietnam!

[TahitiNut]

I'm sitting here fuming in frustration over my old scanner that won't work. (It's been limping for a while.) Today, I dragged out my old records jacket from Vietnam, and retrieved two original letters of commendation, both written at USARV HQ, Long Binh Post, Vietnam.

Both are typewritten.

Both are clearly proportional fonts.

Both are dated in military long-form: "10 August 1969" and "12 November 1969".

When I can get my scanner working (or replaced), I'll post redacted (for privacy) images of each.


Just to review ...
- this was Vietnam, not Texas. (I doubt Texas was lacking typewriters we had in Vietnam.
- this was 1969, not 1973. (I doubt the technology moved backward.)
- this was Army, not the Air National Guard. (I never knew the Army in Vietnam to get better office equipment than stateside National Guard commanders.)

The lying, corrupt bastards who mindlessly and traitorously support this criminal Bush regime ought to be jailed or thrown out of the country. The unmitigated gall of self-proclaimed experts in collusion with corrupt media who spout outright falsehoods and lies about something so damned easily refuted is obscene beyond belief.