Take the time to read it and the several links inside.
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html#Education
http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html#Education
December 1969 Kerry requests an early release from the Naval Reserve in order to run for the Fourth District congressional seat of Massachusetts on an antiwar platform.
January 1, 1970 Kerry was promoted to (full) Lieutenant, USNR.
January 3, 1970 Kerry requested and was granted a release from Active Duty and transfered to inactive duty in the U.S. Naval Reserve, with records forwarded to Reserve Manpower Center, Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland.
(Note: Paragraph 6 in the Release from Active Duty form states: "You are advised that your release from active duty does not terminate your status as a memeber of the U.S. Naval Reserve. ... While on inactive duty you are subject to involuntary recall to active duty to the extent authorized by federal statute. ...")
February 10, 1968 Kerry requested duty in Vietnam, listing as his first preference a position as the commander of a Swift boat, designated the Patrol Crafts Fast (PCFs). The 50-foot boat have aluminum hulls and have little or no armor, but are heavily armed and rely on speed. Kerry thought he could avoid actual combat serving on the Swift boats as they originally operated offshore. (Kerry's second choice was a to be an officer in a patrol boat squadron, designated the Patrol Boat River [PBR] boats.)
December 2, 1968 Kerry experienced first intense combat, and is slightly wounded by shrapnel in the arm. He was awarded a Purple Heart.
There is, however, no after-action report released by the Kerry campaign. The attending physician, Louis Letson says “The story he told was different from what his crewmen had to say about that night. According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a firefight. . . Some of his crew confided that they did not receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round when it struck the rocks. That seemed to fit the injury which I treated. What I saw was a small piece of metal sticking very superficially in the skin of Kerry's arm. The metal fragment measured about 1 cm. in length and was about 2 or 3 mm in diameter. . .I simply removed the piece of metal by lifting it out of the skin with forceps. I doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm. It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound. The wound was covered with a band-aid.”
Kerry applied for a Purple Heart. His request was initially denied by his superior Grant Hibbard.
Aimhigh2000 said:Bush was only in the National Guard, if he even showed up. As a Vet, I will take Kerry's service record over Bush's anyday. I may not like or agree with either one, but Kerry's is more reliable.
What Kerry record, anyone out there see it yet?Aimhigh2000 said:Bush was only in the National Guard, if he even showed up. As a Vet, I will take Kerry's service record over Bush's anyday. I may not like or agree with either one, but Kerry's is more reliable.
Aimhigh2000 said:Bush was only in the National Guard, if he even showed up. As a Vet, I will take Kerry's service record over Bush's anyday. I may not like or agree with either one, but Kerry's is more reliable.
jlabsher said:Boy, I'm glad only the left is spinning vile hate-mongering rhetoric this election. Get over it folks and move on.
jlabsher said:Boy, I'm glad only the left is spinning vile hate-mongering rhetoric this election. Get over it folks and move on.
jlabsher said:OK, when the left was bringing up an unnamed person's national guard record that was decried as spinning hate-mongering, n'est pas?
Chasey_Lane said:
Didn't see his meeting with the enemy in Paris on that time line... Wonder how they missed that?Steve said:Good find, or would have been had it not been so pro-Kerry. Sites like this are only useful if they non-partisan, or "fair and balanced".
Hey, I just lay it out there...it's up to the "informed" voter to make his/er own decision.Steve said:Good find, or would have been had it not been so pro-Kerry. Sites like this are only useful if they non-partisan, or "fair and balanced".
Kyle said:Didn't see his meeting with the enemy in Paris on that time line... Wonder how they missed that?
Chasey_Lane said:
Silly me. Combat history is towards the bottom of my criteria for President.Aimhigh2000 said:I am by no means a leftist liberal. That pancake person is a leftist liberal. I am a happy moderate, even if I am a registered democrat. I was referring to Kerry's service record, not his senate record. From the information that has been posted about both, I believe Kerry's service over Bush. And Kerry has posted his service record on his website. At least it was there. I believe I have also said previously that I don't care much for either. I guess if some of you think I am a leftist liberal, you must be so far to the extreme right that your center is off. I simply want to see proof that Bush actually showed up for his guard duty. About the only ones I know I am voting for are Mukulski and Hoyer. Combat is Combat, and as a combat veteran myself, Kerry went to war, Bush didn't. Albeit Kerry went to avoid being drafted, but you have to acknowledge that he at least went.