SwiftVets.com

[Enlistedman]

I skip through the site postings when I am able. Today I have had two serious buots of pain with my feet that put me out of commission for about three hours each.
What I think I remember seeing is something about Kerry being denied a deferment.
That might explain the sleepwalking on the APL in a combat zone.
Another issue is a lot of scuttlebutt around how Kerry qualified for his medals.
Some of my family members and myself have tinker boxes full of medals and ribbons. Some of my dads are pretty interesting and prestigous.
My grandfathers are even more impressive if you measure a mans worth by the type and number of medals they collect. but all that is insignificant and eccoed by the families who lost loved ones in combat while they were is fighting for a principal called freedom.
The medal and ribbons don't change the man (unless you take John Kerry's point of view about war), Medals don't pay your bills, they don't buy your family food or provide shelter for your family. What they do represent the government ackowledged your efforts and said "Thank You" on behalf of all Americans.
In John Kerry's situation I would say he has "a rubber band arm" and can't get enough of the back patting he has given himself for the last 35 years.
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Retired USN
Disabled Warehouse Maintenance Mechanic
Former Merchant Marine
And I really miss being able to run 60 miles a week since I got hurt three years ago.
Keep up to date with your Vet benefits, it's a matter of our countries integrity.

[I B Squidly]

Gundecking is the word alright. This 'Paint and Preservation Specialists' thinks the term derives from painting over rust, putting a gloss on rot. It may look good and pass inspection but you wouldn't want to walk on it.

....and I'ld suggest he's the goldfish s**t beneath the whale s**t on the bottom of the ocean.

[SRChiefMac]

And, to further the info on Gundecking....

Naval Terms and Customs

[one more captins mast]

Seems he has lots of "180's" in his life.

Parasomnia, then and now, if he was sleepwalking in viet nam and

when he was 12 , and he had the elite east coast deal he had

elite east coast Dr's and Navy Dr.'s did he get treatment then and

in Navy and does he now.

His wife the hinnie of hines "he scares me and I have to "john, john

him back to sleep.

sleep disorders are important in a combat zone and if the Navy

put this man out in a combat zone and they "knew" and people

were put in "more harms way due to this" and he did the

east coast elite thing and got a waiver of the "sleep disorder"

and it is in his 180 , the 180 will never show the lite of day as

HE AND THE NAVY WILL HAVE TO EXPAIN THAT.

notwithstanding several of the wide awake Capt. and Lt. we

got did not have sleep disorders, they were so dumb, it would have

b een better for us if they had over slept and we could have planed the

missions with out them, (which we did once in the air sometimes)


sorry capt.
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the strange mr aj

[RobD]

Would a 180 also release his reserve records? If so I would bet that Kerry was "AWOL" or as us Navy guys say UA for a longer period during his active reserve then Bush was from his.
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6 Year Navy

[Enlistedman]

With most readers of this post of the same consensus that Senator Kerry either lie on his enlistment documents about sleep walking or faked sleep walking while in Nam. It leves us back to two simple eliminations if you follow a logic flow chart.
Only two types of sleep walkers exist in combat zones.
One: someone who wants out of combat duty.
Two: someone who is (edited) looking for a midnight date.
BC (before Clinton)- both acts were illegal.
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Retired USN
Disabled Warehouse Maintenance Mechanic
Former Merchant Marine
And I really miss being able to run 60 miles a week since I got hurt three years ago.
Keep up to date with your Vet benefits, it's a matter of our countries integrity.

[rmw]

[I B Squidly]

I'ld feel better if that was NROTC.

I liked the idea of painting a phoney gundeck and gun ports (it comports with my sailor's painting hang up).

DEAR ADMIN' maybe you could move all these gundeck entries to a seperate entry and facilitate the discussion. TKS