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[Navy wife]

When it comes down to competing eyewitness accounts, I'd go to the bank betting that RADM Schachte is telling the truth. He is an extremely honorable man. He did not rise to the rank and position that he did by being untruthful!

[carpro]

[quote="7rrfs
Something official is needed now IMHO as far as the SwiftVet story is concerned.
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I understand what you are saying, but the absence of documentation is, in itself, proof.

ergo: No after action report. No enemy fire. End of story.
As far as the PH is concerned, that's all that matters.
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"If he believes his 1971 indictment of his country and his fellow veterans was true, then he couldn't possibly be proud of his Vietnam service."

[cjg]

All of a sudden he has this memory, well where has he been in the last
three weeks while the news of Kerry's actions are being told everywhere?
I do not believe him because he came from nowhere and he has not
spoken until now and he could not have missed the facts being laid out,
another usefull fool for Kerry.
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Swiftvets rock!

[igor]

[Belisaurius]

[drjohn]

No after action report means no action.


All parties claim 3 persons present. Does anyone have any info on Runyon? Someone wasn't there.


Thanks.

[BMG Mike]

I'm willing to give the "M-16 Machine Gun" to a transcription error. "Sixteen" and "sixty" are pretty close phonetically. He's got the gun right in the rest of the story.

I also believe that you can be so blinded by the muzzle flash of your own MG that you might not be able to see muzzle flashes from return fire. I've never been on the receiving end of return fire, but I have been pretty well blinded by the muzzle flash of my own MG. Particularly if Mr. Z had the hammer down and was burning ammo as fast as possible so he could justify retiring from the action.

What I'm not willing to believe is that a cherry officer would be turned loose to command a craft in a situation in which enemy engagement was a high probability. You just don't turn out FNG officers without supervision like that.

Nor do I believe that grenade explosions relatively close aboard would be forgettable, and such must have happened for Kerry to get the wound he received.

FWIW.

Mike

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[7rrfs]

[The bandit]

I've covered this exact topic in a evaluation report I did. See the following link for a closer examination of Zaladonis/First PH:


Evaluating Kerry's Medals
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[baldeagl]

7rrfs, you are far too paranoid, and you don't have enough faith in the American people. Kerry's own biographer has now called the Cambodia story "false" and "a mongrel phrase". Despite the overwhelming bias of the media, this story is being told in kitchens and living rooms across the country. Children are learning about their fathers and how Kerry defamed them. Grandparents are seeing Iwo Jima mocked by the man who would be President.

The message is getting through. Calm down. Everything is going according to plan, and Kerry is sinking fast, never to see the light of day again.
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[Navy_Navy_Navy]

Thank you baldeagl.

The mainstream media is not where people get their news anymore.

The alphabet networks' news ratings are in free-fall while Fox's rise.

Talk radio and the internet are fast becoming the primary source of news for a majority of people.

This is reflecting in the polls.

Hell, Bush and Kerry just did a 10-12 point switch in positions for the question of who was more qualified to lead the war on terror - and this was before the RNC convention even began - right after Unfit for Command hit the stores. The ads and the books are making huge waves.

It'll take more than a couple of weeks, but Kerry is sinking.
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[The Citizen]

Let's see now:
Both Rear Admiral Schachte and Kerry & Zaladonis agree there were
three men on the skimmer and that one of them was Mr. Kerry. So
either Mr. Runyon, Mr. Zaladonis or Read Admiral Schachte is at least
incorrect and at worst not telling the truth.

Has Mr. Runyon been interviewed? If so, can someone direct me to
that transcript?

As has been suggested, wouldn't the OinC of the PCF 'mother boat' that
morning, Mr. Voss, have had to know the mission and who was to
execute it? Has he been interviewed? How about his crew? I note that
Mr. Voss is not listed as a SBVT in the book 'Unfit for Command'. Does
anyone know how he can be reached? What about his crew who would
also seem to have been witnesses as to who was on board the
skimmer? And shouldn't there be some sort of written record of what
action that PCF was involved in - a 'log' of some kind? Might that not
contain information as to the personnel on the skimmer that morning?

Finally, I understand that the PCFs operated in some cases from a base
which consisted of a larger vessel such as an LST. Was that the case
on December 2, 1968 or was the 'mother boat' PCF based at Cam Ranh
Bay? If the former, wouldn't the LST, being a larger vessel, have had
to have kept an official log and might there be information available in
that document about this mission and who was actually involved?

[7rrfs]

[rhv5862]

The damage report did show the 94 boat which was Kerry's. We all know the 94 boat had no damage. If Kerry wrote the report how can he claim it was an error. Does anyone know if in fact Kerry wrote the report?

RHV