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[Misty]

For more than 30 years, Kerry has portrayed a heroic version of a life and death struggle -- of staring down a suspected guerilla who was about to fire upon Kerry's swift boat. It was kill. Or be killed. At least, that's the version Kerry tells.

Eyewitnesses offer a far different account. They allege Kerry shot a wounded teenager retreating from battle.

Kerry has made public, hundreds of pages of official Navy documents to bolster his many claims. Conspicuous by its absence is the official after action report of what actually happened that day. The after action report written by John Kerry, himself.

In an exclusive, The Point has obtained this document from U.S. Navy archives (you can see it here). The pertinent section reads:

"PCF 94 beached in center of ambush in front of small path when Viet Cong sprung up from bunker 10 feet from unit. Man ran with weapon towards hootch. Forward M-60 machine gunner wounded man in leg. Officer-in-charge, LTjg Kerry, jumped ashore and gave pursuit while other units saturated area with fire and beached placing assault parties ashore. Kerry chased VC inland behind hootch and shot him while he fled -- capturing one B-40 rocket launcher with round in chamber."

So there you have it. The official record written by John Kerry supports what the critics have alleged rather than the John Wayne Kerry version the Massachusetts liberal has been telling.

Death is a reality of war. Events occur that are not for the faint of heart. Yet, John Kerry's account of killing what turned out to really be a wounded man while he fled continues Kerry's pattern of lies, exaggerations and embellishments.

Killing a wounded man while he retreated from battle is not an action that most servicemen would brag about. But then again, most servicemen would not return home and attack the very country they were supposed to fight for.

And that's the Point.

I'm Mark Hyman.

http://www.newscentral.tv/ See "The Point" re the killings
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Misty
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Dad was in the Navy Pacific Fleet
Brother was on the USS Regulus - Vietnam
Husband was AirForce 3rd (34th) Tactical Fighter Wing - Security Police Bien Hoa Vietnam

[Misty]

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Misty
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Dad was in the Navy Pacific Fleet
Brother was on the USS Regulus - Vietnam
Husband was AirForce 3rd (34th) Tactical Fighter Wing - Security Police Bien Hoa Vietnam

[Slednfool]

http://www.newscentral.tv/thepoint/attachments/attachments.htm

Heres the link.

[NavyChief]

That's a nice article but how does this person know Kerry wrote this report? Because I see several problems with that analysis right away.

- Chief
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Working with Senator Kerry four years in the POW/MIA Office left me thinking -- when did the man ever do any work?

[ord33]

This should shutup the Kerry Campaign saying they released ALL his records on his website!!

[Misty]

[Misty]

[Billman]

Whoever wrote it, 3 important things are confirmed:
* Kerry shot a wounded, fleeing man
* Kerry (PCF94) did not beach or show unusual heroism in the first ambush
* THERE WAS NO NUMERICALLY SUPERIOR FORCE IN THE 2nd AMBUSH - DIRECTLY CONTRADICTING HIS SILVER STAR CITATION

It states clearly each PCF embarked 30 additional troops, so there were at least 70 good guys between the two boats.
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-- Bill in Seattle

[NavyChief]

First things, first.

Look at the 3rd line from the top, where it says:

ZNY CCCCC ZNY RHMCSAA

That was the first clue that this report did not come from Kerry directly. ZNY is mobile unit sent the message (in other words, not the unit that sent this report).

Second: The message is from Gulf Inshore Patrol Unit. This is the From line: FM 194.5.4.4 *normally this is the OTC of the mission but it has already been proven that the OTC did not always write the AAR. i.e. 13 March 1969.

Third: The Market Time Spot Report line - MSTR 28/1/194.5.4.4/2. If Kerry was the OTC in this action (His award says he was), then /2 is not Kerry.

Fourth: The report is missing paras 1-4 in the format. It begins with para 5. There is no way to tell without further analysis who was operating under whom.


I agree the report is from that action, which is great. But people should be careful and study the report and others before jumping to conclusions. I've already been burned on this and would advise caution.

My two cents, anyway...

- Chief
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Working with Senator Kerry four years in the POW/MIA Office left me thinking -- when did the man ever do any work?

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

Moving to R&R with the rest of the dissections
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~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
Navy woman, Navy wife, Navy mother

[Stevie]

well, I can see that it looks like page 1 is missing.... otherwise, i can't tell much else..... trouble reading the words, let alone understanding it (I have a bad eye... will probably need surgery)

NAVYCHIEF - Does it say all that stuff that Misty says?

will we be able to get page 1? If so, this would be GREAT !
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Stevie
Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should
be arrested, exiled or hanged.

[NavyChief]

[Me#1You#10]

OK folks...we have 2 seperate threads underway on this. As the other topic was started earlier by Bandit, I'm moving it to the main forum for comment and encourage everyone to copy/paste pertinent comments to that other thread.

I'll leave this thread open here but it will be re-locked when the other topic gets moved back to R&R.

http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9121

Thanks