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Powerboss
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 Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:17 am Post subject: The initials controversy |
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I heard Al Franken talking about some intials that didn't match Kerry's on one of the after action reports...
I heard John O'Neill briefly respond to it but I didn't catch the answer.
What is the deal with this?
Can somebody point me to the thread(s) that have already gone over it.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: |
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I believe this is what you're looking for...
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I've finally figured this one out with a lot of research on the traffic. What you are seeing on Kerry's website are the messages which were archived from COMNAVFORV files. The initials KJW, PDJ, RAP, and WAS are all Communications Watch Officers at Phu Lam. Phu Lam was the communications center outside Saigon that handled a ton of messages every day. Once the messages were pulled from the printer, the operator would type a Time of Receipt line (TOR), followed by the Date, Time Group / operator's opsign, followed by the CWO's intials. This was a tracking mechanism to ensure the messages weren't lost or missed. If a message was missed, then the radio operators could go back and request a resend.
Unfortunately I spent a lot of time on those intials and they turned out to be irrelevant to the authorship of the reports.
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http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=82324#82324 |
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Powerboss
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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Wonderful!
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Wing Wiper
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It's kind of surprising to me that KJW (or one of his fellow operators) never found this forum and informed us of who exactly it was. I felt that would have really scuttled Kerry's story if we had it from the receiver's own mouth of how the messages were handled. I kept waiting for Chief to track him down, but it never happened (or maybe it did).  |
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