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To someone who knows:

I was reading an article in the Washington Post this morning and came across something that I have never heard before. It goes:

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At first, nobody noticed what had happened to Rassmann. But then Medeiros, who was standing at the stern, saw him bobbing up and down in the water and shouted, "Man overboard." Around this time, crew members said, Kerry decided to go back to help the crippled 3 boat. It is unclear how far down the river Kerry's boat was when he turned around. It could have been anywhere from a few hundred yards to a mile.

O'Neill claims that Kerry "fled the scene" despite the absence of hostile fire. Kerry, in a purported journal entry cited in Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," maintains that he wanted to get his troops ashore "on the outskirts of the ambush."
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My question is: Who were the troops? Were there other people on board?

Sorry if this sounds stupid but other than Rassmann I don't remember ever hearing about anyone but crew being onboard at the time before now.