[maggief]

"From Jan. 30 to March 13, 1969, Kerry and the crew of the PCF-94 would conduct 18 missions"

= 43 days, correct?

http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/service_timeline.html

Late January through
Early March, 1969

Starting in late January 1969, this crew completed 18 missions over an intense and dangerous 48 days, almost all of them in the dense jungles of the Mekong Delta. Kerry's crew included engineman Eugene Thorson, later an Iowa cement mason; David Alston, then the crew's only African-American and today a minister in South Carolina; petty officer Del Sandusky of Illinois; rear gunner and quartermaster Michael Medeiros of California; and the late Tom Belodeau, who joined the crew fresh out of Chelmsford High School in Massachusetts. Others rotated in and out of the crew. The most intense action came during an extraordinary eight days of more than 10 firefights, remembered by Kerry's crew as the "days of hell."

[calcowgirl]

>>>"From Jan. 30 to March 13, 1969, Kerry and the crew of the PCF-94 would conduct 18 missions"
= 43 days, correct?

According to the following document, I count 7 missions for PCF-94.

http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/command_history.html

[R. Scott]

The most intense action came during an extraordinary eight days of more than 10 firefights, remembered by Kerry's crew as the "days of hell."

10 firefights in 8 days. That would qualify for “days of hell”, but hardly “extraordinary”. Our boat - an Army LCU (cargo hauler carrying 200 tons of ammo) had 3 or 4 firefights a day while on the Perfume and Cua Viet Rivers during the 2 ½ months of Tet ’68 when we were Up North before I left.
I guess I really should thank the Hanoi John campaign for stressing the Viet Nam Experience. I have been able for the first time to put my own experience in perspective. I never realized before just how hot it was for us. We were “heroes” and never knew it!