the boat docked twice
Doogle
Must be the same math they used to calculate the Bush bounce he wasn't supposed to get.
AL GORE IN 04, A scream for your life.
dems are wondering if it's too late.
He served on a Navy ship well offshore but in the theatre...he volunteered for the 'brown navy' because he thought it would be safe and he could make some home movies. Semper Fi from a grunt.
Says right on his web site that he did two tours and Edwards keeps saying it.
My hubby did 12 months, 1 tour of Nam and can't figure this out either.
He went to Japan for a while. My guess is that for Kerry close counts when you are dealing with locations and Purple Hearts.
Kerry served a full tour on the USS Gridley, and then served 1/3 of a tour on Swift Boats, supposedly cut short because he was wounded three times (and if your tour ends because you were wounded, it's only fair to consider it a full tour).
Kerry was on a destroyer that spent 5 weeks off the coast of Vietnam before he was assigned to the swift boats.
A standard tour of duty in Vietnam, as accepted by the US Military, was one year. You are not entitled to wear the Vietnam combat ribbon unless you spent at least 6 months in country (meaning within the borders of Vietnam, not off the coast - flying missions over Vietnam did count, however).
He was on the Gridley, which spent a month off the coast of Vietnam on SAR duty, and docked at Da Nang... once... and he didn't get off the boat. In his mind that's "tour #1."
He volunteered for the Swift Boats, specifically because they didn't get involved in the fighting (his words), but their mission changed from coastal patrols to river duty. He then spent one third of a tour (4 months versus 1 year), not 1/2 of a tour.In his mind that's "tour #2."
He's delusional. That's not the issue here, in my mind. What is apparent is that the press, even Fox, isn't going to call him on it.
That's outrageous.
I always thought that his second tour was for the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam (the enemy) as a senior propagandist. His exploits included various actions that to his native country (the United States of America) should have been called "treason."
Doesn't the rehearsal and the filming of the reenactment count as two tours? I thought that was the new math.
INTREP