[Hon]

You have in fact stated what he told me almost word for word at one point. I didn't record the conversation, just put some words down on a pad once it took this turn.

But he kept emphasizing how the media folks who were reporting this just didn't understand how the National Guard worked, and they weren't particularly interested in learning either.

[Robert A Cook PE]

In act, after you add all of Bush's active duty days together, you come very, very close to the amount of time that Kerry actually served.

Especially considering that Kerry requested an EARLY DISCHARGE from his "admiral aide" position to run for Congress!

After leaving his first ship months early to get transferred to "easy" duty off-shore in swift boats.

Then leaving the swift boat duty after only a few weeks duty when they began fighting inshore on the rivers. Kerry got administratively transferred home (after viciously complaining to both Abrams and Zumwalt) because he claimed (on an unwritten technicality!) that he could demand to leave Vietnam because of 3 "non-treated", minor wounds.