[Destro]

The article said Kerry served only four months of a year-long tour as if Kerry shirked the rest of his tour. In his first tour of duty he had a cushy job in a war zone aboard the U.S.S. Gridley which he cut short to volunteer for an even more dangerous assignment on a river combat boat. More then "only" four months.

[Hon]

"The article said Kerry served only four months of a year-long tour as if Kerry shirked the rest of his tour."

He did not serve the remaingg eight months of his second tour. What is your problem?

"In his first tour of duty he had a cushy job in a war zone aboard the U.S.S. Gridley which he cut short to volunteer for an even more dangerous assignment on a river combat boat."

It's not clear whether he volunteered or not to go into the Swift boats. But when he was assigned Swift boats were NOT doing river combat details. That only started TWO WEEKS after he reported for duty on a PCF.

"He then became a commander of a Navy swift boat, which at the time were used to transport sailors to ships in the gulf. Two weeks after beginning his new assignment, the safe job he had picked became much more dangerous when the boats began being used in the Mekong Delta to seek out the Viet Cong and block North Vietnamese supply routes."

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040219-115623-9539r.htm

Your constant disinformation seems to be intentional. It is starting to look like agit-prop for Kerry? Does Soros give good benefits?

[jackbill]

It was his secone tour, which would have lasted a year. He served less than four months of that tour. The sentence is not incorrect - you are.

You are the weakest link. Goodbye.

[jackbill]

In his first tour of duty he had a cushy job in a war zone aboard the U.S.S. Gridley which he cut short to volunteer for an even more dangerous assignment on a river combat boat.

More BS.

From:

http://navysite.de/cg/cg21.htm

GRIDLEY operated along the California coast until sailing for the Orient 18 November.She left Subic Bay 2 January 1967 for plane guard duty in the China Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin. After varied duties in the fighting zone, she sailed for Australia en route to the West Coast and arrived Long Beach 8 June to prepare for future action.

By my calculation, his first tour was five months and six days from Subic Bay to Long Beach. He did not "cut it short to volunteer for an even more dangerous assignment on a river combat boat." He went home with his boat.

As for "more dangerous assignment on a river combat boat", if you read the 7 part Boston Globe piece, you will find that when he volunteered for Swift Boat duty, those boats were used on the coast and the "river duty" didn't start until two weeks after he reported for duty.

Perhaps you should get your facts straight.