[Robert A Cook PE]

Yes - His tour was on the Gridley. As soon as they (the Gridley) got home and faced some nasty shipyard and refit time in Long Beach after their deployment, Kerry LEFT THE SHIP to go to easy training duty up in the Napa Valley.

He himself he left to get Swift boat duty because they WEREN'T in direct combat.

Like JFK, he wanted an independent command on his resume. Swift boat duty wasn't in river warfare until AFTER he got back to Nam. They were offshore doing Market Time interdiction, and had seen very, very little action for about two years.

[Cold Heat]

Sure does tell a story about this man's moral center does it not?.

It says that Kerry's moral center is J.F'n Kerry.