Well it is clear he made every precious moment count. Remember, Kerry got his first Purple Heart wound within 24 hours of arriving in Vietnam.
Which was a pretty neat trick in that according to most reports the Swift boats didn't start engaging in combat until two weeks later, when Zumwalt changed their mission.
FOFLOL! Yeah, it sure is a neat trick. Then again, you could practically get a Purple Heart for a paper cut, depending on whom you knew or how much the brass hoped to buck up morale. And we know for a fact that Kerry knew numerous people, very high up on the food chain. This is another reason I want his military records. I'm more interested in those than his medical. The drugs are pretty much a given. He shows the classic mental changes brought on by opium dreams, just like Al.