ha! Check this out, folks ..... if you haven't seen it already.
According to tro [sic] friends at network, not just Rassman but a total of 4 men went into the water that day. Kerry saved Rassman, another boat saved another soldier and a third boat pulled two people to safety!
The problem is, for the other boat skippers, it was all in a day's work. No medals were asked for, recomended or awarded.
Kerry pulls one in four out of the water and gets the Bronze Star!
www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/SpotReports_March1969.pdf
Spot Reports for March, 1969 [pdf: 301kb]
I posted most of the text from that report HERE
Here is the text regarding injuries, a total of 7 if you include Kerry.
7. (C) WIA: LTJG RICHARD W. WQEES, USNR, HEAD AND BACK INJURY (MEDEVAC); ENS KENNETH S.TRYNER, USNR, BACK INJURY ( EDEVAC); GMG3 EARL HOLLISTER, USN, SCHRAPNEL WOUND GROIN (MEDEVAC); RD 3 LESLIE L. VORPHAL, USN, BACK INJURY (MEDEVAC ; LTG JOHN F. KERRY, USNR, SHRAPNEL WOUND LEFT BUTTOCK AND CONTUSION RT. FOREARM (MINOR); GMG3 WOLFE, USN, BACK INJURY, CONTUSIONS, AND ABRASIONS (MINOR); EN3 ARP USN, CONTUSIONS AND ABRASIONS (MINOR). ALL ATTACHED COSDIV ELEVEN. 1 VN MSF KIA (MEDEVAC).
Gosh, I wish they'd known this on Britt Hume today!! They were discussing the question of weither the other Swift Boat Vets "served with" Kerry since they weren't on the very same boat!!