[Sir Gawain]

According to the swifties, there was absolutely no enemy fire during the Rassman event. One of the boats struck a mine. All of the other boats immediately began strafing the shoreline with gunfire(standard procedure) After a while it was apparent that there was no enemy fire. They further say that right after the mine went off, Kerry spun his boat around and bugged out of there. Rassman was on the fantail and was pitched overboad during the rapid acceleration. The other boats picked up survivers in the water, while Kerry returned and picked up Rassman.

Geez I can't keep up with all these versions. So it's only Rassman that is claiming he was on Kerry's boat recently. In that case he will just say he misspoke in the editorial. Not sure of the impact.

[Jim_Curtis]

Geez I can't keep up with all these versions.

Did you ever hear this one?

One day as the swiftboat was heading up a river, a mine exploded under the boat; after picking themselves up, the crew discovered that VC was missing. After several minutes of frantic searching, the crew concluded that they had lost him. "We were relieved when another boat called asking if we were missing a dog," Kerry said. "It turns out VC was catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed confused, but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol."