[Viet-Boat-Rider]

These poor military guys are getting beat up, just because they want to do the right thing.

[Steven W.]

yes this is a hit from the Kerry campaign - they gave reporter the doc they wanted him to find (and which Kerry had written the officer up for, behind his back & unbeknownst to him)

Listen here - half way down the page on the right

Gardner came back from DC with a situation report (SITREP) from the Navy archives for the incident with the sampan. Kerry declared there were 4 enemy who "jumped off the boat and ran ashore" in addition to those KIA. He also declared the small boat (30' long canoe like) had 5500 LBS of contraband (meaning the weight of a good size automobile).

Some enterprising blogger might follow the Compost example and file for other relevant docs via FOIA:

The Post filed an independent request for the documents with the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, which is the central repository for veterans' records. The documents were faxed to The Post by officials at the records center yesterday.