[palmer]

1) Before this day's mission, though, Kerry, the tactical commander of the mission, discussed with Rood and Droz a change in response to the anticipated ambushes: If possible, turn into the fire once it is identified and attack the ambushers, Rood recalled Kerry saying. The boats followed that new tactic with great success, Rood said, and the mission was highly praised.

In the book "Unfit for Command," Kerry's critics maintained otherwise. ...

2) In the book, O'Neill and Corsi said Kerry chased down a "young Viet Cong in a loincloth clutching a grenade launcher which may or may not have been loaded."

Rood recalled the fleeing Viet Cong was "a grown man, dressed in the kind of garb the VC usually wore."

Those are the only two discrepencies I see in the article.

[cyncooper]

Thank you very much.

[cyncooper]

Please see the article I linked at #122.

It is Kerry that describes the VC as a teenager in a loincloth.

Rood's dispute is with Kerry, not the Swift Vets.

(Plus the article discusses the tactical decision making)