".....FIRCECONTINUED FOZNABOUT 5000 METERS......"
what does this mean? a 3 mile long ambush?
O'Neil said Kerry tried to make it sound like Gettysburg. Said there never was a firefight of that size on the river. Totally rediculous and false claim.
That's the way I read it. That makes me figure he went out 5K before turning around. (in an ambush the VC didn't shoot parallel to the river, they show at about a 80 degree angle so the boat was parallel to the ambusher).
Top speed on a PCF is 32kts = 36.5MPH. To cover 3.1 miles and back = 6.2 miles. @36.5MPH = a little over 10 minutes.
He was running downriver at full speed before he decided to turn around. Kerry seems to be a fiction writer.
It's important to realise that his medals are all based on
these kinds of reports.
Also Rassmann claims to have been diving down to bottom of the river to avoid being run over by other boats????????