The MSM up till now has been relying heavily on "official Navy records". Their assumption is that the "contemporaneous documentation" must be right unless PROVEN WRONG.
Here is an instance where the Kerry side admits the Navy records are inaccurate.
Therefore, why should the rest of the contemporaneous documentation be trusted?
I think there's another: The Reverend that spoke for him at the convention. Don't the records strongly imply he had been wounded along with Pees and shipped out - never to return - before Kerry took command of his boat?