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Posted on 08/24/2004 9:16:55 PM PDT by FairOpinion
A Savannah man in charge of some of John Kerry's boat patrols during the Vietnam War says the young Navy officer's reckless conduct sometimes disrupted missions.
"I had a lot of trouble getting him to follow orders," said Tom Wright, who - like Kerry - served on 50-foot Swift Boats that prowled rivers, looked for trouble and often found it.
After the Swift boat commander repeatedly balked at his instructions, Wright said, he persuaded a higher-up to transfer Kerry to another unit.
Wright said Kerry refused to coordinate the fire of his .50 caliber machine guns with the actions of other boats on the same patrol.
Wright added that the standard procedure was for a boat commander who saw suspicious activity to radio him and say he might have to fire.
He said he would shift the boats ahead of that vessel so that they could provide supporting fire and maneuver others so they could cover it from behind.
"That's good," he said. "That's the way you run it. ... It works."
But it didn't work that way with Kerry, he said.
"I'd be running along," Wright said. "All of a sudden this boat slows down and shoots. ... I've got a boat I think is in trouble and everybody is focusing on him instead of getting the crossing fire protecting the flank. ... So instead of having a good mission, I've got an obstruction.
"I tried a couple times to get him to do it the way he was supposed to do it. And I just couldn't talk to him. He'd say, 'Oh, my radio wasn't working.' Or, 'Oh, I didn't see that.' "
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Interesting article.
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I read Unfit for Command yesterday and I can tell you his shipmates were delighted to see him leave Vietnam.
Everyday there's a new AP story headlined: "Vietnam Veterans Rush to Defend Kerry"
All of the articles have quotes from one or two vets as opposed to the hundreds of SBVs.
I won't hold my breath waiting to see this on MSNBC, CNN and the other MSM.
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That's fabulous.
If I had a motor vehicle...
Ping --- see Chieftan's post above.
Yeah, Kerry is most definitely "unfit for command". Scary.
...and he just may do that.
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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets
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Liberalism,ADD,depression,habitual lying?
Name it, he's got it in spades.
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Just another lie by someone who wasn't even on Kerry's boat.
Thought I would save the MSM some time and help them spin it.
Sometimes that's the only way to get rid of a sh!tbird before he gets somebody killed.
Kerry is lucky he was in the Navy. That kind of behavior in an Army or Marine unit would have gotten him fragged in that time and place.
Was Wright superior to Kerry, equal rank, or inferior? It's hard to figure out who Kerry would answer to other than his immediate superior who it doesn't sound like was present on the missions.
Kerry with his Yale education wouldn't take kindly to being ordered around by anyone he considered his inferior, intellectually or otherwise.
Don't suppose there is anything in writing confirming this that can be obtained, like a written request for transfer, or something from the person he persuaded to effect the transfer.
From what we know of the events, it doesn't sound like Kerry was transferred to any other unit at least during the period following Christmas of 1967(?) until he left Viet Nam.
I wish Wright could provide some clarification.
Charles Bullock, a professor of political science at the University of Georgia, disagrees.
Bullock said the vagueness of Kerry's responses leave him vulnerable.
"I think he needs to sit down with someone like (talk show host) Larry King and go over all this stuff point by point," he said. "There's a saying that a charge unanswered is a charge proven. ... I think Kerry has some more answering to do."
Shows you what a political science professor at the University of Georgia knows. Sitting down to talk with Larry King is the antithesis of informative. Which is why I suspect Kerry is toying with the idea. Between CNN's support of Kerry and King's inability to ask difficult questions - it must loom large for JFK.
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