With so many versions floating around, I'm having a hard time putting this event in context. Is there a dispute over how Rassmusen ended up in the water? I remember reading that in Kerry's cowardice decision to bug-out, he may have actually dumped him in the water by accident. On the other hand, I think I've also read that Rassmusen was on another boat, and got dislodged when the mine exploded. What's the scoop on this specific story.
Rassmann himself gave one version, contrary to Kerry's tale here that he was walking along the edge of the boat to go get another M-60, in which he was sitting perched at the back of Kerry's boat munching on a chocolate chip cookie when he was caught off guard and fell off into the water. (No firefight mentioned...just the blowing up of the mine under #3, which apparently had so much force that it blew Rassmann off of Kerry's boat dozens of yards away on the other side of the river.)