You're presuming a lot in that statement.
I was in the Navy for almost 9 years. I've served aboard on two ships: USS Harry E. Yarnell (DLG-17) [coincidentally the same class ship as kerry's Gridley] and USS Hoel (DDG-13). I made one WestPac cruise in late 1972 on Hoel.
You have obviously misjudged my background.
The ship doesn't just sit at its home port FOREVER and only make one cruise.
Tell me about it. I know, believe me, I know.
It made a WESTPAC cruise in 1967, then returned to Long Beach, where it underwent maintenance and crew training, etc, then made a ANOTHER WESTPAC cruise!
There's absolutely nothing in the 'ship's operations' portions of kerry's Fitness Reports that indicates any such thing. I can quote the specifics if you'd like.
Gridley clearly did not make a WestPac cruise in the last half of 1967 when kerry was aboard her. I have no knowledge of where the ship was operating prior to June 8, 1967 when kerry reported aboard.
Besides, if he had been on another cruise, he'd have been claiming 3 tours rather than 2 all along.
Before you PANIC, get your facts straight.
I don't know where you got the idea that I was in any sort of panic, I'm not. I can assure that my facts are quite straight. When I speculate on something that I'm not sure of, I say so. Now that I've seen kerry's fitreps, I've got a pretty darned good idea as to what his first 'tour' consisted of.
OK.
Yeah, that profile page of yours tells me so much about your military history.