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Page 3: 'I Can Recall Often Sending in the Spot Reports' Did John Kerry write the after-action
Human Events ^ | http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=4920 | Staff

Posted on 08/27/2004 6:28:26 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16

Did John Kerry write the after-action report for the March 13, 1969, incident for which he was awarded the Bronze Star? Is that after-action report true or false?

These are the two fundamental questions at the core of a dispute between two sets of Vietnam veterans who were there that day and who now tell dramatically differing stories. In an ironic twist, the anti-Vietnam War testimony Kerry himself delivered in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971 is now casting at least some doubt on Kerry's claims that he did not write the March 13, 1969, report, but that this report is accurate.

In this testimony (see key excerpt below and click here for the entire official transcript), Kerry told the committee he recalled "often sending in the spot reports which we made after each mission," and that he would later "often read about my own missions in the Stars and Stripes and the very mission we had been on had been doubled in figures and tripled in figures."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: combatreports; kerry; sbv
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1 posted on 08/27/2004 6:28:27 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
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recalled "often sending in the spot reports which we made after each mission," and that he would later "often read about my own missions in the Stars and Stripes and the very mission we had been on had been doubled in figures and tripled in figures."

Yes but was it SEARED into his mind?

2 posted on 08/27/2004 6:29:56 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Bump...


3 posted on 08/27/2004 6:33:07 PM PDT by tubebender (If I had known I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Yes, he wrote his own reports. And also his commendations.


4 posted on 08/27/2004 6:36:18 PM PDT by MonroeDNA (Hillary was in charge of the FBI files, which went into a data base: WHoDB. Genious hackers, expose)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

I swear Free Republic furthers debate in the media!


5 posted on 08/27/2004 6:41:32 PM PDT by FesterUSMC
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To: NavySEAL F-16

I was going ask the same question but I wasn't sure if the Navy had SPOT Reps.

I'm still waiting fro the Unit Diaries that give the day by day summaries of everything - especially contact and casualties!!

They are unclassified and available on line at several locations.


6 posted on 08/27/2004 6:44:20 PM PDT by steplock
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To: NavySEAL F-16

While important, this issue needs to take a back seat to Kerry's voting record in 20+ years in congress. The VietNam issue has been vetted (no pun intended), it is time to move on to what he has done since then.


7 posted on 08/27/2004 6:46:31 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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To: Texasforever
Mr. KERRY.

I don’t know where they came from, sir, maybe Vietnam. I had direct experience with that. Senator, I had direct experience with that and I can recall often sending in the spot reports which we made after each mission, and including the GDA, gunfire damage assessments, in which we would say, maybe 15 sampans sunk or whatever it was. And I often read about my own missions in the Stars and Stripes and the very mission we had been on had been doubled in figures and tripled in figures. The intelligence missions themselves are based on very, very flimsy information. Several friends of mine were intelligence officers and I think you should have them in sometime to testify. Once in Saigon I was visiting this friend of mine and he gave me a complete rundown on how the entire intelligence system should be re-set up on all of its problems, namely, that you give a young guy a certain amount of money, he goes out, sets up his own contacts under the table, gets intelligence, comes in. It is not reliable; everybody is feeding each other double intelligence, and I think that is what comes back to this country. I also think men in the military, sir, as do men in many other things, have a tendency to report what they want to report and see what they want to see. And this is a very serious thing because I know on several visits — Secretary Laird came to Vietnam once and they staged an entire invasion for him. When the initial force at Dang Tam, it was the 9th Infantry when it was still there — when the initial recon platoon went out and met with resistance, they changed the entire operation the night before and sent them down into the South China Seas so they would not run into resistance and the Secretary would have a chance to see how smoothly the war was going.

(Complete John Kerry Testimony, 04/22/71)

8 posted on 08/27/2004 6:47:45 PM PDT by FesterUSMC
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'I'm still waiting fro the Unit Diaries that give the day by day summaries of everything - especially contact and casualties!!

They are unclassified and available on line at several locations.'

Well, Good Lord, man, what are we waiting for!!!!!

Where do we go to get them? There are enough people available here to read every page in 5 minutes and then report back to put it together!


9 posted on 08/27/2004 6:48:20 PM PDT by bitt
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To: NavySEAL F-16

I can hear it now...

" I said I can recall sending them in, but I didn't say I wrote them..."


10 posted on 08/27/2004 6:49:54 PM PDT by RS (Just because the SwiftVets are out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
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I swear Free Republic furthers debate in the media!

I disagree.... Free Republic IS the media that forces the alphabet channels to cover a story........

11 posted on 08/27/2004 6:58:46 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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point taken


12 posted on 08/27/2004 7:00:21 PM PDT by FesterUSMC
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To: NavySEAL F-16

It would be interesting to turn up those Stars & Stripes articles.


13 posted on 08/27/2004 7:00:41 PM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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To: GailA
Dear Senator John Kerry,

I SPIT ON YOU!

Very Sincerly, Viet-Boat-Rider Mekong Delta 1970 - 1971

14 posted on 08/27/2004 7:34:33 PM PDT by Viet-Boat-Rider ((KERRY IS A NARCISSISTIC LIAR, GOLDBRICKER, AND TRAITOR!))
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15 posted on 08/27/2004 7:35:03 PM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: annyokie
The VietNam issue has been vetted (no pun intended), it is time to move on to what he has done since then.

Yes, we should spend the next two months going over Kerry's accomplishments in the United States Senates. I mean two weeks. Umm, days. Minutes? Seconds??

16 posted on 08/27/2004 7:47:47 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Honestly, we need to bang the drum about what the numb nutz HASN'T done for 20+ years.


17 posted on 08/27/2004 7:49:39 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

We had better get our Bill Clinton memorial sentence parsing glasses on, when Kerry says:

"I was wounded in the buttocks when a mine went off."

It depends on what the meaning of "when" is. For example, if, somewhere in Viet Nam, a mine exploded at the same approximate time that Kerry blew rice into his butt, he could honestly make the above statement.


18 posted on 08/27/2004 7:53:20 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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Last night I heard on Fox the the Navy had confirmed that Kerry Had been under fire. I started thinking about this then realized that this information was probably from the false reports that Kerry had submitted. Does this seem plausible?
19 posted on 08/27/2004 7:54:53 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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To: Viet-Boat-Rider

Can you do it twice? Once for you and once for me. I'm not good at spitting, it's unlady like.


20 posted on 08/27/2004 8:08:55 PM PDT by GailA ( hanoi john, I'm for the death penalty for terrorist, before I impose a moratorium on it.)
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