[igoramus987]

On his Silver Star, one question I have is who reportedly put in the paperwork on that recommending him for a Navy Cross?(!)--if that actually happened as Nicosia says.

Your right. They were thinking of recommending him for the Navy Cross. Remember he was the Officer in Charge for this mission and wrote up the paperwork. His commanders took what he claimed as true. For example, with the Bronze Star he claimed 5000 meters of hostile fire from both banks, when there was actually no hostile fire. Even on this mission he claimed the enemy (1 VC) had numerical superiority.

[Fedora]

What you observe there points towards exaggerating the enemy as being another part of Kerry's M.O. in writing up those after-action reports.

Another thing I was getting at is, it seems like he needed an accomplice to recommend him for a Navy Cross. Who was that accomplice?