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Shipmate's review of "Tour of Duty"
amazon ^ | 8 30 2004 | Philip W. Carter "Gridley Sailor"

Posted on 09/01/2004 12:39:52 AM PDT by dennisw

 

 

1 out of 5 stars This book is bull!, August 30, 2004

Reviewer:   Philip W. Carter "Gridley Sailor" (Slingerlands, NY) - See all my reviews
  
I never got past the chapters of Kerry's experiences on the USS GRIDLEY. Since I served with him the entire year, I can assure readers that it is filled with exaggeration and fantasy. Kerry makes himself out to be Master and Commander when he was just a goofy boot Ensign. There are a number of things that are just plain not true and lots of exaggeration. It is not a serious work but clearly a piece of campaign fluff.

Don't waste your money unless you are Democratic to the core and need some fluff to get you excited!

 

 

WHO IS PHIL CARTER? ---->>>>  http://home.nycap.rr.com/pwcarter/the%20kerry%20page.html


 

That looks like a still from John Kerry's Super 8 war movies

 



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bookreview; kerry; kerrylies; sbv; tourofduty; ussgridley
I'm posting this becasue Amazon wipes out comments from time to time
1 posted on 09/01/2004 12:39:52 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Swift bump


2 posted on 09/01/2004 12:43:34 AM PDT by Dajjal ("I wish they had a delete button on LexisNexis." -- John F'n Kerry, 6/1/03 WPost)
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To: dennisw
Here's a link from Google.

LBT

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3 posted on 09/01/2004 12:44:43 AM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (Al Qaeda needs to know we are fluent in the "dialogue of bullets.")
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To: dennisw

Anybody have a clue what Kerry has on his upper left chest? Looks like a can of some sort. Anyone else ever carried their weapon that way?
The commenter on the book was an RD2. I've stood many a watch in CIC as an EW tech. He is right, you get to know your officers. If you are doing port/stbd you go watch from midnight till 06:30 and again from 13:00 to 18:30. The midwatch is really long, and often dead boring. If you had a cool officer, which we had quite a few of the watch would go by quickly. A snot ensign like Kerry made life miserable for all of us. As it turns out my least favorite was an Ensign with a law degree from Mass. We got even with him when after the air search radar had been down for a week, we told him we found a shorted fuse. (This ensign was also the EMO - Electronics Maintenance Officer) He dutifully reported it to the Captain, who happened to have a PhD from Standford in EE, as the ship had become a research vessel for Office of Naval Research. We got chewed out by the CO, but he did laugh a lot about it. Was a really good Capt.


4 posted on 09/01/2004 1:17:22 AM PDT by ProudVet77 (Proud to be a FReeper)
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To: conservative in nyc

FYI.


5 posted on 09/01/2004 1:18:27 AM PDT by Howlin (John Kerry & John Edwards: Political Malpractice)
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To: dennisw
From Phil Carter's remembrances on the Gridley site's "Kerry Page":

While he was protesting against the war, many of us were still fighting in it. Many of us felt betrayed that one of our own, a decorated hero, would give comfort to the enemy by such actions. Think what you want about the wisdom in getting involved in that war, two presidents, both Democrats, committed the armed forces they commanded to fight it. Make no mistake; actions by the likes of Fonda and Kerry were damaging to our morale, gave aid and comfort to the forces we were fighting and altered the eventual outcome in a manner less favorable to the United States than if they had kept their mouths shut. The time for anti-war protests is before the war starts.

6 posted on 09/01/2004 1:22:53 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Hey, KERRY! We said it to Saddam, and now to you -- If you have nothing to hide, QUIT HIDING IT!)
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To: L.N. Smithee
The time for anti-war protests is before the war starts.

I agree. I protested against the first Gulf War (and Kosovo), but I stopped protesting when the war started, cheered wholeheartedly for a swift victory, and strongly believed that the only way to end it was to capture or kill Sadam Hussein. (It should have been called "Operation Liquidate Saddam".) Thank God that George W. Bush finally summoned the courage to take care of his father's unfinished business.

Now it's time for the Vietnam Vets Kerry left behind to finish their business with him.

7 posted on 09/01/2004 4:44:49 AM PDT by ravinson
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