“He served in Viet Nam, you know... (for a whole 3 months until they threw him out as “unfit for combat”)”
IIRC, Kerry took advantage of a NAVPERS reg that allowed one to depart theater upon award of a third Purple Heart. He got his third for a scratch resulting from an RPG that he himself fired into a riverbank, and that was his Get Out Of Jail Free card.
As worthless now as then, I don’t care how many mansions he owns.
he was still graded as “unfit for command”