sKerry may paint himself into an uncomfy corner here. If he tries to claim that Carreon, who was not a physician, was the one who treated him, that invalidates his first Purple Heart. Per military regulations, a Purple Heart requires that a non-lethal wound received from combat action with the enemy must be receive medical treatment, and such treatment is deemed to be that supplied by a physician, not a medic or hospital corpsman. Add sKerry's claim that a corpmen provided his medical treatment (removal of a superficial splinter, followed by application of antibacterial ointment and a bandaid) to the fact that there was no enemy action during his patrol (firing a grenade launcher onto rocks on shores does not qualify as enemy action) gives a total of two reasons for his first Purple Heart to be an invalid one.
Hey, if one of Kerry's Purple Hearts is invalidated, do we get to send his sorry a$$ back to 'Nam? (I'm sure he'd be welcomed as a hero!!)
He's the Vietnam equivalent of Frank Burns of MASH fame!
Letson said that Carreon, a lower-ranked "hospitalman," was "present at the time and he, in fact, made the entry into Lt. Kerry's medical record."
"sKerry may paint himself into an uncomfy corner here. If he tries to claim that Carreon, who was not a physician, was the one who treated him, that invalidates his first Purple Heart. Per military regulations, a Purple Heart requires that a non-lethal wound received from combat action with the enemy must be receive medical treatment, and such treatment is deemed to be that supplied by a physician, not a medic or hospital corpsman. Add sKerry's claim that a corpmen provided his medical treatment (removal of a superficial splinter, followed by application of antibacterial ointment and a bandaid) to the fact that there was no enemy action during his patrol (firing a grenade launcher onto rocks on shores does not qualify as enemy action) gives a total of two reasons for his first Purple Heart to be an invalid one."
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