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These reports indicate that Kerry went from Coastal Division 14 to Coastal Division 11.

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Since other information indicates that Streuli was the Commander of Coastal Division 13 and Streuli signed the fitness report for the period 14 Dec 68 to 26 Mar 69 on 28 January 1969, it appears that Kerry was assigned to CD 13 for a period.

Unfit for Command cites William Franke and Tedd Peck as stating that the reason Kerry was transferred from CD 11 (An Thoi) to CD 13 (Cat Lo) on December 13, 1968 was because people got sick of hearing Kerry complain about how he had only signed up for coastal patrol and not a dangerous assignment like An Thoi. An Thoi was an offshore assignment near an enemy base. Cat Lo had wider, less dangerous rivers.

The fitness report indicates that it was accomplished for two reasons, a detachment of the evaluator and a detachment of the evaluated. Thus it seems likely that sometime in January 1969 Kerry was reassigned back to CD 11 and LCDR Elliott.

This relates to something I was trying to figure out myself last night. Unfit for Command 53ff mentions that after Cat Lo Kerry was reassigned to An Thoi, but no specific date is given. I wanted to pin down the date because Steve Gardner and George Bates report that Kerry used unnecessarily excessive force on several occasions during this period. This fits with Admiral Zumwalt's complaint, as recorded in one of Thomas Lipscomb's articles, that--as one of Zumwalt's Pentagon colleagues later recalled--"young Kerry had created great problems for him and the other top brass, by killing so many non-combatant civilians and going after other non-military targets. ‘We had virtually to straitjacket him to keep him under control,’ the admiral said".

I'd be interested in what specific documents and pages indicate the date of Kerry's assignment back to CD 11.