[ncpatriot]

Off topic: I've heard Kerry say he served TWO tours of duty. Is this true? If so, then he served more than the four months in VN, right? Kerry is so confusing!

[tioga]

- kerry's first tour was on a big ship way out to sea, since the North Vietnam had no navy, he was quite safe.

[Boundless]

> I've heard Kerry say he served TWO tours of duty.

That can only be literally true if Kerry was a tourist.
He put in only one full "tour", and that was not "in"
Vietnam.

A short tour was one full year. He only served for
4 months in Vietnam on PCFs.

His time on the USS Gridley might have been a full
year, but it was only ever briefly off the coast of VN.

Now if Kerry is refering to his service to North Vietnam,
then yes, he probably gave them a full year of anti-war
service.
___________
"Tour of Duty"
The fictions begin with the title.

[Conservative Infidel]

This is sKerry BS nuance. The USS Gridley was briefly off the coast of VN. So using sKerry's twisted nuance, USS Gridley's brief encounter with VN is "tour 1" and his time with swifties is "tour 2."

However, using this twisted logic, anyone who went on a SpecOp or served any temporary duty in VN could claim they served more than one tour in VN. Heck, if sKerry twists this enough, since he was assigned to 3 different swift boats, he can also claim that he served 4 tours in VN!

[Eva]

No, it's not true that Kerry served two tours of duty in VN. He served aboard the Gridley which was on assignment in the Pacific that included about five weeks of shore patrol (ferrying officers back and forth from ships to Cam Rahn Bay). This was not a combat tour of duty.