What TGYC is attempting to do is identify himself with the true Swift Boat Vets via assimiliation simply because he "May" have helped service such boats while stationed on the Corry when they were deployed off the coast of Vietnam. Much the same way as I would attempt to identify myself with the real Vietnam Army vets simply because I served in Panama from 69 - 72. Never once have I ever considered myself a Vietnam vet...nor do I have the right to do so!
TGYC is annoyingly tooting someone else's horn and quite frankly, I'm getting tired of it.
Me too. My brother was in the army. On the exact day of the end of his tour (one year), he was picked up in the field in some godforsaken jungle by a chopper to begin his long journey home.
He is my silent hero.
"What TGYC is attempting to do is identify himself with the true Swift Boat Vets via assimiliation simply because he "May" have helped service such boats while stationed on the Corry when they were deployed off the coast of Vietnam."
It wasn't "MAY HAVE HELPED"
RE-read and post the correct text!
I was there the same time Kerry was.
I was there Oct'68-Apr'69 on the destroyer USS Corry DD-817
which sometime supplied PCF's and PBR's
and provided gunfire and gunfire support
in North AND South Viet Nam.
Hey onedoug: want to enlighten Hot Tobasco about Operation Bold Mariner?
My ship may have even supplied
Kerry's boat in the Mekong Delta
Although there are many similarities between naval gunfire support
and Operation Sea Dragon (which ended Nov '68), they differ in two important areas:
naval gunfire support is normally fired at the request of troops ashore,
while Sea Dragon's mission is the interdiction of supplies and destruction
of military targets; and naval gunfire support is always conducted in South Vietnam,
while Sea Dragon missions are fired only above the demilitarized zone.
29 US Navy ships received gunfire from Viet Cong shore batteries.
My ship DID NOT get hit by the VC.
In Feb '69 my ship was part of Operation Bold Mariner
which was the largest amphibious assault since Korea.
Next time use EXACT qoutes from my page.
(Did you think I wouldn't notice)