Reply #6: Doesn't Kerry's 1st tour count as 'Nam, too?

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He was in a frigate in the Tonkin Gulf, allegedly the area where the "police action" began, for ~6 months prior to joining the swift boats in the delta. In the next four months he sustained three combat injuries and was removed from front-line service -- Naval policy at the time. He still served a full four years, and it seems to me that counts for something.