Reply #187: The people who were NOT in his swift boat

[MADem]

...are the ones complaining. His CREW, who was on that river, supported him, save ONE guy. His CO was not there, his ISIC was not there. His CO gave him glowing fitreps, his ISIC signed award recommendations for him. His CO campaigned for him, once upon a time.

I'll bet if you could pull up the record of that one dissenting kid on the fastboat (and ya know, any evals that are E-4 and below were not put in the service record back in those days, only the overall grades, so they are lost to the mists of time, unless that guy kept copies and wants to share them with the world) I'll bet you find some shortfalls noted in the verbiage, and the eval signed by one LT Kerry. I think that one guy got his ass handed to him by his boat skipper, probably deservedly, and resented it to this day. I think Kerry's former CO is an addled wuss, and that fucking crazy warmonger who actually made flag and contributed to dozens of GOP candidates (and who was no where near the action at the time it happened) was simply a sleazy Rovian operative.

That's what I think. And I've been a part of such a unit, so my explanation might be exceedingly meaningful to some....

I'll stop--this sort of back and forth is not the purpose of the thread, but could not let that assertion go unchallenged.