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Dave wrote:
That sounds like something from a Kerry propaganda site. Like most of the
stuff his campaign puts out, it includes a germ to truth but is deliberately
designed to mislead.

It's a fact.

My understanding is that while a Swift boats turned out to be a dangerous
assignment, that was because they were re-tasked after Kerry volunteered for
one. They were initially assigned to relatively safer coastal patrol duty.
After he volunteered they were reassigned to brown water patrol, a change he
complained about loudly.

Your understanding?? That's not saying much.

But the real heroes of the brown water Navy were not the Swift boats, but
the PBRs, smaller boats that were involved in river patrol from the
beginning, and were manned entirely by enlisted men. I remember that a
couple of sailors who worked for me requested assignment to a PBR as their
next tour because for a career Navy enlisted man that was the place to be if
you wanted to get promoted.

So, now you're the authority on who is and who isn't a hero or who
served his or her country with valor and distinction??

Sorry Mr. Poodle, but you're full of ****.

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