Navy Report Backs Kerry Role in Incident

[RedEarth]

WASHINGTON - The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry (news - web sites)'s swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics.



The March 18, 1969, weekly report from Task Force 115, which was located by The Associated Press during a search of Navy archives, is the latest document to surface that supports Kerry's description of an event for which he won a Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart.


The Task Force report twice mentions the incident five days earlier and both times calls it "an enemy initiated firefight" that included automatic weapons fire and underwater mines used against a group of five boats that included Kerry's.


Task Force 115 was commanded at the time by retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, the founder of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has been running ads challenging Kerry's account of the episode.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=8&u=/ap/kerry_vietnam_records

[democrat_patriot]

1. Rated and kicked.

It's at 2.89. Freeped?

[movonne]

2. PLEASE RATE THIS....it looks like already been freeped.

[joefree1]

3. On it

Sink the swifty liars.


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[sweetladybug]

4. rated 3.57

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

5. You know what this means, don't you?

The Communists have infiltrated the U.S. Navy!

[BOHICA06]

6. If you give any credance to this report

or any report by the military in VietNam, then those wild-ass body count report must have been "The Truth". They weren't in the truth business.

After the heading, it's all blah, blah, blah.

[SpiralHawk]

7. So Hoffman knows the cold truth, and is lying his ass off anyway

This is a man lacking in honor.

[Moderator]

8. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=775128

[ChrisK]

9. Just wondering about this line

"Thurlow stood by his claim that there was no gunfire that day and said his Bronze Star documents were wrong."

Don't the officers get to see what the report said before they sign off on it?....If Mr Thurlow feels the report was wrong why didn't he say so 30 some odd years ago?

I have never been under fire in my life but I have this strong feeling that if I was I would never forget it..no matter how much money I was given.