Kerry confirms on his website that he was stationed in Cam Ranh Bay during the time in question. The Bay is in the lower right hand corner of the map in the delta looking area directly above the word "South". Cambodia is along ways from there.
Posted on 05/17/2004 2:20:21 PM PDT by robomurph
Nam Vet
Hmmm. Christmas of 1968? Well then, I assume he's talking about LBJ, 'cause Nixon didn't assume office until January 20, 1969.
http://www.archives.gov/nixon/communications_agency/video/1969_post_inauguration.html
LOL! That's what we used to say..."why did they call these things ""Swift??"" Fortunately, most of the junks and other boats we dealt with could only manage about 5-knots, so we had them beat.
I don't think the Frenchies' were corvettes...the only reference I could find described a ship that was captured by the Brits in the 1700's. Probably not the same class boat! LOL!
LOL!! Great to hear from you...I was beginning to think I was the only old goat Swifty Freeper around. Now I'll have to be careful about the big BS stories I tell.
I was in An Thoi from Dec. 1965, to about April 66, then our crew was transferred to Cam Rahn Bay. We received some of the first boats to be delivered to Cam Rahn.
Cheers from Chile
Got to run, more later.
Cheers
LOL! Probably not. I think although, that if I had my own country to rule, my Navy would have an example of something whimsical, like an Eighteenth Century corvette with a couple of huge, wicked monster engines hidden away in it. They could be tooling along at 10 knots in a good breeze under sail, then suddenly, when needed, they're planing along at 35 knots.
Man that guy can sure do a lot in 4 months! He's got my vote for sure!
He's worse than Clinton.
This should be relatively easy to find out via his military records. I'll be he's lying.
Details, details! 99% of the Sheep probably think George Washington was Prez in 1968.
http://www.johnkerry.com/communities/veterans/service.html
December 6, 1968 – Kerry moved to Coastal Division 11 at An Thoi on Phu Quoc Island
December 13, 1968 – Kerry moved to Coastal Division 13, Cam Ranh Bay
December 24, 1968 – Kerry involved in combat during the Christmas Eve truce of 1968. The truce was three minutes old when mortar fire exploded around Lieutenant Kerry and his five-man crew. Reacting swiftly, John Kerry and his crew silenced the machine gun nest
January 22, 1969 – Kerry and other Swift boat commanders travel to Saigon for meeting with Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, Commander Naval Forces Vietnam (COMNAVFORV), and Gen. Creighton Abrams, Commander United States Military Assistance Command Vietnam (COMUSMACV
high: Reminder to self. Please check map before typing.
Not that easy. My military records will not show that I was inside Hai Phong harbor in 1972.
Thanks.
Maybe one of the hundreds of fellow soldiers who have signed a letter saying Kerry is unfit can fill us in on the details.
Kerry confirms on his website that he was stationed in Cam Ranh Bay during the time in question. The Bay is in the lower right hand corner of the map in the delta looking area directly above the word "South". Cambodia is along ways from there.
It really works! I thought it was just a joke.
Guess so, I was thinking Laos I believe. Not my fault, they sent me to Germany instead of Vietnam.
I was wondering how he was filmed walking in the forest when he was suppose to be on a boat. Was it really a personal photographer?
My B.S. meter is peaking
I've been reading up on Vietnam history lately, most recently Kissinger's Ending the Vietnam War.
In '68 the Khmer Rouge weren't operating anyway near the South Vietnam border (nor were they at anytime when American forces were still in country, so far as I know).
The North Vietnamese had three or four divisions in a zone along the border up to ten miles deep, where they'd established base camps both to infiltrate North Vietnamese regulars into South Vietnam, and to provide support for Communist insurgent forces in the South. Indeed the North's overall headquarters for operations in South Vietnam were located here.
They'd been in that border area for a couple years by '68, and had expelled virtually all native Cambodians from the region. They specifically barred Cambodians from entering any of their base camps. The Cambodian government, although they had no choice but to silently acquiesce, certainly did not want the North Vietnamese in it's territory. It basically wrote the occupied region off -- since there were virtually no Cambodian citizens in there anyway -- and didn't operate there.
American forces, to my knowledge, seldom if ever weny any deeper three to five miles into Cambodia, certainly not until '71 when they and the South Vietnamese went in to clear out the North Vietnames bases. (There was no need to go deeper as the Khmer Rouge -- the indigenous Cambodian Communist forces -- were weak and little threat in '68, and our enemies were all right there in that border zone.)
So how the hell did Kerry run into "Khmer Rouge" and "Cambodians"?
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