Kerry has still not released the 100 + missing pages in his military file which would answer many questions about his military record.
Back in June of 2005 Michelle Malkin pointed out that Kerry had actually signed his 180 and released the papers to his biographer at the Boston Gllobe. The author of today’s Globe piece reporting the news of the release is Michael Kranish, co-author of “John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best.” (See also this curious story about Kranish and his Kerry coverage from the campaign.)
The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry’s Vietnam service.
The lack of any substantive new material about Kerry’s military career in the documents raises the question of why Kerry refused for so long to waive privacy restrictions.
I smell something. Could it be a red herring?
There are just a few questions we have that we’d like to see cleared up before the next election.
*why the delay between his leavin the Navy and his discharge?
*what happened to those medals?
*what were the circumstances around those medals, in particular the purple heart?
On Marine chat net this was posted by a retired Marine Master Sergeant who was in S-2, 3rd Bn, 1st Marines, Korea in 1954. It further illustrates how most of those who’ve been following Kerry’s story and laughed when he said he was ‘reporting for duty’ still question John Kerry’s military actions in Vietnam. It’s here to further punctuate the point, and to give readers another perspective to the media’s one-sided “war hero” adulation, and to open his actions to the light of public discourse. — Tip o’ me tam to the Editors at Frontpage Magazine for posting this in February of 2004.
I was in the Delta shortly after John Kerry left. I know that area well. I know the operations he was involved in well. I know the tactics and the doctrine used, and I know the equipment. Although I was attached to CTF-116 (PBRs) I spent a fair amount of time with CTF-115 (swift boats), Kerry’s command.
Here are my problems and suspicions:
(1) Kerry was in-country less than four months and collected a Bronze Star, a Silver Star and three Purple Hearts. I never heard of anybody with any outfit I worked with (including SEAL One, the Sea Wolves, Riverines and the River Patrol Force) collecting that much hardware that fast, and for such pedestrian actions. The Swifts did a commendable job, but that duty wasn’t the worst you could draw. They operated only along the coast and in the major rivers (Bassac and Mekong). The rough stuff in the hot areas was mainly handled by the smaller, faster PBRs.
(2) He collected three Purple Hearts but has no limp. All his injuries were so minor that he lost no time from duty. Amazing luck. Or he was putting himself in for medals every time he bumped his head on the wheel house hatch? Combat on, the boats were almost always at close range. You didn’t have minor wounds, at least not often. Not three times in a row. Then he used the three Purple Hearts to request a trip home eight months before the end of his tour. Fishy.
(3) The details of the event for which he was given the Silver Star make no sense at all. Supposedly, a B-40 was fired at the boat and missed. Charlie jumps up with the launcher in his hand, the bow gunner knocks him down with the twin .50, Kerry beaches the boat, jumps off, shoots Charlie, and retreives the launcher. If true, he did everything wrong.
(a) Standard procedure when you took rocket fire was to put your stern to the action and go balls to the wall. A B-40 has the ballistic integrity of a frisbie after about 25 yards, so you put 50 yards or so between you and the beach and begin raking it with your .50′s.
(b) Did you ever see anybody get knocked down with a .50 caliber round and get up? The guy was dead or dying. The rocket launcher was empty. There was no reason to go after him (except if you knew he was no danger to you just flopping around in the dust during his last few seconds on earth, and you wanted some derring-do in your after-action report). And we didn’t shoot wounded people. We had rules against that, too.
(c) Kerry got off the boat. This was a major breach of standing procedures. Nobody on a boat crew ever got off a boat in a hot area. EVER! The reason was simple: If you had somebody on the beach, your boat was defenseless. It coudn’t run and it couldn’ t return fire. It was stupid and it put his crew in danger. He should have been relieved and reprimanded. I never heard of any boat crewman ever leaving a boat during or after a firefight.Something is fishy.
Here we have a JFK wannabe (the guy Halsey wanted to court martial for carelessly losing his boat and getting a couple people killed by running across the bow of a Japanese destroyer) who is hardly in Vietnam long enough to get good tan, collects medals faster than Audie Murphy in a job where lots of medals weren’t common, gets sent home eight months early and requests separation from active duty a few months after that so he can run for Congress. In that election, he finds out war heroes don’t sell well in Massachsetts in 1970, so he reinvents himself as Jane Fonda, throws his ribbons in the dirt with the cameras running to jump start his political career, gets Stillborn Pell to invite him to address Congress and has Bobby Kennedy’s speechwriter to do the heavy lifting. A few years later he winds up in the Senate himself, where he votes against every major defense bill and says the CIA is irrelevant after the Berlin Wall came down. He votes against the Gulf War (a big political mistake since that turned out well), then decides not to make the same mistake twice so votes for invading Iraq — but that didn’t fare as well with the Democrats, so he now says he really didn’t mean for Bush to go to war when he voted to allow him to go to war.
I’m real glad you or I never had this guy covering out flanks in Vietnam. I sure don’t want him as Commander-in-Chief. I hope that somebody from CTF-115 shows up with some facts challenging Kerry’s Vietnam record. I know in my gut it’s wildy inflated.
We also know there are many Vietnam Vets who seriously resent his coming forward portraying himself as a ‘war hero’. See Vietnam Vets against Kerry
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Kerry was such a sore loser that he publicized the possibility of sueing Carlton Sherwood for ‘libel’, the producer of Stolen Honor along with another suit directed at John O’Neil, who wrote “Unfit for Command” and is the leader of the Swiftboats Veterans for truth. Did either one of those suits materialize? Is this another case of leftist intimidation when both stories demonstrate witnesses and the truth about his 4 months of military service in Vietnam?
Kerry even, reportedly, set up a legal defense trust fund for his defense lawyers!
“There is nothing magic about signing a SF 180,” said former Naval Judge Advocate General Mark Sullivan. “It is sort of like your checkbook. You can fill out a check for one dollar or a million. It is the same check form.”
“And the Globe story says Kerry sent it to the Navy Personnel Command, which is only a limited storage location. So it is not surprising that the Globe then notes that what they received was largely ‘duplication’ of records previously released. The Navy Personnel Command primarily stores a subset of service records rather than a person’s full military records. There is no doubt there are a lot of after-action records missing from what Kerry has released,” said Sullivan.
Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has already found a discrepancy confirmed by the Department of the Navy of “at least a hundred pages” missing from those already disclosed by Kerry.
Kerry insists ”The truth in its entirety will come out . . . the truth will come out.”
Signing Form 180 CORRECTLY is the first step. Releasing his entire military record to the public is the second.
We are still waiting.

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You knew I wouldn’t pass this up, didn’t you?
That sanctimonious S.O.B. has never told the truth; and I too, hope Americans have enough common sense not to put this lying ******* in the Oval Office, as he is certainly not deserving of such a position — even now, he’s rarely in his Office; yet, MA citizens continue to condone this by supporting him … “whole lotta stupid goin’ on there”.
John “HANOI FONDA” Skerry is guilty of war crimes and lying to the people – he should be:
Strung up in a tree — shoot him in his tight *** at sunrise — kicked in the nuts — *****-slap his Momma for producing such an ugly, lying ****-bird — shave his *** and tell him to walk backwards — ship his lying *** to the South Pole with nothing but Yachting clothes.
And run his TRAITOR *** out of America along with:
* Ramsey Clark
* Cindy Sheehan
* Louis Farrakhan
* Al Sharpton
* Michael Moore
* Stephen Pearcy
* Ted Rall
* Theodore Kennedy
* Frank Church
Git-R-Done!
I’ll take your concern over Kerry’s military records seriously as soon as you show the same curiosity about Dubya’s national guard service.
Ok, then it’s time for you to start taking the concern over Kerry’s military records seriously. Should I add you to the Kerry 180 blogroll?
In September of 2004 I wrote about it. The story is over as far as I’m concerned…there is no controversy as far as Bush is concerned.
Because Bush’s military service has repeatedly been covered, in numerous places…over and over again, and I’ve read it. How about giving ‘thinking’ a try? What. Makes your head hurt, you say? Obviously you either missed it…or don’t care…so making that statement saying you’ll show some concern about Kerry when I show the same curiosity about Dubya’s national guard service is really stupid. And I don’t believe you’re serious…because right here…I prove that I certainly have taken the time to synthesize and analyze Bush’s record. You think I didn’t check all that out? You assume I’m just like you; and you’re terribly wrong there. I have the ability to reason and think things through and can even discern between fact and fiction! ha! You obviously pay attention to only one side of the story; the communist propaganda side.
Kerry’s good at that, too, he wore the communist bandana during the anti-war demonstrations when he was a leader of Vietnam Vets against the war (during those mysterious missing 6 years, I take it) and he reportedly even attended a meeting to kill Senators. Shouldn’t be shocking, actually, he met with Madam Bin in Paris and came back talking the communist talking points for withdrawal from Vietnam. He’s no “democrat”…he just masquerades as one. Ask a REAL democrat what he thinks of Kerry: Zell Miller. Oh, I forgot, Zell told the nation what he thought of Kerry at the Republican National Convention! Zell is an old-fashioned marine and Christian…a real tried and true military guy who served and loves the military…not a fake like Kerry who tries to leverage….lies. And threatens those who try to tell the truth with lawsuits.
This is probably too much for your little mind to take in; it involves thinking. It’s SO much easier to repeat slogans than to think about the facts presented and weigh them against what you’ve read at KOS, Village Media, MiamiNewTimes, the Smirking Chimp, Indymedia and ALTERNET isn’t it? That’s why you sit on the other side; no thought processes are involved. Good luck with that.
I doubt it. We can keep sounding the alarm bell on this one; Kerry will not answer, just as he didn’t answer the call years ago when he wound up in Vietnam and decided to find the quickest and shortest route to home…and fragging the mission after he left…and turning his back on his comrades at arms long afterwards by making sure the POWs who might still be there would never be returned home. It’s not bad enough that he did this just once; like Hanoi Fonda did–he did it over and over again all these years later–and threatened the honorable men who served and wanted to expose the truth about him with lawsuits for libel. The man is a despicable example when compared with all the great men who’ve served in this country.
Remember, Eisenhower was a freakin’ GENERAL and he never bragged on his service or went up to the podium declaring he was ‘reporting for duty’. Perhaps those 4 months even though he spent most of it running away from the enemy–are the only thing that qualified him to run the country, in his mind. Pathetic…when he didn’t mention much about his 20 years in the Senate. How unremarkable.
Must we rehash Rathergate all over again to refresh your memory? Apparently so. Remember: BUSH RELEASED HIS RECORDS.
But for some reason, Kerry is too chicken to do the same thing. He should shut up about everyone else’s records because when the truth started to come out….
What other little tidbits will we discover in those 100 missing pages, I wonder? Probably something like this, I’ll bet–citing his own journals, a passage in Kerry’s approved war biography, appears to contradict the senator’s claim he won his first Purple Heart as a result of an injury sustained under enemy fire.
Let’s try another one at NRO about the release of Bush’s records:
Because as most of us have been able to figure out–who have brains–it was a badly conducted and orchestrated smear campaign that had gaping holes in it that most of us could see through. Don’t know how to read, do you, or do you just read KOS and the Smirking Chimp?
Apparently not for the moonbats in Idiotaria, though, they keep beating on that dead horse.
During the heated campaign, when Rather and CBS News trotted out never-authenticated documents to demonstrate that Bush had performed “poorly” in the National Guard during the Vietnam War and then received “preferential treatment” from his commanding officers, the story began immediately falling aparts because of: bloggers.
The typesettings of the documents didn’t exist in the ’70′s when they were supposedly created.
Standing by the phony story for weeks, CBS News President Andrew Heyward dinfally said,
“Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authetntic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret.”
Think CBS was seeking to influence the election in favor of Kerry? Or did they simply ‘make an honest mistake’ by not adequately fact checking what could have been the most important news story of 2004?
Bloggers deconstructed that story in a matter of hours. CBS fact checkers need to look for other work…just like Mariah Blake did as the result of her fake story about Jack Idema.
I can’t believe how stupid some people are!
Back during WWII, Republicans rallied behind a Democratic president for the good of the nation. But it doesn’t work both ways: in a cynical display of raw partisan politics, today’s democratic presidential candidates undermine our national security by resisting the president every single step of the way in the War on Terror–and then have the balls to accuse him of ‘politicizing’ the war.
Liberals don’t seem to understand that peace marches and antiwar demonstrations on new York’s Fifth Avenue won’t stop terrorism. (If that worked, terrorism would have been forever destroyed by now after all the adolescent tantrums of the 60′s.) Offering bin Laden a Frappacunio won’t do the trick; wars aren’t won on rhetoric. You must FIGHT TO WIN. Just ask Neville Chamberlain, who made the mistake of believing that he could ‘negotiate for peace in our time’ with Hitler–only to find England later havig to fight a war aginst a much stronger, better prepared and fully militarized Germany.
Republicans are simply better at defending our country than Democrats, and the country knows it. “In the lastest poll by Democracy Corps, run by Democrats, the GOP enjoys a twenty-five-point lead over Democrats on the measure ‘protecting American against any threat’ and a twenty-seven-point edge on ‘strength’”.
Go cry to your mama and don’t forget your pacifier, lefty. God help us all if you people ever end up back running things–you’re simply too illogical, too unhinged, too full of perseveration and echlalia of the stupid talking points that you obvious are either too lazy to think through or are too stupid to fathom.
Posted by “Shazzer” — I’ll take your concern over Kerry’s military records seriously as soon as you show the same curiosity about Dubya’s national guard service.
Apparently, you are a DEMOCRAPPER who loves John “HANOI FONDA” Skerry –
– or has never followed all of his lies that have been proven; especially by thousands of American Vets who can’t stand the LYING *******.
Get a clue about reality and honesty; then change that username to something more like “*****-U” —
— that’s the dog that, when trying to potty-train it, you don’t which end to push down … very much like John “HANOI FONDA” Skerry.
Actually…I think a lot of these commenters are a lot more extreme than mere ‘democrappers’, Yat. Even Kerry is a masquerading one…they ought to come out in the open as to what their true agenda is…ah but communism and socialism can’t be sold by their brand names yet.
You’re right Cao; they are more extreme, but I was trying to be nice — as for any of them coming out in the open … none of them have the balls to do that; maybe those brand names will eventually catch on!