To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (596503 ) 7/28/2004 3:08:06 PM From: Thomas A Watson Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670 Dear keneth, when a person is moved out of theatre three days after receiving his third wound? One that kept him from duty one or two days for the first time of all those seriou wounds, one asks. Did those who commanded him use whatever excuse to get his nutcase ass out to protect other soldiers or did hanoi kerry use connections to get to a place where he could lobby other connections for a medal of some sort. hanoi kerry is a complete lying phony, the ethical twin brother of Kenneth E. Phillipps. Report: Kerry was Thrown Out of Vietnam Military Historian John B. Dwyer interviewed Commander Wright, one of Kerry's Commanding Officers on the Swift Boats. His article at The American Thinker is revealing. Some excerpts : Thomas Wright was one of John F. Kerry's fellow Swift boat officers in Vietnam. Since Wright outranked Kerry, he was Kerry's sometime boat group Officer-in-Charge, so Wright had occasion to observe Kerry’s behavior and attitudes, and the circumstances surrounding his early departure from the war zone. The intervening years have not dimmed his memories. ... boat captains adopted distinctive, often humorous call signs for identification purposes. Eldon Thompson was “Mary Poppins,” William Schachte was “Baccardi Charlie,” James T. Grace was “Twiggy,” and Tom Wright was “Dudley Do-Right.” When John Kerry radioed another Swift boat, he used the call sign, “Boston Strangler.” ... Working with call sign “Boston Strangler” became problematical. “I had a lot of trouble getting him to follow orders,” recalls Wright. “He had a different view of leadership and operations. Those of us with direct experience working with Kerry found him difficult and oriented towards his personal, rather than unit goals and objectives. I believed that overall responsibility rested squarely on the shoulders of the OIC or OTC in a free-fire zone. You had to be right (before opening fire). Kerry seemed to believe there were no rules in a free-fire zone and you were supposed to kill anyone. I didn’t see it that way.” ... It got to a point where Wright told his divisional commander he no longer wanted Kerry in his boat group, so he was re-assigned to another one. “I had an idea of his actions but didn’t have to be responsible for him.” Then Wright and like-minded boat officers took matters into their own hands. “When he got his third Purple Heart, three of us told him to leave. We knew how the system worked and we didn’t want him in Coastal Division 11. Kerry didn’t manipulate the system, we did.” Posted by John Moore at May 14, 2004 10:01 PM tinyvital.com