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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (606091)8/19/2004 1:07:57 PM
From: DizzyG  Respond to of 769670
 
Doesn't appear that Kerry volunteered at all, Kenneth...

Kerry vigorously protested being transferred to An Thoi, arguing that he had volunteered only for coastal patrol and not for the far more hazardous duty of missions within the inland waterways.

Indeed, his objections were so strong that, upon his first
assignment to An Thoi, he was transferred out within a week.19

So off Kerry went to Cat Lo, where the patrols were on wider, less dangerous rivers than the treacherous canals of the U Minh forest and Cau Mau peninsula.
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (606091)8/20/2004 3:45:45 PM
From: Wayners  Respond to of 769670
 
Well this is what Kerry's own words say in his 1986 contribution to "The Vietnam Experience: A War Remembered", "They [swift boats] were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing. Althought I wanted to see for myself what was going on, I didn't really want to get involved in the [combat part] of the war. Kerry was in for a surprise however in 1968 when the swift boat mission was changed and actually became dangerous.


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