Kerry's Military records
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| Tue, 08-24-2004 - 7:15am |
It is clear that at least one of Kerry's Purple Heart awards was the result of his own negligence, not enemy fire, and that Kerry went to unusual lengths to obtain the award after being turned down by his own commanding officer.
John Kerry has long insisted that using the three-injury loophole to leave combat early was his own idea, but Kerry's fellow Swift officer Thomas Wright, who served on occasion as the OIC (Officer in Charge) of Kerry's boat group, contradicts that claim. Wright reports that he "had a lot of trouble getting Kerry to follow orders," and that those who worked with Kerry found him "oriented towards his personal, rather than unit goals and objectives." He therefore requested that Kerry be removed from his boat group. After John Kerry qualified for his third Purple Heart, Thomas Wright and two fellow officers informed him of the obscure regulation, and told him to go home. Wright concluded, "We knew how the system worked and we didn’t want him in Coastal Division 11."
Constructing a complete picture of Kerry's service is difficult due to gaps in the Naval records provided by the Kerry campaign. These gaps include missing and incomplete fitness reports, missing medical records and missing records related to his medal awards.
Senator Kerry can clear all of this up if he would authorize complete access to all his military records by filing a standard Form 180, a simple two-page release form.

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What about the entire introduction video.
Kerry hurt himself with the veterans with his actions after the war.
You can try to spin things that way. However my father had a 50000/yr job before he was laid off, and now cannot even get back into his original field because of a large chunk of electrical engineering layoffs, and he has to fight for positions that aren't full time and don't come close to what he was making before, in a state that had a good job outlook when I left 4 years ago. There are alot of people who had good jobs, or are graduating college complaining of having to compete with their children for jobs in fastfood, department and grocery stores etc. This isn't just happening in a small amount of areas, it's happening in many places around the country. There may be more jobs but if so many people are having to take drastic pay cuts to stay employed that is not real improvement.
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I deal in the facts that I am able to research for myself.
The cold hard fact is that the economy is still improving, which is why Kerry has no idea what to really attack Bush on in that area.
John Kerry made his military experience the pinnacle of his campaign when he began his speech at the DNC with that comment.>>
And he's still doing it!
Renee ~~~
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