05-17-2004, 20:21 PM
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from http://www.johnkerry.com/communities...s/service.html
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February 9, 1968 – USS Gridley departs for a Western Pacific (WESTPAC) deployment, to engage in operations in support of the Vietnam War. Ship spends time in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam, at Subic Bay in the Philippines and in Wellington, New Zealand
February 10, 1968 – Kerry requests duty in Vietnam He lists his first preference for a position as an officer in charge of a Swift Boat (designated PCF for Patrol Craft Fast), his second as an officer in a patrol boat (designated PBR, for Patrol Boat River) squadron
May 27, 1968 – USS Gridley sets sail for the US
June 6, 1968 – Kerry arrives in Long Beach the day after Senator Robert F. Kennedy is killed in Los Angeles
June 16, 1968 – Kerry promoted to Lieutenant, Junior Grade
July 20, 1968 – Kerry leaves Gridley for specialized training at the Naval Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA in preparation for service as commander of a Swift Boat. These unarmored, but heavily armed, fifty foot aluminum hulled patrol boats depended on speed and agility when engaging the enemy.
November 17, 1968 – Upon completion of his training, Kerry reports for duty to Coastal Squadron 1, Coastal Division 14, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam.
December 1968 through January 1969 – Kerry commands PCF-44
December 2, 1968 – Kerry experiences first intense combat; receives first combat related injury.
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)
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It doesn't mention Cambodia. However if Kerry was there, but according to Nixon he wasn't, then i suppose his operation could have been based referred to as something else.
Anyone good at the local geography work out if he could have been in Cambodia in '68? |
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