Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
In May 1972, the Boston Phoenix reported that Kerry had ...

Could we please stick to military aviation and can the OT political
crap?

Nah, this is a good thread. We are talking about the military record
of a war veteran who if elected president will be the commander in
chief, of the air force as well as other branches.

Furthermore, he's a pilot.

I'm interested in Kerry, and I'm interested in what he did with his
medals.

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I certainly do not want, in any way, shape, or form, to denigrate the
service performed by the "Brown Water Navy" in Viet Nam. Pushing
patrol boats up and down the Mekong delta, from all accounts, was not
exactly healthy.

That being said, the concept that Kerry thinks he knows about about
aircraft carriers "I know a little something about aircraft carriers
for real" (from the E. Clift article) is so laughable it is pathetic.
Kerry didn't serve on a carrier, he served in patrol boats. Dan
points out, and I've no reason to doubt him, that Kerry is a pilot.
Okay, fine, but let's not translate that into his being a naval
aviator/carrier operator. In Kerry's case the equation: --Naval
Officer + pilot = Naval Aviator = knowledge of aircraft carriers-- is
a non starter. I'm not a naval aviator, don't claim to be, but I live
with a retired naval aviator, WWII fighter pilot & ace, post WWII
squadron commander, air group commander, aircraft carrier commander, &
carrier division commander - who really does know a little something
about aircraft carriers - and when he hears this Kerry "I know a
little something about aircraft carriers for real" business and he
just laughs & shakes his head.

Rich