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	Fast Patrol Craft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fast Patrol Craft (PCF), also known as Swift boats, were small, shallow-draft vessels operated by the United States Navy for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War.
		In latter half of 1967, 46 Mark II boats, with a modified deck house, were constructed, and between 1969 and 1972, 33 Mark IIIs, slightly larger than the Mark II, were built.
		Swift boat teams have been sent to assist in Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swift_boat (594 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of the 3,500 Swift boat sailors who served in Vietnam, the names of some 250 appeared on the group's initial statement against Kerry; most did not serve at the same time or in the same place as Kerry.
		For example, a journal by another of the Swift boat commanders and the relevant Navy records of some of the SBVT members involved in specific allegations have not been released.
		Since the 2004 election, the term "Swift Boating", or "swiftboating," has been used as an expression for a smear campaign attacking the opposition by questioning their credibility and patriotism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth (4316 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Many Swift boat veterans opposed to Kerry acknowledge that their disgust with him was fueled by his involvement in the antiwar movement.
		Frightened that he might be struck by the propellers of one of the boats, he dived to the bottom of the river, where he dumped his weapons and rucksack.
		Everybody aboard Kerry's boat, including Rassmann, says there was fire from both riverbanks, and the official after-action report speaks of all boats receiving "heavy a/w [automatic weapons] and s/a [small arms] from both banks." The Bronze Star citations for Kerry and Thurlow also speak of prolonged enemy fire.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A21239-2004Aug21?language=printer (4022 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Swift Justice)
		I signed this letter because I feel that he used Swift boat sailors to proclaim his antiwar statements after the war, and now he uses the same Swift boat sailors to support his claims of being a war hero.
		Kerry's service in Vietnam as an officer in command of a Swift boat and his subsequent activities as an anti-war protester have engendered a good deal of controversy, especially among those who also served in Vietnam.
		Navy records, fitness reports by Kerry's commanders and scores of interviews with Swift boat officers and crewmen depict a model officer who fought aggressively in river ambushes and won the respect of many of his crewmates and commanders, even as his doubts about the war grew.
	www.snopes.com /politics/kerry/swift.asp (2458 words)

	Swift boat memories - August 26, 2004
		But the Eagle Point man challenges claims by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that there was no enemy fire aimed at the five swift boats, including the one commanded by Kerry, on March 13, 1969 on the Bay Hap River in the southern tip of what was then South Vietnam.
		The boat was commanded by Navy Lt. Larry Thurlow, a now-retired officer who questions why Kerry was awarded a Bronze star for bravery and a third Purple Heart for the March 13 incident.
		The mission of the ground forces was to push the enemy out of the jungle and onto the beach, where the swift boat crews were ready to pounce with their.50-caliber machine guns and other weapons.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2004/0826/local/stories/01local.htm (1170 words)

	COASTAL SQUADRON ONE Swift Boat Crew Directory
		The space itself, where the boat rests, is surfaced in a pattern of bricks, in a semi-circle, interspersed with a pattern of white concrete.
		She is still "Coronado" gray, but a check from the Swift Boat Sailors Association was presented to William L. Ball III, former Secretary of the Navy, to ensure that she gets painted in her battle-gray colors.
		Although the boat was recovered, it was not repairable and was transferred to Subic Bay, PI, studied and then stripped for use as spare parts.
	swiftboats.net (3202 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) "registered their group under Section 527 of the U.S. tax code and went public at a news conference held in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 4, 2004." [1] (http://www.usvetdsp.com/swiftboat_term.htm)
		The group, rebranded as Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, is an advocacy organization formed in 2004 by opponents of John Kerry's U.S. presidential campaign, some (http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1andtts=1anddisplay=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc) of whom did not agree to participate in the project.
		Swift Boat Veterans For Truth's IRS Report of Contributions and Expenditures (http://membership.publicintegrity.org/527/docs/9558357.pdf) for April 23-June 30, 2004 (PDF).
	www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth (3672 words)

	Boat Background
		On the spot the Navy bought the rights to the drawings for the "swift boat." Sewart Seacraft was also asked to prepare some modified drawings, that were to include a gun tub, ammo lockers, bunks, and a small galley.
		These craft were permanently assigned to Coronado as training boats for the new PCF crews and maintenance team personnel, who had begun to arrive in strength at the Amphibious Base by mid-September of 1965.
		A total of one hundred seventy-one (171) Mark I, II and III swift boats were constructed for the United States Navy, the Philippine Navy, Thailand, Cambodia, Brazil and Zaire.
	swiftboats.net /extras/boat_background.htm (749 words)

	Swift Boat Links
		The Swift Boat Sailors Association is an organization created by and for the personnel who manned and supported US Navy Swift Boats assigned to Coastal Squadron One in Vietnam between 1965 and 1970
		Besides a listing of all the boats that were assigned to Vietnam, it contains a listing of the known members of their crews at various times between 1965 and 1970, where each boat was located during this period, and any events that each boat was involved in.
		Swift Boats became an important part of the combination of these forces in operation SEALORDS over the final two years of US Navy involvement in the conflict.
	pcf45.com /links/links.html (1168 words)

	Search Tuna Report for swift boat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who happened to be the majority of the men who served with Kerry, accused him of contriving to insert his version of...
		John is a former Swift Boat Officer and Tom was a both a Swift Boat Officer and an Ops Officer of RivRon13 and 15....
		Swift Boats PCF's played a major part in stopping the flow of weapons into the Republic Of South Vietnam by patrolling the rivers and canals from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3471.html (1988 words)

	QandO: Swift Boat Vets
		John Kerry was a (jg), the OinC or skipper of a Swift boat, newly arrived in Vietnam.
		In 1971, O'Neill, a swift boat veteran who didn't serve with Kerry, was picked by the Nixon White House to counter Kerry's anti-war stand in TV debates.
		Swift boats fought together in groups, their tactics were based on groups and they were withink 40 to 60 yards of each other at all times.
	qando.net /archives/002906.htm (13871 words)

	Patrol Craft, Fast (PCF) Swift Boat
		The heroic Swift boat sailors patrolled the rivers and coastlines of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war.
		One of the boats will be donated to the Navy Museum for permanent display, while the other boat will be transferred to the Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Virginia, to be used as a research vessel.
		Former Vietnam swift patrol boat commanders Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and Representative Jim Kolbe of Arizona, as well as former Chief of Naval Operations and former Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Vietnam, retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Jr., attended the ceremony.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/pcf.htm (848 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Military Records Debunk 'Swift Boat' Kerry Attacker
		As one of five Swift boat skippers who led the raid up the Bay Hap River, Thurlow was a direct participant in the disputed events.
		He is also a leading member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a public advocacy group of Vietnam veterans dismayed by Kerry's subsequent antiwar activities, which has aired a controversial television advertisement attacking his war record.
		Bush campaign officials have said they have no connection to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which is not permitted to coordinate its activities with a presidential campaign under federal election law.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/082004Z.shtml (1298 words)

	USATODAY.com - Miller to honor Swift Boat veterans at conservatives' gathering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ran ads after the Democratic convention questioning whether Kerry was in fact the decorated Vietnam War veteran that he claimed to be.
		Official military records and even statements from Swift Boat veterans in Navy documents raised questions about their largely unsubstantiated claims, but the political damage had been done.
		Roy Hoffmann, the retired Navy rear admiral who founded the Swift Boat group, said he didn't know much about Miller but was pleased with the honor.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-12-16-miller-swiftboats_x.htm (474 words)

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		Swift Boat Veterans Motorcycle Club A group of Swift Boat veterans are interested in creating a Swift Boat Veterans Motorcycle Club for the purpose of occasionally riding together and participating...
	www.rtrboats.com /swiftboat (3876 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,
		Although only one member of the group actually served on a Swift boat with Kerry and most of the group's allegations have been discredited, Kerry's poll ratings slipped in the wake of the ads.
		The Vets Attack; New Battles: Underestimating the Swift Boat ads, the Kerry team suffered from their slow response.
		The Swift boat conundrum: how should the mainstream media deal with such stories?(Full Court Press)(responding to controversial charges)...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0922626.html (293 words)

	FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY: Swift Boat Smears
		A group of Vietnam veterans called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have managed to dominate campaign coverage recently with a series of inaccurate and unfounded allegations about John Kerry's Vietnam War service.
		That "impasse" is largely the result of the media's failure to sufficiently compare the Swift Boat charges to the available military records and eyewitness accounts.
		Larry Thurlow, the Swift Boat Vet who claims that Kerry was not under enemy fire when he earned his Bronze Star, himself earned a Bronze Star for actions under enemy fire in the same incident.
	www.fair.org /press-releases/swift-boat.html (1174 words)

	Chapter 6: The Vets Attack - Newsweek Campaign 2004 - MSNBC.com
		The Swift Boat ads—a first round charging that Kerry had lied to win his medals, then a second batch accusing him of betraying his mates by calling them war criminals—were misleading, but they were very effective.
		He could see that the Swift Boat ads were having an impact—not much at the very beginning, but soon a measurable dent in Kerry's support.
		The Swift Boat charges were the source of constant debate in the blogosphere, the new online world of bloggers, the modern-day Internet pamphleteers whose screeds were widely read—especially by the young bookers and producers who set the agenda on cable TV.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6420967/site/newsweek (1187 words)

	Centerfield: Swift Boat Vets Controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His campaign's counterattacks on the subject are acting as a major force multiplier for the Swift Boat group, giving them ten times the bang for their ad buck than they would otherwise have had.
		Further, for Dean Esmay to insist that the Swift Boat guys were somehow given the short shrift by the media is ludicrous.
		Swift boats are lousy boats to use for river insertions--they're big and noisy.
	www.centristcoalition.com /blog/archives/000995.html (7536 words)

	Ex-Swift boat skipper praises Kerry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Baker specifically recalled a 1995 reunion of Swift boat crews in Washington at which praise for Kerry's service in Vietnam was unanimous.
		Each Swift boat was manned by an officer in charge and a five-member crew.
		Baker disagreed, recalling a hail of enemy fire on his Swift boat that nearly killed him.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04237/366585.stm (736 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Service to Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This photograph of John Kerry and 19 other Coastal Division 11 Swift boat officers was taken at Ton Son Nhut Air Base on January 22, 1969, immediately following a meeting with General Abrams and Admiral Zumwalt.
		Swift Vets and POWs for Truth has contacted surviving members of this group to find out how many actually support John Kerry, and discovered that of 19 Swift boat skippers pictured other than Kerry, 12 consider him unfit, 2 are neutral, two have died, and 3 now support Kerry.
		Only 3 of John Kerry's 23 fellow Swift boat commanders from Coastal Division 11 support his candidacy today.
	www.swiftvets.com /index.php?topic=SwiftPhoto (343 words)

	SwiftVets.com \| The Real Story on John Kerry's Military Service
		Your rhetoric and actions were not only wrong, they aided the enemy and brought great pain to POW's, veterans and their families.
		Rassmann. Later, when forced to acknowledge conflicting eyewitness testimony from fellow swift boat veterans, you said that your boat left the scene to return moments later to retrieve Jim Rassmann from the water.
		Yet, in another version of the same incident discovered in the Congressional Record, you reported that your boat struck a mine and Rassmann fell off the boat. Mr.
	www.swiftvets.com (331 words)

	CNN.com - Swift assault - Aug 20, 2004
		As Kerry calls on President Bush to disavow the first swift boat ad, a second one is ready to be released.
		The new ad by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth gets to the heart of their anger at John Kerry: his 1971 Senate testimony on alleged war crimes in Vietnam.
		The Kerry camp continues to press its charge that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is a front for the Bush campaign.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/08/20/swift.assault/index.html (608 words)

	Columbus swift boat vet angry about letter \| MetaFilter
		Googlewise, the swift boat story has roughlyten times the play that "Bush ducking his draft-dodging service" does.
		Like many of you who commented I too tired of the Swift boat thing till I read that their lying book is a best seller at Amazon and that Bush numbers had gone up because of this lying about Kerry.
		Their accusations have been disputed by their own actions and by others who were there to the point at which everybody can recognize the degree of dishonesty these guys are working with.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/35317 (5589 words)

	Welcome to Swift Boat Sailors Association Home Page; U. S. Navy Patrol Boats in Vietnam
		The Swift Boat Sailors Association is a veteran's organization created by and for the personnel who manned or supported U.S. Navy PCFs (Patrol Craft Fast or Swift Boats) assigned to Coastal Squadron One during the United States involvement in Vietnam between 1965 and 1973
		Swift Boats were first used in Operation Market Time to patrol the coastline of South Vietnam to prevent infiltration of soldiers, munitions and other supplies via the sea from North Vietnam
		[Swift Boats patrolled nearest to the coast and inside the rivers and canals of the Delta]
	www.swiftboats.org (285 words)

	What is a Swift boat? By Andy Bowers - Slate Magazine
		The proper name for a Swift boat is a PCF, which stands for Patrol Craft Fast.
		Because Swift boats were relatively small, they and their commanders, including John Kerry, got the call.
		Bonus Explainer: If you're wondering whether the kind of boat that featured prominently in the movie Apocalypse Now was a Swift boat, the answer is no. That was a smaller craft known as a Patrol Boat River, or PBR.
	www.slate.com /id/2105631 (679 words)

	Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete (washingtonpost.com)
		U.S. Navy Swift boat skippers John F. Kerry, left, and William B. Rood at their base in An Thoi, South Vietnam, in late February 1969 after military action for which Kerry was awarded the Silver Star and Rood the Bronze Star.
		Members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have challenged several aspects of John F. Kerry’s military record in addition to his account of the March 13, 1969, mission for which he was awarded the Bronze Star; Kerry’s campaign has vigorously defended his record.
		Kerry’s boat at the time, PCF-44, was 40 to 50 miles south of the Cambodian border at 7 a.m.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html (4586 words)

	Swift Boat Controversy - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Now even John McCain has condemned the Swift Boat Veterans' outrageous attack on John Kerry's Vietnam record.
		The group attacking Kerry for his antiwar record is backed by a wealthy veteran who's profiting from his business ties to the Communist regime.
		The "swift boat" veterans attacking John Kerry's war record are led byveteran right-wing operatives using the same vicious techniques they used against John McCain four years ago.
	dir.salon.com /topics/swift_boat_controversy (224 words)

	village voice > news > Swift Boat Swill by Nicholas Turse
		U.S. military records that were classified for decades but are now available in the National Archives back Kerry up and put the lie to his critics.
		Contrary to what those critics, including the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, have implied, Kerry was speaking on behalf of many soldiers when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971, and said this:
		In practically all the specific Winter Soldier cases, such probes were never done.
	www.villagevoice.com /news/0438,turse,56936,1.html (1642 words)

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