"Veteran Gore"

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Karanas

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Lately, I've seen several articles in various periodicals recounting algore's military service, if you can call it that.
I don't want to rehash a topic that we've already discussed extensively. What I am looking for is some documentation of an item that came up concerning al's abbreviated tour in RVN.
I've seen several references here on TFL that stated that he was escorted by bodyguards whenever he ventured out of a secured area. I have not seen one reference to that fact in any of the aforementioned articles.
Personally, I don't think it's a wishful myth, but if I'm going to pen a letter to the editor, I would like to have a documented reference.
So, which one of you gurus of information is going to point me in the right direction?
 
Lt. Col Hackworth referred to it in an article but I don`t have it. Maybe someone else does. It`s old but worth repeating.
 
I would not attack the fact that he served during the Vietnam war. What he did was valid and the Dems. think they should show case it because no one else running in this election did even that much. So they have thier point.
I would just ignore it and make our own points. You cannot win on this.
 
Here is what I know about the bodyguards.
First of all I know a little about how celebrity soldiers were protected in places like 'Nam.
Hardball Chris Matthews had a program one night and contrasted Gore's RVN active duty with GWB's nationalguard service. Really on a hunch, I emailed Matthews and told him that Gore had bodyguards all the time in 'Nam and sort of challenged him to check it out.
A short while later, lo and behold the San Francisco Examiner (Matthew's Paper) published an article including an interwiew with the bodyguard. It was on the Drudge Report too, I believe.
Unfortunately I no longer have that hard drive and have no dates etc, but some searches should turn up the facts.
If you can run it down, let me know.

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Herodotus;
It should be a non issue since it didn`t mean squat when Klintoon ran for the Presidency. Like in court, a non relevant fact becomes fair game when it`s brought up.
Flying for a Guard unit back in the 60`s was not a piece of cake as some think. Migs with Russian pilots were stationed in Cuba and were a real threat at the time.
I worked on Guard planes during Viet Nam and they weren`t as well maintained as they are today. They were older aircraft that were turned over to Guard units and then recalled. Some had to be overhauled for permanent duty there. Also, some Guard fighter units were called up and served in Nam.
Some of those who served at the time never went to Nam. We had commitments all over the world. Thus the term Viet Nam Era Vets.
 
I personally think it is a non-issue! Many of us served in Viet Nam in a "non-combat" role. I was an Air Force Radar Operator stationed at Monkey Mountain From 1967 to 1968. I didn't receive combat pay but did receive hazardous duty pay (RVN was hazardous to your health). You didn't have to face the enemy eye to eye to serve your country. It was just a job.......just a little more dangerous than most.

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Here are some good quotes from AJC's The Vent (for today):

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
148 journalists killed in the Vietnam war? That wasn't even a good beginning.

The 148 "journalists" killed in Vietnam accounted for less than .003 percent of the fighting men killed. I would have much rather had the journalists' odds.

And I'll bet that not one of those journalists killed in Vietnam had a personal security detachment like Al Gore did.
[/quote]
 
Yeah, I served too. I happened to notice though, that not everybody who serves is qualified to lead the nation. As a matter of fact, I met some of the brightest, and the most profoundly stupid people in the Army. Which one is algore? I'll let you decide...
 
Now I'm mad...

Excuse me, but in the mid-eighties I was an Army photojournalist. MOS was 71Q, but I also did some 71R stuff...

While my duties generally involved mostly bein' in the rear with the gear, or following some dude with stars around, it was quite likely that I, or one of my buddies, would be called upon to visit a location where folks didn't like people who were wearing our particular version of the tree suit...

When I went through DINFOS, there was a wall listing all of the military journalists who'd had their obits prematurely published. One did NOT joke about that. How would YOU like to go into a hot location essentially armed only with a 35mm camera, or with a video camera (which looks surprisingly like a rocket launcher when it's pointed toward you?).
 
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