You're just playing your typical low IQ word games. He completed the paperwork. His commander refused to sign it even though they were giving out medals like candy because of low morale. He waited until the commander was replaced and the next one signed it.
You're obviously lying about being in the military, you don't know anything about it.
Getting a purple heart treated with a band aid is pathetic. Getting three without missing a day of service is pathetic. Using it to get out on a technicality is beyond the pale. Running to congress and calling his comrades war criminals is betrayal. Voting for him is you
1. On being awarded the Silver Star based on the commendation from his commanding officer:
When Kerry returned to his base, his commanding officer, George Elliott, raised an issue with Kerry: the fine line between whether the action merited a medal or a court-martial.
“When [Kerry] came back from the well-publicized action where he beached his boat in middle of ambush and chased a VC around a hootch and ended his life, when [Kerry] came back and I heard his debrief, I said, ‘John, I don’t know whether you should be court-martialed or given a medal, court-martialed for leaving your ship, your post,'” Elliott recalled in an interview.
“But I ended up writing it up for a Silver Star, which is well deserved, and I have no regrets or second thoughts at all about that,” Elliott said. A Silver Star, which the Navy said is its fifth-highest medal, commends distinctive gallantry in action.
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2. Kerry received a Bronze star for the rescue of a special forces officer who had been blown off of Kerry's swift boat. The officer Kerry rescued was Jim Rassman. He put Kerry in for a Silver Star, but since there was only one officer recommending the medal it was reduced to a Bronze star. I met Jim Rassman and had dinner with him here in Denver in 2004, along with Wade Sanders and four other vets who had served in Vietnam.
Rassman had not been in touch with Kerry for 30 years and joined the campaign. Why would a guy who barely knew Kerry in 1969 and was just a passenger on his swift boat, lie to get him a medal?
PS. Kerry missed two days in the infirmary due to wounds received that day.
As far as your "technicality" goes:
Back in 1969, Navy regulations specified that any soldier wounded in combat three times be automatically reassigned away from a combat zone to an assignment of his choosing (unless the thrice-wounded soldier specifically requested to stay). Four days after Kerry took his third hit of shrapnel, Commodore Charles F. Horne, an administrative official and commander of the coastal squadron in which Kerry served, forwarded a request on Kerry’s behalf to the Navy Bureau of Personnel asking that Kerry be reassigned to “duty as a personal aide in Boston, New York, or Washington, D.C.” Soon afterwards Kerry was transferred to Cam Ranh Bay to await further orders, and within a month he had been reassigned as a personal aide and flag lieutenant to Rear Admiral Walter F. Schlech, Jr. with the Military Sea Transportation Service based in Brooklyn, New York.