Yep...Mike and I talked about this at dinner and said the same thing...have we ever seen John Kerry's file on his Purple Hearts...NO...
@mystery-ak Yes,and no. The awards and the details were posted on FR years ago.For example,we know at least two of the wounds didn't even need stitches. They quit bleeding on their own. We also know he wrote himself up for them.
Here is the deal. Kerry volunteered for VN so he could get "war hero pt boat" creds like his idol,JFK. At the time he volunteered to go to VN,the boats were patrolling off-shore,stopping and searching VN fishing boats. Pretty safe duty because your boat has multiple heavy weapons and some armor plating,and you are facing off with an unarmed wooden fishing boat.
By the time he got to VN the focus had shifted to smaller boats patrolling the river systems,and getting shot at from NVA hiding along the river banks. MUCH riskier duty,and he wanted no part of it. The rules at that time was any soldier,sailor,or airman that got wounded 3 times automatically got orders to be transferred back to the US,unless they protested the transfer.
So John Wayne Kerry got "wounded" 3 times in maybe 3 months,and none of the wounds required hospitalization. At least two of them
scabbed over and quit bleeding on their own.
He also wrote himself up for the SS while serving as acting CO of the squadron while the actual CO was on leave. With his political
connections with the Brass via the Kennedy family,this wasn't questioned and he got the award as well as a transfer back to the
US as a "3 times wounded hero". Even though there seems to have been no witnesses or official records of the battles.
He comes back to the US and serves out his obligation by using HIS own private plane to fly an Admiral around to staff meetings,and
when he gets out of the Navy he joins the Peace Movement as a wounded hero who is anti-war. At one protest he was filmed throwing
"his medals" over the WH fence. Turns out they were medals he bought at a pawn shop,which actually makes them worth about as much as
the ones he "bought" with political influence. We know this because after he became a US Senator his medals and the awards were hung on his
office wall.