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I already gave you the documents. Kerry enlisted as a reserve officer with an active duty commitment.

His active duty started shortly after graduation. He attended OCS and was assigned to a destroyer. Then he volunteered for Swift Boats in Vietnam.

He was not in some sort of reserve unit that got "called up." As I said, most if not all naval officers serving at that time were reserve officers like Kerry, unless they were commissioned out of the Naval Academy.

Really, please do some research.

http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/jkerry/offcandagr.pdf

Kerry joined the reserves while in college. The contract had a three year active duty commitment, which he fulfilled shortly after graduation.

During his active duty he volunteered for Vietnam.

After he was released from active duty he was transferred to the Individual Ready Reserve and then to the Standby Reserve - Inactive.

http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/jkerry/trnsfr2stndyrsrv.pdf

http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/jkerry/trnsfr2stndyrsrv.pdf

Unless they graduated from the USNA, most naval officers in those days were reserve officers.

Lets see Bush was in the ANG flying interceptors against Soviet intrusions and Kerry joined the navy reserve with little prospect of being activated.

In any case, it's truly sad that anyone still believes the Smear Boat Veterans. What a world we live in. (sigh)

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They may be relevant to your idea of the total picture, but they would only be relevant to a claim about his reserve duty that he was refuting. Period.

My informal (and admittedly unscientific) polling of those who I know who also served in RVN yielded about an 80/20 vote against Kerry as Presidential timber.

Among RVN vets of my acquaintance, Kerry's activities while still an oficer in the Naval Reserve were the most often cited reasons for anti-Kerry attitudes.

IMO, his records during that period are most relevant to the total picture.

"Kerry led men in combat in Vietnam, was wounded, and awarded the country's third highest medal for gallantry. Bush underwent pilot training and showed up for the occasional weekend Guard drill."

Grow up. Your sarcasm reflects your bias. I do not recall Bush being critical of Kerry's service. In fact, I recall him more than once praising Kerry for his service and denigrating the efforts of the Swift Boat people.

You conveniently left out the role of the ANG in your comments. The defense of the United States against intruders. The 60s was hardly a time when this was considered an insignificant task.
Flying a interceptor might be considered integral to this task.

The majority of US military forces were in the same boat as Bush. Unless you volunteered,and their are some who were there who said Bush did volunteer, and were accepted, you go where they send you (In the latter half of the 60s the ANG had 22 Fighter Interceptor squadrons. During the Vietnam war the ANG activated 4 fighter squadrons to go to Vietnam and two to go to Korea for a total of 10,676 personnel.)

I would suggest that a good proportion of the US military went where they were posted and never served in Vietnam.

Then again, you may just be throwing Bush into your post to increase the number of posts.