Is this weird or what?
by kateNC
Wed May 05, 2004 at 08:42:56 AM PDT
Rear Admiral Roy F. Hoffmann is chairman of the SwiftVets group which is questioning Senator John F. Kerry's service in Vietnam.
He has a history which is very interesting. He commanded Task Force 115 in Vietnam when ex-Senator Bob Kerrey was in Vietnam and when Senator John Kerry was in Vietnam. Hoffmann was a "body-count guy".
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Capt. Roy Hoffmann (Excerpt) This is from an article about Ex-Senator Bob Kerrey
"Delta Platoon was assigned to the Navy's Task Force 115, based at Cam Ranh Bay and commanded by Capt. Roy Hoffmann, a favorite of Adm. Elmo Zumwalt Jr., the Navy's top man in Vietnam. Hoffmann was a cigar-chomping officer who brandished an M-16 assault rifle and wore a revolver when he visited troops in the field. "He was the classic body-count guy," Kerrey says. "Bunkers destroyed, hooches destroyed, sort of scorekeeper."
New York Times: April 29, 2001, Sunday, Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section 6;Page 51;Column 1;Magazine Desk
HEADLINE: What Happened in Thanh Phong
BYLINE: By Gregory L. Vistica; Gregory L. Vistica is the author of "Fall From Glory: The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy" and was formerly the national security correspondent for Newsweek. He is co-producing a segment on Bob Kerrey and Thanh Phong for "60 Minutes II." The New York Times Magazine and "60 Minutes II" have coordinated reporting efforts on this story. "60 Minutes II" plans to air its segment May
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Excerpt from a blog entry about Senator John Kerry:
"Among those scheduled to attend the event at the National Press Club and declare Kerry unfit for the role of commander-in-chief are retired Naval Rear Admiral Roy Hoffman, who was the commander of the Navy Coastal Surveillance Force, which included the swift boats on which Kerry served."
http://www.midwestpundits.com/index.php
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Hoffmann is part of the anti-Kerry group organized by John O'Neill of which we've read so much on the blogs.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005036
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Excerpted:
"CAPTAIN HOFFMANN COMMANDED THE ATLANTIC FLEET MISSILE DESTROYER USS CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG 2) FOR 27 MONTHS COMMENCING IN JANUARY 1966, AND REPORTED AS COMMANDER COASTAL SURVEILLANCE FORCE, REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM AND COMMANDER TASK FORCE 115 ON 3 MAY 1968. CAPTAIN HOFFMANN COMMANDED THE DESTROYER TENDER USS SIERRA (AD-18) FROM 27 JUNE 1969 TO 17 DECEMBER 1970."
http://www.lonesailor.org/Navylog_print.php?navy_log_id=330034
http://www.swiftvets.com/Index2.htm
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/ [Scroll down]
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archive/200405/SPE20040503a.html
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