http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...ixnewstop.html
Kerry's request for a deferment to study in Paris was denied. His options were to volunteer, wait to be drafted, or go to Canada.
And for why he became a swift boat skipper, let's read what was reported in the Boston Globe.
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As a lieutenant junior grade, Kerry skippered a CTF-115 swift boat, a light, aluminum patrol vessel that bore a passing resemblance to PT-109. He thought he'd arranged to avoid combat.
"I didn't really want to get involved in the war," he later would tell the Boston Globe. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling, and that's what I thought I was going to do."
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