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Kerry’s proponents have also pointed to a fitness report for Kerry
that was filed by Hibbard rating Kerry “excellent” as proof that
Kerry’s service in Cam Ranh was unusually good. In reality, the Kerry
fitness report (which leaves fourteen of the eighteen categories,
including “integrity,” marked “unobserved”) is a marginal report.
Hibbard has stated that he wished to provide in the report a mediocre
evaluation without permanently destroying Kerry, given his short
four-week period of evaluation. At the time the report was made, Hibbard
did not know of Kerry’s later-finagled first Purple Heart.