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"John Kerry has long insisted that using the three-injury loophole to leave combat early was his own idea, but Kerry's fellow Swift officer Thomas Wright, who served on occasion as the OIC (Officer in Charge) of Kerry's boat group, contradicts that claim. Wright reports that he 'had a lot of trouble getting Kerry to follow orders,' and that those who worked with Kerry found him 'oriented towards his personal, rather than unit goals and objectives.' He therefore requested that Kerry be removed from his boat group. After John Kerry qualified for his third Purple Heart, Thomas Wright and two fellow officers informed him of the obscure regulation, and told him to go home. Wright concluded, 'We knew how the system worked and we didn't want him in Coastal Division 11.'"