# Roy Hoffmann

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{{Short description|United States Navy Rear Admiral and chairman (1925-2022)}}
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Rear Admiral '''Roy F. "Latch" Hoffmann''', U.S. Navy (retired) (1925–2022) was chairman of the former [Swift Boat Veterans for Truth](/source/Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth), established May 4, 2004, in opposition to [John Kerry](/source/John_Kerry)'s [candidacy for U.S. President](/source/John_Kerry_2004_presidential_campaign), and which disbanded on May 31, 2008. As a naval officer, he patrolled the [Mekong Delta](/source/Mekong_Delta) on [swift boats](/source/swift_boats) during the [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War).<ref>''Albion Monitor'': [http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0403a/copyright/ac-kerrysealords.html Kerry in Vietnam:] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051111081021/http://www.monitor.net/monitor/0403a/copyright/ac-kerrysealords.html |date=2005-11-11}} March 24, 2004.</ref>

==Early life==
Hoffmann attended the University of Notre Dame.  He was commissioned through the Naval ROTC program on June 1, 1946.<ref name="Suez">{{cite book|title=The United States role in opening the Suez Canal, hearing before the Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia of ..., 93-2, May 8, 1974|date=1974|location=Washington DC|page=39|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwVNuxLYa3oC|last1=Foreign Affairs|first1=United States. Congress. House}}</ref>

==Military career==

His awards included the [Legion of Merit](/source/Legion_of_Merit), [Purple Heart](/source/Purple_Heart), [World War II Victory Medal](/source/World_War_II_Victory_Medal), [National Defense Service Medal](/source/National_Defense_Service_Medal), and [Vietnam Service Medal](/source/Vietnam_Service_Medal).

==Civilian career==
Following his retirement from the Navy, he was a port director in [Milwaukee, Wisconsin](/source/Milwaukee%2C_Wisconsin) before being removed from the post.<ref>''Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20050209075839/http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug04/253477.asp Hoffmann once rocked boat in Milwaukee].  August 23, 2004.</ref>

Hoffmann claimed he got involved with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth after reading [Douglas Brinkley](/source/Douglas_Brinkley)'s book ''Tour of Duty'', which, among other things, detailed Kerry's Swift Boat duty in Vietnam; he told ''[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)'',  "I couldn't bear that someone was betraying us and being a dastardly liar. If I can be any more plain than that, I don't know."<ref>''Washington Post'': [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2975-2004Oct2.html Unfriendly Fire.]  October 4, 2002.</ref>

In 2009, the Admiral Roy F. Hoffmann Foundation ceased operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.admhoffmannfoundation.com/|title=Admiral Roy F. Hoffmann Foundation, Honoring America's Veterans. John O'Neill, T. Boone Pickens|publisher=}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Symmes, Weymouth D. ''This Is Latch: The Rear Admiral Roy F. Hoffmann Story''. Missoula, Mont: Pictorial Histories Pub. Co, 2007. {{ISBN|9781575101378}}

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