US Army Vietnam veteran nurse, 84, challenges TSA agent to 10 push-ups before Honor Flight

Fox 10 Phoenix ^ | 10/17/2019 | Amy Lieu

[DFG]

An 84-year-old U.S. Army veteran nurse challenged a TSA agent to do 10 push-ups on Tuesday before her Honor Flight from Phoenix to Washington, D.C.

Lt. Col. Maggie DeSanti is challenging TSA agents to keep up with her exercise regimen. When she was an Army nurse during the Vietnam War, DeSanti rappelled from helicopters to treat wounded soldiers.

[jazusamo]

Good for LtCol DeSanti! Congrats to her on her service and for staying in shape.

Mrs Jaz was an enlisted E-6 nurse and was discharged in ‘65 due to being with child.

She’s still in great shape and can answer that push up challenge and do them along side of the good LtCol. :^)

[mumblypeg]

Trump should give 84 year old Lt. Col. Maggie DeSanti the Medal of Honor.
She’s earned it.
God bless her!

[tomkat]

OUTSTANDING, Ma’am !

[Little Bill]

I did two tours and never heard of a nurse on Dust Off’s.

This is not to take anything away from them, they were Angels when I was in the 12th Evac and in the 77th on Japan.

[jazusamo]

I hear you and you’re right.

[ealgeone]

IF they can’t do 10 pushups.....

[M-cubed]

same thing I was thinking....But God Bless her..

I can guaren-damn-tee she saw more American Blood then any medic in the field!....

I had the pleasure of knowing a few.....and every damned 1 of them were Angels!!!....and all in essence... volunteers as well!!

I salute you Col. DeSanti!!!!!!

[Gay State Conservative]

Until I suffered a rotator cuff tear in my shoulder I used amaze my family with my ability to do push ups.

I was gonna get it fixed until the surgeon told me that the recovery took 6 months and was a lot like hell.

[Chode]

to all those who called BS on this old rag...

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/media_faked_out_by_84yearold_phony_vietnam_veteran_army_nurse.html#ixzz63HCEdyK1

If journalism isn’t dead, it must certainly be on life support when it can be knocked so easily on its collective butt by an 84-year-old Stolen Valor fraud, who flimflammed even Fox News with her tales of wartime heroics, faux medals, and a handful of push-ups. Margaret DeSanti, a self-proclaimed retired lieutenant colonel (sometimes captain) Army nurse, is a known phony Vietnam vet who was first exposed as such five years ago by TAH (This Ain’t Hell), one of the military blogs that long ago took on the mission of guarding the veterans’ community from those who falsely claim honorable service.

Maggie, as she calls herself, isn’t some harmless little old grannie regaling gullible reporters with impossible tales of derring-do. She is now, thanks to her latest exploits, a potential felon. As so many of the Stolen Valor frauds do, when not conclusively stopped in their illicit pursuits, Maggie kept rocking her lie to bigger and bigger venues until finally she attained her fifteen minutes of fame — fame she probably wishes now she could take back. Fox10 Phoenix aired a video made by Honor Flight Arizona showing constant self-promoter DeSanti challenging a TSA agent to a push-up contest prior to boarding an HFA flight to Washington, D.C. as one of the many Honor Flight programs. It was that bit of chutzpah that brought her national fame and, soon, her latest unwanted exposure.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks.