Ok, im not Catholic, so no dog in the hunt.
BUT,,it sure seems to me that Corapi is always firmly on the side of the angels,
and that there suddenly seems to be an organized effort to smear him,
and that a woman fired from her job is at the bottom of it all. Am i missing something?
You only posted a sentence. Is there more?
Geez.
The Eponymous Flower
ANTE DIOS NUNCA SERÁS HÉROE ANÓNIMO
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Someone’s Dug up Father Corapi’s Military Records Again
As noted before and elsewhere, Father Corapi is challenging the authority of the Bishops to pass rules and ordinances like this, making a priest guilty till proven innocent. CNS points out that no part of Canon Law was cited.
This copy of Father’s military file has been floating around at least for four years, and others have wanted to “debunk” Father Corapi as well. Well, it’s stuck over on Free Republic and it’s a bit hard to read some of the later entries, and it can look bad if you don’t know how to read the document and the acronyms. You have to realize that there are no things that jump out at you saying, “this is a super secret, special forces trooper.” After looking at Wikipedia, it says that Father John was sworn in on April 16th 1967. After finishing up his Basic at what looks like it may be Fort Gordon, he was enrolled at Fort McClellan on 23 June of 1967, where he was first in Charley Company, Second Platoon, 3rd Battalion of the 175th Advanced Infantry Training Brigade. It’s entirely consistent with his story that while he was training as a basic Infantryman, he was already committed to be Special Forces, and looking forward to going with relish. He then attends a course where he appears to have gone to Ft. Knox for a time. That’s mostly Armor there, so who knows what he was doing there but it lists his MOS as 11B10 Infantry, and states that he is a attached as “student”. It’s not too far from Fort Campbell where there is a Special Forces Unit and Air Assault.
Basically, you can come from any MOS and be Green Beret. Father Corapi’s military record is ENTIRELY consistent with his descriptions in his rousing speeches.
In fact, this file has been floating around for a while and was dealt with very well by another poster at the Catholic Answers Forum, here, it’s very exhaustive and does a good job of defending Father Corapi. It would make sense that Father Corapi was hurt and after becoming an Infantryman, was sent to a more appropriate job as a clerk typist in Germany working for a General, when it was very dangerous with all the Bader Meinhof types roaming around.
He might have some time to do this...
Notice the FR link to a Know Nothing Catholic hating bigot?
I think the key points are that there are people who have gotten access to non-classified records and are making assumptions based on that.
Additionally, the talk where Father Corapi is wearing his SF pin is very convincing.
Finally, there was a Special Forces Op in North Vietnam to free American POW's. It is possible that some of the Spec Forces involved had not been involved in any Vietnam War Operation except for that one.
That one was quite unique -- the Special Forces went into North Vietnam. There was only one problem -- the prisoners had been moved to another camp (some speculate that someone in the State Department sold out the operation).
But is an example where one's service in Vietname could only be in one classified operation.
This one should work: