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I-TEAM: PHONY LIEUTENANT COMMANDER HONORED AT ALAMEDA'S USS HORNET MUSEUM
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| june 1, 2015
| dan noyes
Posted on 06/02/2015 6:22:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: smokingfrog
Hey, whoa, man.
I was on the swim team titanic of 1912....
I got a shirt in Sag Harbor, Long Island with that emblazoned on it...
Some people get upset when I wear it and I ask “Too soon?”
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:35:21 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: smokingfrog
Ann’s good like that and many other talents...
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:36:30 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: lowbridge
There’s no POS like an old POS.
To: Vendome
Had he kept his lies somewhat reasonable, he may not have been caught out. At 19, a battlefield promotion from seaman to ensign or jg would have been questionable but remotely (perhaps very remotely) possible. Jumping it up to LCDR was laughable on its face.
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posted on
06/02/2015 7:55:22 PM PDT
by
Bob
(No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
To: forgotten man
I was born June 29th., 1945. Too late to help out with the war in Europe but I did co pilot the Enola Gay.
Here's a picture of me from that era:
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posted on
06/02/2015 8:01:52 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(27 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day!)
To: ansel12
My Uncle was UDT, never called himself a seal, and only his Wife would talk about what he did after he died from his injuries after years of suffering.
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posted on
06/02/2015 8:04:24 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: Vendome
Goehner told the audience that his suicide missions earned him the Navy Cross, three Silver Stars, and four Purple Hearts.
.................................................................
He had almost as many as John Kerry.
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posted on
06/02/2015 8:05:43 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(27 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day!)
To: dila813
Your uncle may not have known, and probably would have continued to call himself UDT, even if he had, my guess is that few of the old UDT call themselves SEALs, but UDT was merged into the SEALs about 1983, with the UDT desiring to stay in, receiving additional training.
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posted on
06/02/2015 8:25:05 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: ansel12
My uncle’s wife said he was proud of his service, didn’t care to be known. He knew he did his duty.
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posted on
06/02/2015 8:33:36 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: lowbridge
I'm so sorry I never questioned my dad about his service in WWII. All I remember was that he and fellow Marines had just finished training for the invasion of Japan when the ships they were aboard were sent to northern China to receive the Japanese surrender.
I do have photos of him playing ball with chinese children and several photos of him doing guard duty with Japanese soldiers.
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posted on
06/02/2015 9:25:04 PM PDT
by
Larry381
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: All
I recently read that the original UDT were Seabees.
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posted on
06/02/2015 9:26:50 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
To: ansel12
A few years ago, I met a UDT guy. He was very aggressive in saying he was a frogman, not a SEAL. They guy I met told me about some interesting intelligence missions during the Taiwan crisis in the late 50s, but he wanted me to understand exactly what he did and didn’t do.
To: MediaMole; dila813
The only one that we know for sure that prefers to tell people that he was a SEAL, instead of preferring the name of the elite unit that he specifically served in, and where he earned his pay, is Jesse Ventura.
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posted on
06/02/2015 9:34:19 PM PDT
by
ansel12
To: lowbridge
“War Stories and Fairy Tales”, no difference.....
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posted on
06/02/2015 9:47:36 PM PDT
by
ThomasPaine2000
(Peace without freedom is tyranny.)
To: doc1019
Every time I run across a vet, and he starts to tell me of his combat exploits ... I just walk away. Seldom will a combat vet ever want to talk about their experiences under fire, they are trying to forget, not remember. :-(My son did two tours of Iraq as a combat Medic. He does not talk about it very much.
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posted on
06/03/2015 3:28:30 AM PDT
by
cpdiii
(DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
To: lowbridge
This is sad. My own father told me some things about serving in WWII. But the stories my sister related that he told her are FAR different. Who knows where the truth lays?
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posted on
06/03/2015 6:00:45 AM PDT
by
Shery
(Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
To: Foolsgold
I heard John F’N Kerry broke his leg on a two-wheeled combat vehicle on the beaches of Normandy, France...
He was air-vac’ed by C-17 to Walter Reed, where Obama himself laid another Purple Heart on his pillow.
What an F’N HERO!
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posted on
06/03/2015 6:30:35 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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