Posted on 11/07/2015 5:57:51 AM PST by marktwain
He should get the same recognition for his service as other veterans, no more, no less.
He deserves plenty of scorn for many other things, of course.
That assumption has killed innumerable people.
Yep, wherever Al was when that picture was taken, we have been told he served, in whatever capacity. I'm not down on him for that.
He has done plenty since then to be worthy of derision.
I’ve seen boonie grass and that background looks like it. Further the author says “look at the muzzle brake” - you can’t see the muzzle break because it has a plastic/nylon cap cover on it! I have a bunch of those for my ARs.
That said, it was dumb to be fiddling with the sling even if there was no magazine in it. The gear? I have no idea what the journalist hooch had in the way of bush gear, but I bet it wasn’t much.
Korea
Maybe there is a canteen on the other side of his ruck, to offset the weight? Also, many troops were in fact issued rubberized rain gear. Most uncomfortable to wear.
I remember reading somewhere that he was only in VN for like six months and during that time he stayed in Saigon and pretty much had his own security; he wasn’t even allowed to go out in the field.
I made that picture into a sign with the caption ‘Algore Demonstrates his Knowledge of Firearms Safety’. It was a big hit at the Second Amendment Sisters rally.
Those plants in the background look like phragmites (australis). Phragmites looks very “jungle like” but it’s an invasive weed that has been growing in the US for a couple hundred years. There is a lot of it around the Chesapeake bay.
This staged photo could have been taken anywhere. A foggy winter morning in Maryland perhaps?
“That assumption has killed innumerable people.”
That was my first thought. It’s like some of these writers have never heard of a round in the chamber with the bolt closed and the magazine ejected.
Maybe they only run around with magazine disconnect pistols and have no clue how a rifle works?
..here's another for ya..(note finger on trigger)
I agree: the gear doesn’t look like anything worn in Vietnam.
It may have been taken elsewhere (stateside?) when he was in training.
But the statement that it was taken “in Vietnam” looked questionable from the first.
It looks like he’s playing a C chord and yodeling. :)
Well, one thing for sure, he was not living on his current diet whereever he was.
Algore was a REMF's REMF!
Wasn’t his length of “service” FOUR MONTHS before he was back home with a self-inflicted shot to his buttock? Or is that just a joke I heard.
With the background....couldn’t this be South Korea? In the early spring or late fall...the jacket would fit with the environment there.
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