Ted Nugent's Marine Claim

FOX News Channel/The O'Reilly Factor

[Edit35]

Nugent was referring to what he learned from the time he spent entertaining and visiting with the US Marines in Iraq.

Sheeeesh!

[Northern Yankee]

You know... I almost went into the Marines, before enlisting in the Air Force. I had become good friends with the Marine recruiter during my senior year in high school. My father finally sat me down one night and asked if I was going into the Marines because of my friendship with the recruiter, or because I wanted to go into the Marines. I decided it was the first.

Eventually followed my dad's legacy of the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Army Air Corps during his stint as a combat pilot.)

I still think the Marines have the best looking uniforms.

As for Ted, well... he's a patriot, and a damn sight better than alot of those folks out there in Hollywood, or Rock & Roll land.

[Non-Sequitur]

Reciting a fictitious story from the hippies at Rolling Stone about how I got out of the draft is another example. I had a 1-Y student deferment, for the record.”

Which brings up two questions. One, why didn't he have a 2-S, which was the student deferement? 1-Y basically said the government was taking a pass on you, but you might be called up is things really got desperate. Two, how could he be a student when he was touring with the Amboy Dukes? By his own account he was doing 300 shows a year between 1967 and 1973. Kind of hard to do homework with all that traveling.

[absolootezer0]

kinda like the t-shirts that say “everything i need to know in life i learned from the ‘Wizard of Oz’”?

[Sue Perkick]

By the way, we’re selling out every concert on this “Love Grenade” tour. And I do exactly what the good Marine Corps taught me every night

There are a couple of ways that can be taken. That he's doing something the Marine Corps taught him every night because he was in the Marine Corps. Or that he's doing something every night that he learned from them by meeting or working with them. He phrased it in such a way that makes it difficult to understand. HOW & WHAT did the Marine Corps teach him & when? He definitely needs to explain what he meant.

[Sue Perkick]

[Thrownatbirth]

And I do exactly what the good Marine Corps taught me

...and the good Marines do exactly what I taught them: No puking in the liberty boat!

[Beckwith]

I was only responding to this statement, “And I have never seen anything to indicate that Nugent himself has ever denied it.” I have no intention of getting involved in a ****ing match.

[GunnyBob]

Everyone:

Here is Ted’s response to me after I emailed him and asked him directly. This clears everything up.

“Never been a US Marine hero by any stretch, however, I have trained with em, patrolled Kosovo with em, shared American BloodBrother campfires with em, saluted flag draped coffins with em, prayed with em, and have learned their warrior ways from them. That is all I’ve ever stated/celebrated. T”

[Texas_Jarhead]

Thanks for the followup ping Gunny.