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This may be one of those rare cases where the guy is truly an ex-Marine.
Kerry is slime.
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Has any of this EVER been documented? Does anyone besides Kerry actually KNOW Bangert?
I have a hard time believing this.
So this happened on his first day and he waited how many years to report it? And waited until he could embarrass his nation in front of the world, rather than report it when it happened?
Profiles in courage.
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great info, this is the character of Kerry's band of brothers versus the character of the Swifties
Caption from Songs of Protest: The Vietnam Songbook --
Joe Bangert
Singer
Founding Member of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Member of 'Hanoi Chapter of the ' Quang Tri- Thua Thien Vietnamese Veterans Association'.
The GOP and/or SBVFT should show a picture of this guy on the stage with Kerry at the convention and then just give his bio. This is outrageous. I understand that Scott Camil, another Kerry VVAW pal, is working on his campaign in Florida. These guys must be exposed for what they are, traitors.
That is at least a partial explanation.
There is nothing said in this article to indicate Bangert was a shipmate of or served with Kewwy. What's the criteria for becoming one of Kewwy's Band of Brothers? Is there any criteria at all?
A typical example of an individual who is slinging BS big time is this guy Bangert from the Winter Soldier Investigation. Here's a summary of what he told the Winter Soldier "Investigation":
Joe Bangert enlists in 1968, and serves in VMO-6, an aviation unit that flies very small observation planes. Banger does not state his MOS (Military Occupational Specialty), but almost all the enlisted men in these units were maintenance types - fix airplanes, attach bombs, fix radios, etc. They usually did not fly, and they saw very little combat.
Bangert says he sees a truck load of Marines murder a bunch of children on his first day with two officers present. Then he sees bodies "crucified" on perimeter wire, apparently cut up with knives and hung on the wire. Then he has a friend who is CIA who takes him somewhere, murders a woman with twenty shots, then cuts open her vagina, takes out her organs and skins her. The perpetrator was a former military officer, and two other field grade officers knew about it.
Then Bangert works with the pacification program in Vietnam, and travels extensively through Quang Tri Province. He sees approximately twenty deformed infants under the age of one.
Bangert sees journalists, specifically women journalists who were readily welcomed into the unit. There was always this whitewashing thing. Well, sometimes these people would go right past the bodies and come into our base to get a story. They were kept away from the enlisted men, away from the people who were involved. The typical thing was to take them down to the Officers Club, get them soused.
Elsewhere in his testimony, Bangert claims to be a door gunner with two helo units.
Anybody who believes these tall tales is awfully gullible. Bangert worked for a light observation squadron - very little combat. The men worked like coolies, often 16 hours a day 7 days a week, servicing planes, refueling, rearming, preparing, cleaning, maintaining. Usually they did not fly. They did not get to wander off on secret CIA missions. They did not participate in the CAP program - these were separate small units who lived permanently in villages, protecting the villages from the VC. They did not get to wander around Quang Tri looking at deformed kids. He states on his first day he sees a bunch of kids murdered on Route 1 -- this the main thoroughfare through the area, not some remote area. Can you imagine the press coverage? He says the press saw the crucified bodies, but were wooed with booze and did not report on this. Come on, get real.
Source - FR's wintersoldier.com - "Incoming":
First met Kerry in 1970 in Detroit. Anyone have this guys record?