[disraeligears]

I may be mistaken, but:

wasn't Col. Hackworth one of the most, if not the most, decorated soldier in Vietname; and

the journalist who noticed that Boorda was wearing an incorrect decoration????????

[disraeligears]

Vietname = Vietnam

[alisasny]

Sad to hear of his passing when I didnt even know he was so ill.

I believe Hack also enlisted in Korea and perhaps snuck into WW2, His bio is pretty extensive.

A true warrior and a great patriot. We don't like to hear our military bashed but I am sure he saved many soldiers lives with his firebrand ways....

THANKYOU HACK REST IN PEACE GOOD MAN!!

[A.A. Cunningham]

the journalist who noticed that Boorda was wearing an incorrect decoration????????

No. That would have been LtCol Roger Charles USMC(Ret.) who initally exposed Boorda.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

I believe I read that he wore some incorrect decorations himself. He also spent the last few years doing harm to our war fighters while claiming to be their friend.

That said, yes, he was a good soldier in his time.

Michael Frazier

[OldFriend]

Yes, Hack went after Boorda and then it was learned that Hack himself had an unearned ribbon (medal) on his own website which he subsequently took down.

His campaign against Boorda was disgraceful.

[Airborne1986]

"wasn't Col. Hackworth one of the most, if not the most, decorated soldier in Vietname and the journalist who noticed that Boorda was wearing an incorrect decoration"

Hackworth was involved in the Borda story. I don't know if he actually broke it - but he was writing a story for Newsweek when Borda killed himself. I think Hackworth asked Borda for an interivew. Borda had been wearing a V-device on the Navy version of the ARCOM. He had clearly earned the award - but the device was in question. Did not seem like a really big deal. Ultimately, a Navy board decided that Borda was, in fact, authorized to wear the device. Too late for the admiral, however. Then somebody questioned the fact that Hackworth listed a Ranger tab as an award on his web site. Hackworth never went to the Q-course. Hackworth said that he thought earned the tab by being assigned to a "Ranger" unit in Korea. Hackworth had to pull the reference from his web site.

Hackworth was very award-conscious and listed all of his awards on a web site. He did earn a lot of awards and multiple purple hearts. He spent alot of time in "About Face" writing about his awards. All that being said, he served his country in WWII (as an underage merchant mariner), Korea and Vietnam and you've got to tip your hat to that.