Hero wannabes’ photographic imagination

Sierra Vista Herald, Sierra Vista Arizona ^ | Feb 26, 2006 | Lee Basnar

[Old Sarge]

Not all recipients of valor awards serve in the combat arms. “Some of the heroes in our current war are truck drivers and military policemen,”

The American people don't believe that for a minute. The "Warrior Caste" is alive and well over here. If you're not pulling a trigger or kicking in a door, you wasting a real soldier's oxygen.

It's a dirty little secret.

[F-117A]

Some serve as Senator from Massachusetts!

[SandRat]

Ping

[ConsentofGoverned]

Probly posted many times, but if we had the internet back in the 70's how different would the history of War in Vietnam have been..When I got back and heard the stories of the liar's like Kerry and his VNVAW groups - I was accepting of them because hey I did not serve with the guys who spoke and did not have a way to check with other vets about what was being said..The current group of war vets has the ability to correct the history of their war and expose the lies we never could.

[fightin kentuckian]

Awww, come on. Don't tease me. Name names.

[pabianice]

Not all recipients of valor awards serve in the combat arms. “Some of the heroes in our current war are truck drivers and military policemen,” The American people don't believe that for a minute. The "Warrior Caste" is alive and well over here. If you're not pulling a trigger or kicking in a door, you wasting a real soldier's oxygen. It's a dirty little secret.

That's a bit harsh. Those of us who flew recon in Vietnam feel we also served.

[SandRat]

Not as secret as some think. Those that have served whether in combat arms or or not understand it and respect it; hence such adoring nicknames bestowed on the non-cambat arms types as "Loggie-Doggie", "AG-Puke", "REMF", "PX-Warror", "Saigon-Warrior", and a few more that might get us banned from FR for using.

[SandRat]

If we'd had the Internet then, the whole outcome would have been different I think.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Curious that the US can award US Veterans status to Royal Lao military while ignoring pilots from Air America, CAT, etc. who were mainly American civilians who went in harm's way.

[PeteB570]

TOC TOAD

[SandRat]

Cable-Ape

[Grampa Dave]

FYI, gentlemen.

Travis exposed a phoney Seal in the 2004 election.

[MeanWestTexan]

"If you're not pulling a trigger or kicking in a door, you wasting a real soldier's oxygen."

Whatever. My ground crew kept me alive and my bird in the action through hard, non-stop, often very dangerous (like refueling us while being sniped at via hand-pumped 52 gal drums) work.

You know that not every RE is a REMF.

[Triggerhippie]

If you're not pulling a trigger or kicking in a door, you wasting a real soldier's oxygen.

I think the convoy guards that were "just" driving down the road protecting us did the mission just as much as the marines in Fallujah or the 4th ID farther north...

[MonroeDNA]

Cool!!!!

[DJ Taylor]

Every once in a while, these phonies will become so brazen they will even give interviews to reporters, as did this guy. Shortly after this interview appeared in the Hendersonville (NC) newspaper, the Special Forces Association exposed this man as a phony who was never in either Special Forces or in Vietnam. Not surprisingly, much of this man's resume was also fabricated. The Sheriff who this man worked for was a Vietnam Veteran who served as a door gunner in Vietnam and had never suspected that this guy had been lying to him. Needless to say, the phony was fired.


If I were posting this interview, I would have to give it a double Barf Alert. http://www.hendersonvillenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040628/EXTRAS02/406280327/1034

[the invisib1e hand]

cool screenname.

[Grampa Dave]

Travis spotted this phoney and reported the situation on Free Republic.

The guy was a complete fraud re being a Seal in Nam.

[Squantos]

Too easy to check class dates etc and 3 minutes of conversation will out a poser easily .....fools folly. Had a troop tell me once he was EOD in the Navy....I asked when he went to the school and he said he bypassed EOD school due the fact he was a BB stackin ammo ape and knew all about munitions already so he wasn't required to go to the school........:o)

I fired him for lying.....

Doom on this trash.....