Posted on 05/23/2006 9:32:54 AM PDT by Sam Hill
:-)
Does the Army have any groups like the Seals to expose frauds like this POS?
Special Forces and Rangers tend to be exclusive of one another--I have never heard of anybody who did both the Special Forces Q Course at Camp Mackay and Ranger School at Fort Benning. (If they are out there, my hat's off to them--to pass one such course is remarkable, to pass both would be truly exceptional.)
Why do the phony vets always have to be Rangers, Breen Beanies, or SEALs (or, worse, all of the above at one time)?
I mean, I did my year in Vietnam after Uncle drafted me. I was a cook. About the most danger I was in was when I accidentally started a grease fire.
"Another sociopath on the loose. Maybe Cindy can adopt him?"
It wouldn't be the first time:
Cindy’s Marine Is A Liar | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/marine-told-tales-for-fame/
"So ya got the normal CYA - he must be a paid plant by some vast right wing conspiracy."
And yet MacBeth was a featured speaker for them for quite some time now.
As I've noted elsewhere, it of course smacks of the Al Hubbard story.
Al Hubbard helped to start the VVAW (the parent of the IVAW). He handpicked Kerry to be his second in command.
Hubbard claimed to be a pilot who was wounded flying combat missions in Vietnam. He appeared alongside Kerry on Meet The Press, the day before Kerry made his appearance before the US Senate.
Turns out that minutes after the MTP program aired the National Review outed Hubbard as a fraud. He was a Sergant who was never in combat, probably never in Vietnam. And his "injury" came from playing basketball.
(He was also a Black Panther. Or at least he claimed to be.)
Still, Hubbard stayed on with the VVAW and eventually went to Paris, then Hanoi to negotiate with the NVM and VC.
He later was awarded one of the Soviet Union's highest honors for his service to their cause.
Kerry's Mentor: Black Panther And Phony Vietnam Vet, Al Hubbard
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1080094/posts
You'd think this would count as some sort of fraud, at least...
Nah, can't recall the name of movie but the Hero was playing a video arcade game and this "stramger" appears and takes the kid off to fight as a gunner in a space ship and saves the universe. This ahole musta seen that movie....
You know, you could have submitted yourself for a Purple Heart. After 3 accidents you could have got yourself sent home.
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 33 > § 702
§ 702. Uniform of armed forces and Public Health Service
Whoever, in any place within the jurisdiction of the United States or in the Canal Zone, without authority, wears the uniform or a distinctive part thereof or anything similar to a distinctive part of the uniform of any of the armed forces of the United States, Public Health Service or any auxiliary of such, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
No, it's quite common to be SF and Ranger qualified. You just can't belong to both units at the same time. Having a Ranger tab means you graduated from the school, not that you were assigned to the Ranger Regiment. Typically, young NCOs/officers go to Camp Mackall for SF training and, once completed, are sent to Ranger school for the additional training.
How can we get this guy's contact info to the Arizona Cardinal's. I'm sure there's a linebacker or two who'd like to hear his Ranger stories. After all they know what a real Ranger from Arizona looks like -
http://diodon349.com/Vets_stuff/Vet_images/in_memoriam.jpg
I'm sure they would have a spirited discussion of life in the military.
BTT. I did kinda like the "shoot the youngest child" story but then I used to read Sgt Fury comic books, too. And it does remind me a little of Congressional testimony by a young feller named Kerry.
Macbeth: Will not all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands?
(Lady Macbeth enters with blood covered hands)
Lady Macbeth: My hands are of your color. Come, a little water washes away the deed.
MacBeth, Act II, Scene II
For some reason, this line struck me out of all the BS he said. One does not get "stabbed many times" by jihadis. Hand to hand is uncommon in Iraq, and people who have been stabbed many times during hand to hand in any war are as rare as dragon's teeth.
If there's a revolution, I hope he gets napalmed.
Of course, the line about "go into the Army or go to jail" is vintage TV script not heard since the 1960s.
Actually, it still happens all the time, though not as much as during the days of the draft. I know of at least one kid who got that ultimatum and ended up serving on USS Theodore Roosevelt during the invasion of Afghanistan.
Two reasons:
1. Your average fake vet lies about serving because he views himself as deficient and is grasping at glory to cover his deficiency, so why not go for the brass ring?
2. The fake vets who work for the Fifth Column claim to be in special forces so that when someone says, "That never happened" they can say, "It was on a super-secret classified operation." That's not something you can do if you say, "I was in 3rd ID and I machine-gunned an elementary school class on the way into downtown Baghdad..."
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