Posted on 05/15/2007 3:55:01 AM PDT by billorites
Well, folks, I’m going to tell you something. I can’t believe all the people who have replied to this post. You run off at the mouth as if you had some kind of knowledge about this Floyd fellow and the reporters who have written the story. It’s pretty obvious to me that you don’t have either. You’re all at least a half a bubble off level and if you were as much as half-cocked in your comments, that would be an improvement.
Having said that, I think Floyd did a good thing in this case and should be commended. He certainly shouldn’t be charged with anything. I’ve met him and had no problems with him. But I happen to know the former police chief whose name was mentioned in the article. I know him very well and have for many years. What he said was very true and you can take anything he says to the bank. I have also met Floyd. I work for the electric company and I know the person who was threatened by him. That threat he made, especially in this day and age and in light of his history, is not something to be taken lightly.
Rather interesting that this case involves three people of less than sterling character, at least as I see it. Kenney was a low-life scumbag, McKay was a jerk and an anal aperture, and Floyd is a loose cannon. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if his name is in the headlines again some time before he goes to meet his maker.
I’m with you on R. Lee. I think he’s a bit of an embarrassment. Maybe he might inspire fear in Cub Scouts but anyone who has gone through P.I. would just laugh at him. I know I do.
Are you saying he was only a SSgt, not a GySgt? I didn’t know that. But hey, I only made it to Sgt myself.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. I know Bob Every. He was understating the situation, I’ll guarantee you that.
Reading the original source articles, I now know you are right and I was mistaken. Thanks.
It appears, according to the article that Floyd has had no run ins with law since 1998. If you know something else let us know. If not, nine years of no problems would seem that Floyd has changed his ways.
If disagree that these reporters are trying to make Floyd look bad then why bring up stuff that's at least nine years old with nothing more recent?
I’m not particularly defending the reporters. Reporters seem to live and die by the sensation they can create and this guy was ripe for the picking.
What I’m saying is that you and all who responded to your post were extremely quick to jump to conclusions. The chances that I know a bit more about it than you do are pretty good, considering I live not 20 miles from where this all took place, know the former police chief and have been to this man’s property on more than one occasion.
As far as I know, Floyd has indeed behaved himself and I say again that what he did was a good thing and he should be commended. I have heard from several people I work with who know the situation and the people even better than I do. Everything I have said about the 3 main characters in this story I believe to be absolutely true.
I noticed that someone called the Union Leader the MSM. I almost laughed right out loud.
Then why did you respond to my original post as though I was wrong when I said the reporters were trying very hard to make Floyd look bad? I think you jumped the gun. Regardless of how well you know the people involved it still seems to me that the reporters were trying to make Floyd look bad - even a bit nuts.
Everything I have said about the 3 main characters in this story I believe to be absolutely true.
No one disputed that. It's the idea that these reporters (do you know them too?) were dredging up every negative thing about Floyd from ten years ago. What's the point?
It is my understanding that RL was a 20 year ssgt who retired and immediately began shopping himself to Hollywood. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. He didn’t make gunny until he got to Hollywood.
My embarassment was more with working a proposal, an eleven-hours-a-day, seven days week for a month effort, where every morning we had a stand up meeting. The early morning stand up meeting was always concluded with an “inspiring” video clip of RL. Like I said, this was a Marine Corps proposal lead by former (’cusa me) Marines who didn’t find this in the least bit odd.
I had a similar experience working TDY for a Newport News subcontractor at the shipyard. Every morning we had a stand up meeting lead by the local Microsoft rep and the subcontractor project manager. The experience reminded me more of what I’d read about Jonestown than anything else. There is apparently a very fine line between team building and cultish groupthink.
No, RLE was not a 20 year Marine, nor a Gunnery Sergeant.
He went out on a medical w/over 10 years+ service.
Long after becoming big in Hollyweird, the CMC decided (PR, my guess) to bestow upon him an “honorary” GySgt rank. He now uses the term “Gunny.”
An honorary promotion is much like an honorary docorate, unearned and non-academic, no requirements met. Benjamin Franklin, I recall, had at least one or more “honorary doctorates” from universities in Britain. He was said to have insisted on being called Doctor, and went by Dr. Franklin; even so far as to demand that members of congress refer to him as Dr. Franklin. Dunno if anyone ever took him seriously or not.
Anyway, IMO, Ermey is a fair actor, although his judgment in choosing roles may be quite questionable. If he’s going to use the Corps to further his career....???
In addition, IMO, the character he has created as a “Gunny” on TV, etc. is/should be no more than an embarassment, IMO, a throwback to the pre-WW II image of a somewhat less than intelligent military sergeant.
Boy they sure have a lot of dismissed cases there don’t they. Kenney had one and Floyd had at least one.
Such is the nature of small towns where people know each other throughout their lives and relationships are "complex".
Small town New Hampshire, after all, served as the inspiration for the novel Peyton Place.
Flinty, hard-nosed Yankees on the outside...
...ruled by impulse and desire on the inside.
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