[rocksblues]

Notice that no where in the story does is give his party affiliation but gives it for one of his friends.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

New Jersey? Former Dem Mayor of A.C. is his good friend?

Has to be a Democrat.

[Gay State Conservative]

Not surprising.I think that everybody who’s held the title of Mayor of Atlantic City over the past...I think....50 years had wound up being indicted for something.

[madison10]

One of those “phony” military persons of whom Rush spoke.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Apparently, this guy had a fine military record to be proud of. Why he would want embelish it even more is beyond me. Don’t these guys know that once they are in the public spot light, some operations research person will dig up everything they can on them and the truth will come out. Damn shame. I retired from the Army with a record that I am proud of. I never was a Green Beret, because that wasn’t the path I chose. I have a young son however who is a Green Beret Captain now serving with the first SFG. I am proud as hell of his achievments also, but I am equally proud of any young man or woman serving in the military regardless of the branch and career field they are serving in. I also disdain the phony soldiers who never served or served and lied about their record. I equally disdain the people like John Kerrey who came back from Vietnam and lied about his fellow soldiers. The military is the last bastion of “Honor” and those who dishonor it should be condemned.

[FryingPan101]

I’m confused as to how Veterans are able to embellish their service records successfully. How is that done without help from the inside? My Dad, a WWII and Korean Conflict veteran, who made 6 combat jumps (Geronimo!) and had his entire leg bullet-ridden; who had the Silver Star, Bronze Stars, four awards of the Purple Heart was denied a significant disability rating. He died a couple years ago having never received a disability rating. He was proud of it too. I can cite hundreds of examples just like his. The VA has always, IMHO, been frugal with its disability ratings. How did this mayor pull it off???

[Clemenza]

Admiral Boorda committed suicide for less...

[dfwgator]

"I ain't seen nothing since I stepped on that landmine in Vietnam. It was very painful."

"You were in 'Nam? So were we. Where?"

"I was in...Sang Bang...Dang Gong...I was all over the place, a lot of places."

"What unit?"

"I was with the Green Berets,Special Unit Battalions...Commando Airborne Tactics...Specialist Tactics Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. I was Agent Orange, Special Agent Orange, that was me."

[Americanexpat]

As a three tour Vietnam combat vet I am proud of my service and proud to have been a regular infantry leg soldier. I never had the desire to claim to be somethng I wasn´t. There were a lot of people claiming to be special ops who were never in the military and have caused the Viet vets a lot of grief with their lying exaggerated war stories.

[tlb]

This fellow’s case came up in threads a year ago. He served with South Vietnamese rangers who gave him one of their Green Berets. He exaggerated this and misled people into thinking he was a US qualified Special Forces soldier and is paying the price for that.

But at the same time he was a decorated career soldier who gave good value for the government’s investment. As far as I know of his case he never used this as leverage to slam serving soldiers or undercut their mission. It’s inappropriate to lump him in with the Jesse Macbeth’s or similar frauds who never served at all, much less in the war zone.

[ontap]

I’ve met several vets I would call heroes One Medal of Honor winner. Not one of them ever brought it up on their own. I had been an acquaintance of the Medal of Honor winner for months before some one else told me. I think that says it all!

[onedoug]

He’ll claim post traumatic stress, and if he’s a democrat, he’ll float.

[School of Rational Thought]

Phoney green berets! We former astronauts and CIA agents are outraged! ;-)

[School of Rational Thought]

Phoney green berets! We former astronauts and CIA agents are outraged! ;-)