Posted on 01/21/2019 11:45:47 AM PST by rktman
Good for you.
If he is 64 he had join at age 17 in 73, when St Louis Records center burned and many MPFs were lost, thus plausible. He would show up at the VA if h.g.h ad any Benefits by using his last initial and last 4.
Well there you go. The guy is a liar. Will the MSMLSD bunch bring that up? LOL!
Marine Corps jody.
That would explain why I never heard it.
Yeah, when I requested my records I basically got another copy of my DD 214. Everything else. Gone. Proving anything to the VA concerning your time in ain’t quite as easy then. I have a VA card I was originally issued and when I went to the local VA 20+ years later they were like-—HUH? Nice huh?
***Mr. Nathan Phillips is affiliated with the Omaha Nation...***
So what is got his tail in the ringer? From what I have found, the US Army never fought a war with the Omahas but protected them and some smaller tribes from their enemies the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapahos.
When I came back form VN in April `71 to Ft Lewis for
discharge we were told not to go into Tacoma in uniform
because of the danger of being attacked.
We rode in Army buses that had armoured wire protecting the
windows from rocks that could be thrown,or so said an E-7.
Then for the next 10 yrs there were crazed VN vets on all
the tv shows.
Still hate Uncle Walter and Jane Fonda.
I don`t believe the drummer guy is a VN vet.
I thought it was:
I wanna be an Airborne Ranger?
It is, in the Army. No such thing in the Corps either but WTH?
"Allied Troop Levels - Vietnam
Year American
1964 23,300
1965 184,300
1966 385,300
1967 536,100
1968 475,200
1970 334,600
1971 156,800
1972 24,200
1973 50
That aligns with the claim of service from 1972 to 1976.
The man is clearly mentally ill or dishonest, but he certainly might be a vet.
“The USMC was no longer in VN in 1973.”
The last Marine combat unit left July 1972.
all that headstone means is that he died in 1975. Doesn’t say he was kia.
I was born in 1951 and look a whole lot better than this desiccated old fart.
Marine guards were in VN until the fall of Saigon in spring ‘75. They have an association and web site. They might shed light on Phillips.
“Never recall singing “recon ranger” or even hearing the term. It was always “Airborne Ranger” in the Jody songs that I sang.
I did hear of Remington Rangers. The only time they retreated was when they backspaced. But you would have to remember Remington typewriters for that to make sense.”
Yes, the Army had “Rangers”, and the “Jody” was “Airborne Ranger”. The Marines had “Recon”. I had the honor of supporting Rangers (LRRP) and Marine Recon 69-69 in I Corps.
His actual age together with that troop level chart will indicate whether that claim was likely, unlikely or impossible - irrespective of if he is or is not a vet.
Is it PROVEN that he even was in the Military??
I am guessing he was NEVER in the Military!
Then there is no way he served in Nam.
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