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Doesn’t REALLY add up’: Tweep’s thread on Nathan Phillips’ claims of Vietnam service will(T)
twitchy.com ^ | 1/21/2019 | sam j

Posted on 01/21/2019 11:45:47 AM PST by rktman

Nathan Phillips is the Native American Vietnam Vet who many were claiming was attacked and harassed by a bunch of evil, white, Catholic, high school kids in MAGA hats at the March for Life on Saturday. As more information became available it seemed clear (unless you work for CNN) that Phillips was the one who instigated the ordeal and the kids really didn’t do anything.

Good times.

Interestingly enough, a few people on Twitter tried to connect the dots on Phillips’ claims of serving in Vietnam and this thread is especially fascinating. Note, we can neither confirm nor deny any of this is true or correct, but it’s definitely something worth reading through.

Provided without further comment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: covington; vnv; whenim64
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To: rktman
In my FREEPIN days the question always was, Who were you With, and When were You There.

Separates the sheep from the goats.

41 posted on 01/21/2019 12:17:55 PM PST by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Democrats have done a full circle on Vietnam Vets. They spit on them, cursed them, treated them like crap when they came home. Now they are heroes when the situation warrants, masters of the universe when the left can get mileage out of them.


42 posted on 01/21/2019 12:18:46 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53
. Now they are heroes when the situation warrants, masters of the universe when the left can get mileage out of them.

Did you know that John Kerry served in Vietnam?

43 posted on 01/21/2019 12:19:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

LOL! Yup. Being a “protected” anything sure doesn’t stop assholery from occurring.


44 posted on 01/21/2019 12:21:23 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

Trump should have learned his lesson on this. Let someone else go after his service or lack thereof.


45 posted on 01/21/2019 12:22:26 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: donozark

If Joe the Plumber had claimed to be. Vietnam Nam vet, the media would have thoroughly vetted the claim and would have done it quickly.


46 posted on 01/21/2019 12:23:38 PM PST by Atticus
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To: SkyDancer
👹 Meant in more general terms. Not YOU in particular.
47 posted on 01/21/2019 12:23:56 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Come on guys. He served right alongside Richard Blumenthal. Together they did Secret missions into Laos and Cambodia, following the trails originally blazed by John Kerry.


48 posted on 01/21/2019 12:24:26 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: laplata

“The USMC was no longer in VN in 1973.”

Do your homework.


49 posted on 01/21/2019 12:24:30 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SkyDancer
😹🙀🤖. Hardly.
50 posted on 01/21/2019 12:25:24 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: LegendHasIt

It’s seared, seared in his memory.


51 posted on 01/21/2019 12:26:05 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: LegendHasIt
Together they did Secret missions into Laos and Cambodia, following the trails originally blazed by John Kerry.

In 1968, on orders from President Nixon.

52 posted on 01/21/2019 12:26:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

For what it is worth:

Operation Frequent Wind, Saigon evacuation, 29-30 April 1975

Operation Eagle Pull, Phnom Penh, Cambodia evacuation, 12 April 1975

Mayaguez Incident, 12-15 May 1975

The USMC was involved in all three of these events. I was on active duty, but stateside, at these times. USMC friends were involved in all three of the events.


53 posted on 01/21/2019 12:27:56 PM PST by Tahoe3002
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To: dfwgator

DD-214 time. Fake Injun too?


54 posted on 01/21/2019 12:29:32 PM PST by onedoug
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To: laplata

The USMC was no longer in VN in 1973.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
And the last of US diplomatic and skeleton military forces left in 1975. Be interested in knowing what he was doing there all alone those last two years.


55 posted on 01/21/2019 12:30:05 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: laplata

“The USMC was no longer in VN in 1973.”

Try telling that to the families of Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge.


56 posted on 01/21/2019 12:33:55 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: SkyDancer

Don’t believe everything posted.


57 posted on 01/21/2019 12:34:29 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

Hmmm. Embassy withdrawal in ‘75. Seems like one or two devildogs in the mix there as I recall.


58 posted on 01/21/2019 12:35:01 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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59 posted on 01/21/2019 12:37:04 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: rktman

Ah - okay. No worries.


60 posted on 01/21/2019 12:37:25 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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