This is Corapi....
Posted on 03/30/2011 9:22:12 AM PDT by 0beron
Heads up... the first time it got out there was a few years ago, and someone took some time debunking it back in two thousand eight.
(Excerpt) Read more at eponymousflower.blogspot.com ...
Here we go, from today's Army;
Army Special Forces Training Like all soldiers, SF candidates begin their career with nine weeks of Boot Camp. Upon completion of Basic Combat Training you will attend Advanced Individual Training. For Special Forces, you will go to Infantry School to learn to use small arms, anti-armor, and weapons like howitzers and heavy mortars. This AIT lasts four weeks and takes place at Fort Benning, Georgia."
After graduating AIT your training will continue with the following schools:
# Army Airborne School # Special Operations Preparation Course (SOPC) # Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) # Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC) # Live Environment Training (LET)
Notice it says, "After graduating AIT". Not "included, extending training consecutive with and still referred to as AIT"... There is a break there. A distiction made between AIT, which follows Basic for all Infrantrymen, then this other, more specialized training.
Do you know how to read a 2404?
I’ve reported what I know, nothing more nothing less. After becoming an Infantry, Father Corapi went to Fort Knox which is mostly Armor, as an Infantryman. There’s no report of what he did there, no report of why he went there, nothing, but it’s different and weird.
I know how to read a personnel file and know these posts. There’s nothing that I’ve found on line showing any training going on at Fort Knox except for Cavalry Scouts and Tankers.
How long would, or could AIT have taken, back in 1967? So 2 months Basic, followed by what? Two, three, or was it four months of AIT?
Though AIT could have it's own "specialized" components, OTHER, further, more specialized training after that, would need to be completed before a guy could rightly enough wear a SF emblem, making claim to having completed "Green Beret" training???
There does not appear to be enough time available for that.
He might have went through training for being some sort of Army recon guy but that does not justify running around telling folks that he "trained for Special Forces", and completed it, which he long has, referencing the same on numerous occasions.
It looks like a case of embellishment. Or at least a case, which after examination, leaves not unreasonable doubt.
Corapi has yet (unless I've missed something) taken the trouble to straighten it out, either.
I'm almost willing to bet we'll see Obama's long from birth certificate before we'll get a peek at a DD214. Or short of the DD214, enough verifiable information that could remove doubt.
This is Corapi....
So what? You’re a simple minded, anti-Catholic bigot? No mystery there.
I have no idea. He went to Fort Knox as an infantryman for unspecified training. Fort Knox is an Armour and Cav Scout post. I haven’t the foggiest notion what he would be doing there and I was unable to find a comprehensive list on google of what kind of training was going on there in the time concerned.
Ok?
Actually, there was some specification, albeit imprecise. That specification was AIT, which as can be found through only a bit of searching, is prerequisite for the further training required to justify the claim in dispute.
Forgive me for repeating myself here, but it is only in response to your own repeating of vague assertions, which have been addressed, both in the previous posts to you on this subject, and again, more briefly in the paragraph above.
That info points toward both impossibility of the claim, and the futility of speculation towards it's support.
Three months is a little long for Infantry AIT, don’t you think?
Not really. Basic was two months back in those days. Ask the Army vets of that day how long it was before they shipped off to Vietnam or Germany.
3 months wasn't long enough then, to become a "Green Beret", but it would probably be long enough to become a clerk/typist, particularly if one had to be recuperate from an alleged injury, be re-assigned and re-trained.
Otherwise, 2 months certainly isn't too long to be in AIT. One month extra to lay claim to have completed "Green Beret" training is a LITTLE SHORT DON'T YOU THINK???
If that's not the case, then why not have many more of these, back in the Vietnam era?
By your own insistence, you are becoming like the monkey trapped with the nut-in-a-bottle trick. You can let go and escape. Corapi can't. He's BUSTED!
Basic is two months now. It was eight weeks during WWII and it was two Months during Vietnam.
It takes roughly seven weeks to get through Infantry AIT both then and now, not three months which is what Father Corapi was doing, until he was assigned to Fort Knox.
Have you ever been in the military?
He took AIT at Ft. Knox.
So answer the question. Do you REALLY think there was enough time, after completing Basic and AIT, that he could have actually completed additional Special Forces training? Is that all it takes? A month. 5 weeks? Fat chance, not in that war. No way. No Wings, no Special Forces. Get that through your head.
I volunteered for the Never Again Volunteer Yourself Dept., a couple of years after the last guys came home. It was a dumb move on my part.
But you didn't serve, did you? I thought not...
We shouldn’t be surprised when wolves in sheep’s clothing actually look like sheep.
But they’re not.
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