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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Someone’s Dug up Father Corapi’s Military Records Again
As noted before and elsewhere, Father Corapi is challenging the authority of the Bishops to pass rules and ordinances like this, making a priest guilty till proven innocent. CNS points out that no part of Canon Law was cited.
This copy of Father’s military file has been floating around at least for four years, and others have wanted to “debunk” Father Corapi as well. Well, it’s stuck over on Free Republic and it’s a bit hard to read some of the later entries, and it can look bad if you don’t know how to read the document and the acronyms. You have to realize that there are no things that jump out at you saying, “this is a super secret, special forces trooper.” After looking at Wikipedia, it says that Father John was sworn in on April 16th 1967. After finishing up his Basic at what looks like it may be Fort Gordon, he was enrolled at Fort McClellan on 23 June of 1967, where he was first in Charley Company, Second Platoon, 3rd Battalion of the 175th Advanced Infantry Training Brigade. It’s entirely consistent with his story that while he was training as a basic Infantryman, he was already committed to be Special Forces, and looking forward to going with relish. He then attends a course where he appears to have gone to Ft. Knox for a time. That’s mostly Armor there, so who knows what he was doing there but it lists his MOS as 11B10 Infantry, and states that he is a attached as “student”. It’s not too far from Fort Campbell where there is a Special Forces Unit and Air Assault.
Basically, you can come from any MOS and be Green Beret. Father Corapi’s military record is ENTIRELY consistent with his descriptions in his rousing speeches.
In fact, this file has been floating around for a while and was dealt with very well by another poster at the Catholic Answers Forum, here, it’s very exhaustive and does a good job of defending Father Corapi. It would make sense that Father Corapi was hurt and after becoming an Infantryman, was sent to a more appropriate job as a clerk typist in Germany working for a General, when it was very dangerous with all the Bader Meinhof types roaming around.
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.