Posted on 09/12/2004 12:33:28 PM PDT by Travis McGee
Authentic or not, Bush memos no big deal to retired guardsmen
U.S. Servicemen React to Bush Guard Memos (spreading the lie)
Allegations of suspect conduct during the Vietnam war also have been leveled at John Kerry, who won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star in Vietnam.
A group sponsoring television ads challenging his wartime record contends Kerry's own gunfire caused the wound that brought his first Purple Heart. Navy records and other veterans do not support the charge.
Ahmad Majied of Albany (GA) says the latest allegations about Bush's military record are more troubling to him than allegations about service honors leveled at Democratic challenger Kerry.
Majied, a Democrat from Albany who served 30 years in the Navy, including five years as a SEAL in Vietnam, said the memos support his belief that Bush was a "playboy" during his service years.
"He had enough money to get what he wanted," Majied said. "I think his main concern was not to go to Southeast Asia. I bet he never dreamed it would come back to haunt him."
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So Criminal Number 18F checked him out. Here's the reply from "authentiseal."
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Official Reply
NOT A SEAL
Thanks for checking with us - we greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. If the name you provided was "spelled accurately", we do NOT have a listing for anyone named "Majied" in our entire database of slightly more than 10,000 names. Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a full legal name change since his claimed service with the SEAL Teams, I can state conclusively that the man NEVER completed SEAL training, and thus he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL. While there are other training steps that must be completed on the path to becoming a SEAL, BUD/S training is the first and most vital, and that training course is totally unclassified. Without having first completed BUD/S training, a man cannot go on to become a SEAL. There are definitely secret SEAL missions, but despite anything the man might have said, there are NO secret SEALs. If you choose to confront the man regarding his fraudulent SEAL claims, please show him this email message and invite him to contact me - a real SEAL - directly by email with information that will support his claims. I'd enjoy hearing his stories first hand, but I've extended this offer to literally thousands of individuals over the last three years, and in all that time I've received only a scant handful of replies, so I don't really expect to hear from him either.
Again, please visit our web page www.authentiseal.org/realitycheck.htm for some very specific information related to the realities of SEAL training, SEAL duties, and the claims most often made by SEAL imposters.
Thank you again for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams.
Respectfully, Gregory Platt
UDT/SEAL 1970-1974
SEAL Authentication Team - Investigator
"The only service where all investigators are US Navy SEALs"
info@ap.org
Bump to 89 before you do anything!!!!!
From
http://diodon349.com/Torpedoman/TMA_newsletter/TMA_Newsletter_Nov2003.pdf
It looks like Mr Majied was on the US Carrituck. Here is the information that he gave the Association when he joined them earlier this year:
Majied, Ahmad
2710 Cambridge Road, Albany, GA 31721-1574
229-431-1144
MACM
1963-66
Not knowing jack about such things, I invite ex-Navy types to help me interpret "MACM" and describe what role the Carrituck served in Vietnam. He apparently served 4 years assigned to the ship.
Note to AP: it took me 4.7 seconds to pull this from Google, and 10 minutes to read several links and write this post. I am available for hire as a fact checker, at substantially lower rates than experts such as Howlin and Buckhead.
That ad ran in WV. Both the Ms. and I got a laugh out of it. I liked it when she said, "If I lose my clients ..." then she did that strange head toss and shrugged her shoulder. Looked strange.
I thought she'd look better cast as a street person. She definitely had the whipped dog look down pat. Come to think of it, a bunch of my Democrat friends have been looking the same lately.
The AP story has his from Albay, NY
Yep...
to use a newly coined phrase
We're mad as ZELL and we're not going to take it anymore!
bump!!!
There is an IMAM Ahmad Majied in Albany.
I'll leave it to you all to figure out if there is any significance to that.
Albany, NY --
It's an Islamic name, so maybe some guy converted and changed his name. I doubt there were any muslims in the SEALS at that time, and none of them spent 5 years in Vietnam (and neither did anyone else).
Yes, but were they wearing pajamas? It's not official unless they were (extra points for footies!).
Yea, but you’re slow. See #89. Guess you get what you pay for, a slow talk'n slow type'n Texan. {smile}
I did not know the records worked that way. You've already been careful. Thanks.
Jammies? We don't need no steenking jammies.
(Ewwwww! Whatever you do, don't look at the chair seat.)
This will be old media's next line of defence: deadline anxiety syndrome.
How about D.U.P.E. - Deadline Under Pressure Excuse.
Good catch....!
In fact, 5 years in Vietnam would have been quite difficult for anyone. You would almost have had to do the tours back to back, something the military did rarely, if at all.
So are you, see 61. LOL
...who spent eight days drinking sweet mint tea...
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