It appears to me that this guy is seriously wounded and one of the things on his mind was the support he was getting from FreeRepublic.Bingo.
I kind of dragged Captain Mike into this crazy forum...
...and he has had not had much free time to learn about the "proper" way to post here.But, he e-mailed me (a few weeks ago) that he had been sharing the FR threads about him with his men...
...and that THEY really liked reading so many positive things here -- particularly about our support for their mission.
What you seem to be saying is that this guy is so unaware of how 'real' Freepers act that he posted in such an unFreeperlike way that it aroused suspicion.
Quite frankly, I don't know that unsecured wireless is available in the Baghdad CSH. And if he's not in Baghdad, he's in Anaconda CSH and I'm pretty sure that they don't have wireless internet access there either.
And I can assure you that if I'd been hit bad enough to require meddevac that I would not post such a vanity. In fact, I didn't post a vanity to say I was deploying or that I was returning. Heck, I had some freepers expressing open skepticism about MY deployment, so what is so startling about people not believing this guy?