Posted on 05/18/2010 4:16:02 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Beluga head speaks truth...amazing.
I saw the video of Blumenthal saying he served in Vietnam. I too served in the Marine Corps Reserve and never went near Vietnam. I served with and was trained by Vietnam combat veterans.
For Blumenthal to say, point blank, that he served in Vietnam is not an, "Oops, I misspoke," kind of mistake. It is a brazen lie and it is stolen valor. This p.o.s. Blumenthal should be in jail.
Yeah, when this sick scumbag Begala can't spin something, you know it's all over.
Buh-bye, Blumenthal.
On “Morning Joe” this morning, someone said that his biggest, most carnal sin, was claiming he was Captain of the Harvard swim team. Once they get away with a huge lie...the lies keep coming (see index on Bill Clinton).
I’ll get shot at for this, but I don’t consider anything to be a tour unless you put actual feet on the ground. If you float by or fly over the Tonkin of some other contiguous body of water, then you are NOT, in my opinion, a vet with Viet service.
Darn, by your Vietnam service 'standard' I just don't know how to catagorize my late Father's combat service which consisted of two tours to Vietnam. He was not US Army, nor Marines - so he did not perform the 'ground-pounder' role which seems to be the only legitimate qualification for your standard of combat service in Vietnam. You see, he never "put actual feet on the ground".
However, during his two combat tours to the Vietnam theatre, he was regularly flung off the deck of two U.S. Navy carriers (with his RIO) in an F-4B as part of the U.S. Navy Fighter Squadron VF-96. Both he and his RIO, plus all others in VF-96 were shot at on a regular basis since when they were not used as a MiG CAP, they were employed to drop 500lb bombs on well defended NVA targets, just as did their sister U.S. Navy Attack Squadrons. But perhaps since he did overfly the Gulf of Tonkin, was never shot down, just shot at over North Vietnam - this does not meet your standard of 'legitimate' combat service in Vietnam.
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I knew I’d get shot at for that, but your father would qualify for combat operations participated in.
I’m referring to John Kerry’s so-called tour in which he floated by Vietnam. He had the famous one in which he received rice wounds in his ass, but my memory says there was a float by.
That’s what I mean by “float-by.” A “fly-by” would be similar.
The Purple Shaft with Barbed Wire Clusters at 2 1/2 turns to the inch.
“You can do 6 years in an active reserve unit without going anywhere.”
Thanks for the explanation.
I think the swim team stuff needs to get legs too, and find out what other boastful lies this man has told.
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