Posted on 04/15/2017 8:58:47 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
One of my nephews was injured during Marine Corps basic training, severely enough to be medically discharged. I’ve never heard him claim to be a former Marine, only to express regret that he was not able to serve.
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Stealing the Honor.
Yup.
At least you tried. A lot of my generation ran to Canada. I still won’t have anything to do with those who ran.
Sure looks like the picture they take of you in boot camp. I still have mine. But I did make it through boot camp and I did serve out my entire enlistment and I was honorably discharged. Semper Fidelis. Except for Dan. He’s just a pathetic cretin.
At Ft. Knox, in the summer of 1973, we were marched to one of the old WW2 buildings, like we lived in while in basic, were told to find a shirt, jacket, and hat that fit, put it on, with tie, and get our photograph taken. As you we got the packet at the end of basic and some amount was deducted from our pay for it. I still have the photo from the packet I gave my mother all those decades ago and she kept in a frame in her house.
Show us the DD Form 214, Dan, of your service.
That one might be harder to forge—my Dad’s, which I found for his funeral service, and from active duty service in the US Army in the mid 1950’s was reverse printed. The image has the normal paper background being black and the letters on the form appearing as white. It looks almost like an x-ray. Don’t know if the USMC had the same or not.
Ah, the old Plattsburgh AFB. It is now Plattsburgh International Airport.
I flew in there a couple of years ago - I think it was via a regional USAirways plane.
After we landed we had to taxi about two miles. Because it was a SAC base it needed the long runway. Whoever sold the government all that cement made a lot of money.
“Dan Is D Man.....maybe NOT......you know Mike Tyson could not complete boot camp either”
That wasn’t Mike Tyson, it was Riddick Bowe, who joined the Marines, but ducked out of boot camp in a few days.
That sounds like the old way they had of making copies prior to Xerox machines.
My birth certificate is like that. Totally black background and white letters.
After WWII, it was common for soldiers to take their DD214s to the courthouse and have them recorded for convenience. They would look like that.
Recruiting Station in order to enlist in the Marines. .....I wanted to be a Marine, too, but they found out my parents were married. (Ducking).
#4 Make sure they use Times New Roman font from Microsoft Word....
They should have kicked him out for that dumb azz smile.
When I ETS’d, they told us to record our DD214’s at the county so we could always get a real copy in case we lost ours.
There’s no shame in washing out of boot camp in the Marines. The USMC is sonetthing very special and not everyone can make it, myself first on the list. If the beloved Corps called me to tomorrow and said “Son, it’s your turn to serve” I’d pick up my rifle and serve proudly. But I’m quite sure that the corps has no interest in me. So all I can give them is the deep respect that I have for those who do serve.
The problem here is when you claim that you were a Marine when you’re not. Until the eagle, glove and anchor adorn your collar, you aren’t part of the Corps. Claiming you are is, quite simply, stolen valor.
Rather was, at one time, a top-notch journalist. But he turned into a person who let his own opinions and politics get in the way of fair and balanced journalism, and that shames everyone who IS a journalist, myself included. I have covered many stories where I have a strong personal opinion, but you would never guess that from my reporting or editing. Rather lost that and it was long past time for him to leave the craft.
Why the vast majority of Journalists are liberal I haven’t a clue. But I have known many who, like me, are fiercely defensive of their devotion to balanced reporting. The profession that gave us Murrow and Sevareid must not have people who can’t tell the WHOLE story.
"In 1954, Rather enlisted in the United States Marine Corps but was soon discharged because he had rheumatic fever as a child."
Referenced quote from:http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ow-Sh/Rather-Dan.html
"Rather served a brief stint in the U.S. Marine Corps, but when his superior officers learned about his childhood bout with rheumatic fever, he was disqualified for military service for health reasons."
Right after Ivy League access, one thing the rich and powerful pay for is sanitized military discharge records, that their Senators demand.
I'm surprised that Dan Rather was able to get that picture if he never graduated.
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