Posted on 05/22/2006 11:52:25 AM PDT by 91B
I wanted a pony for Fitzmas but I got something better - William Rivers Pitt's head on a plate...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search=jessie+macbeth&search_type=search_videos&search=Search video
Yeah, a buddy of mine flew one of the C-17s for that. I have a great pic of many of the C-17s lined up on the runway in Italy, getting ready to go. You can see about 15 aircraft in the frame. It's a "C-17s to infinity" type shot.
http://www2.jsonline.com/news/gen/mar03/128806.asp
Ping, in case no one has done so yet.
I don't have a thread at DU for you, but I know it's there.
FOB Bernstein near Tuz Khurmatu-where I spent almost a year-was named for a 173rd solider killed in action.
BTW, his first ribbon is the Bronze Star. With a Purple Heart next to it. What gets me is there is no "V" on the BS. I seriously doubt he would have, if he did, earned a BS in anything other than combat, which would make him eligible for the "V"!
ping
Some poster had a thread about this, and he sounded hopeful somewhat that the guy is legit it seems:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1636365/posts?page=14#14
Have you seen this?
http://www.homeofheroes.com/herobill/News/cottone.htm
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1256448
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x212031
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1253554
Just dug this gem out of the DUmp:
"The date he gives for being with 3rd Battalion in Falujah is the date that 3rd Ranger Battalion was back in Ft. Benning getting awarded a campaign streamer for their Battalion Guidon."
The DUmmie says he is 3rd Ranger Batt so he oughta know.
See the replied-to post for DUmmie threads.
He's just the latest version of a "Winter Soldier", claiming to have committed attrocities when he was never in the military, or was actually a cook serving in another theater.
He's probably a recent convert to islam, who may have been in the Army, and may actually have served in Iraq, and is now shilling for the enemy.
I also doubt he'd be able to make through Ranger, or any SF school, with that stutter (unable to communicate clearly).
It's the same direction you generally see the Iraqi insurgents toss the end of the towel around their head/face, so as to not interfere with a rifle or RPG launcher held up to their right cheek.
A beret or ski mask offers no such challenge. But old habits die hard.
BTW: the French Foreign Legion and the Vietnamese Rangers, Special Forces/BDQ, and american advisors and straphangers thereof did indeed wear their beanies *pulled left*.
*GunnyBob ping*
I notice he did not put his picture on his Military.com profile. I wonder if he ripped off somebodies name and bio who really was in the 75th.
Fallujah was a joint Army / Marine endeavor. It's just that the Marines got all the press and credit. I know because my daughter, as part of the 1st Cav Div., was there. Lots of sleepless nights for dad.
Wrong. Marines just got all the credit. Half that battle belonged to the 1st Cavalry Div. Kinda pissed me off at the time, considering my daughter was taking part in that action.
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