Posted on 09/30/2007 11:25:27 AM PDT by Stoat
See, this is what happens when you let Democrats run a city. Oh, and you also forgot the compulsory "but the gang bangers on International Bvld.--really anywhere in the flats--are just victims of rich, racist Republicans". Just so we don't get a Sharpton-esque shakedown.
I erroneously assumed because some one gave their self the title “Marine Chaplin” that they were in the Marines.
Your simple statement to correct my mistake is appreciated.
Well excuse me and thanks for the correction.
Sorry you have such an angry defensive snotty attitude.
Look at the post just below yours.
Flippant comments? I think not, just a little ill-informed.
Now which title it was that I said I earned?
LOL! Saw a group deploy, the clerk transposed a serial number. Shiite HIT the fan looking for a missing rifle.
This airport should be avoided at all costs by our military. No gas for war.
Time to boycott Oakland and let the world know what idiots they are.
Clarification always helps. Are there really so many Freepers who take everything at face value? I question everything I read....it has served me well.
Who am I to change military custom???
Hmmm, a buddy of mine and his wife were married in ‘85 in Worcester, Massachusetts by a chaplain that wore captain’s bars and the globe and anchor.
Clarification always helps. Are there really so many Freepers who take everything at face value? I question everything I read....it has served me well.Did you honestly think this story wouldn't get any scrutiny what so ever and you alone would have to be the guy that had to lay the facts bare?
I don't know where you got that. I'm only responsible for myself and what I believe.
He is due back from Iraq soon.
I’ll be sure to make a point of asking him EXACTLY how he is treated on his trip back to Kaneohe, Hawaii.
Maybe is is because you seem to consider yourself half a vast conspiracy as well as the expert on what a Marine Chaplain is supposed to be called.
There are Navy Chaplains that will spend their entire careers with out serving with a Marine unit and there are Marine Chaplains that will never have served with any one else but Marines despite being QUOTE Navy UNQUOTE Chaplains.
Denying the validity of the story because you disapprove of the way a Chaplain recognizes himself and attempting to minimize what was done to those in his care by splitting hairs over his title does nothing to prevent it from happening again, if anything it lays open the door for continued insults against Our returning Marines at this airport.
After all You’ve done your best to prove this story was a non issue because there are no “Marine” Chaplains.
I never did any such thing. In fact, your entire post in inaccurate. You either don't or won't understand. Either way, I don't have time for you.
I never did any such thing. In fact, your entire post in inaccurate. You either don't or won't understand. Either way, I don't have time for you.
Others will judge weather or not I am accurate, whilst you slither away.
Oh, I’m not going anywhere. So, you can beat up on me when this all turns out to be true (as it looks). Still, anytime I see an email, with an exaggerated headline, and inconsistencies in fact, I’m going to suspect the story until it is verified. Nine times out of ten, the story won’t pan out. I’m not sure why so many folks here have a problem with that.
Here let me let you in on a little secret, one that will blow your pompous posturing clear out of the water.
Your whole argument is based upon the assumption that a Navy Chaplain a man of God, in the service of our Country and a spiritual protector of the Marines in his care would lie, and not only would he lie but he would sign his name to a lie and distribute it to countless others when the facts are easily checked and verified, as they were.
I pity a person that has so little faith in our Marines and those that lead and minister to them that they would rather believe that they are lying then to actually accept the truth at face value and wait for further confirmation.
You have one hell of imagination. Let me get this right...all I have to do is sign an email saying I'm a chaplain, and nothing else should be questioned?
Certainly, you'd verify that the name is true, right. OK. So, we did that. Then one would have to wonder why whoever forwarded his email added such an exaggerated tittle...and why they called him a Marine Chaplain. How is that questioning him the chaplain. It is a question of the people who are forwarding his email?
BTW, I also am a military officer with 26 years (and counting) and I know that I should verify things that are questionable.
Have you ever known a military Chaplain to lie?
Seriously His name, his rank, and The Marine unit involved as well as the date were all in the initial story and have been verified.
What is about that that makes you so intent on continuing to portray this story as a hoax?
Ego, maybe?
Me I’ll just keep bumping this thread as long as you want to put your foot into it.
But his identity wasn't verified initially. Is there anything wrong with me wanting it verified? Geez, pull your head out. You are making all kinds of assumptions about me with no knowledge whatsoever. I guess you live in a world of stereotypes.
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