"My kind of guy!"
Posted on 10/21/2009 4:17:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
A Marine Corps sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months confinement and fined $25,000 for pretending to be an injured war hero to get free seats at rock concerts and professional sporting events.
Sgt. David W. Budwah also will be reduced in rank to private and dishonorably discharged after any appeals. He must forfeit all pay and benefits during his confinement and is subject to up to 3 1/2 years of additional prison time if he re-offends within two years.
Navy Capt. Bruce W. MacKenzie, chief judge for the Navy and Marine Corps, gave the sentence after Budwah pleaded guilty to seven counts in a military courtroom on the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va. The offenses included making false statements, malingering, misconduct and unlawful appropriation, and carried a combined maximum prison term of 8 1/2 years.
Budwah, 34, of Springhill, La., acknowledged during the hearing that he was never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, as he had claimed. He said he lied about having helped with the 2004 tsunami relief effort and didn't earn eight medals and ribbons he wore on his uniform.
"The truth of it is, I was never deployed and I was never injured," Budwah said. "Everything that I said was false."
He was actually a radio operator in Okinawa, Japan, from early 2000 to early 2006, when he was transferred to Quantico and worked as a retail store stock clerk and warehouse laborer.
He admitted to bluffing his way into 13 events last year including banquets; Counting Crows, Boston and Collective Soul concerts; a Washington Redskins football game; and a Washington Nationals baseball game.
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“A Marine Corps sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months confinement and fined $25,000 for pretending to be an injured war hero to get free seats at rock concerts and professional sporting events.”
Does this mean John Kerry will get life in prison? Or Tom Harkin...he should be doing at LEAST 8-10...
“He was actually a radio operator in Okinawa, Japan, from early 2000 to early 2006, when he was transferred to Quantico and worked as a retail store stock clerk and warehouse laborer.”
Tom Harkin, a SITTING Congressass;
Harkin has gotten elected and re-elected, in part, by claiming to have served in Vietnam. During his service in the Navy, Harkin told Washington Post reporter David Broder, “One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. I did no bombing.” But as the late Senator Barry Goldwater (R.-Arizona) was first to notice, nothing in Harkin’s military service file showed that he ever served in Vietnam. Challenged by Goldwater, an Air Force General, to explain why he was awarded neither the Vietnam Service Medal nor the Vietnam Campaign medal (decorations given to everyone who served in the Southeast Asian theater), Harkin changed his story. Harkin claimed that he instead had flown combat sorties over Cuba during the 1960s.
This was another Harkin lie. Harkin actually served as a ferry pilot who flew aircraft in need of repair between the Philippines and his base in Atsugi, Japan. Harkin at last acknowledged that he never flew air patrols in Vietnam. He began describing himself in speeches as “a Vietnam era veteran.”
"My kind of guy!"
That is a major betrayal, especially when you consider the hell that a military man/woman goes through if they HAVE been injured and/or have PTSD or TBI.
Those problems are awful enough without now people or medical personnel “doubting” their wounds are real!
And this jerk sold out for rock concert tickets! Lock him up.Pound the liars...ALL the Liars in the public view till they are exposed!
Sounds a lot like this other Stolen Valor POS:
As a retired Chief Petty Officer I find this one hard to swallow, I believe it’s true, but I knew a lot of Marines in my career, never met a Marine I wouldn’t be proud to call a friend. Know a few that I would never invite to my home, but they are still friends. I just can’t see a Marine EVER doing this. Guess I’m wrong.... too bad.
Jack
What about Hillary for her TALES OF WAR HEROISM?
Oh, that sucks. I never knew that.
I looked it up, though, just to make sure.
Man, that sucks. I liked him in Rambo, Cocoon, and Silverado.
Not that this guy is not a jerk or anything but what is John Kerrys punishment?
“Not that this guy is not a jerk or anything but what is John Kerrys punishment?”
He holds Obamas coat? Kisses Bawney Fwank’s Ass? We can only hope that what goes around DOES come around eventually...if so, this ahole will join Ded Kennedy (D-Hell) in his new location...
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