Marine Vet at #OccupyWallStreet Tells Sean Hannity to... (Real Marines?)

The Other 99 Percent (YouTube) ^ | 10/10/2011 | The Other 99 Percent

[Incorrigible]

The folks at Occupy Wall Street are creating and publishing videos of themselves onto YouTube. This one from today caught my attention. It's an interview with two men who claim to be Marine Veterans.

- They are anti-war

- Anti Bail-out

- One claims he is burdened with student loans despite the GI Bill

- Asked about Sean Hannity's opinion of protesters, they respond with expletives and claim that everyone in that park near Wall Street are patriotic Americans.

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[AnyStreetFL]

How is it that a member of the USAF(an Airman, I’m assuming) ends up being awarded a Combat Infantry Badge? I thought that was strictly a US Army citation. This kids wearing more salad than the whole Joint Chief’s of Staff for cryin’ out loud. He’s got what looks like a Bronze Star with something tacked on to it and a Purple Heart and besides the Jump Wings, which I know you can receive if you qualify for the training and make a jump, what in the world are all those silver things he’s wearing?

Yes, something is not right with that picture. It's a mish mash of medals and ribbons that simple make no sense together.

[Shadowstrike]

I am a retired Marine.

Those 2 are full of...sheet ;)

But I do thank them for posting their videos, now every Marine in the world will know what these candy @ss mama boys look like.

[W. W. SMITH]

Went in the catalog and ordered one of every thing?

[sandboxshooter]

Very wrong. They do take other services.

[Ax]

I confess that I don’t know the answer to that. If a person is awarded a good conduct medal or any other medal in the Navy or Marine Corps, and enter the Army or the Air Force, those medals may be worn. I would think that would also apply to CIB, parachutist badge, etc.

[sergeantdave]

I don’t know, 2ndDivisionVet...

One piece of spaghetti this guy is wearing looks like a World War I Expeditionary ribbon.

Maybe he fought with Gunny Sgt. Dan Daly at Belleau Wood in 1918?

[jmacusa]

Thanks 2CAV(God bless you for your service). Bear with me, I’m just a ‘’civie’’ but the CIB is an Army only citation then, as I understand it. Purple Hearts and Bronze Stars are given in all branches of the service as well as the MoH, the DSC, The Silver and Bronze Stars(with added citations for valor, again, as I understand it). The Navy Cross is given to Navy personnel as well as Marines but not say, to an Airmen or an Army soldier nor is an Air Medal given to a Marine, right? In short, Poindexter here,(this pathetic looking kid) is all assed-up and backwards and tricked out like a badly done Christmas tree, as I see it.

[jmacusa]

Well, it goes without saying that Laughing Boy here(this goofy-looking kid) is WAY TOO tricked out with all that chest dressing he’s sporting. As I said, I regret never having served but as I said, I became well aware through the honor of knowing quite a number of WW2 veterans who came by The Combat Infantry Badge all the way from Normandy Beach, St.Lo, The Bulge and then some and it really frosts my nuts to see some jackass, I don’t care if he/she served, to pin that citation on themselves like they earned it. It’s a damned insult and it should be against the law!

[Ax]

Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was just playing dress-up for a Hallowe’en party.

[dfwgator]

Oswald was a Marine, too (and a commie)

[jmacusa]

LOL! Well, he doesn’t need a mask, that’s for sure, not with a Sad Sack-looking mug like he’s got!

[Colonel_Flagg]

I think he’s also wearing Command Pilot wings and a DFC ribbon. Which would be something, I believe.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Just did a Bing search on this individual. For those that are curious, here are the medals and badges on the uniform according to one blogger:

Medals and Ribbons:
1. Silver Star
2. Air Force Combat Action Medal
3. Distinguished Flying Cross
4. Airman’s Medal
5. Bronze Star with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
6. Purple Heart
7. Air Force Meritorious Service Medal
8. Air Medal
9. Joint Service Commendation Medal
10. Joint Service Achievement Medal
11. Air Force Achievement Medal
12. Presidential Unit Citation
13. Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon
14. Unknown/Hidden
15. National Defense Service Medal
16. Antarctica Service Medal
17. Unknown/Hidden
18. Afghanistan Campaign Medal with 2 Campaign Stars
19. Iraq Campaign Medal with 2 Campaign Stars
20. Hidden/Unknown
21. Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal with Campaign Star
22. DOT 9-11 Coast Guard Medal
23. Hidden/Unknown
24. Air Force Overseas Short Tour
25. Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
26. Air Force NCO PME Graduate Ribbon
27. Air Force Honor Graduate Ribbon
28. Air Force Marksmanship with 2 Stars
29. Unknown/Hidden
30. Air Force Training Ribbon
31. Army NCO Professional Development Ribbon
32. Unknown
33. Army Service Ribbon
34. Unknown
35. Armed Forces Service Medal
36. Humanitarian Service Medal
37. NATO Kosovo Medal
38. United Nations Observer
39. NATO Medal
40. NATO Non-Article 5: Afghanistan

Badges:
1. Air Force Enlisted Aircrew Badge, Master
2. Army Combat Infantryman Badge, 3 Awards
3. Military Freefall Parachutist Badge (HALO), Jumpmaster
4. Looks to be a Special Operations Diver
5. Parachutist Badge, Senior
6. Combat Medial Badge, 2 Awards
7. Air Assault Badge

http://usafonlineoped.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-once-wrote-story-on-here-about-stolen.html

[Safetgiver]

You are talking about Nevessetta. Meanest MF’er to ever wear anyone’s uniform. Got run out of the Marines for knocking the shit out of his squad, went to the Army and got Ranger qualified (allowed to wear that on his AF uniform), decided he wasn’t travelling enough and joined the AF. I was just a baby when I met him but could tell some harrowing and amusing tales about him. I think he spent over six years in VN until the white mice requested he got sent home.

[Mears]

He looks like a young,short haired Paul McCartney.

[sergeantdave]

“As I said, I regret never having served but as I said, I became well aware through the honor of knowing quite a number of WW2 veterans who came by The Combat Infantry Badge all the way from Normandy Beach, St.Lo...”

You’re doing a good job, jmacusa.

Semper Fi, FRiend.

[sergeantdave]

Hell, Colonel, maybe the boy was an ace flying the SPAD VII and engaging the Red Baron. We can’t know that.

Do you or anyone else see a medal for shooting down the Red Baron? It’s probably there. We just haven’t identified the ribbon yet. Damn.

Let’s search...

[2CAVTrooper]

The silver “crap” around it are the oak leaf clusters IIRC.

That is what makes it a Combat Infantrymans Badge, as opposed to the Expert Infantrymans Badge which has no clusters.

The stars denote how many times it has been awarded, in the case of the idiot pictured above, that would be the 3rd award.

[2CAVTrooper]

They have subdued ones that are worn with the ACU’s