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Posted on 10/14/2007 11:20:37 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul
“It not only degrades the Special Forces but makes the military retirement community look bad...†Democrats do this. They degrade EVERYTHING they touch. They are loathsome scumbags that hate the military unless they can suck something out of “being in the military.†Remember the king scummer clinocchio wrote that he ‘loath the military’ and frenchie lying about both his service and what he had personally sen in Viet Nam and his phantom visit to Cambodia because president - elect Nixon personally asked him to go there? As I said the are scumbags, They put themselves and their party over our country.
Mitchell Paige (Medal of Honor - Guadalcanal) made sort of a post-retirement career out of exposing phony Medal of Honor recipients. He told me he had his own FBI liaison guy, and they both worked their spare time busting the schmucks.
Uh, does this mean that Bob Levy was “Swiftboated”?
I mean, nothing happened to Levy that didn’t happen to JFKerry after all... people simply questioned a politician’s claims of military service, and checked him out, and found some problems.
“...lost all my high frequency hearing when the guys on the bow planes lost control and dived too deep for the snorkel to breathe (high-speed snorkeling run). The diesels sucked out all the air until the safety kicked in and shut the engines down. By then three of us who had colds and couldn’t equalize fast enough had screwed up eardrums.”
Wow. That sounds exactly like what dad said! The snorkels weren’t around that long, so I’m guessing you served between 1946 and 1950, say. He said he would wake up with blood on his pillow from his ears. He met Truman briefly on an inspection once, and Charles Kettering, whom was consulted on something or other. Kettering was known as an inventor, the electric-starter for engines iirc.
Another interesting trivia, the snorkel system was a sort of test-fit on American subs. One of the “features” on a highspeed run was the periscope would no longer turn easily. So apparently one of the remedies was to loosen the bolts in the assembly, to allow for loosening the system. Worked fine, but leaked seawater like a sieve. Dad said looking through the periscope at that time became a fulltime enlisted mans job!
Good quote. It's true, too.
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Beautiful post and the colors jump out!!
[phantom visit to Cambodia]
Lol, how can we forget! The medals have improved with time, snicker!
Wonderful posting!
Has Harkin apologized yet? Matter of fact, it seems to me the little scumbag should be in jail. WHERE is Bush's Justice Department on this?
Salazar sponsored the Stolen Valor Act - signed into law by Bush last year - which made it a felony to falsely claim to be a decorated military veteran. Violators can receive up to a year in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Oh that's right.... Bush's laughingstock "Justice Department" is careful to leave elitist politicians, like Sandy Berger for example, alone.
One of those phony soldiers that the DemonRATs don’t believe exist.
You do that, and I’ll quit telling people that I ran the Gulf War.
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Thanks potlatch
Took me awhile but it needed doing
When I retired in 1990, they gave us a "Transistion Seminar" to civilian life after 26 years. One of the speakers was from the DAV organization, and he strongly recommended that you go to the VA immediately after discharge with a copy of your medical record and submit a disability claim. Even if it was essentially denied and you were rated at zero per cent, you were considered a disabled veteran. This gave you preference for government hiring, but more importantly you could go back to the VA later and get your rating increased as you discovered other problems with your body that could be service related. I ended up with 10% for a combination of problems ranging from gout to hearing loss (too many big guns). The only benefit I got from this is that I don't pay income taxes on the $105 per month I get from the VA. They do subtract that $105 from my Navy pension.
I strongly suggest that if your local VA hospital has a representative from the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) that you contact him and they will help you put together a new claim. These folks do this all the time, and they know which words trip the trigger of the folks who approve them.
Good luck, and thank you for your service.
PS: We COBs still like to take care of the crew.
I'd say he was Swiftboated, but I don't believe that being Swiftboated is a bad thing to happen to a lying Democrat.
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