Posted on 08/18/2008 2:51:29 PM PDT by Interesting Times
John Smith said he was a Navy SEAL who was imprisoned in Vietnam after his helicopter was shot down.
Troy Brodrick spoke in schools about his 30-year military career in which he earned three Purple Hearts and flew President Eisenhower as an Air Force One pilot.
William Whitely, a former University of Oklahoma professor, told stories of his career as a Navy SEAL while he served as a mentor to Naval ROTC students who wanted to follow in his footsteps.
Trouble is, they were lying.
Smith, Brodrick and Whitely are among a growing nest of military imposters, people who make up military careers or exaggerate their service.
Such lies might seem harmless, especially when legitimate veterans have been known to tell aggrandized tales to make their service seem a bit more exciting. But it's a source of frustration for those who truly earned such accolades, and in many cases it's a violation of federal law.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
I don’t think they’ve caught him, yet. But it’s only a matter of time because one store that didn’t believe him caught him on a surveillance video that was made public. Not exactly the kind of video he was looking for. :-))
One of my wife's ancestors was British aristocracy. She came to America because she literally ran off with the stable boy. :-))
I was born at Fort Ord.
My high-tech teens are fascinated when I tell them about the ancient technology I used in the Corps in the mid-1980s :-). “Wangs?!? I thought those were fiction!”
Now, there are occosions when the senior guy may be wrong about PX medals.
When I was up for the E5 Board, the CSM said, “Soldier, you are out of uniform! You are wearing only one expert medal!”
“Yes, CSM! I am out of uniform!”
“Why?” Glancing at my 201, he read for a few moments, and said, “Nevermind - you can’t even buy a ladder rung for an FPK. Or most of the others you are qualified to wear.”
In other news, some talk, some don’t. Me, I never got shot at. So I got nothing to talk about.
(What’s in a truck?)
A myth perpetuated by the unknowing. Boorda quit wearing the Combat V device on his Navy Commendation Medal and Navy Achievement Medal, not the Bronze Star, over a year prior to shooting himself. Also, Boorda was being treated by a private physician for depression, unbeknownst to his superiors which was a violation of Naval regulations, at the time he killed himself. Claiming that you definitively know why Boorda shot himself makes you look just as foolish as those idiots in the liberal dominated mass media.
That's funny while I was serving in the Air Force during my six years I was never told what ribbons I was allowed to wear.I didn’t finally find out until I read my DD214 upon my D.O.S.
Yes, but he was too busy writing to fight.
Ha Ha, I got mine with 2 devices. I think two devices. Cant remember.
“It has been my life long experience that the ones who did the service and faced the hell, don’t talk about it.”
yep, of course if you wanna talk about the time the really pretty north korean spy tried to make friendly with me I’m sure I could open up.
I served stateside. I helped move the Agent Orange onto the incinerator ships August 1974. Spring of 1977, March 17(?), I volunteered with a Dr. Byrd, Pathologist, from Keesler to help at Dover AFB with the bodies (Tenerife Accident)...one week of horror and taught me about volunteers. I worked the Geigers when someone came in claiming to have been picked up by Aliens....vis a vis October 11, 1973 at Pascagoula. Even though my service was stateside, I had more than enough experiences to tell...the saddest was unloading Marines and Soldiers coming to Keesler via the DC-9 Nightingales at night to be at a hospital close to home. These wounded were the last injured to come home from Viet Nam and Far Eastern Hospitals. I have great respect for those that were in combat but am proud of my service also.My ND, GCM, SAM, OUC, TnANG, and other non combat medals to me are priceless...but I don’t need to pad it...
Wasn’t he Jimmy Horton’s brother?
If you're really curious, you should be able to request the basic outline of his service from the St. Louis archives. It should have his entry and exit dates, if not much else.
I hate c-9’s.
Got you all beat. I charged up Cemetary Ridge with Garnet AND defended it with the II Corps...
...in the movie “Gettysburg,” as one of 3,000 extras;-)
When I settled into a desk job at my duty station in 1973, we still had a few manual typewriters (I think they were Royals). We joked that only real men used manual typewriters.
The geigers registered nothing, right?
My high school was using manual typewriters in 1981. It certainly teaches a good clean keystroke!
I was A.F. also ‘63-’67. that was a long time ago and my memory is not the best but I don’t recall any medals at all, only ribbons.
I while back I got a copy of my dd214 and it had on it what all was authorized.
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