Posted on 09/30/2008 12:33:48 PM PDT by rvoitier
I'll agree with that. But the laws I'd agree with you on are the ones like not driving barefoot.
If this isn't illegal it should be. There should be a legal penalty for this kind of fraud. And he should have his butt kicked on a regular basis to reinforce his lesson.
Dress up is something little girls do and this guy is probably about as formidable.
Wearing the uniform and decorations for a re-enactor event, for a commemoration, or as an actor is a bit different than fraudulently wearing the uniform and decorations to claim unearned honors, unserved service time or to gain benefits normally due only to servicemen.
Let’s all go get some police uniforms!!
Sentence should have been to have him serve at his local VA hospital..........
I think you’re ok with the hat : )
But I don’t want to hear that your Mom got thrown in the slammer ; )
Something wrong with this picture...
I don't know what the US Army beret color is (I thought it was now black) -- here in NZ, sand-color is reserved for the NZ SAS. But I'm looking at this dude's beret, and then I'm looking at my Guardian Angels red beret, which is an American pattern...
Does your US Army fold their berets over to the left, or to the right? My red beret folds over to the right, in what I believe is the correct American pattern: it is certainly correct by our Manual.
The dude in the picture has folded his over to the left, in French Foreign Legion-fashion (except their berets are bright green).
He'd also have to be the sloppiest Soldier I've ever seen -- and I've always been a civilian: his beret is crooked, his blouse is unpressed and his watch is on the wrong hand... in addition to the other matters that you raise in your post (badge, shirt, &tc)
I do hope you Yanks tried him as a Spy and subsequently hanged him: he sure looks like a terrorist to me!
Did he do a Groucho Marx on his eyebrows?
Oh yeah, before I forget: thanks for your Service. People like you let people like the rest of us do what we do.
> Did he do a Groucho Marx on his eyebrows?
(big grin!) He’s got Obama’s sticky-outy ears, too...
HEY, WAITAMINIT! Now this all makes sense! This guy is the Human Mister Potato-Head!
These became the entrenched standards for several decades until the end of the cinton administration when the Chief of Staff of the Army and Secretary of the Army decided we could be more like europe if all our soldiers could wear berets (manufactured under contract in China, to be sure). They decided that all soldiers would be issued black berets, and this sent many in the Ranger community into (IMHO) a wholly justified rage. It was decided that the Rangers would get the sand/tan color beret.
You are correct, this retard is wearing his beret sloped to the wrong side. The flash (the yellow patch) should be worn over the left eye. Enlisted soldiers wear their regimental unit crest on the flash and officers wear their rank. This dud has neither.
> when the Chief of Staff of the Army and Secretary of the Army decided we could be more like europe if all our soldiers could wear berets (manufactured under contract in China, to be sure)...
Crikey! That explains it!
We used to get excellent red berets from a US manufacturer called “Bancroft”. We also used to get excellent red berets from a New Zealand manufacturer called “Hills”.
Between them, I understand that both companies supplied the vast majority of berets to the US Armed Forces.
Now, buggered if I can now find a source for either...!
Makes perfect sense: this business went to China. Is it possible that both these companies have, as a result, gone bung???
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