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2006-11-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Phony Marine Busted -- Too Fat to Be Real

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-30 13:03|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I was pointlessly looking through an Army/Navy Surplus store for a pair of pants once when it occured to me that there's a hell of a lot of difference between my 40-something physique and that of a 20 year old.

Time for me to head over to The Gap for some Dockers.

Posted by JDB 2006-11-30 14:16|| 2006-11-30 14:16|| Front Page Top

#2 There are probably thousands of individuals currently wearing unearned medals and decorations and thousands more making false claims of receiving military awards.

One of them used his unearned medals to run for President.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-11-30 14:22|| 2006-11-30 14:22|| Front Page Top

#3 The recent elections had (R) candidate running on his platform of being a Carrier CO, a helicopter pilot and all around great good ol guy. his attire in public was a pair of docker slacks and his well worn "I've been there" flight jacket. I took him to task for this uniform violation and he was incensed that a mere enlisted guy would challenge an Acadamy grad with such a fine record. He got stomped in the election.

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-11-30 14:51|| 2006-11-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Veterans have really lost their sense of humor about this crap. One of the first I remember who got busted was "Duke" Tulley, Publisher of the Phoenix Gazette (long since defunct). After he was exposed, he was banished to some little midwest paper and died in obscurity.

The Pentagon awarded a special honorarium of appreciation to one vet who has made it a lifelong campaign to expose fake Vietnam vets. He and his little band of the annoyed were responsible for taking down hundreds of frauds.

Usually they just send a letter of warning, and the braggart shuts up. But if they are in high places in business or government, or especially using their fraud for criminal purposes, they will get nuked. And the Pentagon is showing more signs of increasing willingness to prosecute.

POWnetwork.org
HomeOfHeroes.com
AuthentiSEAL.org
VeriSEAL.org

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-30 15:03|| 2006-11-30 15:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I once lead a secret mission across the border. Our mission was to acquire, track, and consume large quantities tequila. This assignment required strict secrecy and all members of my infiltration team were sworn to keep the mission secret. Well we reached objective TJ just as twilight descended. My wingman spotted several youthful female beckoning my team into what was sure to be a trap. But before I had a chance to act the entire team was drawn into the action and after four hours we limped back across the border. We didnt get any medals for our work but we will always remember that night when we accomplished our goal and the next morning brought a new appreciation for sleep and fluids.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-11-30 17:13|| 2006-11-30 17:13|| Front Page Top

#6 400+ pound SpetzlPretzl 1st class reporting for duty.

SECRETE SOGGY MISSIONS GALORE

this medal nn I got when Colby gave me the word to block the Ho Chi Minh trail.

And blocked it I did all by my lonesum.
I squat & blocked it because Ima 400+ pound SpetzlPretzl.

Posted by Michael Weilbacher">Michael Weilbacher 2006-11-30 17:23|| 2006-11-30 17:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Too fat. Remings me of the story (NYT i think) about how we were gonna get smacked by Saddam 'cause all our soldiers were too fat - at least Saddam's army fit into their uniforms. Funny, as I could always turn on Fox and see a video of a bunch of fat, 50 yr old Sunnis stompin around some dirty Baghdad street like they were real $h!tkickers.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2006-11-30 20:00|| 2006-11-30 20:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Were you at the Blue Fox in TJ by chance ???

Posted by crazyhorse 2006-11-30 21:15|| 2006-11-30 21:15|| Front Page Top

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