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2019-09-04 Home Front: Politix
Pete Buttigieg Admits No Combat Ribbon from Deployment to Afghanistan
[Breitbart] Mayor Pete Buttigieg does not appear to have engaged in combat during his six months deployed in Afghanistan, despite months of ignoring multiple media requests about the issue, including from Breitbart News.
"But I saw a lot of action, IYKWIMAITYD"
The South Bend mayor spoke about his deployment during an interview with military news website Task and Purpose.

When asked if he considered himself a combat veteran, he replied, "Some say you are a combat veteran if you have a Combat Action Ribbon (I do not). Others say deploying to a combat zone makes you one. I simply consider myself a veteran, and I’ll leave it to others to decide what else to call it."

The Combat Action Ribbon (CAR) is awarded to members of the Navy or the Marine Corps who have actively participated in ground or surface combat.

Buttigieg added that his job was never intended to be a combat role, although he frequently drove or guarded military vehicles "outside the wire" of the military base.

According to his count, he traveled 119 times outside the wire.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 00:49|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 I've got no use for the man, but fok the ribbons, he served! That's a damn site more than most pols these days.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 00:56||   2019-09-04 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ This. Say whatever you like about him - and about Sens. Cotton (R-Ark.) and Gabbard (D-Hi.) - they served.

Can't say the same about the current and last four POTUSes.
Posted by Lex 2019-09-04 01:49||   2019-09-04 01:49|| Front Page Top

#3 In the future every candidate will go to Tuzla
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 07:22||   2019-09-04 07:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Lee Harvey Oswald served. Charles Whitman served. It's a mixed bag like everything else in this world. Trying to make it seem magical cheapens it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 07:28||   2019-09-04 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 By definition CinC is serving. Truman killed more enemy in two days than lots of flag officers did.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 07:30||   2019-09-04 07:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Right on, Murcek.

Besides that rifle and the shades aren't fooling nobody. He was probably the most anal retentive fobbit squealer in the ranks. Maybe he picked up the habit of buttgiggery right there in Afghanistan.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-04 08:12||   2019-09-04 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Look, I'm sure what I said above has pissed off some people here who Im not fit to carry their dirty socks. But I don't take any of it back.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 08:15||   2019-09-04 08:15|| Front Page Top

#8 The lefty media loved them some stories about vets who said "I don't want your thanks." The mindthoughts guy served. I had a friend whose dad liberated a death camp in WW II. He didn't want to talk about it...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 08:19||   2019-09-04 08:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Real heroes usually don't want to talk about it or defer to the 'other guys' who were there, then there are the John Kerrys who want you know about their exploits they wrote themselves up for but don't want you to see their personnel files.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-04 08:25||   2019-09-04 08:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Rapone flashed his comsymp message on graduation day at West Point. Technically he was commissioned and serving as of the end of the ceremony.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 08:27||   2019-09-04 08:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Clapper served. And he is a seditionist.
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 08:29||   2019-09-04 08:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Let just agree that veteran running as R is a baby killer whereas any running as D = woman of color
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-04 08:30||   2019-09-04 08:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Back in the rear with the gear? You can still get dead, but it all counts toward 20. Individual assignments are generally not made by the enlisted man, officer or even contractor. Things may have changed, but the last time I checked, which was a quite a while back, you generally go where you are told.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-04 08:31||   2019-09-04 08:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Once you enlist, or are commissioned it's not like you can quit if you don't like the job. Once you take off those CUs you never want to see them again. Don't know about others. Most of the time you're following the 'beat' and it carries you along wherever it goes. It's not like you can throw down your rifle in a war-zone and say 'Fuck this ! I'm out.'

'Almost all heroes are heroes of circumstance.' - wise old soldier

Only poseurs and padded shoulders will hire PR to post their pictures in uniform and talk about 'serving their country'. Plenty of room in any military for careerist opportunists.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-04 08:50||   2019-09-04 08:50|| Front Page Top

#15 As a vet, I'm grateful he served and did his bit for the nation.

As an American, I think he is a worthless piece of shit and needs a good wall-to-wall counseling session.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-04 09:12||   2019-09-04 09:12|| Front Page Top

#16 I bet he saved some condoms.
Posted by Raj 2019-09-04 09:57||   2019-09-04 09:57|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ Put aways in the cigar box with no medals?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-04 10:01||   2019-09-04 10:01|| Front Page Top

#18 p.s. In coming Israeli elections four former chiefs of general staff are running - on the left.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-04 10:54||   2019-09-04 10:54|| Front Page Top

#19  #15 As a vet, I'm grateful he served and did his bit for the nation.

As an American, I think he is a worthless piece of shit

It's like particle-wave duality - both things at the same time.
Posted by SteveS 2019-09-04 12:08||   2019-09-04 12:08|| Front Page Top

#20 He is an ass, and this discussion shows it. You go to a combat zone, draw combat pay, by definition you are a combat vet. You are considered the same as any vet, firefight or not. He went outside the wire, Hat Tip to him. He was not a FOB rat. Again, I don't care for him or his politics, but he is a combat vet.
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-09-04 12:33||   2019-09-04 12:33|| Front Page Top

#21 Did he lie about his sexual orientation in order to join?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-09-04 17:17||   2019-09-04 17:17|| Front Page Top

#22 According to his count, he traveled 119 times outside the wire.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2019-09-04 21:44||   2019-09-04 21:44|| Front Page Top

#23 In the rear with the gear?
Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-09-04 22:31||   2019-09-04 22:31|| Front Page Top

#24  #23 In the rear with the gear?

And just like that, Injun Bucket8891 wins the thread.
Posted by SteveS 2019-09-04 22:46||   2019-09-04 22:46|| Front Page Top

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