"Paul J. Adam" wrote in message
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In message , Kevin Brooks

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He has also spent his ire at other US targets--he was especially
deriscive
of the National Guard (though he has apparently piped down on that one
over
the last year or two).

A quick poke around SFTT suggests not, at the moment: he's making the
British argument of STABs versus ARABs look like a friendly debate at
the moment. It seems the US National Guard units are untrained,
unskilled, and laden with huge numbers of unfit freeloaders who never
report and can't deploy but can justify claims for pay'n'rations... with
only heroic interventions by Regular troops saving them from certain
disaster.

One wonders how such bumbling amateurs managed to survive in a warzone,
let alone make any sort of useful contribution: yet rather more than a
few have apparently deployed and served, and I don't hear tales of
"Weeping National Guard wimps slaughtered as Regular heroes hold firm
and fight to last round".

He must have missed the close combat operations conducted by the light
infantry battalion out of the FLARNG in Iraq, the various SF operations
conducted by 19th and 20th SFG (both ARNG assets) troops in Afghanistan (and
other places), the ARNG combat engineers, truck drivers, etc., who have
suffered their fair share of casualties in Iraq, etc. Like I said before,
the guy apparently just brays to hear the discordant sound of his own voice.


Oh, well... where reality conflicts with a lucrative column, presumably
reality simply hasn't been properly informed and will eventually fall
into line.


Just make sure you don't shoot him where he wore that
unauthorized ranger tab he was bragging about...

Having been trained by a few Paras and a bootneck or two, and working
with both now, I imagine this is similar to wearing a red or green beret
without having passed P Company or the Commando Course. (Neither are
recommended strategies, if you couldn't guess).

And I recall that Chief of Naval Operations Jim Boorda committed suicide
over being accused of falsely wearing decorations he hadn't earned...
perhaps an extreme reaction, but interesting to compare.

You were aware that he was intimately involved in that affair? He was the
goober who "tipped off" Newsweek magazine about Boorda's decorations, and a
week after the suicide he was all over the media bellyaching about the
sanctity of decorations...then he got sort of quiet about that after his
unauthorized Ranger tab was mentioned. He used to portray himself as
"America's most decorated soldier"...and then the Department of the Army
stated that there was no such a beast (and one wonders what the surviving
MoH winners thought of his claim). The guy is scum, plain and simple. He was
danged lucky to have been able to retire--there was serious consideration
given to courts martialing him after he went to the media with his "get out
of Vietnam" crap while he was still a serving officer.

Brooks

Paul J. Adam