"Gord Beaman" ) wrote in message . ..
(Kevin Brooks) wrote:


His own strawman. He once left the group with much fanfare--sort of
reminded me of Nixon's old "you won't have me to kick around anymore"
speech.

He did that (at one time at least) to punish me for taking him to
task when he indicated that the enlisted people in his crew
weren't intelligent enough to understand the workings of the then
new Nav system 'Gee' while the commissioned people grasped it
right away. I came down on him pretty hard...that kinda stuff
really ****es me off.

LOL! Your's was the case I was recalling in terms of his "NCO's are
not as smart as officers" crap. Heck, I ran into at least one NCO who
had his PhD, and a bunch of those who served with me often humbled me
by providing a more accurate analysis than what I was coming up with
at the time. Not to mention the PFC who, when we were all scratching
our heads trying to figure out how the heck to remove the loose, sandy
spoil from resulting from a shaped charge detonation (in preparation
for emplacing road cratering charges, and with a serious time crunch
dictated by the return of the SP arty unit in front of us conducting
an arty raid) when we found the posthole diggers just were not doing
the trick, quietly suggested, "Sir, how about we pour a little water
in their to get it to clump up?" Voila, the day was saved by a poor,
unprofessionaly edumacated PFC...


I'm certain that he thought that people would blame me for
'chasing a valuable asset' off. Some did indeed, and we got some
snarly posts aimed at me but I got a few posts and emails from
those who saw through his little trick too.

I believe a lot of those who roll their eyes and shake their heads at
his more profound antics just keep quiet and hope he'll either come
back to earth or go away.


A few posts ago he made a big snarl about refusing to be driven
off 'never in a million years' or some-such...I had to bite my
tongue to avoid snarling back...

Unfortunately, he came back, still spouting off his vitriolic
rants. He has at one time or another claimed that groundcrews and
support personnel did not serve with the same distinction as the
aircrews, that those who followed their orders and did not see direct
combat were somehow less deserving of being considered veterans, that
enlisted personnel were somhow less intelligent than officers, etc.
Each such claim has resulted in his own diminished reputation.


Exactly, and it's a God Damned shame...He's one of the few here
who've been there and DT. If he were a little less self-centered
and didn't **** people off so much then he'd be a great learning
tool for us who weren't called on back then.

Make no mistake, I admire and am thankful for what he did, but no
more than I admire any other member of the armed forces members
during those times.

I certainly do not admire him for his present personality, I find
him just short of being a jerk with his constant "Were you
there?".

Or worse, his belittling of the efforts of the others who were serving
in another "there" and doing their jobs as expected of them. I note he
is up to his usual antics which follow his getting pasted for comments
such as the ones that initiated this last episode; I gather he is back
to publishing copies of his "I love Art" letters for the NG's benefit.
I think this points to the real reason he is so quick to denigrate the
efforts of others--he is sorely in need of propping up his own
self-image, so he figures that tearing down the records that others
have achieved, along with posting a few self-congradulatory messages,
will give him that ego-boost he so obviously needs.

The funny thing is that one of my first posts to this NG (a couple of
years back) was a rather sharp defense of Art against some (what I
considered then) disrespectful comments directed at him by another
poster. Didn't take long to learn that he was merely reaping what he
had already sewed.


Brooks