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2007-05-19 Fifth Column

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Think about the economics of this:

Which is more efficient: Some jail time in whch we would have to take care of this guy, or just billing him for the $10,000 he took and cut him loose with an Arizona warrant hanging over his head.

Posted by badanov 2007-05-19 00:12|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-05-19 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 "We later found out he had fabricated a lot of his military record"
doesn't the military have their own copy (like the originals?) of the record? Before forking over any money?
""People posing as veterans do a disservice" what an understatement

Posted by Jan 2007-05-19 00:30|| 2007-05-19 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 VA screwed up. Alas, poor Yoric, you'll burn in hell.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-05-19 00:44|| 2007-05-19 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Wotta maroon!

BTW Safford is the capital of Graham county, AZ, not "Safford county."
/nitpick

Posted by PBMcL 2007-05-19 02:06|| 2007-05-19 02:06|| Front Page Top

#5
w00t!
Fake Army Ranger in Iraq going Down.

Oh how the anti-war types lapped up this fake POS UP!
The Poser His-Own-self

Posted by RD">RD 2007-05-19 03:18|| 2007-05-19 03:18|| Front Page Top

#6 With credentials like that Macbeth could move to Massachusetts and run for the Senate.

Posted by GK 2007-05-19 05:27|| 2007-05-19 05:27|| Front Page Top

#7 I got an idea. Send him back down to Ft. Benning and make him clean influshed toilets.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-05-19 08:02|| 2007-05-19 08:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Try him for sedition and shoot him.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-05-19 08:22|| 2007-05-19 08:22|| Front Page Top

#9 drop his ass in Falluja :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-19 08:29|| 2007-05-19 08:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Frank G: Do we have to give him a parachute? I'm just thinking, ya know, we might get lucky when he falls and he hits an Al-Q in Iraq member walking around. Not only could he become a hero, but it would scare the utter living crap out of the Jihadis. Is it a bomb or a flying White-man?

Posted by Charles 2007-05-19 09:17|| 2007-05-19 09:17|| Front Page Top

#11 A very public conviction would do much for the other "Veterans" out there.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-05-19 09:42|| 2007-05-19 09:42|| Front Page Top

#12 GREAT ressource for phony vets (found it through a knife link about mike "strider") :

HEROES OR VILLAINS ??

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-05-19 10:12|| 2007-05-19 10:12|| Front Page Top

#13 What's a knife link?

And I hate to ask, but why in the hell would anyone brag about being captured? I'd surrender in a heart beat if necessary, but I'd be damned if'd I talk about it 20 years later.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-19 10:49|| 2007-05-19 10:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Lets see, at this rate, in 2032, after serving a stint as Senator from California, he will run for President.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-05-19 11:20|| 2007-05-19 11:20|| Front Page Top

#15 not with those eyebrows

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-19 11:30|| 2007-05-19 11:30|| Front Page Top

#16 These fakers are simply thieves of honor and reputation that are earned with blood and sweat.

Posted by Jan 2007-05-19 11:55|| 2007-05-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

#17 What's a knife link?

I expressed myself badly, it's just that one noted knifemaker, mick "strider", who sells outragously priced and IMHO very, very ugly knives, had been exposed as a fake vet and this brought me to this website.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-05-19 12:01|| 2007-05-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#18 "The law now generally denies benefits to anyone entering military service after September 8, 1980, unless the following requirements are met: (1) 24 months of continuous active duty or (2) served the full period for which an individual was committed, whichever is shorter. This requirement does not apply to those released with a service-connected disability."

Since he was "kicked out of the Army after six weeks at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2003 because of his "entry level performance and conduct." He wasn't even eligible for any VA bennies and shouldn't have been in the facility in the first place. Fraud, clear and simple. To paraphrase someone else. "Life is tough. It's a lot tougher if you're stupid."

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-19 14:08|| 2007-05-19 14:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Jan, the unfortunate truth is that the VA and military have a poor track record of communicating with each other. Military records are routinely "groomed" (trimmed redundant or unnecessary records) by the originator and again by military archives. That adds more confusion.

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2007-05-19 19:05|| 2007-05-19 19:05|| Front Page Top

#20 FYI most VA Hospitals are of the mindset to help first and conmfirm later. The services are really bad for keeping records and some slip throught he cracks.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-05-19 22:25|| 2007-05-19 22:25|| Front Page Top

#21 too bad hearing about the poor record keeping. I do however like that we treat first, I wouldn't want to see anyone that needed medical care have to wait for anything.
thanks for the info.

Posted by Jan 2007-05-19 23:01|| 2007-05-19 23:01|| Front Page Top

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