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“Scott Thomas” steps out of the shadows Update: The blog of “Sir Real Scott Thomas” Update: His MySpace page Update The soon-to-be wife of Scott Thomas Beauchamp?

By Michelle Malkin • July 26, 2007 08:35 AM

Update 9:15pm Eastern. FOB Falcon and the Soldier Calling Himself Scott Thomas from a Mother’s Perspective at Blue Star Chronicles:

I’ve spent a lot of time reading about the ‘Scott Thomas’ affair. ‘Scott Thomas’ is the pseudonym taken by a Soldier in Iraq who is weaving tall tales about their adventures there. As the mother of a Soldier serving in Iraq, I find myself glued to the stories and reading everything I can find written about it.

That may seem odd and it probably is, but there are two things that keep me awake at night while my son is in Baghdad. One is the obvious worry about his safety. That’s the worry every mother of every son who has ever gone to war has in her heart. The other is that he not be subjected to the being used for propaganda purposes by whatever enemy wants to use him, his unit, his company or whatever. I believe that is a worry that has taken on a whole new meaning in this war.

Read the whole thing.

Update 5:30pm Eastern. See-Dubya answers the “so what?” question about Beauchamp/Reeve.

Update 4:15pm Eastern. Dean Barnett on the end of the beginning of the “Scott Thomas” affair…

TNR employed as its Baghdad correspondent a guy who was there specifically to mock the war effort while he hopefully advanced his own career as a writer by doing so. Beauchamp’s champions (not that I’m aware of any) have the potential defense that he was a young man who didn’t know any better. TNR’s editors do not. They gravitated to Scott Thomas Beauchamp because he would have the “moral authority” necessary to slander the troops with impunity, a moral authority that Franklin Foer and company of course lack.

One other note: Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s life will be a smoldering ruin when this affair has run its course. His partners in crime at The New Republic will still have jobs and careers. Will they see Scott Beauchamp in their nightmares? And will they see the 160,000 honorable and noble troops that together they conspired to malign?

Just fyi: Here’s Reeve quoting Beauchamp in one of her articles in 2004 for The Columbia Missourian at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Update 2:54pm Eastern. Ace reports that the soon-to-be wife of Scott Thomas Beauchamp is…TNR staffer Elspeth Reeve. According to the TNR masthead, she’s a reporter-researcher for the magazine. ~~Or was?~~ According to Discarded Lies, a TNR staffer was fired this morning. That staffer was the source of the leaks…Update again…I just called TNR’s office and left a message for Reeve. She still works there. Will see if she calls back.

Allah weighs in at Hot Air:

We’ve been getting tips similar to the ones Ace has about Beauchamp being intimately connected to someone on the TNR staff. He claims to have a source within TNR itself (although not anymore, perhaps — more on that in a bit) who thought Beauchamp was either married to someone who works there or was recommended by someone married to someone who works there. There are a lot of “Scott Beauchamps” in the world, no doubt, but if this is a coincidence, it’s a fabulous one…There’s some ambiguity about whether they’re married yet or just planning: the Wedding Channel thing says October but a tipster pointed me to the comments on this MySpace page. Check the May 19 entry for Ian Cognito (Beauchamp’s alias) and you’ll see he says he was married the week before. Whether they’re married or engaged isn’t really important but there you go, for the record.

Thanks to liberrocky for finding the Wedding Channel thing and thanks to Ace for summing this up nicely:

It’s all so Plame-ish. As Gracie wrote to me, of all the embeds and milbloggers and real journalists they could have picked for the job, they instead chose to go with a very partisan, very inexperienced blogger just out of “laziness.” Just because they knew him. Just because it was easy.I actually think part of the reason was that they knew Beauchamp’s politics — he having put them on display on his goofy blog — and so, just like with Valerie Plame, they knew the report was going to come back the way they wanted it when they sent him. But Gracie says it’s just Occam’s razor: Laziness.

Allah’s own summary: “So now the dilemma for TNR: If they find out that Beauchamp’s been exaggerating or outright fabricating in his Iraq stories and they come down hard, they probably lose Reeve too. Then again, they’ve already allegedly lost one employee over this — follow the link to Ace’s site and see what became of his TNR source, “gracie” — and if it turns out Beauchamp’s a liar then Foer will probably be hitting the bricks too, so what’s one more staff vacancy?

Given the number of milbloggers invested in this story and the number of guys with direct links to FOB Falcon — JD Johannes most notably and, per one of the updates above, Jeff Emanuel — the scrutiny of TNR’s findings after they publish the results of their investigation will be intense. They’d better do more than just check with Beauchamp’s buddies, who’ll naturally want to protect a pal, especially one who just got married and whose wife’s job may be on the line.”

***
Here he is…

Here’s his Myspace avatar:

Update 1:50pm Eastern. Michael Goldfarb has lingering questions for TNR and gets word from FOB Falcon:

Mike-

We are in the midst of a formal investigation into the allegations Pvt Beauchamp has made. That’s all I can say for now.

Respectfully,

Kirk

Major Kirk Luedeke
Public Affairs Officer
4th IBCT, 1st ID
DRAGONS

Update: Milblogger Jeff Emanuel also is headed back to FOB Falcon and offers TNR his help.

Mark Steyn pegs Beauchamp: “Strange chap.”

Update: Milblogger/ documentarian J.D. Johannes is headed back to FOB Falcon in Iraq in a few weeks, where Beauchamp’s unit was located (and which Johannes guessed correctly). Johannes has some words for the TNR writer.

Scott Johnson at Powerline doesn’t mince words in his assessment of Beauchamp: “Pretentious ass.” I’d add, in the parlance of p.c. pop psychology: A pretentious ass with issues. Major issues.

Update: The milblogs weigh in…Op-for, LaughingWolf@Blackfive, Mudville Gazette, Uncle Jimbo

And a reader e-mails this info:

I’m active Army & an Iraq vet. I just pulled up “Scott Thomas Beauchamp” on the secure “Army Knowledge Online” website. It lists his current rank as “PV2″. (That data is kept accurate via pay records on that website.)

In his Sep 06 blog post he listed his rank as “Private First Class”. That indicates that without a doubt he was busted at least one rank as part of Article 15 proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he likely has a strong ax to grind with his chain of command.

Update: A bit of the revealing poetry of Scott Thomas Beauchamp…

Every morning I get up and I’m a little more liberal than the day before

Every morning I get up and try to recite a fact from something I read last night.

Every morning I get up and wish I was as free as the people that I’m “fighting for”

Every morning I get up and think I’m a tool for global corporations

Every morning I get up and miss my mother

Every morning I get up and shave

Every morning I get up and realize how much I love my comrades

Every morning I get up and say I’m Scott Beauchamp, in the army, living in Germany, and this is my life, and I’m going to be treated like shit today and do landscaping and janitorial work and practice killing people and there could be no other way to appreciate what I had or what I’m going to have once I get out other than enduring this now when all I really want to do is teach history and lay around and read and hustle around and repair the world (tikkun olam) and sift through knowledge and improve culture and learn how to sail and work in soup kitchens and start a family and really, I mean REALLY study the best the western civilization has to offer and facilitiate the mystery and power through everything I do, but I cant do it without getting through this army experience first, which will add a legitimacy to EVERYTHING i do afterwards, and totally bolster my opinions on defense, etc, and of course its making me a lot less lazy, just because im not use to being lazy any more, etc.

Every morning I get up…

Cassandra at Villanous Company has a must-read on the consequences of Beauchamp’s words in TNR and TNR’s expediency:

Desecration of a mass grave is a serious matter. What was his motivation in writing about it?

Certainly this is not behavior sanctioned by the U.S. Army. The right course of action for anyone witnessing such a heinous act would be, if indeed it really happened, to report the perpetrators to the command. Someone who would desecrate the grave of a child, who would place a piece of a child’s skull under their helmet and wear it for hours, is someone in need of psychological help.

Did Private Beauchamp have no concern for this person’s mental health, if not for the welfare of any innocent Iraqis who might be harmed by someone for whom the lines between right and wrong had so clearly been badly blurred? Assuming this account is true, (and considering so far no record of a mass grave has been unearthed in the vicinity of FOB Falcon, this requires a leap of faith) a crime was committed. His obligation was to report it. It is, possibly, understandable that loyalty might have prevented a young man from turning in his comrade, though this doesn’t excuse him doing the wrong thing.

What excuses Franklin Foer? He would surely understand that the Army has rules against desecrating the graves of children. Did he think that simply writing an anonymous article satisfied our obligation to the Iraqi people, since he has apparently satisfied himself that Beauchamp’s stories are “true”? His conscience is suspiciously easy to salve, especially for one who is so ready to believe ill of our armed forces.

This whole episode smacks of expediency, of an editor who believed a story because it aligned with what he wanted to believe and of a young man who, for whatever reason, wanted the freedom to say ugly things without the responsibility of backing them up.

To this day, he is still ducking that responsibility, as are the editors of The New Republic. But the damage has been done. The grisly images of a soldier dancing insanely with the bits of a child’s skull under his helmet, of a Bradley driver swerving to run over helpless dogs, of cruel soldiers mocking a scarred and crying woman, are seared… seared into our national consciousness.

John Kerry could not have done it any better himself.

And more on Beauchamp’s motivations, in his own words: “My goal is to become an incompetent leader that gets fragged by 30 something NCO’s at a forward operating base in Sadr City. Heres to the memories and stardust kid. love, Scott.”

More light-shedding from Dean Barnett, who flags Beauchamp’s Cheney/GOP-bashing.

Update: Looks like this is Scott Thomas’s MySpace page. Yes, his theme music is the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killers.” The first line of the song: “I can’t seem to face up to the facts…”

Plumbing his blog further, Bad Candy notes that on May 14, 2006, Scott Thomas is unsure of his deployment:

Sunday, May 14, 2006
deployment

in short, our units deployment is postponed until further notice…maybe even cancelled….

posted by Scott Thomas at 2:36 PM

Update: Here’s a blog authored by a “Scott Beauchamp,” titled “Sir Real Scott Thomas,” last updated in September 2006. Same bloated writing style. Here’s a post from April 2006 on his plans: ” ill return to america an author.”

Scott Thomas, Jan. 29, 2006: “This weekend was horrible. I worked all weekend, 12 hour shifts. Today was spent mainly in the motor pool attempting to stop and oil leak in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Now anyone who knows me should be laughing right now at the mental image of ME working on a military armored vehicle worth hundreds of thousands of dollars when I can barely change the tire of an Escort.”

Scott Thomas, Jan. 23, 2006, in response to a commenter who asks him what to tell people who ask what he does for a living: “Tell them that I shoot, move, communicate, and kill. Much like your college career Glenn, only the deaths that I inflict secure the riches of the empire.”

And via Allah and commenter Bad Candy, see this May 8, 2006 post from Scott Thomas. Allah notes: “He’s not in Iraq at this point, I don’t think: his sidebar bio says he’s training in Germany and he cops to being in Amsterdam three weeks later, but I guess it’s possible (is it?) that he was in Iraq and then went to Europe in the intervening time. Either way, the May 8 item can only be one of two things: an exercise in creative fiction that looks exactly like the sorts of things he wrote for TNR or a bit of reportage of an actual incident — in which a U.S. commander ordered the murder of children. Which is it?”

***

TNR’s “Scott Thomas” is Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division:

It’s been maddening, to say the least, to see the plausibility of events that I witnessed questioned by people who have never served in Iraq. I was initially reluctant to take the time out of my already insane schedule fighting an actual war in order to play some role in an ideological battle that I never wanted to join. That being said, my character, my experiences, and those of my comrades in arms have been called into question, and I believe that it is important to stand by my writing under my real name.

In the bass-ackwards version of journalism practiced at TNR, the editors continue to check whether the stories they published by Beauchamp check out:

As we’ve noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist “Shock Troops,” published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon, a formal military investigation has also been launched into the incidents described in the piece.

Although the article was rigorously edited and fact-checked before it was published, we have decided to go back and, to the extent possible, re-report every detail. This process takes considerable time, as the primary subjects are on another continent, with intermittent access to phones and email. Thus far we’ve found nothing to disprove the facts in the article; we will release the full results of our search when it is completed.

Bryan Preston:

It’s actually not that complicated, guys. Was there or was there not a mass grave that contained the bones of children underneath everyday, mundane household items? If there was, Pvt Thomas’ writings could be true, but if there wasn’t — and we know that there wasn’t — then they can’t be true. Are the Iraqi police the only ones who use Glocks in Iraq? If they are, his writings could be true. If they’re not — in a country awash in weapons, they’re not — his writings contain fabulism.

That’s the bottom line. There’s no need to blame the lack of a good fact check a week after the saga erupted on the difficulty of tracking down witnesses to all the events Thomas claims to have witnessed. All one needs to do is check the basic checkable facts he reports. That wasn’t done before publication, and hasn’t been done yet.

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#101

On July 26th, 2007 at 6:47 pm, blacktygrrrr said:

It is a shame that truth and verification are less important than speed and believing the unbelievable if it backs one’s view.

This is Rathergate all over again…fake but accurate.

It just doesn’t stop.

eric http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
#102

On July 26th, 2007 at 7:22 pm, josetheguerilla said:

As the day went on, this story turned into a trainwreck!!! It looks like somebody is getting what he deserves.
#103

On July 26th, 2007 at 8:28 pm, Laree said:

I have been thinking about this guy, he pretends to somekind of literary affectations. To get in the Army you have to pass the ASFAB a test and the score you get- determines what your MOS is going to be in the Army. Sir Scott, is in an Infantry unit, now I know awhile back they were offering huge bonuses to recruits if they went into the Infantry. The other way you end up in Infantry is if you don’t score high on the ASFAB and have other problems like your education, any trouble with the civilian law- needing waivers, medical ect.. An optimal recruit would get rated (A) called an Alpha has no problems probably some college and scores real high on the ASFAB doesn’t need any waivers, this recruit usually can pick what he wants in regard to his career, in the Army. This guy is in the Infantry but he puts on all these Literary Airs? soo did he take a real big Bonus and go infantry? If he was reduced in rank at one time or another, I wonder if that effected his bonus if he got one? You have to enlist and agree to serve so many years to get the bonus. Does anyone else wonder how this Poet ended up in an Infantry unit? The other people giving him feedback, look young and gullible, and maybe not to wise. I am not bad mouthing the Infantry, I am saying the higher you score on the ASFAB and the other things you have going for you, will increase your options, in the choice of what JOB you can pick.
#104

On July 26th, 2007 at 8:38 pm, jrlingreenbay said:

Laree #105:

I can’t link back to the entry, but I read on one of his blog entries where he spoke of an application he sent to, I believe, ROTC?

I can’t recall - I know it was a military based educational system….

but anyway, he said in his entry that he was unclear how well his application would be received due to his grades.

So - it is possible he had low scores.
#105

On July 26th, 2007 at 9:06 pm, Laree said:

Jrlingreenbay

ROTC suggest someone into discipline, he states in his rants that he hopes this will make him less lazy? I do wonder if he didn’t get one of those big bonuses, they were offering people if they would go Infantry. The way I understand you enlist for so many years and you get some of the bonus money up front, then later you get the rest on completion or the last year. I am not real clear on how it works. I would guess if he was a discipline problem re the reduced rank, this would effect any bonus he had signed up for. He thinks he is an artiste! Who is encouraging this fantasy? I hardly think his fellow infantry men are into Prose and Poetry. My curiousity has been peaked, I would like to know if he has a mentor encouraging him.
#106

On July 26th, 2007 at 11:01 pm, Pal2Pal said:

Back during Vietnam, while my husband was serving his 2nd tour, his brother was drafted. Said brother tried to hurry up and enlist in the Navy, but they would not take him because he had so many traffic citations and a major wreck. So he ended up in the Army and they assigned him to Germany as a ::drum roll:: Wrecker Driver. He was waived for combat duty because of his older brother’s service, but he was also considered a screw up because of his civilian record prior to coming into the service, hence the dead end job. I’ve always thought his assignment officer must have had a sense of humor.

I don’t know how they do it in today’s all Vol. army, but shlub duty in the motorpool reeks of screw up.
#107

On July 27th, 2007 at 12:18 am, purplepeep said:

This guy’s MySpace blog entry title for Friday, December 30, 2005 - “Jew York City“. This was before its recent usage as an openly fave term of the “progressives”.

He’s quite obviously a very disturbed person. If he were in the US military he’s the type you hope they’d have weeded out and had sent to a mental hospital.
#108

On July 27th, 2007 at 12:43 am, CommentGuy said:

Pal2Pal

Don’t jump to the motor pool link other support units do that.

A squad assigned to a vehicle do the day to day work to keep the thing combat ready.

They only hand off the thing if it’s way beyond their capabilities.

If every vehicle had to go into the garage for minor fixes we would need a motor pool equal in size to the fighting forces.

Each squad assigned to a vehicle, even the gun ground pounders assigned to that squad do the day to day upkeep.

Thats part of the reason I question his tales of doing things with the vehicle that would cause likely damage he would be spending a lot of his down time having to help fix to keep the higher ups off their butt.
#109

On July 27th, 2007 at 2:52 am, derel3433 said:

i’m out of the loop. why do we hate this soldier?
#110

On July 27th, 2007 at 7:56 am, pressto said:

i’m out of the loop. why do we hate this soldier?

Might try to read a little about his idea of reality and what thinks is happening in Iraq.

It also sounds like Scott and his Wife are into the bondage thing.

http://scottthomas.us/archives/a-pound-for-a-pound/

By the way, don’t forget the gifts, I’ll try to get my gimpwear.com (there’s a diamond studded ball-gag I’ve had my eye on for a while) registry filled out soon.
#111

On July 27th, 2007 at 8:48 am, jrlingreenbay said:

Pressto #111:

That’s the first I’ve seen of the ‘International Soldier of Mystery’ site….

What an idiot….this guy is just feeding off of his infamy.

Now we have a story of destroying villages and mad machine-gunners.

Someone here has to recognize the phrase he uses, I want to say it’s from something like ‘Full Metal Jacket’ or another movie.

A cookie to the person who knows where this is paraphrased from:

“If they run they’re a terrorist, if they don’t run they’re a well trained terrorist.”

Then we have this poetic line:
“just like the hundreds of thousands of other times soldiers go on benders murdering their comrades and anyone who steps between them and the last bottle of Blue Raspberry Mad Dog 20/20.”

Hundreds of thousands of instances of soldiers murdering their comrades and anyone???

I suspect his confinement to quarters is giving his imagination free reign.

Aha - and speaking of “Hate Sites” - hows this from, http://scottthomas.us/archives/lies-damned-lies-and-conservatives/ :

“It’s been a week since Michael Goldfarb, I bet he’s a joo, took issue with my telling of the truth and everybody got their panties in a wad. I can kind of understand the “Mil-bloggers” getting upset, that’s what Dick Cheney pays them to do, what I don’t understand is some guy named Allahpundit, yeah like a brown person could operate a computer, Confederate Yankee, I guess he’s some bi-polar neo-nazi-closet-liberal or something and some homo who goes by the name “ace“, who’s upset that gay guys keep nibbling on his peen.

Who in their right mind would be upset about a gay guy providing them with a bit of oral gratification? Everybody knows gay guys give the best hummers. Hell, Donald Rumsfield used to judge the “hummer races” himself, until Cheney found out and wanted a piece of the action and canned him, if you know what I mean.

These mouthbreathers either don’t know what’s going on in Iraq, or they’re on the Bushian payroll, so I’ll start providing details that only a true hardened combat vet could provide. Maybe that’ll take some of the heat off of sweet, sweet Frankie.”

Joo? Brown People? Homo?

I think the real Scott Beauchamp is shining through brightly.

And of course, in typical liberal fashion, his tolerance of other races and such is a shining example of liberal hypocricy.

Apparently - even the milbloggers experience doesn’t count…it is he, with his status as a “true hardened combat vet” that is the sole prophet of the truth.

Somebody please shut this lugnut up.
#112

On July 27th, 2007 at 8:53 am, jrlingreenbay said:

Question - is that Intl Soldier site for real? I suspect something strange there….

Reading the ‘About the Author’ at the bottom of the page:

“This website is written by someone using the pseudonym of Scott Thomas. A pseudonym is required because the author(s) aren’t exactly sure what the truth is and just weave fake, but accurate, reports about world events.

Scott Thomas is the first ever soldier in the US Military to earn the rank of super-secret-ninja, which is obtained by being a member of Green Berets, SEALs and Delta Force, SIMULTANEOUSLY. Scott Thomas founded the super-secret-ninjas when President George Bush wanted to retreat from Iraq, they answer only to Chuck Norris and Ron Paul.”

Either this is authentic and this guy is losing it big-time….

Or someone is adding fuel to the fire.
#113

On July 27th, 2007 at 10:21 am, purplepeep said:

jrlingreenbay said:
Either this is authentic and this guy is losing it big-time….

Hahaha! - thanks for that link, jrl. But I think you’re missing a joke or two. It’s just a very good parody site that some clever person put together in a short time. And that’s no small feat what with the real guy being a total goofball nutcase who offers himself up as the epitome of a “delusions of grandeur” self-parody.
#114

On July 27th, 2007 at 11:19 am, jrlingreenbay said:

purplepeep #114:

Yes, I’m a victim of early morning pre-caffeine-itis….

I saw the link from #111 first thing this morning and followed it and posted my reaction before I REALLY looked everything over on that site.

If the WAPO article is correct in asserting that he’s had his laptop/computer priviledges taken away, he couldn’t have posted the latest entry on the Intl. Soldier site, dated today….

Funny stuff, being a parody…but scary stuff if it wasn’t.
#115

On July 27th, 2007 at 11:23 am, Laree said:

All,

I have wondered to about “Fabrication” things don’t add up, I don’t think he is disturbed, I think he has the maturity of an adolescence. Sir Real Scott = Surreal Scott, the same with his myspace page Ian Cognito = Incognito, this is what teenage boys do they think it is clever. Sometimes in his journal he writes: and totally bolster my opinions on defense. Is he objectifying himself is he referring to himself in the 3rd person? This is what smells and makes me wonder about some kind of collaboration and fabrication. Also who is he trying to impress, I hardly think his fellow infantry men are going to be interested. Has the Army issued a statement on their dingleberry? If I was guessing, given his age and rank, I would think he is involved in finding his place in the pecking order. I don’t see him as an Alpha Dog so he is posturing for a position using his assumed “Intellectual Gifts” He’s married? Somebody fell for this dingleberry’s schtick, PT Barnum said, there is one born every minute.
#116

On July 27th, 2007 at 11:23 am, 3Steps said:

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2007/07/27/#a004226

anyone see today’s Day by Day?
#117

On July 27th, 2007 at 11:33 am, jrlingreenbay said:

Laree:

I think the people he’s trying to impress are a.) His friends and family at home, and b.) editors at TNR and elsewhere.

His quest to have legitmacy by serving in the war is his “in” to a career as a staff writer somewhere in lefty-land.
And the comments of encouragement on his blog by his family and friends are the fuel for the fire.

So far, from what I’ve seen, the army’s current response is one of “we’re investigating his claims”, and nothing more.

3Steps: Great cartoon….
#118

On July 27th, 2007 at 12:22 pm, Laree said:

jrlingreenbay,

They got Dan Rather but they won’t get me? A what E2 serving in an Infantry unit is the equivalency to Dan Rather? A fake solider blog- international man of mystery…what are they trying to say, Dan Rather is a fake too?

I agree if TNR is picking up on what appears to be bunch of slack immature Infantry troops, and confusing them, with real reporting of events on the ground in Iraq, they have jumped the shark.

If I was in command of the 118th Infantry and this guy’s unit, I would be having a look into their disipline, as in are they stract or just sloppy. I would take away awhole bunch of their privileges. Dingleberrys!!
#119

On July 27th, 2007 at 1:22 pm, jrlingreenbay said:

I’m quite sure that the command of the 118th is looking HARD into all of this.

If the commander / staff are worth a hoot, there’s some serious discussions and interviews going on right now and SOMEONE’s backside is going to be shining boots.

It’s going to be either some pretty irresponsible soldiers if any of these stories turn out to be true ( which I’m wagering they won’t be ) - or Private Joker himself.

What will be interesting is how the left wraps their arms around this guy after all the cards come tumbling down. I will be very interested to know where this kid ends up after he leaves the service.
#120

On July 27th, 2007 at 2:07 pm, Laree said:

I would like to see a follow up on this Guy. I would like to know what part of the country he hails from and the supportive family he comes from. I think we will find, he is one of those kids, that got awards for attending events and told you are special for participating.

More like: Yeah, would you like fries with that and super size your order, thank you, please drive through (GRIN)
#121

On July 27th, 2007 at 3:58 pm, tony the tiger said:

#120 jrlingreenbay said:

If the commander / staff are worth a hoot, there’s some serious discussions and interviews going on right now and SOMEONE’s backside is going to be shining boots.

Pity that takes time and effort away from the prosecution of war, ain’t it?!
Same problem w/LT Watada… only they have to bring the command back to the States for his courtmartial(s) on top of that!
Talk about traitorous acts…