Do they do rock, paper, scissors to see who gets to smack him with a checklist???
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Sen Tom Harkin Naval Air background?
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Not familiar with that one
Came here awhile back as a "Captain" claiming to be a former ferry pilot turned retired reservist and FedEx type. With a personal website listing combat medals out the wazoo, and hours in damn near everything in the then-current (60s-70s) inventory.
Said website had pictures of this individual as an LT with the obligatory pizza stain, wings, and nothing else. But somehow after one active duty tour and reserves, said ribbon rack exploded, including a Legion of Merit strangely buried halfway down, and certainly was awfully hefty for the career track described according to those Mods who served at the same time. Said individual made cricket noises when asked by Mods where he earned those combat decorations and how. Later claimed illness for the non-response when in fact he had been lurking regularly during the "sick" period.
You do the math.
A little like Skeeterman....Link for Drewski.
Wow, quite the little saga I missed there.
I can confirm that. I went to high school with his daughter in Northern VA. It just so happened we were at the DMV on the same day getting our driver's license. Just like everyone else in the world, they didn't have the correct paper work the first time through the line. He decided it was best if he make a huge scene by yelling at the DMV employee and asking her if she knew who he was. His daughter began to cry from embarrassment.
And you were there to swoop in and comfort her, right? Well unless she looks like her dad, that is...
Actually, and this is what they teach at legal O course nowadays...if you read Article 88, you will note that it specifically says:
“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
So you can trashtalk individual Senators/Congressmen, but can't disparage Congress as a whole...and you can use "contemptuous words" against Governors as long as you're not stationed in their state.
Of course you can always get hit with Article 134...
Ummmm, yeah.......still not a good idea and it should not be tolerated.
Yeah, but is that Congress as a whole or the individuals that make up Congress? Unless there is case law that says either way, it sure would suck to be the first person taken to court martial in order to set a precedent.
In any case, it won't be tolerated on this site.
Of course, you could counter-sue the Navy with an equally justified charge, to wit, violation of Article 125.
I think you're too late in your bid to secure yourself the coveted AG spot.
I was wrong to impugn the good Senator from Iowa the other night. However, I think it's unconscionable for anybody, elected official or not, to embellish or fabricate their service record for the purpose of self aggrandizement ala Skeeterman, Brian Dennehy, or Capt. Drew. AND I think that if the allegations against the Senator are substantiated, he should be taken to task for that.