You might remember this guy from the picture yesterday of the poorly attended Million Muslims March. His name is MD Rabbi Alam and he’s the founder of the American Muslim Political Action Committee and lead organizer of Million Muslims March. He was indeed a sergeant at one time in the Army, but that’s not how he left the Army according to his FOIA;
Apparently, towards the end of his career, he had a lot of problems and it looks like he got two or three Field Grade Article 15s (Non-Judicial Punishment) and busted all the way back down to E-1. You can read his statements in regards to his busts here, but it’s since mostly just from his side of the story, it’s not very helpful. It looks like he rode sickcall and the appointment mill and his unit got tired of it.
It also looks like he did a five month tour of OIF in 2003 as a supply sergeant in an ADA brigade, not that it matters, but it probably needed to be pointed out. But, apparently, he’s run for political office, city councilman in Kansas City, Missouri trying to pass himself off as an honorably discharged sergeant;
I don’t even know if that’s legal, but it’s definitely a lie. If he liked that sergeant rank so much, he should have tried harder to keep it.
Thanks to Pat for all of the research he did all day today.
Yup, guy is grade A shitbag. Not surprising though especially when you hear him talk about Jews and 9/11 truther stuff. Only a shitbag would be pimping himself out as military nearly a decade after getting out wearing the service uniforms for no other reason than to suggest authority figure. I wouldn’t even think of dressing in my service uniforms having been out as long as he has been. He’s tarnishing the uniform for personal gain and hopefully once his story gets around more people rightfully call him out for it.
People like this are pissing me off no end.
1. Not legal.
2. Not a MD.
3. Not a Rabbi.
4. Not a SGT.
5. Not very smart.
@3 Master Chief, you left out poor skills in English.
Jonn, his wearing the uniform in the political ad without the disclaimer was a violation of the U.S. Code. If you will put me in touch with your KS source, I will be more than happy to give this bum some grief. I’ll also go on-line and see what I can dredge up. I absolutely get off on giving grief to these scumbags (apologies to the ladies)
Stu
@3 He signed his name back in the day as SPC MD Rabbi Alam. I would guess that’s his no-kidding name. What bothers me is reading through his IG complaint. I get it that he’s an immigrant and his written English sucks, but holy shit does his written English suck. On a series of official memorandums nobody bothered to run a spell check? It’s written in the voice of a whiny child. I hope that’s the language barrier and not his actual conversational tone. I’m guessing whoever supervised his appeal packet didn’t much care for him. Those documents should never have seen the light of day in their condition. Whether he was mistreated in his unit or not, he does not get to go parading around wearing his old rank with an Other Than Honorable discharge on his record.
@5 Not that Army Regs matter to many after they get out, but regulations state after a less than honorable discharge you do not get to wear the uniform. If you are allowed to wear it, you must wear it in accordance with Army Regs as they existed at time of your discharge.
wow, I thought it was just in the Infantry that we got the supply jerks that could barely speak English. I’m going to say that he met the min time in grade and time in service requirements for the E5 board and they couldn’t come up with a legit reason to not send him to the board. I’m guessing that once he got his stripes his head swelled up larger than a PASG Kevlar and he became his own worst enemy. As for the patterns of misconduct discharge, I was always lead to believe you needed the rule of three to pull that off. Three instances for a ART 15, and three ART 15s for a pattern to get the discharge ball rolling. But if the chain of command got the go ahead to proceed with a patterns discharge there must have been something going on, and it was all on paper.
What’s the UCMJ article for Butchery of the English Language?
@8 You’re probably right as to why he was promoted. That was right about the time they said “if you have a pulse, nothing bad on your record, and your MOS has room for you, then you’re making SGT.” Back then saying a soldier just wasn’t ready for leadership wasn’t enough to keep him at E4.
I don’t know how you’d implement it, but there has to be a way to keep someone from reaching the NCO or officer ranks if they can barely speak and write English. I’m not trying to be a racist – I think it’s a serious issue. I recently worked with a SFC originally born in Ghana whose spoken English was okay, but his written words were only slightly better than Alam’s. It reflects on your ability to communicate, lead, and learn. He was a subpar NCO and I think the language barrier was a factor. A Korean-born officer recently interviewed as my replacement in my old unit. I sat there as she stumbled through a simple conversation with the Colonel. It was difficult to gauge her competence since she didn’t have the words to express herself.
“Chapter 7: Revocation of Naturalization
A military member whose naturalization was granted on the basis of military service on or after November 24, 2003 may be subject to revocation of naturalization if he or she was separated from the U.S. armed forces under other than honorable conditions before he or she has served honorably for a period or periods totaling at least five years.”
Dang it!!! Thought I might have been on to something
#10 TMB–
I’ve seen it, too, even in officers who supposedly have college degrees.
We had one (student) CPT who couldn’t pass basic writing assignments in the Captain’s Course, but claimed he had a Master’s degree and was working on a PhD.
Master’s and PhD claims turned out to be false, then he started trying to claim his son had sickle-cell anemia “attacks” so he couldn’t come to work, etc.
We were in the process of investigating whether he even really had a Bachelor’s degree when he was allowed to resign.
Well from now on whoever runs against him will have a ton of ammo to use.
@12/VI – This dude “supposedly” has a Masters degree and working on a PhD in something or other. It ain’t English, though.
I know a lot of educated idiots, who, in spite of their rank, still can’t spell or follow basic sentence structure.
Stick a fork in this guy. He’s done.
Other than that, since he was chaptered out, doesn’t the Army have a mechanism where the person can challenge the decision at an administrative board, or did he waive that?
IIRC, it depends on what you were put out for…you can petition to change the type of discharge, but not the rank at discharge.
In supply speak, this is bag, douche, 1 ea.
He can request change of his discharge type, but that is done thru the VA. One of the links to his paperwork that he posted on the internet (which includes his SSN – Brainiac alert!), shows that request, its just horridly bad English. But as VI said, I concur as well that you can’t get your previous rank back, just have your discharge type changed.
Okay, no one else is mentioning it, so I have to. I didn’t realize we were hurting so bad that we let members of the lollipop guild join. badum-tish!
It has been a VERY long time since I smacked anyone hard enough to make my arm hurt. I would love to have a chance to do that to this obnoxious punk.
Leech.
And this guy ties flies?
I would think he has a hard time walking and chewing bubble gum.
@20. Wrong guy.
Talking about Dildo Dan.
@15/17 – I think we’re discussing two different administrative processes. Never mind.
You mean the chapter itself? Yes, he can challenge it during the process.
By the time it gets to that, they rarely challenge it. When they do, they lose. No commander takes it that far without a stack of back-up.
One commander I had required 1 Company Grade and 1 Field grade Article 15 before he’d consider chapter, plus all the counsellings and attempts at re-training, documented.
Another John Kerry, he would go far in politics except his records are open to the public. He needs to choose a new line of work as getting elected to any office is not in his future. Oh yea, “Take off that uniform, you did not earn the right to wear it, Shit bag”
I have never heard of this guy in Kansas City politics…
@25, He probably just got his name on the ballot, not that hard to do. That lets him claim he is a politician too, as well as everything else.
short, “politician”, delusion of grandeur, claims those around him are hunting him down and trying to destroy him, Napoleon complex maybe?
love to hear the other side of the story. in reading the attached docs- it was painful… really really painful. but lets face it, we all know units that can their pariahs with anything they can even if its bull. we have people who screw, sleep or blow their way to the top: it happens, not defending his side- just saying.
but more info would be great. English was my second language- but I got the hang of it.
I was an ADA gal when I first started out in the Army. Had some friends over in 6-52. Ill ask around and see if anyone remembers this dude. I am almost positive there is more to this story than what hes posting in that whiny ass rant in those documents.
Cry me a fucking river, Haji.
Bag of fetid fuck.
Somewhere, a horse is missing his jockey and Ricardo Montalban is missing his plane spotter. All else aside, what in the wide, wide world of sports is that shit “MD Rabbi Alam?” I wish I were above making fun of someone’s name, appearance, and stature but I’m not. What a mess. MD Rabbi Alam? I suppose if I put the letters together, I could find a secret message in there somewhere. But that would require Tattoo the Jockey to have spelled the message correctly. So, that’s out. I did go to his website. It looks like a toddler designed it, using a crayon and magic marker. Last point: I can guess how he made E-5 in the first place–the same reason that murdering terrorist bastard Hasan was treated with kid gloves for so long by the Army. (“He’s a Muslim. Look the other way!”)
@17: Discharge review applications are not filed through the VA, but the Army Discharge Review Board. Key point is that almost all applications are denied.
wow his english is bad. i dont mean just the writing and reading, but hearing it too. his CSM told him he “was in a shit bag”? ive told privates they were in a world a shit, and other variations of that, but has anyone ever heard this term in their entire military career? i would state beyond any doubt that his CSM told him he was a shit bag, and this dumb ass couldnt understand that much english! i mean, holy fucking spell check batman, every computer has it, dont send off official paper work with out hitting the little ABC button at the top of the screen!
i read through his entire letter, and there was a key word that was missed in his complaints. his NCOs stated that he had a FAILED dental appointment on 26 may. He no showed his dental appointment, so they went looking for him. ive done the same thing with a shit bag private that ditched work under the claim of a medical appointment. he didnt know that missing his appointment would get a phone call to his unit. i wasnt going to give him a chance to lie to me about where he was, so instead of calling the privates cell phone, i went straight to his barracks room, then his girl friends place (guess where i found him). it isnt discriminating to hunt down your privates that are missing. in the army we call that AWOL! this SOB ditched work, skipped his dental appointment, and got caught. im guessing they threw the book at him because he refused to man up and accept responsibility.
#6, SPOT ON. In my previous life I would have gladly let him write his own comments without edits or recommendations all along knowing the whinny attitude displayed throughout would not have won him any support by the chain of command.
PS. Is it wrong to attempt to read his comments using the best 7-11 Slurpy salesman voice you can imitate.
In regard to missing an appointment and lying about it just to get a day off, I have a question.
When I was in the Navy, back in the Stone Age, we were allowed to request Special Liberty which was a one-day deal and did not use your annual leave. I sometimes did that for a long weekend. It gave you time to do roundtrip travel within a specified distance, e.g., 100 miles on way, and get back.
Has that gone by the wayside since 1974?
It does when you’re in 3-section duty on the boat, unless you get someone to trade duty days with you.
John R: the ADRB is the first venue, but application technically must be made within 15 years. The Army Board for Correction of Military Records (ABCMR) is a second venue.
I’ve seen a few ABCMR decisions that actually overturned a denial by the ADRB. They seem to be rare, but they do exist.
You can waste many enjoyable hours reading the decisions of the various military discharge review boards. Redacted versions of many Discharge Review and Board of Correction decisions from all services from the 1990s on (as well as some earlier ones) are available at
boards.law.af.mil/
False claims of being mis-treated, whiny muslim turd, served less than honorably, j3rkoff…am I supposed to give a f#ck at all what happens to this piece of crap?
He should be arrested for wearing a uniform that he doesn’t have the authority to be wearing and for misrepresenting what he really is, which is a total sh1tbag according to his records.
@36: ExPH: AFAIK it’s still available. When I was in the Army it was simply called a 3 day (or 4 day) pass (or 72 hour/96 hour pass in some commands.) You filled out a DA-31 (Leave request form) just like you were taking leave but you were not charged leave. Still had to sign in/out at the orderly room or staff duty if you were an E-6 or under.
The three day pass is a long Army tradition, hence the old running/marching cadence:
Ain’t no use in goin’ home
Jody’s got your girl and gone
Ain’t no use in goin’ back
He’s also got your Cadillac
Jody this and Jody that
Jody is a real cool cat
Gonna get a three day pass
Go home and kick ol’ Jody’s ass.
Jody is a real cool cat
Whoops disregard that last line, must have typed it twice.
There are so many GLARING fabrications and errors when you read about this guy. My question – is there any way to find out if he’s getting Veteran benefits/loans/business advantages? He’s claiming he came out as a Sgt and still wearing the uniform, what else is he claiming?
These were a few things that really stood out..
So back in June of 2000, while he was at Ft Knox, people were calling him Saddaam???
Here is the ballotpedia about his run for Missouri Secretary of State in 2012 http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/MD_Rabbi_Alam
“In July 2012, Alam made national headlines for his controversial questioning of the 9/11 commission reports, specifically regarding the number of Jews killed in the attacks. His comments were reported as being “antisemitic” and provoked a response from the Obama Presidential campaign, which employed Alam in 2008″
from his website http://mdrabbialam.webs.com/
He moved to the United States in 2000 and joined the U.S. Army. He was on active duty for 6 years, and spent a portion of that time stationed in Germany. Alam was assigned to Logistical Operations and Supply Chain Operations for Air Defense Artillary. He finished his Army service as a Sergeant in 2005.
If he didn’t think he was guilty, he never should have signed the Article 15s.
@42 He finished the Army reduced to Private with an Other Than Honorable Discharge. He doesn’t get squat from the VA. If he’s getting any perks using veteran’s status its fraud.
TMB: not necessarily. If his discharge was later upgraded to at least General (Under Honorable Conditions), I’m pretty sure he’d be eligible for most if not all VA bennies.
As I’m reading his “appeal”, he also appears to have been awarded a General (Under Honorable Conditions) discharge in the first place.
I don’t see how you can be reduced in rank from SPC to PVT with a favorable discharge. If he was awarded an upgraded discharge after the fact, I missed it in all that mess. The linked documents are all dated a couple days prior to his discharge date on the FOIA sheet.
@47, you would be surprised at what some people do in the Army and still walk away with a “good” discharge. Personally I wouldn’t call a General under honorable “good”. I guess it would still get him bennies.
While I’ve forgotten most of my UCMJ knowledge I would guess that either the chapter(s) they put him out on could only result in the discharge he got and not a less than hon or dishonorable, or for the sake of making it faster and easier to kick him out the chain of command only sought the general under honorable. It wouldn’t surprise me if his chain of command “low balled” the charges just to get rid of him as fast and easy as possible, and I would bet the JAG lawyer at trial defense may have looked at what he did and what they were pushing for and just told him they were at least giving him the green weenie with some lube.
I know we have several former COs and 1SG/PSGs around here and a few JAG types, what do you folks think?
I just read his bio from Ballotpedia and this line jumped out at me:
“Alam is a U.S. Army veteran, having served in both Afghanistan and Iraq…”
He went to Iraq for several months, but NEVER went to AFG. So one can add Poser to the other adjectives that describe this guy: slacker, malingerer, malcontent and whiner.
Thanks, Judi, for the link.
im still stuck on his CSM calling him a shit bag and he thought the CSM was on his side!!! this is why you should speak english fluently and coherently before joining the army.