Governor Bobby Jindal awarded Andrew Irvin Bryson the Louisiana Medal of Honor last year in a lavish ceremony during tales of his daring-do included the one in which ,wounded already, he mowed down the insurgents who had killed his team mates. But some of the students in the Student Veterans of Louisiana State University organization, which Bryson founded, doubted the tale and eventually booted Bryson.
Friday, Bryson wrote to the Navy Times;
“I wasn’t a Navy SEAL,” he said, explaining how the governor’s office had sought veterans’ stories to recognize publicly with the state’s medal. “So I kind of just gave them a story.”
“I falsified a story to try to help out vets. It’s just grown into a massive [nightmare],” he said. “Almost every single month since this has happened, I’m not able to sleep a lot because of it.”
Bryson said he created himself into a Hollywood-like character to draw more attention to the experiences of combat veterans attending college after their military service. It’s why he first organized LSU’s student vet group, he said. “I was really trying to help out vets at LSU,” he said.
So, ya see, he did it for us to bring our phony stories to the fore. We needed an aircraft mechanic to get medals and accolades for his phony stories so people would recognize what real SEALs do.
No, it doesn’t make any f’n sense to me either.
Thanks to 1stCavRVN11B for the link.
Lordy!
“He kind of introduced himself as a Navy SEAL,” said Dugas, and regaled them with wild stories. “I thought he was full of [it].”
Great use of brackets. 🙂
I hadn’t heard of this before now. To clarify, though, the article says that he was awarded the Louisiana Veterans’ Honor Medal. Anyone who was born in LA and has served honorably can receive it, and they have had a couple of large ceremonies since I’ve been down this way. I’ll give a heads up to the Recruiters that cover LSU, though, one is a Ranger and I’m sure he will love this story.
Im ashamed to say this is my brother….