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Aguero Village in front of Mallos de Aguero conglomerate formation. Bing. (Andrea Comi/Moment/Getty Images)

Could you imagine the sun, low in the sky, casting its glow on this rock formation? This site, and another one along with its village, are popular tourist attractions in Spain. Most of us may not currently be at that location, but you could still enjoy this weekend.

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      1. I can’t let him have like a 5 peat for heaven’s sake…it will go to his head…

    2. My Crown and Rats of the Cong to my Man VOV. My head is both bloody and bowed. Lord over as we miscreant dickweeded ne’er do wells bow to your FIRSTNESS!

    3. Hope you all have a great weekend, I’m not as consistent a winner as as the KoB but it’s fun when you get a first….perhaps someday I’ll figure out how to upload a video from personal files to this site…have a couple of sailing videos I would torture you with when i am first on the WOT….

      Sadly, here in New England it’s time for the boat to come out of the water…anyone in the New England area next spring/summer please let me know we’ll take anyone sailing on Long Island sound that wants to go…we go back in the water in April and by May the weather is usually comfortable enough for casual sailors to enjoy a day out…

      One last trip down tomorrow and then it’s on the jack stands…

      Perhaps it is time to consider warmer climes…

      Best to you all!

  8. I hope that y’all are having the day that you deserve. I have had a productive week. I am in the midst of a move, clearing space for a site in what we of the South call a “Pulpwood Patch”, once logged off years ago, but the regrowth has made it pretty densely wooded. This makes for privacy, shade, and minimizes winter winds. In one day, me and my chainsaw cut down 15 trees of 6 to 10 inch diameter, limbed them, cut them to 8 foot lengths and hand stacked them to be picked up with the forks of the tractor. I learned that “I ain’t as young as I was”, but I got that part done. I picked an 85 ft X 85 ft area that I will fence in to keep my “Bad Dog” close to the house.
    Today and tomorrow I will be staying close to the house as we have a “system” coming up the Gulf of Mexico that will bring rain, lots of rain, and some wind to the Northwest Florida Panhandle.
    Last week I was here with the tin cup and a few of you dropped some coins in it and were much appreciated. I am now at 40% of what I need to be able to get another, older, travel trailer to replace this one that has suffered structural damage in the walls. I am going to rattle the cup again, and if you feel so moved, your help will be greatly appreciated:
    https://www.gofundme.com/f/dogs-and-i-need-a-new-house?pc=fb_co_campmgmtbnr_w&rcid=r01-156909432324-164732359dcc4448&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_lico%2Bbanner&fbclid=IwAR0FEgXtRJvi3zQCQS6QgDF4TZ6KhE5TmRuyJ4WtHWcBdA5lMd6_rF-Usgo

    2. The Tropical Storm that had been headed my way, veered to the East, coming ashore about 140 miles East of me. This left my area just getting light, steady rain, and little to no winds. The rain should end by noon or so, and after that I will get back to working on my new homesite, driving T-posts so I can fence my dogs in, and other’s dogs out.

  10. Typing so fast I didn’t even get my full name entered.
    >sigh<

    Took 11-yo grandson out shooting with the Ruger yesterday. He's doing well on the safety procedures. Working on stance and grip. Trigger squeeze is nice. Grouping in the 8 ring well. And he can tell me when he has pulled a shot – knows immediately what he did wrong.

    Got hopes for the boy.

    Have a good weekend, y’all. 70’s and clear in the GB AO.

      1. His mother (our Favorite First Daughter-in-Law) wants me to work with his oldest brother, whose self-confidence is kinda low with a firearm – because he’s not had a lot of practice. His older sister has no issues with firearms, and has taken out a lot of chicken-killers with one shot.

        My Dad (WWII CIB vet) taught us with a Colt 6-shooter he had. Baby sister got that one. So I had to go get my own .22 to teach our grands.

        We are Texans, after all.

        1. Graybeard, about that “Colt six-shooter”, was it a “western” type frame, or more modern? Back in the 60s, I bought a Colt 1917 .45 cal six shooter. The type used to be offered to some military officers, and was most often used with .45 ACP rounds using “half-moon clip”, holding 3 rounds each so they wouldn’t fall through the cylinder. When a marriage was going sour, I sold it lest it get me in prison in a youthful rage event. It was a great revolver.

          1. This was a .22 Single Action Army (Cowboy style) Colt with an engraved cylinder Dad got in the ’50’s – or possibly earlier.

            I’ve not seen it in years, but if memory doesn’t fail me too badly, the engraving was a buffalo hunt scene or Indian fight scene. Fixed sights, of course.

            Dad taught us the one-handed, bladed stance that was common when he grew up until the Weaver stance and isosceles stance was developed. He always shot that way with a pistol.
            I’m teaching a form of the Weaver stance to the grands.

            1. Nice pistol. Several years ago, while in a Motorcycle clubhouse, one of the people there was raising money to pay his court costs and sold me a West German knockoff of a .22 Ruger “Single Six”. It needs to be re-blued, and I have replaced the genuine fake antler plastic grips with some that I made of bamboo. I have a holster left over from my younger years as a “Cowboy Action Shooter”, and it makes a great fun gun, and is part of my annual costume that I wear to our “Doc Holliday Birthday Party” here in my town. Enjoy that Colt, Graybeard.

              1. They are fun. But my sister got that one in the division of the estate.
                Not griping. I got the Walther P38 Dad took from a German Artillery office in the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge. Its a nice shooter as well.

  11. Another open thread, another weekend of Phil Monkress of All Points Logistics working balls. And let’s not forgot that we are soon approaching five years since Elaine Ricci’s mysterious disappearance.

  12. Have a great weekend y’all!
    Busy ‘negotiating’ with USAJOBS, i.e. trying to get search to yield appropriate results lest I throw my computer.

    1. If you are looking for work in the National Capital Region. Hack has a side gig as a government contractor to cover the bills that being Director Of Media Relations for a proud but humble woman owned business that sells software to the federal government won’t cover. The side gig just landed a major government contract, and all of the positions are Public Trust. Hit Hack up on Facebook or Linked In and he will fill you in. This is no shit, actual jobs to fill.

        1. Different company Hack is working for. Major contractor just started a new contract with the government, doing IT support for a DOJ Agency. No Red Hat Software sales involved. This is a no shit statement, if you have IT experience, and are willing to work inside the beltway, reach out to Hack. POSITIONS DO NOT REQUIRE TS/SCI!

  13. Too far back in the pack to care, so I’ll just leave this here and slink away. Enjoy!

    DID YOU KNOW…?
    Did an army once fight itself – and lose?
    By Commissioner Wretched

    It’s been a fun three years, and there’s a lot more to come!

    Three years ago this week, this column began as a feature in this newspaper.

    Even though my duties at the paper involve doing a lot of things, I have always managed to make enough time for the research required to make this column happen.

    Don’t get me wrong – I’m not anywhere close to wrapping this thing up. I mean, do you have any idea how much trivia there is out there that I haven’t yet gotten to? The very thought that I would bring this little endeavor to a conclusion is enough to make me want to stamp it out like Smokey Bear does wildfires.

    From that week in October of 2016, not long after I’d started my work in newspapers, to this point, we have shared:

    • more than 3,500 nuggets of trivia;

    • almost as many silly comments and bad jokes; and

    • some pretty convoluted introductions to the column.

    And you must like this stuff, because you not only keep reading, but you let me know that you do. Thank you.

    Thanks for three years of getting together every week. Here’s to many more!

    Did you know …

    … there is a temperature at which water exists in three different forms at the same time, and in the same place? Called the triple point, it’s the temperature at which water can be a gas (water vapor), a solid (ice), and a liquid all at the same time. The exact temperature differs depending on air pressure.

    … one of the most popular recording groups ever was initially rejected by a record label? In February of 1962, executives of Decca Records heard a demonstration tape by a four-man group wanting to break into the world of popular music. After listening, the executives passed on signing the group, thinking, “Guitar bands are passé and dying out.” The group was The Beatles. (Decca did, though, sign such great and memorable acts as Goldie and the Gingerbreads, The Tornados, and the Crying Shames, so there’s that.)

    … an army actually fought itself – and lost? During the Austro-Turkish War of 1787-1791, a unit of the Austrian army was setting up camp in the town of Karansebes, Romania. Some of the hussars, or light cavalry, in the unit crossed a bridge into the town looking for Turks and, finding none, were offered drinks by the locals. Later, Austrian infantry units came into the town and, seeing the hussars partying up a storm, demanded booze for themselves. The hussars didn’t share, and an argument between the sober infantrymen and the drunk hussars broke out. Someone fired a shot – there’s always somebody who fires a shot – and the hussars and infantrymen began shooting at each other. As some of the troops on either side (of the same side) began to flee back to the campsite, an Austrian officer thought they were charging Turks, and soldiers at the campsite began firing on their own compatriots. Eventually the Turks did arrive, and found 10,000 dead or wounded Austrians who’d shot at each other. (At least they were efficient, I guess.)

    … when you blush, your cheeks are not the only part of you that turns red? Surprisingly, the lining of your stomach also reddens during a blush. (You have to wonder how they figured that out, don’t you?)

    … the term “red tape,” now used to mean extensive entanglements in rules and regulations, has a real origin? Originally, the term came from the color of the tape or ribbon used by bureaucrats in the 19th Century to tie together packets of official documents. (How literal!)

    … there really was a Mother Goose? Elizabeth Foster Goose (1665-1758) married a widower with ten children when she was just 27, and inherited a huge family. One of her stepdaughters later married a printer, and the stepdaughter enjoyed telling the fables she’d learned from Elizabeth. The printer then published a collection of “Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Goose’s Melodies,” in 1719.

    … staring at your own reflection can cause you to hallucinate? Due to something called the Troxler Effect, if you stare at your own reflection for ten minutes you will likely begin to see monstrous images or deformities of your own face as reflected in the mirror. (That’s funny, when I stare at my reflection for ten minutes, I just see myself. Hey, wait a minute …)

    … penguins can jump as high as six feet into the air? (You would, too, if you sat your bare bottom on Antarctic ice.)

    … one of the widest variances in age in a married couple is found in the 1700s? On August 25, 1783, George Lumley (1679-1785) married Mary Dunning (1773-1849) in Nortallerton, England. Lumley was 104 years old; Dunning was 10. Dunning was the great-great-granddaughter of the woman who had broken her engagement to Lumley eighty years earlier. (I’ve heard of May-December romances, but this one spans centuries!)

    … the popular Three Musketeers candy bar used to come in three-packs? Before World War II, the candy bar was sold in a three-pack and each of the bars had a different flavor of nougat: one vanilla, one chocolate, one strawberry. With wartime restrictions and rationing, the vanilla and strawberry flavors were done away with, but the name of the now-single bar was kept. (You always wondered about that, didn’t you?)

    … the number one trillion is really big? How big, you ask? Well, consider this – one trillion seconds is about 32,000 years. (Just a second …)

    Now … you know!

    1. CW wrote:

      “…staring at your own reflection can cause you to hallucinate?”

      Yep. Narcisstic HRC is starting to lose it.

      Again.

      “Hillary Clinton Floats Conspiracy That Tulsi Gabbard Is Being ‘Groomed’ By Russians”:

      https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard-groomed-russia

      “Hillary Clinton in a new interview appeared to float a conspiracy theory that the Russians are “grooming” Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard to be a third-party candidate in 2020, while claiming 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein is “also” a Russian asset.”

      “Appearing on former President Obama aide David Plouffe’s “Campaign HQ” podcast, Clinton did not mention Gabbard specifically by name, though Plouffe ended the podcast by noting Clinton’s “belief that Tulsi Gabbard is going to be a third-party candidate propped up by Trump and the Russians.”

      “I’m not making any predictions but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” Clinton said, in apparent reference to Gabbard. “She’s the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”

      “She then accused Stein, who ran against her and Donald Trump in 2016, of also being an asset of Russia: “That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset.”

      1. Thanks again, sincerely, to both Donald Trump and Barak Obama who kept that utterly-corrupt kleptocrat vengeance-harpy out of the Oval Office, thus saving the Republic from disaster.

      2. IMHO Das Hildebeast is going even more crazy each day. I wonder if she doesn’t scream “IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ME!” each and every day, I’ve heard that members of the US Secret Service consider being assigned to protect the Clintons as a form of punishment!

    1. Ooh, that’s going to leave a mark, GDC.
      That is if Less Brown and his band of clowns have a clue. Maybe “Alaska Bob” might have a buck or two left over from his DC trip to buy them one…..it seems like the phony Viet Of The Nam vet right thing to do. /s

  15. Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Mr Kotter!

    I’m present (but not presentable) and here!

    If you Dickweeds get a chance, saunter on over to the Medals Of America website. Appears they have a $5.00 T-shirt sale going on. Checked out the “Airborne” shirts for the heck of it and noticed that there are numerous small & medium sizes still available, but the Large, XL, 2XL, and 3XL’s are all out of stock.

    What the hell does that mean? What happened to our former running all over the place, push the ground away svelte bodies?

    Does this mean that if we wanted to jump we would have to use cargo chutes? 😉

    https://www.medalsofamerica.com/search?tag=5-dollar-shirts&utm_campaign=376955_Vietnam%205%20Dollar%20Sale%20%28Email%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Medals%20of%20America&dm_i=4W6K,82UZ,2705GL,UFN3,1

    Sigh………

  16. An interesting article about Elizabeth Warren and her belief on the Economy:

    “Marc Thiessen: Elizabeth Warren Tells Voters Economy Not Working For Them – Most Voters Disagree”:

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/marc-thiessen-elizabeth-warren-favors-huge-federal-spending-requiring-massive-middle-class-tax-hikes

    “…Warren has a problem: The central message of her campaign is that the economy is working for the very wealthy but it is not working for ordinary Americans. Unfortunately for her, ordinary Americans disagree.”

    “A Marist poll asked voters whether “the economy is working well for you personally.” Nearly two-thirds of Americans said yes. This includes large majorities in almost every demographic group.”

    “Sixty-seven percent of college graduates and 64 percent of those without a college education say the economy is working for them. So do 68 percent of whites and 61 percent of nonwhite people.”

    “So do Americans of every generation: 63 percent of Generation Z and millennials; 69 percent of Generation X; 63 percent of baby boomers; and 69 percent of Greatest Generation and Silent Generation voters.”

    “So do supermajorities in every region in the country: 60 percent in the West, 65 percent in the Northeast, 67 percent in the Midwest, and 68 percent in the South.”

    “So do most voters in every type of American community: 63 percent of both big and small city voters; 64 percent of small-town voters; 66 percent of rural voters and 72 percent of suburban voters.”

    “The only groups who disagree, Marist found, are progressives (59 percent), Democratic women (55 percent) and those who are liberal or very liberal (55 percent.”

  17. An interesting article about Elizabeth Warren and her belief on the Economy:

    “Marc Thiessen: Elizabeth Warren Tells Voters Economy Not Working For Them – Most Voters Disagree”:

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/marc-thiessen-elizabeth-warren-favors-huge-federal-spending-requiring-massive-middle-class-tax-hikes

    “…Warren has a problem: The central message of her campaign is that the economy is working for the very wealthy but it is not working for ordinary Americans. Unfortunately for her, ordinary Americans disagree.”

    “A Marist poll asked voters whether “the economy is working well for you personally.” Nearly two-thirds of Americans said yes. This includes large majorities in almost every demographic group.”

    “Sixty-seven percent of college graduates and 64 percent of those without a college education say the economy is working for them. So do 68 percent of whites and 61 percent of nonwhite people.”

    “So do Americans of every generation: 63 percent of Generation Z and millennials; 69 percent of Generation X; 63 percent of baby boomers; and 69 percent of Greatest Generation and Silent Generation voters.”

    “So do supermajorities in every region in the country: 60 percent in the West, 65 percent in the Northeast, 67 percent in the Midwest, and 68 percent in the South.”

    “So do most voters in every type of American community: 63 percent of both big and small city voters; 64 percent of small-town voters; 66 percent of rural voters and 72 percent of suburban voters.”

    “The only groups who disagree, Marist found, are progressives (59 percent), Democratic women (55 percent) and those who are liberal or very liberal (55 percent

    1. ““The only groups who disagree, Marist found, are progressives (59 percent), Democratic women (55 percent) and those who are liberal or very liberal (55 percent”

      Life never plays out well if you go around butt hurt all the time.

    2. “Unemployment is near a record low, and the United States has about 1.6 million more job openings than unemployed people to fill them.” – article

      Umm, what part of ‘more jobs than people to fill them’ escapes this dumb broad? I knew she is disconnected from reality but a brief glance at something like real world statistics might have made her keep her mouth shut.

      And she wants to revamp SocSec? No, she’s incompetent at finance as it is. She will only wreck it and make it worse. The simpler and easier thing to do is to raise the earned income taxable level substantially. More people working means more money going into SocSec.

      She’s dumber than I thought she was, truly, truly dumber.

      Glad I bought a new bag of popcorn.

      2. The San Diego area of Commiefornia reported last Friday that its unemployment rate is 2.7 percent. The lowest rate ever since WWII.

  19. Following Dave Hardin’s and Hondo’s lead when it comes to Music:

    Have been wanting to share this Video:

    Jeff “Skunk” Baxter performs “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” Live at the NAMM Show 2016 TEC Awards in Anaheim, CA, featuring Kipp Lennon on Vocals and Nathan East on Bass.

    Background information on the Song and the Musicians:

    “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” is a 1974 Steely Dan Classic with vocals by Donald Fagan.

    Kip Lennon that once had a Band “Venice” sings the song. In the video, he sounds so much like Donald Fagan. His Brothers sing in the background.

    Kip and his Brothers have Sisters known as the Lennon Sisters. Yep, THE Lennon Sisters.

    Jeff”Skunk” Baxter is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s. He also played Bass Guitar for Jimi Hendrix.

    He plays the Solo Guitar piece in the Video.

    Skunk has worked as a defense consultant and chaired a Congressional Advisory Board on Missile Defense.

    Yep. A Rock Guitarist turned Department of Defense Consultant. Who knew? *smile*

    Nathan East is an American jazz, R&B, and Rock Bass player and vocalist. With more than 2,000 recordings, East is considered one of the most recorded Bass players in the history of music.

    He plays Bass in the Video and is to the right of Skunk Baxter when watching the video.

    Enjoy. I did!

    “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xN0hmNS_IU

        1. IDC SARC:

          WOW! Skunk almost looks the same today as he did in 1972. Well, minus the White Hair.

          And Congos. That guy has talent.

          😉😊

          Thanks for sharing another classic and memories. Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack.

          Always looked forward in watching that show. I think it came on late Friday Nights?

  20. So, Did Alaska Bob’s “real” DD-214 ever show up to the newspaper?

    Nothing but crickets from Pennies for Quarters too. Guess they think that people will just lose interest and go away. Fat f*cking chance of that.

    1. Bim,

      Ole Bob will never mail that “DD214” to PDN.

      Kelly will continue to try to stay under the Radar.

      Pennies for Quarters is probably staying quiet since they accepted money based on a Bogus Story.

      Karma will get them. One reaps what they sow.

      1. Have faith, SGT Preston of the Yukon whom is transporting BOBS DD214 may still be snowed in at the mountain pass. I’m suprised that he didn’t send his dog King with a note and his position so that RCMP members could effect a rescue and would not think that it was a snow job.

  21. Sadly, another Air Force Officer in trouble.

    This time it is an Active Duty Air Force Major (O4) who is a Nurse stationed at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma.

    “Officer at Vance Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud”

    https://www.stripes.com/news/air-force/officer-at-vance-pleads-guilty-to-health-care-fraud-1.603447

    “A nurse and officer at Vance Air Force Base pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to receiving more than $620,000 in kickbacks in an illegal pharmacy referral scheme.”

    “Maj. Romeatrius Moss, 39, who is assigned to Vance, pleaded guilty to criminal health care fraud in which she accepted kickbacks for referring Tricare beneficiaries to pharmacies furnishing compounded drugs.”

    “According to a felony filing on Sept. 30, 2019, Moss solicited and received $73,823.06 in return for referrals to compounding pharmacies involving patients covered by Tricare, a health insurance program for members of the U.S. military.”

    “Moss pleaded guilty admitting while working at the medical clinic at Vance she gave military members pre-printed prescription pads and “induced them to ask their doctors for specific compounded drugs,” . Moss admitted she directed the prescriptions to specific pharmacies, and was paid a kickback that was a percentage of the gross reimbursement the pharmacies received from Tricare for filling the prescriptions.”

    “As a result of her plea agreement, Moss must pay $622,459 of restitution to Tricare — the total amount of kickbacks she received in the referral scheme. Her home, a 2016 Porsche Cayenne, and a 2000 Fleetwood Pace Arrow all must be surrendered to criminal forfeiture as part of the agreement.”

    “At sentencing, Moss faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, in addition to up to three years of supervised release.”

      1. Whiz Wheel®™ results:

        MAJ Romeatrius Nicole Moss (DAM) 36 x 4 = 144

        (Side Note – The humble abode she owns/owned/has to surrender has a fair market value of 712K.)

    4. For the life of me I can’t understand why she didn’t start a campaign for political office. Kickbacks to a campaign fund are widely accepted as legitimate. Then when you use those fund for something non-campaign related, if (and that’s a big IF) you are caught you plead ignorance, pay a fine (out of your campaign funds) and move on.

      Has she learned nothing about how the government actually works in her time in? If you want to be crooked, head to congress.

  22. Well, this did not turn out so well.

    Evidently, a Veteran had lied to folks for years that he did not have a Family. He also stated to others that his wife had died.

    The Veteran recently passed away and a Funeral Home as well as National Media did a story on him not having a family. The Funeral Home and the National Media basically encouraged the public to attend his funeral using the that story. Over 4,000 folks showed up to his funeral. Yes. 4,000 innocent folks.

    The Interstate was jammed with folks trying to get to his Funeral.

    Well, guess who saw and read about his Funeral. HIS SONS. They all lived in the same State. Florida.

    The Veteran was a Supply Clerk PFC at Fort Stewart GA for 2 years in the 1960s. He was unfaithful to his first wife and walked out on her and his family. His first wife divorced him in 1980 after he disappeared. They had two sons. He told others that his first wife died and never mentioned to anyone that he had two sons.

    He also never paid his first wife (who didn’t die as he told others) any Child Support after he left.

    Have to give credit to all the good folks who thought they were doing the right thing by attending his funeral. However, it is disturbing to read THE REST OF THE STORY about this Veteran who lied to everyone and received a Full-Fledged Military Funeral.

    IMHO, I think he went to his grave as a Con Man. Just my two cents. He DID have a Biological Family out there. He just led others to believe that he had no Blood Kin when in fact he did.

    Here is the story:

    “Thousands Showed Up For The Funeral of a Veteran With No Family. Then The Truth Came Out.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/10/thousands-attended-florida-veteran-funeral-after-viral-obituary-he-had-sons/

    “The Secret Life of Edward Pearson Sr.”

    https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20191005/anderson-secret-life-of-edward-pearson-sr

    1. My cousin’s biological father is commonly referred to in our family as “the sperm donor” – he was/is not considered part of the family other than the fact that we got a great cousin out of the incident.

      Never divorced my aunt, either. Although that didn’t stop him from using his dip stick.

      All that to say – in a sense this jerk really didn’t have a family, for he wasn’t really a father.

    1. And you as well, sir.

      Good to see you back in action here. Still have more schooling, or are you at a prolonged pause for a while?

      1. Hi Graybeard,

        I’m working mostly and school is paused until November. Been sacking away some OT while I can. Nice working for an employer that appreciates skill and education rather than bootlickers on Bragg.

        1. Good news, IDC SARC.

          We are inclined to stay with employers like that.

          I’ve had to work for the bootlickers in the state agency from which I have retired, but was able to keep my head and tail low enough to avoid most of the direct fire.

          Rootin’ for ya’ in the school arena.

    2. Fascinating rank that fellow had … lance sergeant.

      I mean, we all know what a lance corporal is … but wouldn’t a lance sergeant be … a corporal?

      Or am I missing something here?

      1. As it was once, a very long time ago, used as a rank in the US Army; I’m waiting for some phony to claim he is one.
        In Her Majesty’s Army it is a Corporal serving in a Sergeant’s slot or billet without receiving Sergeant’s pay.

      2. Historically, the lance part of the rank just meant they were filling the role of the higher rank. Sort of like an “acting” whatever. So a lance sergeant is a corporal doing the duties of a sergeant just as a lance corporal is a private doing the duties of a corporal.

        Over time these became substantive ranks.

  26. Okay, sea story alert. This is a bit in line with the thread regarding closing retail outlets. Any old fleet sailors that visited Subic Naval Station recall the Far East Trader that was located there? It was an establishment that was part of the Navy Exchange, and it specialized in audio and camera gear. Do you remember the mainstream audio gear they sold, such as Sony and Pioneer, as well as high end equipment such as Crown, McIntosh and Nakamichi? Used to love going into that place, and so did everybody else. My last time in Subic was 1981 onboard USS Belleau Wood LHA-3. The ship set up a storage area for all the electronics USN/USMC had purchased, don’t recall what space was used, do remember it was packed with audio gear. Bought a pair of JBL L40s, wish I still had them. A bit more.
    Deployment was ending, departed Subic and stopped at Pearl Harbor, do not recall if it was just a port visit or to offload Marine BLT at K-Bay, or if Marines returned to San Diego with ship. Belleau Wood at that time had a UH-1N permanently assigned to ship, called Devil Dog 3, flown and maintained by USN personnel. Just looked at cruise book from that deployment, still had beards back then, too many shitty and scraggly ones!
    JBL still has high end line in the heritage of the “L” series, bit of sticker shock at prices.
    https://www.jblsynthesis.com/

    Best to you all.

      1. Army had ’em, too… bought a Kenwood component system at the store in Augsburg which I am still using over 40 years later. Have had to replace a couple of drive belts and clean a few pots, otherwise still sounds fine. Has survived 16 moves to date unharmed.

  29. “11 Men, Many In The Military, Attacked Or Sexually Assaulted In NC City, Police Say”

    https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article236398558.html#wgt=trending

    “Eleven men have been assaulted near bars in Wilmington, prompting police to warn those who go out drinking late at night.”

    “The men, including seven members of the military, were attacked in downtown Wilmington in Eastern North Carolina around the time bars closed for the night, the city’s police department said Wednesday in a Facebook post.”

    “Police have now identified four victims who may have been sexually assaulted,” officials say.”

    “The common thing about all 11 of these is a cognitive impairment where the victims don’t remember anything,” Evangelous said, according to the Wilmington Star News. “All they remember is being in a bar and that they end up waking up the next day somewhere in the downtown area not remembering anything that happened.”

  30. Am shaking in my boots.

    😉😆🐎

    “Kim Jong Un Channels Inner Putin, Rides White Horse On Sacred Mountain In Equine Propaganda Shoot”

    https://www.foxnews.com/world/kim-jong-un-white-horse-sacred-mountain-vladimir-putin

    “The North Korean leader, who in the past has displayed a penchant for elaborate propaganda photo shoots, channeled his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week after newly released images showed him riding horseback on a sacred mountain where it was said he was inspired to plan “a great operation” to overcome U.S.-led sanctions, local media reported.”

    “The undated images released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday showed Kim, dressed in a long winter coat, riding a white horse on snow-covered Mount Paektu, the highest point on the Korean peninsula.”

      1. Hondo commented:

        “How did they come up with a Clydesdale in North Korea?”

        Budweiser/Anheuser-Busch?

        😉😊

  31. Another Phony Vietnam POW who got caught:

    “New Mexico Man Headed To Prison For Conning 70-year-old Californa Woman”:

    https://www.krqe.com/news/crime/new-mexico-man-headed-to-prison-for-conning-70-year-old-californa-woman/

    “A New Mexico man is headed to prison for conning a California woman into investing in a fake salsa company.”

    “Eduardo Triste was convicted of fraud and embezzlement earlier this year after he struck up a phone relationship with a 70-year-old call center worker.”

    “The 55-year-old represented himself as a Major in the Marines and told her he had been a prisoner of war with John McCain. He eventually got her to give him more than 65,000 for a salsa company that didn’t exist.”

    “Dona Ana County judge sentenced him to four years behind bars. He’s also required to pay back the money.”

    1. Send that to Dave Hardin at Military Phony. He will add it to that collection. At least this one was caught redhanded.

        1. Maybe he could hire on as a rep for a vet owned BBQ Co?

          Or his prison experience could come in handy as an apprentice towel fluffer at Brucie’s Bath House (Entrance in the Rear)?

    2. Clown would have been what, 11, 12 at the most when the Vietnam war ended? What a maroon!

      1. Uh, he is 55 now, so in 1973 when the last US combat troops left he would have been about nine years old.

    3. His last name Triste? That’s appropriate, he’s going to be “muy triste” very soon.😂

  32. Last week it was an Air Force Officer (Colonel Mark Visconi).

    And now this, a Navy LT CMDR:

    “Charged With Child Pornography and Masturbating In Cubicle, Officer Convicted”:

    https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/10/16/charged-with-child-pornography-and-cubicle-officer-convicted

    “A Navy officer will spend a year behind bars and get kicked out of the service after he was found guilty last month at a court-martial trial.”

    “Lt. Cmdr. Robert J. Cleary was found guilty by a military jury on Sept. 13 following a four-day trial. He had faced charges involving child pornography and workplace masturbation.”

    “In addition to a year in the brig and dismissal, the result of trial records indicate he also must register as a sex offender.”

  33. Did anyone see Dullass Whipitnflogit hitch hiking North on I-95, on his way to visit his Bunk Buddy Cryer who is getting a mental evaluation in the Maryland Padded Room Resort? Was it raining? Did you swerve to splash him?

  34. “State Department Report On Clinton Emails Finds Hundreds Of Violations, Dozens Of Individuals At Fault”:

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/report-hillary-clinton-emails-violations-faults

    “A State Department report into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business found dozens of individuals at fault and hundreds of security violations.”

    “The report summarized an administrative review of the handling of classified information relating to Clinton’s private email server used during her tenure as the nation’s highest-ranking diplomat between 2009 and 2013.”

    “The report reflected only approximately 30,000 emails that the State Department was able to physically review, and found 38 individuals were responsible for 91 violations.”

    “Another 497 violations were also found, although the report was not able to assign responsibility in those cases, in part because many of those involved had already left the department during the time it took to receive the emails and review them.”

    1. Monkees saw the head ape getting away with it and figured…”What the hell, the boss is doing it, why can’t we?”

      The swamp is not only filled with elected or appointed critters, it is slap full of “hired” trash.

    1. IDC SARC:

      OMG!

      Here is the 2014 TAH Post on her:

      https://www.azuse.cloud/?p=57300

      It looks as if she NEVER served?

      Can a TAH Admin please make this a SEPARATE Post to include her FOIA?

      FOX News needs to be contacted. The other news media needs to be contacted. When one GOOGLEs her name, this story is everywhere.

      How DID she get on that Honor Flight? A Fake DD214?

      She needs to be exposed NOW!

      1. I sent a message to Fox News that they need to correct the story. However, I have not heard back from them.

    2. I notified Dave Hardin about this. She copped a free ride on the Honor Flight, which she was NOT entitled to, and which could have gone to a real Vietnam vet.

      I believe that violates the 2013 Stolen Valor Act.

      She isn’t going to stop until or unless she is publicly and legally busted for it. And even then, she may be so completely without a conscience that, like that serial plane sneak Marilyn Hartman, she’ll just go right on doing it. I don’t give a damn if she is 80 years old. She’s nothing but a lying sack of toad crap and needs to be stopped.

  37. IDC SARC:

    OMG!

    Here is the 2014 TAH Post on her:

    https://www.azuse.cloud/?p=57300

    It looks as if she NEVER served?

    Can a TAH Admin please make this a SEPARATE Post to include her FOIA?

    FOX News needs to be contacted. The other news media needs to be contacted. When one GOOGLEs her name, this story is everywhere.

    How DID she get on that Honor Flight? A Fake DD214?

    She needs to be exposed NOW!

    1. I dropped the link on Fox News FB Page and chastised the reporter for not taking 30 seconds to good the little ole POS

      https://www.facebook.com/FoxNews/

      Comment and share if y’all would like. She looks like she took off the silver star but still has mixed insignia and no tab etc…just silly

    3. For the benefit of those here who did not serve as a ground pounder in the Viet of the Nam, Army Nurses did not ride into the field on Dust-Off (Medevac) Hueys to rescue or treat the wounded. The Nurses had their hands full treating the wounded in the Evac hospitals. No one rappelled out of helicopters to treat the wounded, as there was no need to do so. Medevac Hueys had a jungle penetrator attached to an onboard hoist. Where the jungle canopy would not allow the bird to land, the penetrator and hoist were used to winch the wounded man up through the trees. DeSantis like that other dingbat is lying. Moreover, Army nurses were never part of any Mevac helicopter crew in Vietnam. Thus, there was never any reason for any medical personnel to rappel into the jungle canopy from a helo, period. The concept was to get the wounded on the bird and fly them to the nearest trauma center. Each rifle company had a field medic who would perform the on the ground treatment of wounded prior to evac. Her story is complete bullshit, just like that phony baloney Banning city counsel-woman, who also never even served as a nurse. I concur with our IDC SARC and ninja, let’s FOIA her.

      2. SHACK!

        Thanks for posting this, rgr769.

        My cousin was an Army Nurse in the Viet of the Nam.

        This kind of outrageous poser bullshit absolutely infuriates her.

        1. My Army Nurse wife wanted to go to Vietnam, but she did not complete her training at Ft. Sam until Sept. or Oct. of 1971, and by then the Army had stopped sending 2LT nurses to RVN. She also says she never heard of any Army nurse serving on a helicopter crew, let alone rappelling out of one to treat wounded in the field. Luckily for me, I met her at Ft. Devens shortly after my return from sunny RVN.

      4. Jan Spann went down in flames, and was forced to resign from the Banning School Board. I remember looking at her background at one point. If memory serves, the closest she ever got to military medical service was a short stint while she was in college as a candy-striper at the Naval Hospital in San Pedro.

        Unfortunately, her claims as a two-tour Vietnam combat nurse continue to live in infamy. Her book A Rebel West is still listed on Amazon and includes a brief bio which also falsely claims she’s still a member of the Banning School Board.

      5. “No one rappelled out of helicopters to treat the wounded, as there was no need to do so.”

        Minor point of contention, but there were at least a few men who did. Air Force PJs like William Pisenbarger (Medal of Honor recipient) did just that.

        I do know their skill set is the exception to the rule.

        1. My point was that Army Medevac crews did not rappel out of their Hueys because there was no reason to do so and they had no one in the crew trained to rappel. Many men rappelled out of helicopters in Vietnam. The men of every LRRP/Ranger company and the MACV-SOG C&C recon teams were trained to rappel out of helicopters. I was trained to rappel out of helicopters and did so on several occasions. It was sometimes the only way to get reinforcements to a team in trouble. But Army medical personnel were not trained to rappel out of helicopters, period. An Air Force PJ is not an Army female nurse. And for the fifteen months I served in the RVN most Dustoff Hueys I saw or heard of had a jungle penetrator to be used when there was no LZ from which to evac wounded. When I had to evac one of my men and no LZ was available, we called for a Dustoff with a jungle penetrator.

          1. I got what you were going for. I know the jungle penetrator was by far the preferred method of evac.

    4. She’s been exposed and still doesn’t shut her yap.

      She and people like her are the reasons I avoid things like the do-gooder Honor Flight program. I can get there on my own, thanks, and it will be like going back to Quarters K up the hill from the Pentagon.

      1. Just buzzed thru the Fox FB and article comments. The link to the post on her being exposed here is gone/not there. Sh^tbaggery don’t discriminate. Even little old females can do it.

          1. Kind of explains why the lemmings believe all the shite the MSM serves up…the fukkers just eat it up with no doubt at all.

            In God we trust all other need to show the data. FFS

            1. Yep.
              The MSM FakeBook pages are getting hit with reality comments today, and the reactions are actually pretty good…. Thanks, wow, etc.
              Very little blowback.

              Frankly, all the blind “God bless you, and thank you for your service” comments make me want to vomit.

              1. Comments in the original article that deny her story
                are being deleted.
                Fox sells eyeballs and could
                not care less about the truth.
                They have a story that is driving ad revenue.

      2. Okay, well, tomorrow is a good day for that, and I’ve notified Dave Hardin about her shenanigans already. She’ll probably go into hiding for a while and then reappear when she thinks the coast is clear.

        1. Thank you, Ex. It seems like she now completes the trifecta of recent posers who know no limits – Les, Maggie, and Alaska Bob. Perhaps they can form a band, release a single called “In the Limelight”.

  38. Saw this on quora
    It’s a repost

    -!-!-!-!-!-!

    What would make right-wingers support gun control?
    Paul Feist
    Paul Feist, Bottom Writer who adds to Quora’s ad views. (2016-present)
    Answered Mar 6, 2018 · Upvoted by Eamon O’Kelly, Almost two decades practicing law in U.S. federal and state

    Several things would help your (the left side of the American political aisle) case.

    First – it would be very nice if you could ask the question without the politically charged epithet “Right-wingers”. Unless you would like the answer to contain “liberal nazi goons”, which also sets a negative tone and doesn’t further a useful discussion – avoid this sort of language.

    Let me give you some positive ideas to consider;

    Genuine Compromise

    Since National Firearms Act of 1934, the anti-gun side has considered “compromise” to be “Give us some of what we want now, free, and we’ll come take the rest later”.

    Here’s a radical idea – How about you offer something WE have wanted for a long time? I can think of two things – National Concealed Carry Reciprocity, and the removal of the Hughes Amendment to the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986.

    No tricks, no adding rider amendments to pull those out at the last minute, at 2am before a Senate vote… an actual, genuine offer.

    Now, to be honest, those of us who have been following the debate for 40-ish years wouldn’t buy it. We’ve seen it before. Any gun control bill of any kind with any sort of actual compromise in it gets re-written at the last minute before the vote to remove any provisions that might interest the pro-gun side in voting for it – hoping that it would get enough votes to pass anyway.

    You wonder why the pro-gun side is so steadfast against any form of legislation? Well, that’s because we’ve never ONCE seen a bill that ONLY does what the proponents say it does. Ban “armor piercing ammo”? Sounds reasonable… except it was written to ban virtually any ammunition of any design – on purpose. Even the generally positive “Firearms Owners Protection Act” of ’86 got that little “gotcha” slipped in to take the rate of crime from lawfully possessed fully automatic weapons from ZERO point ZERO percent, to.. what exactly was the point of that? Since 1934, NOT ONE SINGLE CRIME had ever been commited with a lawfully tax-stamped full auto weapon. Not one. And yet, the Hughes Amendment closed the registrations for them for law abiding citizens.

    You’ve screwed us enough times we’re not buying into it any more. Our shields are up, and we’re not believing you any more when you offer “compromise”.

    You want us to consider a few things? Show us you’re not just trying to tighten the noose on all firearms ownership. Compromise – for real this time.

    Prove it will work here, now, in the 21st Century America.

    You can point to different cultures, like Japan, or Europe, or the UK, or Australia – guess what: we’re not any of those places.

    Show us how disarming law-abiding citizens will make a statistically significant difference in the overall violence in this country. Don’t cherry pick the data – show us how the number of people killed with hammers (which is more than those killed with rifles) is going to change with a particular law and you might just be shocked when we voice support for it.

    You see, MY AR-15 has harmed no one. Nor will it ever. You need to make a pretty strong case that me giving up MY rifle is going to affect anything.

    You also need to show me how my more accurate, longer range, bolt action rifle is not “next up” on your agenda. That again is going to be a long hard road for you to regain that trust – we’ve seen it before. One thing gets banned, then within DAYS, you’re looking for something else.

    Don’t give us that bullshit about how “we banned gun violence research”. We did no such thing. We stopped the CDC from actively seeking gun control legislation. If you don’t recognize the difference between doing research which is, and has always been, perfectly legal for the CDC to do, and pushing a political agenda from a bully pulpit with tax dollars – then we really don’t have any common ground for discussion.

    Accept that the Second Amendment is a RIGHT, and an INDIVIDUAL RIGHT that shall not be infringed.

    We get it. You want to ban all guns. You’ve been saying it for more than 50 years. “We’ll ban this now, and ban everything else later!”. Yeah, that’s why we oppose unequivocally each and every one of your “little steps” towards that.

    If you really want responsible gun ownership, and gun safety, then you’re going to have to accept that the second amendment exists, and that it means what the Founding Fathers said it means in their other writings. It’s an individual right. And it shall not be infringed.

    You want to talk about improving mental health reporting? Felony reporting? Keeping criminals from purchasing firearms? Improved background checks?

    It’s real simple – Accept that these are not just a “step towards banning guns”.

    Don’t talk out of one side of your face saying “Oh, yeah, I’m a hunter, and I think people should be able to own hunting guns”, while supporting banning handguns, etc.

    Accept that a free country, with free citizens, is based upon The People having arms for their own defense, defense against a tyrannical government (heaven forbid it should ever come to that – believe it or not, gun rights supporters do NOT want to overthrow the government, we just want to be certain that the government is never overthrown from within and can act with impunity against the People…), AND hunting, target shooting, etc.

    If the political left were unequivocal and vocal about that, and backed it up by stopping support for any legislation that infringed upon that – you would be flabergasted by how fast we could work together on legislation that improved how we conduct background checks, track felons, and keep firearms out of the hands of those adjudicated mentally incompetant.

    Until then – we know damn well you’re going to load any such bills with little “Gotcha’s” that classify wanting to own a firearm as a “mental disorder”. Don’t say you won’t, we’ve seen it happen in the early 90’s – it’s in the Congressional Record. “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me”.

    Finally;

    Let’s have a talk about whether you want to reduce crime or just “ban guns”.

    You want to reduce crime? Hell, so do we! I’ll bet that with all of 20 minutes of discussion, we could come up with 20 ways to reduce crime, and violence, that have nothing to do with banning guns.

    You want to reduce crime? Let’s talk about education, prison reform, and maybe have a long talk about how we treat ex-cons in this country (often leaving them damn little choice but to return to crime, because virtually no jobs or job training is open to them).

    If you just want to “ban guns”, the conversation is going nowhere – and you know that.

    Understand and accept what the National Rifle Association is, and isn’t.

    The NRA is an association of it’s millions of members. It is not a trade association, and it’s not a “think tank lobbying organization”. And it’s not a “Firearms Industry Lobby” (that’s the NSSF).

    The NRA is between five and seven million gun owners that, of their own choosing, pay their membership dues to support the NRA and it’s subsidiary organization, the NRA-ILA.

    When you say “stop the NRA” – you’re not talking about a faceless corporate lobbying group – you’re talking directly to me, a life member, and when you call the NRA murderers? You’re calling me a murderer.

    You cannot insult me into agreeing with you. In fact, I have a very long memory. I was called, to my face, a murderer for being a gun owner back in the early 90’s. That was when I put down the first payment on my Life Membership.

    Recognize that I am not a criminal. I am not mentally incompetent. I do not have a “gun fetish”. I am a citizen that has committed no crime, threatened no person, and enjoys collecting and shooting firearms for competition, sport, and keeps a couple for self defense in full accordance with the law. Attacking me, personally, or by association, will not serve your goals – it will turn me into an active voter and campaigner against you.

    I will not forget, and I will not forgive, past transgressions, insults, and lies directed against me and my fellow gun owners. If you want my cooperation, you need to begin by making amends – then, maybe, we can work together to solve the problems you say you want to solve.

    You work on those five points. Then we can have an honest, genuine, conversation about how to reduce crime and violence in 21st century America.

  39. The shoulder patch which Margaret DeSanti is wearing is for the 8th Medical Brigade of Staten Island, NY. It was constituted 16 July 76. The dates of the Vietnam War were 1 Nov 55 – 30 Apr 75. She is not a Vietnam veteran.
    There’s no records of a State nursing license. She’s not a registered nurse.
    Take a look at the Facebook page for: ‘Honor Flight Arizona’. Her ignorant and deluded supporters are gushing over her. I threw a monkey wrench into their back-slapping glee session yesteday by posting about this wannabe, lying non-veteran. I also contacted news reporter,Frank Somerville from KTVU Fox 2 in San Francisco/Oakland. He has done a fine job of exposing fraudulent, scheming and phony veterans in northern California. He had a good relationship with the dearly departed John Lilyea. His Facebook page is: ‘Frank Somerville KTVU’. I left messages with both TSA Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Airport Bureau. The USMC veteran/TSA agent who joined Margaret in performing push-ups just might be interested in learning about her lack of military service. Hadn’t Margaret taken three other Honor Flights?

    1. Good on ya, Carolyn. I knew she was a phony as soon as I saw she was claiming to have rappelled out of a Dustoff Huey. No female Army nurse ever rappelled out of a helicopter in Vietnam during the war to rescue or treat anyone.

  40. More on Margaret C. DeSanti, phony Vietnam Army Nurse:

    From 2014:

    Please go to the Link below (Arizona State University).

    Scroll down. One can see her wearing Army Blues with her Bling-Bling to include Airborne Wings.

    The article also states the name of her grandkids.

    http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs147/1113945078057/archive/1119164247709.html

    Hopefully, TAH Admin will do a Post on her so that her name will quickly saturate Search Engines as a being a Military Phony instead of a Honor Flight “Veteran” doing “pushups”.

    1. TAH has already exposed this PoS. Perhaps adding the new info to what has already been posted on her would be more productive than here in a WOT? (I dunno – maybe so, maybe not. Everything in one place makes the new info much easier to find than trying to remember which topic other than the one about her the new links were added.)

      1. OWB:

        Agree. Just a recommendation on my part, but hopefully TAH Admin will generate a new Post on her for comments.

        She needs to be exposed again as a Military Phony, with hopes the TAH piece being on the Internet before she travels back from DC to Arizona.

        1. Hell, a Blast From the Past posting with updates including her latest shenanigans would be most apropos. I remember this silly broad from way back when. This is a classic case of these fools laying low for a while and then re-emerging when they think the coast is clear. I also looked at the comments on the Fox News article and it infuriates me to see people’s willful blindness when presented with facts that contradict their initial perception of the situation. I guess it’s true that you can’t change a mind that’s been made up.

    1. I love how DeSanti ID’s herself in that photo of four Army nurses in fatigues and helmet liners. The photo in question is one likely taken at Camp Bullis at Ft. Sam Houston of four Army Nurse Basic Course students. My wife has a couple of similar pictures of herself taken there in 1971. It was the only time in her five years of service as an Army Nurse that she ever wore a helmet liner. She likes to brag that her team won the land navigation/compass course competition, but she still can’t seem to tell North from South most of the time. She subsequently admitted that she just followed her three compatriots that did the actual navigating.

      I guess Maggie figures she can even get away with this lie, since who can say what one who is now 84 looked like as a fresh faced 20 or 21 year old in such a group photo.

  44. If one goes to this site, one will see 2 pictures of Margaret “Maggie” DeSanti, Phony Vietnam US Army Nurse, in Uniform.

    In one picture, an Air Force Veteran is holding a Black and White Photograph of a woman in Uniform.

    Could that Black & White Photo be her? Does the photo look like a US Air Force Basic Training picture taken in the 1950s or 1960s when woman in the Air Force were known as WAFs?

    https://honorflightarizona.smugmug.com/Fall-2019/October-15-17-2019/

    1. That is an AF photo, but it’s of the woman who is holding the photo. The gal who’s wearing the USAF vet cap.

      As for our phony nurse/LTC, while she ditched the Silver Star, the rest of her ribbons should immediately draw everyone’s suspicion. Nurse with GCM and loops, while not impossible is suspect, but no campaign stars on the VSM, no stars on the NDSM, Armed Forces Reserve Medal w/ no devices, missing device on the Vietnam Campaign Medal, GWOT medal, and Kuwaiti Liberation Medals w/o the SWA Service Medal all add up to a soup sandwich.

      That she was the only veteran that shows up in uniform should have pointed out that she’s a bit of a knucklehead. My mom took my grandpa on an honor flight from AZ to DC just before he passed, and in the photos it’s a lot like you see here except nobody is goofy enough to wear their uniform.

      1. The ohio army recruiting FB is deleting any criticism of Ms. Maggie…even though the TAH links and various pics of her uniform shenanigans have been outlined. They have cringy hashtags attached to the story and just wont let it go. Evidently, I have also been banned there. That’s effing bizarre.:)

      2. Thank You, Mason.

        Agreed on what you wrote about her showing up in uniform.

        IMHO, she may be an Attention Seeking Individual who craves the spotlight on her.

        She walks with a cane but has to show off by doing “pushups”? Is that not Attention Seeking behavior?

    2. Hey, take a breath, you guys. Dave Hardin has already been notified about this scraggly cow’s current escapades into SV territory.

      The old story about her made her vaguely gun-shy, but she waited until she thought the coast was clear to start her crap again. This time, it was really a bad idea on her part.

  45. In 2013, when she was living in New York, Margaret DeSanti identified herself as a CPT (O3):

    Has anyone ever heard of “United Veterans of America, Empire State Chapter #1, PO Box 422, Riverhead, NY 11901-1529 (631-369-6660).” ?

    “Wanted: All military active duty, retirees, veterans and widows from all branches of the military services. Belong to a national professional organization designed exclusively for the active duty and veterans of all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Continue close association with the active and the retired by meeting on a professional and social level to exchange information and knowledge of concern to all of us. Write or call Capt. Margaret Desanti, USA (Ret), 1st Vice Commander, United Veterans of America, Empire State Chapter #1, PO Box 422, Riverhead, NY 11901-1529 (631-369-6660).”

    https://hicksvillenews.com/2013/01/11/thehicksvilleillustratednewscom-calendar-181/

      1. rgr769, yes, by golly, she was a fast tracker. An “Retired” O3 who became an O5.

        Additionally, Army CPTs don’t abbreviate their Rank as “Capt.”

        😉😊

        I have this feeling she was once married to someone in the Air Force, who was a Korean War Veteran and who passed away in the mid 1980s.

        I think I know her Maiden name and the area she was born and raised. Doing some more research.

        She definitely has mental issues based on her fabricated Walter Mitty stories. She needs to be stopped before she promotes herself to Brigadier General with claims of being an OEF/OIF Veteran.

        She’s probably a long distant relative of Les Brown, Bob Glaves and Jan Spann.

    2. The “United Veterans of America” appears to be an insignificant group in Gastonia, NC. Nothing appears when serching in New York. Could Margaret DeSanti have been pocketing donations in Riverhead, NY?

  46. The lying fake nurse Margaret Desanti is having the innerwebz filled up with her fakeness of being a fake Viet of the Nam Army Nurse. The links to TAH/CG are being taken down or ignored as fast as they post. Here is another one I just found and posted on their fakebook thru sister.

    https://connectingvets.radio.com/articles/vietnam-war-nurse-challenges-tsa-officer-pushups?fbclid=IwAR2lTj1Gd-PaKYgPnNOhdC1Apb2VA0sD0WpX5qDaPw09HuUtHDWvV-7A81w

    Damned if she don’t lie worse than the bitch of Benghazi!

    1. I wonder if they made her take off her shoes.
      TSA is suppossed to protect us from phonies.
      Hard to believe she was not on their radar
      from the past.
      What a great way to sneak a device on board.
      Just show up as a hero in uniform and play
      act for the agents to a cheering crowd.

      1. Great question and suggestions.

        Had to nearly do a strip for TSA when the only thing I carried was a burial flag, while dressed as if I was coming from a military funeral – having just buried my Dad, the WWII and Korean War vet. The agent was very quietly respectful toward me but indicated with his body language and a rather strange eye cut toward a camera in the corner that my search was not his idea. Meanwhile, a young middle eastern man jabbering on his cell phone in our security area as he nervously paced around was eventually removed from the area.

        Go figure. Real vets harassed while this glory seeking wannabe does her best to embarrass the entire nation. Her lies deprived others of a trip they earned to DC.

        Fox, and all the others reporting this nonsense, should be ashamed.

        1. Is it just my eyes deceiving me (or my civilianessess), but are those AF senior pilot wings Maggie is sporting, along with the Army Senior Parachute Badge?

    1. 100 things can happen…and 98 of them ain’t good. Your whole world can change in the blink of an eye.

      Godspeed and Farewell Warriors. Healing prayers offered up to the wounded and God’s Peace be unto the Families of the killed.

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