Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on William Bowen Gantt (it looks like he shut down his Facebook page while I was typing this) who claims that he was a US Navy SEAL among other things;
The Navy asks “Who?”
The folks at MP could find no active duty for Gantt from 1984 to 2018.
Just another goofball of the 99%.
Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Don Marostica who was a legislator in Colorado’s House of Representatives. He resigned that position and became the director of the state’s Office of Economic Development and International Trade. You’ll notice in the caption of the picture above, someone thought that Marostica is a Vietnam veteran. His name is also memorialized in Veteran’s Park in the City of Loveland as a Vietnam veteran.
According to his Wiki, Marostica graduated from Colorado State University in 1970, then he began his pursuit of a Masters program at University of Northern Colorado, graduating in 1975. His military records say that he spent three months on active duty in 1971, the remainder of his service was spent in the National Guard and the Reserves.
There was no service in Vietnam.
I’m not calling this stolen valor because I can find nothing where Marostica directly claims that he is a Vietnam veteran, I’m just correcting the record – he is not a Vietnam veteran.
From Loveland Politics;
According to the blog, “thisAintHell” which obtained Marostica’s military service records
through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request, Marostica only served on active
duty for three months in Fort Knox, Kentucky in the early 70’s. Following his 90 days of
active duty, Marostica remained either in the Army Reserve or National Guard
eventually achieving the rank of 1st Lt but not Captain as he claims according to the
records published online. According to the same records reviewed by LovelandPolitics,
they show he was never in Vietnam during his three months of active duty but instead
served his country for 90 days in Kentucky.Loveland Mayor Demands Brick Be Removed
Loveland Mayor Jacki Marsh, a critic of Marostica’s influential LBP group in city affairs,
is demanding the brick commemorating Don Marostica’s service in “Vietnam” be
removed from the city owned park before Memorial Day celebrations. However,
Lovelandpolitics has learned the parks department and several members of the city
council are claiming the brick is not a violation of any city policy so fighting the mayor’s
request. Sponsors who contribute donations are allowed to place a brick in the city’s
veteran’s memorial park with an inscription of their choice.
From Raleigh, North Carolina;
According to Raleigh police, the homeowner fired at two intruders during an armed robbery.
The shooting happened in the 4200 block of Brintons Cottage Street around 4:51 a.m.
Deandre Carney, 19, died from his injuries.
Willie Richardson, 22, was also injured in the shooting.
He is still in the hospital with gunshot wounds but is charged with armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, first-degree burglary, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The homeowner’s 11-year-old son was also injured and is in the hospital with serious injuries.
From Brookhaven, Mississippi;
James O’Quinn and Trelin Courdell McWilliams…entered the store at closing time around 9 p.m. while several customers were still inside, he said.
Witnesses said he displayed a handgun to the clerk and took money from the register.
He ran out to the Chevy Malibu and they left, but not before witnesses were able to get a description of the vehicle.
One witness did more than just take notes. He took aim.
“One of the customers saw it, came outside and retrieved his shotgun and fired a shot at the tires of the car,” Rushing said.
While he managed to shoot the car, he didn’t flatten a tire.
But based on the description, Brookhaven police officers located the Malibu at Hwy. 51 and Hwy. 550 at a convenience store and apprehended the three suspects.
MCPO sends us a link to the news that Jessica Baeder, from Alabama, who was named last year as Miss America’s Outstanding Teen accepted an appointment at West Point.
Miss America’s Outstanding Teen announces that its national titleholder, Jessica Baeder, has accepted an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point. “In joining the Long Gray Line, I am honored to continue the military legacy of my father, grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who all served in the military,” says Baeder. “This has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl.”
Baeder was especially influenced by her father, Patrick, who was an Army Ranger and was serving with the much-celebrated 10th Mountain Division in New York when she was born. Her grandfather was a career soldier in the U.S. Army Special Forces and a founding member of the elite Delta Force unit, where he served for more than 35 years, with an additional decade of service with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Baeder, an 18-year-old honors student at Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, will attend the Academy this fall for military leadership training and plans to pursue an engineering degree with an emphasis on biomedical sciences.
Mick sends us a link to Fox News about young Brenna Spencer who graduates from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga this year and she decided to take a unique photograph to remember the occasion.
I don’t take normal college graduation photos… pic.twitter.com/eI1NvLFYHs
— Brenna Spencer (@BrennaSpencer) April 7, 2018
Of course, the gun-grabbing fascists aren’t pleased;
Despite receiving what she called a surprising “amount of hate” on social media, Brenna Spencer, 22, says she has no regrets.
“I know the Tennessee state gun codes …. I carry everywhere that I’m allowed to carry,” the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga student said in an interview.
On Twitter, where Spencer’s profile states that “political correctness offends me,” she posted the provocative photo with the caption: “I don’t take normal college graduation photos…”
From ABC News;
Spencer’s friend took the photo outside the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga but she did not enter the facility with her handgun, and therefore did not go through any kind of museum security, she told ABC.
“I know the Tennessee state gun codes,” Spencer, who is set to graduate in May with a major in communications and a minor in political science, said.
According to Stars & Stripes, a US military parachutist was forced to cut away from his main canopy yesterday. He landed safely with his reserve parachute, but the discarded canopy landed on a civilian high school near Yokota Air Base;
A piece of parachute equipment was found off base at Hamura No. 3 High School, and there were no reported injuries or damage,” the statement said.
The incident follows protests by Japanese residents over U.S. military aircraft parts falling onto schools on Okinawa and the arrival of CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft at Yokota last week.
“Yokota Air Base takes matters of this nature seriously and the incident is under investigation,” the statement said.
I don’t know how the incident could be investigated. I’ve been trying to contact Isaac Newton all morning to get his take on gravity, to no avail.
From St Louis, Missouri;
Kansas City police have identified a man who was fatally shot Friday inside a building in the 2100 block of East Linwood Boulevard as 50-year-old Dwayne Thomas.
Police found Thomas after responding to a reported shooting around 4 a.m. By the time officers arrived, the shooter had fled but was located a short time later and was interviewed by police.
The shooter had called 911 and said he shot an intruder inside a vacant building, police said.
On his 68th mission, a few days before Christmas 1944, Captain Lawrence E. Dickson, a Tuskegee airman, had engine problems and went down near the snow-covered Alps in northern Italy according to the Washington Post;
On Jan. 8, 1945, Phyllis Dickson got the dreaded telegram.
“The Secretary of War desires to express his deep regret that your husband Captain Lawrence E Dickson has been reported missing in action,” it read. “If further details … are received you will be promptly notified.”
Phyllis and Lawrence Dickson had been married in November 1941. He was a native of South Carolina, had taught himself how to play the guitar and spent two years studying chemistry at the City College of New York.
Now DPAA thinks that they found Captain Dickson, not in Tarvisio, Italy where thought that he’d gone down, but six miles away near Hohenthurn, Austria;
In May 2012, Frank and a small team went to Austria for one day. He met Domanig, and a local man who said as a child in the 1950s he often visited the site, until he found what looked like a human leg bone in the dirt.
“It scared him,” Frank said. “He never went back to the site after that.”
The man agreed to take Frank there.
The spot was in a pleasant clearing in the forest off a logging road near Hohenthurn.
There was a shallow crater, and moss covered the ground. When Frank pulled back the moss, airplane parts, consistent with a P-51, were right beneath the surface.
“They still had the ash on them, still burnt,” he said. “All of the older pine trees around the site had scars on the trees from when the plane was burning and the .50-caliber rounds popped off and hit the trees.”
Experts would later identify airplane bullet casings, part of a machine gun ammunition loading chute and human remains buried in the dirt.
In November, the human remains were sent for analysis to the DPAA laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, outside Omaha.
His 75-year-old daughter, Marla L. Andrews, awaits news so she can lay her father to rest finally.