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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Tech. Sgt. Phillip Dyer saving the world

    Tech. Sgt. Phillip Dyer saving the world

    Dennis sends us a link from af.mil which tells the story of how Technical Sergeant Phillip Dyer earned the Airman’s Medal for rescuing double amputee, Christi, from a raging flood in Missouri while Dyer was on leave from 366th Training Squadron Detachment 3, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

    Because of weather conditions, rescue personnel were hours away, so Dyer took it upon himself to rescue the woman;

    The husband and another man on the scene tried to rescue Christi, but could not carry her above the water. With the waters rising toward the couple’s roof and no chance to tow the vehicle without possibly losing his own, Dyer made a call.

    “I told my brother, ‘they are going to drown her, I am helping,’” said Dyer. “If we waited for rescue personnel, she would have either succumbed to the cold or been washed away. There was no more time to wait. She needed help right then.”

    When Dyer reached Christi, he said she was very cold and turning blue. The Airman took her from the two men and used a fireman carry to get her through the close-to-freezing current to a less-deeply flooded area. Then Christi began to panic.

    “I carefully put her down and sat in the water with her,” said Dyer. “I explained to her ‘I can only help if you stay calm.’”

    At this point, Dyer said much of his military training took over. The self-aid buddy care, combat life saver, operational risk management and his own EOD technician composure allowed him to accomplish the specific mission he had before him.

    “My training helped me stay calm in a torrent of rushing water, pouring rain and darkness not knowing when the situation could go from bad to worse,” he said.

    He quickly briefed the two men, who’d attempted to rescue Christi earlier, on how to perform a chair carry. At this point, Christi was so weak, she couldn’t hold herself up. One man held her back, while Dyer and the other rescuer performed the carry to remove her from the current and get her to safety.

    “I was worried, at least up until I heard him take complete control of the situation,” said John Dyer, Phillip’s brother. “Once he got in the water, there was no misunderstanding who was in charge. Phillip may have been afraid, but the only thing he showed was calmness.”

    Dyer’s brother, John, who couldn’t attend the ceremony, also added praise for his brother and all military members.

    “If this is even a small cross-section of the type of men and women serving our country, we should all be proud,” he said.

  • Arthur Jones, the Illinois Nazi

    Arthur Jones, the Illinois Nazi

    Someone sent us the above picture of Arthur Jones speaking at a Neo-Nazi rally. If you don’t know who Arthur Jones is, he ran unopposed for the Republican primary slot for Illinois Third Congressional District and he has been shunned by the Republican Party, according to the New York Times.

    We noticed the Combat Infantryman Badge in the top picture and wondered about his military service. It turns out that he isn’t lying, as much as we’d hoped he was being untruthful. He was in the Army for five years, two years of active duty service, including 12 months in Vietnam with the 4th Infantry Division from October 1969 – September 1970.

    “Arthur Jones is not a real Republican — he is a Nazi whose disgusting, bigoted views have no place in our nation’s discourse,” Tim Schneider, the Illinois Republican Party chairman, said in a statement. He said the party had urged voters “to skip over his name when they go to the polls” and moving forward planned on “vehemently opposing Jones with real campaign dollars.”

    It’s not likely that Jones will win any election, especially as a Republican in the Chicago District, not to mention his ties to Illinois Nazis.

  • Wilbert Bass; phony SEAL update

    Wilbert Bass; phony SEAL update

    Last month we talked a bit about Wilbert “Beau” Bass who claimed to be a Navy SEAL on his LinkedIn profile. Of course, the Navy never heard of him;

    We suspected that he had Air Force service, and his FOIA just showed up;

    He was a real over-achiever in the Air Force, discharged after seven years on active duty as an Airman First Class (E-3) or maybe he was an Airman Fist Class like the FOIA says.

    Anyway, he’s still not a SEAL.

  • Thursday morning feel good stories

    Thursday morning feel good stories

    From Alakanuk, Alaska;

    According to State Trooper William Connors’ affidavit, the incident began early Saturday morning. Leroy Patrick, age 42, loaded his semi-automatic rifle with a 20-round magazine and walked to his daughter Shari Andrew’s house, where she was asleep with her boyfriend, Greg Konst, and their 18-month-old daughter.

    Andrew and Konst told State Troopers that Patrick fired a round into their home from outside. Then he walked up the steps and forced his way into their arctic entryway. He fired another round into the main doorframe. “Open the door,” Konst remembers Patrick saying repeatedly, “or I will shoot again.”

    The family hit the floor, and Konst grabbed his 12-gauge shotgun. He said that Patrick fired two more rounds into the house. Bullet fragments hit the side of Konst’s face, and he said he could feel it burning. Lying on the ground, Konst managed to load a single round and fired it through the front door. It hit Patrick below the knee, and then Konst rushed him. He said he disarmed Patrick and pinned him to the floor until the Troopers came to take him away.

    Trooper Connors reported finding bullet damage inside the home. There were still 14 rounds of live ammunition in Patrick’s rifle. Connors also wrote that alcohol was involved in this incident.

    In Las Vegas, Nevada, your guess is as good as mine;

    According to police, a person entered another man’s apartment with intentions of robbing him but the later was armed and it led to shots being fired between the two.

    Both robber and the other man was shot. One of them has been pronounced dead and the other is at the hospital in critical condition.

    The investigation is still ongoing.

    From Trussville, Alabama;

    The incident happened at the Burger King on North Chalkville Road.

    Police say a lady met someone through an online market place and went to the restaurant to buy a cell phone.

    The seller walked up to her vehicle and showed her the phone and then a second man came up to her passenger side, opened the door and tried to rob the woman at gunpoint, according to police.

    The woman had her own gun and reportedly shot the suspect in the leg.

    Trussville detectives are interviewing a person with a gunshot wound to his leg to determine if he is the suspect.

  • Peter Toth sentenced

    Peter Toth sentenced

    According to our partners at Stolen Valour-Canada, Peter Toth who was pretending to be a US Marine in a classroom last year, was in a Canadian courtroom today and convicted of violating two (of three) counts of section 419 of the Criminal Code of Canada, “Unlawful use of military uniforms or certificates”. He was awarded 18 months supervised probation and 200 hours of community service.

    The bogus uniforms insignia, medals and documents were seized by the Crown for destruction.

    Folks in the courtroom claim that Toth told the judge that he suffered from PTSD because of the heat and light that he got from Stolen Valour – Canada about his fuckery.

    Another successful cross-border operation with our allies.

  • Busted memes

    So here we are three weeks after the tragic Parkland school shooting, three weeks of getting beat over the head with gun control bullshit from the media and some other illiterate goofballs. This week’s news items aren’t going to go over well with that bunch.

    In Maryland, a 17-year-old shooter was put out of action by an armed resource officer. The shooter was in possession of a gun even though he wasn’t legally allowed to possess a firearm.

    In Paw Paw, Michigan, another teen was turned into the police for planning a school assault, he was also forbidden by law to possess the guns and bombs that he had assembled. An observant family wasn’t afraid to warn the police about his plans.

    In Austin, Texas, a 20-something criminal held the capital city hostage with his homemade bombs until he killed himself with his own creation.

    So, to summarize, a police force that wasn’t afraid to act was able to prevent a tragedy, an armed good guy doing what he was trained to do, ended another tragedy, and someone with evil intent didn’t need a gun to kill innocent people going about their daily lives.

    No one had to write new laws, there is no gun lobby to blame.

    Of course, all three incidents will be soon forgotten because they didn’t bleed enough for the news media to use it against politicians, no crying white mothers to use for legislative dead horse beating. No odd-looking teenagers to exploit on camera.

    Busted Facebook memes everywhere. And it’s only Wednesday.

  • Austin bomber was not a military veteran

    This morning I heard someone on Fox News commenting on the unpackaged meat remains of the Austin bomber say something like “He must have been in the military, how else would he know how to make a bomb?”

    Well, the New York Post has identified him, and he wasn’t a veteran;

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott…told “Fox & Friends” that the unemployed man did not have a criminal record and had not served in the military.

    I’ve said it before – Tim McVeigh didn’t learn how to build his fertilizer bomb as an 11M infantryman – we don’t get blocks of instruction on building bombs. Most of our explosives are wonders of modern technology and come pre-packaged and need only a bit of assembly. I wouldn’t know how to put together a package bomb that explodes when it’s jostled.

    Any bombers out there probably learned the craft from watching YouTube videos, not from any military instruction. I say that as someone who spent two decades as an infantryman. I can make some pretty intricate booby traps, not all of them explode, though. But those fertilizer bombs are as much a mystery to me as they are to any other American.

    I know the media is mystified why a 24-year-old unemployed Texan would go on a murder spree with explosives, and now they find out he’s not a veteran. More confusion.

  • Israel admits to 2007 Operation Orchard airstrike on Syrian nuclear reactor

    Israel admits to 2007 Operation Orchard airstrike on Syrian nuclear reactor

    Fox News reports that Israel has finally admitted to that which the world already suspected – that they were the folks who took out the Syrian nuclear reactor in the Deir el-Zour region in the mission entitled Operation Orchard – also known as Operation Outside the Box. It was conducted by F-15s and F-16s of the 69 Squadron as well as support aircraft – as many as eight aircraft, four of which crossed the Syrian frontier.

    Israel’s involvement has been one of its most closely held secrets, and it was not immediately clear why Israel decided to go public now. The military would not comment on its reasoning, but the move could be related to the upcoming memoir of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who ordered the strike and has hinted about it for years, or it could be meant as a warning to archenemy Iran, which is active in Syria.

    Israel and Syria have always been bitter enemies. Throughout Syria’s seven-year civil war, Israel has carried out well over 100 airstrikes, most believed to have been aimed at suspected weapons shipments destined for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group. Both Iran and Hezbollah are allied with Syrian President Bashar Assad.

    Apparently, Israel initially asked the US to bomb the North Korean-inspired reactor and when the Bush Administration refused, Israel took it upon themselves to destroy the facility.