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Category: Shitbags

  • Troy Gilmore, Jr. threatens Ted Cruz & Tea Party

    @ArmyVet54

    Barbara sent us a tip the other day about Troy Gilmore, Junior who threatened Senator Ted Cruz and the Tea Party in general according to The Hill;

    A person identifying himself as Troy Gilmore Jr., posted on Twitter Friday morning: “Take down Ted Cruz, at his home” and listed Cruz’s home address in Houston.

    “What goes around comes around CRUZ!!” the person wrote.

    The author of the threat uses the Twitter handle @ArmyVet54 and identifies himself as having served in the U.S. Army and Navy.

    Here are his actual Facebook posts that he helpfully put on his Twitter page;

    @ArmyVet54FB

    @ArmyVet54FB1

    CBS News calls him a Vietnam Era Veteran. But, according to his own LinkedIn Profile, that’s barely so – Saigon fell on April 30th, 1975 and by his own account, Gilmore enlisted in May 1975;

    @ArmyVet54LinkedIn

    The US government considers the Vietnam Era as February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975. So depending on the day that Gilmore actually enlisted, he may, just barely be a Vietnam Era veteran for a few days. In the above profile, in his own words, Gilmore says that he served in the Army and the Navy, but you’ll notice in the picture above that I snagged from his Facebook account, he’s wearing BDUs with a Marine Corp tape over his pocket.

    His Army career lasted two years and six months, but he also served in the Navy for four years, by his own account, but there was four years between them, so I have to wonder what cut his Army career short. Regardless, I’m not worried about his threats to beat us with his copy of the FM 10-22 (Army Baking Operations) & FM 10-23 (Army Troop Feeding Operations). He doesn’t represent veterans, he’s just a loud mouth punk hiding behind his uniform.

  • Regarding Lt Col James Wilkerson, USAF

    In case anyone’s forgotten:  Lt Col Wilkerson is the former Aviano AB IG who was convicted of sexual assault by a General Court-Martial and was sentenced to 1 year of confinement plus dismissal (the equivalent of a Dishonorable Discharge for an officer).  However, his sentence was set aside by his then-commander, Lt Gen Craig Franklin – ostensibly, in part because Lt Gen Franklin felt Wilkerson was a “committed husband”.

    Lt Gen Franklin’s action caused huge amount of consternation at the time – IMO, rightfully so.  I mean, really:  what’s the point of holding a court-martial at all if you’re going to ignore the verdict?

    Well, it appears Wilkerson will only be a Lieutenant Colonel a short while longer.  Seems he got a “show cause” letter regarding his retention on active duty from the CG of Air Combat Command, Gen Mike Hostage, recently.  Since he had 20+ years of active service, Wilkerson opted to retire rather than appear before a board of officers considering his retention.

    However, the acting SECAF – The Honorable Eric Fanning – has determined Wilkerson did not serve successfully at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. (No joke.) He’ll thus retire as a Major, effective 1 January 2014.

    Funny how a felony conviction for a morally reprehensible act – even if later set aside – causes most people to view the individual who was convicted, isn’t it?

    No, it’s probably not adequate justice in this case.  But it’s better than nothing.

    It also appears that his GCM conviction wasn’t the first incident of sexual impropriety of which Wilkerson has been guilty.  The USAF revealed in June that further investigation determined Wilkerson had had an extramarital affair and fathered a child out-of-wedlock some 9 years or so ago.

    I wonder if Wilkerson’s wife knew about the earlier affair and kid – and if she will dump his ass after he retires?

    Wilkerson was a Major at the time of his affair.  Unfortunately, the statute of limitations for that misconduct is 5 years.  I’m guessing the acting SECAF felt he couldn’t use that misconduct as justification to rule Wilkerson’s service as Major unsatisfactory due to said statute of limitations.  I’m also wondering how Lt Gen Franklin feels about setting aside Wilkerson’s conviction now.

    In any case:  it certainly looks like this guy being “invited” to leave active duty is an example of “good riddance”.  IMO, it’s a pity it had to be put off for nearly a year due to an ill-advised action on the part of one of his previous commanders.

    Ditto the fact he’s being allowed to retire at all.

  • Ed Schultz is not an advocate for veterans

    Dominick sends us a link to the Blaze in which a 23-year veteran decides to waste his time by calling Ed Schultz to disagree with him on Obama and veterans.

    The veteran tells Schultz that he was one of the thousands who were kicked off of Tricare Prime (that we’ve been talking about for years here) and Schultz all but call him a liar.

    “First of all, you have, uh, your facts wrong,” Schultz responded, changing the subject and hollering over the caller when he tried to respond. “I’m not going to freaking argue with you, Russell. You’re full of crap, okay? You’re full of it. The government shutdown hurt the veterans. Is that wrong or right?”

    “It hasn’t hurt us yet,” Russell said.

    Schultz then vowed to “break your idiot argument down piece by piece!”

    The caller again reiterated that he is one of the 171,000 retired veterans who lost their benefits, a move that was supposedly intended to “reduce the cost of providing health care to military retirees.” The Democrats refuse to consider the Republican’s proposal to address the problem, he said. The vet also said he didn’t retire from the military for Obamacare.

    “You have your facts wrong,” Schultz repeated, without actually explaining what facts were wrong. “You know what, you need a right-wing talker.”

    Schultz and the Democrats, in general, pretend to care about veterans until one disagrees with them and tries to bring up facts, then we’re “drinking the Kool Aid” and lying.

  • A History of Lying

    There’s a piece up over at American Thinker that should be of interest to TAH followers. In fact, it is the very kind of exposé that TAH is famed for. However, in this case, the lowlife scumbag spinning faux tales of military valor isn’t your typical lowlife scumbag usually found on these pages but a prominent professor and Pulitzer-winning author, Joseph Ellis. The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed hit piece by Ellis wherein he sneeringly attacks the Tea Party and conservatives. M. Catharine Evans, writing at American Thinker, points out that historian Ellis is a demonstrated serial liar regarding his own history and that much of his lying is in regard to Stolen Valor issues, such as serving in combat with the 101st Airborne in Vietnam.

    Ellis, who also prevaricates about his high school athletic prowess, was exposed years ago but apparently his demonstrated dishonesty poses no problem for the Times. The liberal left has no problem embracing phony heroes, John Kerry being the poster child proof of that. But can you just imagine the dismissive contempt in the liberal media were a conservative guilty of stolen valor to write such an op-ed attacking a leftist political organization and congressional Democrats?

  • Bruce Armijo Nelson or Bruce Nelson Armijo; scamming women with a military profile

    A female soldier, whose identity I did verify, wrote to us yesterday to help her shut down a scamming phony who uses a phony military career to scam at least four women. he goes by the name Bruce Armijo Nelson or Bruce Nelson Armijo. Here’s his Facebook profile. He claims to be a member of the Military Intelligence Readiness Command, but there’s no one by that name in any database I can access, and our tipster verifies that with her resources.

    I’m hesitant to post any of his photos because these guys have been known to steal other people’s photos to hide their scams. All we can do is get his name out there and he’ll just change his ID.

    Ladies, stop being so gullible. I don’t even give money to people I know, let alone some complete stranger, so what are you folks thinking?

  • Nurse sexually abuses paralyzed soldier

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    This is scumbaggery at it’s very worst. Brian sends us a link to the article from the Huffington Post about Dioscoro Flores, 39, a registered nurse at the Rehabilitation Insitute of Chicago, who sexually abused a nearly incapacitated wounded warrior;

    It was after the second alleged incident in August that the victim told his father, according to The Daily Mail. The soldier raises his eyes for yes and lowers them for no, and uses a board to spell out questions.

    “The first initial shock was just, did you just tell me what you told me? Because my communication with him isn’t really easy,” the father told the Tribune.

    The son remains an active member of the military and was a sharpshooter who did a tour of duty in Afghanistan from June 2011 until August 2012. The soldier’s quadriplegia stems from an injury in May. The father declined to go into further detail.

    “Mentally, he’s 100 percent there,” he said of his son.

    I guess little Dioscoro is going to learn a whole new meaning for the phrase “sexually abused” in the coming and hopefully final years of his life.

  • Ventura won’t release complete records

    Army brat/Army wife sends us a link to Stars & Stripes about Jesse (Jimmy Janos) Ventura who was ordered in 2012 to present the court with his complete military records in regards to his complaint against the late SEAL Chris Kyle and now his widow, Taya Kyle. Kyle’s lawyer, John Borger, has asked the court to sanction Janos because he won’t comply with the court’s order;

    Borger says that Ventura supplied only one military record that he marked “confidential” that consisted of a one-page record of discharge, effective Dec. 10, 1973. He produced no records of military service from December 1973 to September 1975.

    Borger has asked the district court to sanction Ventura by prohibiting him during the trial to offer any evidence or testimony of “alleged military service after December 10, 1973.”

    In a response, filed Wednesday, Court J. Anderson, an attorney for Ventura, said the former Minnesota governor’s military career “ended nearly forty years ago and most of the documents evidencing that career no longer exist.” He said that Ventura “cannot be sanctioned for failing to produce documents that have been lost to time.”

    To be clear, Don Shipley has said that Ventura/Janos can indeed call himself a SEAL, so who am I to question. However, I have my military records back to 1974, just because someone might ask me about something one day. I still have my initial inventory from basic training. So what is Jimmy Janos hiding?

  • Manning switches up again

    Chelsea (née Bradley, aka Breanna) Manning has switched up again, this time he/she/whatever has decided that along with his/her/whatever’s name and sex that they are changing their motivation from a “peace advocate” to a “transparency advocate”. From NBC News thanks to Dave;

    In a two-page statement to Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Manning said not only that she’s not a pacifist but that she even believes it could be reasonable to interpret the documents she gave to WikiLeaks in 2010 as justifying U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    “It’s not terribly clear to me that my actions were explicitly done for ‘peace.’ I don’t consider myself a ‘pacifist,’ ‘anti-war,’ or (especially) a ‘conscientious objector,’” Manning writes in the statement, which is dated Monday but wasn’t published until Wednesday.

    “I’m a ‘transparency advocate,’” Manning wrote. “I feel that the public cannot decide what actions and policies are or are not justified if they don’t even know the most rudimentary details about them and their effects.”

    Yeah, I don’t know what any of that means. I guess that person is trying to mitigate that person’s crime. It seems to have been triggered by some hippies naming him their winner of a peace prize of some sort even though he’s been credited with needlessly causing the deaths of people all because his boyfriend dumped him.

    But, his announcement that he’s not a peace advocate should be a kick in the ‘nads to Code Pink and the Vets for Peace which always a good thing. Manning goes on to tell the media that he knew nothing of the award when his lawyer said that Manning was “overwhelmed” by the award. Imagine that, one of Manning’s lawyers lied.