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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThomas sent us this link late last month<\/a> about Gordon Katske who claims in the article about him that he was a fixed-wing and rotary wing pilot in Vietnam and that he had been shot down “over enemy territory”;<\/p>\n Following in his father’s footsteps, Katske enlisted in the Air Force just as the war in Vietnam was heating up. He became a pilot (call-sign: “Doc”) of helicopters and F-4 fighter jets, emerging at barely 20 years of age as a much-decorated captain (and still healing from injuries sustained when his chopper was shot down in enemy territory).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For future reference, “Doc”, captains don’t enlist, they get commissioned by Congress. he says that he was a pilot when he was “barely 20 years of age”. Katske was born in 1944, his records show that he didn’t join the National Guard until 1971 making him 27. <\/p>\n No awards for service in Vietnam, no pilot do-dads, and it looks like when he was 20, he was in college and medical school, in Chicago, which is probably like Vietnam these days, but not then.<\/p>\n Katske goes on to tell the reporter that he was “inducted into the Royal Society of Medicine by appointment of the queen.” Yeah, I’d believe that shit just like I believed the crap about his military service. It looks like he benefited from draft deferments through most of the Vietnam War and then went to the Guard where he was less likely to be sent to Vietnam – not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but then to steal from people who went to Vietnam and put their lives in various levels of danger is just creepy and the ultimate “F-You” to actual Vietnam veterans.<\/p>\n If I lived in San Jose, this is the last person I’d let in the operating room with me. I’m guessing that the rest of the shit he brags about in the article is probably bullshit, too.<\/p>\n ADDED:<\/strong> I’ve been staring at that picture all day trying to figure who he looked like, then I remembered – Harcourt Fenton Mudd<\/a>;<\/p>\n ADDED AGAIN: <\/strong> The Mercury News shut down the web page so here are some of the pertinent screen shots from a cache copy<\/a>;<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/center><\/p>\n<\/a>
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