{"id":52163,"date":"2014-06-24T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52163"},"modified":"2014-06-24T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T13:31:38","slug":"steve-cushman-phony-pilot-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52163","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cushman; phony pilot revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The other day we wrote a bit <\/a>about Scotty’s work on Steve Cushman, a fellow running for county commissioner in Florida, some damn where. He did an interview with a local journalist and hinted at a career in the Air Force as a pilot – the Air Reserve Personnel Center told us that he had been an E-3 in the Reserves for about a year. When we published our point of view, Steve shot us a couple of emails and admitted that his “career” had been in an ROTC program and that he had actually flown aircraft for the Air Force and, even though he hadn’t claimed in the interview to be a veteran, he was indeed a veteran.<\/p>\n

Well, no, he’s not. He was a college student who was probably also a reservist until he voluntarily left the ROTC program and the Reserves after a whole year of participation. The month that he left coincided with the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein, by the way. Was it a factor in Cushman’s decision to leave the program? Only he knows the answer to that question. <\/p>\n

My problem with him is that he was trying to pass himself off as a careerist pilot. Did he claim it in the interview – well, he said he did seven or eight years in the Air Force and we know that isn’t true. But we got this screen shot of his old Facebook profile from a while back, and he was certainly claiming to be a career Air Force pilot if you scroll to the bottom of the screen shot;<\/p>\n

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And, oh yeah, there’s this picture that he shows everyone as “proof” of his pilot creds;<\/p>\n

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Yeah, that could be me in that picture for all I know. But it looks to me like an ROTC cadet posing next to jet to impress the chicks back in the dorm.<\/p>\n

And then there’s this news report of Steve’s legal woes from a a week or so ago;<\/p>\n