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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nA regular here, AverageNCO, who, by the way just retired from the Air Force recently, sent us a transcription from the journal he kept while he was at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait during the Second Iraq War. <\/p>\n
5 APR 03
\nPulled Viper Duty Again (call sign for four-man squad patrolling a 5K restricted zone outside the wire of Ali Al Salem). It was actually kind of boring. The highlight had been ordering Pizza. We were on our last patrol when we came across four civilians in the restricted area behind the burm. As we approached them they were Americans. Not only were they Americans. It was NBC Nightly News’ Brian Willams. He got kind of arrogant saying it was no problem that they weren’t going to film anything important. SSgt Peterson said it was a big deal and asked for his I.D. like he didn’t know or care who he was. After a lot of back and forth between us them and the Kuwaitis, they finally got to film. The Williams guy was actually kind of pompous. He told us he was going to call Donald Rumsfeld’s Secretary to make us let them tape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nActually, Williams told the woman on the phone “Hey, this is Brian Williams…..get me Rummy on the phone!” as if that would impress the patrol. <\/p>\n
I hate the media, generally speaking, in a war zone – they think they’re bullet proof and they don’t care that the rest of us aren’t. Their hangnails and the sand in their Underoos is always our fault. There are some good ones out there, but Brian Williams isn’t one of them. AverageNCO said that when they came up on the NBC crew, Williams jumped out the cab of the vehicle with hairspray in one hand and a hair brush in the other.<\/p>\n
But I guess he’s getting his comeuppance now. How much truble do you have to be in for Dan Rather<\/a> to think that he can salvage your reputation? The hippies are firing up their bowls to dig him out of his lies, like this Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy<\/a> person, who says that he caught the PTSD when he arrived at the scene of the helicopter forced landing an hour after it happened;<\/p>\n
While Williams has not said that he has post-traumatic stress disorder, it\u2019s a common side effect of covering war and other disturbing events. A study done by Finnish researchers in 2007 shows that many journalists experience PTSD more as a result of guilt than as a result of what they have actually experienced or seen, due to their presence at the scene as a reporter instead of as a first-responder. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, uh-uh. That makes perfect sense – PTSD from guilt. Stupid hippies.<\/p>\n
I honestly hadn’t planned on putting Williams on our Stolen Valor Page, but because everyone is coming out of the woodwork to defend him, I figured he needed some sort of special recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"