I guess that the rest of us were just there to distract the Iraqis while he did his daring deeds. Judging from his awards, he did serve in Desert Storm (Southwest Asia Service Medal with two campaign stars) and he did serve with the 3rd Special Forces Group. He was a 72E – a Telecommunications Center Specialist (translation; TOC rat\/messenger boy\/professional gopher). Oh, yeah, he was a leg – he became a 5-jump chump in January, 1992. He has no special forces training, he admits that he didn’t earn the Ranger Tab in the news photo or the Special Forces tab in the color picture at the top of the page. In the news photo, it’s hard to tell, but he’s wearing a Bronze Star Medal, but he says that’s a mistake, because he thought that he was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal, so since he was in combat when “someone told” him that he’d earned it, he upgraded it to a BSM. Same with the Sergeant rank he’s wearing. “Someone told” him that he’d made the cutoff score, so he pinned it on. Funny, but he left the service five years later as an E-4, so I guess “someone told” him wrong.<\/p>\n