{"id":61664,"date":"2015-09-01T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61664"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:11","slug":"william-c-bradford-the-west-point-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61664","title":{"rendered":"William C. Bradford; the West Point professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was this fellow William C. Bradford, an associate professor at West Point who recently wrote an article for the National Security Law Journal which according to The Guardian<\/a> advocated for waging a war against Islamic holy sites, lawyers, \u201claw school facilities, scholars\u2019 home offices and media outlets where they give interviews\u201d. <\/p>\n

The publishing of that article has been called “a mistake” by the Law Journal and it’s been yanked following outrage in the media. I’m sure that casual observers and knee-jerk hawks can support many of the things that Bradford wrote. However, my complaint is against the administrators of the military institution’s hiring practices.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Bradford was forced to resign from Indiana University. He says in his Wiki page<\/a> that it was because of a dispute over awarding him tenure and “suspicions of exaggerating his military service”. Let me be clear here, there are no questions about his exaggerations, according to the Indystar<\/a>;<\/p>\n

One of Bradford’s allies, Professor Henry C. Karlson, pointed out that Bradford was the real deal — awarded the Silver Star and a major in the Special Forces. Bradford said he was in the infantry and military intelligence. He fought in Desert Storm and Bosnia, he said.<\/p>\n

On the law school’s Web site and its Viewbook, Bradford was profiled as being in the Army infantry from 1990 to 2001. He wore a Silver Star lapel pin around campus. He had a major’s gold-leaf insignia plate on his vehicle.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Independently, [Army Lt. Col. Keith R. Donnelly, a recent law school graduate, West Point graduate and Gulf War veteran] and I requested Bradford’s service record from the Army. It showed he was in the Army Reserve from Sept. 30, 1995, to Oct 23, 2001. He was discharged as a second lieutenant. He had no active duty. He was in military intelligence, not infantry. He received no awards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just to summarize, he claimed that he was a hero of the 1st Gulf War (you can count the number of Silver Stars awarded for that conflict on one hand), that he had been promoted to major (in fact, he’d never been promoted), he hadn’t even been in the military during the 1st Gulf War.<\/p>\n

That was in 2005, and now, ten years later, we find a proven embellisher teaching at the United States Military Academy. Further, the Indystar got Bradford to admit that he had been sockpuppeting comments on the Indiana University’s Law School blog in support of himself. You know, if inflating his military career doesn’t discredit him enough.<\/p>\n

Someone should be asking the administration of West Point what they saw in this unpromoted second lieutenant that told them that they should hire him, that he had something to contribute to the next generation of military officers. Certainly not career advice, I’m assuming.<\/p>\n

ADDED (10-5-2015);<\/strong> Here’s his FOIA;<\/p>\n

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