{"id":83873,"date":"2019-01-03T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83873"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:42:57","slug":"thomas-earl-oneil-us-army-ranger-in-the-mog-three-bronze-stars-w-vs-three-purple-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83873","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Earl O’Neil – US Army Ranger in “The Mog,” Three Bronze Stars w\/ “V”s, Three Purple Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phony<\/a> provide us their work on this Thomas Earl O’Neil<\/a> fellow.<\/p>\n

Thomas claims to have been in the Battle of Mogadishu and it was the worst 18 hours of hell that he has ever experienced.<\/p>\n

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You wouldn’t understand unless you were there…<\/p>\n

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He talks a lot about his buddies from The Mog, including CMOH recipients Master Sergeant Gordon and Sergeant First Class Shughart, whom O’Neil claims to have served alongside…<\/p>\n

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You may recall a lot of this was captured in the movie “Black Hawk Down<\/a>” after the account was written up in the Philadelphia Inquirer by Mark Bowden.<\/p>\n

But according to O’Neil, many of the survivors of the Battle of Mogadishu (Operation Gothic Serpent) are killing themselves and there are only a few left… O’Neil being one of them of course.<\/p>\n

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He claims three Bronze Star Medals with “V” for Valor and three “Purple Stars” – later corrected to\u00a0“Purple Hearts.”\u00a0 The image above clearly shows the Bronze Star and Purple Heart but it is hard to tell if they have additional awards on them.<\/p>\n

Veteran suicide is a serious problem.\u00a0 If what O’Neil says is true about veterans from the Battle of Mogadishu, who will be left to tell the story of what happened there?<\/p>\n

Let’s see what Tom O’Neil’s records say.<\/p>\n

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According\u00a0to his records,\u00a0the Army does not seem to know anything about his 3 Bronze Stars for valor or anything about him being wounded in combat.<\/p>\n

His picture appears to have a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Marine Corps Combat Action Ribbon, Navy\/Marine jump wings and a cacophony of other mysterious awards unaccounted for in his DD 214.<\/p>\n

Tommy sounds like he is having a rough go of it lately, but I doubt it’s from him being in “The Mog.”\u00a0 He accomplished more than enough for anyone to be proud of while he was in the military.\u00a0 He has no reason to embellish his military career beyond recognition.<\/p>\n

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