The Boston Globe writes about this Mary Gallagher person who is a former Air Force Reservist in the information management field of endeavor and until the other day she was an employment coordinator for the Massachusetts State Department of Veterans’ Services. Over the last few years, she’s made claims about earning a Purple Heart for her combat-related wounds. They also say that she claimed a Bronze Star Medal. According to the Globe, the Air Force tells them that she has neither.
She claims that she was wounded in an RPG attack and that a Sergeant Martinez was killed by her side. The Army says that no Sergeant Martinez was killed during that time frame, according to The Globe. She has told various stories about her injuries. In one, she was raped and sent home, in another she was shot in the shoulder and treated and released at the local medical facility.
“Gallagher recalls a badly injured little girl she was helping . . . amidst a fierce exchange of gunfire,” the Patch reported. “Gallagher was lifted right off her feet by the powerful blast, and the next thing she was aware of was waking up in a hospital in Germany, where she was treated for her injuries. Gallagher returned to the United States at Christmas 2009.”
Another version of the attack was reported in October 2011 by the Boston Business Journal.
The Journal reported that Gallagher “was escorting contractors working on infrastructure at an air field in Baghdad, when insurgents breached the concrete barriers and shot her in the shoulder. She was treated quickly at a combat hospital and sent home soon after.”
Well, anyway, she resigned from her post with the State Veterans’ Services after questions about her claims of medals.
The resignation occurred after the Globe raised questions about the prestigious decorations, which were mentioned in Facebook endorsements this year for her campaign for state committee, and about accounts of her overseas service that she gave to the news media during the last several years.
The Air Force Reserve has no record that Gallagher received the Purple Heart, which is awarded to service members who are killed or wounded, or the Bronze Star, which is granted for heroism or meritorious conduct in combat.
Gallagher did not respond to requests for comment.
So, I guess that’s her answer.
Thanks to Rick for the link.
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63 responses to “Mary Gallagher; AF Reservist busted on combat claims”
I’d call her a bag of dicks, but that would actually be a compliment.
Word.
FYI…To date I have met over 70 AF folks who have been injured in airfield attacks while at Baghram in the Stan in a two year period starting in 2010. If you are going to be a story teller please use a line that works.. Holy Crap…. I live next door to a retired master chief and he says that would slid by him before this B.S. Story
Splash. Out.
Bitch.
I’d hit it.
IDC SARC… I just hit the reply button and when I saw my post come up, and there was yours above it and I just laughed my ass off!!! You made my morning.
With a fucking club…
Looks like she’s already been hit with an ugly stick.
Raised by wolves in the ugly forest.
Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Face caught on fire and somebody beat it out with a bag of nickels.
Run over by a face fucking machine and it backed up to see what it hit.
Try Cattle Prod ??
I’d hit it…with my car.
You never let me down SARC!
Semper Fi
That’s going above and beyond the call of duty. What’s your secret… are you visually channeling a hot babe or brown bag city?
Maybe he’s mainlining Viagra.
Hondo, what do you get if you hooked her up with an Arkansas Razorback football player?
A: Nothing….. Some things even a pig won’t do !!
You could press her face in dough and make gorilla cookies.
I can’t stop laughing at this :).
I say SHOOT IT BEFORE IT MATES AND LAYS EGGS!!
She was raped? SHE…was raped?????? Not even the Arabs are that desperate when so many goats are wandering around.
Heck, most servicemen out there would choose the goat.
She ain’t even Westpac acceptable.
Not even after a 90-day spec op.
Now that’s the truth.
Poor woman has delusions of grandeur, to include her alleged battlefield valor as well as her actual physical attractiveness…
No, she has delusions of adequacy.
Raped, blown up and shot in the same time frame. I think God is trying to tell you to stay home.
Instead of being the usual Secret Squirrel, she looks more like Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp!
Buddy Hackett’s grandson from a secret love child perhaps?
John Candy’s leavings?
She looks like she has combat experience, alright. . . . fighting her way to the Fat Pills (doughnuts, to you non-military out there).
We called donuts Nelson Bait, named after Cpl Nelson. He was sort of like Will Rogers; he never are a meal that he didn’t like. He also practiced safe snacks, he always used a condiment.
Now that’s funny.
Not as funny as my firing a kitchen worker for putting his dick into the pickle slicer, but nevertheless funny.
The pickle slicer?? I fired her as well.
Rimshot
Mary Gallagher wrote a little story in 2011. She wrote it for the Huff Post Women blog. In it she maligned the entire Air Force, in my view. The title of the tale is “Recovering From My Service to Our Nation.” You read that correctly. Did you know that two of her uncles landed at Normandy, that another flew with the Flying Tigers, retired a LTC, and that her father served in Korea? Did you know that when she was sexually assaulted that she was told to deal with it, that it happens all the time? How about that she was raped by someone she knew, a tech sgt, but that “They concluded little could be done since the attack happened in Iraq?” So, she got the PTSD and was sent home. And that was that. Done. Wrong. She joined a couple dozen other victims and sued Rumsfeld! I shit you not. Anyway, here’s the link. If you disliked her before, you will despise her now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-gallagher/sexual-assault-military_b_917258.html
Oh shit I remember when she did that. I was still in the USAFR at the time. I blame this bitch for multiple SAPR training sessions I had and still have to endure on a regular basis. I’d be curios to know what unit she was in; I still know a lot of folks in the AFR.
An airman is allegedly raped by another airman and it’s not investigated because the alleged rape allegedly occurred in Iraq? That sound right to anyone? Anyone?
Nope. Not at all.
Hell no. Most if not all AF Commanders and Supervisors are so scared of the perception of a cover up they will over report incidents. Hell we had one Commander that made an E-6 take down a family picture because it was taken at the beach and his wife had a one piece swimsuit on and he didn’t have a shirt on. She’s full of shit.
Ha! I’ve made jokes here at the office that we all need to take down our family pictures because someone will be offended by having a straight family unit shoved in their face.
Nice to know USAF beat me to it…
Her rape was one of the 126 million or so that happened every day in the military. Remember when that was all the rage?
I do every time I have to waste a precious hour of my life sitting through SHARP training. >:-(
Just stop lyin’, bitch. Resigning is a good start, but you need to make amends to a WHOLE lotta folks.
What’s next for her? Special assignment to the DNC to recruit other lying PoS’s?
Nice break from goat raping i guess she does give “deployment hot” new meaning
He was Barry before he became Mary. File another FOIA.
WTF happened to the USAF I joined 40+ years ago ? this a prime example of a female turd, next thing ya’ know she’ll be getting the VA to do a sex change op since she is such a butt ugly….human…damn I just insulted all butts, I apologize to all butts
She looks like Jabba the Hut before he gained all his weight.
Good thing her nostrils are so enlarged, I don’t think she can suck enough air through the crowded mouth full of bullshit.
Another vet that shit all over her service by rocking the lie… hope that she’s unemployable for a long, long time.
Bitch.
I’m thinking this fella may be getting confused with somebody with a different name about the whole rape thing. I don’t see him getting raped. Maybe it’s just me, this guy couldn’t be any less desirable to me. All I see are visions of this fella in a plaid shirt with the biker chain wallet at a WNBA game when I look at this picture. Maybe he was standing at the urinal one day, like fellas do, tripped, fell, banged his head, and has been having concussion induced false memories. Just a thought.
This Mary Gallagher is more attractive and legit than this twunt shank ho bag douche nozzle will ever be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_nOzJWjxTo
S l o w c l a p……….
There is little I can add to the layers of foul responses and nasty remarks, other than if she/whatever needs attention this badly, she’s going about getting it the wrong way.
Is there such a thing as an attention warthog? Or would that be mean to A-10s?
“My Dad served in Korea and two uncles landed at Normandy, but the person I most admired was Uncle Teddy, the black sheep in the family. He ran away from home at 16 and joined the Navy. He volunteered with the famed “Flying Tigers” before retiring a Lieutenant Colonel.” Mary Gallagher
How old is this woman, anyway? The Flying Tigers were formed in 1941 from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Pilots and ground crews were selected, quietly discharged from service, and reconstituted under Chennault as the Flying Tigers. How old Uncle Teddy was in 1941 I don’t know but it’s a cinch he wasn’t 16. He would have had to acquire some considerable experience to be selected. In any event, there was an Edward F. Gallagher with the Flying Tigers. He was a crew chief. After his year with the Tigers was up, he entered or re-entered the Navy. How he got to be a LTC in the Navy I’ll never know. So, there was a Gallagher and Ted or Teddy is a nickname for Edward. But the story—especially the uncle part and the LTC business—don’t add up.
I wonder if this bag of shit used that as an abbreviation for Lieutenant Commander…should be LCDR.
Trany?
No, just a strap-on butch.
More like “Double-Dutch Butch”.
ANOTHER creature dredged from the shallow end of the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn’t looking.
I wonder if that lifeguard was employed at All-Points Logistics’ recreation facility?
Something tells me that she spends a lot of time in Northampton.
IIRC, that lawsuit against the SecDefs that she jumped on was promptly thrown out. I guess the District Court in Virginia didn’t believe her either.
It’s one thing to use your lies to aggrandize yourself or to build a fake profile as a hero, but it’s an order of magnitude worse when you use your lies to smear your entire chain-of-command and your fellow service members. Despicable.
Way to screw up a good gubernment gig… dumb bitch!