Not the first idiot to claim/wear ribbons he never earned. He played a stupid game, he wins a stupid prize.
Recall we had a CNO off himself because someone caught the error in him wearing a "V" for valor on one of his ribbons. It happens a lot...the fluffing of an otherwise terribly boring military service record, which is what like 99% of all military service records end up being...boring as hell.
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Originally Posted by Manigault
It means 'swiftboating'. the GOP invented that.
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The swiftboat guys did nothing but point out someone fluffing their record. Period, end of line.
Kerry fluffed the crap out of his record, and on lots of occasions. He got busted by guys who were there. Happens all the time.
When I served in Desert Storm, my boat was authorized the Southwest Asia Service Medal, but even though we were technically in theater for it, we were NOT authorized the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal. Maybe a year after I got off the boat and was on shore duty, I ran across a guy who got to my boat 3 weeks after we returned from Desert Storm, who never even made it to the Med, much less took part in DS, and he had a Kuwaiti Liberation ribbon on his rack. The guy was in school (Navy technical "C" school) when we were in DS, and nowhere near a submarine, much less one of the FOUR in either fleet that was in DS or one of the two of those four that got authorized the KLM, but he did the fake ribbon thing. Since his arrival at the boat and the paperwork timing was close enough, he had gotten away with wearing that ribbon. I didn't officially call him out, but I clowned him to his face. I saw that crap all the time.
A real common occurrence is Navy guys who haven't been within a hundred yards of a firearm in their entire career wearing the pistol and rifle ribbons. The Navy is very stingy, especially for enlisted, on giving ribbons. So enlisted guys pep up the uniform with fake crap and just figure nobody cares enough to bust them. In the case of the guy running for office...he was in the Air Force, so I am not sure why he fluffed it. Serve a year in the Air Force and your ribbon rack rivals Audie Murphy's. They give out awards like candy. /boggle
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