I Have Asked Skinner to Lock This Thread as "Off-Topic"

[Ryan Fitzomething]

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My new avatar is for all you fucking trolls, NOT the folks who've supported me!

Because, due to trollish behavior, it really has become off-topic. (You'll note that at least two of those accounts have been banned.) And one of the biggest mistakes President Obama has ever made, not that there have been a lot, was giving in to Ubertroll Donnie and releasing his long-form birth certificate, which then only led to further demands by Trump. So, if you're looking for documentation, no doubt followed by fingerprints, blood samples, semen samples, etc., you're shit outta luck. I stand by every statement I have made in this thread, and wish to thank everyone here who has supported me, and who actually don't believe that this website should emulate the NSA.

PS: If the thread remains unlocked tomorrow, I shall delete it myself.

In 1988, I killed a man of color in the process of enforcing American law. An ensign in the Coast Guard, we were doing drug interdiction mostly. Some of the smugglers would runs, but, once we had them cornered, once they saw that our guns were drawn, they surrendered. Except for one time.

It was a small boat from Panama. Two men, both Hispanic, on board. We intercepted, they stopped their vessel immediately, but then decided to fight. (To this day, I can't fathom why: The cocaine they were transporting had an '88 street value of less than $60,000: Chump change!)

My CO ordeed myself and another man to "show," which was his code for going to the side of our ship with weapons visible. In this one case, the smugglers opened fire, one man's bullet missing my head by more than a foot, whereupon I shot him twice in the chest. My CO did the same to the other smuggler. They both dies shortly thereafter.

Here's the thing: I felt remorse. I lost sleep for a couple of weeks, even though the brass investigated and, in the parlance of TV cop shows, deemed it "a clean shoot."

Eventually, I expressed this to my CO, whom I knew had killed twice before. To my surprise, he told me that he, too, had felt regret about the actions we had taken that day. He said to me, "Son, you're not SUPPOSED to feel good about it."

And this brings me back to my headline: Darren Wilson has expressed not one iota of sorrow over his killing of a young man who didn't even have a weapon! He says he has slept soundly, no regrets, the whole "if I had to do it again" bullshit.

To me, this is evidence of psycopathy., and I hope Mr. Wilson never again has a job in any sector of law enforcement, though I strongly suspect that such hope will be dashed, if it hasn't already.

[Malraiders]

1. At one time counseling was provided for the police who needed the therapy after

a fatal shooting. Not so much anymore.

[tclambert]

23. I thought they mandated therapy after an officer-involved shooting.

If only because the officer might hesitate the next time he needed to shoot, which might put other officers at risk.

[Jackpine Radical]

76. I think the "counseling" was usually pretty minimal,

sort of along the lines of "critical incident debriefing." I once sat through a training session conducted by a police officer who got into it after he himself had been involved in a (clearly justifiable) shooting. CID was and is completely inadequate as a substitute for real therapy. For one thing, it's conducted by nonprofessionals, who don't have confidentiality rules.

[BillZBubb]

2. Good observation. Thanks for telling your story.

There definitely has to be something missing in a person like Wilson- a lack of humanity. And, no doubt, there are a lot of other cops like him.

[Archae]

3. There was an episode of Barney Miller along this line.

The Hispanic detective shot and killed a couple suspects who tried to shoot him.

A few cops and the media called him a "hero," but he was obviously broken up over this.

Wilson's actions and words show he doesn't view Brown as a person.

[elehhhhna]

233. we have a friend who quit HPD after killing a man who shot him.

Doesn't want to get shot or shoot back again.

[JonLP24]

266. A Place Beyond the Pines

Bradley Wilson plays a patrol officer who happens to be where the motorcycle bank robber bandit rides by him chases inside a stranger's home, I was looking away when he shot him so wasn't sure if he had to but did but was broken up about it and inquired if he had kids which bugged him learning of it. The cops & the media played up the "hero" thing but it isn't how he saw himself. Then a group of cop buddies, one played by Ray Liotta. They later decide to show up to the kid's mother's house unannounced, when she told him he can't come in he says "How about you pretend I have a warrant and I'll pretend your mom has papers."

They go upstairs, find money stashed in the crib (which the mother didn't know about from prior scenes), back in the car Ray Liotta divides to loot and gives Bradley a "hero's cut". He is obviously uncomfortable, he asked during the unauthorized search to a different cop "What are we doing here?" He decides to inform his supervisor and he flips out, why are bringing me this shit? Trying to rat out other cops. Bradley explains he is doing what he is supposed to do which he orders him out of his office telling him he doesn't want to know about it. You see him leaving the station and he sees Ray Liotta talking with the supervisor in the parking lot.

Later Ray Liotta pulls him over asking him to follow him, he wants to "talk about it." Next you think you know it is night and Ray Liotta is driving up dirt roads In the Place Beyond the Pines.

That was just halfway, Ebert says "Ray Liotta has played a dirty cop before but no one does it better." I couldn't agree more.

[REP]

393. I believe it's the sons of the cop and the thief who have the final confrontation

Either way, it's a very good movie - one of the off-beat movies Gosling does that are almost always worth watching.

[CatWoman]

4. but.........but......

TAWANNA BRAWLEY

Sorry, couldn't resist

[MuttLikeMe]

5. Meanwhile Eric Garner's family is beside with themselves with grief

over the senseless killing of the two police officers.

[TNNurse]

29. Because they are decent human beings,

Wilson is not. He may be mentally ill or just a horrible person, I do not know him. He got away with murder, though.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

36. Sociopathy

It'll get you kicked out of today's military in a nanosecond

[TNNurse]

48. Apparently

Police departments are OK with it. Are you sure about the military? It is rampant in elected officials... in local, state and national offices.

[arcane1]

7. Thank you for your astute analysis

[CatWoman]

11. so says the thug

and you a demon too?

[CatWoman]

14. like Saint Celem

or Demon Thug Celem?

[uppityperson]

13. I do not think that word, "we", means what you think it means.

[CatWoman]

8. read much?

[rbrnmw]

9. probably not

[Ryan Fitzomething]

15. FOX Viewer, I Presume?

I'm new here, myself, but I suspect that you MAY be on the wrong website.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

17. Thank You

But I do have to ask, based on your username: Are you a Navy or ex-Navy guy?

[Ryan Fitzomething]

19. No

It's just that we in the Guard never have problems with the Army or Air Force. But the Navy? Arrogant disdain from every Navy guy (and now gal) I've ever met!

[sarge43]

22. Next time one of them starts up,

invite him/her to transfer and sign up as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. If motor mouth has a triple digit IQ, s/he will STFU. Hands down, one of the most dangerous ways to make minimum wage.

Welcome to DU.

[uppityperson]

37. Living on the coast, I have great respect for Coast Guard.

And am not military, just anuppity middle aged nurse and mom here. Coast Guard is double plus good. Congrats on 30 year status!

[Ryan Fitzomething]

38. Thanks

And wish me luck on getting my own boat!

[GGJohn]

42. Boat?

I thought boats were subs and surface vessels were ships? Or is that a Navy thing?

[Recursion]

95. Cutters are boats

Subs are boats by convention. But plenty of surface vessels are "boats".

[GGJohn]

96. Thanks, didn't know that.

[Recursion]

105. Boats lean into turns and ships lean out

There are several other (sometimes contradictory) rubrics for distinguishing ships from boats:

Ships have three masts, boats fewer
Ships are commanded by captains, boats by lower ranks
Ships are longer than a certain length
A boat can be carried by another vessel; a ship cannot

[GGJohn]

106. Jeez!!!

Guess I don't know jack about water craft, but ask me anything about helicopters.
I'm assuming you were Navy?

[Recursion]

108. Marines, but worked with LCACs

And (much) later worked as a contractor for USN on their LCAC fleet.

Helicopter question: how in the hell do they find people crazy enough to pilot those?

[GGJohn]

110. First thing they do is show us this picture and ask if we relate to it.

If we answer in the affirmative, they tell us we're helicopter pilot material.

Also, helicopters don't fly, they beat the air into submission.

[GGJohn]

41. My nephew was career Navy Seal,

he referred to the Coast Guard as Puddle Pirates.

[Maedhros]

247. He should be more respectful.

The Coast Guard Sector Columbia River has rescued countless Oregonians. They deserve praise and respect, not condescension.

[GGJohn]

250. Just good natured ribbing between the services.

Navy calls Marines Jarhead, Marines call sailors Squids, Army are often called Grunts, AF called flyboys, etc.

[pinboy3niner]

251. Don't forget joshing the Marines about writing with crayons :)

And even intra-branch there are rivalries, as between the Army's 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions.

When my bn. of the 101st in VN was reactivated this year, it was as part of the 82nd. The horror, the horror!

You weren't with 101st Aviation in-country by any chance, were you?

[GGJohn]

258. As a matter of fact, yes.

Co. A, 101st Aviation Bn., flew the UH-1H Huey before transitioning to the AH-1 Cobra.

This thread turned out to be a train wreck.

[pinboy3niner]

272. Reason I asked is that they supported me in-country, and saved my life

I was a grunt plt ldr WIth the 101st's 2/501 Infantry until I was wounded 2/7/70. The Medevac chopper came in through heavy enemy fire to lift me out in a basket.

Of course, the 101st Hueys also inserted us on many combat assaults and would move us during the month we'd spend out in the jungle.

We had a warrant pilot in my Infantry OCS class at Benning, Guy was an experienced helicopter pilot, but wanted to go for commission. And my OCS roommate went to Rucker for flight school when we graduated. He went down with his Huey in VN, KIA just before I arrived.

Welcome home, brother!

[GGJohn]

275. We might very well have seen each other, you may have been on my Huey at one time,

small world. By late 69, I was driving an AH-1 "snake" doing CGS ops for you ground pounders and occasionally the Marines, also still driving the Huey now and then when they needed me.
Thank you for your service and a Hearty Welcome Home Brother.

[pinboy3niner]

280. Were you on the operation up to Quang Tri in December '69?

Our normal AO was in Thua Thien Province, but in December they had an NVA regiment that crossed the DMZ on a mission to attack the city of Quang Tri. We were told that the NVA got into terrain that the 5th Mech, stationed at the Z, couldn't get into with their tracks, so they wanted an airmobile bn to go after them and they called us.

They took us up to Quang Tri on C-130s and from there we did a bn-sized combat assault on Hueys with Cobra escort. I'd never seen an entire bn in the air before, and I took lots of pics. Unfortunately, my camera and all my pics of that op were destroyed when I went through too many stream crossings.

In case you haven't heard it enough from us in the Infantry, we love you guys! Both the Hueys and the Cobras saved my bacon too many times to count.

And I can't help being jazzed by your moving to Cobras. God, I loved those sleek and deadly bastards.

[GGJohn]

281. My recollections are kind of hazy,

but I believe that was my first combat mission flying the Cobra escorting the Huey's, God, it was a heady experience going from the Huey to the fast and nimble Cobra.

If memory serves me right, this was my first true escort mission, we were doing CGS before this.

[Maedhros]

265. Ah. My bad.

We love our Coast Guard here in Oregon - just extended the operations of the Newport helicopter station:

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2014/12/newport_coast_guard_helicopter.html

[yeoman6987]

203. I did 24 years in the Navy

Hopefully I can change your opinion someday.

[niyad]

31. welcome to du

[Ryan Fitzomething]

33. Thank You

Glad to heed beer! (Wait...did I phrase that correctly? Ah, who cares? I'm off-duty now!)

[yeoman6987]

51. Well give the poster a break

Fox is off the dish network. Lol. The poster is lost.

[procon]

20. There is such a stigma of appearing "weak" or not macho enough

in military groups that many people are unable to admit remorse even to themselves. Now we have another generation of young men and women coming out of the military who have been conditioned to accept the falsehoods of machismo and bravado to cope with the horrors trapped in their own mind. The US has done a terrible job at advancing mental health programs and making it an illness no less in need of treatment than diabetes or pneumonia.

I don't know that it is right to blame anyone, even Wilson, for not expressing sufficient public grief or remorse for his actions. Simply looking at the militant police culture that was on display in Fergusson during the protests, this doesn't look like a group that is likely to encourage any self assessment or introspection, let alone remorse.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

21. Actually, It's More a Lack of Professionalism

Although the macho rubbish still infects way too many.

[exboyfil]

24. Contrast with the police officer who killed Dimebag Darrell's murderer

James Niggemeyer had the ultimate in justifiable shooting. He shot the murderer as a hostage situation or worse was unfolding (four had already been killed). He took one carefully placed shot after approaching the murderer from the rear.

The attached story talks about how he is still trying to deal with the experience.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/dimebag-darrell-policeman/

[Stardust]

25. Why would he ever work again? They've amassed over $300k for his defense fund, which he may

never need...

[Cha]

26. Thank you for your compelling story, Ryan. Darren Wilson comes off as a stone cold killer

who should have been indicted to stand trial for murdering Michael Brown. And, maybe he would have if the "prosecutor" Bob McCullough didn't lie to the Grand Jury and act as his advocate instead of prosecuting.

How could anyone but a sociopath not feel remorse for killing an unarmed kid?

Welcome to DU

[Ryan Fitzomething]

39. Thank You for the Welcome

And I would most definitely include the sorry-assed excuse for a prosecutor as part of Wilson's indictment.

[Skittles]

27. "I would not do anything different."

I find that very disturbing - seriously, knowing someone died, surely you would wonder if perhaps there were better ways

[Ryan Fitzomething]

44. Reminds One of This Guy:

Doesn't it?

[Skittles]

45. yes - I believe it is the sentiment of sociopaths

[Ryan Fitzomething]

53. Or THIS Guy:

[A HERETIC I AM]

98. At least the Sith had a code. n/t

[TransitJohn]

28. That's who they WANT in law enforcement.

You don't think the police are there to make communities (especially those of color) safer, do you?

[Ryan Fitzomething]

46. In MY Sector of Law Enforcement, We Don't Equivocate

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Yes, as mentioned above, the man I killed was Hispanic, not white. But that was not a decision I ever wanted to make! Please, John, I beg of you not to paint with that broad brush, the very same brush that I, myself, am so tempted to wield. You are absolutely right in saying that policemen, FAR TOO OFTEN, have been used to terrorize and intimidate the disenfranchised.

You may think me naive---and perhaps you'd be right!---for saying that, in my 29+ years of patrolling our nation's coastal waters, I've observed only a few instances of racial animus. And I realize full well, and with no shortage of sadness, that my branch is the last remaining part of our military that remains purely defensive.
Eisenhower was right: The military-industrial complex has not only gone out of control---fueled by Mammon and the people who worship at his filthy altar, NOT by the men and women who just want to do a good service---but has also "trickled down" into local law enforcement, state by state, city by city, mind by mind, soul by soul, and infected this country, perhaps fatally. All I would ask of you, John, is that you grant me and the people I serve with the acknowledgement that this is not what we signed up for!

If you grant me nothing else, sir, I beseech you to grant men like myself, and those men and women like me, at least that.

[TransitJohn]

49. If you don't agree with what your employer is doing

it seems to me you'd be morally bound to leave.

[GGJohn]

50. You're not aware that the US Coast Guard was in Iraq?

How could you be a 29+ year veteran and not know this?

[Ryan Fitzomething]

54. Perhaps I Don't Deserve That Promotion

Thank you for catching that. The Coast Guard, like the National Guard, was (wrongfully!) deployed in that theater. I was trying to emphasize to John the point that our focus is defensive. Since he appears to have missed what I was trying to say, I can only conclude that I shouldn't be writing while worked up, having consumed mass quantities of beer. (I'm on Christmas leave, so don't worry.)

The post has been edited, with the incorrect assertion removed. Thanks again!

[GGJohn]

63. No problem,

and I'm quite sure you do deserve that promotion.
Good luck getting your own ship, (Cutter)?

[Ryan Fitzomething]

64. Most Likely a Cutter, Yes

And I find myself owing you another apology: In my last reply, I referred to TransitJohn merely as "John," apparently blind to the fact that "John" is a part of your username, too, thus achieving a lack of clarity bordering on the Palinesque.

I hope the higher-ups here don't read these postings of mine. Otherwise, I'll be lucky to get a rowboat!

[GGJohn]

65. Ha, if you are assigned to a rowboat,

then can I call you a Puddle Pirate?
I keed, I keed, you guys do a hell of a job and I tip my hat to you.

I spent 40+years in the US Army as an attack chopper pilot.

[JEFF9K]

30. Expressing remorse at this point ...

... could be viewed as an admission of doing something wrong.

[madville]

35. There will still be civil actions

Saying he did something wrong or regretted his actions could be used in a lawsuit against him down the road.

[Cha]

40. Daniel Pantaleo "apologized" to Eric Garner's family FWIWW.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

47. Which Isn't Much

There's "something happening here." Sadly, this time, "what it is" can be seen by anyone in posession of a functional brain cell.

We all know there's only one nation on this planet which can destroy America. Hey, I've got mirrors in MY house. Do you?

[Cha]

66. I know.. it's NOTHING.. and was not accepted by Eric Garner's wife.. that's why I said FWIWW.

I mentioned it because Wilson couldn't even do that.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

67. WROMH,

Which stands for "whooshed right over my head." I'm tellin' ya, friend, I'm not having the best 30 hours intellectually! Good thing I'm on Christmas leave.

[Cha]

68. No Problema.. Aloha and Enjoy your Christmas Leave, Ryan.

[Enrique]

52. thanks for mentioning that

that is very relevant to this discussion.

[True Blue Door]

43. "Failure of humanity."

That's what people like this need to be known as. FOHs.

[WilliamPitt]

55. Powerful story.

Thank you for sharing it, and for your service, and welcome to DU.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

56. Thank You, Sir!

Do you post to other websites? I've read a couple of your posts here (very good, by the way), but I seem to recall seeing the name William (or Will, maybe) Pitt in other places on the net.

[WilliamPitt]

57. Thank you! I'm the lead writer for Truthout.org

but my stuff shows up other places as well.

Last one: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28122-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-cold-war

The rest: http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44663

Cheers!

[Ryan Fitzomething]

60. Yes!

I knew that I'd read your writings before! Now, I am not just thankful for your welcome, I'm downright honored!

[WilliamPitt]

61. The honor is mine, sir.

[ucrdem]

312. He also sells used cars. nt

[arely staircase]

353. and known for his work with the homeless nt

[Milliesmom]

58. This is sickening

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/23/it_may_out_ferguson_ferguson_why_milwaukees_police_violence_will_horrify_you/

[Ryan Fitzomething]

62. That IS Sickening!

In fact, I think you should post it as its own thread. (You'd already have my Rec, that's for sure.)

[daleanime]

59. K&R....

[Boatswain2PA]

69. This story is a blatant LIE

I am not discussing the "lesson" the OP is trying to impart here, and I will not delve into the political spectrum here. However his story of being a Coast Guard Ensign in 1988 and killing a man (any man) during a drug interdiction patrol at that time frame is, I believe, not true.

I will give you many reasons why this story is a fabrication. I recently retired from the Coast Guard as a Senior Chief Boatswain Mate. I was an operator for almost all of that career, and attending their senior law enforcement school (sounds cool, but not really). I have also written about Coast Guard history, and am a paid author about Coast Guard history and operations.

First reason: The entire Coast Guard is a smaller force (about 35,000) than the New York City Police Department (about 45,500). If a New York cop shoots a suspect, every other cop in New York is going to know about it in just a few days. Now, maybe the office assistant for the undersecretary of janitorial services for the #th district of the New York Police Department won't know about it, but every COP on the beat is going to know about it. I was an operator for almost all of my career, and I damn well knew about every major Coast Guard law enforcement action during that career.

Second: Coast Guard Ensigns are typically brilliant idiots (meaning incredibly smart, but young and naive), and nobody gives them a gun unless there is a Chief right behind them making sure they don't hurt themselves. NOBODY would EVER have given an Ensign a gun (presumably a long gun) and told them to go to the side of the ship to "show" their weapon. This is NOT, and since the Civil War HAS not, been the role of an Ensign on any Coast Guard ship. If the OP had said he was a "gunner's mate", or "boatswain mate", then this story would have used at least the right character, but in this case, it is simply an imaginary actor.

Third: The Coast Guard has reporting requirements for incidences, called Situation Reports (or SITREPS). Even back in 1988 a Commanding Officer would NEVER have fired a hostile shot unless it was immediately reported via SITREP. In about 1992 the Coast Guard added a LEREP (Law Enforcement Report) requirement for anything as small as an officer using more than "level 2" (defined as giving verbal commands" against a subject). These SITREPS were put together in reports from the Coast Guard Office of Law Enforcement and distributed to the field as learning aids. There was NEVER a SITREP concerning a Coastie (let alone an Ensign) getting shot at by a Panamanian drug smuggler and returning lethal fire.

Fourth: The Coast Guard, even way back in 1988, required every single cutter, boat, or unit to account for each and every bullet expended. This was a requirement for far longer than what I remember, and comes from the NAVY, from which we get our ammunition from. This means that any ammunition fired operationally would HAVE to be reported as an operational expenditure. If someone wants to get conspiratorial (in the realm of the twin towers being brought down by our own government), then YES, it is theoretically possible to get an entire crew of a ship (because everyone will know when a round is fired) to agree to lie, including the "career" guys who were not involved in the shooting yet would lose their careers if it came out that they covered it up. However, remember, this is the incredibly small Coast Guard, and human nature is that "people talk". I, and every other senior person from 1988 onward, would have heard about this.

Fifth, his Commanding Officer would not have "killed twice before" unless his CO had perhaps been an ENS or LtJg during Operation Markettime during the Vietnam Conflict. Even then I do not believe any CO or XO of a patrol boat during Operation Markettime ever directly engaged the enemy and got a KIA, let alone TWO.

Lastly, the supposedly Lieutenant Commander Fitzomething has been in the Coast Guard for 30 years, and is soon making Commander and "getting his own boat". This also reeks of bull excrement. The very few Lieutenant Commander's the Coast Guard has who have been in for approaching 30 years are prior enlisted guys who went to OCS. These are guys who are subject matter specialists (naval engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, etc) who are the technocrats, NOT the ship-driving officer corps. For those who were Ensigns in 1988, most are now Captains (O-6), or AT LEAST Senior Commanders. If you want proof, look at the biography of ANY "Coast Guard Sector Commander", who are all O-6s.

Now, we are all wrong sometimes. And I am certainly an imperfect human being. So I will make (the supposedly) Lieutenant Commander Ryan Fitzomething a deal. You send me an email to Boatswain2PA@gmail with details of who you are, and I will ask some of my friends up in D17 (Alaska) if you are for real. If you are, I will come back on this board and publicly apologize, and I will send you a bottle of wine for you to share with your wife as my apologies for calling you a liar.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

70. Very Impressive Boat's

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Informative and interesting down to every detail. What do you call the officers cooks and food severs in the Coast Guard ?
The Navy's rate for that is steward/cs.
I really can't imagine even a non rated seamen creating such a fabrication .
We know that during long lengths of sea time some seamen actually run out of thought or things to think about. And if not kept busy in some way or other,well ,as you have seen ! lol .

Not to say or indicate the fabricated events are at all funny,and given the comparison the poster drew through a fabricated experience to a real life event, than considering the poster claims to have been an ensign at that time-, one may be lead to believe that what the poster sees as proof Wilson is a psychopath is the opinion of an officer and educated gentleman who unprofessionally must hold at least a masters degree in psychology to make that determination.

However in truth, none of it really adds up. Don't even know if it could even pass as scuttlebutt ! -rumors ,fabrications.

I will say it did strike a nerve ,there the poster has his/her effect.
Your post on the other hand reminds me of Coast Guard professionalism at it's finest !

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

73. Yes the up or out -

came about with many revisions along with the military budget cuts back there in the 70's when the selective service draft
went out in 73. Thus the creation of the all volunteer military of higher standards.

My experience with the Coast Guard when I was in the Navy for one was in Cuba of off the cost for the ships qualification ratings.The E for efficiency-rigorous testing and drills ,the coast Guard is in effect the qualification board. We worked with a Coast Guard Boat's E9.
it was about excellence and nothing short of.

And returning to US territorial waters after a deployment,that's enforcement ,the coast Guard comes aboard sometimes with the dogs. Any seaman has a problem with that has a problem to begin with because the next port is home port. And a seamens problem becomes the ships problem should there be one. Such a thing would cause the ship to be held up for further inquiries and that would make the ships company very angry at who ever's are the cause of that problem should there be one.

A deployment can be as much as a year and that is a long time away from home.
Of course drugs are on the list.
From my experience those searches were conducted both fast and efficiently.

A wannabe, I hadn't thought about that angle.
That adds up!

[MADem]

200. There haven't been "stewards" in the US Navy for over half a century.

The appropriate term for food preparers used to be "Mess Management Specialist." MS in abbreviated parlance. It was updated to the fancier, schmancier "Culinary Specialist" or CS in 2004 or thereabouts. I guess the reason they changed it is because people were too thick to understand that the term "mess" had to do with meals at sea and had been used for CENTURIES of Naval heritage, and were pouting about having a specialty that some might think was messy, or something.

Stewards in the old days were mostly POC (Black or Filipino) and they functioned as cooks and personal assistants and cabin attendants. That whole 'personal servitude' element went mercifully out the window and the job was professionalized.

I've never known a non-LDO ensign to be trusted with by direction authority, never mind a weapon...but whatever.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

234. I know what you are getting at, mess cooks-mess management specialist

In the 70's mess cooks were called mess cooks ,I dono there may have been an officiated title to it. Stewart and cook were combined to form culinary specialist.I imagine officers cooks is now a matter of assignment .I may have been thinking of a cookie assigned to officers mess who let the gold go to his head and perhaps began to see himself as an jr. officer ,an ensign.You know the wish fulfillment thing.

Ryan clearly couldn't see himself as a gunners mate or a bos'n mate I imagine ensign may have seemed more-so fitting to the occasion he was fabricating ,I think.
I know in the Navy gunners mates keep charge of small weapons and maintain the big guns-GMT's the nukees. Bosn's are trained in landing party operations and will have small arms training for that particular assignment. There was no mention of a weapons officer in Ryan's story down the avenues of the chain of command. He seemed to confine his story to command status ,him as an ensign and his commander. So sure plenty of holes in his story.

Reviewing his posts and looking at the pics he posted and his usage of emma cons you really have consider it does look as though he stepped out of the comic book world and wrote himself out a hero script.
Every now and again mostly in port some prankster would pick up the ships 1mc mike and shout in some type of obscenity or other than hang it up and run and hide. An act of rebellion I suppose. But of course that was 30 years or more ago maybe that sort of thing doesn't happen anymore. You know, they all wised up right ?

No I think the truth is they just keep coming from one generation to the next. There is a thing called maturity so most of them grow out it. Some never do though.

For the first 60 posts or so Ryan seemed to be on top of his game,but than suddenly the tide changed.
The tipping of his hat emma con turned to the taunting rolling laugh .
And anybody what doesn't believe he is who and what he says he is can go to hell,that is what he said.
So now he's given DU administration an ultimatum-erase this thread or he will shoot himself in the foot,no I mean delete himself. I have no idea where shoot himself in the foot, figuratively of course not literally came from, why,it just showed up !

Look Ryan really struck a nerve with a retired Boatswains mate senior chief petty officer who happens to write about coast Guard history and he got slammed for telling those lies. He can delete himself here if wishes but he cannot erase those lies.

Several former and active Coast guardsman came aboard as the saying goes and set the record straight and thats it.

[MADem]

243. No-they got rid of "stewards" eons ago.There's no one left on ACDU who served with stewards.

They professionalized the rating and made it "Mess Management Specialist" for those who did the cooking aka "MS"--the CS thing happened in the last ten years, the idea being that the rating would be more understood by civilians when people transitioned to civilian jobs.

This thread is a disgrace and really should be deleted--it has no place on this website. It's fiction, and it's bad fiction, at that. Anyone who knows anything about military promotion flow points can see that this is a ghastly load of nonsense, piled higher and deeper. Not sure what the goal is, but it's divisive, disruptive and inaccurate (and that's the most polite word I can find to explain what I'm saying).

[cwydro]

246. He posted pics?

This I want to see.

Where?

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

252. the pic.s he posted are comical not to do with his

fabricated story . Where is between post one and sixty or 65 in there. Ryan was on top of his game between the 22nd Dec. and the 23rd.
Actually read those posts than see where it turned.

Does Ryan strike you as management material ?
But the thread just rolled right along with it until it changed. It sort of fizzled out on the 23rd. Than picked back up on the 26 th.
At that point Ryan's game changed.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

74. I'm Flattered Than You Signed Up to DU Just For Me!

Less than 24 hours ago, at that.

Now, let me take a wild guess: If I provide you with all of my professional (scholastic, as well?) details, you will donate $5 million to the charity of my choice. Right?

No thanks, Trump Troll.

PS: This is my first and last communication to you. I go now to wash my hands.

[mlb47driver]

77. This story doesn't make sense.

You have stated that you are a LCDR, and making “full CDR” and “getting your own boat”. That means you would have been screened in 2014 for command of said “boat”.

Anyone can see who screens for command in the Coast Guard. From the 2014 Senior Command Screening Panel released last September(you can find this here: http://www.uscg.mil/announcements/alcgoff/099-14_ALCGOFF.txt), you can see that there were a whopping FIVE LCDR’s in the entire Coast Guard who screened for senior command afloat ("Senior Command" is defined as CDR or above, which you say you are making CDR and getting your own boat, so your name would be on this list).

FIVE of them. If you are telling the truth (making CDR and getting “your own boat”) you would be one of these FIVE LCDR’s who screened for senior command afloat this year.

You can cross reference their names in the Register of Coast Guard Officers (available here: http://www.uscg.mil/opm/Opm1/Opm1docs/2014%20Register%20FINAL%20print.pdf) to see when any officer in the Coast Guard received their commission. Looking at their names in the Register you can see that two of them received their commission in 1998, and the other three received their commission in 1999.

That was a full 10 years AFTER you claim to have been an Ensign and shot a man.

I am not going to call you a liar, because that would be rude, and might get me banned from this site. But anyone can look at the Coast Guard Register of Officers (linked above) and see that there is not LCDR in the entire Coast Guard who was an ensign in 1988.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

78. Your Profile Says: Member since: Sat Dec 27, 2014, 06:26 PM Number of posts: 1

Hello, Boatswain's Alt!

[Ryan Fitzomething]

80. I've Reported Both

Frankly, I'd rather this thread be locked than see it become an incubator for trolls. I am a Lieutenant-Commander in the USCG, as stated, and anyone unwilling to take my word as to serving this country can go directly to Hell.

[PissedOffCoastie]

82. You got caught

You are not an active duty LCDR. Face it, you got caught in a lie.

There is even a thread about you by real Coasties here: http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/415197802/m/1860094613001

For the record, the USCG Global Address List shows nobody stationed in Juneau as a LCDR, age 52 who was (supposedly) commissioned in 1985 who is well past mandatory high year tenure point of 6/2005 when he would have been forced put for failure to promote with his year group. You are a fake.

[Ryan Fitzomething]

86. Member since: Sat Dec 27, 2014, 09:05 PM

How many more alts do you have, "Boatswain"?

[GGJohn]

114. Jeez, I hope this isn't true, but something definitely reeks here.

I fucking hate these stolen valor wannabe's, not saying yet that this is the case, but it ain't looking good.

[PissedOffCoastie]

120. He doesn't exist

"Ryan" doesn't exist in the UCSG officer database. As has been pointed out there are no LCDRs currently on active duty who were commissioned in 1985 like he claims.

Furthermore, as another member here has linked on this thread there is no record in the CG maritime LE reports which substantiate the incident he claims as ever having taken place. Note how "Ryan" has been asked on two different threads to explain why his Walter Mitty tale of him and then his CO shooting a "drug runner" doesn't jive with official CG records, yet keeps ignoring it, instead reporting anyone who is actually in the Coast Guard who questions his version of events.

[GGJohn]

121. I started having my doubts when he didn't seem to know that the USCG was

deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom but I kept my doubts to myself.
BTW, welcome to DU and thanks for your compelling info.

[PissedOffCoastie]

122. You hear "Ryan's" kind of nonsense

...from time to time about how "humanitarian" the Coast Guard supposedly is as opposed to anything related to the DoD. That ignores the fact that we not only were in Iraq, but also Saudi, Kuwait and Afghanistan. Until the end of the Cold War, our high endurance cutters were equipped with Harpoon anti-ship missiles. If there wherever a boba tide threat again, trust me these offensive weapons systems would be right back onboard.

We have over 222 years of serving alongside our brothers and sisters in the other armed services, and we are proud of it.

[GGJohn]

123. Glad to have you aboard Coastie.

You should be damned proud of your service, you guys and gals do a real service for the country.

[MADem]

268. I am appalled at the number of "recs" this tale has garnered.

People are justifiably upset about what happened to Mr. Garner in NYC and what happened to young Michael Brown in Ferguson. I can't help but feel this thread is an attempt--a rather blatant one-- to take those feelings and toy with them. For what purposes, I don't even want to surmise.

It's quite obvious to anyone with half a nostril that this story doesn't pass the smell test. I hope you don't take much abuse for pointing out the obvious.

[GGJohn]

269. I was hoping that this was all a mistake on his part and he would clarify the inconsistencies

about his story, but it seems he's gone AWOL.

[MADem]

273. He'll probably be back, maybe next time as a sniper or some other "knife-between-the-teeth"

macho man, spinning a heartfelt but poorly crafted tale that relates to the next abrogation of justice. I'd be surprised if he pokes his head back up in his current iteration--he's been well and truly outed as a fake of the first order. You'd think someone with access to the internet would know how to use Google with sufficient expertise to not get caught out with such a massive mess of blatantly false material.

It's all about attention seeking, maybe, and that points to someone who is unwell--I'd rather think that, actually, than to think it's all about jerking chains, getting jollies about the death of a young man, and mocking people's sincere dismay for sport. I'm sad to say I'm so damn cynical of late that if I were to make a bet, I'd bet on the latter.

[pintobean]

126. You've been here 10 days

Calling out newbies isn't a bright idea.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=319587

[MrMickeysMom]

170. What about copy/pasting stuff anyone could look at, pinto bean?

Jeebus…

[pintobean]

180. What about it?

I provided a link so anyone wanting to check the accuracy of my statement wouldn't have to scroll back up to find one of his posts to click on his profile. It's a courtesy.

Kind of a strange thing to complain about.

[MrMickeysMom]

183. Why is it such a task to do that?

Perhaps you're just be helpful, then.

[pintobean]

187. Don't worry about it

I didn't do it with you in mind.

It will be okay.

[MrMickeysMom]

190. No problem...

I'm sure it will be okay.

[Rex]

81. LOL wut? There is a huge list of commissioned officers in 1988 making CDR in 2014 from your own link

Did you even look at the second link?

[PissedOffCoastie]

83. His lie claimed he was commissioned in 1985

...which is impossible. As it was pointed out those officers in year group '85 still remaining on active duty are Serving in the grade of Captain/O-6 or higher (Flag rank) by this time.

Furthermore, by 1988 he would have been a LTJG/O-2.

"Ryan" banked on nobody from the actual Coast Guard catching him in his lie which worked out fine, until it didn't.

[Rex]

84. The OP says he was an ensign in 1988. There are commissioned CMD from that group.

Where did you get 1985 from? I missed that part of his post.

[PissedOffCoastie]

87. His own profile

...he claims he was commissioned in 1985.

Furthermore, no way he would have been an ENS in 1988 as he claims. Year Group 1985 officers were all promoted to LTJG/O-2 in 1986!!!!

He can't even make stuff up with a plausible timeline that makes sense.

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums?m=1860094613001&a=tpc&f=415197802

[Rex]

89. He does?

"Three decades in the Coast Guard as of 06/26/2015. Married to a stone-cold MILF. Literally! We have two sons and a daughter. Liberal on domestic issues, centrist on foreign, proud to be serving in the one branch of our military that is exclusively defensive."

So you are saying that when he says three decades, that must mean 30 exact years...okay got it thanks.

[PissedOffCoastie]

90. http://forums.military.com/eve/forums?m=1860094613001&a=tpc&f=415197802

No worries! Rex. Just wanted to show how his story doesn't measure up.

No way he would have been an ENS for three years like he claims. The math doesn't add up.

Peace Brother!

[Rex]

92. Peace and for his sake

I hope he is telling the truth. Probably does not know about new laws enacted by Congress to deal with stolen valor.

[ScreamingMeemie]

313. Yuck, while this guy may be a liar, the site you sent us to is FreeRepublic on water. No thanks.

Welcome to DU

[MADem]

324. A lot of the military sites are more...errrrr... freewheeling in that regard.

For that reason I give them a miss. I just don't like seeing a lot of that rightwing commentary.

Do know that not all people who are retired/former/in the military feel that way--not by a long shot. It's just that the people who like to post crap on military message boards with that mindset seem to be over-represented.

The call went forth on that site (not sure who found the guy here, but good sleuthing) to debunk this guy and the users of that site stepped up and did that, so for that we should be appreciative. We don't need people yanking our chain here with bullshit phony stories that read like a badly warped version of a Johnny Cash song.

[ScreamingMeemie]

362. Seeing as my uncle (dad's brother) is a Ret. Lt. Col. for the Air Force, I don't

need to be taught that.

[MADem]

365. Well, I wasn't teaching, really--just reinforcing an existing reality.

The rightwingers do tend to be more vociferous on the military boards. Their volume doesn't equate to their overall presence. A lot of them did the minimum, if at all, but you'd think they served on the Joint Chiefs, the way they go on...

[marble falls]

99. Boatswain, is that you? If it is, multiple accounts is a no-no here.

[PissedOffCoastie]

125. The fact that anyone...

...actually in the Coast Guard itself has called "Ryan" a fake, shows more about him than any of the actual, Coastguardsmen that "Ryan" attacks.

"Ryan" still cant explain why his made up "shooting" of a "brown man" is not referenced in any USCG maritime LE records nor why he doesn't exist in the USCG officer personnel database.

He was challenged by another member on two separate threads now why his story doesn't compute here: http://www.uscg.mil/history/ops/le/interdiction/docs/1989_LEStats.pdf

"Ryan" can't even give his made up ships name at the time.

[marble falls]

127. Those of us who served in the deep water don't give so much credence to the shallow draft navy...

that said, I haven't been able to find a reference to the event that Ryan talks about. That doesn't make him a liar anymore than you being a shallow drafter makes you inferior to me, a bubble-head. So stow the character assassination and stick to the topic.

[GGJohn]

128. Why shouldn't we call out someone who it appears to be a phony?

It should piss off each and every person who ever legitimately wore the uniform of our nation's military, it does me, and so far, it ain't looking good for the OP.

The real Coasties over on Military.com are convinced that he's a phony and they would know.

[marble falls]

130. I am a vet and frankly nothing Ryan's written demeans the uniform I wore. Maybe you guys need a ....

garment unbunching. The topic here is why Darren Wilson seems remarkably cold blooded, not a vigilante demand to see Ryan's DD-214 or commission.. He's done nothing I can see to the Coast Guard. So while I thank you for your service under the Dept of Commerce, you really need to get back to the topic.

Hijacking threads is highly discouraged here. Think on it, meditate on it, pray on it. Go back and reread your title statement: "Why shouldn't we call out someone who it appears to be a phony?" Because unless you know know it, its not calling out, its ganging up and bullying.

Sad I have to point that out to you.

[GGJohn]

131. I disagree and these stolen valor types need to be called out each and every time.

Threads get hijacked here on a daily basis and there are very rarely negative consequences for such action, I've been guilty of it myself a few times.

[marble falls]

134. When he shows up in a uniform with decorations and rank he never earned, get back to me.....

this is the US, you don't get punished till you get adjudicated. Even in the Coast Guard.

Are you trying to hijack this one? Just between you me, that is.

[Orrex]

138. Why do you object so strongly to his objection to a questionable story?

That strikes me as very curious, that you're more upset about pointing out an apparent falsehood than about the apparent falsehood itself.

I understand that you don't feel personally or professionally diminished by unsubstantiated claims shown to be at odds with verifiable reality, but why do you feel that no one else should take issue with such claims?

This is especially relevant when the claim has direct bearing on a current post or thread. Far from hijacking the thread, it addresses the very basis for it.

If you're content to accept the claims either as true or as false-but-irrelevant, then that's fine. Others, it seems, are less inclined to let the claimant off the hook so easily.

[heaven05]

152. phony or not

wilsonthepig is still a remorseless killer of unarmed human being. What utter obfuscation. Transparent as hell with you and that other one. Same tactic as destroying the credibility of an unarmed black men shot down by racist amerikkkan cops. Same tactic, different day. geez

[GGJohn]

155. Hey, finally, I agree with with you on something.

[marble falls]

157. Do tell me, whats so transparent about me?

[heaven05]

159. I find the distraction

of a possible misrepresentation of a person and their background an transparent diversion from the truth of wisonthepig, as stated by the original OP, being a remorseless killer,/murderer/executioner. Period. I like to stay on point, I'm remorseless in that respect.

[marble falls]

163. As do I. As well as suspicions that however well held aren't established facts and are presented...

as confirmed and proven. I am remorseless in that respect. Particularly when they don't impeach the validity of the point: that Darren Wilson seems to have a flat lined emotional response and it could have been from nature of his work and personal foible.

Wilson is a public figure intentionally or otherwise. He gets to be asked uncomfortable questions and have his character questioned. For now Ryan for now is one of us.

[heaven05]

164. "flat lined emotional response"

"could have been, seems, yeah okay. He's a confirmed cold blooded killer of an unarmed kid, basically, with suspected racist tendencies, especially given the town, how their policing system treated and treats their minority community and him coming from a very suspect, shut down P.O....anyone that gives wilsonthepig benefit of the doubt.......in my book is..........

[marble falls]

165. I say flat lined emotional response from my viewing of his interview on network tv, all the rest....

of the stuff, well, I've never said it. I do believe that his story has holes, and that the prosecutor himself admitted there were 'irregularities' with the grand jury, to the point that the Justice Department is investigating. You have your opinions. Why can't Ryan have his? What's your beef with my opinion? Other than we don't agree on something that won't be clear for a while if ever. You've gone after Ryan just as broadly as he's gone after Darren Wilson. The difference is: Darren Wilson is a public figure intentionally or not, and Ryan isn't. Question his conclusions and premises, but the personal stuff, in my opinion, is over the line.

[heaven05]

166. I haven't gone after Ryan

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or his statement of wilsonthepig being a remorseless killer. The personal stuff I am reserving ANY judgement on. There are more knowledgeable people on here questioning his story. As I told them, my agreement with Ryan is on the remorseless killer aspect of his OP. Period. That's all that really concerns me about his whole OP. His story if true, can be understood concerning the feelings associated with war and the necessity of killing.

[GGJohn]

167. He put himself out there by posting details of his alleged personal life,

it's public record now so if it's smells like excrement, then going after him is not over the line.

[MrMickeysMom]

171. Hijack threads much?

Sure have here…

[GGJohn]

172. I'll put you down in the "I don't care if someone is impersonating a Military Officer" catagory.

[MrMickeysMom]

176. Like I said….

Do you like to follow a thread subject, or are you more of an Ad Hominem type?

I'll put you down in the "I'm more of a fan of attacking the person" category.

[_Blue_]

178. When a person is proven to have lied in such a way as to deceive an entire community..

does that person not rightfully deserve to have their credibility attacked??

[MrMickeysMom]

188. The person has proven no such thing...

I, however, think you believe he has. I can't control what you think, but good luck with you thinking you can convince me to agree with what you cause others of.

If you want to manipulate something, go turn a door nob. I'm no door nob, blue.

[_Blue_]

194. Actually he has been proven a liar.

Aside from all the many inconsistencies in his stories pointed out in this thread and the thread about this on military.com, there is actually a link to the coast guard stats covering the time period in which he claims to have killed a man and participated in the killing of another.

Here is that link:

http://www.uscg.mil/history/ops/le/interdiction/docs/1989_LEStats.pdf

Page 16 of the report shows that there were ZERO casualties in 1988 as a result of a coast guard operation. This poster claims to have killed a man in 1988 and participated in the killing of another man at the same time.

If you don't take this as proof, I don't know what more to tell you, other than to enjoy being had.

[MrMickeysMom]

197. Tell you what, blue...

I've been had by better….

[_Blue_]

201. I'm not sure why facts are so scary.

He says he killed a man working for the CG in 1988. The stats show no one was killed by the CG in 1988. No one was killed by the CG in 1987, either, for that matter.

The information is there for you to look at if you so choose. Or you can just continue to believe someone who has been proven to be lying in order to manipulate our community.

[GGJohn]

184. I'm question his bona fides because of the compelling evidence presented by

others that call into question his story.
Wouldn't you like to know the truth also? Doesn't it give you pause that possibly his story of killing a person of color may be false?
Doesn't it bother that he's possibly committing a stolen valor offense?

[pintobean]

136. I'm a Navy vet and I find you amusing.

You demean the Coast Guard, while lecturing about character assassination, yet you have no problem with a probable liar assassinating the character of a police officer.

I sure as shit don't care about Wilson, but DU doesn't need to be deceived with a bs story about the Coast Guard. Our opinions of Wilson will be the same with, or without, this story.

[marble falls]

142. Who demeaned a coastie?????????????????????? Not me.....

I find you too full umbrage for facts not established.

The topic here is not Ryan, the topic here is Darren Wilson. Ryan may or may not be what he says. So what? It bears on the character of Darren Wilson not a twit. Darren Wilson's foibles have been popping up and frankly I think he should be a convicted felon or in the process of becoming one. That's opinion, not character assassination.

What you guys are doing to Ryan is character assassination at worst and deflecting the topic from Darren Wilson who is a public figure by his own actions justified or not. Ryan is a member here and character assassination of members is highly frowned upon.

And since when have we ever required personal information to bared on the demand of anybody else here? Would you post your documents here or expose your real name? Do we need his birth certificate to prove his name, too?

[Orrex]

145. Actually, you did. Twice, by my count.

In Reply #130:

So while I thank you for your service under the Dept of Commerce,

This feeds into the common smear that the Coast Guard isn't "real" military service. You must have been aware of this, or else why would you have made a specific point of mentioning the Department of Commerce in this way. This is obvious even to a non-veteran.

and again in Reply #134:

this is the US, you don't get punished till you get adjudicated. Even in the Coast Guard.

The clear implication is that the Coast Guard is less serious about due process than the United States in general. Perhaps you meant this as a good-natured jest, but in the context of the thread (and considering the overall arc of your posts), it doesn't come across that way.


Again, why are you more irritated that someone is questioning a dubious story put forth as fact than you are about the dubious story itself?

[Rex]

147. You insult the Navy and then expect ex-Navy to play nice?

Strange way to make friends. I have no idea who is telling the truth here, but there was no need for a rude comment toward the Navy. Why don't you go take it up with the military.com site, they seem to think the guy is a fake.

[marble falls]

151. I'm ex-Navy, chief. I'm an ex-bubblehead, too. Check yourself....

I don't know the truth about Ryan's service any more than I do about yours or you know about Ryan's or mine.

You've made your beef, now get off it.

Next you'll be looking for the birth certificate....................

[heaven05]

154. Liars tell the truth

sometimes. Wilsonthepig is a murderer/killer/executioner who did his dirty work while hiding behind a badge. I really don't give a damn whether he's bonified CG or not. He still spoke the truth about wilsonthepig.

[GGJohn]

156. Yes, he is telling the truth about Wilson,

but doesn't it bother you, as a vet, and a combat vet to boot, that this guy is probably lying about being an officer in the Coast Guard?
The info by the Coasties at Military.com are positive that this guy is a poser.
It sure as hell disturbs me that this guy may be a phony.

[heaven05]

158. well

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my feelings about misrepresenting oneself remains firm. One should not. And as time and the thread went along, it seems with the 'proof' given, that misrepresentation of ones bonifieds MAY be the case here. Yet, even IF that is the case, this individual knows the difference between law enforcement and murder. I'll worry about misrepresentation further on when concrete proof is known. That CG interdiction link is telling....yet not concrete.

[MADem]

282. I think it's not unreasonable to wonder if the purpose of misrepresentation might be

nefarious in nature, along the lines of "Look at those fools over at DU, see how I can tell them a story spun from whole cloth, and see how GULLIBLE they are!"

It's not like we've never seen anyone pull that kind of stunt here before, after all.

No one needs to make up a fake story to let me know that what "Officer" (I won't use the title I think he deserves) Wilson did was wrong. And inventing a clearly fake, easily refuted tale cheapens the REAL story, which is, simply, that a teenaged young man, unarmed, was shot multiple times, unnecessarily, on his street, surrounded by his neighbors, and his corpse was left on display for HOURS while his blood ran down the middle of the road.

That's more than enough horror for me. I don't need fake stories about phony three-year ensigns with CO's who have "killed twice" shooting "persons of color" on the "high seas" to drive home a point that Wilson's conduct was reprehensible and he should have been called to account for it.

This OP doesn't pass even a rudimentary smell test. Anyone with any time in any of the sea services knows this.

[heaven05]

412. Yep

took a few days off. Afraid I did lose focus. And someone showed me the avatar of this individual. Swastika. Oh well, never said I couldn't be gullible. Seems his 'detractors' knew early on. Sometimes, I can and will be wrong. No doubt about. Thanks..

[A-Schwarzenegger]

414. A most wondrous post!

[heaven05]

161. well

my feelings about misrepresenting oneself remains firm. One should not. And as time and the thread went along, it seems with the 'proof' given, that misrepresentation of ones bonifieds may be the case here. Yet, even IF that is the case, this individual knows the difference between law enforcement and murder. I'll worry about misrepresentation further on when concrete proof is known. That CG interdiction link is telling....

[pintobean]

162. Lol. Fake, but accurate.

Anybody can say Wilson has no remorse. Using a bs stolen valor story for fake credibility is as low as it gets.

[heaven05]

202. Anybody can say it, true

but a lot haven't here and a lot have defended wilsonthepig here. His story he stands by and who am I to judge when the the distracting/diversion tactic is so artfully used here consistently by so many? BS? Fake? Who made you the 'expert'?

[pintobean]

337. Your hero sank

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=319587

It was probably a bad idea to have a swastika avatar in a paper boat.

[heaven05]

411. I would think

[PissedOffCoastie]

85. Apparently he would rather censor BMCS' posts than accept an offer to set the record straight

...because he could put this to rest easily. He hasn't though.

Meanwhile actual Coasties are apparently not very happy with his Stolen Valor scheme: http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/415197802/m/1860094613001

[Rex]

91. Well for his sake I hope he is truthful, Congress just recently passed laws against stolen valor

by making it a federal crime. Read that a few months ago in a VFW magazine.

[PissedOffCoastie]

93. True...

...but the key is "Ryan" would have to have gained a financial,benefit from presenting himself as something he isn't. Unsure if concocting a story here on DU meets the criteria.

The fact that "Ryan" didn't email The Senior Chief Boatswains Mate to set the record straight and instead sought to censor a Careeer Coast Guardsman's posts here shows more about "Ryan" than anything the Senior Chief posted in exposing "Ryan's" story as a forgery.

[Rex]

94. True it would depend on if he walks around in RL in a uniform

and presents himself that way. People can say anything on the WWW in a forum.

[PissedOffCoastie]

97. I have never understood these kind of guys...

...as they are never content with impersonating ordinary servicemen/women. The fakes are always pretend SEALs, Rangers, Green berets! Coast Guard Law Enforcement 'officers' (sic), etc. Most like the OP impersonate flamboyantly and poorly. And when they get caught red handed, are enough of a sociopath personality to try and accuse those whose valor they stole of being the ethically challenged ones.

Sad really.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

100. That's a fair assessment however

one must consider how easy it seems to the lier or the habitual lier getting it over on unsuspecting persons or victims.
I think the key to understanding something about the type of individual in mention or the (alleged) not to seem rude,-is to take
into account there is no logic as to the question of what makes them do what they do which is habitually lie.

Here is what I can tell you, the military discharges habitual liars because there is no cure and they cannot stop and will not stop with those lies. If that tells you anything.

Maybe it has to do with a insatiable desire to command attention -to command.

[PissedOffCoastie]

101. I agree

...for all we know the OP really believes what he says is true, thus why when confronted with obvious facts that show his story to be...let's say...stretching the truth, his reaction is to keep up the charade even when it is obvious nobody in the Coast Guard which he claims to be a member of believes him.

We used to discharge many for similar behavior flaws that we called an "adjustment disorder".

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

102. Ajustment disorder ,indeed

On this one I think Ryan figured this thread was over and down off the grid since it was started on the 22 of Dec.
If that tells you anything. It carried on in a discussion to the 23rd.

[PissedOffCoastie]

103. He started a new one...

...here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12569628

Note, he tacitly accepts the fact that he does not exist in the CG officer personnel database, tries to deflect accusing other Coasties as all being the same person.

Meanwhile, like I linked a improve on this thread, he is the topic of discussion on the military.com Coast Guard discussion boards. They don't appear to be buying his story either.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

107. Well, this is something isn't it ?

They like to taunt -, if that tells you anything.

[PissedOffCoastie]

117. Appreciate you

...coming over and setting the record straight.

People like "Ryan" might think they can get away with misrepresenting their background, but eventually the truth always catches up with them.

[Odin2005]

71. I have suspected from the beginning that Wilson is a psychopath.

He seems to have a soullessness in his eyes that is common with psychopaths, half con-man, half Charles Manson.

[loyalsister]

104. I cringed when I saw a clip from the Geraldo interview

I can't remember exactly how he phrased it, but he didn't say "I did the right thing, but I wish that the situation hadn't occurred altogether."
Your response makes sense to me. The idea that someone can not lose sleep or at least feel like the entire thing was terribly regrettable is something I can not fathom.

[catnhatnh]

109. . Here's a link to the official Coast Guard digest of interdiction statistics...

and covers that time period. (PDF file)

http://www.uscg.mil/history/ops/le/interdiction/docs/1989_LEStats.pdf

page 16 covers use of force in drug interdiction and I see nothing like the incident you described.

Can you explain this?

[PissedOffCoastie]

119. No he can't

...he has ignored you now on two separate threads for the same reason he cannot explain why he doesn't exist in the USCG officer personnel database.

He is ignoring you hoping you wont push the matter the same way he is trying to ignore him getting caught lying by a couple of enlisted guys about being an active duty Coast Guard LCDR.

Everyone knows officers don't do any real work anyway.

[Orrex]

129. Maybe his mission was super-duper top secret and stuff

Same with this boat, the USS REDACTED.

[PissedOffCoastie]

133. That is the usual excuse...

...for the stolen valor phonies. "My records are classified", "there was a fire at the HQ and all my records were lost", "my ex-wife threw out all my stuff", "the dog ate my records", etc.

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/415197802/m/1860094613001/p/1

[Orrex]

135. THIS REPLY IS CLASSIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSIFIED CLASSIFICATIONS

[PissedOffCoastie]

140. ROTFLMAO!

[GGJohn]

137. Just for the record, I believe at this point in time, he's a phony,

but if he wants to clear it up, I'll be more than willing to listen to his explaination.

[Orrex]

139. That's a good point to make

I don't believe that anyone has asserted that his claim can't be true. They've simply pointed out that it is inconsistent and incompatible with information that has already been shown to be true.

[pintobean]

141. He'll have to start a new thread to do that

He's been locked out of this one.

[GGJohn]

143. Well, I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen. eom.

[pintobean]

363. Jury results on Ryan's hidden post (below)

if anyone cares.

On Sun Dec 28, 2014, 07:29 AM you sent an alert on the following post:

There's One Thing I WOULD Like To Thank The Troll For
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6012395

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

YOUR COMMENTS

A bunch of Coast Guard folks got wind of his bullshit story, and this 10 day member has the nerve to call THEM trolls. Please hide this personal attack and stop the lies and insults.

JURY RESULTS

A randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Sun Dec 28, 2014, 07:43 AM, and voted 4-3 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Stolen Valor Troll got caught!
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: nah
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: go back to your xbox
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Welcome back, Adam.

Thank you.

I hope I don't get called our for another copy and paste.

[juxtaposed]

212. your killing me

[SlimJimmy]

124. You were an Ensign in the Coast Guard, and this is how you write?

I don't think so.

[MADem]

255. Apparently, during the Reagan buildup of a Six Hundred Ship Navy, at a time when the USCG was

engaging in drug interdiction law enforcement actions with the USN, this guy couldn't manage to get promoted to j.g. in three years' time...

Anyone who knows anything about promotion flow knows full well that something stinks on ice right there.

Anyone who knows anything about promotion flow knows how long it takes to make 0-4, too (big hint--it's a lot faster than this guy's supposed career path). Further, this story doesn't take into consideration "up or out" constraints that have been part and parcel of uniformed life for, well, pretty much forever.

This is some kind of horrible, unfunny joke, or the product of a fevered and narcissistic imagination. This did not happen, and I think the whole charade of this thread has gone on for far too long--I'd urge people to withdraw their "recs" for this piece of junk, because that's what it is--absolute junk. To put it kindly.

[SlimJimmy]

422. You nailed this one. I couldn't agree more.

[PissedOffCoastie]

144. "Ryan" was not banking on...

...actual Coasties reading his "shooting a dripug smuggler" tripe, much the less realizing that his made up profile (even his claim to be an active duty LCDR with almost thirty years of service) could be easily verified as inconsistent with Coast Guard personnel management policies.

On the surface we all want to trust what an active duty service member claims, especially so a commissioned officer. Perhaps this is why "Ryan" knowing this, decided to take advantage of it when he created his phony persona. If he had claimed to be a Captain/O-6 or even a RDML, at least then his rank for an officer with that much time in the Coast Guard would have made some sense and he wouldn't have drawn so much attention.

[uppityperson]

146. did Darren Wilson show any remorse for his killing a teen? It seems all you Coasties are less

concerned with that question that you should be. So please tell us your thoughts on that.

[GGJohn]

148. Nope, he didn't,

which says to me that he has no soul.

[Rex]

149. None, zip, ziltch. He showed that he did not care about taking a life.

Despite all the thread hijacking, the point here is that Wilson did NOT show any signs of empathy toward his victim. Instead, he treated it like it was a route call. Just doing his job.

SO to all the apparently new people in this thread, let us get back to the subject at hand. Did Wilson show any remorse or not?

It will be interesting to see if the newbies reply to the subject or not.

[Calista241]

150. I think he said that to protect himself from liability.

By saying he could have done this differently or would have done that differently, he just opens himself up to a massive lawsuit.

According to reports, Wilson had never drawn his weapon before this incident. I still find it difficult to believe that he woke up that day and just decided "i'm gonna kill me a black dude today."

[heaven05]

153. you're right

wilsonthepig is a remorseless killer/murderer/executioner as are many who hide behind a badge or 'neighborhood watch' banner.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

160. Well, Ok, so what the thread is about according to the title.

Setting aside the first 60 or so post most of which are all about Ryan on the 22nd through to the 23rd. Dec. Than a pause in it ,picking back up again on the 26th according to date time on DU.

DU as you know has very cool knowledgeable people some of which are professionals such as attorney's and other such professions many of whom at times offer considerable insight into circumstances which come into happening through current events.

But not in the field of question here as to Darin Wilson's lack of remorse as seen on TV. Now, here I will take the leap and bring in the case of Susan Smith who did indeed appear to be a sociopath -a lier and terrible at passing those lies off over the television
air waves. That case is actually a case reference at that time unique because for the first time on national/international television
what was well known in the field of television journalism became clear to view to the average eye of the television audience.
You see,Susan Smith in her head as she spoke thought she was putting her fabricated story out there believably.Through her mouth she was saying one thing and her body language and facial features were speaking something entirely different.In fact even her words were laced with tell tale signs,red flags they call that in a specific field of profession.

If you have ever belonged to a drama club you would know exactly what I am getting at. Or even the glee club back at your old school.Actors you see are trained or taught to act in front of the camera,being photogenic isn't all there is to it.You see even an actor who is inexperienced acting in front of the camera,example, stage actor crossing over to the big screen or television ,can and will at times come across in the exact opposite of what and whatever it is they are attempting to portray in character.Therefore in order to make the crossover in what will or would seem to be a smooth transition ,there is a learning or relearning process involved.

Now, television journalist for a very long time have been completely aware of what the camera can and will show and in particular about truthfulness regarding he or she who is being interviewed. Investigative reporting in many cases is actually shared with police agencies before it is aired because of what can and sometimes does show in through the lens unbeknown
to he or she who has been interviewed. What comes out.

Well, given this surely you know Darin Wilson was prepped by his legal team and the topic here I am on has much to do with the preparation procedure,PR plan and all that legal stuff. You didn't detect any remorse because he was instructed and prepped not to show anything.Because anything you say through show can and may very well be used against you in a court of law.

Does that include the court of public opinion ?
I think not but in the case of Susan Smith,those of the public that saw her as she was seen on TV knew exactly what they saw and further came to know the law saw it too in just the same way. Again it is a unique case.A landmark case. But out of that the cat as they say is out of the bag or the secret about what the camera shows is no longer a secret.

Dare I say there is more to this than meets the eye ?
As far as pronouncing guilt or passing judgment ,that is for the courts to decide. As to Darin Wilson's condition-is he or isn't he a psychopath or sociopath -,to date I haven't seen anything in print by professionals in the field to support those allegations.

Which means I cannot say if he is or isn't. What I can say is a young life was lost and thats a tragedy . And having taken a life is something Darin Wilson will have to live with for the rest of his life.

Life as Darin Wilson knew it is over ,his career in law enforcement is over. But of course I cannot offer evidence to support that of an opinion.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

168. The "point" got lost in the "story."

Plus, don't get why it's ok for somebody locked out of a thread to drop back in the OP and editorialize.

[MrMickeysMom]

169. Well… before it become "off topic", I'll K&R what you intend with OP

As far as the trolls… they have introduced themselves well. See what motivates some people to join DU? I sure do.

[GGJohn]

174. So those of us that are questioning his bona fides because there seems to be

some compelling evidence that he's not who he says he is are trolls? Really?

[MrMickeysMom]

182. Excuse me for a second...

Have you confused me as someone who called you a troll? I'm sure I didn't do that. I see others have. I just think you have pretty bad logic and attack the OP to distract from any points of the thread.

I'm telling you, the logical fallacies here should be an example in a classroom.

[GGJohn]

186. I haven't distracted from anything, I already expressed my opinion

that, yes, Wilson has no soul for feeling no remorse.
I have a problem with someone possibly passing themselves off as a veteran military member with a story that now seems improbable, it's a slap at those of us that, you know, actually served.

[MrMickeysMom]

189. But, you don't know that at all… yet it really convinces you… weird...

You insist the OP isn't who they say they are, when in fact, what they are saying is the subject of remorse. You somehow keep insisting that this is the thread now.

I wondered before if you highjacked threads much. I've answered my own question on that.

[GGJohn]

191. I'm flabbergasted that you're attacking me only when I'm not the one that actually

started to question his story, why is that?
And if you read the links provided by true Coasties, there is some pretty compelling reasons to doubt he's who he says he is and that his story just doesn't pass the smell test.
Maybe you should read those links and then decide whether or not he's the real deal.

[MrMickeysMom]

192. GGJohn, you know I'm not saying anything wrong to you… just being honest...

If you don't like it, the ignore button is your thread.

Meanwhile, not highjacking threads is also a good idea, too.

[GGJohn]

193. You are under the impression that I hijacked the thread?

You're wrong, I'm not the one that initially questioned the credibility of his story, there were 3-4 others that were doing that before I joined in, why aren't you chastising them?

[MrMickeysMom]

195. This is getting silly...

Read for yourself. It's not all about you.

Bye, now…

[SlimJimmy]

424. No. The man was a "poser." That's all anyone really needs to know.

Stolen valor is not something to be taken lightly.

you have pretty bad logic and attack the OP to distract from any points of the thread.

[wildbilln864]

173. k & r ! n/t

[Hutzpa]

175. Unfortunately you started a shit storm

and knowing DU members, expressing killing another human being on here is going to rile people up regardless of what your intentions are because this place is against people who take advantage of the weak.

You will have to own this one, I hope Skinner leaves it so we can all learn from this.

[GGJohn]

179. That, and the fact that his story doesn't seem to jibe with the facts

presented by other Coast Guard service members.

[_Blue_]

181. Especially when its been proven that he lied about it.

He MADE UP a story about killing someone to make a point. That's pretty low.

[bravenak]

177. You are not handling this well.

It is not a good idea to try to make up your own rules here. If you posted a thread, and you want it gone, self delete it. Do not depend on admin to delete your threads.

If you posted something and people doubt your honesty, trying to get people banned or have admin lock it because you feel like you are being 'trolled' makes it seem like you have something to hide.
Either provide some proof or self delete. There should be no reason why you get special accommodations.

If you really are in Alaska, then you know this place is the smallest largest state. Something happens in Juneau, they hear about it in Talkeetna. So, if people stationed in Juneau have not heard of you, I can understand the doubt. I hear about shootings in the Bush, and i'm in Anchorage. Show 'em or fold 'em.

[cwydro]

210. Gotta agree.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

185. Pointing out the glaring inconsistencies of your story is not trolling.

[heaven05]

198. what you said is relevant

and timely. Do not let the people on here who are creating distraction from your salient point concerning, killing, human feelings associated with killing and the lack of remorse from the executioner, wilsonthepig. It's a tactic of a lot of people here use to create a controversy on one point in an OP to take the focus off a point that is conspicuously true and they disagree with. It's a fine art honed over many generations of denial of the ugliness that is this country perpetrates on minorities. Hang in there, it's typical behavior. I've been watching it since zimpig murdered Travon Martin. A LOT of people on here have supported wilsonthepig and zimpig. No need to delete methinks.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

352. He created a fantasy to manipulate the gullible.

What sort of sick soul fabricates fantasy stories of killing people -- and depicting them as people of color to boot -- in order to invoke a sense of moral superiority?

That is what is happening here. It's not about Wilson because anyone could have made note of Wilson's lack of remorse -- no need to make-up stories about, "because I once did the same thing." Plenty of people decry the unjustified use of force by the police and the toll it is taking on minority communities without ever having the need to have served in uniform, myself included.

The entire This-Is-What-I-Did line is extraneous and as such it is designed to do one thing and one thing only: Make the OP appear to be the moral superior. He can't say, "This is how a normal person would feel about killing because this is how I felt." because he never felt anything because he never killed anyone because he never served.

He's not a voice for justice, he's a self-serving fraud who uses BS stories about killing minorities to pump himself up.

[GGJohn]

355. +1000.

Myself and catnhatnh actually got a shout out over at Military.com for our comments here.

Thank you actual Coast Guard members for coming here and exposing this fraud.
Keep up the vital work of keeping our coastlines and boaters safe.

[juxtaposed]

364. and forums

[heaven05]

410. never said

I couldn't be gullible.....makes sense.

[GGJohn]

416. Meh!!!

It happens to all of us at one time or the other, however, you, unlike some others, are willing to admit it, that, in my eyes, makes you a stand up guy.
Have a great weekend.

[heaven05]

419. Hope the New Year

is a good one for you. This country? I don't think so. But miracles do happen. The 47% repub base wakes up, turns off fox snooze and want to start repairing, with the others who ARE thinking, what's wrong with this country and the world, really. Inequality of all types.

[BainsBane]

199. Some valid critiques of your story were presented

That is not trolling. What really convinced me of their argument was your responses, and your absurd idea that the admins are going to save you from embarrassment only further contributes to that impression.

[hrmjustin]

204. Skinner please do not delete this.

Let it stand! If the poster wants it gone he can self delete.

[Raine1967]

207. See my post #205

[hrmjustin]

208. i agree with you he won't lock it.

[Raine1967]

211. He won't, but as I stated, this is turning a bit disruptive.

Hosts (As you know) lock or leave based on the OP, and the OP alone.

OP's can change, the SOP does not.

[Raine1967]

205. Skinner most likely isn't going to do that. You should take a look at the GD SOP.

Unless you are violating the SOP of GD, the hosts are not going to either.

SOP for GD:

Statement of Purpose

Discuss politics, issues, and current events. Posts about Israel/Palestine, religion, guns, showbiz, or sports are restricted in this forum. Conspiracy theories and disruptive meta-discussion are forbidden. For more information, click here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=about&forum=1002

Also for more clarification: What can and cannot be posted in the General Discussion forum

In particular:

Threads complaining about Democratic Underground or its members; threads complaining about jury decisions, locked threads, suspensions, bannings, or the like; and threads intended to disrupt or negatively influence the normal workings of Democratic Underground and its community moderating system are not permitted.

That said, Disruptive Meta will get a lock for an OP (original Post). You might want to stop changing your original post. It's starting to look a little disruptive.

Just trying to help.

Raine.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

206. For posterity...

QUOTING OP...

QUOTE"Because, due to trollish behavior, it really has become off-topic. (You'll note that at least two of those accounts have been banned.) And one of the biggest mistakes President Obama has ever made, not that there have been a lot, was giving in to Ubertroll Donnie and releasing his long-form birth certificate, which then only led to further demands by Trump. So, if you're looking for documentation, no doubt followed by fingerprints, blood samples, semen samples, etc., you're shit outta luck. I stand by every statement I have made in this thread, and wish to thank everyone here who has supported me, and who actually don't believe that this website should emulate the NSA.


PS: If the thread remains unlocked tomorrow, I shall delete it myself.


In 1988, I killed a man of color in the process of enforcing American law. An ensign in the Coast Guard, we were doing drug interdiction mostly. Some of the smugglers would runs, but, once we had them cornered, once they saw that our guns were drawn, they surrendered. Except for one time.

It was a small boat from Panama. Two men, both Hispanic, on board. We intercepted, they stopped their vessel immediately, but then decided to fight. (To this day, I can't fathom why: The cocaine they were transporting had an '88 street value of less than $60,000: Chump change!)

My CO ordeed myself and another man to "show," which was his code for going to the side of our ship with weapons visible. In this one case, the smugglers opened fire, one man's bullet missing my head by more than a foot, whereupon I shot him twice in the chest. My CO did the same to the other smuggler. They both dies shortly thereafter.

Here's the thing: I felt remorse. I lost sleep for a couple of weeks, even though the brass investigated and, in the parlance of TV cop shows, deemed it "a clean shoot."

Eventually, I expressed this to my CO, whom I knew had killed twice before. To my surprise, he told me that he, too, had felt regret about the actions we had taken that day. He said to me, "Son, you're not SUPPOSED to feel good about it."

And this brings me back to my headline: Darren Wilson has expressed not one iota of sorrow over his killing of a young man who didn't even have a weapon! He says he has slept soundly, no regrets, the whole "if I had to do it again" bullshit.

To me, this is evidence of psycopathy., and I hope Mr. Wilson never again has a job in any sector of law enforcement, though I strongly suspect that such hope will be dashed, if it hasn't already." UNQUOTE

[hrmjustin]

209. Thanks.

[pinboy3niner]

222. Does the USCG have petards?

[cwydro]

231. Good one! nt

[Jesus Malverde]

225. Thanks! its too classic to lose...nt

[salin]

381. epic

almost, but not quite Oscar level epic.

[aikoaiko]

213. I urge you to self-delete right away. Skinner is not your lacky to be told what to do.

if you want this locked, you can hit the self-delete buttons.

If you want your OP to be visible, cut and paste it into a reply to yourself and then self-delete the OP. The words of your OP will remain as the last reply.

[cwydro]

214. Many spelling and grammatical errors in the OP too.

I know we all do that, but for an OP?

Surely, a person of his rank would proofread?

[DanTex]

215. Well, this sure went sideways.

I'm kinda wondering whether anything in the OP actually happened. A bunch of new users who seem to actually be from the CG sure don't think so. That military.com forum someone linked to looks to be crawling with right-wingers, but that doesn't automatically mean that the objections raised are invalid.

Maybe the OP decided to change some details in order to preserve anonymity. Like maybe it wasn't actually 1988, the boat wasn't from Panama, etc. Who knows.

The thing is, raising well-documented objections to the story of the OP isn't trolling. The tone of some of the objections might be troll-ish, but not all of them. The OPs decision to cut and run instead of defending the story doesn't do much for the credibility.

[Jesus Malverde]

216. Classic thread....

Jesus

[wendylaroux]

217. I know, right!

[Jesus Malverde]

218. Mega Lulz

[wendylaroux]

221. I feel like someone

has stolen MY valor.

[Jesus Malverde]

223. Don't miss the companion thread, posted upstream...

Those guys and gals are not mincing words and are pretty funny.

http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/415197802/m/1860094613001

[wendylaroux]

226. Thank you sir,

[DanTex]

219. Too bad the OP got locked out. What could have been...

[Warren DeMontague]

224. WE NEVER SHOULDA BOMBED THE MOON, I TELLS YA

[Renew Deal]

267. Coast Guard Fight!

[hobbit709]

220. So just delete the damned thing already.

[hexola]

227. The personal anecdote is not analogous with Wilson/Fergueson - and not needed to support...

...the assertions in your last two paragraphs.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

228. I Inherited a Mixed Animal From Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Living in Woods.

[pinboy3niner]

230. What a coincidence

The OP author has been nominated for an Oscar.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

240. In the documentary category, no doubt.

Don't forget, a lot of people didn't think the animal story was true either, until incontrovertible notarized and authenticated dna, genealogical, x-ray, and subcellular data was posted, not to mention a letter to the editor in Amateur Alt-Wildlife Manufacturing Science.

[Kali]

262. ...

this thread IS kind of classic-like, I may need to bookmark it

[myrna minx]

346. You, Sir, are the proud winner of the Internet.

[salin]

382. ultra epic!

[countryjake]

413. After finally reading thru this whole thread, I nominate your post...

as the best ever DUzy of 2014.

I smirked and chuckled as I made my way throughout the twists and turns of this classic DU saga, but I cannot begin to describe the laughter, no, the absolute hilarity which ensued when I came upon your comment.

I thank you for crowning this entire thing with the perfect DU-nostalgia. A Happy 2015 to you, A-Schwarzenegger!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

415. !

thanks, country, Happy '15 to you, too...

[benz380]

229. Was it the Good Ship Lollypop?

[Rex]

248. Looks more like it is now the Titanic.

Also, snapping your fingers at Skinner usually is a losing proposition. Who could have guessed that military.com was reading along? Probably now the poor fella feels like the USS Heartburn.



My kingdom for a tums.

[greatauntoftriplets]

253. Or the Minnow!

[pinboy3niner]

254. Ensign to LCDR on a 3-hour tour

Impressive!

[greatauntoftriplets]

256. Fast promotion...or something.

[Rex]

257. You think this will rank up there with 'bombing the moon'?

He had me roped in, drama, high seas - epic gun fighting - a hero emerges - then those party poopers from military.com got involved. Who are they again anyway? Is that a cosplay site? Why do I not see 'shiver me tempers' and 'poop deck' jokes in every thread? Does the military know about this?

Oh.

Did I tell you that in a former life I was Blackbeard? I shit you not. Some days I would dream of getting promoted to Head Scallywag.

[greatauntoftriplets]

259. It'll be up there with that one!

This thread is starting to remind me of Mutiny on the Bounty. But, we do need a good laugh now and then.

[MADem]

328. The Malkovich Blackbeard? Now THAT was an interesting character construct!!!

[Rex]

359. I read he was going to be Blackbeard and wondered how that turned out.

Guess who is going to be Blackbeard in the new Pan movie (yep, not Hook...Blackbeard, Hook is a good guy this time around) Hugh Jackman! I kid you not they are remaking Pan and Wolverine...er...Blackbeard is the villain.

That clip looks interesting, might have to check out Being Edward Teach!

[MADem]

380. I enjoyed the series--it was a summer replacement programme.

I found Malkovich's portrayal rather captivating, in a lizard-like way!

[zappaman]

232. This is now one of the all time great DU threads!

Thanks!

[helpmetohelpyou]

235. hehe

?w=584

[MADem]

236. One could easily fertilze twenty acres with this thing!

I'm astounded that anyone would buy what's on offer, here.

You don't have to be a military expert, or a careerist, or even have much if any connection with the Services to catch a whiff of that which is piled higher and deeper.

It's a shame, but this kind of nonsense doesn't do DU any favors.

I really hope the admins step in and take care of business.

[Jesus Malverde]

241. Interesting interactions at the top before this went off the rails.

Sometimes I get the feeling some posters are talking from their desktop to their phones with two different personas..

Strange really..

Mahalo,



Jesus

[MADem]

245. Nothing would surprise me and I would guess that you might well be right.

This is probably the biggest crock I've seen on this website in a long, long time.

It's a huge joke for some, I guess, but it's not nice to jerk people's chains over serious matters like police overreach and the unnecessary deaths of American citizens owing to the inability of these police to use measured responses instead of going first for the guns and choking and other types of violence. Making up military stories doesn't cut it. It's sick.

[hrmjustin]

238. We must be entertained!

[benz380]

237. I 'sea' you got 'loched' out for going overboard. Ship happens.

[X_Digger]

263. *groooooan* n/t

[lpbk2713]

239. Far out.

That's the ticket.

[JEB]

242. Darren Wilson should be Dick Cheney's cell mate.

[benz380]

244. Cool story, Gilligan. Tell Maryann she's hotter than Ginger. nt

[NoGOPZone]

249. That's not how you make a request to an admin

The correct phrasing is "Skinner, lock it right the fuck now".

I don't know why you'd want to do that anyway. This thread has everything. Intrigue, stalking, sockpuppets, trolls, wise ass remarks. That's pretty impressive drama for a topic started by someone with less than 150 posts.

[Katashi_itto]

260. I Smell BS. As a Navy vet. And reading the measured responses from the real coasties.

Last edited Mon Dec 29, 2014, 12:38 AM - Edit history (2)

All I can say is what a load of shit this story is.

[GGJohn]

261. And now you double down?

You should delete this train wreck yourself, because I don't think skinner is going to do it for you.
Gotta wonder why you're waiting for skinner when you can do it yourself.

[MADem]

270. Yeah, but before he deletes it--if he ever does (if I were him I'd head for the exit and keep going)

it really should be saved for posterity, just so anyone coming across the post in the archives will understand the context. This is the original post:

Original version with no edits.
0. Darren Wilson's Lack of Remorse
In 1988, I killed a man of color in the process of enforcing American law. An ensign in the Coast Guard, we were doing drug interdiction mostly. Some of the smugglers would runs, but, once we had them cornered, once they saw that our guns were drawn, they surrendered. Except for one time.

It was a small boat from Panama. Two men, both Hispanic, on board. We intercepted, they stopped their vessel immediately, but then decided to fight. (To this day, I can't fathom why: The cocaine they were transporting had an '88 street value of less than $60,000: Chump change!)

My CO ordeed myself and another man to "show," which was his code for going to the side of our ship with weapons visible. In this one case, the smugglers opened fire, one man's bullet missing my head by more than a foot, whereupon I shot him twice in the chest. My CO did the same to the other smuggler. They both dies shortly thereafter.

Here's the thing: I felt remorse. I lost sleep for a couple of weeks, even though the brass investigated and, in the parlance of TV cop shows, deemed it "a clean shoot."

Eventually, I expressed this to my CO, whom I knew had killed twice before. To my surprise, he told me that he, too, had felt regret about the actions we had taken that day. He said to me, "Son, you're not SUPPOSED to feel good about it."

And this brings me back to my headline: Darren Wilson has expressed not one iota of sorrow over his killing of a young man who didn't even have a weapon! He says he has slept soundly, no regrets, the whole "if I had to do it again" bullshit.

To me, this is evidence of psycopathy., and I hope Mr. Wilson never again has a job in any sector of law enforcement, though I strongly suspect that such hope will be dashed, if it hasn't already.

For the life of me I don't understand why someone would use a national tragedy like the homicide of Michael Brown at the hands of Police Officer Wilson as a backdrop for a great big honking work of bad fiction like this OP.

I'm astounded, too, how many people just bought this little tale and then got angry with other people who simply tried to point out the glaring, obvious, HONKING discrepancies in this little fantasy.

[GGJohn]

274. I fell for it at first also,

but I began to have doubts when he didn't even know that the CG had been deployed to Iraq, something that someone of his alleged rank should have been very familiar with.

[MADem]

276. Three years as an ensign was what first raised the stink flag with me.

During Reagan's build-up, ensigns (and 2nd LTs in other branches) were being frocked to j.g. with 14 months in, so eager were they to fill expanding billet requirements. And even an incompetent git got promoted at the two year mark.

Then, the whole 30 year career BS...I mean, come on--it's up-or-out and it has been for a long, long time. Even assuming that he got three looks at every promotion point (and those three looks swiftly degraded to two, and it was a rare soul who made it past that first failed look) he still would have been long past his sell-by date. You can take every scenario and apply some "special snowflake" reasoning to stretch the possibilities six ways to Sunday, and you still come up with something that doesn't pass a smell test. I mean, peeeeeeee-yew! It's just not believable.

The guy probably thought that since there were fewer people who served in the Coast Guard, that they'd be less likely to come after him if he started telling stories. I guess he thought wrong, because apparently there are enough, if not a large number.

I have to wonder if he ever tried this with an Army backstory, and didn't have the facts to back up the tales? Those Army folks are quite vigilant about those who claim service and experience that they haven't earned--and they waste no time taking care of business, either....!

[GGJohn]

277. Navy?

[MADem]

278. Me? Yes.

Edit: Retired, mind you, and no, I wasn't John Wayne starring in In Harm's Way, either. I just did my job!

If that guy was an ensign in 1985, assuming he were still on acdu, he'd be a senior flag officer by now. And, assuming he were a senior flag, he'd be way too busy to post on message boards--even during the holiday lull! The lucky ones work twelve hour days--ten when they're ostensibly on leave!

[GGJohn]

279. I thought you were,

you're very knowledgeable of the Naval service.
Thanks for the great info and double thanks for your service.

[Jesus Malverde]

285. He's good...

The funniest part of the thread and soo obvious

Thank You, Sir!

Do you post to other websites? I've read a couple of your posts here (very good, by the way), but I seem to recall seeing the name William (or Will, maybe) Pitt in other places on the net.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025993534#post55

[MADem]

291. It is funny as hell...

Suck Up, Move Up might work in some corners of the fleet, but it won't earn you any respect in the wardroom--or the chief's mess, for that matter!

This guy didn't do even any basic homework, or maybe he wanted to see what he could get away with. Or maybe he just wasn't too focused on the details. I suppose when one gets one's at-sea gouge from resources like this, one can put a foot wrong on occasion!

Ahhh, Quentin McHale -- probably one of the best recruiters for the sea services that ever trod the decks of gray-painted vessels in the Universal Studios back lot!!! Actually, he got more right than this guy did!

[cwydro]

338. When you called him on it

and he used the "mass quantities of beer" excuse...that's when I was pretty sure he was a fake.

But something seemed off from the beginning. To humblebrag about killing someone?

[NuclearDem]

264. Well, that went well.

[1step]

271. rec withdrawn

[Iggo]

283. Train Rec!!!

[BainsBane]

284. More like a shipwreck

[Iggo]

286. Excellent point.

Ship Rec!!!

[uppityperson]

287. "My new avatar is for all you fucking trolls, NOT the folks who've supported me"? You edited to add

that? Unrec and I am withdrawing any support for your gaming the du system by continuing to edit your OP after getting a post hidden.

[cyberswede]

288. I agree...

and I think the OP could be locked as disruptive meta, after this particular edit (and probably the prior edit). Too late to alert for SoP violation, though.

[uppityperson]

289. Naw, it should go to jury but too late for that. Let it stand and see what he does next.

The OP seems within SOP of Gd, but hidable by jury except wow, it's nearly a wk old?

[cyberswede]

293. LOL - check out his avatar now.

I'd post a screenshot, but I'd probably get a hide.

[uppityperson]

307. I had to go to his profile page to see it. Good god.

Juvenile or what?

[cyberswede]

308. Or wishful thinking...

[uppityperson]

309. I was wondering if this was a frequent flyer,

[greatauntoftriplets]

367. Yes, it was.

[uppityperson]

370. I didn't want to mention any names, but seemed apparent once he got going.

[greatauntoftriplets]

371. Yeah, I won't mention the name either.

Don't want to give him that much notoriety. I did realize last night after I went offline that no one with a career in the Coast Guard will be a LCDR after nearly 30 years in the service! So that didn't fit. If he's ever been on a ship, it likely looks like this ==>

[uppityperson]

373. I try to give the benefit of the doubt at first, looked at the op as legitimate but there is

no need to add lies like he did. Good job at catching him out and sorry for my gullibility.

Thanks EarlG for banning him and it is fun the thread is still open

[greatauntoftriplets]

374. A lot of members bought his story!

I probably would have, except that another MIRT member had already raised suspicions -- and correctly so.

I didn't post in the thread until last evening, then figured what the heck since the game was up by then. I'm happy the thread is still open, too.

[GGJohn]

378. I bought it at first also, until he didn't seem to know that the CG had been

deployed to Iraq, something he should've known, and he didn't seem to respond to the term Puddle Pirate \, which EVERY Coastie knows.
Oh well, some of us got snookered, but at least he was outed and EarlG took care of it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

379. The Iraq thing was a big mistake on his part.

It was interesting!

[cyberswede]

375. I called it last Thursday

...in Hosts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1243&pid=109629

[greatauntoftriplets]

376. You were correct!

[cwydro]

290. "Stone cold MILF?"

Really?

[pinboy3niner]

330. She's a regular...

...Olive Oyl.

[cwydro]

339. Bwahaha!

[Iggo]

377. "Literally."

The woman is actually as cold as a stone, I guess.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

292. Suicide by avatar...

[XemaSab]

294. You realized that he wasn't technically "all in?"

[A-Schwarzenegger]

295. sorry, i edited my "this guy's all in now"...

Guess he's taking the easy way out by making his tombstoning inevitable, so he doesnt have to splain his un-splainables...

[Jesus Malverde]

298. lulz

[demmiblue]

296. A little while ago it was a drawing of a man flipping the bird... now it is a real penis!

Damn, he sure is all in.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

297. Can't MIRT can a troll in special circumstances...

without prejudice...

[demmiblue]

301. I would think so, but I really don't know.

[herding cats]

302. The admin will still have to delete the avatar.

I don't think the volunteers here are given that kind of power.

[uppityperson]

305. only with a 7-0 hide.

[salin]

384. and now...

swastika. Didn't know one could go even further than all in?!

[herding cats]

299. It's a DU first for me.

I wonder if it's been done before and I just missed it?

How bizarre.

[LeftyMom]

300. Oh great, another dick on the internet.

All these many years society's kept it as pure as the driven snow and now you go and cock it up. Well, you've certainly shown us.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

303. Do not go genital into that good night...

[MADem]

326. Heh heh heh!

I love the way DUers can turn trollish trash into comedy treasure!

[pinboy3niner]

329. DUzy!

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

304. How they love to taunt

and isn't that evidence of psycopathy ,It is,isn't it ?

[R B Garr]

306. Well, I shot a man in Reno...

...just to watch him nevermind.

I wonder how long it takes to crop an avatar picture like that to get it nevermind.

[ucrdem]

310. Put your gland in the hand of the man who shot a POC on the interweb . . .

p.s. this place really goes to hell on the holidays. And yes, the reply title is meant to be sarcasm.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

311. "Yes, Ryan, we see, you finally got your own boat."

[uppityperson]

314. and.... back to a penis. he doesn't know if he's coming or going. oops, swastika now

[A-Schwarzenegger]

315. He's doing the avatar-equivalent of the Black Knight's "Tis but a scratch."

He's flagged, by the way.

[MADem]

316. Not to be a Schultz, but "I see Naaaaa-think!!!" Was he putting up penis and swastika avatars?

Is that what this edit to his OP was about?

My new avatar is for all you fucking trolls, NOT the folks who've supported me!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

317. Yes. He's now transparentized.

I assume the last couple hides were for the PSAs (penis-swastika avatars).... Anybody got any jury results?

[uppityperson]

320. his transparency page shows the results. I got to be on a jury, 6-1

for the avatar bs. He is a frequent visitor to du, IMO. He also did female genitals, what a sweetie

[MADem]

322. He's just flagged for review at this stage....

There's a swastika frozen on his profile page.

What a charmer! I'm sure the Coast Guard of his imagination is just so proud to have him onboard....

[BainsBane]

368. Jury results here

I was on one of those juries:

On Mon Dec 29, 2014, 02:02 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Croatia presidency to be decided in runoff
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014975327

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Please hide for the penis avatar. If it still looks like snoopy, go to his profile page as sometimes cache will show an older avatar and profile shows the current one.

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Dec 29, 2014, 02:13 AM, and the Jury voted 6-1 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Good alert. The guy is off his rocker.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Yeah, the avatar needs to go.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: A penis avatar, good lord, calling MIRT asap!!
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: The post seems okay, although some are still fixated on the last few, which may explain the avatar, but yeah, that's not a copacetic avatar to me. YMMV
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: This is the member who made up the story about being in the Coast Guard. That casts a bad light on DU and is insulting to the membership here. Plus the penis avatar is OTT. I hope the site owners take a careful look at this one.

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[uppityperson]

319. yup, started flipping the bird and proceeded on. Go to his profile page and

you can see it there (that hint was in the jury notice I got)

[MADem]

321. Sweet Honey in the Rock! DAY-um!!!!

I guess no one ever told him, in his three decades of service and three long years as an ensign, about not bringing dishonor upon yourself or your branch of service? And this guy is flying the Nazi flag ... and then some?

Well, I guess he disrupted poorly! I kinda figured the Coast Guard had higher standards, but now we pretty much know!

[hexola]

323. It WAS Cleveland Barons - Hockey Team

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Barons_%28NHL%29

[MADem]

325. Gee, genitals and a swastika are a long way from an old NHL team!!

One of these things is not like the others, see if you can guess which one...

[Rex]

318. Gee, nothing like using a swastika as your avatar to garner sincere discussion!

I wonder if Admiral Ackbar has anything to say on this subject?

[hexola]

327. Its like a cat playing with a dead mouse at this point.

[Phentex]

331. at this point, yes. But it was an interesting experiment while it lasted.

It will probably be locked.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

332. buh bye captain

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=319587&sub=trans

[pinboy3niner]

333. Thanks, EarlG

[pinboy3niner]

334. It was only a matter of time

The croc was ticking...

[A-Schwarzenegger]

335. We were hooked.

[pinboy3niner]

336. By Bud None-the-Wiser?

His first mistake was starting off in Never Never Land.

[Rex]

383. Oh wow, there should be points given by some committee somewhere for that

er...accomplishment!

This boats for you!

You are the King of Beer-boats!

[XemaSab]

356. Godspeed!

n/t

[LAGC]

399. I wonder how much he paid for that star?

[hrmjustin]

340. Thanks EarlG and Kudos to those who figured out that this didn't add up. n/t.

[MrScorpio]

341. Oh well

[PissedOffCoastie]

342. You

...are apparently missing a few.

[pinboy3niner]

343. Don't you mean "We got your stern"?

I think that's how Coasties like Ryan would put it. I know you were AF and I was Army, but we should defer to Ryan's massive CG experience here.

And you may need to edit to add the sarcasm tag.

[PissedOffCoastie]

344. LOL!

[Capt. Obvious]

345. This

[pinboy3niner]

347. I'll see your dinosaur flying a fighter jet

And raise you Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch.

[Capt. Obvious]

348. Ensign Jesus commands his own hitch

[pinboy3niner]

351. I'll defer to Ensign Jesus only...

...because he had 3 years experience as an Ensign, so he must have been damn good at it.

In my Army days, if I didn't make 1st LT after a year I'd have been booted out.

[pintobean]

354. He only did one hitch

yet, he's a lifer.

[Brickbat]

396. GET. OUT.

[Rex]

386. That would be supreme fleet admiral Jesus by now.

One huge 'time in grade' promotion.

[marle35]

358. Some threads are trainwrecks...

Some threads are T-Rex piloted F-14s going down in flames.

[MADem]

387. Dino needs a hat...how about a dixie cup?

[lpbk2713]

349. Ah but the strawberries ... That's where he had us.

[pinboy3niner]

350. My war stories get better every year, too

But that's only in my head. I'd never tell somebody that or post it publicly with no fantasy disclaimer.

[Rex]

360. This one time, I was totally surrounded by ET cyborg dinosaurs...at band camp.

Thankfully I had a plasma rifle with a full clip. Got promoted to World Leader for Life, but turned it down to go paragliding on Mars with a few good friends (Elvis and Bigfoot). Just so happens we arrived in the middle of a Martian civil war...which we brokered a peace between the two and I was promoted to Solar System Leader for Life, but turned it down to go surfing the seas on Neptune with Snoopy and the god Odin.

True story.

[tenderfoot]

361. Good riddance Mr. Fitzdouchebag.

[lpbk2713]

366. Gone ... gone ... gone.

[SidDithers]

369. The only thing that would make this thread better would be expert input from a first responder...

who has been in the shit, when the bullets were flying.

Sid

[CreekDog]

372. So you asked Skinner to lock this thread?

How did that turn out?

[salin]

385. wow.

I missed the genesis of this event. And the middle. Glad I didn't miss the finale. Classic.

[PissedOffCoastie]

388. So how the hell...

...did "Ryan" manage to manipulate the system to get a hate symbol as his avatar. Seems beyond the capability of the average user. Is it possible he was a sock puppet account created from a previously banned member?

[BainsBane]

389. Anyone can upload their own avatar

I think. Mine isn't a DU avatar. I resized the picture to use it as an avatar and then uploaded it.

[PissedOffCoastie]

394. Copy

Didn't realize we could upload our own.

[pinboy3niner]

397. Once you size it properly, you can upload any image as your avatar under 'My Account' nt

[Atman]

391. We tried to completely ban him.

Once you're beyond 100 posts not ever MIRT can delete your threads. He's been pizza'd, but sadly the thread lives on merely because of his previous post count.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

390. I see his new avatar -it shows on post reply

Ryan Fitzomething the comic book cowboy's tales from the tides has found it's way to an end . Crafty character he seemed ,able to leap over the user base drawing members into the tale like an airborne pied piper armed with a worthy cause.This cause worthy as it be created the blind spot in the reader thus enabling the comic book cowboy both the way and the means to gain literary command. But little did he know his wings were wax. Those wings are no more because and of course he flew too close to the sun.

And so he took a nose dive. And all the way down he swore and cursed at all of those who doubted him ,those who refused
entrance into Ryan's comic book kingdom .It could have seemed his heart was in the right place ,seeming that way to some but not all. But the key Ryan used to gain entry is deception -lies and deceit. Trickery .And isn't that the problem to begin with ? Certainly the way to get to the truth cannot be through lies deceit and trickery.

We see where this particular tale ends, but where does it originate ,where does it begin ? What is a sock puppet ?

Lies,deceit and trickery. There is no end in sight.

One thing Ryan did come to know ,and that is it is not so hard to see through trickery like it says in song, with a little help from my friends.

Ryan tried to divide in a command way in order to conquer and he failed than crashed and burned.Leaving only one question,where does it begin.

[Oilwellian]

392. This has to be one of the more spectacular crash and burns

I've ever witnessed on DU. Life is so much easier if you're honest.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

395. Stories from the sea 1000 years

[uppityperson]

400. hey, hi, happy new year to you and yours. good to see you. nt

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

401. Hello there unpityperson and happy new year to you and yours too !

<a href="http://photobucket.com/images/happy%20year" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt="happy year photo: Happy New Year Blingee HappyNewYearBlingee.gif"/></a>

[Jamastiene]

398. Your intentions might have been good, but it is a disgrace if it turns out to be true

that you are lying about serving. It is an insult to those who really served.

Take a look in a VA hospital sometime. Once you have seen veterans hobbling, limping, rolling as best they can in a wheelchair, limbs missing, some with half their skulls missing, shrapnel wounds, and the PTSD that so many have, and numerous other horrendous scars, both internal and external, you might get an idea of why lying is not a good thing to do, if that is what you did here. The word sacrifice doesn't even begin to describe the true price vets have paid.

[Throd]

402. Testament is way better than Metallica.

[Iggo]

403. Well, they are now, anyway.

[Capt. Obvious]

404. We can't let this thread drop

[Rex]

405. So how long did you serve, before getting your own boat?

Me, I said HELL NO! I don't want a boat! I want a ship! The boat doesn't even have room for my ice cooler! Barbarism! I requested a mega yacht with 6 batteries of Hellfire rockets, two refrigerators full of Zima. 3 attack dogs. And a hot tub.

[Capt. Obvious]

406. I'll tell you about my ferry

Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

[Rex]

407. Ah yeas, the Great War of 2933. I remember it well.

It's where I got my current, old war wound. Funny story, I had an even older war wound (got dinged up in the GMO Rice Uprising) in that exact spot! McDonalds tried to give me the famous Medal of Rice after that one, but I turned it down for cash money instead. Payday loans can be hell if you're late on a few payment.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

408. Lie Detection

?list=PLBED3E42BA0C97661

[Common Sense Party]

409. Well, that escalated quickly.

BS usually starts to stink right away.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

417. Can we stop posting to this thread now?!

Just kidding.

I Have Asked Walt Starr to Keep This Thread Open as "Official DU Classic".

[pinboy3niner]

418. OK (nt)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2507034

[Gormy Cuss]

420. It's like kudzu. It's going places.

Since the OP is PPRed and admin doesn't lock threads this could be the new "thread that never dies."

[B Calm]

421. Hiding this thread! Anybody want to join me?

[pinboy3niner]

423. Are you kidding? This thread is now a DU classic!

Somebody just kicked it again and I had to do a bit of scrolling to find the new post.