Bringing dishonor to the Regiment, lying about his creds and embellishing the truth for personal gain.
I'll even go further after looking at the FOIA info sheets. I'll summarize his USMC time.
(1) June - Sep '82: Boot camp.
(2) Oct '82: Went to FR out of boot camp.
(3) Feb '83: ARS.
(4) Oct '83: Key West dive school - fail.
(5) April '84: Transfer to 3rd Recon Bn H&S Co
(6) June '84: Pearl Harbor dive school - pass.
Couple of points about FR at this time:
(1) While Battalion Recon was recruiting straight out of ITS (Infantry Training School), FR was getting away from this due to lack of talent and experience in the selectee's. They still had a few folks, though, that did well straight out of ITS.
(2) He is an 0321 while at FR. NOT 8654 or 8653.
(3) He failed the Key West dive school. A tough school. Nonetheless, I'm surprised he was still with the Co. Failure is usually a transfer to somewhere else.
(4) Oh, wait... he gets transferred to 3rd Recon Bn, H&S Co. in April '84. That's about a year and a half at FR?
Joe, answer me these:
(1) Which platoon were you with?
(2) What was your team role?
(3) Why'd you get transferred?
For the folks who may be curious about why I am so incensed by this, I defended Joe in another forum when others questioned his past. He stated that he was FR and I took him at his word. I assumed he was in a team and plt and did the shit that I expected. After all, if folks tell me they were in FR, I just assume that they are telling the truth and did the deed. Because that is what FR Marines do.
Well, Joe, what's your answer?
