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A “Veteran” Peace Protester - And His Medals

We have had occasion to mention Iraq Veterans Against War anti-war agitator and Cindy Sheehan companion Geoffrey Millard several times before.

We have also had occasion to wonder about his claims as an Iraq war hero. The last time we mentioned our doubts, he expunged his rather dramatic war bio from the internet.

But it would seem that he or someone close to him has posted a video of one of his rants (from the ongoing "Camp Democracy") at YouTube:

What really demoralizes the Troops

YouTube caption: Geoffrey Millard, an Iraqi War veteran, speaks on what really demoralizes troops.

I am no military expert, but to my eye and given his past suspicious claims, I find the number of medals to be somewhat questionable.

Perhaps I'm being overly suspicious. But so many of these "veteran" peace protesters to turn to have grossly inflated their military records, if they have even served at all. Such as Ward Reilly, Jesse MacBeth, and the IVAW’s Jimmy Massey — just to name a few.

(Thanks to JLO for the heads up.)

Update!

Here is a clearer photo of Mr. Millard and his medals:

(Also courtesy of JLO.)

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This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Thursday, September 14th, 2006 at 8:12 pm. You can leave a response.

62 Responses to “A “Veteran” Peace Protester - And His Medals”

fluffy
September 14th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
General Omar Bradley: George, I think if you were named Admiral of the Turkish navy, your aides could dip into their haversacks and come up with the appropriate badges of rank.

Let’s see, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, that’s all I can make out. He does look more like a politburo member than a soldier who did a single tour.
1sttofight
September 14th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
The I am a pussy medal stands out more the the rest of false medals to me.
rocketman
September 14th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Fluffy - Top left as we look at the photo = Purple Heart.
A single tour??? This guy did better than J F’n Kerry. Remember the famous photo of him in Congress.
fluffy
September 14th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
rocketman:

I thought it was a Purple Heart, but wasn’t 100% sure. The one underneath it looks pretty familiar.

Where is Rmy-Mac?
rocketman
September 14th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
“The one underneath it looks pretty familiar.
Can’t tell from here. My eyes arent what they used to be :)- Hell, I was discharged 40 yrs ago last June. I’ll let 1st, SJ, and WI do the long range shootin - I’ll just sit here and play my tinkle drum
fluffy
September 14th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
That one just hit me between the eyes. June was 20 years for me. Pardon me, I have to go out and buy a red convertable.
rocketman
September 14th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Fluff - You’re puttin me on, The day I got out I bought a RED Chevy Corvair :) I was the talk of Schofield for a long time
fluffy
September 14th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
I was alluding to my mid-life crisis, actually. Corsairs are hard to find these days.
robinboyd
September 14th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
This guy is such a loser and a disgusting POS. His “articles” are frequently featured on the anti-American, anti-US military site “GI Special” over at Al-Basrah.net. Millard is Cindy’s boy-toy and a Code Pinko.

Smash over at the Indepundit had an encounter with Millard. One of the commenters has a list of the medals from one of the pics.
http://www.indepundit.com/arch.....nchti.html

I’ve got lots of links on this fool.
sheehanjihad
September 14th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
My POS monitor wont let me see squat…but to me, this little asshole seems to have quite a bit of metal for a single tour…..but I did make out that ” I am a pussy” medal that 1st alluded to. I think the last one in the bottom row on his left is the ” my ass is the stage door entrance” medal for copious intake of foreign objects. The depleted uranium scam is great. The only thing depleted on this coward is his intelligence. Freakin ass pirate.
SG
September 14th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
From a JohnX post on a earlier thread:

The AP Uses CodePink As A Photo Source | Sweetness & Light
http://www.sweetness-light.com.....oto-source

Yesterday Geoffrey Millard was listed as the Vice President of Buffalo Veterans for Peace with this bio:
google cache

SGT Geoffrey Millard

Born in Buffalo NY on December 18, 1980
Graduated high school at 17 years of age and enlisted in the New York Army National Guard, 1998
Trained as a Combat Engineer (12B) at FT Leonard wood Missouri

Returned to Lockport Army National Guard unit, 1999
Activated for 13 months of Deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2004-5
Received 3 meritorious Service Medals, 1 Army commendation medal, 3 Army Achievement Medals, 3 Reserve Component Army Achievement Medals, the Global War on terrorism Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, and the Defense of Liberty Medal (with WTC device)
Returning to complete BA in African-American Studies in fall, 2006

Today on the same site:

Vice President
Temporarily Vacant
SG
September 14th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Someone still on active duty has emailed the following:

Meritorious Service Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Achievement Medal || Army Good Conduct Medal, Reserve Components Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, OIF Iraq Medal (not on that list, new medal) || GWOT, Army Service Ribbon, and two other obscured medals. The point is, you get ONE medal per deployment, so there’s no way this guy could score all that gold in one trip. However, he could put anything he wants to on that uniform: as long as he’s not in a REAL uniform, he can medal himself up as much as he wants. He can be a PX Ranger as long as he wants as long as he doesn’t use that picture for promotion.
sheehanjihad
September 14th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
the Global War on terrorism Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, and the Defense of Liberty Medal (with WTC device)

Those medals should be revoked, melted down, and poured into his ears with a funnel.
navycopjoe
September 14th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Oh my god!! I feel a serious rant coming!! Let me go home home and do it, this is a MILITARY COMPUTER. Oh god, oh god……………
rakkasan
September 14th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
You know, chances are he probably could earn all of those medals. Of course, we will scrutinize his medals if we get a clear shot. Looks like others are digging into it right now and proving he is a “PX Ranger” (have not heard that term in forever!). But, to be honest, after 4+ years active duty infantry I looked a bit like a Third-World dictator minus the oversized mirror sunglasses. I imagine it is even worse now. During the first Gulf War, my buddy joked that the Army filled a swimming pool up with medals (minus the backings) and a soldier jumped into it, and whatever stuck he got to keep. There are people who have questioned, for a very long time, the purpose of giving so many medals out for (quite frankly) very little reason.

There is even a Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal. I shit thee not.
http://www.gruntsmilitary.com/ovsm.shtml
Of course, created during the Clinton era, but shows how ripe the system has become.
Actually, it has always been ripe, but just less so….

None of this changes the fact that Geoffrey Millard is a shill for a snag. We don’t need a high-resolution photo to see that. He is just a fucked up, ate up, POS soldier. George Washington had lots of people like him in his army, too.
DEZ
September 14th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
Yup he has earned more medals than Patton.
And I have a 4 foot pecker.
Funny as hell to see the damn thing walk.
buzzhead
September 14th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
You are correct SG, His highest awards are, in descending order:

Army Commendation Medal (ARCOM)
Meritorious Service Medal (MSM)
Army Achievement Medal (AAM)
Good Conduct Medal (GCM, All you have to do for this one is keep your nose clean for 3 years)

None of these are awarded for valor or bravery, just doing a good job.

I won’t count the rest of them, they are awarded for being assigned to the right unit at the right time, not for any personal actions that the individual performs. I was even awarded the National Defense Service Medal for the Gulf War and I spent the duration of that in the 6th Infantry Division (Arctic Light) at Ft Richardson Alaska.

I had to go look at my old awards to be sure, but I have as much as he does (minus the ARCOM) and I never served in a combat zone. Somehow I was always where the action wasn’t.
wirenut
September 15th, 2006 at 12:20 am
buzzhead… To me it dosn’t matter if you saw action or not.YOU sighned up and wore the uniform! The worlds events dictated whether you saw action or not.Thank you and all others who have put your lives on hold and at any giving time at great risk for so many others.We are so proud and thankful of the ones who did and will do right.
spelunker
September 15th, 2006 at 7:15 am
rakkasan,
that is it, the khaddafi look…..all that is missing is the over-size shades…couldn’t put my finger on it before, just some vague nuance of familiarity. Naww., khaddafi always had a security contigent of babes. Millard and the Snagettes?? don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing….just bling won’t cut it.
sheehanjihad
September 15th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Miller aint a killer, he is just a butthole filler
Miller wears the medals, but it’s just bullshit he pedals
Miller aint no stranger, to the old term “PX Ranger”
His service as a trooper, was spent toothbrushin poopers

He cant get or hold a job, he’s just a worthless slob
and also let me mention, he does this for attention
he disrespects our flag, by shilling for the snag
He does the things he does, to be the soldier he never was
CKO1986
September 15th, 2006 at 9:23 am
PX Ranger?
Nimblicity
September 15th, 2006 at 10:09 am
Venturing a civvie guess:
Military : Civilian
PX Ranger : Drugstore Cowboy?
buzzhead
September 15th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Nimblicity,

You hit the nail on the head. An expanded explanation is that a PX Ranger is a person that thinks that simply buying the medals is the same as having them awarded. They think that they should then receive the honor and respect that real awardees get.

I suppose that we could include J.F. Kerry in this category. He did not buy the medals, but it certainly appears that he took steps on his own to ensure that he would be awarded medals that were not entirely deserved.

I look at the same that I do when a sales clerk accidentally gives me too much change, it is not mine, I did not earn it, I do not want it. I have surprised more clerks this way than you could believe. Mama brought buzzhead up to be honest.
dhimminever
September 15th, 2006 at 10:35 am
I blame the instructor at the KD range for continuing to remind this astute soldier, “No, no, no…the skinny end of the weapon is pointed downrange.”
Retired_Chief
September 15th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I can’t really tell: Is the medal in top row on the left the same medal as the one in the second row on the left?

I’m as familiar with Army medals as I am with Navy medals…
spelunker
September 15th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Retired_Chief,
Who cares, they are probably minting their own now.
johnx
September 15th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Geoffrey was arrested(again)for leaving pamphlets about depleted uranium in the Pentagon’s chapel.

Four of them, three IVAW guys, Steve Mortillo, Joe Hatcher, and Toby Hartbarger, and Gregory Watson, a friend, still had the pamphlets and were arrested.

Geoffrey Millard had been doing an interview, and so was held up. When he caught up and saw that his friends were being arrested, he went up to the cops and told them he was the one who had done it.

All five were held in a police station on the Pentagon grounds and were charged with violating a lawful order and illegally posting materials - both federal misdemeanors. All 5 have now been released, but they missed Ray McGovern’s and Karen Kwiatkowski’s speeches at Camp Democracy.

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/20.....-pentagon/
spelunker
September 15th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
well, hate to say it, but the fact that he ‘fessed up and tried to shoulder the entire blame has some merit, at least to me.
1sttofight
September 15th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
Here you go, get them while they are hot and impress all your liberal buddies, No experience required.

http://search.ebay.com/militar.....turnedZ300
MicheleR
September 15th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
The Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) is higher than the Army Commendation Medal (ARCOM). The Army Achievement Medal (AAM) is third. He is wearing those three medals on top, in the correct order. The MSM, by the way, is the peace-time equivalent of the Bronze Star (both can be awarded for combat).

I HIGHLY doubt he has earned 3 MSM’s (the dark pink one on the left as you look at the picture. I’ve been in the Army for 12 years and I have two, and I didn’t earn my first until I had eight years of service, so I question that.

The medal behind the MSM looks like the Army Good Conduct Medal, which is also legit. The Reserve and Nat’l Guard also have their own ribbons that active duty don’t wear, so while this guy may have actually earned 11 medals (you can get three or so just for going to Iraq), it is certainly questionable.

SG, you say he can ‘medal himself up as much as he wants’…not true. It is a federal offense to wear or claim military rank, medals, etc you did not earn. I agree that if he’s wearing a Desert cammie shirt over civilian clothes, no one will say much, but if he is claiming to have earned medals and didn’t, that’s a big no-no (the three MSM’s). There’s lots of Veteran Poser watch dogs out there to prevent just that kind of stuff. I take it very serious, it is, like the book, Stolen Valor.
spelunker
September 15th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
MicheleR,
Got that book right here on the table. Salute to you for your service. Can’t claim the honor though many, many relatives can, or did, may the r.i.p.
Women in service command my especial respect as they have to endure much flak from their own in additon to the “enemy”. Salute. You, and those like you, have earned a place of distinction for women in the military.
buzzhead
September 15th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
MicheleR,

Yes, I see that you are correct. I mixed up the order of the medals in my post last night. MSM, ARCOM, AAM, GCM. At this point in time I have been out (14 years) longer than I was in (12 years) and sort of forgot which was which, sorry.
MicheleR
September 15th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Spelunker, thanks for your words, I appreciate it. The Army finally got me close to the fight, I’m here in Kuwait. It’s a good feeling to know that what I do here in relative safety is helping those young Soldiers face danger every day. Hooah!
Warmonger Infidel
September 15th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
FYI to everyone: The Purple Heart Medal is actually shaped like a heart with a purple color, gold rim and a metal depection of George Washington in the center. It’s very hard to make anything else look like it due to it’s shape.

Here’s a good link to info on it.

http://www.amervets.com/replacement/ph.htm#prp
zoomie
September 15th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
What a bunch o’ crap! He has more medals than my husband and I combined and that’s a total of 44 years of service. Not sure about the other branches, but in the AF, everyone got a national defense ribbon for serving during a time of conflict, good conduct for every 3 years of good service and longevity for every 4 years. The Meritorious Service, Commendation and Achievement medals had to be earned. At any rate, you don’t wear them on your BDUs. He is an embarrasment to anyone who has ever served HONORABLY in the military. I’m sure someone out there with the know how is researching him and he will be outed for the fraud he is.
SG
September 15th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
“All five were held in a police station on the Pentagon grounds and were charged with violating a lawful order and illegally posting materials - both federal misdemeanors. All 5 have now been released, but they missed Ray McGovern’s and Karen Kwiatkowski’s speeches at Camp Democracy.”

How sad for them.

I wonder if McGovern wore his mink stole.
SG
September 15th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
“SG, you say he can ‘medal himself up as much as he wants’…not true. It is a federal offense to wear or claim military rank, medals, etc you did not earn. I agree that if he’s wearing a Desert cammie shirt over civilian clothes, no one will say much, but if he is claiming to have earned medals and didn’t, that’s a big no-no (the three MSM’s). There’s lots of Veteran Poser watch dogs out there to prevent just that kind of stuff. I take it very serious, it is, like the book, Stolen Valor.”

I think you misunderstood my comments. This is one of my pet causes.

If you check out the links at the end of the article you’ll see that I’ve gone after a number of these posers, including the anti-war “veterans” Jimmy Massey, Ward Reilly and Jesse MacBeth.

And before that I had a hand in questioning some of John Kerry’s war claims.

And, I should say “welcome.” And as others have said, we all appreciate your service.
SG
September 15th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Just noting that I have updated the article with a clearer photo of Mr. Millard’s chest salad.
nodems
November 20th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Branch of service: Army National Guard of the United States (ARNG)
Rank: SGT E5
Home: Washington D.C.
Served in: Mexico, NYC (WTC), Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, and Qatar.

Geoffrey Millard was born in Buffalo NY on December 18, 1980. Along with his parents young Geoffrey lived a simple blue collar life on Buffalo’s West Side. Geoff gained a unique but lasting insight into the class struggle plaguing America by contrasting his attendance of a Buffalo Public school through 6th grade with a move to Lockport and his subsequent attendance of Lockport High School.
In 1998 at the age of 17 Geoffrey Millard graduated high school and enlisted in the New York Army National Guard. PVT Millard was trained as a Combat Engineer (12B) at FT Leonard wood Missouri. In 1999 PVT Millard returned to his Army National Guard unit in Lockport NY where he advanced into the ranks of the Non-Commissioned officer. After a short working period SPC Millard began attending Niagara County Community College where he went on to earn an AAS in business administration.
With the attacks on the World Trade Center of September the 11th 2001 the 42nd Infantry Division (of which SGT Millard spent the entirety of his military carrier short basic training) was activated and given “ground zero” security missions. After completing multiple tours of duty at ground zero SPC Millard returned to Western New York with the renewed vigor of his intellectual pursuits. This zealousness came from a chance taking of history 237 (Intro to African American studies) while still at NCCC. The spring of 2002 brought with its fresh breezes the life and passions of the African experience in America from the University of Buffalo classrooms directly into the heart and mind of a now class and race conscious SGT Millard. With the 2003 war on Iraq SGT Millard awaited activation which came in the spring of 2004 by way of the 42nd ID ROC. After an extensive train-up which included a reclass to Infantry (11B) SGT Millard was deployed to the Iraqi theater of operation where he served honorably for 13 months in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
SGT Millard has been awarded 3 meritorious Service Medals, 1 Army commendation medal, 3 Army Achievement Medals, 3 Reserve Component Army Achievement Medals, the Global War on terrorism Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, and the Defense of Liberty Medal (with WTC device).
From 5th grade up to university level SGT Millard has lectured on subjects covering the war in Iraq, the Black Panthers, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Geoff has also traveled around the world, from Buffalo to Venezuela and Greece to Crawford TX, working toward peace and justice through nonviolent direct action. Geoff has been featured in or on Truthout.org, the NY Times, MTV, MSNBC, Yahoo News, Common Dreams, Indy media (New Orleans and others), BringThemHomeNow.org, and many other sources. Also Geoff has spoken with Cindy Sheehan, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, Amy Goodman, Ann Wright, Stan Goff, Michael Stipe (from REM), Chuck D (from Public Enemy), to name but a few. Geoff is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans For peace. Part of the first group of US peace activists to visit the region for peace talks during the iraq war Geoff became familiar with the 28 point Iraqi reconciliation plan. Having organized the Toronto chapter of IVAW as well as numerous events to include the historic peace has no borders Geoff is still on hiatus from UB where he has yet to earn his BA in African American Studies due to his commitment to speaking out against the war. This will continue until all his brothers and sisters in the military have come home, are being cared for at home and until America pays reparations to the people of Iraq for this brutal and unjust war.

Featured speaker at:
– World Social Forum 2006 in Venezuela
– European Social Forum 2006 in Greece
– War and Peace conference 2006 in Amsterdam

Defendant in the cases of the:
– Prairie Chapel 12 (+4)
– Pentagon 5
– U.N. 16

=======================
Served in Mexico?
Warmonger Infidel
November 20th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
“From 5th grade up to university level SGT Millard has lectured on subjects covering the war in Iraq, the Black Panthers, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.”

Those are pretty heavy subjects for a 5th grader to be giving lectures about. Or did they mean he was lecturing 5th graders? God, I hope not.
nodems
November 20th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
Yes, I believe that’s what was meant: he was lecturing 5th graders…on up.
nodems
November 20th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
So this is how he survives….

How long will IVAW member speak?: *

Travel expenses
Is funding available for travel?: *

If yes, how much?:

Honorarium
Is an honorarium available?: *

If yes, how much?:

Can IVAW have an information table at this event?: *

Can IVAW sell merchandise at this event?: *

Can IVAW member pass the hat for donations to IVAW?: *
nodems
November 20th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Then there is this - differs from previous bio:

About Geoffrey Millard
Geoffrey Millard, a peace activist and contributor to Truthout.org, is a returning veteran from the current Iraq war. PVT Millard was trained as a Combat Engineer (12B) at FT Leonard Wood, Missouri. In 1999 PVT Millard returned to his Army National Guard unit in Lockport, NY where he advanced into the ranks of the Non-Commissioned officer. Shortly after, SPC Millard began attending Niagara County Community College where he went on to earn an AAS in business administration.

SGT Millard has been awarded 3 meritorious Service Medals, 1 Army commendation medal, 3 Army Achievement Medals, 3 Reserve Component Army Achievement Medals, the Global War on Terrorism Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, and the Defense of Liberty Medal (with WTC device).

——
Wasn’t he studying African Studies before?
Never even mentions his 13 months in Iraq anymore….wonder why?
Wasn’t he a SGT? One time above they say SPC, then say SGT
Warmonger Infidel
November 21st, 2006 at 4:55 am
nodems…..the truth is that he and those that “spin” is military record are full of caca…..modifying his resume to suit the spin of the day.
Nimblicity
November 21st, 2006 at 11:57 am
Watching that video again it occurs to me that I’ve seen more soldierly-looking people on a high-school Pep Squad.

Seems like back in the 60’s protestors and renegades were thin to the point of near-anorexia.

Now the majority look like the 1st Amendment is the only thing they’ve exercised for years.

I guess packing one’s piehole at will isn’t just for us bourgeois pigs anymore. But then, I would gain weight on the kind of “fasts” these XXXL Gandhis go on too.
wampaku40
November 21st, 2006 at 2:12 pm
African-American studies? Perhaps he thinks courses in this cirriculum will lead him to financial success as another white rapper?
1sttofight
November 21st, 2006 at 2:17 pm
wamp,
What do you know about al-asad(sic) Marine base? The reason I ask is that is where my son is headed in a few months.
wampaku40
November 21st, 2006 at 2:56 pm
I know where it is and that it is a big and busy place. It is west and north of Fallujah. It has been down in the upper 40s at night this week, and only into the 70s during the days…..What else do you want to know?
1sttofight
November 21st, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Just a fathers normal worries I guess.
wampaku40
November 21st, 2006 at 3:34 pm
1st, what is his MOS?

I have been out here for about 11 months. Their are occasional rocket or mortar attacks, but their aim and effect is as good as you can imagine from a drive-by launch via jury-rigged equipment with suspect (i.e., frequent duds) ordnance. The perimeters are guarded very closely, by more devices and intell stuff than I know. The more likely scenario for me to get injured is due to my working nights, and walking to and from I might trip over a cable strewn across a road or walkway. I hear of even fewer instances of food-related illnesses!

We have three Dining Facilities, and there are four hot meals served a day with lots of variety, and a good amount of fruits and proteins. I wish there were more veggies….. Internet and phone access might be difficult, depending on his job duties. The medical facilities are first rate. (I had a makeshift crown created by a young Navy dentist this past week to replace one of mine that fell out.)

Most on camp live in trailers, three rooms to a trailer, and up to 4 troops/Marines to a room on mattresses and bunks. Some are still in the large tents and cots. There are hot showers, and some porcelain sitters. MWR shows movies, and there are banks of phones and computers for video gaming. AAFES is around, and there is a regular influx of care packages from GREAT Americans (where are my brownies? lol) with wipes, shampoo, toothpaste, brushes, books, magazines, crossword/word search books and such so soldiers have to spend very little money. Well, unless they have a tobacco habit….. Mail takes a couple of weeks to get here. I have had letters from the western states in as little as 9 days, and Priority mail mail order from the east in 7-10 days. For anyone who has read Stephen F. Ambrose or other authors on WWII, Korean and even Vietnam, today’s hero/soldier/Marine has a multitude of advantages/comforts you earlier veterans did blissfully without.

If he has to go outside the wire, well, that is a bit different. But consider that we run hundreds of convoys per day, and many at night after curfews and when the insurgents don’t have much cover or plausible deniability for being out, and the numbers of casualties on convoys, then the percentages are pretty narrow of getting hurt on those. It is the guys running patrols in towns, and standing guard at lowly ECPs at small check points and stations that probaby run the higher risks, due to their more frequent and prolonged exposure.

Which brings me to my own point on what we are doing here. There are those that believe our presence here in country still is a lightning rod. Well, we have to be here, and there was no other way. My belief now though is that why are we out and about outside of our wires. If our mission here is to train and equip and advise the Iraqi police and military, much of that can be done from behind the wire. We COULD in my belief pose a much smaller footprint here if we consolidated our positioning to large operating bases with adjacent camps for training and housing Iraqi security/police forces. A much smaller number of our people might and could be out as advisors, embedded in their units. Of course, trust that whole units won’t turn on or sell out the attached advisors is a concern, but given that we send them in greater than onsie-twosie completments with plenty of firepower and comms available to them….. anyway, I tend to agree that we could do our job from fewer locations, with less exposure and with some added safeguards we could decrease our casualties to a greater degree. A massive amount of troops on the streetcorners might, or might not solve things. We cleaned our Fallujah a couple years ago, but when your adversary looks and dresses like the men and women of any neighborhood, no matter how many times the place is swept, they will return. Training, and securing the borders seem to me to be the best ways to win this thing.

If you want to know more on camps and such, SG can give you my email address.
1sttofight
November 21st, 2006 at 3:47 pm
He is the one who has to sign off to allow a heliocopter fly.

He told me what the designation was but I dont rremember it, QA, or something like that. He is the senior one .
He will be on the advance party arriving a couple of months after the first of the year. They fly CH-53’s
I apoligize for my poor writing but my thoughts are that any time an attack takes place, level, and I do mean level about a couple of hundred yards around the attack.
Pretty soon folks will get the message that if they stand by and let the attack happen that their shit is going to be blown away with no warning and no remorse.
wampaku40
November 21st, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Ist,

I would assume then that his time outside the wire would be very minimal….

There is regular outgoing “denial of space” artillery (kept me from going to sleep this morning) and I know that there is a lot of providing fire support to areas all around here. I do not know what the ROE are, and the insurgents usually fire from moving vehicles, or leave their launchers behind as they run, knowing counter-battery is coming. I would suppose that if your response were adopted, clearing a couple hundred yards in every direction from the POO (point of origin) that we might take out main roads used by our own convoys/troops for movement/supply. All conjecture on my part.

Best wishes to your son, and I hope he keeps in close touch with you.
1sttofight
November 21st, 2006 at 6:30 pm
If he goes outside of the wire I will kick his ass three ways from sunday.
11BangBang
February 28th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Here is a link to Geoff Millard wearing a Combat Infantrymans Badge, which he did not earn.
http://www.peaceandjustice.it/images/cc2/34.jpg
Doesn’t this guy realize that he is being watched? Is he that dumb to not only wear awards he didn’t earn while being watched, but not even care enough about making other soldiers look bad by his fraud?

Trying to compensate for something or is that the new CSB, Combat Secretary Badge for working despite having sand in the keyboard?
SG
February 28th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Thanks 11BB.

I couldn’t bring myself to watch last week’s 60 Minutes with the so-called anti-war veterans.

Did anybody happen to notice if Millard was among them?
Sharps Rifle
February 28th, 2007 at 9:57 am
One of those looks like Combat Readiness, which is an Air Force medal, and I BELIEVE I spotted Southwest Asia Service (Gulf War of 1991). If this bozo is Army, why does he have a medal that’s Air Force specific and one from a war fought when he was likely in elementary school?

This fool probably wasn’t even in the military.
Sharps Rifle
February 28th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Addendum: One of the barely visible ribbons SEEMS to be a UN Service medal….Korean War vintage.

Anyone care to take bets this schmuck just went to a surplus store and bought a bunch of gongs and fruit salad to give his rants credibility?
11BangBang
March 1st, 2007 at 3:48 am
Somebody emailed me a close-up picture of his DCU top along with that CIB he never earned, but how would I post it for others to view?
11BangBang
March 1st, 2007 at 3:52 am
Oh, and have you all checked out the comments on Youtube of the video above?

Even the Iraq veterans that are against the war are calling this guy out for being a shitbag.
NACooley
April 5th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
The medal second from left in the second row (next to the good conduct medal) is the ARMY OF OCCUPATION OF PUERTO RICO MEDAL, which was awarded to soldiers stationed in Puerto Rico between August 14, 1898 and December 10, 1898. This guy looks pretty young to have occupied Puerto Rico 110 years ago. He is also wearing 2 oak leaf clusters on it, so I guess he went three times.

Here is a link to a DOD website showing this medal and describing it (so you know I’m not full of B.S. like this guy)

http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon......TION1.html
SG
April 5th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Thanks, NAC.
Odie44
April 5th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Is it illegal to “wear” fake medals, per our laws or the military - if he was ever in the military?

Just wondering.

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