He spent half his Navy career taking training of some sort or another. Further, he missed the one big war of his era (Gulf One) because he was...surprise!...in training. Guess he didn't want to risk ending up like poor old Scott Speicher, who actually used his training and paid with his life. He did keep Peru and St. Kitts safe, though, on exercises. And when he would have been up for promotion to (what is called in other services' "field grade" though the Navy still lumps the paygrade in as a senior junior officer) Lieutenant Commander, when you get some of the grittiest leadership opportunities, he takes a powder and gets out. Or maybe he failed of selection...or maybe he took the (you're going nowhere, leave now) early out.
I wish I'd been on his selection board--I'd-a loved to be a fly on the wall for that evolution....!
No one has said shit about that, but if he kept going on like he was running as "The Navy Seal Senator" I was gonna reach out and see what I could find. That shit doesn't play well in MA; we go into our service of choice, if we choose to serve, we do our duty, we come home, and that's that. We turn up at Memorial Day to remember the dead, and at Veteran's Day to honor all who served, but we don't make overmuch of a fuss. It's one of the things I like about being a military retiree in MA. No chest thumping, no excess of flag waving. And boasting? FTS!!!! (Fuck THAT shit!!)....that's just 'no class!'
And don't even get me started about how he screams that "Everyone must know ENGLISH" on the one hand, and then says he didn't speak it until he went to school. And oh, his "immigrant" parents--he talks like they hopped the fence and walked a thousand miles. He doesn't say his daddy was a well-to-do HOPS importer from Colombia, and he was wealthier than most of his peers!
Such a bullshitter--it was great to see Markey clean his clock, so sweetly, too.
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