CPT Eric Holmes May; Crackpot

Have you ever wondered how really nutty the Left is? I mean, as soon as you think you’ve found the nuttiest, another pops up. That’s pretty much my day-to-day life. But this one, this Eric Holmes May, well he’s going to be tough to beat. He has a group of other crackpots and they call themselves “The Ghost Troop” and their self-appointed job is to uncover ridiculous theories and manufacture “proof” for these theories.

For example, they’ve proved that Jesse MacBeth was framed. May talks about it in this interview at Dissident Voices (one of the outlets for MacBeth’s fairy tales);

In a word, yes. Jesse Macbeth is a perfect example of a crucial dissident voice who had both courage and a vital message. An Arab-American radio show host, Dr. Hesham Tillawi of Arab Voices asked me to review the Macbeth tape just before the swiftboat attacks began, and it seemed absolutely credible to me, a veteran of four decades of military service. Macbeth was specific in terminology, tactics and training. He was also specific about Middle East geography, lifestyle, habits and attitude. There had already been two local Arizona mainstream media stories about him — neither previously challenged — as a war veteran. He had already been drawing benefits from the Veterans Administration without difficulty, meaning that the military considered him much more than a training washout, the story with which they later attacked him.

When Iraq Veterans Against the War failed to support him, it was because an IVAW administrator, Amanda Braxton, a lifelong civilian, had been buffaloed by the best swiftboating attack since the presidential election of 2004. It was led by men whose records in special operations, propaganda and Republican war rallying made them seem more like mercenaries than media. When I interviewed Braxton, and she admitted that she had been frightened into turning on Macbeth. Further, she mentioned that his IVAW cohorts had never doubted that he was a war veteran. This was the best evidence of all that he was on the level.

Given my familiarity with the military system, I made calls all the way to the top level of the Army requesting confirmation from the official record supporting swiftboater claims that Macbeth had never seen the war — and found that the Army was trying to dodge any comment about him. Yes, Macbeth was swiftboated because his message was that we were using SS-style tactics against Middle Eastern Muslims — something the Middle East is well aware of. The alternative media chickened out on a crucial story, allowing the mainstream media and political establishment to cover it up. I wrote an article about it before moving on to other critical stories….

Now, that’s the most ridiculous claim ever, right? Even MacBeth admitted that he only served 43 days in the Army, and his DD214 supports that. In fact, we suspect Amadee Braxton of forging MacBeth’s DD214. If she didn’t do it, she knows who did it. And I’d like the names of the gullible yahoos who thought macBeth was a war veteran. I saw the holes in his story from a mile away. Anyone could if they wanted to see the holes.

I found this ridiculous trash written by Eric May to “prove” MacBeth was telling the truth;

Item 4: Rank is given as CPL (or corporal); this is consistent with the rank for someone with the length of service (over two years) claimed by MacBeth. It is inconsistent with the anti-MacBeth story that he was a basic training washout.

Item 8a: MacBeth’s last unit of assignment is given as a basic combat training unit in Ft. Benning, which is where the story that he was a basic training washout probably started. It is unlikely that he was assigned there as a trainee, as the DD-214’s issuance (see above) presupposes that he spent three months in the service at a minimum. It is possible that he was assigned as an instructor after returning from Iraq, or attached there while convalescing from wounds he said he received in Iraq (and confirmed by the DD-213, below).

Item 11: His military specialties are given as infantry and Ranger, which is consistent with the story he has given journalists since 2003. There is a misspelled word “qualifyed” (sic) in the block, which isn’t unusual in military paperwork.

Item 12 has been heavily redacted, but appears to show an service entry date of May 1, 2001, and a separation date of June 13, 2004, which would give a total net active service of 3 years, 1 month and 13 days. The effective date of his pay grade (given as E-4 in item 4) appears to be May 1, 2003. Again, this area is hard to read, but the dates I extract from it are consistent with the service details MacBeth claims, and completely inconsistent with the story that MacBeth was a basic training washout.

Item 13 states that MacBeth is authorized to wear a Ranger tab and a purple heart for being wounded. This is consistent with the claim in the article by the Eastern Arizona Courier about MacBeth’s service, written by reporter Pam Crandall: http://arizona.indymedia.org/print.php?id=17198

Item 25 is consistent with the Courier story, as it states that MacBeth received a Chapter 11 early discharge, and Item 28 follows up by stating that the discharge was medical, and related to PTSD (or post-traumatic stress disorder). Needless to say, PTSD discharges refer to soldiers who saw action in war, not washouts who didn’t make it through basic training.

In his video [MacBeth] appears to me to be a resolved, committed soldier, turned against the abuses not only committed by his Army, but inflicted upon his Army. I think he is equal to the job of truthtelling, a hard and hazardous vocation, and I think that what he has said so far is grounded in truth….

Here’s MacBeth’s actual DD214 and the forged DD214 – guess which is which and those of you with military service longer than 43 days judge May’s defense;

But to May, because he liked what MacBeth said, well, that makes MacBeth truthful. In other communications I’ve found from May, he compares MacBeth favorably to John Kerry and calls him a valuable whistleblower. He chastizes the Left for tossing MacBeth under the bus.

Oh, and that 4 decades of military service that May claims he has, well our buddies at POW Net say thats a lie. he was enlisted from 1977 – 1980. He was commissioned through ROTC in 1983 and was booted in 1994 because he couldn’t make major. Some comments on his OER; “Never gained respect of subordinates or peers.” “Did not accept responsibility for his actions or the results he produced.” That explains why everyone he called in the Army wouldn’t give him any comments – he was an immature jerk.

Here’s his Form 2-1 courtesy of POW Net;

But see that’s not his most ridiculous claim. Remember Baghdad Bob on the roof of the hotel in Baghdad telling us that the Americans were about to meet a horrendous fate? That leads to May’s crowning glory – BOBCUP – the Battle of Baghdad Cover Up.

When the Battle of Baghdad occurred, I was at home in Texas, my active duty military days behind me, watching events on CNN. At that point I knew that something catastrophic had happened in Saddam International Airport, but I had no idea that it was something nuclear. Over the next couple of years I received many reports from both Arab and Western witnesses that we had used a neutron warhead. It wasn’t until I reached the anti-war Camp Casey outside George W. Bush’s Texas headquarters in Crawford in 2005 that I spoke with numerous witnesses together. They included Army and Marine veterans of the Battle of Baghdad, Arab witnesses and journalists. All their accounts, taken together, convinced me that the neutron warhead was employed.

Yup, George Bush used a neutron bomb on Baghdad – and no one noticed except Captain Eric. From his living room in Texas. And his theory is substantiated by interviewing those truthful Arabs and truthful anti-war activists who all happened to be at Cindy Sheehan’s Camp Casey in Crawford.

How does he remember to breath?

Category: Antiwar crowd, Phony soldiers, Usual Suspects