Steve Cushman; noch ein mal

We wrote about Steve Cushman two months ago when Scotty caught his story about being an Air Force pilot.

A week or so later, the newspaper blamed themselves for misunderstanding Stevie when he told them he’d been a pilot for seven years and flew jets in Desert Storm before he retired from military service as a pilot;

But, you see we found an old cached Facebook profile in which he claimed that he was a pilot at one time, too;

The FOIA letter that we had initially claimed that he had service in the Air Force Reserves but we had seen the FOIA on that yet. Well, someone down there in Florida was curious about his military claims and it seems that he did spend a year in the Air Force Reserves and rocketed up to the rank of Airman First Class – you know the most common rank of Air Force pilots (that’s sarcasm, if you didn’t recognize it);

It looks like he didn’t attend basic training, or there would have been a record of Federal service, and there’s no training listed on the FOIA, and there’s no National Defense Service Medal for any active service during that period and I can’t imagine anyone in the Air Force for a year and not having any awards. I’m pretty sure the Air Force has a ribbon for completing Basic Training, don’t they? I think I remember my son having three ribbons after his first six weeks in the Air Force.

Oh, yeah, in case any of you are worried that Cushman is continuing his threats of filing a lawsuit against us, we haven’t heard from him since we found the old Facebook profile. Here was his email to us, telling us how we don’t what we’re doing here;

Comment: Reading through your website on how to request military information, I came to the conclusion you lack the discipline to follow your own advice.
I will elaborate on this comment since you may not be completely able to understand its meaning.
First, the record you posted about my military service is proof in itself I actually served. Now while it was not during combat, which you all seem to be hung on the only military service there is, it was none the less service. I do not and have never claimed myself a veteran but you certainly brought forth the evidence I am in fact a veteran although I will still never consider myself of that title. It should be left to those who rode out the career or contract in my case. Unfortunately, I did not for reasons certainly unknown to you and your followers. I will say it was not to dodge actual combat which I most likely would not have seen anyway and it certainly was not because I acted out to get booted. I have an honorable discharge which you should have been able to get if you are as good as you claim. Instead, I strapped on a badge and took to the streets as a law enforcement officer. Now before another group of lifeless individuals run away with that story, I will tell you
it was as an unpaid reserve while I tested to go full time. Wore the same uniform, carried the same gun and drove the same car just didn’t get paid. Put in 20 hours a week while working a full time job. And yes, I saw it all, as I normally worked weekend night shift beginning Friday evenings. I even have a letter of appreciation for being first on scene of a shooting. If you can imagine that! So to the clueless individual who can’t get past his own service or possibly lack there of, my life was on the line weekly. If you do not agree, tell it to the many loved ones of fallen officers across this country. I’m sure they would love to hear it from a set of classy individuals such as your group. But then again, you guys do focus on the “pedestrian” I see.
Now to the part you really dropped the ball on. Your first mistake was “media”. It is fairly obvious by your comments about media within the same website under contact us, that you disagree with much of the media as I do. Having done many interviews lately, I distrust their abilities a little more each day. And we all know, if you read it on the internet, it must be true. Noting all the gibber in the comments section in the post about me, I can’t help but notice a few errors in posts and mainly a bunch of ranting like small school children about the dislike over the lunch served for the day. Should I start a website to out all the service members who can’t seem to get the story straight? Will it prove some of your followers are complete idiots who lack the ability to verify what they post? Or will it prove some people just do not think at all? With that said, after the article came out, the reporter left the paper. She made a reversal of the timelines of military service and law enforcement service. I caught it and the same day discussed it with a few friends . Like you, they had concerns with the timelines but they came straight to me unlike your unprofessional post and comments. It was decided not to pursue correction during that conservation as it is a weekly paper and these folks down here just don’t really care about trivial little things.
Now should you want any clarification on my military service which I can assure you, your post lacks much of the information about it. I will tell you it was not burned in a fire, classified or even lost. I have documents to back up the pilot, dates and what you all call “basic training” but in ROTC it is simply called boot camp. I will just give you this bit of intel as you may wish to check it. I was at Lackland AFB during the summer of 1989 on the Medina Annex (which I believe was closed to the officer training corps in 1993ish). The base had an F80 (I believe but could have been an 86) at the front gate. The drill pad I spent many hours on was just inside that and our housing for the stay was located up on the hill to the north of the pad. It was a three story “H” shaped building with 12 halls of rooms. Chow hall was southwest of that with a track, volleyball courts and baseball fields south of that. Of course there was a firing range and an auditorium located within the
base as well and many other buildings which I do not completely remember as it was 25 years ago. This should give you enough to go dig up Medina to find out it actually existed and was once damaged by a blast when it was a weapons depo.

There were many programs which were implemented during my service time. I have no idea if the information on them is available to you or not but none the less I participated in them. Keep digging and you may get lucky. Or should you chose to be a professional like you should be and ask first and react later, I may be happy to just share any information I have in my possession. However, I could just sit back and let you carry on with your assumptions and see where it ends up. Unlike you, I just do not rant about things I have no proof of. Pretty much like your website suggests. Lawyers just love to eat that crap up as they too never seem to have enough legitimate issues or cases to pursue.
As for the Clinton administration, I am certain I stated prior to the Clinton Administration which would have been, as many of your followers who posted on the FB page pointed out, prior to 1993. But I will let you be the judge of that since you are now aware of the timeline mistake reported in the article. I honestly wasn’t sure of the date I left. Just knew it was prior to that. By the way, why do so many of your followers hide behind fake FB pages or not disclose information about where they live? Are they not confident in the information they post?
I will leave the continuation of this story up to you but I will warn you, govern yourself accordingly!
Best of luck,
The lying politician from Florida or is it Texas. I guess it doesn’t really matter.

Please feel free to repost this as you desire.
Time: June 22, 2014 at 6:43 am

I know this all a repeat of older posts, but I’m guessing that someone wanting to find all of the information in one place would appreciate this post.

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