Thomas D. Beaumont; phony Purple Heart Vietnam vet

| January 12, 2017

The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on this Thomas Beaumont fellow. He claims to be the most decorated soldier of the 1968 Tet Offensive with his four Bronze Star Medals, his Purple Heart and some sort valor award from the South Vietnamese.

Yeah, he has four bronze stars – four bronze service stars on his Vietnam Service Medal denoting the campaigns that happened during the war while he was in the country. His VSM would look like this;

Even if we gave him a pass for being ignorant about the four bronze service stars, though, there’s still the Purple Heart claim. His assignments show him as a patient in Japan at the end of his Vietnam tour beginning on October 11th – October 15th. Ten days later, October 25th, he’s back on the block, out on the street growing his hair long. That makes me think that his stay in the hospital was due to an illness and not a war injury, especially since he was an ammo records clerk. Either way, there’s no Purple Heart in his records. Scotty tried to tell him about the 4 Bronze Stars, but he wasn’t hearing of it.

Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures

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Mick

OK, who pissed off the Stolen Valor gods? It’s like an endless torrent of poser shitheads around here this week.

For the love of the world, please stop this Stolen Valor bullshit. Just stop. Enough already.

26Limabeans

I hear ya Mick. I just got back from a three day road trip and the blog is loaded with phonies. I’ll be up all night reading.
And I still don’t know what or who Shipley is hiding behind the blind.

Jesus H Christ

This is outrageous!
My father actually served 4 tours in Vietnam. And I have his DD214 to prove it. Has anyone reported this tool to the Fake Warrior project?The Stolen Valor laws certainly would apply to this dick!

Sandman

I myself kinda like the exposures, they help protect normal folks from these PoS. Of course this only applies if people are smart enough to google someone they suspect.

Marine 0331

I agree. I’m torn between getting pissed at these assholes, but then laughing at their bulllshit claims and stories. I look forward to getting my TAH newsletter each evening, but if their is not at least one poser story I get a little bumbed. Odd, I know, but just being honest.

Eden

I know, right? They just keep coming out of the woodwork lately, like the termites they are.

Graybeard

cockroaches

Can’t ever seem to eliminate them all.

Graybeard

Oh, crud, Thomas Beaumont you liar. Do we need to teach you first hand what “injured” means?

ChipNASA

Ass gobbling sphincter tonguing cock eating butt fucking catching not pitching cum dumpster bitch tits Ball working sperm burping Fake ass phony salad tossing shit eating mega pussy bitch slapped chicken shit bullshit spewing gas bag meat-headed nut gazing wanking thunder cunt.

Tallywhagger

No queefer?

A Proud Infidel®™

Said QuEeFeR mentioned often on TAH actually has two legit PH’s, Thomas D. Beaumont has NONE.

Wilted Willy

Chip, you are going to do harm to yourself holding in all those emotions! You really need to let go and tell your real feelings? I really do hate these SV nutsacks as much as you all do. Especially since I have a POS brother, David “Doc” Shrum that is also a lying assmunching dick for brains! I always want to keep his name up in Google lights for all to wonder in his awesome glory, in his tiny little pea brain only. Fuck all of these gonad snorting mother fucking cocksuckers!! Eat shit and Die!!!

Bob Zornes

Thomas, you wouldn’t make a pimple on a real man’s ass. But, alas, you have now earned the honor of going down in infamy for the rest of the natural life of the internet.

Anytime your name is run through a search engine, it’s gonna come up that you are a lying piece of shit.

Have a nice day.

A Proud Infidel®™

Thomas D. Beaumont (GH!?) is about to learn the hard way that THE INTERNET IS FOREVER. Get used to it, Thomas D. Beaumont!

Claw

And the saga of the ammo dump heroics continue.

Jeff Daley kicked things off. This turd is now carrying the ball.

A Proud Infidel®™

Thumbsucking pisspants booger-munching bedwetting thumbsucking twinkle-toed wino ballsack-sniffing Sparkle Pony dingleberry! Yeah you, Thomas D. Beaumont. Welcome to the world of internet fame, Thomas D. Beaumon, every time the name “Thomas D. Beaumont” appears in the comments it’s referred to as a “Google Hit” because it steers Google searches to it, Thomas D. Beaumont! Yes Thomas D. Beaumont, GO GOOGLE YOURSELF after being featured here and on other Stolen Valor threads and websites because you need to get used to the consequences of LYING about your past, Thomas D. Beaumont.

David

Bulldozing hundreds of bodies off the road? 145% disabled?

Claw

I think he was channeling the final scene from Platoon.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Shit, Danni-boi is gonna go through the roof cause the VA gave him 127% disability for being “exposed” to all of the “bug juice” aboard the Yorktown!

Silentium Est Aureum

Two things, Senior Chief.

When I got to my first command, I had the “honor” of diving in and helping clean out the potable water tanks.

Couple that with seeing what bug juice powder did to stainless steel shitters and pissers, and I NEVER drank anything underway except coffee, and in port, only of it came from a can.

MSGT_RET

Based on this guy’s logic I can tell people I’ve been awarded 9 Bronze Stars since I have 9 bronze service stars on my ribbon rack.

How about that silver oak leaf cluster on my Air Reserve Forces Meritorious Service Medal? Does that make me a Lieutenant Colonel?

What a knucklehead.

ChipNASA

You made me look back at my awards rip from 2013. I have 7 devices. so I’ve been awarded a Silver Star and two Bronze Stars.
I also have a big “M” device which means I’m “miraculous”?

MSGT_RET

I have one of those “M” devices too. Maybe we should tell people they are 2 upside down “V” devices.

ChipNASA

Genius…..
and

Claw

Total of 10 ribbons in my rack. All of them except the Army Service Ribbon have some type of device attached.

Maybe I’ll request a DD215 and have Big Army award me one of those upside down dual V devices to complete the rack./sarc

MSGT_RET

Double the valor brother. 🙂

Claw

Roger. I think the official name for it should be:

“Inverted Dual Indicator Of Distinction” (IDIOT)device.

I’m contacting the Institute of Heraldry right now with the suggestion. Maybe a big payout in my future?

Claw

Well, I managed to screw that up. Had a senior moment.

Delete “Distinction”
Insert “Torpidity”

Makes a little better sense now. Geez.

Claw

Rethought the whole name deal overnight.

Have decided to rename the upside down double V device to:

“Inverted Dual Insignia Of Turdidity” (IDIOT) device to be worn exclusively on the Army Service Ribbon.

Better? I hope so. I’m really looking forward to a big pay-out from the Army Suggestion Program.

David

The one that paid out for “Fun, Travel, Adventure” and “Finest Thing Available”?

3E9

Now I’ve got to go check my rip.

26Limabeans

I have three service stars on the ribbon and three more on the medal below it so by the TD Beaumont scale I have six.

A proud Infidel®™

WTF, OVER? I have a legitimate “3” on my Overseas Service Ribbon, a second award of the NDSM as well as multiple ARCOMs and AAMs, the KDSM as well as the GWOT and Mobilization Medal. Hmmmmm…

Silentium Est Aureum

11 Bronze Stars, 1 Silver Star, and a Gold Star.

The last one was for going a whole day without pissing off someone in NY chain of command.

Silentium Est Aureum

My. Fucking autocorrect.

NOT Shawn Oliger

A guy that will remain nameless who posts here on a regular basis would probably be making apropos remarks. Something like:

“Why cant people with perfectly honorable service just leave their mark on history as it happened instead of leaving a shit stain.”

I would have to respond with something like, “I don’t honestly know amigo”.

jarhead

Thomas D. Beaumont….this will hopefully add to the recognition you seek so dearly. Hey, retard, that yellow hat you are wearing over at Military Phonies makes you look like the door man at the downtown New York City “Spank Me Thank Me Motor Lodge”. Let me guess, you sell Chiquita bananas as a side line to your door opening business? Kinda like those city street hustlers who open a long jacket and have a bunch of fake Rolex and other valuable brands. So whatcha selling, fake bananas? Why don’t you stick one of those fake bananas up your fake ass and rub it all over your fake balls? Go ahead and paint your Johnson yellow to mach that phony stripe down your back and charge people to take a picture of you being the only service man injured in RVN with mustard gas? Then you can paint a red stripe (maybe just use some ketchup) down the front of your chest and let local gays pay to gobble the front door hot dog man? Hey Thomas Beaumont, you’re gonna be famous!!!!

USMCMSgt (Ret)

The VA awarded him 145% disability in 2008?

Can somebody explain this?

Claw

The 1st SEAC Joe Gainey helped him out.

Joe Gainey can fix anything VA related when it comes to Purple Hearts and being injured.

26Limabeans

Sure. If you have total permanent rating for PTSD then apply for some physical issue and they grant you a rating for that, they can add up to more than 100% but you can only be compensated for 100% max. The rest is just window dressing but if you lose the PTSD (rare) you would still have the other rating to be compensated for.
I could be wrong tho.

1AirCav69

Legally I’m 170% Service Connected. That is my combined rating. They don’t pay over 100% unless you are 100% and have another rating of at least 60%. Here’s the clincher, there are no 5’s in ratings. You can be combined at 140 or 150 but never 145. So just there he’s bullshit. Have caught bullshit artist at this a bunch of times before saying they were 23%, 25%, 75%, etc. Also guys like him will tell you that they were awarded a PTSD evaluation, but “never applied for it. The doctors said I was so messed up that they just awarded it to me.” Or equally rated bullshit. No application, no award unless you are granted upon discharge, but still the paperwork goes in, just when you’re about to ETS, instead of after.

NotaLeg

I still don’t understand VA math. I think the same people that do VA math are the same people that came up with the common core. Makes no sense.

1AirCav69

It is weird and baffling to everyone. At one time I had 2 90% ratings that combined came out 90%. Although I never had to apply for “unemployability”, they do have that as an option for when you are stuck at 70% or more and can’t work. Again, it’s very weird and in all my time at a Vet Center and DOD, I could never figure it out.

ex-OS2

Cocksucker.

SFC D

Now it’s official. Thomas D. Beaumont will live in internet infamy and Google Hit hell as a cocksucker.

ex-OS2

Thomas D. Beaumont is a cocksucker.

Thomas D. Beaumont is a cocksucker.

Thomas D. Beaumont is a cocksucker.

Thomas D. Beaumont is a cocksucker.

There, a few more Google hits.

A Proud Infidel®™

WTF does Thomas D. Beaumont mean when he says he was “medevacued”? Oh well, Thomas D. Beaumont can go sit & spin on a pile on a pile of rusty barbed wire and broken glass.

Skyjumper

Phuck, where do I start.

1) It’s “CORPS” of Engineers, not “CORP”, phuck nutz.
2) …”individual medal for bravery….”
No dickhead, you were awarded (rather your UNIT which included you because you were a part of it at the time) the Republic Of VietNam Gallantry Cross “UNIT” citation.

The Gallantry Cross was awarded to every Allied nation which provided support to South Vietnam. The Gallantry Cross became the most commonly awarded Vietnamese decoration to foreigners, second only to the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.

3) Sen. Max Cleland was in office: January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003 not 2006 when you claim he & Sen. McCain became “aware” of how “deplorable” the VA & Army treated you.

4) “medivacued” is actually spelled either medevacked or medevaced.

5) Purple Heart?? Must be true, after all you do have the obligatory “Purple Heart” hat. Must have been too cheap to buy one online, although you claim to have made millions from selling the beer distributorship. You bought the damn hats, whatsthematterwithyou that you didn’t by the medals! Phony Bastard!

6) Dog? Yup! Your Facebook page shows the dog that must be “servicing” you.

This clown lives about an hours drive East from me. I have friends in Sheboygan that I might just have to go visit soon.

Skyjumper

His latest Facebook rant:

Tom Beaumont
7 hrs ·
I have no doubt! McCain lies! He lied to me! Said, accept VA’S proposal on your claim, and I’ll appeal monies they took illegally twice, immediately! I did! I trusted him! That was 2008. He’s done nothing! Can’t for a minute think he’s only lied to me! My bet is he’s lied to other vets too! Shame on you McCain. You used your service record to coerce Americans to vote for you while you dumped on fellow vets! Many vets suffered far more than you, and had to fight the VA for years and years to just get what they deserved.

https://www.facebook.com/tdbeaumont18

Sandman

Did you notice he likes his own post? I’m catching all kinds of narcissistic vibes from this guy!

IDC SARC

Clerks be doing things in the Nam yo, aight?!?

Claw

You betcha! Haven’t you ever heard the clerk’s battle cry?

“Pick up your pencil and follow me!”

HMCS(FMF) ret

Deep “IN THE SHIT” with Rice Paddy Daddy and Lon Duc Dong… sucking down that VC delicacy, Cream of Sum Yun Guy soup!

Sparks

Thomas Beaumont you’re a real piece of shit! You know damned good and well the difference between campaign stars on a Vietnam Service Medal and the Bronze Star Medal for achievement or valor. Men, good men, unlike you, died and all they received was their in country medals and a Purple Heart. So go fuck yourself and I hope you are so Google infamous you can’t go to Walmart without getting called a liar and a cocksucker!

LiRight

I was on the ground during TET. My awards are unimportant, especially to the scumbags that greeted us when we came home….my awards are important to me only.

Chu Chi hospital – 210 General Hospital, Yakota, Japan – St. Albans Naval Hospital – – – – PERIOD!

KMIA!!

Graybeard

Thomas D. Beaumont is that your sock-puppet?

Thomas D. Beaumont is still a pathetic liar.
Thomas D. Beaumont is a wannabe.
Thomas D. Beaumont sniffed too much WhiteOut when he was a clerk.
Thomas D. Beaumont does not have a PH.
Thomas D. Beaumont can run, but he cannot hide from his GOOOOOOGLE fame.
Thomas D. Beaumont is a self-justifying delusional legend in his own mind.

(with apologies to all real sock-puppets)

Green Thumb

This felcher looks a lot like Ned Flanders.

deckie

Hi-diddly-ho!

Or as Ned’s Spanish cousin Jose Flanders said… “Buenos ding-dong-diddly dias!”

Scotty

Tom Beaumont 32 mins · Columbia, SC · A Scott Hughes has said I am a phony. I earned a Purple Heart. I was offered Purple Heart by Capt Jerry Warner. My commanding boss from the 661st Ordnance after I was hit in my left hip by a fellow soldier. I turned it down. Unlike Senator Max Cleland who was also hit by friendly fire. I was stationed at the Quin Nhon ammo dump. It was there that I experienced the invasion of the enemy and was awarded by Congress a quadruple bronze star, and a Vietnamese medal for bravery. When I was medivacued in a helicopter it crashed. I received no medals or honors for that crash. Something that IS routinely done. Instead I arrived at Ft Riley just three weeks before my discharge. I was told Army would not tend to my injuries unless I reup. I refused. I was told I would have to tend to my injuries myself in the private sector I did have two surgeries One in 1980 and a second in 1990, both were a result of Nam. I was told I had no rights at VA when I was discharged. For 35 years I suffered from those injuries and the memories of TET. I have expounded on occasion what I witnessed. I will not go over that AGAIN. For 35 years I never visited the VA, I was told I couldn’t. I had no reason to not believe that. In 1998 the hip I’d been hit had gotten so bad I placed a claim For two years I waited. In 2000 I checked the status. Va said there was no record of my claim. So I refiled. Then over the next 8 years VA denied my claim 3 times. Claimed I had never served. Then they claimed my DD 214 was destroyed in a fire in St Louis. When Sen Max Cleland found my DD 214 it had been deleted of my hospital visits that explained how I was to be medivacued. It was deleted of my helicopter crash. None of my… Read more »

Keepin' It Real

I think Senator McCain is trying to shut him up because he knows too much.

ex-OS2

What a big pile of elephant shit.

Green Thumb

Or more commonly referred to as a “steaming pile of Phil Monkress”.

RM3(SS)

My gawd is getting paid by the word?
Sounds like he needs a good attorney. Maybe Forging” Frank Visconti the phoney will help him doctor up his PH claims.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Ah, yes… Frank “Door Gunner” Visconti, the forger! At least the two assclowns share a few things in common

1. Both worked Supply
2. Both have been busted for Stolen Valor

Skippy

I’m no big McCain fan as most here know… but I’m calling BULLSHIT on the letter I know a few folks
Who work for the Rino, and
””’not one of them would ever advise you to take it and leave””’
Old and out of work and it was time to jump on the gravy train.
He didn’t have to lie about his service he earned his benefits
Someone advising him must have told him to GO BIG OR GO HOME
What a confused nutcase

HMCS(FMF) ret

Dude went full Bernath.

NEVER GO FULL BERNATH!

Joseph Williams

What are the date of your crash, what kind of helo picked you up? What of markings were on the helo? Single main or double main rotor? Joe PS Army or Marine Helo and what caused the crash?

Daisy Cutter

Tom Beaumont posted a rebuttal on his page just now that explains everything. Here is the short version.

* His records where destroyed in the St. Louis fire.

* Senator McCain is working with the Stolen Valor groups to get him discredited.

https://www.facebook.com/tdbeaumont18/posts/1230119273690927

Green Thumb

And his ass is about to get destroyed in prison.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Bubba, Thor, Julio and Mr. “Tiny” are waiting with open arms for THOMAS D. BEAUMONT!

RM3(SS)

It was a time warp, his records were destroyed before they were created!
https://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/fire-1973.html

Skippy

If he is from South Carolina why is he crying to McCain for help ???

PTBH

Beaumont has a prior address of Scottsdale Arizona from 1993-1995.

Not sure if it is due to that or due to a committee that McCain is on.

Silentium Est Aureum

Even so, any request like that would be forwarded to Sen’s Graham and Scott(?) and the appropriate Congressional rep.

So yeah. Fuller of shit than a Christmas turkey.

Skippy

Good point I know a few people in McCain office that work military issues..
absolutely none of them would ever say take it or leave it.
His clown is FOS

HMCS(FMF) ret

He also threw Max Cleland under the bus… fucker sees a conspiracy around every corner.

Hondo

“Records destroyed in the fire” my ass. The only Army records destroyed in the 1973 records fire were for personnel discharged before 1 January 1960. And not all of those were lost – loss was estimated at 80%.

http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=39667

Daisy Cutter

For those that do not have Facebook. Tom Beaumont wrote this on his Facebook page around 5:45pm EST on January 12, 2017: A Scott Hughes has said I am a phony. I earned a Purple Heart. I was offered Purple Heart by Capt Jerry Warner. My commanding boss from the 661st Ordnance after I was hit in my left hip by a fellow soldier. I turned it down. Unlike Senator Max Cleland who was also hit by friendly fire. I was stationed at the Quin Nhon ammo dump. It was there that I experienced the invasion of the enemy and was awarded by Congress a quadruple bronze star, and a Vietnamese medal for bravery. When I was medivacued in a helicopter it crashed. I received no medals or honors for that crash. Something that IS routinely done. Instead I arrived at Ft Riley just three weeks before my discharge. I was told Army would not tend to my injuries unless I reup. I refused. I was told I would have to tend to my injuries myself in the private sector I did have two surgeries One in 1980 and a second in 1990, both were a result of Nam. I was told I had no rights at VA when I was discharged. For 35 years I suffered from those injuries and the memories of TET. I have expounded on occasion what I witnessed. I will not go over that AGAIN. For 35 years I never visited the VA, I was told I couldn’t. I had no reason to not believe that. In 1998 the hip I’d been hit had gotten so bad I placed a claim For two years I waited. In 2000 I checked the status. Va said there was no record of my claim. So I refiled. Then over the next 8 years VA denied my claim 3 times. Claimed I had never served. Then they claimed my DD 214 was destroyed in a fire in St Louis. When Sen Max Cleland found my DD 214 it had been deleted of my hospital visits that explained how I… Read more »

Ex-PH2

Oh, he misspelled one word. It should be ‘medevacuumed’. Four VN campaigns and he still can’t get things right.

Too bad. So sad. Just a sad old dustbunny.

26Limabeans

“In 2008 I was approved for 100% PnT Disability for chronic PTSD”

Total Permanent has to be applied for 8 (?) years after you have been 100%.
But I could be wrong.

HT3 '83-'87

He’s legit. You forward area guys have no idea how difficult it is for all us REMF’s. Viscous paper cuts, staplers that jam, emptying a pencil sharpener, long lines at ABC Liquor on payday…its hell.
I almost lost an eye in an ugly chalking of the pool cue incident under influence of cheap tequila in some Cartagena, Spain dive…maybe it was Taormina Sicily? Dodging cheap hookers & crooked cab drivers in Naples is no picnic either.
Seriously, fuck this guy too! 4 Bronze Stars or 4 Bronze attachments are almost the same thing, right? No, fuck him again and enjoy the Google fame you prick.

Perry Gaskill

It seems to me there are some problems with the details of Beaumont’s story. According to the DD-214, he was a FNG with the 661st Ordnance Company when the Tet Offensive started. In the interest of fairness, he gets points for being in a nasty situation; his ordnance supply unit was in Qui Nhon which was one of the provincial capitals attacked during the early hours of January 30, 1968.

Here’s a problem: It was an odd quirk at the time that the main combat unit in the AO, the 173rd Airborne, had split its operations. The headquarters for the brigade was at LZ English near Bong Son, but a lot of the support functions were in Qui Nhon which probably included the 661st Ord Co. If Beaumont was wounded while with his ordnance unit, it seems unlikely a dust-off would have been called because the main hospital for the 173rd was also in Qui Nhon.

There’s also a timing problem with his return to CONUS. If Beaumont had been wounded during the Tet Offensive, it’s duration was only about two weeks, it’s doubtful if the Army would have kept him around on convalescent status until October when he was sent to Japan. If memory serves, the drill at the time was that minor wounds got you treated and sent back to your unit. Patients with major wounds were kept long enough to be stable before getting a med-evac out.

Skyjumper

I was with the 2/35th (Cacti Blue) 4th ID in 1969/70. Our casualties were almost always medevaced to the 67th Evac. Hospital located at Qui Nhon back then. So, I’m calling bullshit too on his dust-off to someplace else.

NotaLeg

He is clearly paranoid and is probably suffering from some type of mental illness. His statement is completely incoherent. Maybe he is off his meds.

Scotty

I don’t think he was on any meds to begin with. He does need to seek mental health though. Someone needs to gradually introduce reality back to him.

GDContractor

On his FB page he claims to be VP of Sales at Beaumont Beers Inc, of Sheboygan, WI.

The state of Wisconsin has not data on the incorporation of that business entity. https://www.wdfi.org/apps/CorpSearch/Search.aspx

A google search of “Beaumont Beers Inc.” yields no results either, other than Tom Beaumont’s Facebook and LinkedIn posts.

South Carolina has no “Beaumont Beers Inc.” in their corporate data either. http://www.sos.sc.gov/Search%20Business%20Filings

Skippy

Try Arizona and for the hell of it Nevada we have a lot of Wisconsin people here, transplants and
Also in the winter… Nevada because around 55-60 of most small businesses in the U.S. Incorporate their now at least since 2000

Skippy

Reason is because he keeps referring to Sen McCain.. you have to be a resident before they will help. He’s from Arizona not Wisconsin

Carlton G. Long

And Hugh Beaumont, during all the years he portrayed Ward Cleaver, never mentioned this fellow at all.

lily

See what happened was some bad VC placed bubble wrap on his chair. When he sat down the popping sensation caused him to jump up so fast he hit his head on a shelf behind the chair. Then he was given CPR by a private with herpes and had to be air lifted out to a hospital in Japan. That’s how he got the purple heart. Damn VC!

Eden

Is he going by the Poser 101 book or what?

Joseph Williams

FYI, I was blown up in my helo and was awarded no medals for it. Joe

Guard Bum

Ah you fuckers are just jealous because he got the extremely prestigious “Quadruple Bronze Star”. And he also had the intestinal fortitude to award his own Purple Heart….now that it cutting through the administrative red tape with a cleaver!

AnotherPat

In 2007, the Army Board for Correction of Military Records officially denied his claim for a Purple Heart:

http://boards.law.af.mil/ARMY/BCMR/CY2006/20060012006.txt

Eden

Ouch–that’s gotta hurt. Proof that he was justifiably DENIED a Purple Heart.

Here’s a little tip, Thomas: you don’t get to claim and wear a Purple Heart just because you think you “earned” it. It has to be awarded, and you were NOT awarded a Purple Heart. In fact, it was DENIED, TWICE. You also were not awarded the Bronze Star Medal, much less four times. Four campaign stars on your Vietnam Service Medal are NOT the same thing and you know it.

This has NOTHING in the world to do with Sen McCain or Sen Cleland and EVERYTHING to do with YOUR LIES.

GDContractor

But what if his hip wound was below the knee? Could be a game changer… just ask Visconi.

Graybeard

Dang – I missed a lot of the fun stuff last night.

Tom Beaumont is delusional.
Tom Beaumont is demonstrably paranoid.
Tom Beaumont is irrational.
Tom Beaumont is not being persecuted by anyone, much less by McCain.
Tom Beaumont is a phony.
Tom Beaumont does not have a Purple Heart.
Tom Beaumont does not have even one Bronze Star.
Tom Beaumont was never given an individual honor by the Vietnamese.
Tom Beaumont is a disgrace to honorable clerks everywhere.
Tom Beaumont needs mental help.

Skippy

I have the repeater on this morning Lol…

Tom Beaumont is delusional.
Tom Beaumont is demonstrably paranoid.
Tom Beaumont is irrational.
Tom Beaumont is not being persecuted by anyone, much less by McCain.
Tom Beaumont is a phony.
Tom Beaumont does not have a Purple Heart.
Tom Beaumont does not have even one Bronze Star.
Tom Beaumont was never given an individual honor by the Vietnamese.
Tom Beaumont is a disgrace to honorable clerks everywhere.
Tom Beaumont needs mental help.

Jim

Guys like this annoy the hell out of me. From what I could see, he served honorably enough, someone’s got to be the clerk in the support unit, but no, he has to make a hero out of himself believing he’ll never be outed. Some folks can’t just own what they did. I did my tour too(’69-’70), but you won’t hear me making any claims. I was just another guy in OD green doing his job.

David

I still like the ‘most decorated’ line… even John Kerry had a better rack. Then there’s always (whether you liked him or not) Hackworth’s.

2/17 Air Cav

Supply can be boring as hell sometimes and clerks have been known to do some pretty wild things to break the monotony. Take Tommy Boy here. Maybe he took some whipped cream and sprinkles, stuck a candle in his ass and was, in fact, the most decorated soldier in Vietnam. Otherwise, not even close. I especially like his perspective that he “earned” a Purple Heart. I’m not sure what that means but I’m quite sure I don’t want to know.

spd0302

Thanks for that comment 2/17. I am in a restaurant with my wife and mother in law cracking up like a drunk monkey!

rgr769

Just another lying REMF and poser stealing the valor of better men. I agree with Jonn that this ass-clown prolly had a minor injury or illness that caused his five day hospitalization. Also, nobody in a position to get the VC/NVA marksmanship badge wanted to “earn” one. Sometimes it was “earned” because you were standing in the wrong place at the wrong time, not because you were doing something heroic. I am quite happy I never received either a wound or a Purple Heart, although I came damn close a couple of times.

Keepin' It Real

Tommy – The brown acid is bad!

Keepin' It Real