Keith “Big Dawg” Keeton; won the Gulf War by himself

Our buddy, Scotty, hunted down this clown, Keith Keeton, who apparently won the Gulf War all by himself. The story he tells is that, as a staff sergeant, he was receiving the surrender of an Iraqi general when he was shot by his Saudi translator’s pistol (the first victim of a green-on-blue attack), earning a Purple Heart, and as an engineer, he killed an Iraqi T-72 tank, despite the fact that Engineers don’t have an anti-armor capability once they leave the cover of the infantry unit to which they’re attached.

Anyway, here’s what the NPRC says about the Purple Heart;

There’s also no mention of that Bronze Star, either.

You’ll notice in the picture that he’s wearing jump wings and a Purple Heart on his little motorcycle jacket. Well, there’s no jump school listed in his training;

And his participation in the Gulf War lasted 11 days a couple of weeks after the war ended;

Scotty has more on the clown.

Category: Phony soldiers