Elmer the Oath Keeper back in the news
We’ve long been critical of the Oath Keepers as an organization, and their leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes III in particular. We last talked about him when he was charged in regards to the January 6 riot.
Military.com got hold of his DD-214 and, unsurprisingly, it shows an unusually short peacetime service in the Army. His enlistment was cut short due to a “temporary disability” which Rhodes says was a training incident. From Military.com;
On Jan. 6, 2021, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, leader and founder of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing militia group, was prepared to give an order he had no experience in giving.
That day, William Todd Wilson, a military veteran and one of Rhodes’ acolytes, dutifully stored a rifle, a pistol, 200 rounds of ammunition, body armor, and a camouflaged uniform in his hotel room before heading to the U.S. Capitol, according Wilson’s account of that day included in court documents released Wednesday.
The arsenal was to be retrieved “if called upon to do so” — a directive that would have come from Rhodes, according to the filing, the man who built his militia on the recruitment of current and former service members and their subsequent allegiance to him.
The recruitment pitch, often peppered with military jargon, was grounded in cryptic descriptions of Rhodes’ own military service and a warped interpretation of the military’s core ethos, painting the militia leader as a grizzled veteran keen to take up arms to defend his view of America.
But a copy of his Army retirement paperwork reviewed by Military.com reveals previously undisclosed details about Rhodes’ career that show a soldier who served quietly and relatively unremarkably, despite the central role his military career plays in the fabric of the Oath Keepers. He was honorably separated from the Army after serving two years and seven months on active duty, leaving at the rank of specialist with a “temporary” physical disability, according to the document.
More at the source.
Category: Crime, Oath Keepers
Turd.
I hope Elemer isn’t the Elmer that teaches beginers how to get their Amateur Ham radio license’s.
Still have an Extra Class call sign but have not keyed up in years. Used to be a lot of fun on the lower bands, all sorts of cultivated personalities and interests
No NDSM for Rhodes. The Brotherhood can rest easy. However, he does run up a 132 on the Whiz Wheel®™’s Dumb Ass Move Scoreboard.
Am relieved on the Brotherhood resting easy on the NDSM not getting awarded to Elmer the “Fudd” and I will go into my walk in closet and look at my one and only NDSM Ribbon and AFEM ribbon on my duped polyester cotton blend white jumper and thank God that there wasn’t a diservice to the NDSM Brotherhood.
Eternal vigilance is the price of being part of The Brotherhood!
Dipsh^t, the Face of.
PHUQUE HEEM!
There I was… at the PX at Ft Dix. Under 21, some jackass had just bought the last Listerine and Friday Night, Party Night was fixin’ to be Game Over, Man, Game Over! War is hell.
(About what he’d say if honestly BS-ing.)
Off subject, but it looks like Russia’s submarine fleet is +1?
Plus 1 ????
Like Moskva
Looks like the Ukrainians tagged another one.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/5278291/putin-flagship-makarov-fire-neptune-missile-snake-island/
Get some!
Did anyone read the article and catch the sentence that Rhode’s lawyer had just been disbarred? What a great group of people those Oath Keepers are! 💩
But can his “lawer” read the fuel gauge on an airplane? Inquiring minds want to know.
To my knowledge as a paratrooper the only folks at Bragg that train in rough terrain jumping was one company in the 20th Engineers. The rest of us tried to avoid the trees.
bnmmBVipAto
The fact he was 11 Series tells me he was never intentionally dropped in the wood line. I was there around the same time frame and while we jumped a lot, we never did intentional tree landings. He may have been dropped on his head a few times, but yeah
Elmer Fudd denies any relationship – and in fact scores higher on the intelligence tests.
E-4 Mafia
I should have figured
Queef
Fuck this guy, and anyone who associates with him.
Amen.
Concur.
Whenever I encounter any assclowns from any of these “militias”, I avoid them like the plague.
In my experience, these “militias” are nothing more than large, organized hives of POSers.
Herds of fat, out-of-shape, loud-mouth, combat veteran wannabes swaddled in ridiculous camo costumes and silly “tacticool” gear who wouldn’t know a shot fired in anger if it flew up and hit them in the ass.
Want a good laugh? Watch some of their “training” videos on the You of the Tube.
Back on the mid 1990’s when every daytime talk show had a “militia” episode every week, it seemed as if these organizations only had the rank of Colonel and General. Everyone was a Chief, but no Indians. So who got to pick up the brass on the range after they completed their weapons qualification?
Ha!
And who swept and swabbed the decks in the range house during Field Day?
I watched only one of those “Training Videos” and felt like I was losing IQ points while doing so!
Mick,
Our local Oath Keeper /
County GOP committee member /
County Commissioner wannabe hopeful,
has boilerplate Oath Keeper crap on his bio
that he submitted for our recent County Commissioner vacancy.
Military service?
Part Time Army National Guard,
no activations to war, or even war support.
But plenty of small arms range time at Fort Indiantown Gap.
Civilian employment?
Caretaker at a (civilian) cemetery.
Not selected for recent expansion / job openings
at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.
Meaning… Forrest Gump on the riding mower,
but who has hob knob handshake photos
with EVERY politician in our area,
from Congressman Meuser on down.
And his 20 year old pickup truck is 90% paint covered over
with Trump and “Patriot” bumperstickers.
Oh, and his penchant for telling a racist joke.