Bob “Spooky 8” King revisited
I’m sure you all remember the book I read and reviewed here named “Spooky 8; the final mission” and then I reviewed it’s author, Bob King, and got an email from Bob King. Technically, through all of that, Bob could have said that book was fiction and he was just drawing on his experiences and his imagination to write a novel – so technically, he’s not a phony soldier. Well, one of our readers dug up, in the archives of the local school paper in Wenatchee, WA, an interview from 2002 in which he actually claims to be a Vietnam veteran. Not only that, he claims that his experiences in Vietnam are what shaped his life. We all know from his records that he was a general’s driver in Fort Sill, OK after he dropped out of jump school – that was the extent of his military career. 
I guess now he’s the head janitor at Wenatchee High School. I quote from the article;
Having been at war, I realize that we are all the same, we all feel the same pain. I’m honest and fair and when I die, people will remember me as an honest man.
Not here at This Ain’t Hell, Bobbie boy.
Category: Phony soldiers, Usual Suspects
That article reads (“Tardy students quiver…”) like he was tying out for to play a Macho Man in a ‘YMCA II’ music video.
Last night, after Stefan Cook laid out his case on Freedom Radio, Uncle J called in with some post-call analysis. You can slide over (it is easiest to download it first) to about 25 minutes in to hear it all http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedom/2009/08/31/NiteCap-on-Freedom-Radio
Oh, the Interwebz. So hard to hide what’s out there, and you’ll always, and I mean ALWAYS, have the truth about you come out eventually. Ain’t it a bitch, Bob-O?
The article says his “pet peeve” is “When people don’t take ownership for their actions”.
Someone look up the word “irony” for him!
Hey Bobbles,
Since you’re a super secret nighthawk commando from shadow section, ghost platoon, can you tell me if Camp Mackall is far away from Ft. Bragg? What kind of training did you do there before you killed 10,000 NVA in ‘Nam with your P-38 c-rat can opener… Oh yeah, you probably don’t have a P-38 since you ate MREs in the ‘Nam!
I just don’t understand all these phony vietnam vets. “Stolen Valor” blew my mind, couldn’t understand why these people were making their claims, and couldn’t understand why the VA wasn’t more active in cutting the phonies our of the system.
91B
3rd bgd. 82nd.
USARV 1968, 69,
Uh oh, Spooky 8, the nocturnal emmission. Col. Wat da Phuck revisited………
What a POS wannabe. A real Walter Mitty. Good work whoever found the article.
I may embellish a little bit for the sake of a “war story” (even though I’ve never been in an actual shooting war). But I would not tell out and out lies like some of these Charlie Foxtrots that you expose (the emperor has no clothes).
I was an Uncle Sam Ain’t Released Me Yet, 31Echo, Field Radio Repairer (plus a couple of other), Signal Corps. I fixed what the combat & combat support broke and supervised others in same.
The closest I came to infantry was to support the 11 Bang-bang’s in FTX’s. No spook stuff, no behind-enemy-lines, no killing 1000 gooks (or ragheads) in a day’s work.
Where DO these people come UP with such stuff??!!