Trouble in Tuberville ?

 

Tommy Tuberville has been making some headlines because he has been holding up the promotions of many military General Grade Officers.  He believes there are too many high ranking military members on active duty.

The United States Marine Corps is currently without a Commandant.

Senator Tuberville also objects to the military paying for abortions for those who must travel outside of the state they are currently stationed because it is not longer offered in that state.

The horror of it all.

Now, the Shills for Democratic Demagoguery are acting out.  It’s all so predictable.

I have been forwarded numerous claims that Senator Tuberville has made about his fathers military service.  The moment I see shills like Glenn Kessler doing so called “Fact Checking” about things they are ignorant of,  I know the truth lies in the opposite direction.  I can count on his ilk to inadvertently point me down the correct path.

“My father, Charles Tuberville, made the D-Day landing at Normandy as a tank commander with the 101st infantry. He served with honor during World War II, earning five Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.”

— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), in a tweet posted with a Fox News interview, June 6

“He lied about his age at 16, joined the Army.”

— Tuberville, in the Fox interview

“He was a tank commander with the 101st Infantry and landed at Normandy Beach on D-Day and drove a tank through the streets of Paris when the U.S. forces liberated the city.”

— Tuberville, on the archived website of the Tommy Tuberville Foundation

For nearly a decade, Tuberville has described the World War II exploits of his father, Charles R. Tuberville Jr., in a relatively consistent way — that he was a tank commander, that he earned five Bronze Stars, that he participated in the D-Day landing and that he lied about his age to join the army. News organizations have tended to accept Tuberville’s version and either reprint or broadcast it.

Please read Shill Kessler’s “Fact Checking” HERE at the WP.  There are plenty of others out there publishing their own renditions on the matter.  I doubt most people really care if there have been some embellishments by a son concerning his fathers military service some 75 years ago.

What bothers me is Tuberville has an entire staff of well paid and Free Labor  staffers who could easily  get a copy of this fathers service records.  Here is a guy who has spent decades in the public eye as a Football Coach and he lacks the ability to comprehend he should not be making statements about his fathers service that can not be backed up by his service records.

Even a caustic crusader of all things conservative like Kessler should check their so called facts a bit more.

Most of the Army personnel records from World War II were destroyed in a 1973 fire, making confirmation difficult.

As we have published many times, those records have been mostly restored from other sources… making confirmation of service rather routine.  Kessler links to the information but just didn’t take the time to read what it said I guess.  From our post HERE:

The damage to archived military records held by NPRC was extensive.  Between 16 and 18 million military personnel records for separated military personnel are believed to have been destroyed.  Roughly 6.5 million other OPMFs were damaged – either by the fire directly, or by the huge quantities of water used to extinguish the fire – but were later recovered.

A variety of means were used to preserve and restore damaged records.  Critical records – an index of the facility’s holdings on magnetic tape, and 100,000+ reels of microfilm containing USAF and US Army morning reports from 1912-1959 –  were removed during the fire.  Though some degradation of this film had occurred in storage, approximately 95% of it was useable.  By lucky coincidence, it also happened to correspond to the area that was most affected by the fire.  Alternate sources – including claims records on-file with the VA, individual state records, Selective Service Records, pay records, and military medical records – were used to reconstruct records of service that had been destroyed in the fire to the maximum degree practicable.

Not all records affected by the fire were destroyed; many were damaged but either completely or partially recovered.  Damaged records were not discarded, but were dried and placed in special storage.  Recovery efforts continue today.

Kessler seems to be in the business of using smear tactics to get anyone conservative some “Negative Press” through his copy and paste “Fact Checking”.  Tuberville just makes it easy for his critics.

I believe several things to be true in this case.  There are too many General Grade Officers in the military.  Of this I have no doubt.  The Marines will be just fine with an “acting” Commandant.   Quoting the “Pentagon” on the matter is like asking my wife if she has a shortage of shoes because she can’t buy new ones for a while.  Additionally, Senators have too many people on their staff and their budget is bloated.

I propose a mandatory 33% reduction in force of pay grades O-6 and up.  I would also encourage Tuberville to sponsor a bill that makes a mandatory 33% reduction in staff and budget for all members of Congress law.

Shills like Glenn Kessler are part of the problem and most Americans have grown weary of their repugnant twist on things.  Some fact checking on Kessler is full of treasures like this one:

Since Biden’s “crisis” at the border has long since resolved itself (sarc) I presume Kessler has little to do but “fact check” other issues he knows little about and offer more fortune telling.  Or as he called it, “analysis”.  I doubt he would have taken the time to Fact Check  Senator Tuberville about anything if the Senators standing on abortion was different.

The Senator’s father, Charles Tuberville, was a hero.  He was wounded in combat and served his country with distinction.  I humbly thank him for his service… which is more than I can do for either one of the other two aforementioned clowns.

Category: Big Army, Big Pentagon, Defense cuts, Democrats