Budwah gets 18 months

About half of you have been sending me links to articles about David Budwah, the actual Marine who tried to establish credentials as a combat veteran, even though his actual duty stations were in Murtha-Iraq (Okinawa) and at Quantico at the PX. Apparently, duty at the PX is harder in the Marines than anywhere else because he started riding profiles, claimed PTSD and stomach cancer.

Budwah told the court he was sorry for his actions and that he never meant to cause anyone harm. He said he wanted to remain at hospital, where he felt part of a larger community, until he could be medically discharged from the Corps.

Boo-f’n-hoo. He talked to school children and apparently did interviews with Australian newspapers;

He acknowledged having lied during an interview with a journalist from the Herald-Mail newspaper, in which he claimed to have been injured in Afghanistan “by a hand grenade filled with glass, nails and other debris.”

“I dove on a buddy to shield him from the blast, and the blast damaged half my face,” he said.

Wait’ll Budwah’s cell mate dives on him to shield him from a blast.

He even finagled a laptop from Valour-IT, but the Soldiers’ Angels has assured me that they’ve got preventative measures in place to avoid being conned like this again.

Anyway, he got sentenced to five years, a $25,000 fine, reduction to E-1 and a dishonorable discharge. However he had a plea agreement before the trial which limited his jail time to 18 months.

He’s lucky he didn’t have James Branum for an attorney – he’d have probably got a firing squad after a televised prison rape.

Thanks to everyone who has been sending me this article for almost two weeks.

Category: Phony soldiers