General Campbell is not “that guy”
Chief Tango sends us a link from the Washington Post about General John F. Campbell, the fellow commanding International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Campbell’s staff have investigated more than 700 instances of dating profiles on the internet of people claiming to be US troops stationed in Afghanistan. I’m sure he was thinking of former Sergeant Major of the Army Ray Chandler when the general told the Post;
“I am happily married and my wife Ann is very much alive and my children do not need money for any medical procedures,” Campbell said in his post. “I DO NOT use any dating sites, skype, google plus, yahoo messenger or any other account.”
The general added that most of the scammers appear to be in Ghana and Nigeria.
“My daughter is NOT doing volunteer work there,” he said.
So, sorry, ladies, if you thought you were reeling in and landing a general on the internet, in this case at least, you were wrong.
Category: Army News
I bet Paula Broadwell is disappointed now.
Bahahahahahahahahaha
I wonder how many on his staff got ARCOMs for searching around the internet to find those 700 profiles…
Depends on how many soldiers they turned in for saying naughty things.
The only ‘war stories’ I could legitimately tell would have to do with Match.com. I particularly liked the guy who was a professional skydiver, mountain climber, deep-sea diver, and chef, who made 6 figures as a corporate executive, and had a yacht and homes in California, France, and Spain. Oh, and he’s 56 years old. He was looking for a lady that was 25-35 years old, 5’2″, blond, blue-eyed, and 110 lbs.
Yeah, right. I wonder if he would have been interested in that bridge I had for sale?
When I am truly bored, I have a lot of fun reading Craigslist personals from all over.
Never ending trove of the funny, outrageous, and downright bizarre.
I know absolutely nothing about Gen. Campbell, but he looks like a take-no-shit kind of guy.
I had some limited interaction with him back when he was the 101st Airborne division commander. I can’t say that I know him real well, but the couple of times I met him he definitely seemed like he was all business, and that business was killing the enemy and breaking their stuff. I’m not surprised that he’s the ISAF commander now.
So…. does this mean the King of Nigeria isn’t going to send me $25,000.00 dollars once he gets my bank account information?
QM1…You got screwed my friend. I got 30 million coming any day. 😀
Hah! I negotiated for 42 million. It’ll be here for Taco Tuesday…