Joseph Rice; phony Afghanistan vet at RNC
Two delegates support Oregon delegate and Oregon delegate and Afghanistan war veteran Joseph Rice holding up an American flag during first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Our old buddy and serial phony, Joe Rice was featured in Associated Press photo spreads of the Republican National Convention this morning, as well as UPI. No, AP, Joe is not an Afghanistan veteran. The last time he was on active duty was in 1988 and he’s been telling lies about his service ever since.
Rice has claimed Purple Hearts for wounds and service in the first war against Saddam Hussein during which he claims his helicopter was shot down twice and he was captured both times by the Iraqi Army.
Joseph Rice is a serial liar and his lies may have caused the deaths of nine firefighters. I’m ashamed that he gets to own an American flag.
Thanks to our buddy Nate Thayer for pointing out this egregious error by the Associated Press.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Cocksmoker
Dude has brass ones, showing his face in public like that after what he’s done and alleged to have done.
That belly though…
He looks like he’s NEVER met a jelly doughnut he didn’t like, the slovenly pus-nuts no-load pisspants sack of poodle shit! Some Swamp Donkeys never give up on their con games.
D-BAG
Jerkwad.
Dipshit.
This guy was an aviator?? with that belly?
how the hell do you pilot an aircraft from the slingload position?
Well, his time as a W1 aviator was 25+ years ago . . . .
And his FOIA says that W1 was the grade at which he was discharged. He never made W2. I’d love to know the “backstory” on that.
They made him the unit representative for the Army Relief Fund, and they actually ended up with less money when the campaign ended.
I’m thinking something was certainly a bit “off”. If I recall correctly, W1 to W2 is like 2LT to 1LT – admin action occurring somewhere around 6 YRS TIG that’s de facto approved by local GO-level command; no board action required. It’s pretty much guaranteed in the absence of significant misconduct.
In flight tail rotor inspector.
Did the AP seek him out to embarrass the GOP?
Did anybody send his real DD214 to AP?
Great, the “Oaf-Keeper” strikes again.
Not. Even. Surprised. These fakers are drawn to TV cameras like a moth to a front porch light.
This clown is making it seem like Ole Glory weighs 100lbs. Damn Pussy. If that was a jelly doughnut he would have no problem holding it up and then in glorious fashion, make it disappear.
No, I’m pretty sure he’s straining from trying to hold his massive gut in and saying “hurry up and take the damn picture” through clenched teeth.
Or his water just broke…
I’ve spent so many hours feeling bad about my time in Afghanistan because I was stuck in a staff job and I so wish I could go back so I could do what I the infantry stuff I was actually trained to do, and this cheesedick just comes along and makes it all up. Well, I could have done that.
So, fuck you, Joe. Fuck you very much, you douche-licking cunt.
Ditto CPT11A, I did my time there as an 11B doing Convoy Security Missions and I felt like a pogue for a while after feeling like I didn’t do much compared to others and fucksticks like him…
Maybe we need “National Pound A Poser Month”?
Sign me up, Infidel!
I’m off AD now (still NG), but if I ever show my new coworkers videos of service members confronting posers, they usually react along the lines of, “OK, but isn’t this a little excessive? Does he really need to embarrass this guy in public?”
Um, yes, yes he does.
What are you two bitching about? I signed up twice, and got stuck in a darkroom making prints. That’s not what I signed up for. It was supposed to be an adventure, not just a job.
I do not feel sorry for either of you.
I didn’t ask you to, nor do I want you to. I just often feel like I didn’t do enough, and I’m not enough of a cumstain to have lied about it. I don’t think the internet captures all of the sarcasm very well.
Local commander’s bitch reporting in; trained to put together comm in deployed locations. I know your pain.
Last time I checked, someone in the military can only serve where and in the duty position they’re assigned. And only very rarely does one have much control over where they’re assigned.
I partially agree, Hondo.
However, I could have taken steps at Ranger School to not heatcat and get sent home. Earning the tab would have probably given me more PL time or led me to one of the specialty platoons, instead of finishing my PL time stateside and spending deployment in the 3 shop.
My point is a few different moves on my part could have greatly influenced my role, position, and contribution during deployment. I’m not blameless as to where I ended up.
Hindsight is always 20/20. Looking back, there’s always something you could have done differently that would have increased the chances of things “breaking your way”.
The guy who stepped in the hidden hole and broke his leg could have stepped 6″ to the left or right, too. He didn’t. Doesn’t make him any less of a soldier.
Unfortunately, no one I know can accurately foretell the future. So unless you deliberately did something manifestly stupid, I don’t think you have any reason to beat yourself. “Right place, wrong time” happens to damn near everyone at some point.
Pushing oneself a bit too hard in training in an attempt to succeed doesn’t seem to me to fall into the “manifestly stupid” category.
Fair point, Hondo. I appreciate the feedback. Thank you.
Keep your chin up, man.
You did your part. That’s more than a lot of folks.
I agree with Hondo.
Any of us have pushed ourselves a bit more than was wise – and sometimes it jumped up and bit us. (I still do, but my family has learned to warn me off from most of my stupid, tho’ I did work myself to heat exhaustion just this spring.)
A bad break in circumstances when a man (or woman) is doing their best is just that – a bad break. Nothing to be ashamed of.
I’ve always liked the bit from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech:
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Read the whole thing: http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html
Currently he’s a national “poser by the pound”
See that guy there. Fuck. Him.
Total fuckstick. Way to go Joe, you phony shitstain on the underwear of life.
Cocksucker. Go fuck yourself Joseph Rice.
Judging from the girth of that belly, I’d guess him to be about eight months along, one left. If only I could photo shop…..there would be flames from his pants licking that belly. Then he could be arrested for endangering an unborn child.
He may have been “eight months along” for the last 20 years….
This guy was at the convention claiming to have served from 1987-1991. He claims to have been a desert storm veteran, in Korea and a Chinook crew member. Check the video starting at 6:17
Proud he served I guess. His website says he was a 67U in Army, falls in line (kinda) with his claim, and mentions Gulf War vet thing.
I was an 11B, not a poser, and served at the same time frame in Korea as he. I wonder if we met, since I knew most of the pilots and crew in 2nd ID (assuming that is where he was).
(Comment previously here deleted – FOIA was for the wrong guy. My apologies.)
Anybody else see the four police vehicles pulling trailers behind them? Then immediately after that a school bus followed by another police car with lights on? Just curious, nothing else. Only seemed a bit peculiar.
Extra dirtbag.
This guy is back, yay.
There is a special place in hell for this guy, he is on a Hilary level of evil.
Attention whore.
You know something, that’s demeaning to the world’s oldest profession.
Joseph Rice Oregon Afghanistan war flag holding RNC fake
Joseph Rice Oregon Afghanistan war flag holding RNC fake
Joseph Rice Oregon Afghanistan war flag holding RNC fake
Joseph Rice Oregon Afghanistan war flag holding RNC fake
Joseph Rice Oregon Afghanistan war flag holding RNC fake
But, but, but, he is an OatKeeper. All the horses will starve without him.
I thought it was “Goat Keeper” and as to why they keep all those goats – trust me, you don’t want to know. 😉
Hopefully.
Check out that gut!
Too bad that none of us knows somebody, or somebody who knows somebody, who can warn the good guys in the arena not to let this clown claim any more than what he actually earned, especially on camera. Not sure how they can do that, but there should be lots of PR types hanging around Cleveland this week who could figure out an effective way to deal with him without disrupting everything.
Speaking of which – did anyone else see what looked like our old buddy Media doing her thing in the balcony last night?
There have been several times I tried to contact different media in different cities regarding some of the phonies outed on this site. Some responded, some did not.
Hope any of you who try to contact A P by phone have better luck than my failed attempt. Damned people are not interested in a one on one conversation. They first ask the reason a person is calling, then either hang up on you or put you direct to voice mail. Phone number shown for contact (212) 621-1500
Fuck you, Rice; you’re an embarrassment…
https://www.facebook.com/JoCoRW/
They’re plastering all over this page as an Afghanistan veteran…it is btw open for comments
..and they’re deleting truthful comments quickly…I’ll be banned shortly no doubt
At least some are still there, and not just from you. I saw someone else pointing out the stolen valor.
He insists that being a contractor for “three tours” (60 days each) in Afghanistan makes him an Afghanistan veteran.
well…shit. Fuck him, but if that’s the only context he’s using, I misunderstood.
So, Jonn, using that reasoning, I guess I can call myself an DS/DS vet for being a contractor for 30 months in the KSA?
Ah- using the Joe Teti definition of “combat veteran”, is he?
Yeah, I dropped a couple of comments under that shit stain excuse of a cock sucking cum swallowing asshat douche bag goat humping butthole’s face on the JoCo Repub Facebook site. I’ll be banned. Oh fucking well.
I wonder whose pole or manhole he inspected to get let into the RNC? Jeezuz, doesn’t anyone vet potential assclowns to these events?
I forgot, they’re run by professional politicians…
What really needs to happen with this clown is contact with the Oregon GOP to expose his phony story. I bet he gets elected as a delegate based on the BS story. I will give it a try and let you know what happens.
Here is contact info for Josephine County GOP which old Joe is apparently the Chairman and the email address to the Oregon State GOP. I sent links to the articles on this guy with a few kind words.
https://jocogop.org/contact-us/
staff@orgop.org
Bravo Zulu, Forest Green. I live in JoCo, it use to be a nice place to live till the tree huggers and nut jobs like Rice came to town.
I am not an expert at reading a DD214. This was posted by an FB friend of mine (keep in mind, FB friends aren’t the same as meat-space, F2F friends):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205195925218202&set=p.10205195925218202&type=3&theater
Shows two months, 8 days in ’91? Signed by a GS7 assistant to a general? What should I be looking at? I need to come up with something for this defender of this guy.
Hmm. Sounds like a FOIA to the ME ARNG may be in order.
As I’ve explained several times in the last several months, Rice was activated for Desert Storm, but he didn’t deploy (no service awards). The National Personnel Records Center wouldn’t pick up his National Guard time unless he was activated for school or deployment. After 1988, he wasn’t activated.
The DD-214 our (his and my) mutual FB friend posted shows AD time for 3 months, 8 days from Jan. 22, 1991 to March 29, 1991; why I am suspicious of the provenance of the document.
He posted on my wall a photo of an SK-61 with a bullet hole, by way of “proving” he was in Afghanistan. Not a military desert color scheme, though (a blue color), and not a military uniform, that I can see. I told him that working as a civilian contractor is not the same as a military deployment.
The awards on his DD-214 don’t seem to line up with a deployment to SWA in ’91.
That DD214 may be accurate and the NPRC didn’t think that it was important enough to add to his FOIA. Who knows what was in the tech’s head when he/she skipped over it. My post about him has been up for months and it wasn’t until last night that he decided to send that DD214 out to several people. He could have sent it to me, but he didn’t. He knows my email address, we’ve had discussions in the past.
My last comment to him was that flying aircraft in Afghanistan, and taking fire, does not make one an “Afghan Vet”, any more than driving a deuce-and-a-half load of firefighters to the fire line makes on a “veteran firefighter”. And that is just what I did in 1996, in support of the efforts to suppress the Roggé and Anderson Complex fires near Yosemite National Park.
Yeah same as ole Gil. Mediocre military career isn’t enough so they chase crap contract jobs and give themselves elevated statuses. Joe loves calling himself an officer in the state defense force. Just like Gil thought you can wear a military badge if you did eod stuff. It’s like saying I was in Afghanistan and there are mines in Afghanistan so that makes me an expert EOD badge candidate.
This asshole is now blessing the cover of ArmyTimes (Election Section).
Dammit.
Joseph Rice needs to get it in his thick skull that he will never be legitimately recognized by the aviation and military communities no matter how hard he tries.