Edwin Tingstrom; phony wounded paratrooper
Someone sent us their work on this fellow Edwin Tingstrom who claims that he was a a combat infantryman in Vietnam. As you can see from his uniform, he’s wearing a Combat Infantryman Badge, parachutist wings and a Purple Heart;
In a local news story, he told that journalist that he was special forces in Vietnam;
He signed up for the Army in April 1965, joining the 5th Special Forces Group, or the Green Berets. At the end of that year, at the age of 18, he was shipped off to Vietnam.
“It was a scary time,” he said. “When you take a small-town person and put them into something as large as war, it’s both terrifying and exhilarating. But the biggest emphasis is on terrifying.”
During his 18-month tour, the soldier had several close calls, including a serious case of malaria. Once, a mortar round exploded just 35 feet from him, leaving the infantryman with shrapnel wounds, a concussion and the loss of hearing in his right ear. More devastating, though, was losing two high school buddies from back home.
Tingstrom returned from Vietnam in May 1967 but was deployed six months later to Germany to serve on a special task force charged with drug enforcement.
In June 1974, he left the Army, partly because he’d had enough and partly because of psychological issues that have plagued him since Vietnam. The hostile reception veterans received when they came home, plus the memories of war, made transitioning back to civilian life challenging.
He told another the same thing;
Ed Tingstrom, 65, served in the Army Special Forces during the Vietnam War.
Every Memorial Day and Veterans Day, and also during funerals for members of the military, he and other volunteers comprise a color guard and march with the American flag.
The names of two of Tingstrom’s friends are inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., and he thinks about them every day and hopes others will honor their service and sacrifice.
“People need to understand that the brave men and women who took up arms in defense of the country were there because they needed to give something back to America for all the freedoms that they have enjoyed.”
“They were there because they believed in America.”
His records show that he was in Vietnam April 1966 – March 1967. He wasn’t an infantryman or in an infantry unit, he was a clerk in a Psyop Company – not 5th Special Forces. But his records says that he was awarded a CIB. I wonder how a clerk could get a CIB. Well, I don’t really wonder.
He also never attended jump school, nor was he awarded a Purple Heart. He had a break in service and reenlisted to be an MP in Germany – an odd choice since he wants to adorn himself with infantry accoutrements.
And, oh, he’s wearing the blue infantry cord on the wrong shoulder. A real infantryman would never do that. Everyone wants to be an infantryman until it’s time to do infantry stuff. He should cough up some orders for that CIB.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Another lying cocksucker! I say we drop him off over Syria and let him show us all his combat skills?
Cocksucker.
Wonder what the tat on his right arm is. Maybe he did jump school OJT or correspondence?
Sorry. I accidentally hit the report button. Now my funny retort has lost its wind
BTW, the tattoo on his right arm says, “Right Arm” with a picture of his right arm on it. Also, the CIB and jump wings are participation awards. The blue cord is worn on the opposite shoulder to represent honorary title of bath house boy.
What’s up the the Captain’s bars and the tat? Did not think officers of that era had tats.
I’m on this sonovabitch with the Simi Valley VFW and AL, but a comment about his CIB. WAR STORY ALERT. I was a club warrant at Schweinfurt but have orders for the German Army Shooting Award in Bronze (which as an officer I cannot wear). One of the Bn CO’s invited me to join his troops on the border with a German unit hosting on their range. As a clerk he could have been taken on a “safe” mission or two to earn a CIB but yes, cough up the orders.
He can’t get a CIB without formal infantry training and assignment to an infantry battalion or SF unit. A couple of patrols, a year worth of patrols, wouldn’t qualify him.
He was a clerk, he could type anything into his records. Both my brother Rick-Army and myself -USAF could have put anything we wanted with typed orders into our records, but we never did. Because we didn’t EARN them.
Back in the olden days, in the Army one carried his original 201 personnel file with his orders to his new unit. Any clerk who had access to a typewriter with a correct font could add anything he wanted to his own Form 20 personnel record. A personnel clerk in his new unit in the states would just assume the order for his CIB didn’t make it into his file, if he even noticed it was missing. Also, when you out-process upon discharge, a personnel clerk asks you if there is anything incorrect or missing from your DD-214. If he said, “yeah, my CIB isn’t on there,” who would do the research to find the order awarding it, if our hero typed the CIB onto his Form 20.
Club Manager, just an addendum to your comment. Even if he tagged along on a “safe” mission, there is no way that he could be awarded a CIB because only 11B’s can be awarded that particular award. The CIB is MOS specific. As a school trained 42A (Army Administration Specialist) he would not have been authorized to wear the CIB, but I’m guessing he awarded it to himself. One of the few things he has right on his rack, are the three “Battle Stars” on his Vietnam Service Medal. Seeing that he served 18 months in RVN (Dec 1965 thru May 1967) he meets the following criteria for three stars. Vietnam Defense Campaign: 8 Mar 1965-24 Dec 1965 Vietnam Counteroffensive:25 Dec 1965-30June1966 Vietnam Counteroffensive Phase II: 1 July 1966-31 May 1967 War Story Alert! (Shamelessly borrowed from CM) 😉 I had been in RVN a few months and we got a couple of “FNG’s” during resupply. One of them was an 11B PFC who was assigned to my platoon. He was with us a bit over a month when suddenly he was sent to the rear as ordered by the Bn Commander to serve as our company clerk due to the lack of clerks. Sort of like what happened to the Ranger clerk in the Black Hawk down movie. In the short time he had been in the boonies with us, we were in engaged in a number of fire fights and he was awarded the CIB. We found out later that he had removed the CIB orders from his file. When we asked him why (when we went to base camp for a couple of days stand down) he replied that he felt that he hadn’t earned the right to wear it due to him now being the company clerk while we were all still out in the boonies. He use to send out a couple of cases of soda (paid out of his own pocket) out to us on the resupply birds. I remember one time when he mentioned about sending out four cases of pop, and we… Read more »
I was questioned a couple of times in my career why I had a CIB on my duty or dress uniforms, when at the time, I held the primary 19E MOS and later on, the 19K MOS after I transitioned to Armor (11B4P was still my secondary).
My usual reply was to explain my transition to Armor, and if that didn’t seem enough, I told them that they were more than welcome to look at my 201 file.
I’ve never a member of any of these veteran’s groups like VFW or American Legion, but it seems like their ranks are rife with phonies & fakers. What’s up with that shit, man?
I’m a life member of both VFW and AL. They’re doing their best to clean up the ranks in the age of the internet. MOPH is struggling, too, but it’s a long row to hoe.
The problem is, when they were suffering from flagging membership in the 80s and 90s, they relaxed the standards for a bit, allowing current members to vouch for new members, and these snakes slithered in.
Real deal vets need to step up and clean the VSOs up.
I know the American Legion is serious about shutting these liars down. TAH is daily fare at their HQs.
Glad to hear that, so a number of Posts ARE being serious about cleaning house after all!
Some of us do step up and get it done.
The problem, at least our here in the Great NW, is that of our peers.
We have a lot of OIF/OEF dudes that make excuses for these losers because they need members. Posers, embellishers, substandard discharges and such. We continue to hammer away and publicly shame them but their friends (and the media) claim it all because of the TBI and the PTSD.
Yeah. It seems drinking buddies and drug buddies trump real Soldiers and their honorable service.
This guy is eligible to be a member of TAL because of his service during one of the approved time periods. The FOIA verifies that.
BUT, unless the person that verified his service when he first entered TAL is at one of the events or has seen a picture of an event AND he remembers what awards were on his DD-214 (assuming the doc was even shown) how do they police their own? Glaring uniform boo boos are easy, but stacking the bling is much harder.
You could FOIA all the members of your post. And when PV1 Horatio Q. Birdbatch starts “no S*, there I was” someone then runs to the file cabinet and pulls out the FOIA and says, “No you weren’t. You were piloting a buffer at Ft. Dix”
Or each “there I was” story requires a $1 in the “lying liar that tells lies” jar…
Sorry VFW (and TAL)
I never joined any of those organizations because being a “Cold War Warrior” was sort of looked down on by some vets that I met. “Are you really a veteran if there wasn’t a war?’ or “You lucked out by missing the first Gulf War” was some shit I heard. I guess that staring down the Russkies with nuclear Armageddon as consequence wasn’t good enough for some dudes. I get that being on a fleet oiler isn’t the tip of the spear, but our mission was extremely vital to the overall mission of “Peace through strength”. After reading about the many, many fakers and phonies I bet those guys looking down their noses at my service where just a bunch of POSers. Keep up the good work, and expose, shame, and ridicule those who dishonor themselves.
Well, if it wasn’t for VSOs, service-connected disabled vets would be buying private insurance to treat those injuries caused by their service.
Who is going to stand up for us in the White House or in the halls of Congress without VSOs.
Jonn, I whole heartedly agree with you! Out of all the people and organizations that I have contacted over the last two years, only you and my local VSO have shown any interest in getting my pos brother what he deserves! I thank you with all my heart for all of your help with this matter BZ! to you Jonn!!
Gee whiz, I remember back in the 1990s when the VFW didn’t want Viet Nam vets because it wasn’t a real war.
Vietnam, or Desert vets? Both my AL and my VFW in Arizona (and the MCL Detachment I helped charter) were all about bringing me in and running me through the ‘chairs’ when they found out I was a DS/DS vet. I was Junior Vice of all three at the same time, at one point. The older Vietnam and Korean vets were tired of having to run everything and were looking for new (and valid) members.
Both, it seems.
The VFW in Fulton, NY hunted me down when I retired, they even paid half of my Life Membership to entice me to sign up. They’d learned their lesson after the way they treated Vietnam Vets.
VFW hasn’t chased me down yet, but I get the DAV e-mail regularly, which is enough for me.
On the other hand, AARP won’t leave me alone.
Three more years and Atkron gets in on some of those sweet AARP benefits…can’t wait!
😉
What’s up with all that?
The VFW and AL do not REQUIRE members to fill out an SF 180 to verify their service.
The VFW and AL do not REQUIRE Officers of their organizations to fill out an SF 180 to verify their service.
Because the VFW and AL lobby for many veteran causes in the halls and back rooms of Washington DC they get a pass, or at least a gentle nudge instead of the swift kick in the ass they should be getting.
Saying they are doing their best to clean it up is being far too generous. They could have cleaned up this mess decades ago with one simple rule:
To hold an office of any kind in the VFW or AL candidates must file a SF 180 to confirm their service.
But what the hell, Wounded Warriors, DAV, and the VA are filled with phonies, fakes, embellishers, and far too many people who are simply full of shit.
Support my group…All Veterans are Victims. Any money collected will got to strippers, alcohol, cigars, and Waffle House.
Yep.
Where do I sign up and will a photo of me on a motorcycle wearing a beret and black vest with patches from all the units I served in and pins of all my high-speed-low-drag qualifications serve as proof of my eligibility?
All-Points Logistics.
Amen Dave, I’ll send some money for destitute prostitutes right away!!
I’m sorry, Dave. I have pussies to support.
I’ve never a member of any of these veteran’s groups like VFW or American Legion, but it seems like their ranks are rife with phonies & fakers. What’s up with that shit, man? Posers, frauds and embellishers flock to these organizations like a moth to a front porch light because being in these organizations gives them exactly what they want: Recognition, attention and admiration that they can’t get elsewhere. These guys are like Tinkerbell, if other people stop believing in them, they think they’ll disappear. In fact, I’d go even farther than that and say there’s a symbiotic relationship between the VSOs and Posers: Each one gives the other what it wants. The fakers, frauds, embellishers and flat out posers want LEGITIMACY more than anything else. They want to be able to parade their stolen finery in front of others (both inside and outside the organization) and since the VFW and AL are legitimate organizations, membership lends an cachet of legitimacy to the fraud’s fakery. “He must be legit, after all, he’s in the VFW!” So that explains why the frauds and fakers “need” the VSOs. But why do the VSO’s “need” the frauds and fakers? Why are they willing to turn a blind eye to the obvious BS artist who claims he was a Navy SEAL Sniper USMC Recon Green Beret Space Shuttle Door Gunner? Well, first, because since the self-identity of the fraud and faker is completely wrapped up in his fake biography, the fraud, faker or embellisher is likely to be the first one to step up and take charge of the honor guard, or the veterans day parade, or whatever other activity will put him in the public spotlight to show off his stolen medals and badges. This benefits the organization because these fakers are often quite willing to do a lot of work for the organization. And second, quite simply, is numbers. By not questioning the credentials of members, by letting members vouch for each other instead of demanding to see a legitimate DD-214, they keep their numbers (and their dues) up. Some of the… Read more »
Well, Damnit. I wish the NPRC wouldn’t redact the Duty MOS’s on a 2-1.
I was really looking forward this morning to seeing 57G posted as the MOS that coincides with Duty Corporal. I get a woody whenever I see 57A or 57G posted as a duty MOS.
But you know what will happen. Tingstrom will show up here and say this is all a case of mistaken identity cause the FOIA says United States Navy in the Branch Served block, so it must be some other guy./s
“Everyone wants to be an infantryman until it’s time to do infantry stuff”.
Fucking word!
And claiming CPT no less.
Maggot.
Roger that!
Phony blue infantry cord on the left shoulder, oh my…
It is a dead give-away, just like the green beret wearer who pulls it down over his left ear.
Simi Valley, eh? Maybe he and Jerry Foster are cuddle buddies.
Jerry “practices” the disappearing “salami” trick on Edwin… when they aren’t regaling each other about their sooper sekrit skwirrl “combat” exploits at the Blue Oyster.
Chief, you gotta stop hanging out at the Blue Oyster…Just saying.
Is this the same cat?
https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/Edwin-C-Tingstrom-CelebratesEighty-Eight-Medal-of-Honor-Recipients-in-New-Book-20130911
Yep same guy,,look at the picture on the back of the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Valor-Above-Beyond-Tingstrom/dp/1483626415
Okay, I have no issues with someone writing nonfiction about what other people did (as long as it’s accurate). This is done all the time. People do biographies on Beethoven, and they weren’t even alive when he was deaf.
Tingstrom can write all the books he wants to, in my view. My issue is his apparent need to “walt” his service into something it was not.
So if he starts this self-aggrandizing stuff because he wrote a semi-bio on war heroes, he’s clearly wrong to do so.
Drug enforcement with Herman the German in 67?
Here’s an issue. Wouldn’t he know the kill radius of mortar rounds if he’d been in combat?
He says: Once, a mortar round exploded just 35 feet from him, leaving the infantryman with shrapnel wounds….
Umm, according to what I’ve found with a few minutes of digging, the blast/damage radius is 20 to 90 meters, or 63 to 280++ feet, depending on the size of the shell.
So how is this person still alive if he was 35 feet from a mortar when it exploded? Must have been a dud, maybe?
Disclaimer: never been near an exploding round, never hope to be near one, thank you!
Technically, it is possible to come out with just a little frag and a rung bell in that scenario. However, unless his typewriter detonated, he didn’t soak up any frag.
…and there IS a video somewhere for every silly idea! The Exploding Typewriter!
There he was, no shit, deep in the Pu Nanny Valley on a top secret mission behind enemy lines. He was typing up a guard roster when Charlie started lobbing in mortars. In the heat of the moment he pulled the pin on his trusty Lillian-Rose typewriter by mistake. Soon he felt the searing pain of the L key pierce his neck.
Luck, and the fact that smaller mortars are not magic life extinguishing death machines. That said they can do a whole lot of damage to soft squishy things like people, but so can falling from the roof of your house.
Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. The pucker factor increases substantially when the bears get bigger and bring many friends, especially of the air burst variety.
I’m only mentioning this because you asked, fuck this guy and whatever he says.
Jay beat me to it.
Thank you for your informative response, TF-BA, especially regarding the pucker factor.
Ex, do a search on “rolling barrage”. Angle of fire and placement of impact also make a substantial contribution to indirect fire lethality.
as does type of soil, vegetation, and a bunch of other factors, I’m told.
Been near (very near) an 81mm mortar round exiting the tube while my A.G. had his hand over the muzzle. That was an interesting night to say the least!
Did you AG lose his hand/tube exploded or did the mortar not have enough time to detonate?
I know nothing about mortars except you mix it in a bucket to stick bricks together.
The mortar round would not arm until some distance from the tube. The AG likely lost some fingers and part of his hand. For example, an M79 40mm grenade round has to travel about 16 meters before it arms and will explode.
The round definitely did not explode nor could have exploded in that condition. My friend (still to this day albeit half way across the country from each other) lost his index finger, most of the nerves and ability in his hand (it’s pretty scarred up to this day), broken wrist, permanent rod them rough his forearm (45 degree compound fracture), broken elbow, dislocated shoulder. Early discharge from service. Basically it tried to pull his arm off. He took a little helicopter flat spin and landed about 15 feet in front of the tube. He recovered fine overall and we still have some morbid pranks and jokes about that night to this day.
“…. permanent rod through his forearm…”
Damn spell check.
It depends on the size of the mortar round. The NVA had 82mm mortars with most of their units. They were not as powerful as our 81mm mortar rounds. I was mortared twice on my tour with the 82mm variant. One of my men took a shrapnel fragment to his helmet at about 15-20 meters from the impact crater but he was in a hole with his head above ground level.
That’s a pretty modest stack for a poser. He can’t even fake his awards right!!
Twat
Why AIT twice? Did he bolo the first one?
Not report, dang it, reply…
I did AIT twice. Didn’t bolo it either time.
12B in 1992 and then 37F in 2007. The excuse was the length of my break in service (1995 to 2007). Reality was I should have gone to a retention recruiter rather than a recruiter from a strip mall shop.
Looking at it, it looks like he must ahve bolo’ed out of MI school and been sent “needs of the army” as a clerk. He was then assigned to the 245th PSYOP detachment…
Which as much as I hate to say it, may have given him the legitimacy to claim “Special Forces”. Iif the 245th was considered a SF unit and he was awarded an SQI of “S” or “3” by a “competent authority” or if the 245th was considered “SF special project unit”.
If that’s the case he should have a state from the USASOC Commander authorizing the wear of the tab. This is something he would have to have applied for, after 1983 when the tab was created and appears in AR 600-8.22, section 8-49.
f course, that still doesn’t explain teh infantry cord on the wrong shoulder or the rank, or the Purple Heart.
LOL at the FOIA showing he was in the Navy. Is there anybody QC’ing these requests when they go out?
Also note that Tingstrom is rocking captain’s bars on his uniform. Is he claiming commissioned service or is that his “rank” in the VFW/AL “color guard” or some such?
I gave him the benefit of the doubt on the rank thing. I’m guessing he’s some sort of captain of honor guard duties since he’s not wearing the railroad tracks in every picture.
He left out the part where his C.O. was Col. Mike Kirby and his platoon sergeant’s last name was Muldoon…
…followed with how his best friend was killed when a VC trap hoisted him onto a wall of punji sticks…
…and how he adopted and raised a Vietnamese orphan named Hamchuck.
…in the Village of Al Phuk Tup.
Or how they ended the day by walked towards the sun setting over the beach…
in Vietnam, a country that has a coast that faces East. 😉
That beach that’s along the runway at Lawson Field?
But did he use “Provo’s Privvy”?
I’ll bet that he likes Cream of Sum Yung Guy soup… fresh from the source!
Hamchuck runs to every Huey he sees, calling out “peter-san”. Makes traveling cross-country a long trip.
Just in case any of you were wondering:
The 20th MP Detachment operated MP Stations at Kaiserslautern, Pirmasens and Zweibrucken.
Detachment MP Base Radio Call Signs:
Kaiserslautern “SINGLE BRUISER” to all units.
Pirmasens “PRIME RIVET” to all units.
Zweibrucken “GRAINY MOTH” to all units.
Makes one wonder whether Tingstrom was a BRUISER, a RIVET or a MOTH./smile
Claw, he probably was a DRUG USER, DIVET, or a SLOTH……or all three.
Probably guarded the fence girls outside the K-town PX
Hmmmm, just found this newspaper article from January 1966:
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HTES19660127.2.55
A few things don’t add up.
1. Wasn’t he supposed to be in Vietnam eating snakes during this timeframe?
2. The articles says that he’s going to Ft Knox to study military law.
3. He has two AITs listed. Did he fail the first AIT and retread to clerk typist?
No, he went to Viet of the Nam AFTER Ft. Knox.
You know, you can put anything you want to in a newspaper announcement, so if he sent something to the hometown fishwrapper, it was on him, not the paper.
Ex, I was just being a smartass and pointing out another instance of his pants being on fire.
I know, but there are people who take everything as seriously as liver damage.
“going to Ft Knox to study military law.”
Umm, No. Even if he went to Knox under the pretext of becoming an MP as a PFC, he was sent to the wrong place.
During that time frame, the Army’s Military Police AIT was down at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Failed out of some type of Advanced Army Security Agency Training at Fort Devens, then was sent to Fort Knox (per the needs of the Army) for maybe some type of 71L Clerk/Typist/Admin/Personnel training, then off to Vietnam where he ended up being a clerk/typist (making/typing stencils for Cheu Hoi leaflets or the orderly room clerk) and a Generator operator, then back to the states for leave/furlough, then straight over to a strictly garrison (no field exercises) headquarters unit in Germany as an electrician, then back to the Presidio of San Francisco again as an electrician until discharged.
So not exactly a Airborne Special Forces Infantryman who ran secret ops cutting the ears off of dead VC in between typing/filing morning reports and refilling the generators with fuel and oil.
Claw, Tingstrom likely attended an intel school at Devens, possibly related to order-of-battle, but was neither ASA nor MI. Apparently, psyops was sort of off in its own world. Here’s an interesting link to the history of the 24th Psyops Detachment which was a precursor to the 245th Psyops Company:
http://www.psywarrior.com/24thPsyopDet.html
A summary is that the 245th operated out of Nha Trang in II Corps with detachments in places like Pleiku and Qui Nhon. Mostly the units were concerned with playing head games with the VC and NVA in the form of dropped leaflets. A typical surrender leaflet might say, for example, that NVA Private Nguyen’s girlfriend back in Hanoi was getting banged like the bongos by that nasty kid Wun Hun Low who lives down the block.
For what it’s worth, the 245th also apparently claims responsibility for getting about 6000 VC/NVA to chieu hoi. Which, when you think about it, is probably better than having them shoot at the rest of us. So there’s that.
Everybody wants to be Rambo.
Thanks for the link. I served in an Army Reserve Psyop company for 4 years in the mid to late 70’s . I can say with some authority that there is no MOS in a Psyop company or detachment that would support the award of a CIB, period. Our basic “weapons” were truck mounted printing presses and vehicle mounted loudspeakers.
That is my assessment as well. I was at Devens when the ASA school was still there. He was likely too much of a dullard to complete ASA training.
So, assume he was an electrician with the ADA and not an MP. I too noticed that he didn’t have an assignment to Gordon. I went through A-4-10 Knox & Gordon. Gordon was better. Small ass world, the CO of my AIT company @ Gordon served with one of my aunts in WAC’s and they real deal knew each other. That CO’s name was Mary Clark. Later MG Mary Clark (RET) Commandant USAMP’s.
He got the purple heart when the VC left the bubble wrap on his chair. The VC sent a hot woman to distract him and as he sat down “BOOM”. The next 3 days were spent in the hospital intensive care unit for “combat fatigue”.
Then after returning to the office a suspected VC did an ambush on him with a stapler and he used his stapler back. That’s how he got his CIB.
Don’t forget, he says “Though I was E5 in the regular army I would have been E9 in the Reserve” because you know he’s that’ bad ass.
After all that he caught PTSD. He dreams every night of staplers and bubble wrap. They got him on the lozapram for the anxiety, 1 gram a day. Then he needs a joint before dinner just to eat. He does group therapy weekly at local vet center.
Here’s his self published book on Amazon. Be sure to give it a good review.
https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Valor-Above-Beyond-Tingstrom-ebook/dp/B00CRWL1P2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1513024814&sr=8-1&keywords=Courage+and+Valor%2C+Above+and+Beyond
Question.. Why does his FOIA say “Branch of Service” Navy?? I thought he was Army? His 2-1s are all Army and still no Green Beret training or Purple Hearts.. Just odd.
Probably a momentary brain fart by the NPRC Clerk who typed the report.
NPRC Techs are government employees. On my FOIA, they misspelled my rank and my first name.
So your paperwork had you as a Specialist?
*Ducks*
Not sure about this, but spelling ‘Platoon Sergeant’ as ‘Platinum Sore Gent’ would annoy anyone.
This is my surprised face…no, really.
How does nobody see bullshit awards that are impossible to have and allows them to stay? Good grief.
We have been remiss in our duties of providing google hits.
Ed Tingstrom is not Special Forces qualified.
Ed Tingstrom did not receive the Purple Heart.
Ed Tingstrom is not a Paratrooper.
Ed Tingstrom is a liar and a phony.
I’ll also add: Ed Tingstrom did not legitimately earn a CIB in the RVN. Nor was he ever an O-3.
wait a minute…you mean I did not have to actually hump my ass as an Infantryman to actually get a CIB/
Why didn’t somebody tell me that before I busted my ass all of those years.
Oh…yeah….
As for two AITs…a lot of us did that…get hurt, get reclassified…went through it as a SSG after DS/DS at Fort Gordon…what a fun time that was. Not.
Yep, appears that all you needed to do was be a clerk and add it in yourself. Don’t you feel silly for doing all that training and getting shot at and whatnot?
Also this:
Ed Tingstrom is not Special Forces qualified.
Ed Tingstrom did not receive the Purple Heart.
Ed Tingstrom is not a Paratrooper.
Ed Tingstrom is a liar and a phony.