Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable

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Thanks for posting this latest dose of corporate nastiness. You provide a well presented and factual post depicting the problem at hand. Your responses are to be applauded and I learnt a lot. (Had to smile a bit too, I do love the caustic approach!) In other words, I'm with the Marine. The Dutch have this saying and I know it to be true cos it has got me into trouble a couple of times (relationships)

"Drunk people do not lie."

On a more personal note I hope your injuries are minor and that they do not cause you too much trouble although I fear the case may be otherwise.

Peace

Not the first time a corporation has used the "mentally ill" card when someone credible speaks out about their evil deeds.

Nor will it be the last.

My belief is that everyone who has fought in a war is damaged.

They have been through untold horrors, and no-one can remain undamaged from that.

Without these people, there would be no wars.

But, because for some reason, leaders on this planet insist on waging war, I can only admire some of these people.

And it horrifies me that many, upon coming home, are disregarded.

I hate and abhor war, but these people are standing between you and war, so honour them.

I am disgusted when the heroes are not honoured.

I am more than disgusted when the idiots who go to war because they have no brains and nothing to do commit abuse.

My belief is that everyone who has fought in a war is damaged.

They have been through untold horrors, and no-one can remain undamaged from that.

Without these people, there would be no wars.

But, because for some reason, leaders on this planet insist on waging war, I can only admire some of these people.

And it horrifies me that many, upon coming home, are disregarded.

I hate and abhor war, but these people are standing between you and war, so honour them.

I am disgusted when the heroes are not honoured.

I am more than disgusted when the idiots who go to war because they have no brains and nothing to do commit abuse.

Sorry,

My server keeps failing.

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Speak for yourself, maybe you do not have any morales, others how ever do.

And another thing. If you have a problem, personally, U2U me with it. Instead of trying to bring down my postings on threads. This is not the first time you have done so.

And your joke part at the end was not even funny.

Mods i did not check yet to see if there was a thread on this.......

US Marines deny exaggerating war heroes exploits...

The US Marine Corps rejected a report that the elite unit exaggerated the deeds of a former trooper who won the country's most prestigious military honor for his valor in Afghanistan.

McClatchy newspapers alleged that key facts in the corps' publicized account of Corporal Dakota Meyer's actions in a 2009 battle were inaccurate, overstated or unsubstantiated. The Marines said they were "disappointed" with the article.

This is all very fishy... I think the company realized they bit off more then they could chew....

But the McClatchy report, written by Jonathan Landay, a journalist who was accompanying Meyer's unit and witnessed the 2009 battle in the Ganjgal Valley, said details of that account were untrue or unconfirmed.

You see he waited what is this two years to come forward..... It is suspicious because I would think you would come forward as soon as his name came out that he was being awarded the CMOH...

Also His story would already be there with the Marine Corps and the investigators....

Sounds a lot like a foreign group is trying to buy the news....


The McClatchy Company

The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded American publishing company based in Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million.[2] In 2006, it purchased Knight Ridder, which at the time was the second-largest newspaper company in the United States (Gannett was and remains the largest). In addition to its daily newspapers, McClatchy also operates several websites and community papers.

This is why I believe they where chosen...

In 2008, McClatchy's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., John Walcott, was the first recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, awarded by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.[6] In accepting the award, Walcott commented on McClatchy's reporting during the period preceding the Iraq War:

Why, in a nutshell, was our reporting different from so much other reporting? One important reason was that we sought out the dissidents, and we listened to them, instead of serving as stenographers to high-ranking [Bush administration] officials and Iraqi exiles.[6]

McClatchey journalists have also won dozens of Pulitzer prizes over many decades.

I am very suspicious by nature and find this all funny... My gut is that the connection between this Company and the one in the op will be the fact that they sit on the board together or attend the same functions...

Id be surprised to find out they (BAE systems) actually own McClutchy or share owners... At this point Id be digging for this.... The reporter is part of the key... If he was the original on scene reporter where is his original filing of this whoole episode...

Sorry been shot at before , I kinda remember the whole thing... If I was a reporter I would have reported the original story of the incident... Right now that story is the most valuable piece of journalism in America....

You see if it is different then the reporters claim over two years later... game over for the paper... It would prove the BAE systems influenced or attempted to influence the military....

Hence the course of espionage....... Which is what this is by a foreign entity....

Influence peddling.... Like I said it appears the company has a monstrous ego... this will be its downfalll... after all, they must have down something really bad to that the initial claims of selling scopes to pakistan entails....

why the overkill?

the second story should have been years ago...

The reason the white house is defending the choice... They over investigated so Obama would have no surprises....

Which by the way if the reporter named is found to have been influenced, the second charge of electioneering can be adding... Being that BAE systems is a foreign entity.... just saying....

it is an election year and Obama coming to the defense of a marine who blew the whistle on a foreign company endangering american live enhances his own rep...

At the same time, (BAE systems) if they donated to republican causes..... they just handed Obama four more years

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Marine frustrated with dispute

Chris Schmidt, a college administrator in Columbia, Ky., spoke with Meyer Thursday morning. Schmidt said Meyer thought the report by McClatchy Newspapers was off base because it "makes it so little about ... the men that we lost that day."

Yeah sounds like the marine out for attention....

The more I read on this and a few other articles it smells.... Smells real bad...

See what is missing any references to the earlier story.... You know about being a drunkard...

Now it is a matter of ... Well he didnt earn it... they exaggerated...

I am going to take a moment to reference another thread of my own creation

Ignorant Americans: Lessons the world learned the hard way

In it I use the example of the CMOH person of Sargent Mckinney

In his case it was the same... eye witness reports contradicted the evidence... The army told them to LOWER the number of kills he had that day.... to make it believable....

not to mention the original count was lowered because the tide had washed away some of the bodies.....

I keep this in mind...

And again I want this reporters original report he filed after this... it is the key piece here... I say he was bought off....

After all if the man who reports BAE systems for selling advance sniper scopes to the government agency..

well calling him a drunk didnt work... Why ... he is a CMOH award winner....

Well if he is just a drunk marine and not a CMOH awardie we can ignore him... good we will try and tarnish his reputation... over the strawman of he didnt deserve the medal....

Just remember the army guy got one for leading his troops into a trap... nearly getting them killed... Then picking up a grenade and it explodes in his hand....

No where in this or any of the others is the following disputed...

The marine left the area...
then went back in against orders...
rescued people....
Then went back in...

sounds to me like an attempt to marginalize someone....

Like I said earlier... What is BAE systems trying to hide.... Did he actually find something else and not realize it...

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Marine corps .MIL

We firmly stand behind the Medal of Honor (MOH) process and the conclusion that this Marine rightly deserved the nation’s highest military honor.

read the links article....

Search at USMC . MIL



my thing is why is there no link between the two stories....

You know what I think I may email NCIS with my suspicions.....


I cant help but wonder..... odd that their is no link and it is being avoided.....

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Well seems this marine has dropped his case and settled that case out of court.

Highly-decorated US Marine Dakota Meyer has settled a lawsuit with BAE Systems over allegations that a manager called him "mentally unstable".

Sgt Meyer said in a statement that he dropped the suit after he and BAE resolved the dispute "amicably".

I wonder how much damages he could have gained if he had taken them all the way.

BBC News

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In my opinion anyone joining the military at this point in time has already proven there is definitely wrong with their thinking ability. Why would anyone deliberately agree to become part of a gang mentality that enjoys murder, rape and torture. Do they ever stop to think that they are looked upon in a more disgusting way by the very ones that sign their checks? They have had their pensions robbed, they have had their life insurance hi-jacked, they are used as test subjects which results in slow miserable deaths. Once they are of no more value their remains are dumped in landfills. In return for their service they are left jobless, homeless. Once disabled mentally and physically it is next to impossible to get the services and treatment they are promised. Only the mentally unstable would consider joining the military an option.