I have a news flash for everyone. Brace yourselves, take a seat, it might be shocking... One of the "Occupy" movement crap-weasels appears to be posing as someone who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. I know, I know, hold the Stolen Valor presses. But I have a simple solution to this problem that I will get to at the end of my rant here, along with some background on the exact nature of this crap-weasel and his deception. And there is a great deal to poop-hammer this guy over, not the least of which is going from the Infantry to Hippie. The claims of a dedicated member of the Occupy Buffalo movement that he saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan are not supported by Army records. Christopher M. Simmance has told several media outlets, including The Buffalo News, that he served as many as three tours of duty in those war zones and that he was severely injured in Afghanistan. Service records obtained from the Army, however, show he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., for three years and he left the active-duty Army in January 2001 -- before the 9/11 terror attacks. Simmance insists his Army records are incomplete. He told The News he stands by his claims of seeing combat. See what I mean, and it gets better.... Let's just start with some of the basics, like anyone who has ever been somewhere in particular can tell you some of the particular things that only they would know, had they been there. None of that Ronin "what color is the Boathouse at Hereford" kind of stuff, but if you been there, you know some specifics. For instance, I can tell you exactly what FOB Lightning in Gardez and Firebase Oleas looks like, and draw you a map of it from memory, because I was there. Matty O'Blackfive can tell you about his time in the Airborne Infantry, probably tell you the name of his stick sergeant, and what company of the 507th PIR he was in. Uncle Jimbo can tell you the particulars about SF training and deployments and Froggy can tell you the name of everyone in his BUDS class along with the class number. So specifics matter, and that is how many people in the military informally validate the bona fides of people that make these claims. In an Oct. 23 interview with The News, Simmance identified himself as a former staff sergeant with the U.S. Army Special Forces who was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade while serving in Afghanistan. So, how much disability did you get, and for what injuries? What was the specialty of your ODA? What was the ODA Number? What day is your "alive" day? Where did it happen? Any soldier who was wounded in this fashion can tell you to the minute what was taking place right up to the point they were wounded. And an Oct. 11 story on Channel 4's website refers to Simmance as an "Army Special Services" sergeant. Simmance told the TV station he saw combat in Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza and he claimed he only has 10 years to live because of his injuries. Really? Only ten years to live after getting hit by an RPG? Are you on the clock right now? Combat in Gaza? Are we fighting there? Are you Israeli? Did you belong to Sayeret Matkal? Simmance was interviewed in The News for the first time in February 2008. He said then that he saw combat while serving with an international peacekeeping force in the Middle East in 2001, with no reference to Afghanistan or Iraq. Well, this one is pretty easy, because I was there in the Middle East assigned to an International Peacekeeping Force called the MFO (Multi-National Force Observers) in the Sinai in 2002. We relieved the first unit of US Army National Guard soldiers to ever be assigned to the mission from Arkansas, who relieved a unit from the 10th Mountain, who had relieved a unit from the 25th ID. Now, I can without equivocation say that the closest time I came to combat was when we had to wrestle the drunk infantry soldiers coming back from the casinos when they rotated off of the remote sites. That deployment was in a "combat" zone, but without all the annoyances of combat like deprivation, bullets, explosions, ambushes and such. So I don't know what posting he had to any sort of peacekeeping force in the Middle East, but that is the only one going at that time. Simmance left active-duty service with the rank of E4, or specialist, not staff sergeant, according to Army records, and he was stationed at Fort Lewis for the duration of his active-duty service. His primary military occupation specialty, or MOS, in the Army was the infantry, according to the Army records, and his secondary MOS was mortar. Simmance also did not earn any medals or awards that would indicate service in an overseas combat zone, Army records show. Now if you have records that the Army could use to prove that you were where you said you were, then it would be pretty easy to clear this up. I mean, I have a complete copy of my entire service record, as best that can be updated, but anything that is not entered there, which does happen sometimes, can be backed up by certificates from schools, copies of orders to specific posts or schools, or entries in my 2-1 File. These are all things that I would say 95 percent of all veterans keep, especially if they are wounded SF soldiers, in case the VA messes up their claim. But now, we get to the best of the golden nuggets of this mental midget's story, where he begins the epic and catastrophic failure that is his life. In 2001, he was deployed for the first time to Afghanistan, serving in the "Valley of Elah." Well, you might already know that this is not just the...
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Nov 24 2011, 03:15 PM
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