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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Chris_ on May 10, 2008, 07:36:05 PM
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Navy releases McCain's military record (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080508/D90H5S3O0.html)
WASHINGTON (AP) - From his five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp to his tenure as the Navy's liaison to the Senate, John McCain's Navy record boils down to a series of unadorned paragraphs that bestow upon him some of the nation's top military honors.
The Navy recently released McCain's military record - most of it citations for medals during his Navy career - after a Freedom of Information Act request by The Associated Press.
McCain was awarded a Silver Star Medal for resisting "extreme mental and physical cruelties" inflicted upon him by his captors from late October to early December 1967, the early months of his captivity, according to the citation. The North Vietnamese, according to the Navy, ignored international agreements and tortured McCain "in an attempt to obtain military information and false confessions for propaganda purposes."
McCain attended the U.S. Naval Academy from 1954 to 1958, and was commissioned as an ensign in June of that year. He retired in April 1981 with the rank of captain. In that time he received 17 awards and decorations. Besides the Silver Star Medal, McCain also received the Legion of Merit with a combat "V" and one gold star, a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star Medal with a combat "V" and two gold stars.
Full document:
http://www.npc.navy.mil/NR/rdonlyres/330F85C7-5982-4B09-A46A-373964430AFB/0/document.pdf
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Just like John Kerry!
oh...wait...
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Meanwhile we await John Kerry's signature on an SF 180 releasing the same info....
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Patience is its own reward. Keep waiting. He promised he would sign it, and so he will.
Just as soon as they open an ice skating rink in Hell.
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Meanwhile we await John Kerry's signature on an SF 180 releasing the same info....
The national archives is part of the neocon conspiracy!
No really!
What you think is the Constitution is really Das Kapital as written by Mohammed and Charles Darwin.
No, really! I swear to Gaia I read it on the innerwebz!!1!!!1