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Title: Army Pulls Candidate's Mistakenly-Awarded SF MOS
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Military.Com
URL Source: http://www.military.com/daily-news/ ... arded-sf-mos.html?ESRC=army.nl
Published: Jul 4, 2012
Author: Bryant Jordan
Post Date: 2012-07-13 20:54:49 by sneakypete
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The Army has revoked the Special Forces military occupational specialty of an Arkansas political candidate who claimed he served as a Green Beret in Iraq and Afghanistan. Kenneth Aden, a Democrat running against incumbent Rep. Steve Womack for Arkansas' 3rd District, has said in interviews he served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Green Beret, though a DD-214 and other documents he released to substantiate the claim only raised questions. In a statement Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the Special Warfare Training Center at Fort Bragg, N.C., said Aden was dropped from Special Forces training in April 2008 "after failing twice to pass the Light Weapons Exam and Hands-on Mortar Exam." Nevertheless the center in June 2008 erroneously issued an order awarding him the 18 B MOS – Special Forces Weapons Sergeant – and then failed to catch the mistake. When told last week that the Army called Aden's MOS order a mistake and had revoked it, campaign spokesman Vincent Leibowitz said Aden never received orders pulling the MOS. That turns out to be true, since the Army only noticed and corrected its mistake after media attention focused on Aden's military background, according to training center spokeswoman Janice Burton. Retired Special Forces Master Sgt. Jeff "JD" Hinton, who has exposed many phony veterans or troops who embellished their records, says Aden had to know all along that he never was Special Forces. "He knew, just as we knew, that you don't get the award of the 18-series MOS unless you complete the entire" training program, Hinton said. "Somehow he held onto those orders and wore them like a king's crown." Aden had already backpedaled on claims that he served as a Green Beret in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying he misspoke. He did deploy and serve a combat tour with the 82nd Airborne Division.
Poster Comment: Somehow I don't see this poser going to any 82nd ABN reunions any time soon. Chances are if he does he is going to get the snot beaten out of him.
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BTW,I seriously doubt this was done by mistake. Chances are he paid off a admin clerk to put his name on the list so he could brag about it in the future. There is no way he could NOT know he was flunked out of the course,and there is no way he could NOT know he didn't serve with SF in the Muddle East. All the 82nd Abn Div patches and maroon berets around him would have been a good first clue.
Ain't no five points of contact PLF that is going to soften his fall much.
He's a Buck Sgt in that photo,not a SSG,and he's wearing a 82nd patch on his shoulder. I do give him credit for not posing with a M-60 or 240 and a bloody bayonet in his teeth,though. That must have been hard for him to resist. Remember the posted photos from AlGore in VN,where he was posing with the borrowed web gear and M-16,and saying he went on patrols outside the wire? Come to find out the SOB not only never left the camp,but had his own bodyguard.
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