When I first saw this story I figured this guy had nothing better to do and was looking to attach himself to the tragedy in Conneticutt some how. Now it turns out this guy was a phony as well:
The Marine Corps veteran who achieved national fame this week for guarding Hughson Elementary School in Hughson, Calif., had a far less distinguished service career than he has claimed in public, records obtained Thursday show.
Hughson Unified Superintendent Brian Beck said he asked Craig D. Pusley to leave the school grounds about 10 a.m. Thursday after checking with regional Marine authorities on Pusley’s service. He said Pusley did not argue and simply left.
Beck stressed that Pusley stayed outside the school, except for checking in at the office. “He certainly seemed legit,” Beck said. “It’s just so disheartening.”
Records provided by the Marine Corps show that Pusley served only nine months before being discharged as a private first class in April 2008. The personnel records further indicate that he never served in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else overseas.
The records contradict Pusley’s claims Wednesday to The Bee and other media that he is a 28-year-old sergeant who served two tours in Iraq, in Baghdad and Ramadi, and one tour in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read the rest at the link, but Pulsey is using the usual defense that other phonies have used that he was misquoted. Whatever.
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8:53 pm on December 23rd, 2012 1
I have been in the military community my entire life I was born into it, raised by it, and now work for it. I have an idea of what a true service member would do. He would not stand guard at a school attracting unnecessary attention that would actually be counter productive.
I suspected this man was not who he said he was, it simply didn’t seem like something a Marine would do. It seems like he did it cause he something to prove
9:47 pm on December 23rd, 2012 2
I had not heard about this person before reading about him here, so I’m skeptical that he was doing this for fame and glory. At first blush, it seems plausible he was emotionally struck by the tragedy (as millions have been) and that he has been doing this in an attempt to redeem himself for something that led to him being booted from the Marines. A little like Bob’s last sentence.
10:50 pm on December 23rd, 2012 3
He certainly didn’t need to make a BS story about his record.
11:01 pm on December 23rd, 2012 4
The attempted Facebook Viral of this incident was one of those: “He served in all these rough places, got out as a Sergeant, tried to help. Now he is looking at 5 years and $10,000 fine… Damn that Obama! Share if you think…”
It took me less than 30 seconds to look it up on Google to realize it was horse crap. The details came out over the next couple of days.
11:21 pm on December 23rd, 2012 5
After 9/11, in the rush to “do something”, the Homeland Security department was created and all air travel security was consolidated under that into the TSA. A whole cadre of agents had to be hired and qualified in a short period of time. What we soon found was many weren’t adequately vetted. Some with criminal records and some illegal aliens. Even now, they tend to like stealing our iPads. Bastards!
Now, there will be a panicked push to get security guards in every school. Who will be responsible for vetting these people? I’m afraid we may be putting many people with questionable backgrounds and questionable psychological stability — hero complexes like this guy — with guns, into the schools.
1:01 am on December 24th, 2012 6
All we need to do is put a priest at every school. He will watch the children closely and we’ll have God™ back in our schools to protect the children.
2:49 am on December 24th, 2012 7
I don’t get these guys who pretend to be a part of a group they aren’t; it’s not like they try to somewhat stay under the radar but go the extra mile and do things that unmask them for the frauds they are.
You know kind of like Tom and every time he posts on here as a “Korean”.
3:25 am on December 24th, 2012 8
After I wrote that @5, a scene I was trying to remember came to mind. It’s at about 1:55 in this video.
6:38 am on December 24th, 2012 9
Leon 6 is right. There have been no Mass shootings at Catholic schools.
9:05 am on December 24th, 2012 10
Mass shootings! I get it!
11:16 am on December 24th, 2012 11
@6, I thought of you when I read this:
“Liberalism, by the inner dynamic of its logic, was forced to become an instrument of social control in order to avoid the chaos which it created by its own erosion of tradition and morals. Democratic man could not be left to his own devices; chaos would result. The logic was clear. If there is no God, there can be no religion; if there is no religion, there can be no morals; if there are no morals, there can be no self-control; if there is no self-control, there can be no social order; if there is no social order, there can be nothing but the chaos of competing desire. But we cannot have chaos, so therefore we must institute behavioral control in place of the traditional structures of the past — tradition, religion, etc. Abolishing tradition, religion and morals and establishing “scientific” social control are one and the same project.” — E. Michael Jones, Libido Dominandi – Sexual Liberation and Political Control
11:29 am on December 24th, 2012 12
Set ha ha, I think that you fail to see that the rise of so-called “liberalism” REFLECTS an abandonment of traditional values at least as much as it EFFECTS it.
At the same time you fail to realize that those who do not believe in God can also have morals (just as some who believe in God seem to have few morals themselves). It comes from a social contract, which has its roots in religion, and prevents breakdown in the absence of widespread faith in God.
Those who have faith in God can light the way by being much more Christlike than most are. Instead many of my fellow Christians seem to fall over themselves to show how much they hate people who are different from themselves or whom they do not understand. Rather than candles in the darkness, they are stumbling blocks and Pharisees with giant logs in their eyes.
11:30 am on December 24th, 2012 13
Sorry, Siri writes “setnaffa” as “set ha ha.” Apologies.
11:51 am on December 24th, 2012 14
#12
I also saw the problems in Mr. Jones arguments @11. He failed to acknowledge that religions themselves evolved to be “instruments of social control.” Yet their abilities to avoid immorality, carnage and chaos in the world were illusionary. Look at the history of what happens when religious beliefs in society were at their peaks but came into conflict with others. They also had to expend a lot of resources to maintain the charade of internal order; often having to cover up the corruption that is a feature of all self-enriching institutions and the rot of diddling priests.
BTW. Merry Christmas.
1:37 pm on December 24th, 2012 15
Romans 1:22… Psalm 14… Merry Christmas…
1:40 pm on December 24th, 2012 16
@14, there are far more “diddling teachers” than priests, JoeC… Another several convicted even in Texas in the last few months…
Perverts seek out jobs where they can be around the objects of their lusts. Blaming religious folks is more fun, tho’, eh? Because it fits the meme…
1:56 pm on December 24th, 2012 17
@12, you’re trying out the chicken and egg argument; but you can track the breakdown in culture directly to the the activism of those who removed prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Pledge of Allegiance from schools. The breakdown and the enhanced crime stats are effects caused by teaching young people they are accidents, not unique and special in the eyes of God…
No, we have never had a perfect society–nor is one possible given the use of Mark I, Mod. 1 Humans; but having an external code is necessary to have any kind of society. One where God is not welcome invariable ends up like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot. Look through your history books. They ALWAYS go bad. Even the French Revolution had Madame la Guillotine.
John Stossel, not the most Conservative guy in any newsroom had a study that showed even atheists were more honest if someone read them the Ten Commandments. And in spite of pooh-poohing my quote as if it was nothing, I’d like–for once–to have a liberal tell me how ANY moral code can be sustained without a God behind it.
So go ahead, celebrate the Messiah’s birth without honoring Him. It fits with the way we live the rest of the year…
2:03 pm on December 24th, 2012 18
#16
I was just pointing out the flaw in the “meme” you posted that religion is the only solution to preventing such things. Isn’t that the corollary of “if there is no religion, there can be no morals”?
4:56 pm on December 24th, 2012 19
You can sit in school, or anywhere else and pray all you want. No one will stop you. Of course one might argue it is a better idea to pay attention to what you are doing. The American government really didn’t start pushing the religion thing until the 50′s. It helped out that “us versus them” mentality of the cold war. There was no nation “under God” until the 50′s. Our money did not have “In God we trust” until the mid-50′s. So, by your argument, America must have been a pretty terrible place, and Americans godless scumbags, for its first 175 years or so.
Matthew 6:1-34 Merry Christmas
5:46 pm on December 24th, 2012 20
#17 Hi, I’m an atheist, and a law abiding citizen. Being a person without faith has not led me to do immoral or illegal things in my life. Nor has it provided me an excuss to be less charitable than my religious friends. If anything in my small group of associates I am more generous with my time and money, and act with higher morals. I do not say bad things about other races, religions, classes, creeds, or any of the other big no nos. I don’t even resent gays, and am happy to admit I have friends in each of the catarories mentioned.
Bad people do bad things, it makes no difference what God you pray to, or whom you choose to share your life with. None of us fought to defend our constitution against those who do not follow our God, or those who live alternative lifestyles. We choose to fight for and defend our nation and our constitution from those who would stand for the vary opposite. We are all brothers, it makes no difference where you are from or who you pray to. Stand next to me on any battle field, and I’d fight for you just like any other man or woman in this uniform.
Keep up the great work Leon.