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Alumbrado -> RE: Republican debate (7/5/2007 9:09:40 AM)
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Since official navy records show that he was a lieutenant both at the time the incident on the Forrestal and at the time of his of his final mission and the official record shows that his date of rank for lieutenant commander is 1 January 67 the only possible conclusion is that his promotion was back dated, which is not an uncommon practice.
Such things have happened, Jimmy Carter's rank of Admiral and his allegedly being CO of a nuclear carrier/sub/starship while still in his 20s come to mind.
Ollie North has been accused of medal inflation as part of a ticket punching campaign.
Mike Boorda also comes to mind, as well as the aforementioned Silver Star claimants.
Career politicians, IMHO are almost always frauds, and I haven't seen anything from McCain that would absolve him of that label. Doesn't mean that I won't subject claims for, or agin' him to critical analysis.
All I'm asking for, under the heading of 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' is to see those official records you cite...without waiting weeks or months for a FOIA request as you no doubt did, and without a trip to a military periodical library.
The records I linked directly to say one thing, and the only reason I would have for lending credence to them would be the skeptic's tendency to resolve competing claims against those with an absence of examinable evidence.
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