“You know, I’m from Vietnam times. I’m what they call a RECON RANGER. That was my role.” – Nathan Phillips in Vogue Magazine
Source: Return to Standing Rock – Vogue
First off, as a US Marine myself, I can state unequivocally that NO Marine – especially a Force Reconnaissance Marine – would refer to himself as a “Recon Ranger.” The phrase is laughable, and absurd, heard only during moto runs.
Secondly, Phillips is too young to have served in combat in Vietnam. His published age is 63-64, and he would have been 18 in 1973. This Detroit Free Press article states that “Phillips said he grew up in an abusive home, started working on construction and lumber jobs, and then joined the Marines, serving in the Vietnam War.”
Let’s say that Phillips spent a year “working on construction and lumber jobs,” and joined the Marine Corps in 1974. While the Marine Corps does indeed turn out the world’s most elite warriors after 13 weeks of boot camp, it insists that its warriors be proficient killers. They don’t just send boots into combat.
After boot camp comes Advanced Infantry Training (or ITB, Infantry Training Battalion,) which lasts for two months. After receiving his advanced training, A Marine is sent to a unit in the fleet where MORE training is conducted before a unit is considered to be “combat ready.”
Once a Marine is established with his fleet unit, he may apply for admission to a “RIP platoon,” where he may wait months for a spot to open up in the BRC (Basic Recon Course.)
“Before 2004, all the potential recon Marine candidates were placed in Recon Indoctrination Platoons, or RIP. In RIP, the candidates are given further training in patrolling, amphibious reconnaissance, communications and land orientation which warmed-up the Marines before attending the rigorous and demanding Basic Reconnaissance Course (BRC). It was considered to be the Marines’ equivalent of [Navy SEAL’s] “Hell Week”.[2] Sometimes Marines in RIP would remain in the platoon for weeks or possibly months; until there are openings in processing for the BRC syllabus.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Reconnaissance_Selection_and_Indoctrination
BRC is only the beginning for a potential Recon Marine, and the earliest Phillips could have been selected tor training was 1975. Saigon fell on April 30th, 1975.
“The Accession Pipeline is a series of schools that the Marines attend before being assigned their designated reconnaissance MOS. It may take one or two schools, or it may take several, before they are fully qualified in their described Military Occupational Specialty or MOS. On average, it will take 1.5 to 2-years to train a fully qualified Marine Reconnaissance Operator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Reconnaissance_Selection_and_Indoctrination#Accession_Pipeline
The EARLIEST Phillips could have been a deployable Recon Marine was 1977. There is absolutely no fucking way that this filthy, lying Shitbird was eating bugs in-country during the war. For him to represent himself as a Reconnaissance Marine during the Vietnam War is Stolen Valor, and his shame must be spread.
MM (0341) out. (SOURCE)
He also likes to lie about his service in Vietnam.
Here’s a piece from the Austin American-Statesman, November 23, 2000, page 16. “A Day of Mourning,” by Rowan Philp of the Washington Post.
Since Phillips was born on February 22, 1955, he would’ve joined the Marines in 1972.
Here’s what the Marines were doing in Vietnam in 1972, from “U.S. Marines In Vietnam: The War That Would Not End, 1971-1973”.
“By July 1971, less than 500 U.S. Marines, mostly advisors, communicators, and supporting arms specialists remained in Vietnam.”
There’s no such thing as a “recon ranger” anyway, but by 1972, the US Marines were no longer engaged in combat in Vietnam. This is part of the “Vietnamization” of the war. Americans remained to advise, not to fight. In 1972, the only US Marine combat troops were supporting arms specialists, meaning men who fired mortars and other crew-served weapons.
Nathan Phillips said he went on patrol as the point man—the first marine in the column.
He did so in his pathetic fantasies.
The man is a liar. He lied about his service in Vietnam, and he lied about what the young Trump supporters did.
It took me exactly three minutes to expose Nathan Phillips as a liar. I appear to be the only person who made the effort. Source
https://twitter.com/Alt_News_TK/status/1087918994139430912
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