FOB Nineveh

Only One Veteran Is Running for the State Legislature in Arlington, Home of Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon

[FOB FREEDOM, May 27, 2023] Any station? Any station? Do you read? Over.

Reporting live from the world’s newest banana republic, . . .

While a teacher starting in Arlington Public Schools may capture over $50,000 as a starting salary, and apparently will go someplace else if they can get paid more, a newly enlisted soldier, fresh out from high school will only earn $1,773 per month, a little more than an ROTC cadet, or a midshipman or cadet at a military service academy, while a newly commissioned lieutenant will only earn $3,637.20, about the amount a veteran with a 100% rating from the Veterans Administration would receive in disability compensation. And, yet, less than 23% of age-eligible Americans are qualified to begin basic training or boot camp as an infantryman, the job in which when you stand with the Ukraine, you are probably assuming a greater risk than flying a flag in your window.

And one veteran has been the toast of stolen valor blogs, and he’s a disabled, homeless veteran, but, at least according to official military records, he’s a retired major, a rank that only 50% of commissioned officers attain, he has been assigned to the elite 75th Ranger Regiment, representing less than one percent of the active duty U.S. Army, he was the most junior commissioned officer to have ever served as the operations officer for all U.S. Army strategic counterintelligence in the continental United States, he was one of only three persons selected by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), without even application, to serve as a procurement analyst, a job that attorneys for the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) had argued that thousands would have gladly accepted, and of official record when the most important issue was the safe reopening of public schools, he was a “not a serious option” candidate for Arlington Public School Board, when a former biological warfare planner was soundly defeated by a former high school science teacher, who, of record, has offered not even one thought regarding a novel coronavirus, while he had docketed for certiorari a half dozen cases at the U.S. Supreme Court in less than a year on the topic of the government response to the public health crisis. Perhaps there may be a tinge of envy in a town where hate has no home and that celebrates diversity and inclusion, and offering to serve on the school board for free was definitely not a winning message, even in an overbudget public school division where one Arlington Democrat had won after giving the schools where she taught a letter grade of “D”.

And this weekend it’s Memorial Day in Arlington, home of the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery, a time for holiday sales, cookouts, and parades. And when not filing suits against the Department of the Army, the Veterans Administration and an “amalgamation of assorted defendants” or incurring the ire of the Progressive Voters Guide, one “passionate” “litigation hobbyist” about whom the words “commando”, “scorched earth” and “onslaught” come to the minds of war-hardened Arlington Democrats every time he attempts to qualify for a ballot, has produced yet another video with a “holiday” theme, a personal memorial observance of a soldier who knows what a soldier does.

And, apparently, in politics, it’s not just the army that doesn’t ask for experience.

Note: grandiosity is a classic sign of bipolar disorder, and we don't want to hurt his feelings lest he go to “that place”, so familiar to Arlington Public School Board Member, Latina Cristina Torres-Diaz.

Chim-chimera. Chim-chimera. Chim-chim-cherry. A pandemic agent as lucky can be. Chim-chimera. Chim-chimera. Chim-chim--achoo. The luck'll rub off when I bump fists with you. Or blow me a kiss, and catch COVID-2.

Your elected representative is called your elected representative for a reason; and Martin Luther King and Jesus never got elected.

And let’s get ready to RUMBLE! https://rumble.com/vp2uk1-attorneys-need-not-apply-you-have-the-right-to-remain-silent.html.