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If anyone DESERVES to serve in cambat, it's this guy.

Aug 2, 2007 6:37AM PDT

Marine impersonator sentenced to tend graves

The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jul 31, 2007 14:53:46 EDT

TACOMA, Wash. ? A Puyallup man who posed as a decorated Marine Corps captain for two years will tend graves at the Tahoma Military Cemetery in Kent as part of 500 hours of community service, a federal judge has decided.

In April, Reggie L. Buddle, 59, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to unlawful wearing of U.S. military medals and decorations.

At Monday?s sentencing hearing, Buddle told U.S. Magistrate Judge Kelly J. Arnold he was ashamed of his conduct.

Media attention to the case has been part of Buddle?s punishment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ron Friedman told the court in his sentencing memo.

?Mr. Buddle has been appropriately made to answer before a great many people, and he has been shunned by a great many others. This is its own form of punishment,? Friedman said.

Buddle posed as a Marine Corps captain in 2005 and 2006, wearing a uniform with medals awarded for extraordinary contribution to national defense and heroism in combat. Buddle once gave the opening prayer for the Washington state Senate in February 2006 and posed as a chaplain and reverend, officiating and presiding at weddings, baptisms and funerals of service members.

Buddle never served in the Marines. He bought the uniform at a military surplus store. The medals belonged to his brother, a Marine who died in Vietnam.
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/07/ap_fakemarine_070731/

Perhaps "DESERVES to serve in cambat" is not a PC thing to say. But this guy's actions just make me sick.

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I disagree STRONGLY ...
Aug 2, 2007 7:04AM PDT

because the military is an honorable profession composed mostly of honerable men and women.

Dishonorable men or women are not allowed to serve.

A fitting punishment is to make him serve service members - tending the cemetary is what the judge decided.

Were it up to me, since he pretended to valorous action in combat I would have suggested to the judge that possible he could serve better as a civilian gate guard in the green zone or as a civilian traffic control point in Afghanistan.

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Cambat??
Aug 2, 2007 7:13AM PDT

I thought it was a mistake but...it's a real word.

http://drama-education.com/links/computers.htm

Cambat

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So maybe he should be in a play?? Happy

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Actually....
Aug 2, 2007 9:09AM PDT

it [is] a mistake. But it wasn't my fault. The computer did it. Happy

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Still could be "cambat"
Aug 2, 2007 9:54AM PDT
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Seems to me he would be a danger to this comrades...
Aug 2, 2007 9:32AM PDT

I wouldn't want this guy to be armed with combat weapons ANYWHERE.

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"Deserves" ?
Aug 3, 2007 1:39PM PDT

Like "deserves" to be put in jail ?

Professional military detest combat more than anyone. But isn't that the real mission of the military ? Isn't that what career military study and train for ? Isn't combat the ultimate test of personal character in a proud profession ?

No, individuals such as this impersonator do not deserve to be in the military, let alone combat. He'd fake it when it most counts.

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Mabe he could run for POTUS.
Aug 4, 2007 10:19AM PDT
Devil