Could freerepublic founder have served in Navy with Swiftboat liars?

Unfortunately I'm asking, not telling...

I did some googling and Jim Robinson (freakrepublic founder) was in the Navy and served in Vietnam.

I haven't started the massive task of going through the names of the SB liars and comparing them to RimJob (sorry I guess that should be "Jim Rob")

If any DU'ers are in the mood to help google this and look for a connection that would be great...I am looking, but this is sort of a massive task and maybe a group effort would speed things up.

This may be a dead end but my personal hunch is...this scumbag is intimately tied to the swiftboat smear and participants.

Here's the link to Robinson's own resume and service dates just for the hell of it--I plan to do some digging but I am only one person!

http://www.psnw.com/~jimrob/resume.htm

US Navy: Enlisted 1965 - 1969, Honorable Discharge
Rating: Third Class Petty Officer, Interior Communications Electrician. Was eligible for promotion to Second Class Petty Officer, but elected not to extend enlistment.

Sea Duty: USS Higbee (DD806), USS Hull (DD945), USS Wiltsie (DD716). Home ports: Long Beach; San Diego; Mare Island; Yokosuka, Japan; Subic Bay, Philippines. Other Ports of call: Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Chilung (Keelung), Midway, Guam, Pearl Harbor, Bremerton, WA

Action: Cruised to WestPac, in 1965 - 1966, and 1967 - 1968, aboard the destroyers Higbee and Hull, engaged enemy off the coast of Vietnam while delivering Naval gunfire support to forces ashore.

most on a ship.... Could be.

- specializing in tongue tossed salads...

I'm new on DU, but if you look at my first post on here, they are really mean over at freepers. They called me everything from a bad Catholic to a heretic to you name it because I support John Kerry. Sure glad I'm not a narrow, closed minded Repub.

there are no narrow-minded partisan hacks on our side...:evilgrin:

Lol. You know what I mean. I swear, they'd all jump a bridge if Bush said do it, though.

we'd never jump...requires us to release our grip on reality...

That YOU Rimjob?

he would have talked about it long before now. The guy can't keep his mouth shut. His connection to the SB vets is through Corsi and likely, many others that are members over at FR. I suspect many of the SB vets have connections to FR probably either as members, their network, or other ways. How many? Its hard to say. But all evidence points to FR as the biggest driver behind the SB vets. Its their tone, their manner, everything. FR represents the gutter of the right wing.

From Paula Jones on forward!

I think JimRob may be involved in this, but I don't think he is a Swift Liar.

"While in the Navy, I served on destroyers for four years as an Interior Communications Electrician (responsible for maintenance of telephone circuits, public address systems, alarm circuits, navigational compass, engine order telegraph, and related communications repeaters and equipment, etc.).

3. I served several tours on shore bombardment duty off the coast of Vietnam aboard two of my destroyers. I earned a Navy Unit commendation while aboard one destroyer for firing a record number of shells during one tour. I achieved the rank of Third Class Petty Officer during my enlistment. At the time of my discharge, I was eligible for promotion to Second Class Petty Officer, but I would have been required to extend my enlistment and decided not to do so."
http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/freerep/19991029rob.htm

This by the way is a lawsuit between the LA Times and FR. I read elsewhere that FR loses this lawsuit.

EOM

Those are all destroyers and besides a Swift boat would have absolutely no use for an IC man.

I am not finding any common names here.

But I wonder how sterling Robinson's "service" was?

He has already insinuated in all their rallies and freakrepublic events over the years that he's a wounded wheel chair bound vet
(when in fact his disability doesn't have a thing to do with his service!)

Oh well! Back to the drawing board!

But it's the "For want of a nail, a shoe was lost ...a horse ...a battle, etc."

Where he brags about the "Navy Unit Commendation" - the key word is UNIT, meaning that every swabbie on the ship, from paint-chipper to cook to captain on the ship during a defined period of time earned the right to wear that decoration, no individual "heroics" involved, just everybody doing his own job.

Just by setting foot off the plane in Vietnam, wham bam, you get to wear the Vietnam Campaign medal. I don't know about the ships off the coast, or whether being inside territorial waters counts. These are the round types of medals. The pointy, star medals, like JK's, are for specific acts of individual accomplishment of one sort or another.