Chris Christie calls former Navy SEAL an ‘idiot’

[Adam Wood]

I really didn't think he'd check out, but he looks legit:

SEAL
SEAL Team 8

2000 – 2005 (5 years)

5326-Combat Swimmer
NavSpecOps -(5326 Combat Swimmer)
United States Navy

Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Military industry

May 1997 – October 2005 (8 years 6 months)

Honorable -8th of October 2005
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal - 16th of Sept 2005
Iraq Campaign Medal 2004-2005
High Risk Protection Operations (BlackWater) - 20th of August 2004
Diving Supervisor (K-431-0048) 23rd of July 2004
U.S. Navy Parachutist Military FreeFall Class (CIN) A-431-0136 Ser N32/0433 25th of June 2004
ST8 - SEAL JSOQ Fourth Quarter - 2003
Lead Breacher - 2nd of July 2003
HRST/CAST Master-(K-431-0131) - 16th of May 2003
JTAC- Close Air Terminal Controller -NATO FAGC-Course # 02-02 - 8th of Feb 2002
ROS-(K-431-0100)
Spec Ops Spotter -August 2001
Tactical Communications - June 2001
SQT - 20th of April 2001
USAIS-Airborne Course - 24th of November 2000
BUD/s CLASS 231-27th of October 2000
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-brown/10/b63/945

I am presuming that you have the miltary experience to know whether he's for real or not. As such, if the guy's legit, then the guy's legit, and I retract anything offensive that I may have said questioning his service.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Just because you were physically tough enough to be a SEAL, and served your country, doesn't mean you can't be a total dickhead. There really isn't any shortage of dickheads in the military, trust me, I certainly ran into plenty of them in 37 years of service.

Respect for a vet's honorable service is not the same thing as a free pass for behaving badly later, and it does not extend to respect for any random stupid idea or opinion that may pop into his or her pointy little head in civic life.

[Dan D. Doty]

Just because you were physically tough enough to be a SEAL, and served your country, doesn't mean you can't be a total dickhead. There really isn't any shortage of dickheads in the military, trust me, I certainly ran into plenty of them in 37 years of service.

Respect for a vet's honorable service is not the same thing as a free pass for behaving badly later, and it does not extend to respect for any random stupid idea or opinion that may pop into his or her pointy little head in civic life.

I'd like to find out what the people who served with this guy thought of him?
Has always been a rude Moonbat, or is this a recent change.

[wannaberocker]

So a SEAL cant be an idiot? Did we forget Jesse Vantura.

[Rockntractor]

So a SEAL cant be an idiot? Did we forget Jesse Vantura.

Good case in point.

[JB]

Just because you were physically tough enough to be a SEAL, and served your country, doesn't mean you can't be a total dickhead. There really isn't any shortage of dickheads in the military, trust me, I certainly ran into plenty of them in 37 years of service.

Respect for a vet's honorable service is not the same thing as a free pass for behaving badly later, and it does not extend to respect for any random stupid idea or opinion that may pop into his or her pointy little head in civic life.

Well said DAT.

I was thinking the same thing. Why keep prefacing the story with that...former SEAL. If the guy is being a douche, he's a douche. At least at that moment.

[Chuck58]

I wonder if any of the DUmmies recall that before john kerry the Traitor ran for President, we (veterans and active military) were hated. Suddenly it became a love fest.

If the OP had happened before kerry the Traitor, nobody on DU would have posted a thing about it.

And, of course, they hate Christie because he doesn't take any BS from their side.