MASS PROTEST!

DISCOURAGED FORWARD! Junior Cape Crusaders Worldwide and our trusty side-kick Psychotic and Homicidal Lynn"The Lying Brain" Thomas of COWS BLOC!

"Thank God it's Friday! Thank God I am Free because men like Jack Idema are in JAIL"!!!

ROFLMAOWTIME! MASS PROTEST! Well Junior Cape Crusaders give our imprisoned POW Hero Leader "Commander" Jack "Desert Fraud" Idema a microphone and he will lie is skinny, cowardly ass off. Recently Jackbo went on his Whore Radio program with associate fraudsters Ted "Get Fit in Bed" Kavanau and Barry "The Fibber" "GoooooooD Loves You" Farber another Chrsitian fraud and announced a MASSIVE PRO-JACK IDEMA rally was held at the Afghan Embassy in Washington DC.

Metro PD deployed hundreds of officers! Had their SWAT Unit deployed on roof tops, with helicopters flying overhead! Yep the rally was massive. The Capitol Hill Police estimated that the size of the crowd ranged between....four and five...... FOUR OR FIVE PEOPLE dress in blue burkas! PERIOD!

Oops! Did we say four or five? 4 0r 5 people or were they creatures? LOL ....4 or 5? YEP MASSIVE!

It was the FOUR BIMBOS! Which included Lynn "The Lying Brain" Thomas! Plus their trusty side kick photo-journo BIMBESKY! Jackbo your such a lying piece of garbage. Jack goes on to say that he has had his teeth knocked out because of being tortured. LOL! Gee Jack thats just to bad. We know a few people who would just love to knock your teeth out! Jackbo boasted of his exploits in Afghanistan in the 80s and 90s.... Right Jackbo you were in Afghanistan in the 80s and 90s and even back then you were hunting for Bin Laden! LOL! What a lying midget!

LOL! You see Cape Crusaders if Jackbo ever said any of this in a court of law he would not only get his legal butt handed to him but his teeth as well.

Well Jackbo while your sitting in Jail play acting hero lying your cowardly pussy helicopter tour guide ass off. Real Green Berets, the ones YOU are banned from partying with were doing doing just that. Having a PARTY!

Monday, 09/11/06

Fighting soldiers, tender brothers

'Green Berets' author and icon Robin Moore reunites with his comrades at Fort Campbell

By TIM GHIANNI
Senior Writer

The $10,000 bottle of scotch explains why globe-trotting author Robin Moore of "Green Berets" and "French Connection" fame has settled in Hopkinsville, Ky. "This is home," says th 80-year-old author who purchased the bottle of Chivas Regal at an auction to fund a Green Beret "safe house."

Tucked into the corn country nudged against Campbell Army Airfield's perimeter, the safe house is actually a semi-secret clubhouse where Green Berets seek fellowship.

Moore's bid on that bottle of scotch he outbid the previous high offer by $9,500 helped his beloved brothers in arms, the subjects of his most-acclaimed book, "The Green Berets," buy this worn farmhouse.

"We're the only ones who understand what we do," says Steve Stone, referring to "The Brotherhood" of Green Berets, whether fresh from Iraq or weathered by Vietnam, who converge here. He nods to Moore. "And that's our icon sitting right there."

Men who've lived with death ricocheting around them know nothing is forever . . Except that bottle of scotch.

"This bottle is our version of Kennedy's eternal flame," says Stone, reaching into a closet to retrieve the expensive hooch. "We always keep it full for Mr. Moore and his friends."

Moore didn't just popularize the term "Green Berets" in his book about the Special Forces in Vietnam; he earned lifetime membership in The Brotherhood. "There's no such thing as an ex-Green Beret," explains Stone. You are a Green Beret, and then you're dead, whether of battle wounds or of old age.

Thanks to his Harvard classmate and pal Robert F. Kennedy and RFK's big brother Moore talks of "Jack,"(NOT YOU JACKBO BUT JACK KENNEDY) as if he's in the room the author is the only civilian to go through training andserve in combat as a Green Beret. The 36-year-old Sheraton Hotels heir simply wanted towrite a book. Instead, he chronicled history, fueled a myth. Most of all, he became The Brotherhood's literary sibling.

When illness began to slow him, with Parkinson's creeping in and throat cancer the undiagnosed, he and wife Helen moved to Hopkinsville, the retirement home of many members of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), the Green Berets stationed at nearby Fort Campbell.

"This is where we wanted to live," Moore says, voice softened by the radiation and chemo for the cancer he prays has been licked. "My friends are here. I was with the 5th Group in Vietnam, and I knew more people here than anywhere else."

Their home in the Great Oaks subdivision suits this Green Beret author. There's a pool and a garden. Black Hawks regularly chop the air overhead, and during training there's a soundtrack of artillery fire.

The library is crammed with Moore's books and resource materials for his writing. He is working on his memoirs (WITHOUT JACKBOs HELP THANK GOD!) and a book about reincarnation. His daily writing regimen takes him to the computer by 7:30 a.m. Some days "my fingers don't work so well" because of the Parkinson's, so he dictates. He spends the afternoon reviewing the morning's work beforestopping at 5:30 p.m. for a taste of Johnny Walker Black.

A comfy existence for sure. But comfort could be found in the property the author still owns in Jamaica, where the couple first met a half-century ago, and in a cottage in Yorkshire, England.

Next-door neighbor Robert Hall illustrates why the Moores chose this as their destination. "I come over to mow their lawn," says this retired Green Beret who also claims friendship with Ross Perot. "Helen likes to let the grass grow long. She doesn't know copperheads like long grass."

Hall's not just watching out for beloved neighbors, he's protecting the icon of The Brotherhood.

Steve Stone, a retired major who is secretary of Chapter 38 of the Special Forces Association and "keeper" of its clubhouse, says "The Green Berets" book and its movie version starring John Wayne are almost biblical. "The movie's one of about three movies that didn't show us as crazy killers."

"I just was telling the story of these men and what they did," Moore says, saying the book, its subsequent daily comic strip and the movie were misunderstood by "the peaceniks." When he wrote the book, "I wasn't pro-Green Beret or anti-Green Beret." He was a writer walking in the boots of men he now forever regards as heroes.

That love is mutual. "The fellows are always dropping in to visit with Robin," says Helen, 20 years her husband's junior. "And if I need to be gone for a while, one of them comes to stay with him." Al Morace displays that devotion during lunch at a local family restaurant. The retired Green Beret sergeant major served in Vietnam when Moore was there. "He didn't know me. We weren't on the same team. But we all knew about Robin and what he was doing," Morace says.

Morace keeps a steady eye on Moore to make sure he can eat his half-slab of ribs despite Parkinson's palsy. Subtly helping his "big brother" with knife and napkin, Morace insures that Moore's dignity is preserved despite the messy ribs.

The author is a frequent and much-sought guest at Fort Campbell ceremonies. "I fall down sometimes," says Moore, who supports himself with a cane. His collection of walking canes, by the way, includes one that holds a tube for scotch.

"When I was in Afghanistan, I had one like this. Me and some of the fellows sat down and shared it," Moore says with a twinkle in his piercing blue eyes.

That cane burst someplace in Taliban country, but a duplicate has been found. And the hidden tube does indeed contain dark amber liquid.

It's not what's in the cane that makes Moore stumble. Rather, it's the reason he uses the cane at all, the Parkinson's, that steals mobility and stability. When he does tumble at functions, the Green Beret at his side for he's always escorted by brothers grabs Moore's elbows and they continue walking, without missing precise military stride. It's a gentle gesture among hard men.

Helen Moore explains the relationship simply: "One of the things that is special about Robin's Green Beret brothers is that they treat Robin as a person. They don't ask for anything in return.

"They aren't asking for help getting a book published. They aren't asking for money. "For us, it's so nice to be around a group of people like these. They have this wonderful respect and love and consideration for Robin.

"When Robin was sick (his throat cancer was diagnosed and treated not long after he and Helen moved here a year ago), the help and support we got from these men was incredible."

The Moores reciprocate the love by helping with the safe house. "We donate bits from time to time and I have my odd coin jar. As it fills up, we donate that," Helen says. At least once a week "we go out there and have a bit of fun with the guys."

Books by Moore jam the safe house's bookshelf. There's also a photo of the Duke from the filming of "The Green Berets" on the wall. Other decorations include a "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster for Osama bin Laden and the mounted head of a cape buffalo. Green Berets, who have served in places such as Somalia, call the African beast "the deadliest animal alive."

Dead, the buffalo wears the beret of Joe Cyr, a clubhouse regular who died of cancer. cigarette dangles from the animal's mouth.

Stone also points to a cross made of charred metal. It's sacred and it came from someplace secret "up north," he hints. It also traveled back and forth to Afghanistan. Perhaps it's made of a piece of the Twin Towers? Stone will say no more.

The history of Moore's relationship with these troops also fills the author's home, 20 minutes from this outpost.

Moore points to photos of himself in Vietnam, where he was exposed to the brutality of war. "We were with the Montagnards (the hill tribesmen who fought alongside U.S. forces). We were fighting Viet Cong. I had to shoot a guy. If I hadn't, someone else would have. Then I was told, 'If you don't cut the right ear off, they'll think you're a (wimp).' '' The Montagnards collected bounty for each ear collected.

There's also a copy of "The Ballad of the Green Berets," the song Moore wrote with the late Barry Sadler, a member of The Brotherhood who sang that hit recording.

"I'm in great company, Robin," writes "The Duke, John Wayne," on a photo taken during the 1967 filming of the movie.

"I really liked Duke," says the author, who spent many nights nursing the script and whiskey with Wayne on the set at Fort Benning, GA. "We rode motorcycles together, and one time I crashed. Duke pulls up and I tell him I broke my collarbone. He picks me up off the ground and says 'You're all right, Robin.' The writer laughs, still softly, because of his cancer. "Duke was a good guy. He said to me atthe time, 'Robin, I'm trying to lick cancer.' I said, 'I hope you do.' ''

Wayne won that battle with cancer, though he was felled a dozen years later by the disease.

"Now, all these years later, I'm licking cancer," Moore says. "I'm an eternal optimist. And I think about Duke. If he beat cancer, I can, too."

A painting in the living room shows The Blue Lagoon in Jamaica, where the author lived in the 1950s and where he and sidekick Errol Flynn swashbuckled through the female populace.

"Robin was something of the town stud," according to Helen, who first met him down there. She was a schoolgirl of 15, perhaps younger, and her family nixed any relationship between her and the twice-divorced writer or with his drinking buddy.

Helen's family moved away, putting the kibosh on that relationship for a half-century or so. By the time Helen and Moore reconnected for good, he was in his late 70s and had been married four times. She also had enjoyed a full family life in England and South Africa. After 50 years, the two finally were both single and past the age of consent. "We've been together ever since" they met up again in 2002, she says.

They were married at a 2005 Green Beret convention in Nashville. Morace, in blue jeans and Green Beret, held a shotgun to the author's back as he marched them down the aisle at the Music City Sheraton.

"It was truly wonderful," says the bride. Soon after the nuptials, they began Hopkinsville house-shopping to be near members of The Brotherhood.

At the safe house, where Moore sits on this day nursing a glass of club soda on the rocks, he is regarded as oracle, ailing older brother and national treasure.

"He's a bit of history," offers Wendell Greene, a retired Sergeant First Class. "I read the book when I was a rare young man. And I said, 'I'm going to be a Green Beret.' "

The author smiles, says he's going to live the rest of his days in the embrace of these men.

Then he whispers, "Now I'd like some of that $10,000 scotch.'' The Green Berets scramble to pour him about $500 worth".

"Stone looks through the smoke of his cigarette and warns: "We love this man. If ever we caught anybody taking advantage of Robin, he'd be well, we'd circle the wagons around Robin." A half-dozen of his fellows nod. Some cross their forearms."

Eh.... Jackbo getting the message?

"Stone looks through the smoke of his cigarette and warns: "We love this man. If ever we caught anybody taking advantage of Robin, he'd be well, we'd circle the wagons around Robin."

Well Jackbo if your teeth are not knocked out by now just maybe, just maybe they will be after you return! BTW Jackbo want to bet that this is one SAFE house you would not be welcomed at or have the BALLS to drop over and say hello!

Oh yeah one last thing big bad Dodo instructor Jackbo"Got Bitch Slapped" Idema! There is no mention in this article of that fictional book you wrote.... The "Hunt For Bin laden".... Baaaad Jack Idema....


DISCOURAGED FORWARD!
FOXTROT YOU JACKBO

Striking It Rich!

DISCOURAGED FORWARD! Junior Cape Crusaders Worldwide and our trusty side-kick Psychotic and Homicidal Lynn Thomas of COWS BLOC!

Hello.....Junior Cape Crusaders – We Have Struck it Rich!

Man alive Jackbo! We would never have believed what a gold mine of information we would start getting about you. Its like someone opened up the floodgates on a dam!.

First your worst nightmare comes true. Your old commanding officer from Fort Devens days surfaces. You know, the one you told COW didn’t exist anymore? The guy that COW said only spent a year in the Army and then got out? The one that was “never in a position to evaluate you?” The one you told COW never wrote that scathing report about you back in 1977? The one that was cited in the press and your federal parole report as writing “the most unprofessional, unmotivated, immature enlisted man I have ever met”; “continuously one step ahead of punitive disciplinary action” (Whoa Nellie!! Just what did you do back there at Fort Devens Jackbo?)

Well it turns out that your old commander spent an entire career in the Army, retired from active duty and still works in the National Military Command Center in the Pentagon. You and COW couldn’t be much further off track that that could you? Better check your F-6 sources out there Jackbo. Your old commander apparently told COW the whole story about you being a lousy soldier was TRUE. How come old COW doesn’t post that on her blog site? She wouldn’t be holding back pertinent, verified, first-hand information from her readers that blows all of your BS stories about your SF days out of the water, would she? How come we were able to obtain a copy of the info from our sources and yet COW hasn’t found the time to let the world know the truth about her favorite “super patriot.” She puts every other scrap of BS on her site. Why not some truth, however unpleasant, from time to time? How about it COW?

So, your old commander writes COW and gives her a real earful. It turns out we were able to obtain a copy of his e-mail from our sources out there in the retired SF world. Boy did he give COW an earful. Wow, if I were you, I would want to keep that kind of stuff buried as well. This isn’t just a skeleton in the closet. It’s an entire graveyard full of skeletons!

All this old info just doesn’t help that totally bogus image you are trying to portray of being a super SF operator when you were in fact a chronic disciplinary problem, thrown off of A-teams twice and finally sent to serve out your enlistment time in a rear echelon job in the group signal company. Some rep you racked up there, Jackbo. Nice going! If you had just had some more time on active duty, you might have been able to make it all the way from Fort Devens to the military prison at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary during your illustrious one-and-only tour on active duty. But no mind Jackbo, you eventually made to federal prison all on your own, once you were out of the Army of course and you even did it without the help of your former 10^th Group colleagues. Bravo!

Our recent posting of your old commander’s email to COW really started the ball rolling. We are getting all kinds of emails. What a bunch of stories we are getting! We got the story about you in the barracks (really now Jackbo, knife fighting with your unarmed roommate – Is that any way to behave, especially when your he takes your knife away and beats you up?). We have some stories from your old teammates about your sub-standard performance on training exercises. We have heard from a couple of sources on the real story about how you lucked into a SCUBA School slot (not selected – just pure luck). We also have the story about how you were cashiered from attending the German Mountain School, so we also know that you lied about attending schools that you never even got close to, or better yet, some that never even existed!

It seems that there was no love lost between you and almost everybody else in the entire 10^th Special Forces Group. We are checking out the stories just as fast as we can. Frankly Jackbo, this might take a while. But as soon as we can, we will be posting more about your early days in Special Forces. Just sit tight there in your cell. (Is it padded? I hope so because you might just end up banging your head on the walls when you read some of the stuff we have recently received).

Just so you know, we are definitely keeping good records of all the info that we get. All this is an absolute must to include in a movie about you once you finally get your sorry ass out of that Afghan jail. We even have an idea for a title for your movie, “Little Big Man 2”. Maybe it would be better if the title was “Little Little Man.” One of the guys suggested “Jackbo the Dodo” but that probably would not be a good idea. Someone might think it was a family film about a big dumb bird instead of a film about a foul-mouthed big, dumb, soldier wannabe. Would you want Dustin Hoffman to play the lead role? Or would you rather play the lead role yourself? Just think Jackbo, all that time in front of a camera, being able to stage things just the way you imagined them, but of course not the way they really were. Just like your stories from Afghanistan.

Hey Cape Crusaders, here is a riddle for you. What is the difference between a real SF soldier and Jackbo?

Give up?

Well, a real SF soldier believes things when he sees them, and ol’ Jackbo sees things when he believes them.

Quite a bit of difference there Jackbo.

Now Jackbo, just a thought here, and I don’t mean to alarm you, but . . . Do you think there might be federal marshals waiting for you when your plane lands back in the good ol’ USA someday? I’ll bet you won’t get you a cushy cell with TV, SATCOM phone or any of the other comforts we hear your Daddy’s money has been able to buy for you over there. But then there may be an upside if you end up back in an American slammer. You will be back in the USA and COW will come visit you. Have her bake you a cake with a file in it.

Keep your chin up Jackbo. Maybe another one of your roommates might just plant another hard right on it for you, with or without a knife in your hand. (You big, bad Hwa Rang Dodo instructor, you).

Have a great day Jackbo.

DISCOURAGED FORWARD!

THE FOUR BLUE BIMBOS - UPDATED!

DISCOURAGED FORWARD! Junior Cape Crusaders Worldwide and our trusty side-kick Psychotic and Homicidal Lynn Thomas of COWS BLOC!

Well Junior Cape Crusaders we have been able to confirm that Lynn "The LYING Brain" Thomas and her Blue BIMBO Brigade did NOT meet with the Afghan Ambassador to the United States as Lynnbo claimed. She like Jackbo is so full of shit! LOL!

Yes another LIE from this Christian woman! Matter of fact if Lynnbo and her Blue BIMBOS did anything they helped us and not Jackbo. Now General Payenda and the Ambassador know first hand how much of a JACK-ASS our imprisoned POW Hero Leader "Commander" Jack Idema really is. You see Jackbo we HAD a meeting with General Payenda about you! Hopefully Jackbo will now get his butt handed to him ..... Jack wait until you see what is planned for you in Poughkeepsie! Your Dad will be very impressed! So will all of his neighbors! LOL!

BTW Lynnbo you look great in a burka! Matter of fact we think you should keep wearing it for good. It really does improve your looks! And yes just like your honeybee you also look good in hand cuffs! Wonder if you need to get off the same way Jack does? You know Jack the way your ...eh...wife said you needed to get off!

But Lynnbo and her Blue Bimbos mocked all Afghan women and their plight pulling off this stunt just for that "TIN SOLDIER" JACK IDEMA! Hey JACK suck eggs you ain't getting out anytime soon! We have made sure of that!

Matter of fact we made sure that a certain Afghan woman who is actually fighting for womens rights in Afghanistan was made aware of this mockery! We also gave her Lynnbo's home address and phone number as well as General Payenda just so he knows who was responsible for this mockery.

Maybe the Taliban will come calling? This is the type of women Lynn "The Brain" Thomas really is. One who cares less for others and more to propel a fraud hurting and mocking the true cause and plight of all Afghan Women!

We also love the Indymedia article by Karen Summerfeld that well known and award winning reporter! Published so often this is her only article! Of course when you click on the email link you get...

"Unverified Email Addresses

If an email address is listed as "unverified", that means that we sent a confirmation email to the author, and they did not respond with the proper confirmation code associated with this article. This may indicate that the author is not who they claim to be. It may also mean that the poster simply didn't bother to confirm.

A "no verified email address" warning is similar, in that the poster was not willing or able to provide their email address at all.

If you tend towards skepticism, be wary of articles without verified email addresses unless you believe there to be sufficient reason for withholding that information. But if you want to believe in the credibility of a source, insist on verified email addresses!

See also: Email Verified"

"But if you want to believe in the credibility of a source, insist on verified email addresses!" LOL! Credibility and Jack Idema and Lynn "The LYING Brain" Thomas! Now there is a double contradiction in terms!

Yes Junior Cape Crusaders nothing like a bunch of FRAUDS to post a fraudulent self serving, pompous, supercilious, grandiloquent news article! But what did you expect from Lynn "The Lying Brain" Thomas and Jack "Tin Soldier" Idema? Hell if Jack can't get a legit news outlet to cover him then screw it, send in a phony article! BTW Jackbo bet Floyd Abrams sends his regards! He also sends you a "PAY UP" you jailhouse lawyer and deadbeat kiss!

Well Jackbo don't worry, we hear that your going to become famous in the press once again and very soon! LOL! Your going to love it!

DISCOURAGED FORWARD!
The boyz at A324 send you Jailhouse greetings! They hope you have a very long stay!
FOXTROT YOU JACK!

THE FOUR BIMBOS!

DISCOURAGED FORWARD! Junior Cape Crusaders Worldwide and our trusty side-kick Psychotic and Homicidal Lynn Thomas of COWS BLOC!

Oh what a hoot Junior Cape Crusaders! Here we have Lynn "The Brain" Thomas spinning her rather large lying fanny off.

LOL! Pro-Jack Idema Rally! LOL! Hey Jackbo we see you got some BIMBOS to fall for your crap! Bad Jackbo has his BIMBO camp now fighting for him! LOL! Hey Jackbo, what ever happen to your wife? You know the one. The one you have not mentioned for almost a year now! Remember Vicky ...eh... whats her name?

Well Junior Cape Crusaders we know better. While women in Afghanistan are very much depressed there are those like the Three Bimbo's here at Afghan Injustice and COW's Blog the fourth BIMBO who are about as phony as Jackbo himself playing on a very serious situation of which they have no clue on. Or maybe this is one of Jackbo's mirror sights? Of course it is its just another Idema vanity site! If these BIMBOS think burkas are a problem then all of them have no clue to what the very serious issues on womans rights are in Afghanistan and they are just insulting all Afghan women!

Hey Jackbo forget Karazi why not try your bubba Younis Qanooni? He is one of the main obstacles for women to gain their rights! Just like Jackbo trying to blame everything on Karazi! What a JACK-ASS he is! Oh hey Lynnbo there are some 64 Women in the Afghan Assembly think you should have tried to get to them to help point them in the right direction? Naaaa that would be a noble cause! Lynnbo went to DC for a Idema photo-op!

There are real and very serious women's groups such as Afghan Womans Network living the nightmare everyday and working with the United Nations fighting the good fight for their rights in a male dominated Afghanistan! Instead of the play acting like the FOUR BIMBOS are pulling off here!

So if Lynn "The Brain" Thomas went to DC to make a statement on burkas she is a bigger idiot and user than we thought. Like she really give a hoot about Afghan Women! Right and Jackbo is the next Space Shuttle Commander! Then to top that off she wants you to believe this was a PRO JACK IDEMA RALLY! What a hoot! Maybe the Four Bimbo's should move to Kabul and really try and fight for womens right and to FREE JACK IDEMA!

What's next Lynnbo you went to the Pentagon on 9/11 to support Jackbo and saw Rummy? What an insult to all the 911 Families who lost love ones! what an insult to all those American Soldiers who lost their lives fighting for us! Instead of paying tribute to those AMERICANS who lost their lives in the attack Lynnbo and the other THREE BIMBOS are using the Afghan womans movement to support Jack Idema! Just like bimbos would do..... Use'em for all there worth! Hey Thomas why not try fighting for a good cause without bringing up JACK-ASS? Like a good Christian women would do! What Christian women? Thats another phony!

If Lynnbo was truly a honest chrsitan woman seeking honest answers she would post Jackbo's old Commanding Officers e-mail and even reply to it. Of course she will never reply to that one or to to Billy Waugh! What a lying sack of Illinois waste! Now old Lynnbo is using the plight of Afghan Women to continue the lie!

Jack your a scumbag! Lynnbo your his lying slutress! The other three bimbos? Well if you put these three and Lynnbo side by side what you would get is..... a aerodynamicly built wind tunnel!

One that could fit both a 747 and Lynnbo lying fanny!

DISCOURAGED FORWARD!
Kicks ...Jackbo saved the Vice President, the Assembly, countless Afghans and of course God as well!

Disavowing Lynn Thomas

DISCOURAGED FORWARD! Junior Cape Crusaders Worldwide and our trusty side-kick Psychotic and Homicidal Lynn Thomas of COWS BLOC!

"Thank God it's Friday! Thank God I am Free because men like Jack Idema are in JAIL"!!!

Yes Junior Cape Crusaders today we want to do a little detective work and analyze one of COW’s recent picture posts. Yes, somehow COW came up with a “NEVER BEFORE SEEN OR PUBLISHED” picture of a young Keith Idema. (Anyone care to guess who provided her a copy of the photo?) Along with the photo, our wacko Lynnbo published her usual insightful analysis and commentary, and, as usual, it is pure trash and 98% wrong. We will take today’s post to go through her comments and add our own sumplementary commentary.

Sit back and enjoy yourselves.

Cao’s Commentary:

“Oh look again, Uncle Jimbo, this is another genuine picture of the real deal, a very young Jack Idema, in his uniform (courtesy of the JFK Special Warfare Center & School). It is a picture that no one has ever seen or published, and one that Idema has never released. But I think we can all agree, it really is him.”

SP Counter-Commentary:

Oh look again, Mama COW, this sure looks like some civilian photo studio glamour shot of a very young Keith Idema, all puffed up and posing for the camera for an “I Love Me” photo (he went by “Keith” back in those days but that just wasn’t “sexy” or “bad” enough if you are trying to bluff your way through the world and don’t have any real soldiering credentials, hence the later name change to “Jack.”) Hey, Jack you didn’t get anything else changed at the same time you changed your name? No little trips to Sweden for some , uh, shall we say, unmentionable surgical procedures? That might explain why some of your former colleagues call you, well, a “p****”? ). This picture is not really from JFK Center files, but what the hell, nothing else that Idema says is truthful, why not lie your ass off on this too. “No one as ever seen this picture”, unless of course, you go to Jack’s “I Love Me Wall” where it probably hangs prominently displayed for the whole world to see. Yes COW, your ARE right about one thing. We can all sadly agree this is JFK* Idema (Jonathan “Fraud” Keith Idema).

Cao’s Comentary Continued:

So, all the “experts” out there don’t get their knickers in a twist over Idema’s missing black and white name badge, during those years 10th SFG(A) operated against the Soviets, and those on teams with real world USSR missions did not wear nametags on their dress green uniform.

SP Counter-Commentary:

For all you experts out there, you can probably smell a BS story as well as anyone, according to “Keith’s” commanding officer in 10^th SFG from the period when this photo was taken, 10^th Group personnel wore their nametags on their dress greens. Period. It is more likely Jackbo had this photo taken when he was home on leave and forgot to bring his nametag along with him. But, what the hell, a sexy BS story about “real world missions against the USSR “ sounds so much better than, “Hey, I forgot my nametag.” Maybe he lost his nametag when he was down on Red Square, breaking into the Kremlin, on a super secret “real world” USSR mission – probably trying to steal a road map so he could find his way to the super secret non-existent “boomer” sub base at Vladivostok for his next super secret mission. How’s that for BS?!

Cao’s Comentary Continued:

Let’s see, this one was taken around 1977, when you were what, about 10 years old? Back then, the Army Special Forces uniforms were slightly different also. There was no Special Forces “Tab” for graduating, you were awarded your Green Beret after Phase I (Selection) and your “full Flash” after you graduated fully qualified. The Special Forces Tab wouldn’t even be invented for another ten years, right before your time, but it seems to be “missing” off Uncle Jimbo’s Philippines and Paintball pictures.

SP Counter-Commentary:

Aside from the personal attack on “Uncle Jimbo,”, I do believe that Jackbo and COW actually did get something right for once. The SF tab would not be authorized until much later and the full flash was awarded after completion of Phase III for the enlisted course. On the officer’s side of things, beret and flash were awarded upon completion of SFOC. There was no interim awarding of the beret as SFOC was not broken down into phases like the enlisted course. But you wouldn’t know that Jackbo, because, despite your claims that you were a Special Officer OFFICER, you were never even close to earning a commission. Even Army bureaucracy isn’t THAT stupid.

Cao’s Comentary Continued:

What else can we notice? Jack Idema is wearing a green Full Flash designating 10th Special Forces Group (ABN),

SP Counter-Commentary:

Wow COW! What a keen eye for detail you have there! Idema IS wearing a full flash. What that means in Idema’s case is something different than for others who went through SF school and wear the flash. For Idema it means that, after failing 05B Phase II course twice, and having a rich Daddy get his congressman involved, and having pressure brought to bear on the Army, ol’ Jackbo was recycled for what was probably an unheard of third try to get through the SF school, but this third time he was placed in the easier 11B specialty (light weapons) track. Wow, Jackbo, glad you made it! I don’t think even your Daddy or your congressman could have gotten you a fourth pass at the SF course. We heard they graduated you just to get you out of their hair. Too bad for the guys up at Fort Devens. They probably thought they were getting a SF Weapons Sergeant. What they got sure sounds like someone else’s bag of dirty laundry being passed along.

Cao’s Comentary Continued:

[H]e has an expert marksman badge, with little placards hanging off it, which are probably for either Expert rifle, pistol, and grenade, or Expert rifle, pistol, and machinegun.

SP Counter-Commentary:

Holy COW! Lady, can’t you get anything right? The correct term for the expert marksmanship badge suspended bars is not “placards” but “clasps.” Any moron can go on line and look up AR 670-1 and get the correct terminology. What are the clasps? We can’t see. Grenade? Not likely. Jackbo might have blown himself up with a real grenade. One thing is for sure. The clasps can’t include “Bayonet.” Jackbo has already showed us his “expert” knife fighting skills with his barracks “Hwa Rang Dodo” episode. (Score: Roommate -1 / Jackbo – 0) Hey, maybe one of the clasps says “potato peeler” on it. Why don’t you ask him, COW? Oh yes, just about every soldier in the entire US Army ends up with one of these little pretty marksmanship badges. They really don’t mean Jack Shit (Sorry Jackbo, you don’t mean Jack Shit either).

Cao’s Comentary Continued:

He has a Parachute badge, and a SCUBA badge, which means he graduated what is arguably the world’s most difficult special operations school– note I said the WORLD’s most difficult school.

SP Counter-Commentary:

As for Jackbo’s SCUBA badge? Correct there Lynnbo – but look for future postings on how little Jackbo lucked into a SCUBA slot – he sure didn’t earn it from what we hear. As for the SCUBA course being the “WORLD’S most difficult school.” Hey, Lynnbo, I thought you said Jack’s Hwa Rang Dodo course was the toughest school in the world? You have simply got to make up your mind! Granted, SCUBA school was physically demanding, no argument there, but “WORLD’S most difficult.” That just might be stretching things a bit COW. Here is a web site: The Special Forces Underwater Operations Combat Diver Course and an extract from that site. Let’s see what other people who have been through the course say:

“The Special Forces Underwater Operations Combat Diver Course. This is one of the tougher schools the Army has to offer. If you make it through the OL-H, it is not too difficult physically...but you still have to learn dive tables, physiology, tides, waves, and currents, CPR, submarine lock-in/out, etc. “

Hey Lynnbo, maybe we should check and see if it took Jackbo more than one pass to get through SCUBA school. Jackbo, who was your SCUBA buddy? We would like to get in touch with him. He might have some stories we can post. Did your congressman go through the course with you on this one or did you make it through on your own this time?

As for Jackbo’s parachute badge? Yes, Jackbo completed the Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning. Right along with many tens and tens of thousands of others before him. No big deal there Lynnbo. Or perhaps you want to tell us that Basic Airborne Course is the “WORLD’S most difficult course?”

Cao’s Comentary Continued:

You know, the school you failed and flunked out of Uncle Jimbo. Did you even get the first day of class in the school Idema graduated from with honors, then returned to teach, and eventually became a Master Diver, then a Master Instructor, and then a Master Instructor Trainer?

SP Counter-Commentary:

Who ever said Idema graduated with honor’s from the Basic Special Forces Underwater Operations Course? In fact Jackbo’s former commander says there are rumors that he washed out (he also says he doesn’t think they are true). We will get busy trying to see what the truth is on that. As for Master Diver? Lynnbo.. Army Master Diver IS NOT an SF course and SF guys don’t go to that school. In any case, Jackbo was thrown out of the Army in 1978 and didn’t attend any further diving schooling before that happy day in Army history. To quote Jackbo’s former commander “Bottom line -- No Idema on a SCUBA team -- no secret spook SCUBA missions. Just made up stories.”

Look COW, this is the Army Master Diver Badge from the official web page.

Army Master Diver Course (CIN A-433-0064) is the pinnacle of Army dive training. Successful completion of this 20-day course results in the award of the Master Diver Badge. The course includes classroom testing and training and a rigorous 3-day performance evaluation.

Note Lynnbo, that your hero IS NOT wearing a master diver’s badge. Never has. Never will (legitimately at least). Not even his later pictures in Afghanistan which show him wearing every bell and whistle he can possibly justify (and it looks like one or two he isn’t entitled to wear) is he wearing a Master Diver Badge? As for Master Instructor and then Master Instructor Trainer? Are those titles from Jackbo’s defunct and bogus two-bit counter terrorism school? It certainly doesn’t seem to be anything to do with Special Forces. But I’ll bet that Jackbo can come up with another certificate or two if we ask him.

Cao’s Comentary Continued:

According to a real Master Sergeant in the US Army Special Forces, Idema’s team had one of the most classified missions– the Soviet SSBN “Boomer” base in Vladivostok. Have you ever even seen a Closed Circuit Rebreather system for infiltrating into an enemy coastline, like the one a 20-year-old Idema is wearing here? Or locked out of a Submarine? Because according to real SF sources, like the real SF Master Sergeant pictured down below, Idema is has actually done sub lockouts (USS SEAWOLF as in the SSN-575 Seawolf, not the Seawolf class of sub), not just daydreamed about it.

SP Counter-Commentary:

We simply can’t put it any better than Jack’s former CO, the commander of ODA 324 who included this in his August 23 e-mail to you, COW:

“I don't know where you got the make-believe story about the mission against the "boomer base" in Vladivostok. If you knew anything at all, you would know that the Soviet (and now Russian) Pacific sub base for their missile subs is at Petropavlovsk. Vladivostok WAS and still IS a big Russian SURFACE navy base, but it is not a submarine "boomer" base. Bad news for the fantasy warriors. They really should do their homework before they start making up bogus war stories.

ODA 324 (the first team to which Idema was assigned) NEVER had a mission to operate in Russia and certainly not on the Russian Pacific coast. I guess as the CO of the detachment I would know what the wartime mission was and what country it was in. You are not even close. I don't know who your "real SF Master Sergeant" source is, but I hope you aren't paying real money for these ficticious stories. Perhaps the Vladivostok mission was so "super classified" they overlooked telling the unit commander, the team sergeant, or any other person on the team -- other than Idema of course.”

Lynnbo, it isn’t hard to guess that the source of this fairy tale from your “real Master Sergeant in US Army Special Forces” is Idema’s equally self-delusional buddy, Thomas Bumback. Like Jack, he apparently just doesn’t know crap from crisco. So Lynnbo, why don’t you post Colonel Carlson’s info on your bog site? Too much truth there for you? Or has Idema told you not to say anything that further exposes just what a fraud he is?

Oh yes, one last thing that you overlooked in your brilliant analysis of Jackbo’s glamour ego photo. Just look COW, Jackbo is wearing ALL of his awards and commendations. Let’s look real close. There is the Army Good Conduct ribbon (boy someone was asleep at the switch when they handed out that one.) Actually, GCRs were automatically processed by the unit personnel section unless otherwise told not to do so. That means, this photo must have been taken before Jackbo got his Article 15 (Non-judicial punishment) and rehab transfer from being thrown off ODA 324 in the spring of 1976. He also proudly wears the National Defense Service Ribbon, you know, the ribbon given to every single servicemember that finished basic training in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. What a small elite group that is! Oh, Jackbo. You are a true hero!

He also wears . . . . oops. That is all the personal awards he has! No combat awards. No meritorious service awards. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Zero. Just two ribbons handed out pro forma like candy on Halloween night to every enlisted man in the Army. What a hero your Jack is. Lynnbo, I’ll bet your heart just goes pitty-pat when you think about our heroic Jack . Forget the real heroes in the world Lynnbo. Jackbo is the “real deal” for sure.

One last bit of very advanced detective work and photo analysis here. Over Jackbo’s right breast pocket, he wears the unit citations for 10^th Special Forces Group. Jackbo is right at home with this. You see, he gets to wear the unit citations for the unit which were earned at times and places when Jackbo wasn’t actually with the unit. This may be where Jackbo first got the idea of taking credit for the heroic deeds of other’s, just like he has been doing ever since this photo was taken some 30 years ago. The difference is, in this photo he can actually wear the 10^th Group unit citations while assigned to 10^th Group and it is fully in accordance with Army regulations. As for taking credit for the heroic deeds of others since he was thrown out of the Army in 1978? Well that’s more than not being in accordance with regulations. It’s just plain pathetic and despicable.

Jackbo, you stink! And oh yes, COW, you stink too.

DISCOURAGED FORWARD!