This right here is why joining the US military is the worst decision anyone can do because it will set you up for a lifetime of poverty. This skills you learn are not transferable to the private sector and if you do try to transfer those skills you will end up like this guy.
Thanks God I’m too old to join US Military. It saves me from making the worst decision. 
Ok, which Obama-appointed judge is preparing kids gloves in dealing with the alleged traitor?
Robert Russell Garwood returned to the United States in March after 16 years in Vietnam, 19 of them behind Vietcong lines. Two days before he landed, the Marine Corps brought charges against him.
The charges are hard ones: Desertion in time of war, which is punishable by death. Unlawful communication with the enemy. Misbehavior as a prisoner of war. Urging American soldiers to refuse to fight. Attempting to subvert the loyalty of other American prisoners.
The accusations against him have lain in Marine Corps files since 1969, when word of Private Garwood was first brought out of a Vietcong prisoner of war camp west of Danang, where the young marine was captured in 1965. It was said he was interpreting in fluent Vietnamese the answers of other American prisoners during interrogations, guarding American prisoners, informing on them, encouraging them to adopt the “progressive” antiwar attitudes that camp indoctrination officials wanted them to display and making appeals over bullhorns to American troops in the field to lay down their arms.
In 1968, according to one report, Private Garwood was even sighted in the jungle, armed and in the company of Communist troops. Scores of returned war prisoners, survivors of the Communist prison camps, provided damaging accounts in 1973, when most of the remaining prisoners were released.
Full story @ The Case of the Returned Marine: Accusations Mix With Sympathy - The New York Times
I’m sure this pilot could have found another way to utilize his piloting skills yet remained on the good side of the law.
I agree with this. I always thought jobs for pilots in the civilian sector paid well.
Personally, I’ve met a lot of ex-military students in grad school who were in their 40’s, retired from the military, and were pursuing a higher level degree because their military clearance allowed them to contract back with the military for high level jobs as a civilian at multiple times the pay.
So, you’re saying all the mechanical knowledge and experience I gained while working on airplanes for 12 years in the Air Force will not be transferable to some mechanical position as a civilian? I guess I have been living a lie as an automotive/commercial/marine/oil field/aircraft technician for the last 34 years.
Looks out the window for the alphabet agencies to invade
Nope, nothing yet…
Thank you, again, for your service, Bruce!
You are most welcome, Brother.
It was My Honor to serve.
From the article:
“When U.S. persons – whether military or civilian – provide training to a foreign military, that activity is illegal unless they have a license from the State Department…”
He is getting charged for training the Chinese pilots WITHOUT A LICENSE.
Also, let me be clear on this. As a retired military member who has also dabbled in the military contracting arena, both DoD and the State Department go out of their way to explain to you what is allowed and what is not allowed as far as working with foreign governments. This pilot knew that what he was doing was forbidden.
Thank you also, Stuart, for your service. You’re greatly appreciated!
Hmm… I should probably alert my son that pursing Cybersecurity training while in the Army is a waste of time, since you know, we have no practical use for that in the “real world”..
…and still decided to go through with it.
Not Me. It got me off the streets, pulled me back from the dark side (they call them gangs today, then we called them friends) taught me discipline. I’ve often said and will continue to say, Joining the US Army in 1976 was the best thing that had ever happened to me. Since then better stuff has happened but in my teen days it stopped a death spiral that was going to end in a very terrible way.
Mike, thank you as well for your service!
You are all heroes.
My buddy did his tour in the Navy, then went back for three tours contracting doing cyber security/digital intelligence,…
Then spent about a decade with NSA, now still doing cyber security and earning more money than I do,… from his home office in his basement, next to his personal indoor shooting range!
Definitely tell your son that there’s no future!
I’ll let my buddy know he’s wasted his life too.
My youngest son is taking AP Cyber Security classes in high school and teaches the class a couple days a week because he knows more than his instructor. He has attended Cyber Security camps at Texas A&M over the last couple of summers and again, has taught a couple days a week because he knows more than those instructors.
Maybe I should tell him to change his field of study since he will not be able to get a job after he graduates. Maybe he should just focus on his skateboarding.
Rioting, I mean protesting, pays pretty well. You don’t even have to know what or why you’re protesting.