Sunday, December 17, 2006
IRONED MIKE
Niagara-based media titan Mike Hudson—mentioned earlier here, here, and here—presents his military credentials:
As a veteran, (U.S. Army 1974-76 and currently a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars) there’s nothing I hate worse than seeing the Armed Forces of this country used so badly by the chicken hawks currently in charge of foreign policy here.
Mike’s claims were subsequently checked by Dave Surls and Bruce Rheinstein. It seems Mighty Mike didn’t serve from 1974-76, but only for a few months in 1975:
I can’t remember what the final blowout was about, but we decided to break up the band in May, 1975.
I joined the Army then, and spent that summer shooting automatic weapons and marching around the friendly confines of Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Jesus it was hot. And they were always yelling at me. After about six months I was granted a reprieve and sent home.
That would be the foreign war Mike is a veteran of: the famous War of Being Yelled at in Kentucky. Confusingly, having claimed he was granted a “reprieve”, Hudson also says he left the Army:
It was a little surprising to get a letter—as many here did—from the Department of Veterans Affairs, an outfit I hadn’t heard from since leaving the Army back in 1975.
Get your story straight, son. Learn the difference between reality and fantasy.