Stolen Valor: Lex Busts a Phony

Neptunus Lex is a nasal radiator, I mean, naval aviator, which is one of those crazy critters whose flying career includes the equivalent of being shot from a catapult like a circus performer gets shot from a cannon. His blog is a darn good read. And he's just performed a public service and has saved me from needing to use more of these recycled pixels.

He's busted a trash-talking phony. 

In this case, an anonymous poster ("maccabee") at DailyKos posted a jargon-loaded "diary" (as Kos calls it) talking about an imminent US attack on Iran, with all kinds of 'truthy' details. Site owner Markos Zuniga (who is himself an Army veteran) has called BS on the thing and deleted it, but Lex's takedown of this nonsense is worth a read. I caught many errors in the now-deleted post, but as an Army guy and one of those sissies that lands on terra firma, I can't debunk this crapola with the authority of Lex. Enjoy his post. You can probably figure out from context what the two letters are of the signal flags he raises at the end of his post... not Bravo Zulu, if you need a hint. 

(Actually, now that I think about it, I have landed on water... in a parachute. Uh, make that in water. Nut the closest I've come to what Lex has done is to fly over a carrier and say to myself those guys are nuts).