Thanks to a Fogbow friend... the following:

Stein is not exactly the outstanding Marine he (and his supporters) wish to portray. This is not his first rodeo in military "problems" shall we say.

Stein has a pretty messy record, including counselings … revocation of security clearance .. and more – BEFORE the Facebook "incident/s" …

A few interesting tidbits... some you may have seen

Order Denying Preliminary Injunction

Affidavit of Col. Christopher Dowling (Stein's commanding officer - re: why he recommended separation)

Findings of the Administrative Board (recommendation for separation)

Transcript of administrative hearing on collateral challenge to separation order (283 pages ... it was a 13+ hour hearing).

Other interesting stuff:

Stein's Military Record (interesting)

More Stein Military Record plus other stuff: This is a combination of exhibits containing
(a) more Stein personnel history info, including evaluations, non-recommendations for promotion, counseling records, etc.
(b) multiple affidavits re; issues;
(c) the "initial" email exchange b/w Stein and officers when he was banned from the METOC page for his comment (p53);
(d) excerpts from military manuals on various issues.
(_) There are also two "Stein Military Record" exhibits re: pre-2011 investigations -- but all content is redacted, so no point in adding.)

DOD Directive 1344.10 (Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces)

USMJ Maximum Punishment Chart

Marine Corps Separation and Retirement Manual

For the parties' opposing views:

Stein Memo in Support of Motion for Preliminary Injunction

Military Opposition to Motion for Preliminary Injunction

And, of course, a great secondary source is the military justice blog CAAFLog.

What a shithead.

So he's originally from Arizona...






Sorry Poutine. Not your fault.

His military record is, indeed, interesting.



Too bad he signed that with his eyes closed.

Also, I notice that the citizenship box doesn't have a check-off for "natural born." Probably a typo.

Building rock formations while on guard duty?

Imagine that! A teapartier who is so fiscally irresponsible that he is counseled and loses his security clearance.

Tons of debt, bounced checks, a vehicle repossessed (which he damaged) taken to collections for thousands in unpaid rent and a wife with kid #2 on the way...

Just a fine upstanding teabagger.

I had hoped someone familiar with the Vietnam/Johnson era would know this lil bit of trivia.
Lt Howe just held a sign at an anti-war protest and received a full-scale court martial. He was sentenced to two years hard labor plus a dishonorable discharge. This weenie got off with just a loss of benes. I don't understand why Stein didn't receive the same treatment as Lakin unless it was because Lakin actually refused to follow lawful orders.

And just the guy you want to have handle your next home purchase. Honest and trustworthy, with rock-solid conservative values and beliefs.



I'm guessing he might not be so thrilled to find out his service record is now also available via that majikal "Internet technology and Social Media."

1)Just the kind of person you can trust handling a multi-million dollar real estate transaction. Better keep an eye on that earnest money check.

2)Typical intelligible canned real estate marketing jargon. 1,000s of real estate agents buy the same canned media packages.

Indeed. Including this little tidbit:



He was already on his way out.

Was this his scheduled re-enlistment date? The date hasn't occurred yet.

What a piece of work this Stein character is. I love how he was passed up numerous times for a promotion because he "lacked maturity". When he got busted screwing around during guard duty, his commanding officer made Stein write a THOUSAND PAGE paper for punishment. The Marine Corps apparently does not fuck around. Also hilarious is the fact that Stein had to be counseled several times about his finances (or lack thereof).

When this idiot was running his mouth in the media saying that he wouldn't back down from his comments and basically giving the Marine Corps the middle finger, he was, at the same time, groveling and kissing ass via e-mail to his superior officers.

It saddens me to read that he has children; with another on the way.

I believe so. He'd been saying that his enlistment term was "up in a few months," so July would make sense.

Yep, his End of Active Service date was coming up, he'd apparently lost his security clearance and looks to have been malingering with a 'Leg Injury' (tripped over a weather chart?) and knew he was not going to be allowed to re-enlist. So, like Moran, why not start a fight with President Obama to make his separation from active duty look 'political'. Good riddance to bad rubbish

It makes ya wonder why the Marines would put a guy they're not gonna let re-enlist down at the enlistment office?

Well, that didn't take long.



http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conservative-sitrep-with-gary-stein/2012/05/02/episode-112

Marine Corps veteran?? What a lying sack of shit this guy is.

Well, technically, once he separates he will be a veteran, just not one with many of the benefits of being a Veteran.

And to think, if he'd just laid low for a few more months, he would have been free to be as politically active as he wanted. Instead, he screwed himself out of a number of benefits, all for the sake of attempted martyrdom.

He enlisted in Oct 2002, (showing what are substandard to middling scores on his aptitude tests, BTW......all branches are raising the bar on quality of recruits and who gets asked/ is allowed to reenlist, so Gary Stein got in when the USMC was looking for warm bodies) and according to his file, went to boot camp in July-Oct 2003, yet by Mar 2006, he was still a PFC, being repeatedly "counselled" for his poor conduct, and passed over for promotion to Corporal ........that's very bad.

The Statement of Reasons why his security clearance was revoked (written long before Stein began mouthing off about Obama)
said "sources" (probably the NCOs and CWOs who dealt with Stein on a daily basis) describe him as dishonest, that they doubted his integrity, that he was unreliable and has a tendency to bend the truth........that's incredibly bad.

It is a mystery why he wasn't booted out a long time ago, and why was he allowed to stay in active service past his original term of enlistment ?
This has nothing to do with "Obama", its about the military finally getting rid of a really lousy soldier.

I hope there are calls in to that radio show that is hosting him to discuss his service record and performance, and his character.

Why does birtherism attract only the lowest of people ?

So, a little slowly for my taste, the military rules test Stein ran with his Facebook page(s) has returned results...Stein 0, Military 1.

Since the more idiotic conservatives are hailing him as a hero, and he is STILL talking before he actually leaves the marines, can the military change his discharge status?

I hope so too. I keep playing in his Facebook sandboxes, but he's gotten to the point where he's deleting entire threads where his FITREP gets brought up and discussed. Gary is learning that "going viral" isn't always a good thing



Rhetorical question, I know, but fun to answer anyway. The simple answer is that anyone who actually believes President Obama isn't eligible is pretty stupid, and those who know better, but try and forward the Birfer agenda because it's anti-Obama usually end up getting singed (at least) by the fire they're playing with. These folks are smart enough to understand eligibility, but not smart enough to understand the secondary effects of playing with something stupid.

Biferism is, in a nutshell, an intelligence test.

FIFY. I'm sure it was just an oversight.

I think they're just wired funny. Not all the believers are stupid. Some of them are smart. Sometimes I think it's the smart ones who really become hooked and subscribe to all the many false claims of birtherism that they can roll off their tongues like Lt. Quarles Harris and the judge in the Lakin case not wanting to "embarrass" the president and a million other false claims. It takes some smarts to keep track of them all. Hell, I can hardly keep track of 'em all. They lost me a Bounel and a Shabazz ago, I do declare. They're smart enough. But they're deluded.

They evaluate evidence in light of the absolute conclusion. If the evidence tends to support the conclusion, it might as well be etched in stone. If it tends to contradict the conclusion, there are anomalies to hunt for and other fun mental exercises. Most folks re-evaluate their conclusions in light of new evidence. They do it the other way around, is all.

One can fail an intelligence test, you know