Updated at the bottom: an email from Beauchump’s 1st Sgt.
Follow the link (or click the picture), I’m too disgusted to waste words on this idiot.
From the Weekly Standard:
Mike-
We are in the midst of a formal investigation into the allegations Pvt Beauchamp has made. That’s all I can say for now.
Respectfully,
Kirk
Major Kirk Luedeke
Public Affairs Officer
4th IBCT, 1st ID
DRAGONS
Bye bye, Beauchamp.
I watched this start to come together/fall apart last night at Ace’s — you can follow along in the comment section on this post.
Michelle Malkin has lots more with background.
Doubleplusundead dissects the lying sack of shit.
Update: TNR reacts to being caught with it’s pants down — again, by firing the one person who had the moral fortitude to come forward with the truth about Beauchamp.
An email from Beauchump’s 1st Sgt., from The Foxhole:
Below is a correspondence I had with PVT Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s Co. 1SG. I e-mailed him via AKO and did not expect him to have the time to answer, but I’m proud to say he did. Looks like The New Republic’s representative lackey has alot of explaining to do. My original e-mail is at the bottom. Enjoy!
SFC McElroy,
I’m not in the habit of answering these email’s. It would be far too many. I appreciate all the support from home and I can assure you that not a single word of this was true. We’ve been fighting this fight for quite some time. Numerous soldiers within my unit have served on several deployments and this is my third year as a First Sergeant in this unit. My soldiers conduct is consistently honorable. This soldier has other underlining issues which I’m sure will come out in the course of the investigation. No one at any of the post we live at or frequent, remotely fit the descriptions of any of the persons depicted in this young man’s fairy tale. I can’t and won’t divulge any information regarding this soldier, but I do sincerely appreciate all the support from the people back home. Again, this young man has a vivid imagination and I promise you that this by no means reflects the truth of what is happening here. I’m currently serving with the best America has to offer. I have worked and fought closely with every soldier within my company and they are consummate professionals in an area most people can’t fathom. I’m proud of my soldiers and would gladly give my life for any one of them. Please continue to keep them with you in your prayers and thank God that we have these courageous men willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country, Americans, and the people of this struggling nation.
Sincerely,1SG Hatley
You got some splainen to do Scotty boy.
Never piss off a first shirt.
More: A very straight forward take on these events at Winds of Change.
