10-17-2014, 03:40
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Hunter Biden Discharged For Failing Cocaine Test??
Why would a 43 YO be allowed to join the Navy after having drug problems??
Because Joe needs support for his bid for POTUS???
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Biden’s Son Hunter Discharged From Navy Reserve After Failing Cocaine Test
Lawyer Pursued Military Service as a Public-Affairs Officer
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Colleen McCain Nelson and
Julian E. Barnes
Updated Oct. 16, 2014 7:35 p.m. ET
131 COMMENTS
WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden ’s son Hunter was discharged from the Navy Reserve this year after testing positive for cocaine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hunter Biden, a lawyer by training who is now a managing partner at an investment company, had been commissioned as an ensign in the Navy Reserve, a part-time position. But after failing a drug test last year, his brief military career ended.
Mr. Biden, 44 years old, decided to pursue military service relatively late, beginning the direct-commission process to become a public-affairs officer in the Navy Reserve in 2012. Because of his age—43 when he was to be commissioned—he needed a waiver to join the Navy. He received a second Navy waiver because of a drug-related incident when he was a young man, according to people familiar with the matter. Military officials say such drug waivers aren’t uncommon.
Mr. Biden was commissioned as an ensign on May 7, 2013, and assigned to Navy Public Affairs Support Element East in Norfolk, Va., a reserve unit, according to the Navy. In June 2013, after reporting to his unit in Norfolk, he was given a drug test, which turned up positive for cocaine, according to people familiar with the situation. Mr. Biden was discharged in February, the Navy said.
Mr. Biden said in a statement that it was “the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy’s decision. With the love and support of my family, I’m moving forward.”
The vice president’s office declined to comment. The Navy said Mr. Biden met all of the criteria for a direct commission, but declined to provide any details of why he was discharged. “Like other junior officers, the details of Ens. Biden’s discharge are not releasable due to the Privacy Act,” Cmdr. Ryan Perry, a Navy spokesman, said.
Navy personnel who are discharged from the military because of a failed drug test don’t receive honorable discharges. Most are given an “other than honorable” or “general” discharge. It isn’t clear which discharge Mr. Biden received, and the Navy doesn’t release the discharge status of low-ranking officers or junior enlisted personnel.
Mr. Biden was recommended for a direct commission after interviewing with a board of Naval officers, according to the Navy. The direct-commission process was created to allow the Navy to tap civilians with needed skills. The program allows civilians who have not attended the Naval Academy, a reserve-officer training course or officer-candidate school to join the military by attending only an abbreviated training program.
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It took the Navy a while (June to February) to can his A$$???
Wanna bet that DRUG is a word that doesn't show on any of his records??
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10-17-2014, 04:55
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What a Biden!
.................used my Modern Thesaurus.
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10-17-2014, 06:21
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Father like Son, Joe is a Drunkin fool. Likely good thing that Congress and Senate don't have to be drug tested. Him and many others would "piss hot."
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10-17-2014, 06:24
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10-17-2014, 06:24
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Well, I for one am certainly glad that he "respects the Navy's decision."
I think that was really good of him...especially after having to get two waivers. What a sacrifice.
Wow! That was certainly "big" of him.
Truly pathetic!
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10-17-2014, 06:41
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Father like Son, Joe is a Drunkin fool. Likely good thing that Congress and Senate don't have to be drug tested. Him and many others would "piss hot."
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I would wager their numbers would be in the high 90 percentile....
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10-17-2014, 06:45
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Fuck this guy and his whole family. I am certainly relieved that he cannot be associated with my fine Navy.
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10-17-2014, 06:50
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Seems someone (?) sent the two authors of the article the procedures for getting full disclosure on his military records 
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10-17-2014, 06:54
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I would wager their numbers would be in the high 90 percentile....
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Based upon national trends, I wouldn't.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publication...ionwide-trends
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10-17-2014, 08:39
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I'd like to see the drug use rates in the children of the extremely wealthy and powerful. It was my experience/observation in a high school that catered to the elite (I believe my father brought the per capita income down by a full decimal point), that the wealthy teens and young adults (compared to those in the middle and upper-middle class) had a strong sense of entitlement and nothing productive to do with the large amounts of money given to them on a regular basis, so the money found ways of being smoked, snorted or injected.
YMMV.
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10-17-2014, 09:22
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Too bad the same set of rules doesn't apply to politicians......... Zero (and most of the liberals) would never be allowed to run for office.
And people wonder why there's such a drug problem in this country, crack smoking liberals........
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10-17-2014, 10:30
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Something about trees and apples comes to mind  .
No big surprise here.
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10-17-2014, 11:24
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The drug problem is almost as big as the drinking problem!! 
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10-17-2014, 13:11
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Why would a 43 YO be allowed to join the Navy after having drug problems??
Because Joe needs support for his bid for POTUS???
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Or some scion of a pol's family is being groomed & wanted to be able to "check the veteran-yep box."
Blood in the water - someone will snag the record.
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10-17-2014, 13:19
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Never got...
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Or some scion of a pol's family is being groomed & wanted to be able to "check the veteran-yep box."
Blood in the water - someone will snag the record.
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Never got the records of "Mr. I Served in Vietnam". He also never signed the 180.
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