I am Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division.

"Your services are no longer required."

My pieces were always intended to provide my discreet view of the war; they were never intended as a reflection of the entire U.S. Military. I wanted Americans to have one soldier's view of events in Iraq.

....my character, my experiences, and those of my comrades in arms have been called into question,

"Your services are no longer required."

Private Scott Beauchamp Schonfeld

general discharge

I was initially reluctant to take the time out of my already insane schedule fighting an actual war...

I wanted Americans to have one soldier's view of events in Iraq.

A quick glance at some conservative sites shows that the fact checking is just starting. Pvt Beauchamp appears to have been (or may still be) an undergraduate in creative writing at U of Missouri in Columbia. A few of his poems appeared in the undergrad literary magazine. It also looks like Pvt Beauchamp kept a blog for most of last year while he was training in Germany.

"Your services are no longer required."

One redeeming factor on his blog -

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yummy

Train ride to Wurzberg: 11 Euro
Two Steins of Beer: 12 Euro
Having a girlfriend that embodies racial perfection: priceless

I’m active Army & an Iraq vet.

I just pulled up “Scott Thomas Beauchamp” on the secure “Army Knowledge Online” website. It lists his current rank as “PV2″. (That data is kept accurate via pay records on that website.)

In his Sep 06 blog post he listed his rank as “Private First Class”. That indicates that without a doubt he was busted at least one rank as part of Article 15 proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he likely has a strong ax to grind with his chain of command.

More Images Implicate German Soldiers in Afghanistan

More images showing German soldiers playing with skulls and bones in Afghanistan have surfaced. The site had been a regular stopping point for patrols. Those who didn't play along were considered wimps.

The skull scandal in Germany refuses to go away. Two days after tabloid Bild Zeitung published photos showing German soldiers playing with a skull in Afghanistan, the paper now says it has dozens more photos in its possession -- some of which it plans to publish on Saturday.

The new images, the paper says, show soldiers staging an execution with a soldier pointing his pistol at an assembled skeleton. An additional picture shows a skull wearing a German army beret and another shows bones arranged to spell out "CSR-Team" -- the abbreviation for the unit which patrols the area surrounding the German camp. The German television station RTL has also come into possession of new images, including one of a soldier apparently kissing a skull mounted on his left bicep.

One soldier told Bild that German patrols often stopped by the site where the bones were found. One eyewitness reports the site looks more like a gravel pit than a cemetary. The witness told the paper that posing for photos there had become commonplace. A number of soldiers evidently spelled out their names using the bones.

934. ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE

Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.

Pvt Beauchamp appears to have been (or may still be) an undergraduate in creative writing at U of Missouri in Columbia.

Reeve, BJ

Sliced writsts recovering from barbwire night mission in a furnished 1600's bedroom window

Scott Beauchamp Elspeth Reeve MO* 10/26/2007

TNR's offices are currently glued to this thread and have been reloading it obsessively.

TNR's offices are currently glued to this thread and have been reloading it obsessively.

Hi, Ace! I'm the one who told Sean that the IP address in your post was doing searches on discarded lies for Beth Greem, when we were discussing what we could do to better cloak Beth/Gracie's identity. At the time, I was only speculating that the searcher using that IP address might be from TNR. I've since investigated our logs further, and have determined that that particular IP address likely does not belong to TNR, and I regret that it's appearing here. I have since determined the actual IP address* that TNR's offices were using to access our site. A whois returns TNR as the owner of the IP block in question, while the 72.75.X.X IP is just some Verizon DSL account in the DC area and could be anyone.

I can authoritatively state that TNR did their investigation into Beth/Gracie's identity from their corporate network and their own netblock, not some Verizon DSL account. One of the mistakes Beth/Gracie made was using his computer at TNR in whistleblowing, which made their investigation much easier. Based on that, I would greatly appreciate it if you removed the 72.75.X.X address from your post, so as to avoid accusing someone who is likely uninvolved. Thank you.

repair the world (tikkun olam)

In his Sep 06 blog post he listed his rank as “Private First Class”. That indicates that without a doubt he was busted at least one rank as part of Article 15 proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and he likely has a strong ax to grind with his chain of command.

Washington — Hundreds of thousands of people descended on the nation’s capital Sunday to protest recent U.S. policies regarding women’s reproductive health. Included in the throng of marchers were more than 100 young men and women from the Columbia area.

“I don’t think there’s usually enough men at these kind of events, so it’s really important to show up and support it,” said Scott Beauchamp, who endured a 24-hour bus ride from Columbia to attend Sunday’s march. “I think it’s really a civil rights issue.”

TNR investigated the leaker in their office with tenacity and took quick action. If only they would have applied the same tenacity, diligence, and sense of urgency to investigating the fantastic allegations they published by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, none of this would have been necessary.

TNR investigated the leaker in their office with tenacity and took quick action. If only they would have applied the same tenacity, diligence, and sense of urgency to investigating the fantastic allegations they published by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, none of this would have been necessary.

#151 And also, I wouldn't necessarily take his comment as indication of any racial beliefs.

The LGF Irony Meter just went off the scale; an article by Elspeth Reeve at The Center for Public Integrity: It’s All Relative.

WASHINGTON, December 20, 2006 — Arkansas’ term limits forced Mike Creekmore out of his job as a Democratic state representative in 2004, but he still has a strong connection to the General Assembly. His wife, Dawn Creekmore — also a Democrat — was elected to serve in his old seat in the next legislative session.

The spring following her election, Mike Creekmore was hired to lobby for a bill on behalf of pharmaceutical services company Caremark Rx. Dawn Creekmore was not on a committee that dealt with the bill, but “it was a little odd” to see her in the statehouse, according to her husband — not that it mattered, though. “She’s a pretty independent thinker,” he said. Mike Creekmore terminated his lobbyist registration after a week, and the bill never made it out of committee.

The Creekmores are just one example of the family ties evident in the legislative and lobbying ranks of the nation’s state capitols. Through its six-month investigation of state legislators-turned-lobbyists, the Center for Public Integrity found not only ex-lawmakers cashing in on legislative experience, but wives, husbands, sons and daughters of sitting legislators as well. ...

But concerns go beyond access. A lobbyist’s compensation is dependent on his or her success at persuading legislators. If a lobbyist is married to a legislator, the lobbyist’s compensation benefits both and creates a significant conflict of interest.

What search keywords are you using, distwalker? Looks like I may be in danger of losing my title of "King of the Google Image Search".

Someone has purportedly discovered that Beauchamp is engaged to a New Republic staffer because of an Internet wedding registry. I'm not linking to it because, after looking through it, I think it's spurious — only six gifts are sought, no one's bought any of them, and there are no other items registered in their names at any other wedding site. If someone is now manufacturing bogus wedding registries to prove something — even to expose a relationship that actually exists — then there's a lot more lunacy attaching to Beauchamp's tales besides the details of the tales themselves, true or untrue.

I know that NOT participating in a war (and such a misguided one at that) should be considered better than wanting to be in one just to write a book...but you know, maybe id rather be a good man than a good artist...be both? Some can and some cant...i guess it all depends on how great an artist, or how great a man they want to be. Sometimes it feels like i have to choose between being totally loyal to thoughts of my future family OR totally loayl to chasing down the muse.

huntin' pecker

Partly, I think, new media hatred of TNR. Partly that Thomas is obviously a liberal Democrat who's also a soldier. But mainly, it seems to me, the conservative blogosphere has taken such an almighty empirical beating this last year that they have an overwhelming psychic need to lash out at those still clinging to sanity on the war. This Scott Thomas story is a godsend for these people, a beautiful distraction from the reality they refuse to face.

If, for some reason–such as sheer laziness–you’ve not yet terminated your subscription to TNR, do. Make sure to let them know that their “services are no longer needed.”

Here’s his old blog. Per Bad Candy, of particular interest is the entry from May 8, 2006. He’s not in Iraq at this point (i.e., as of May 8, 2006), I don’t think: his sidebar bio says he’s training in Germany and he cops to being in Amsterdam three weeks later, but I guess it’s possible (is it?) that he was in Iraq and then went to Europe in the intervening time. Either way, the May 8 item can only be one of two things: an exercise in creative fiction that looks exactly like the sort of thing he wrote for TNR or a bit of reportage of an actual incident — in which a U.S. commander ordered the murder of children. Which is it?

Back from Amsterdam...eh...today we had classes in MOUT (military operations in ubran terrain)...

The story is true, I was there. (29 of 30)

posted by buddyjimmy on 2007-07-24 12:00:06

I am an active duty soldier serving with the 335th Crossbow Division. Scott's brigade and I were on patrol when suddenly he swerved into my path to hit a dog, startling the Unicorn I was riding and nearly causing me to accidently discharge my blunderbuss. The Unicorn unleashed a torrent of abuse: "Bastard drives that thing like Bush runs the country, and the poor dogs are like the American people, especially after the Florida recount. I need a magic sugar cube to calm down." I reached into my suit of armor but, realizing that none were there, turned into a giant flying robot and headed back to base to resupply. More to come.

I don't think the problem is looking at a blog or posting a comment while you're at work

the theme of my firing managed to work its way into every single dream

Just my $0.25 (this is more than two cents, I guess).

I think it's only fair to warn you that this blog is mainly about cheese, though.

I think it's only fair to warn you that this blog is mainly about cheese, though.

Amount Per Serving
Cheese 20 (Geopolitics 15)

Sweetheart, you don't go slumming much, do you. You must actually care what you eat.

I wanted to know all about him, where he was born, where he grew up, what kind of music he listened to. Did he have dogs or cats? Did he clip coupons, tip cows, wear his sister's underwear?

Stormi, can you tell us what is going to happen on August 22, 2006?

Not a single Denney's that I have seen in the mid-west has served booze of any kind. I wish I knew of some that did.

I hope someone bought some cheese.

I hope someone bought some cheese.

The boyfriend of the lady downstairs has an icky-sticky delivery on the way

What are we going to do tomorrow?

Also, Got this from a guy who knows him in Iraq… he was pretty freaked out that I messaged him out of the blue (thought he was in trouble) and had no idea what the uproar was about or that this was such a “bid deal”. I guess he hasn’t read the latest installment of the “fake but accurate” literary style of Scott Thomas aka Scott Thomas.

His exact quote to me several months ago when i asked him about some of the things he wrote was. ” just because it didn’t neccarly happen to us doesn’t mean it isn’t true”.

ahhhh… “fake but accurate”

And, shockingly, Turns out Private B. is NOT a top 80% soldier.

as for private beauchamp him self. he just received is 2 article 15 for going awol for three weeks up at BIAP after he returned from R&R. not a model soldier despite that i have considered him a friend up untill now.

Yea, I suspected something like this may not make him very popular right now…

I won’t have him wanting to mke things sound more intersting over here to make more people want read his writing reflect me in a negative light!

I’m shocked… shocked, to find an agenda at play here!

BadBrad on July 26, 2007 at 11:23 PM

His exact quote to me several months ago when i asked him about some of the things he wrote was. ” just because it didn’t neccarly happen to us doesn’t mean it isn’t true”.
ahhhh… “fake but accurate”

as for private beauchamp him self. he just received is 2 article 15 for going awol

I still hope and pray this isn't Bloggie's Rathergate.

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