"In his 1986 presidential campaign, Robertson claimed that he was a "combat Marine" who had served in combat during the Korean War. This claim was a lie, typical of others told by Robertson. However, this was one lie that he could not get away with -- there were Marines who knew Robertson and who knew the truth.
The following is a chapter from the book The Taking of Hill 610 And Other Essays on Friendship, by Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (1992; Eaglet Books, 580 Mountain Home Road, Woodside, CA 94062). In this chapter, the author lays out the facts of Robertson's Marine Corps service. Pat Robertson's father was a US senator who intervened with the Marine Corps to have his son assigned to duty in the rear, away from combat. Robertson served in Korea as the "liquor officer" -- responsible for keeping the officers' clubs supplied with liquor. There he also was known to drink himself and to frequent prostitutes -- he even feared that he had contracted gonorrhea.
Here is a word describing what you are about to read: I scanned the pages from the book, Chapter 12, "The Liquor Officer." I have reproduced the first page as an image; the remainder of the chapter I converted to text to save file space as the scanned images require over 1 meg of space each. You will find tan horizontal lines inserted in the text -- these designate page breaks in the book. The entire chapter, complete with footnotes, is reproduced below. The text is reproduced exactly as it is in the original; any grammatical, editorial, or spelling errors are from the original publication.
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Quite a guy that Pat Robertson.
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