Hats off to DaBrinker for asking Carl Paladino how exactly he spent his time in the military and if he’d open up his service jacket. However, I don't think Brinker's going to get an answer from these guys.

And not for nothing, Paladino more recently gave the New York Times yet another story about his Army duties. This time he tells them he was in Fort Bliss--rather than Fort Dix--preparing troops for Vietnam. Where's Carl gonna to claim he was stationed next week, Fort Apache?

So why is Paladino being so unresponsive and inconsistent about his Army career? It's because there's a lot more here, folks. If you don't believe me just run Paladino's military service narrative by any of your favorite vets.

The good news is that it seems that The Times, Post and Daily News have done some drilling down on the four horsemen of Team Paladino.  

One guy's under indictment for ripping off Mike Bloomberg to the tune of $1M. The Times says:

John F. Haggerty Jr., a political strategist on the Paladino team, was indicted this summer by the Manhattan district attorney, who accused him of stealing $1.1 million from Mr. Bloomberg and using part of the money to buy a house. He has pleaded not guilty.

Another guy--Paladino policy advisor, Arizona fugitive and Buffalo Tea Party president--doesn't even know his own name (seriously, I mock you not). The Daily News writes:

At some point, he appears to have changed his name from John L. to John R. to just plain Rus. On voting records and his controller campaign website, he's listed as Rus.

"Back around 2000, I started using John R.," he said. "If I was doing a name change, I'd do a new Social Security number. I'm not trying to hide from anything.

"I've gone by Rus my whole life. Nobody knows who John Thompson is. Everybody knows Rus Thompson."

Hey, Rus/John L./John F.: Do Arizona bounty hunters know you as Rus or John L. or John F.?

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Then there's Mike Caputo, Paladino's Numero Uno, who—while evading the IRS--lives on a houseboat with a parrot (seriously, he really does.) and proudly says things like this about Bloomberg's endorsement of Cuomo:

“One upside to this,” Mr. Caputo wrote. “The two can stop passing Grey Poupon back and forth from their limousines. It’s holding up traffic on Park Avenue.”

Right, Mike. Kinda like the upside for us is that you, Roger Stone and Paladino can stop passing the crack-pipe and animal-porn back and forth from your padded cells. It's holding up traffic on Looneytune Lane.

(Carl, Roger and Mike don’t think anyone knows about the crack-pipe stuff.  Isn’t the internet a wonderful thing?)