Military Phonies

[Excel]

After being shown pownetwork.org at work the other day I spent a good bit of this morning perusing it. I don't know why. Maybe out of disgust, or pitty or just because the cases are at times funny anyhow I found myself fascinated.

To any and all HB Service members, past and present. If you're anything like me you all should get a kick out of these, and be angered. A few examples;

"MSG Soup Sandwich", showed up to a family member's basic grad looking like this: and yea among so many other things that's a second award CMB and third award CIB...on an AF uniform :facepalm:

Another "MSG" this time from the Army apparently

2LT w/ Trident and a >O1 Rack.

This old "Colonel" tried to pass this off as his "retirement picture"

This guy was totally SF

ELS'd from Basic, now decades later he's an O6

Anyhow go here if you want to check them out. John Lilyea keeps a good blog of this stuff as well at This ain't Hell but you can see it from here.

 

[Hingle McCringleberry]

A little off topic, I travel a lot, and in those travels, I end up with long layovers in airport bars, so inevitably I run into some of our Military personnel, as we get to talking, I ask them what they do, and about 75% of the time they claim to be some sort of Special Forces. I know its cool to say your a Seal but I find it a little odd that if you actually were a Seal you more than likely would NOT be telling some random dude in an airport bar. Any of you guys that are in or spent time in the Military have any thoughts on this, or am I just super lucky and happened to meet about a dozen of the worlds finest warriors in the the last 5 years. :dunno

 

[wildman]

A little off topic, I travel a lot, and in those travels, I end up with long layovers in airport bars, so inevitably I run into some of our Military personnel, as we get to talking, I ask them what they do, and about 75% of the time they claim to be some sort of Special Forces. I know its cool to say your a Seal but I find it a little odd that if you actually were a Seal you more than likely would NOT be telling some random dude in an airport bar. Any of you guys that are in or spent time in the Military have any thoughts on this, or am I just super lucky and happened to meet about a dozen of the worlds finest warriors in the the last 5 years. :dunno

I'd say they were just regular soldiers trying to impress. I've actually met 2 delta force guys while I was in the army. It was like pulling teeth to get them to admit it. So i'm sure the seals or any special forces soldier would be the same way.

 

[Hingle McCringleberry]

A little off topic, I travel a lot, and in those travels, I end up with long layovers in airport bars, so inevitably I run into some of our Military personnel, as we get to talking, I ask them what they do, and about 75% of the time they claim to be some sort of Special Forces. I know its cool to say your a Seal but I find it a little odd that if you actually were a Seal you more than likely would NOT be telling some random dude in an airport bar. Any of you guys that are in or spent time in the Military have any thoughts on this, or am I just super lucky and happened to meet about a dozen of the worlds finest warriors in the the last 5 years. :dunno

I'd say they were just regular soldiers trying to impress. I've actually met 2 delta force guys while I was in the army. It was like pulling teeth to get them to admit it. So i'm sure the seals or any special forces soldier would be the same way.

That's what I thought. I guess its no harm to tell someone that.. Kind of like the run of strippers I met that were working on their PhD's...

 

[jsneb83]

 

[akita]

A little off topic, I travel a lot, and in those travels, I end up with long layovers in airport bars, so inevitably I run into some of our Military personnel, as we get to talking, I ask them what they do, and about 75% of the time they claim to be some sort of Special Forces. I know its cool to say your a Seal but I find it a little odd that if you actually were a Seal you more than likely would NOT be telling some random dude in an airport bar. Any of you guys that are in or spent time in the Military have any thoughts on this, or am I just super lucky and happened to meet about a dozen of the worlds finest warriors in the the last 5 years. :dunno

I'd say they were just regular soldiers trying to impress. I've actually met 2 delta force guys while I was in the army. It was like pulling teeth to get them to admit it. So i'm sure the seals or any special forces soldier would be the same way.

That's what I thought. I guess its no harm to tell someone that.. Kind of like the run of strippers I met that were working on their PhD's...

LOl, love this. I have a guy at my daughters highschool and he has all the decalls on his back window of his tahoo. Well I was walking by and noticed the special forces decall and decided to approach him and ask him what group he was in. I was just hoping we might know some of the same guys since we looked the same age. I was expecting him to say 5th group,7th group, 3rd group etc etc and i would ask how that base was doing. So I approach the tahoe and Say " hey brother how is it going? which group were you with?" I get a stunned look and this was his response to me: " I was with the special forces group in 1st cavalary division at FT hood,texas!" For any one that is not military or does not have Army knowledge of bases. Ft hood is a Mechanized base and that means they ride around in armored vehicles. The only light Infantry group they have there is a LRS team. They are light infantry and do jumps on Ft hood. There is no Green Beret group there stationed permantely. I had mercy on the guy and said " That is a rough group of Green Berets up there and I have heard they play and party hard. I also heard that if they are arrested up in Killeen they basically have a get out of jail free card." he looked at me and said " Yeah a couple of the Green Berets I served with had some fights with cops and it was squashed and none of my Green Berets buddies got into trouble!" Just a side note here. Guys that are Green Berets, I have never heard them refer to their brothers as Green Berets/lol. I was going to keep f'ing with him,but I just stopped and walked away. Every time I see that tahoo with all the decalls on the back window I just start laughing. Not even sure if he was even in the army. But damn it is pretty Funny and sad at the same time to think a person out there thinks it is cool to have a job that basically says: " You will kill and ask questions later." In fact going to see him in about 45 minutes.

 

[Muck]

"MSG Soup Sandwich", showed up to a family member's basic grad looking like this: and yea among so many other things that's a second award CMB and third award CIB...on an AF uniform :facepalm:

Lesbian?

 

[husker_99]

I thought this was going to be about the Aggies at Texas A&M. :lol:

 

[akita]

I thought this was going to be about the Aggies at Texas A&M. :lol:

Husker 99. I would love to do some aggie military jokes,but this guy got his Masters from Texas Am. Kind of hard to rip on an aggie that was responsible for putting Karhizi into power in Afghanistan.

 

[wildman]

The more I look at this photo the more I think either he bought those awards to look cool. Or the airforce gives out awards like they are boyscouts. He looks way to young to have earned all of them. I've seen Sargent Majors have about 1/4th the amount of the awards he's displaying.

This guy looks like someone you'd see at a reserve or national guard unit. No i'm not putting them down at all. Just the way they wear the uniform you can usually tell.

 

[Excel]

The more I look at this photo the more I think either he bought those awards to look cool. Or the airforce gives out awards like they are boyscouts. He looks way to young to have earned all of them. I've seen Sargent Majors have about 1/4th the amount of the awards he's displaying.

This guy looks like someone you'd see at a reserve or national guard unit. No i'm not putting them down at all. Just the way they wear the uniform you can usually tell.

Both of them are confirmed frauds...the lower one was claiming to be an MP at some kind of event and was caught.

http://www.alaskadis...iam-james-clark

http://www.pownetwor.../phonies689.htm

The other guy is just a PX Ranger buying anything shiny and bright.

 

[NUance]

You could make an argument that this fellow probly belongs in the thread:

 

[Excel]

You could make an argument that this fellow probly belongs in the thread:

No

 

[akita]

You could make an argument that this fellow probly belongs in the thread:

No

YES YOU COULD I almost bet that was one of only a few days that he showed up after training. daddy kept giving him profiles so he did not have to show up.

 

[Excel]

A little off topic, I travel a lot, and ad ain those travels, I end up with long layovers in airport bars, so inevitably I run into some of our Military personnel, as we get to talking, I ask them what they do, and about 75% of the time they claim to be some sort of Special Forces. I know its cool to say your a Seal but I find it a little odd that if you actually were a Seal you more than likely would NOT be telling some random dude in an airport bar. Any of you guys that are in or spent time in the Military have any thoughts on this, or am I just super lucky and happened to meet about a dozen of the worlds finest warriors in the the last 5 years. :dunno

I'd say they were just regular soldiers trying to impress. I've actually met 2 delta force guys while I was in the army. It was like pulling teeth to get them to admit it. So i'm sure the seals or any special forces soldier would be the same way.

I have had a similar experience, in my short time working in a Brigade S1 shop I saw a seniors orb where he had a few assignments to such units. I asked a buddy about it and he told me that he'd asked the guy about it once and was almost choked out...the people that have actually done stuff don't tend to brag about it.