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I spent 25 years on active duty and have had several people try to BS me with their so called military careers. When you have been in it isn't too hard to spot the frauds, especially if you just sit back and let them talk. I have zero respect for that sort of fool.

There’s more people faking PTSD than Valor.

No chit. My GF works for the VA and she tells me some of the more salacious claims… she of course doesn’t tell me any PII, but just generically “this digger wants PTSD for getting yelled at in basic training and he never even finished “

Interesting that F u g g e r was changed to digger

I know/knew an absolute POS E6 who had never deployed as of 2008 (and as far as I know never did later either) who went home to a wedding that year and threw on a Combat Action Ribbon and a Purple Heart, then put pics up on Facebook. I know his battery commander was made aware of it but I never heard that outcome and frankly, don't care.

He was a POS even before he pulled that stunt.

And disabilities.

I forgot all about a story on that.
A girl I used to bang was family friends with a guy named Matt and his wife Candice. They grew up together as neighbors from childhood. Candice mostly carried the household by working a waitress job while Matt stayed home, smoked pot and got a disability check from the military. One day when we were over there, Matt started talking about how funny it was that he got a disability check over PTSD when he was only a radio operator in the military. Again I don't know squat about the military but he sure made it sound like he didn't really have ptsd and was just milking what he could.

My neighbor claims to have been a marine sniper. He was in country but was a mechanic.

Back when I was in the teams and hung out with John Burns.....

I read somewhere recently a statement regarding Navy Seals in Vietnam. The person said there were 500 Navy Seals that served in Vietnam and he had the pleasure of meeting all twenty thousand of them.

Had kid get chaptered after we got back from Afghanistan. Just an overall chit bag so bad the infantry didn’t want him so he sat in s3 entire time. Anyhow get back typical army love story marries a stripper, stripper bangs his buddies. He gets chaptered leaves Alaska. Last we heard he was telling people he was a green beret got blown up in Afghanistan and was medically retired. The icing on this chit cake, he went to the parents of young man that was killed in our squadron In Afghanistan. He went to this home and told the mom he was their when he got blown up and he tried everything to save him and he burned to death with a whole bunch of other bull chit lies. Again this kid was at fob Gardez hanging out in the squadrons toc monitoring the radio and whatever else privates do. Well this young man’s mom is freaked calling people demand to now what really happened to her son. Majority of us knew how died and he didn’t burn to death.

That’s [bleep] horrible.

I remember that there was a huge push for the know-nothings regarding Bowe Bergdahl- getting him back.


That POS was in my jet as a jumper from the 501st right before he deployed. Later, I hauled some pipe-hitters who were trying to get him back… I also hauled a casualty back who was one of the pipe-hitters who attempted to rescue him.

I hate that POS.

Don't if that was me, but I have posted that little quote on the campfire...

Guy I worked with in the 80s, actually had the credentials to prove it...Growing up in the military as a dependent, and then serving my time, its not hard to tell those who never served claiming they did, it gets a little harder that did serve, but never did what they claimed unless you know the MOS's.

Most guys who really are the combat time military heroes are usually the guys that are pretty modest about it or never really talk about it much.
They know they have nothing to prove to anyone...

I really think most of this stolen valor stuff, started in the early 80s when I started noticing people doing it.. that number seems more often as time has gotten on...

If you've ever been around someone bragging on something they claimed, and in the group is someone who actually did what the other guy was claiming, they are normally the one who is quiet and just stand by and casually shake their head or roll their eyes, when the stolen valor clown comes up with something really stupid...

The ones who don't talk much are the ones to really respect.... the ones who talk a lot, not so much...

About 20 years ago I went to a gun show with my friend Wayne. I've known him for 43 years, since he was 14. He was in SF for about 20 years (1st Group). Now Wayne is not a big guy and is relatively reserved. We were wandering through the gun show and happened upon a knife seller that was extolling the virtues of a certain knife that the SF used. Wayne asked him a couple of leading questions regarding the knife. Then Wayne quietly said, "that's not the knife we use." The guy got very red faced.

A few years back there was a Mexican at work, a fat fuqker who was always bragging about his exploits in the Marine Corp during his deployments to Iraq and Afganistan. Another co worker, black dude named Marvin who really was in the Marines did some digging on the Mexican then outed him as a fraud. The dude quit...

I was in college during Vietnam. Some of my classmates were combat vets - ground-pounders - others ( some military serviced, some not) claimed to be. Easy to tell, really if they had actually seen serious combat. The eyes.

One had bullet scares- pretty bad ones. His parents had pull, and got him removed from Vietnam at the behest of a senator before his tour was up, as he had stiffed some drug dealers who were out to kill him the story went. I've alway wondered where exactly those bullet scars came from, and when, and when his parents got him pulled, as his eyes and general demeanor (renegade mentality, and a great - and funny party animal) didn't match up with those I knew had seen real ground-pounder combat. Those guys were serious students, every one of them.

And then the opposite

I’m a documentary about the SeaWolves a guy at a local Vets Club isn’t believed by folks.

They have a MOH winner come to speak.

The MOH winner sees the”BS artist” and is shocked……says “He’s the only reason I’m alive today”

Great show