I’ve never met anyone who claimed to be an ex-Marine Force Recon. Perhaps it’s because so few have heard of it and fewer still have been in it..................
Funny, I used to take ‘glee’ in outing the phonies...
Was in the VFW and some guy comes up to me with an application and saying the guy didn’t sound right- and after hearing some ‘facts’ I proclaimed him eligible (jokingly at the time)
I reached my conclusion because he had claimed to be in the Navy, was a deck ape and served on an old LST.
In my ‘vast experience’ NO PHONY has EVER claimed to be a deck ape serving on an LST....
Guy turned out to be ‘ok’....