I was a tail gunner on the space shuttle...
Ever met one of these phonies?
sorry, I’ve never met Obama.
I’ve met a couple of dozen fake SEALs, but only one real one.
I also met a fake B-52 pilot. He claimed he had been shot down during a secret mission in Cambodia but didn’t know how many crew positions a Buff has or why it is called a Buff.
“”There were about 500 SEALs that operated in Vietnam, and I’ve met all 20,000 of them,’ joked Steve Waterman,”
5000 of them have been in McP’s Pub in Coronado CA.
I knew one guy back in 1992 that was full of it.
I had just gone through Marine Core Recruit Training. I knew he was full of it within 60 seconds of talking to him. I asked him a very basic question about weapons and he did not know the answer. Then he tried to avoid me.
So I decided to have a little fun. I convinced him to go on a little run. I wore his fake Navy Seal ass out. He could barely run a mile and kept stopping. It was pathetic.
This guy would also wear Navy Seal T-Shirts out to bars. To pick up women I guess? Give me a break! I even called the Navy Seal museum in Florida to verify his name. And just like I thought it did not come up.
Yes Thinkingbuddha, I've run across one.
Especially since I was a member of a super-secret WALRUS team...
I exposed a guy at a familiy BBQ about 10 years ago. He was dating the sister of my then fiancee. She kept talking about her new boyfriend who used to be a Navy Seal.
At first I was looking forward to meeting him. I was an active duty Army captain at the time and had some college buddies that were Seals.
I also new about 20 guys who tried and failed to make it through Buds. It took about 2 minutes to determine he was a fake. My fiancee begged me not to say anything, but that wasn’t going to happen. I called him out in front of everyone. Needless to say, it was an uncomfortable scene.
I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Before anyone mentions Jesse Ventura:
From September 11, 1969, to September 10, 1975, during the Vietnam War era, Ventura served in the United States Navy. Ventura graduated with BUD/S class 58 in December 1970[4] and was part of Underwater Demolition Team 12 (UDT).[5] The UDTs were merged with the US Navy SEALs in 1983, 8 years after Ventura had left the Navy.
Bill Salisbury, an attorney in San Diego and a former Navy SEAL officer, accused Ventura of “pretending” to be a SEAL and wrote that Ventura would be blurring an important distinction by claiming to be a SEAL when he was actually a frogman with the UDT. Compared to SEAL teams, UDTs saw less combat and took fewer casualties.[6][7][8] Following that, Governor Ventura’s office confirmed that Ventura was never a member of the SEALs. His spokesman stated that Ventura has never tried to convince people otherwise.[6] Ventura stated: “Today we refer to all of us as SEALs; that’s all it is.”[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura
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I am a NAVY SEAL...
It says so with my skill level playing SOCOM: NAVY SEALS on the PS3.
Piece o’ cake to out one: What’s your BUD/S class number?
I work with one guy that claims “5 combat jumps” and a “bronze star” in the Army. Another claims to have been in A’stan in 1999-2000 as an enlisted intelligence officer. Another claims 82nd in Panama doing jumps from helos.
We haven’t the heart to tell them they work with several SEALs, several 82nd officers, and a whole host of military pilots and space cadets.
A few over the years. The scumbags are always out there.
I was aquainted with the late Mitchell Paige (USMC, Guadalcanal Medal of Honor); he told me that he spent much of his following career in the Marine Corps - and even after retiring - chasing phony MOH claimants.
What a bunch of d-bags. I have certainly never been a SEAL. Now, my great-grandfather, he was a SEAL in WWI. He killed more Australians than you can imagine.....