In the almost 40 years since I served in the Navy, you couldn’t imagine the number of X Navy SEALs I have run across. I guess I am one of only 283 sailors that served during the VN war that was not a SEAL. I just ask them their team number, their dive partners name and SEAL class number, and suddenly they have to visit the little boys room ... never to be seen again. LOL! Love the adventure of debunking frauds.
Just ask them where they served, in what city, in what company, and who was their platoon Sergeant. Same reaction.
You can never fool a real vet.
Guy lived next to me for years claiming that. We lived on a six house cul d sac where five of us were vets (3 Army, 1 Navy, 1 Coast Guard) and while they guy was in the Navy, he was no SEAL. Took us a couple of years to catch on and blast him.He moved.
I think that VeriSeal pretty well threw in the towel, under its original management, when they were getting a ratio of 200 fakes to 1 real SEAL. It was just too exhausting, expensive and annoying for volunteers with real lives to spend all their time policing up scoundrels.
Fortunately, a private security service has taken over, and is again pursuing the bad guys, especially those using their fake status to criminally defraud, or get access to prestigious organizations or employment.
What makes things all the more painful is that there are only 90 living Medal of Honor recipients left. One for each 3.4 million Americans, most of whom have never met a MoH recipient, never will, and would not even recognize a Medal of Honor if they saw it, much less knew what it represented.