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How do you verify a person's military service?

Posted on 07/29/2004 3:04:08 PM PDT by hemogoblin

I have seen this topic discussed often on Freep, in regard to people faking their service/medals/rank etc. Is there a readily accessible way to check someone's claims?


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To: A.A. Cunningham
Not all units have challenge coins commissioned and the ones that do exist can be bought on Ebay or through mail order houses by anybody with the money.

A quick search on eBay for "challenge coin" just returned 1588 hits.

41 posted on 07/29/2004 4:35:41 PM PDT by Bob
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To: hemogoblin

There are military web sites that allow you to enter a person's name and his rank will appear if he served.


43 posted on 07/29/2004 4:39:25 PM PDT by OldFriend (IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER.......AND SINCE IT'S IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon
I went in March 1971 (US Army - RA) and never had anything but my SS#.

I didn't realize they had switched over while I was still in. Maybe the Army switched over before the Navy did.

I enlisted in 1966. At the time, all Navy serial numbers were in the form: Bxx-xx-xx. At that time, Army enlistees got "RA" followed by some numbers; draftees got "US" followed by some numbers.

44 posted on 07/29/2004 4:41:48 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Starstruck
"Ask them to give you their Serial. Any veteran will be able to rattle it off in about 3 seconds. Don't know why but its stuck in my head forever."

'Cause from day-1 you couldn't eat untill it had been rattled off about three times ... in the line, at the door and pickin' up the tray.

'Least that's how it was in March of '65 at Ft. Dix.

You were probably RA (like me) and wanted to know it.

45 posted on 07/29/2004 4:58:22 PM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Wow, I didn't know that.


46 posted on 07/29/2004 4:59:39 PM PDT by X-FID ( The police aren't in the streets to create disorder; they are in the streets to preserve disorder.)
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To: hemogoblin

You might try military.com


47 posted on 07/29/2004 5:01:17 PM PDT by brianl703 (Border crossing is a misdemeanor. So is drunk driving. Which do we have more checkpoints for?)
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To: knarf

Went thru Dix on my way to Germany, November '66. Transit barracks were the pits.


48 posted on 07/29/2004 5:03:56 PM PDT by Starstruck
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Not all units have challenge coins commissioned and the ones that do exist can be bought on Ebay or through mail order houses by anybody with the money.

What kind of turd would buy one on e-bay and run around perpetrating a fraud like that? Mine was given to me by my Lt. (with my name engraved on it as a gift.) I still carry it 20 years later.

49 posted on 07/29/2004 5:15:51 PM PDT by Pipe Dog
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To: Starstruck
"Transit barracks were the pits."

They all were, bro.

Ft. Dix was camping in.

Old WW2 barracks.

50 posted on 07/29/2004 5:17:45 PM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: leadpenny

I agree. Challenging someone who is making up a military experience is just embarrassing.


51 posted on 07/29/2004 5:29:38 PM PDT by Casloy
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To: knarf
I was used to the WWII barracks from Leonard Wood (basic) and Knox (ait) but the transit barracks at Dix had broken toilets, mold on the shower walls and trash on the floors.

Nobody cared because you were only there a couple of days. I volunteered for CQ runner just so I didn't have to spend the night in the barracks.

52 posted on 07/29/2004 5:33:22 PM PDT by Starstruck
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To: Starstruck

Memory lane ....


53 posted on 07/29/2004 6:26:30 PM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: knarf
Ask ... What is your first General Order as a sentry?

If the response is, "Sir, My First General Order is to take charge of this post and all government property in view" you may be talking to the real deal. Even after 30 or 40 years, most of us can rattle off half-a-dozen of the eleven GO's. lol Memory lane indeed!

54 posted on 07/29/2004 6:57:31 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Of course I have an attitude, I spent my life beating things for a living." - Drumbo Thunder)
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To: tracer

What a waste, I had a much better time in SD and Orlando.


55 posted on 07/29/2004 11:08:26 PM PDT by TheFrog
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56 posted on 07/31/2004 8:02:07 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: Lazamataz

LOLOLOL.


57 posted on 07/31/2004 8:08:31 AM PDT by patton (I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
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To: rotstan

Oh, bull. Pure, unadulterated, malarky.


58 posted on 07/31/2004 8:10:37 AM PDT by patton (I wish we could all look at the evil of abortion with the pure, honest heart of a child.)
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