My method for homeless Vets:
Where did you do basic?
Who was your Drill Sergeant, DI, etc?
If they can’t answer or stumble they won’t get the time of day. I’ve had them say they don’t remember their DS, give me the name of a place that doesn’t have basic. These are things you don’t forget.
BTW, Fort Knox, KY. 1985. DS Fizer. B-19-4.
“I was in...Sang Bang... Dang Gong... I was all over the place, a lot of places.” What unit? “I was with the Green Berets, Special Unit Battalions... Commando Airborne Tactics... Specialist Tactics Unit Battalion. Yeah, it was real hush hush. I was Agent Orange, Special Agent Orange, that was me.”
If a guy has a sign that he is a vet I just tell him where the nearest VA is..
too often the guy is lying about serving..
its sad but it happens a lot...
Ive had people argue with me that Im being awful to a vet for not giving him money and had the guy admit to the other person hes not really a vet and then watched the person pull out money and give it to the con artist..
“Well he has a sign”
Ft. Polk, I only remember one drill sergeants name of all of them.