Stolen Valor

[gmh101358]

I watched a guy in Academy yesterday get his A$$ handed to him by two guy who were ex Army and the fake guy was clearly not.....first he was about as fat as me so no way he could be in active duty. I was never in the service....I tried to join the Navy at 18 but im almost blind in left eye so it was over before it began. I watched for 5 min these guy caught him in one lie after another....they followed him out to the parking lot so i dont know what happened after he was in the fishing section. For the life of me ive never understood people like that. I've seen many people claim they had engineering degrees that need a calculator to add 2 plus 2. Maybe 50 years ago it was easy to lie and fake college degree's but in today's computerized world you cant get away with it. When I was at IBM I saw 2-3 guys fired for that reason....claiming they had a degree and did not or had some degree in English lit and claim they had a degree in applied science.....or computer science. No days they always find out and get called out on it.

 

[Dave Hess]

The worse ones are the guys that buy a military uniform (or somehow find a uniform) and attend a military type of event and all the ribbons are out of order and people immediately know he’s a poser.

I don’t like ‘real’ military vets that embellished their service.
Example: Military Police that say they were special forces or some very elite commandos....
I turned a screwdriver in the military, but I never embellished anything.

My brother (Navy corpsman and went to Iraq) works for the VA and has met tons of vets that unfortunately embellished their service and tell tales of things that never happened.

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[Malo83]

They are out there, shameless ASSes.

Secured Targets - Stolen Valor

Stolen Valor. True stories of liars in violation of the Stolen Valor Act. Pretenders, liars and frauds claiming military honors they didn't earn.

www.stolenvalor.com

 

[Ignatius]

My favorite (meaning my least favorite) example of this is "recon ranger" Nathan Phillips. If you don't know who this is by now I can tell you that it ain't hard to find out.

 

[rob1715]

Those guys are losers and never had the to actually earn it.

 

[wdn]

The Supreme Court ruled the Stolen Valor act was unconstitutional. That was about ten years ago. I don’t know what happened after that. I do know here in NH you see beggars at every highway off ramp and mall entrance, half of them claiming to be homeless vets. It sprung up almost overnight a few years ago.

 

[gmh101358]

The worse ones are the guys that buy a military uniform (or somehow find a uniform) and attend a military type of event and all the ribbons are out of order and people immediately know he’s a poser.

I don’t like ‘real’ military vets that embellished their service.
Example: Military Police that say they were special forces or some very elite commandos....
I turned a screwdriver in the military, but I never embellished anything.

My brother (Navy corpsman and went to Iraq) works for the VA and has met tons of vets that unfortunately embellished their service and tell tales of things that never happened.

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Whats that idiot news guy on NBC brian williams who claimed he was in Iraq on a helicopter that came under attack?
The best one Hillary was under sniper fire in Bosnia...LMAO

 

[gfh77665]

My father in law told everyone he ever met "he was an engineer", over and over. He was not an engineer, he was a lazy, lying, idiot.

 

[Passport1]

I never embellish anything that happened to me because my career was quite ordinary and besides I don't remember most of it anymore. I was cleaning out my closet today and found my old Navy pea coat. Tried it on but the sailor that wore it ain't me anymore. Taking it to the dry cleaners tomorrow. My son will have something to remember me by after the following seas push me along.

 

[gmh101358]

My father in law told everyone he ever met "he was an engineer", over and over. He was not an engineer, he was a lazy, lying, idiot.

My father was a mechanical eng out of Texas A & M ....its not an easy degree to get.
I have an economics degree from Oklahoma State ....it was an easy degree to get.

 

[Lyman]

Almost all of my coworkers are ex-marines. I work for a DOD Contractor. A lot of people I deal with think that I am also ex-military. I make sure to set them straight right away. I never even tried to join as I have bad knees. To all of you that served "Thank You" I think the ones that fake it have something wrong with them as in mentally ill. Who the heck would even do such a thing.

 

[gmh101358]

I never embellish anything that happened to me because my career was quite ordinary and besides I don't remember most of it anymore. I was cleaning out my closet today and found my old Navy pea coat. Tried it on but the sailor that wore it ain't me anymore. Taking it to the dry cleaners tomorrow. My son will have something to remember me by after the following seas push me along.

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I worked with a guy at Fina Oil and Chem (geologist) who was in the Army during Vietnam .....said it was the best time he ever had in life was in Saigon.

 

[Malo83]

I never embellish anything that happened to me because my career was quite ordinary and besides I don't remember most of it anymore. I was cleaning out my closet today and found my old Navy pea coat. Tried it on but the sailor that wore it ain't me anymore. Taking it to the dry cleaners tomorrow. My son will have something to remember me by after the following seas push me along.

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Good on you Passport, still have all my uniforms thou it would take an act of GOD to fit in them.

 

[SR5]

Australian Army (Reserve) here, never did anything exciting, but many of my mates did and not all made it back. You can tell someone who is lying a mile away, talking more like a hollywood script than real military.

My young son wash invited to a friend's birthday party that was a game of skirmish for the kids, with adults to play too. We were all encouraged to wear cam clothes. Grabbed my old army field uniform, still neatly hung in the closet.

Boy ! did I have to suck that gut in. The material must have shrunk.

 

[Leo99]

I hate that. I didn't serve but the men and women that did have my respect and thanks.

Forget where I was but I ran into some weird guy. Probably in a casino. Was telling me he went to USMC boot camp at Parris Island in San Diego and some other BS even I knew wasn't true. Like he was in 'Nam.

 

[Wolf359]

My father in law told everyone he ever met "he was an engineer", over and over. He was not an engineer, he was a lazy, lying, idiot.

I have a real engineering degree, used to do so many Laplace transforms I used to dream of them in my sleep. Now it's tricky just trying to figure out the Schrödinger equation or the difference between a Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian.

We did use to joke about other engineers though, either petroleum transfer engineers or sanitation engineers.

 

[Okcafe]

PRIDE RUNS DEEP

 

[wings&wheels]

Whats that idiot news guy on NBC brian williams who claimed he was in Iraq on a helicopter that came under attack?
The best one Hillary was under sniper fire in Bosnia...LMAO

..and Sen Blumenthal....not trying to get political, but that was pretty bold, and vile.

 

[gmh101358]

My older brother was a petro eng from Texas A & M....he went from living in the UK working for Shell oil driving an Aston Martin DBS and had his private pilots licence flying a Cessna 172 to working in Tender Box selling cigars in the early 80's

 

[wings&wheels]

Almost all of my coworkers are ex-marines. I work for a DOD Contractor. A lot of people I deal with think that I am also ex-military. I make sure to set them straight right away. I never even tried to join as I have bad knees. To all of you that served "Thank You" I think the ones that fake it have something wrong with them as in mentally ill. Who the heck would even do such a thing.

This... I have always thought these stories were always a bit sad; one really has to have some significant issues upstairs to do this, never mind the disrespect to those who actually served.