Special Forces or really really special forces

[gunsmith]

As a cabbie I ran into a bunch of schmos that said they were "Special Forces" ... & they never knew what a DD214 is

This guy however, is a special case!
http://www.georgiapacking.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=49635

[gunsmith]

wow

He was sentenced to five years in prison after he showed up at the scene of a 2002 fatal bridge accident in Oklahoma, identified himself as an Army captain and spent more than two days ordering around FBI agents and doing media interviews before the ruse was discovered.

A month after being released on probation in 2007, he called a Russian embassy claiming to be part of a U.S. Special Forces squad planning to assassinate Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Wanted con artist posing as Army officer is arrested in Deadhorse

[Phantom Warrior]

What a turd...

[Perd Hapley]

Ya know, if you're gonna pretend to be G.I. Joe, you could at least hit the gym every once in a while. Maybe get an old exercise bike off free-cycle. It would help a bit.

But then I've never understood the whole role-playing veteran bit anyhow. 

[MechAg94]

Why would FBI agents take orders from some random Army Captain? 

[Jamisjockey]

Isn't this a repost?

[RocketMan]

Isn't this a repost?

Yup.

[Cromlech]

Those guys ain't got poop on me!

[lee n. field]

Isn't this a repost?

Yup.  I've seen this before.

One of the links on that page takes you to a site that indicates that "Captain Clark" might be a a few fries short of a happy meal.

[Pharmacology]

Wow, I can't believe the audacity!!

I mean, I've seen it countless times online, and even met one or two dubegs claiming special forces in person, but this just takes the cake!!

[Tuco]

In full disclosure, I wore my dad's Marine Corps Enlisted Service Uniform C - Cpl - with piss cutter, on rare supervised occasions, and only after inspection, until the age of perhaps ten or eleven.

[gunsmith]

well, it was news to me sorry for reposting.
there was a guy when I was in AIT ( signal) who would don Airborne stuff too & walk around the base.
I always tell people my brilliant military career was spent drunk & doing KP with a fine collection of article 15's

[T.O.M.]

It's funny how all of these guys claim to be current or former Spec. Ops. senior NCO's or officers, when that community is so small that the likelihood of getting outed is especially high.  That's why I always claim to be a former CIA operative.  It's all classified that way.   

[Tuco]

well, it was news to me sorry for reposting. ...

I'm glad you did! 
While not important enough to go googling about for it, I was curious about this guy, and am pleased to see that it's been dealt with for the next 2-1/2 years or so.

[cordex]

I work with a Marine who runs a website that sells award clusters and rank images on decals, mugs and so forth.  Every so often he shares a particularly egregious example.  He checks up on people who order something improbable.  He chews out people who order something impossible.

Such as this: http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/fc43fbdd1560453906ad1005f568215aeb365907f147727dc30e82b1a50e41764g.jpg

The guy who ordered it eventually claimed that he was working with the History channel and was trying to order something as background clutter for a video shoot.  Any vets want to comment on how likely that award rack would be?  How would you react if you saw this in the background of a History channel piece?

[Devonai]

I'm not a ribbon junkie, but it seems odd to me that there's both a CIB and a CAB.

[Jamisjockey]

I work with a Marine who runs a website that sells award clusters and rank images on decals, mugs and so forth.  Every so often he shares a particularly egregious example.  He checks up on people who order something improbable.  He chews out people who order something impossible.

Such as this: http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/fc43fbdd1560453906ad1005f568215aeb365907f147727dc30e82b1a50e41764g.jpg

The guy who ordered it eventually claimed that he was working with the History channel and was trying to order something as background clutter for a video shoot.  Any vets want to comment on how likely that award rack would be?  How would you react if you saw this in the background of a History channel piece?

Background of a history piece.  meh.
On some fat sob at the gun show?  I might get all postal like.

[cordex]

I'm not a ribbon junkie, but it seems odd to me that there's both a CIB and a CAB.

Among other things ...
2 Distinguished Service Crosses
6 Defense Distinguished Service Medals
7 Army Distinguished Service Medals (Awarded principally to General officers)
7 Defense Superior Service Medals (Again, usually awarded to Colonels and Generals)
Twice risked his life heroically outside of combat
POW
Pre-WWII with no WWII
Korean War
Gulf War
Kosovo
Yugoslavia
Two Combat Jump/Air Assault in Iraq and one in Afghanistan
2 CIB
CAB
Pilot with 1500 hours flight time
Scuba diver
Senior parachutist

We're talking a minimum of 63 years in service (which means such a person was ~80 years old in Iraq, in addition to making Audie Murphy look like an average Joe).

Oh yeah, and a year in Antarctica.

[Devonai]

Ha!  Looks like he decided to take WW2 off.   

[cordex]

Vietnam too.

[BrokenPaw]

Duh.  Those decorations quite obviously belong to Chuck Norris.

He didn't fight in WWII because then it would have been shorter than Saving Private Ryan.

[Phantom Warrior]

I'm not a ribbon junkie, but it seems odd to me that there's both a CIB and a CAB.

CIBs are only authorized for Infantry Soldiers in Infantry units brigade and below.  Infantry Soldiers assigned to a corps headquarters or an armor battalion, for example, would receives CABs, not CIBs.  Even though they are in the Infantry.  

Theoretically a Soldier could receive a CIB and a CAB for two different assignments.  I don't have the reg in front of me but I suspect if you were wearing a CIB you wouldn't also wear the CAB.  (And really, why would you want to?)

[Devonai]

Yeah, I thought it was one or the other.  Still, some in my unit have been known to claim that the EIB is actually worth more, since "too many" CIBs were awarded by proxy.  I don't know, I've never been over there, but I do know that the CAB is seen as a joke by some.

[Perd Hapley]

What is CAB?

[Devonai]

Combat Action Badge, awarded to members of a non-combat arms unit who were involved in a combat action.  It's the one that looks like an M9 bayonet within a wreath.