Posted on May 1, 2015
How many fakes and liars are on RallyPoint?
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So, I recently had, what I have determined through copious amounts of research, a liar respond to some of my posts (questions and comments I submitted). The fakes are a given, because I know they're out there. So, from your stand-point, how would you handle a liar, who is embellishing their career. They have indeed served, but it is dead-to-rights obvious that they're full of it, i.e. TIG/TIS doesn't match up to an impossibility. Is it even worth it? Or maybe I'm wrong, and the Army changed it's standards at some point during my career, but I just was never aware of it.
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As long as they served, I don't usually make it my 'duty' or responsibility to prove what they did or didn't do. It makes me look like an ass, makes them look like an ass, and in the end, what did I really gain from it? Not much.
If someone is claiming to be special forces, and they aren't, they are pathetic. They have to live with that. Odds are, people can smell the deception.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like it at all. It IS irritating. It IS pathetic. I just don't have the time, energy, or desire to get into a pissing match with someone over whether they did or didn't do something.
Just my opinion.
If someone is claiming to be special forces, and they aren't, they are pathetic. They have to live with that. Odds are, people can smell the deception.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like it at all. It IS irritating. It IS pathetic. I just don't have the time, energy, or desire to get into a pissing match with someone over whether they did or didn't do something.
Just my opinion.
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Sure would have been nice to have been the cook while I was in Korea or Germany...it was so c-o-l-d...that kitchen was so w-a-r-m..
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I lie about being a cook all the time. I couldn't make it through the school but I know lots of other cooks so I guess that means that I'm one too.
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SFC Arthur Tucker
I try to let it go most of the time but there are times that it gets the better of me and I have to go after them. Once in the past I had one claiming to have been a CPT in SF and a POW for a year in NVN. I managed to get a copy of his real DD-214 and found that he was in the Army less than four months and was thrown out for having used speed in the past and having problems from it. He is now on the Wanna-be-list. He had a DD-214 under another name as well.
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My advice is don't waste your time on it. I understand what you mean and every time some super HOOAH, arrogant grunt elaborates about all the supposed combat he's seen, I want to call him out but it's just not worth it. They know they're lying and so do we. Let them embarrass themselves.
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SFC David Hickman
Magnesium batteries. KY 57 Vinson...being RTO sucked. God help you if you lost an SOI book
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Dang it... I was thinking School of Infantry. This was the Boot Camp follow-on the Corps added several years after I left Parris Island. Not that I felt slighted in training in the least. The DIs believe in EOH - equal opportunity harassment. DSs are the same. It was just added to take the "basically training Marine" to the next left of being "a riflemen first."
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SSG V. Michelle Woods saw someone chatting up a young lady and she was all into his story and I heard the ending of a crazy story and it finished with him saying "and that is how I earned this ribbon" and pointed at the Army Service Ribbon.....true story!!
What would you have done?
What would you have done?
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I will admit that I am a big fake. I started out early in my career humble and Being All I Could Be when I first joined, but then I got so full of myself I became an Army of One. When that didn't work for me, I told everyone I was Army Strong.
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SFC Mark Merino I can only smile at this. As a Jarhead all these Army slogan's always gave us something to laugh about. My buds in the Army, Navy and Air Force would often come back with whichever local rainbow bar was "looking for a few good men." Really though, the Army of One is the only one that just never made any sense. Call me dense (and many have...) an "Army" of "One" is just looking for a butt-whipping. Give me the Army that relies on it's Battles...(Wingmen, Shipmates, etc...). Semper Fi!
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