Can anyone explain if this guy I know is pretending to be a LTC?

A good friend joined the Nav Res at 58 years old. He’s an anesthesiologist. They made him an O-4; it’s been almost two-and-a-half years and he hasn’t been promoted yet. I think your friend is a walking fertilizer factory.

Greetings. Ref your understandable query.

CMTS:

*** Smells as bad as a week-old basket of fish left exposed in the open.

*** That old friend sounds a tad delusional with that asserted claim of assignment or (as is the procedure in the Reserve Component [aka RC]) as an individual mobilization augmentee [IMA] to that AC-only unit.

*** The USAR's IMA category encompasses a registry of registered, but unassigned, RC personnel of all ranks and MOS / Officer FAs who can be mobilized and then attached, as augmentees, to an AC unit, in this claimed instance, the 101st Airborne Division (AASLT)[my old unit during a combat tour in VN 1967-1968].

*** May be additionally revealing if you ask that friend for basic details of the process -- surmise via the RC part of USAHRC -- he pursued to apply for an RC commission and ultimately, according to him, received that claimed commission.

*** LTC Broom (also inside this thread) provides some trenchant and "spot on" comments, as have other respondents.

*** Hope this helps provide some clarity and paths of inquiry. Today is Saturday, 1 December 2018.

*** Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
LTC (FAO/MI/SOF),
US Army Retired
San Pedro (Los Angeles Waterfront Area), California

The Army has brought retired LTC nurses back on active duty in the recent past. I wouldn't be too quick to question the legitimacy of this man's claims. The Army will go to great lengths to fill medical vacancies. I don't see anything particularly problematic about his claim.

Kuwait lineration Medal -Kuwait. Desert Storm/Shield medal. I was there. I don't recognize him!

Can you even join the reserves at 45?

101 s is one of my old units, this lown is full of crap, 101 is active duty

Without any specialized education it doesn’t seem likely he was brought in as a LTC.

I retired as a TAR (training and administration of Reserve) officer. Our reservists were associated with an active duty unit. When the active duty command was deactivated so was the reserve unit.

Ask him what his LES says. Then throw the BS flag in front of everyone when he doesn't know what one is.

I was a medic and 91B for most of my 22 years in the Army. I knew of 2 medical doctors coming in as 0-6 on rare occasions with no prior military experience and I have known LTC Nurses in the Medical field--both men and women. 101st Airborne is an active duty unit with jump training and tons of prep training I thought. Makes no sense to me what he saying. He might have joined an North Carolina Reserve/Guard unit near Ft Bragg but it sounds fishy to me too! Unless he has a medical specialty in great need.

The only way I could see the "direct commission" as a 0-5 is if he joined a state defense force who generally fall under a states military department. They don't deploy, aren't federally REC'D, and are basically professionals (like DOCs) who support the state military mission and or national guard. I don't know how they "decide" what rank you get, but I've never seen any of them wear less than CPT.