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

Yeah it smells like dead fish. And if he is an old friend you should have or would have had an idea sooner. That is just opinion, I hate fake military jackasses.

Sounds to me this person is FULL OF SHIT.

101st isn't reserves... I take a little offense to that as a Boot Knocker of the 101st....

Sounds like you're not much of a friend!

With just a BSN and at the age of 45?! No Way, Maybe (and this is a stretch) Maj. But nothing higher. Sounds like attempt to at stolen valor.

I would ask what unit he drills with. You can then do some research. Sounds like a fake to me. Nothing worse than trying to be something your not.

Just joined and 45. A little over the cut off I believe. You do not have to have more than a BS to be a LTC. Helps but not a requirement.

No one comes in as a LTC and there is no 101st Airborne in the Army Reserves.

Like some of the others have said - could he make it up to O-5, yes possibly, but I don't see him coming in as an O-5. It would depend on how long he has been a nurse. I was medically retired from active duty in 2011 as a MAJ. At that time, to make LTC you needed a year as a Head Nurse and a Master's degree. I had checked that second box after I completed the Army Baylor Program, and received my MHA. H ad the Army not taken my uniform away, I would have made it in MAR 2013. Such is life.

Back in the late 1980s, my brother was an internist and surgeon who had been practicing medicine for almost 30 years and was in his early 50s. His only military experience was ROTC as an undergraduate at the University of the Philippines and as an artillery forward observer in the Philippine Army Reserve while a medical student. But a USAR hospital unit where he lived in Michigan offered him a commission as a Lieutenant Colonel based solely on his medical experience. (He ended up deciding he was too old for that sh!t!)

But I don't know what the state of the USAR Medical Corps or Nurse Corps is like these days.