Confronting stolen valor situations in person. How would you handle these kinds of situations?
This Aint Hell keeps records of the fakes, and awards prizes to the best ones:
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?page_id=30655
Rather than make a scene on the spot, make sure you get the poseur entered in this list, and in all others like it that you can find. Put their faces into the permanent record hall of turds.
A chronological listing of our valor thieves since 2008 Amzy Hibler; phony SF, Ranger Roger Gagnon; “The VA is lying” Thomas Manning Hook; phony
I went into the library, and he was in shortly thereafter. He proceeded to tell me about it came out that he had asthma (which he supposedly did not know about). Here's where it gets downright stupid. Apparently, he was in a flight simulator (because of course everyone in the Air Force is a pilot), and he blacked out. His co-pilot (because apparently he's seen too many movies) caught it and stopped the training program. Now I'm not familiar with asthma enough to know whether or not it causes blackouts, but I do know that a basic trainee is not going to be trained in how to fly a plane. So I started pointing out the flaws in his story. As I started pointing them out (calmly of course, like I was talking to a child) his countenance sank farther and farther until he looked like he was about to cry when I was done.
I finished by telling him this. "If you're going to lie about the military, the last person you want to lie to or around is a veteran. We will call you out on your BS."
That was the last I heard from him until he started a rumor about me about six months later. But that's another story.
Lol but wrestled a bear and save d a baby from a fire?
I'd have some words for him.
This guy is some kind of special.
I'm all about confronting the fakers, but it seems to me like those two guys were just as much fake as the one in uniform. They're being punks, and are misrepresenting me just as much as he is.
This is a link to the arrest of the vet. Also there is a link to the poser's facebook page.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=020_ [login to see]
LiveLeak.com - Veteran who confronted fake soldier was detained (VIDEO)
If you have not watched the video of the 'fake soldier' watch it first ( http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a29_1394825074 ). Kristopher Vieira arrested by campus authorities for confronting the man
Playing 20 questions is one of the best ways to do it because it eliminates the need for approval and validation from others. It eliminates it because when you start asking 20 questions to which they have no answer but *should* - they begin to knock themselves. Unless they are a particular sort of stupid (which most of these people are) then they wouldn't even notice you are knocking them.
20 questions should always include a question on appearance as it relates to regulations. I would've thrown my first few questions as simple - "What unit are you currently with? - Have you ever deployed? - If so, where did you deploy to?" Then... top it off with the AR 670-1 questions of "Why the fuck is your collar up? - Were you a marine before? If not, why are you wearing marine ribbons/medals? Why are your ribbons more then 1/8th of an inch above your pocket? "etc. I think you get the drift that there are VERY few people who can actually pull off a uniform to regulation unless they have served. There will be holes in their stories and if you're around other people you can answer your own questions after you ask it to show how a real veteran/servicemember would respond to those questions.
Prime example of an idiot in the link below.
CPT. John “Funky Cold” Medina Special Forces/Ranger Superhero
So here is our latest poser, Edjohn "John" Derrick Medina, or as one of our admins named him "Funky Cold Medina". It seems Edjohn tried several times to enlist in the US Army, but wasunsuccessful. So instead of trying again, he figured he would just award himself the rank of Captain, and give himself a Ranger and an SF tab. We tried to contact him several times and give him a chance to explain to us why, but of course he never responded. Also...