Posted on Nov 11, 2015
Happy Veter... Hold On. Did I just catch a "poser?"
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Every Veterans Day, I scour FaceBook to give nod to those who have served. Usually, I leave a "like" vote or a flowery comment. But, this afternoon I catch this. I did a double-take and said to myself something's not right. The pic is posted on one of my friend's page. Two part question: 1.) What's wrong about this pic? and 2.) Any suggestions on how to address this? I smell a rat. But, I thought I'd turn this over to the crowd before I burn a friend. If it helps guide your comments, the photo is actually the spouse of my friend. Photo would have been taken in the early to mid-90's. Fire away...
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Looks like an Air Force Para Rescue Beret, don't recognize the uniform or its colors, the red scarf is a definite no no in a camo uniform. The rifle looks like an M-16A1 or II with a 20 round magazine, there is not enough detail to positively ID the machine gun belts, but there are at least two types of cartridges in the belts, I would guess 30-06 browning 30 cal mg with mostly ball or dummy ammo, it could not be M60 as the blank was different on the 60, the belts can hide the dummy grooves, the blank would be like a ball round with the bullet removed and the neck roll crimped around a wax plug. Don't know why she would be carrying machine gun belts with an m-16 though. The M-249 SAW was available but these belts are not saw belts. It does not look like a U.S military camo. Looks fishy to me, I remember a lot of uniforms, but not that one.
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I know somebody who took a very similar picture like that to appear like he was on the cover of Soldier of Fortune magazine. I wonder if they used the stock photo to put their face on their as they did with my buddy. This girl actually looks like somebody I was stationed with ages ago. She would never look this shabby though.
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Rambo wannabe is my guess. Was this person even old enough to shave when this photo was taken?
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He's wearing the old Air Force security police beret with the enamel MAJCOM flash in this case AIr education and training command. Some time I. The late 90's the security police changed to security forces and ditched the bases host command flashes for a universal one.
The Air Force never rolled the BDU sleeves with the inner exposed like the Marines.
Hard to know the context of this without further info. I would make sure this wasn't an actual vet later in life just posting a pic of himself when he was a stupid kid posing for a pic while in JROTC trying to do a goofy pose.
Obviously the kid in this pic was not of age to be in the service at the time,
The Air Force never rolled the BDU sleeves with the inner exposed like the Marines.
Hard to know the context of this without further info. I would make sure this wasn't an actual vet later in life just posting a pic of himself when he was a stupid kid posing for a pic while in JROTC trying to do a goofy pose.
Obviously the kid in this pic was not of age to be in the service at the time,
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