"Oh yeah I'm Special Forces"

[Maddog5150]

So this guy comes into the store today wanting to look at pistols. He is about to go take his HSC test to get it out of the way but he starts asking about the FN 9mm on my shelf. I show it to him and start explaining all the cool things that FNH brings to life but he stops me and says, "I know, I'm in the Army."
I respond, "Cool, whats your MOS?"
Him, "Eleven x-ray."
Me, "so you havent gone to basic yet?"
Him, "no Ive been in for years."
Me, "Hmmmm, Eleven x-"[he cuts me off]
him, "im in the infantry."
me, "well xray is undecided."
him, "no, its special forces."
me, "so they changed it from eighteen series in the past six months?" [that was the last time I knew anyone who was on their way to selections]
him, "yeah, they changed it. you can ask my friend, he is a recruiter."
Me smirking, "well if you have your military ID you dont have to take the test. that could save you twenty five bucks."
Him starting to strum his fingers nervously, starts to talk about his wife getting mad about him getting a pistol and then wonders out.


HOW THE HELL CAN PEOPLE LIE ABOUT THAT STUFF? I could never fathom in my mind to try to take credit for something I never did. I thought it was funny but didnt have the chance to ask him about benning

Anyone have any stories where you oust someone from the, "I'm SEAL, MARSOC, SF, Ranger, Recon, PJ, 007" lines?

[Saigon1965]

I got a mall ninja once -

[PolishMike]

The best one I got was a dude trying to sincerely tell me that his SEAL buddies (this guy is Navy) carry .50 desert eagles. LOL

[capo]

My SMR unit recruits with Guard units a lot. At the Long Beach Grand Prix we were out there, and there was a guy from the 19th Group out with us. He and I got to talking basically all day, and you WOULD NOT BELIEVE the amount of people that would come up out of nowhere and claim they were SF, only to get debunked the whole time and then brush it off as "oh well, there is no record of me anyway"...

Lame.

[JohnnyRooks]

that ain't nothing.. my co-worker who is 69 years and he was in 3 different wars. Korean, Vietnam and Desert storm and he told me he was a MASTERCHIEF in the USMC.

[nick]

Rangers qualify on FN FNP 9, you're just misinformed.

SF use 11 MOS for coverup, X for 'expert'.

[dwa]

i flew have blue before. i also was a member of blue light, we use desert eagles as manpads.

[Saigon1965]

The oldest soldier to died in Iraq this past month was also a Vietnam vet - So some of that could be believable -

that ain't nothing.. my co-worker who is 69 years and he was in 3 different wars. Korean, Vietnam and Desert storm and he told me he was a MASTERCHIEF in the USMC.

[nick]

The oldest soldier to died in Iraq this past month was also a Vietnam vet - So some of that could be believable -

He was a Major. They have different retirement ages for officers, depending on the grade.

[Philthy]

I've never understood why people do that kind of thing. I have friends that are the same way with girls in a bar, but I was never comfortable telling a girl that I was an astronaut, race car driver or whatever. If anything, I'd lie the other way - that I'm some nobody, regular joe-schmoe.

When I was at Davis we used to go to The Grad every Friday for 7 for 1 drinks (and country night too ). Since our group was 2 or 3 day-a-week regulars, we'd always get the biggest table on the patio so we could chain smoke, chain drink AND do it while sitting down. It was kinda "our" spot, so we'd get a little territorial unless it involved girls, of course.

So one time this guy we'd never seen sat down with us and since we were discussing AK's or AR's (one or the other - mind you, it was a drunken conversation 9 years ago), he felt like he wanted to butt in. And then he went off on how he was a marine scout sniper. We let him go on and on, I didn't buy it and I don't think my friend did either. The thing that got me was he kept talking about a bolt action .223 or something-rather. I casually got up and found our other friend, who was a local LEO and reserve Marine (he did at least 4 on active duty - I can't be sure, but I think Desert Storm). Anyway, he was a Sgt. of some sort and casually walked up to the guy and asked the same question - his MOS. The guy was flabbergasted and then my friend, in a very "sergeantly" way, got up in his face and let the cat out of the bag. He didn't do it in a mean way, but the guy wouldn't make eye contact with him, he looked at his shoes the whole time. He scurried off, tail between his legs. I think I saw him again, but he certainly wasn't too big for his britches that time.

[socaldsal]

So I was just at a bar with my buddies and saw some joker being "escorted" out of the place. Long story short I overheard him saying that he was a SEAL and he was pretty much relating all of "The Lone Survivor" to increasingly pissed off bouncers. Idiot, grade A+. Definitely not Luttrell as he was a wiry, all of 5'4", blonde guy.

They are everywhere, but to claim being a SEAL, especially a high profile SEAL, IN SAN DIEGO of all pllaces, is the epitome of douchebaggery that deserved to get more than being shoved out of the bar.

[gunbuff]

I've never understood why people do that kind of thing. I have friends that are the same way with girls in a bar, but I was never comfortable telling a girl that I was an astronaut, race car driver or whatever. If anything, I'd lie the other way - that I'm some nobody, regular joe-schmoe.

The guys that do this just have a low self worth. They feel that the only way they are going to be liked is to be what is in their mind the type of person you would readily accept and admire without having to be themselves.

As a flight instructor I would see this all the time from guys who after playing 24 hours solid of MS flight Simulator, they would show up at the flight school bragging about all the things they did in airplanes. One yahoo would even show up in a green nomex flight suit with a clipboard strapped to his leg. It's a sad day indeed when you go to such great lengths to impress a flight instructor.

[rod]

I was sitting in a bar down in Mississippi when this kid started bragging about being a SeAL to one of the prettier waitresses. He was going on and on about how many people he killed as a sniper and how he flew helicopters and such. A real SeAL(retired) asked him if he knew so and so, to which the fake SeAL replied, "yes" and what great war buddies they were. The name of the "so and so" was his dogs name. This went on for quite awhile and before long, the whole bar (about five or six of us, two pretty waitresses, and one ugly one) were in on the joke, except for the fake SeAL. He kept going on about all the medals he was awarded and all the lives he saved and after several beers, he finally told us about the time he was invited to the White House to have dinner with the President. We kept encouraging him to tell us some more great stories about all the wars he fought in, and the fake SeAL didn't dissapoint. The stories got crazier and crazier, but he couldn't figure out why everyone was laughing so hard at his stories of heroism and all his secret planning meetings with the President to take out leaders of terroristic regions.

I expected the real SeAL to kick this guys butt, but he never did (that I know of). The kids stories were so fake that it was obvious he was lieing. We just had fun helping him make a fool of himself.

[ilbob]

aren't we all special?

[Gryff]

HOW THE HELL CAN PEOPLE LIE ABOUT THAT STUFF? I could never fathom in my mind to try to take credit for something I never did. I thought it was funny but didnt have the chance to ask him about benning

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