"Oh yeah I'm Special Forces"

[chris]

Nice, were you SF chris?

no i'am not. i wish i would have tried for it when i was younger. like i said it was and honor and a privalege to serve with them. i was with an intel team and we gave them targets and they asked if someone wanted to gun for them. of course they had to twist my arm to do it . we did this for them many times in my tour.

[thmpr]

25th Inf., than off to the HIANG. Served in the first Gulf war. Attached and supported special teams and also, served "Team Spirit" excercises in Korea for you old timers who remember those tours....

[super six-four]

A while ago, when I was in college, this guy came to our dorm room selling magazine subscriptions. We were chatting and, out of nowhere, he asks, "Were you in the Marines?" I said, "What?" Pointing to my side of the room, he asked, "Were you in the Marines?" I looked and he was pointing to my 'Marine Barracks - Guam' t-shirt hanging in the closet. I replied, "No, but I have good friends in the Corps." He told me he was a Marine stationed on Guam and his war stories began flowing. I asked him what he did in the Corps. He proudly stated, "I was in the Green Berets."

[run8]

Not military related, but I worked with this one guy on Amtrak who claimed he was one of the 'lost boys' on the Southern Pacific, basically a group of guys that were cut off (laid off) and working from terminal to terminal (boomer) to keep working and were basically lost in the system.

When he wasn't spewing that story around, he said he had worked for the Santa Fe, Union Pacific and Western Pacific, wasn't even in his late 40's at the time I would gather so his stories were somewhat BS.

Until the one day he tried his story on the rules examiner in the area that did work for the Western Pacific, and the rules guy caught him in lie after lie, until he had the guy speechless, lol.

I just don't understand folks sometimes, guess they aren't happy with their boring life and have to make stuff up to impress folks.

[kozumasbullitt]

i was in the army for many years and a good friend of mine that was re-classed from the 1st ID to the 13th COSCOM (Infantry to medical) told us stories about all the hardcore things he did with 1st ID. He was a PT stud and always was deep into the extended scale but everyone gave him a hard time about re-classing to medical field as a 91J (medical supplies). His story was that he meet the right girl and re-classed when he re-upped so he could get married and settle down but she turned out to not be so right and they got divorced shortly after. He always told us how depressed he was not being in a combat MOS and one day a special forces recruiter came out to talk about SF (FT Hood has a SF recruiting division). My buddy was excited and told everyone he was going to try out and everyone gave him crap about it and said he could never do it. well he went to PT with the SF recruiting group every morning, went off to Q course, came back and waited, and now he is spending his days at FT Brag as a member of the US Army Special Forces. I talk to him from time to time and he loves what he does and spends most of his time in the field. he had to do a lot of things to be fully in like jump school and learn a different language but he did it (i think it was roughly 2 years after he left the 13th that he was good to go).

[professionalcoyotehunter]

A while ago, when I was in college, this guy came to our dorm room selling magazine subscriptions. We were chatting and, out of nowhere, he asks, "Were you in the Marines?" I said, "What?" Pointing to my side of the room, he asked, "Were you in the Marines?" I looked and he was pointing to my 'Marine Barracks - Guam' t-shirt hanging in the closet. I replied, "No, but I have good friends in the Corps." He told me he was a Marine stationed on Guam and his war stories began flowing. I asked him what he did in the Corps. He proudly stated, "I was in the Green Berets."

That is just ridiculous. Green Berets are Army!

[Swatguy10_15]

Its not really too difficult to understand WHY folks do this..They seek the "glory" and IMHO, the priviledge of being a service member in whatever capacity. It takes a solid backbone to sign those contracts and fully commit. Uprooting and leaving home to go serve is by no means a small committment.
Look around anytime youre at the range..Youll eventually see someone who has the "military style" packs, bags or cases. Some even go as far as to have cute little name tapes made up to put on them..I mean heck look at the effort of folks to emulate a military weapons platform they will never really know how to use for its intended purpose.(the M4) buying the "black rifle", hanging a quadrail,lights,lasers, go go gadget thingys on it..Doesnt make one a "tactical operator"..It makes one an easy target in a true firefight.
To some capacity alot of people "play army" or whatever ya wanna call it....Ever since the theory of embedding the press in with the fighting men and women of our armed forces was concepted...Hours and hours of images have been endlessly streamlined into our living rooms of the folks out there gettn the job done..Heck thats why I joined, I got tired of watching it unfold on cnn.. and alot of people thought " I wanna do that!"..The difference is the folks who went and DID it and the ones who just pretend...
However the nerve to lie and misrepresent ones self..Thats just wrong on so many levels.

[1 SIG fan]

"What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?"

CLASSIC... and a great movie!

[BigJoe]

what kills me is 99 percent of the time guys who are SOF will not tell you, brag about anything and you will go on with your life thinking that the guy you just talked to probably sold real estate or something.... well except for the ones that have sleeve tattoos then they might build choppers or something. i've caught a few guys in lies, its always fun to see the look on their face when you catch em too.

[Marine oifvet]

I always say that the guys who have never been in COMBAT have the best stories. I love those guys at parties, I just like making them feel like dumbasses in front of everyone.

[CRM2004]

I always say that the guys who have never been in COMBAT have the best stories. I love those guys at parties, I just like making them feel like dumbasses in front of everyone.

Ain't that the truth. Or people who deployed to Iraq, but never even left the major installations. I worked with a guy who was just like that - We deployed to Iraq, he was too scared to leave Camp Fallujah, and when we got home he did nothing but brag about how much of a war hero he was, and how he "always got the job done."

[Army GI]

I hate those douches. I'd like to see those punks try and pass regular basic or boot camp first.

[Once A Marine]

What's that newer term out of OIF - Fobbits?

[steelrain82]

haha fobbits. we never called them that we had a more derogatory term for them. camp fallujah had a good chow hall. well it was when we went there every couple of weeks. i was amazed how people would walk around like they were back in the states to go swimming or to the px. we thought those people were just stupid. not trying to offend anybody on here but as a grunt thats what we thought

[goathead]

haha fobbits. we never called them that we had a more derogatory term for them. camp fallujah had a good chow hall. well it was when we went there every couple of weeks. i was amazed how people would walk around like they were back in the states to go swimming or to the px. we thought those people were just stupid. not trying to offend anybody on here but as a grunt thats what we thought

because grunts cant have fun or they cant swim
there nothing wrong with rr after coming off combat ops
not eveyone can't be combat arms everyone has a job to do.. hating on people just because they have time for rr is just dumb