He is probably a nondescript support kid that worked in the BN or GSC BOP. He's now embellishing his story to catch some local "snapper" at the neighborhood Buffalo Wild Wings.....

Concur.

Support Troop.

TR

I must be missing something, where has he been embellishing his service?

In my OP. There is a link to a snapshot I took on Facebook. It's a post from USASFC about 10th Group training the Russians at Carson, he replied to it and called it "my old unit". On the other hand, he might be talking about the Russian outfit participating in the exercise...:eek:

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And, you consider that embellishing:confused:

Just playing devil's advocate here, but if he only said "that's my old unit" and he was a support troop there then it IS his old unit. He's well within his rights to say that, IMHO.

Now if he said " I was Special Forces in that unit" that would be entirely different.

I know what you are saying. Still, I never heard anybody say "I was an MP in the 218th MP Bn.", or for that "I was Special Forces in 10th Special Forces". Normally one would think you are an MP if you claim an MP battallion, or that you're tabbed SF if you claim 10th SFG to be your "unit".

I guess he's not claiming to be qualified SF, but it's still a funny way of putting it and most people would assume he's actually tabbed.

I drank beers in the Ratskeller with the 1-10, can I call it my unit?

I did the very same thing. Plus Kloster Reutberg, Jägerwirt in Gaissach, plus three dozen other places. Skiing trips to the Brauneck not included. My unit? I wish.:)

I was in the 145th Aviation Co, does that imply that I was aviator, or crew chief? I was neither. I was a commo guy, so am I embellishing my service if I say "the 145th Avn Co was my old unit"? The only silver wing on this boy's chest have a parachute on them. :D

:munchin

WCH

Good point.........;)

Big Teddy :munchin

WCH, I have to concur. Good point.:cool:

Since the 145th Avn Co was part of the 45th Infantry Division (OKARNG), I could also say the 45th Inf Div was my old unit.

Yes, a signal man. Born in June 1970, enlisted about 1993.

Signal Training at Ft. Gordon, a tour in Korea with HHC 307th Signal Battalion (Camp Carrol). May have brought the wife he refers to openly on the Vetfriends Site from Korea to Colorado (his wife "Suki" may want to change her first name, I'm sure she get's a lot of kidding). He left service the next year. Out by 1997 after four years and a maximum rank of Specialist.

As noted, was briefly living in Colorado Springs but was not SF and was never at Ft. Bragg. Being generous, perhaps he was commentng -- with respect to the story about Russians at Ft. Carson -- that "Fort Carson" was a former assignment.

As for the helicopter photo, that's a gloss painted and waxed UH-1B model, you can see then on display all over the United States, sometimes on the ground, sometimes stuck on a pole or a pedestal.