[aegisnavy]

The breadth and extent of the deception, and the numbers of agencies buying it is baffling to me. That not one person in the crowd at all of these "trainings" and "seminars" called BS is a testament to how easy it is for the average person to not know. Thanks to PS.com for the hard work in setting the ship right.

I guess it goes to show you, in the last 20 something years of my life, I have ran into several people who flout their special operations experience from NAVSPECWAR to Army to Air Force, etc. Not a single one was what they claimed to be, not one. My favorite guy was the fake SEAL who essentially used the plot of "Under Seige" as his bio.

The only real BTDT's I have ever met, and they are very few, were people I had known for many years and who had never mentioned a single thing. Then, one day it would be something like a shadow box on a shelf I noticed or something similar. Like the QP who had a Vietnam era airborne tab with his jump wings and a 19th beret flash in a shadow box along with his Eagle Scout award sitting on the mantle in his humble home. When I casually asked him about it, he just said "Yeah, that was a long time ago. It was fun to jump from planes, and I went overseas a couple times, but it was no big deal." And that was it. I never asked him about it again, and it never came up in conversation again.

For every decent true veteran, there seems to be hundreds if not thousand of those who would claim his or her glory unjustly. 'Nuff said.