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Originally posted by The Reaper:
Nuff said.
TR
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TR,
To be honest, I have seen just as many poser/bullshit artists in person than I have seen on line. Maybe it is because I do not spend that much time online looking for them, I don't know.
But I see them all the time in real life. Guys that do not remember their Ranger class number, did their BUDS training in Panama / were on Seal Team 13, or cannot remember the number of a single ODA that they were ever on.
Hell, two weeks ago I took the North Carolina Firearm Safety Course in order to get my CW permit and had to face the dreaded 3, 5, and 7 meter stationary targets. I was the first to arrive at the site that morning with another guy pulling in behind me. The second guy and I sat on the tail gate of his pick-up eating Bojangles and talking about the weather and fishing.
A third guy drives up, pulls his LCE out of the trunk with a holstered 1911, two knives, a field dressing, strobe light and two canteens hanging off of it. He puts on the LCE and walks over to us. Within seconds he is reading his 201 file to us about how he was SOG, Recon, Special Forces in Vietnam. Then without prompting he tells us about how he then got out of Special Forces and went into the Marine Corps., became an officer and pilot, blah, blah, blah. Not the usual career track for someone formerly in SF but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
I really just wanted to get away from him, get done with the class and go home, but this guy was relentless and followed me and guy #2 all over the shop. I finally got tired of it and dropped my coin on the gun counter. He recognized it as a "challenge coin" and said that they were not around when he was in the military. After looking at it he asked me what kind of coin it was. I told him that it was a 7th SFG coin like it says on the coin and my 10th SFG coin was in my wallet. He asked to see that one. I pulled it out for him to see and he again said that challenge coins did not exist when he was active and walked away never to bother me for the rest of the day.
Guy #2 asked me what that was all about and I explained it to him. He then came to the conclusion that the other guy was a bullshit artist. I was pretty sure that he was a poser for the following reasons:
1. Until everyone and their grandmother started using coins I had never heard of one being called a challenge coin.
2. Even though I was never old enough to have been involved in Vietnam, I am pretty damned sure that Group coins were around then.
3. He wanted nothing to do with me after I dropped the coin on him.
This is becomming a more common occurance , everyday. It is just that most are either too smart to post their bullshit on the internet or they do not yet know how to use a computer.
The only reason that I did not force the issue with this clown was because he seemed to be really good friends with the guy giving the class and I wanted to get that certificate of completion first. I will put in the paperwork this week and then visit the gun shop again and ask the owner how well he knows this ass and then push the poser issue.
Tress