Special Opps or Nutt Job

[ebb]

I used to hear really good superhero stories at the gun counter at Gander Mountain. A rather attractive young lady was looking at handguns and being helped by 2 Navy SEALS, one army ranger, and an Air Force Pararescue soldier, there was a teenager that worked there that was obviously too young to have been in the service, I think he claimed to be a ninga.

 

[wyshadow]

Just Dave brings up a good point about tuned cars. I remember a few years later after the movie "Fast and Furious" how all the loud civic four cylinders start racing up and down the streets. I enjoyed YouTube videos of kids talking nonsense about what they did to their cars and how the camera man would lead them on.

 

[hogpatrol]

A dude a couple years behind me in high school claimed he could see the ocean from the top of the silo on his Dad's farm here in Iowa. Not sure which ocean though....

Andy Griffith fans will know that was Kelsey's Ocean.

 

[6.5 forever]

This shooting past time/hobby/addiction certainly has its share of " shooting range commandos " who are quick to volunteer stories of their prowess in shooting when ostensibly in the service. Then again, most any hobby has its share of eccentrics. My wife and I belonged to a caged bird club when we lived in NC and I think the birds were more balanced than a number of the members!
The club range where I shoot will, at times, have members of the sniper team from the Ranger battalion that`s stationed at a nearby base come out to shoot. They are super nice young men, very polite, don`t talk about what they do. Lord, do they have nice toys!!

I'm really proud of them!
Thanks for the positive spin on this thread,.

 

[KMart]

Worked with a guy who claimed he was once a CIA op who killed people. How he wound up as a janitor in a car plant, I'll never know. The best was a fellow pilot who claimed he was a carrier jock in Vietnam. Kept that charade going quite a few years until some genuine Navy guys investigated his claims. He was never even in the service. There's all kinds out there.

The real hero's are more like this guy.

William J. Crawford - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[KMart]

A dude a couple years behind me in high school claimed he could see the ocean from the top of the silo on his Dad's farm here in Iowa. Not sure which ocean though....

Maybe that was just a bad mirage day.

 

[Eagle Six]

I would have been nervous to check my target down range with this guy at my back. Liars are thieves and they tend to do stupid shit with guns. I would wait until he left or abandon my target.

 

[M-61]

Deja vu of John Kerry and Blumenthal -to name a few.

John Kerry’s story is sketchy at best. (Although he surely married well the second time)
Richard Blumenthal (Sen.CT) was never in nor anywhere close to VietNam. He’s just an outright liar. In a way not as bad as Brian Dennehy, but a liar none the less.

 

[M-61]

Saw a sticker the other day I really liked:
“ I WAS A VietNam Veteran before it became popular.”

 

[1K6BRA]

I’m sure somewhere in his deep dark past our current puppet in office has probably tried to make the same claim. You know being a truck driver, special operations sniper ect…..

 

[Bill K]

You will run into more of the Nut jobs more every day, with their tales of what they did etc. When 99 % of them never saw a day of firefights or special ops in their life.

 

[Adam in WI]

I’m sure somewhere in his deep dark past our current puppet in office has probably tried to make the same claim. You know being a truck driver, special operations sniper ect…..

"I remember one time I shot an enemy gorilla.. the monkey kind, not the other kind.... I shot him through the scope of his banana launcher with my Sears thirty... thirty... ought... you know... Anyway I shot him right thru the eye while doing a double clutch downshift in my GMC Jenny...I had the power ranger transmission so it was no small feat... Corn Pop crawled out from the sleeper... told me what a great shot it was. I brake- checked him right into the Johnny bar... said I don't need you to tell me how great it was... Nelson Mandela nodded in approval from the passenger seat..."

 

[Ranger188]

Can we say, fruit cake.
99% of snipers or special opps will never talk about previous missions.
I would have turned around and watched my back as I left.

 

[K22]

Nod, don't engage, walk away.

 

[hpshooter]

Preface-I was called up for the draft in '71 was 4f'd because they found that I had a hidden spinal injury that caused temporary paralysis of my right leg. I respect and admire anyone who did serve this country in war or peacetime regardless of them enlisting or being drafted.

I detest the people who are of such low character that they try to build there reputation around stolen valor. Many good honorable individuals have died in the service of this country. I walk away from the obvious liars and, as stated in a previous post, would not walk down range in front of one of them.

 

[K22]

Preface-I was called up for the draft in '71 was 4f'd because they found that I had a hidden spinal injury that caused temporary paralysis of my right leg. I respect and admire anyone who did serve this country in war or peacetime regardless of them enlisting or being drafted.

I detest the people who are of such low character that they try to build there reputation around stolen valor. Many good honorable individuals have died in the service of this country. I walk away from the obvious liars and, as stated in a previous post, would not walk down range in front of one of them.

This is very well said. I like the "stolen valor" characterization.

 

[nmkid]

You hear those stories everywhere. Heck, I even heard them in waiting rooms at the V.A.!! Most of those guys study up on that stuff and have some really good stories. But, if you have "been there" and ask specific questions their stories quickly go down the drain. As I worked my way through the V.A. hoops in trying to get rated for disability I had the "honor" of sitting in a waiting room with one particular individual several times. He had some good stories. One time I saw him shuffling his papers so I sat next to him. I started BS with him and looking at his papers out of the corner of my eye, (I know not very ethical) I saw his MOS and later checked it out. He was a CLERK!

 

[NorCalMikie]

Way back when, bunch of sitting out eating lunch, one guy, no matter what you did, he ALWAYS did it better!!
I finally called him out. Told him, in front of God and everybody that he HAD TO BE at least 100 years old cause no matter what we did, he did it better and more often.
Everybody laughed and he finally shut up!!

Some folks, legends in their own minds.

 

[Bugs]

This is true, so help me God. . . . . . . I had a customer when I was working who swore up and down that he shot down a German fighter plane with a Springfield. It doesn't get any better than that.

 

[Knotwild]

The one's that are most aggravating can tell you a lie, or a wive's tail and it will be so good that you accept it as the truth - until you actually think about it and dig deeper for independent information. The outrageous one's are easy to spot and often good for entertainment.