Thread: Fake military veterans - are you a SEAL? SAS?

Hell did 25 years and ran clubs/exchanges

Andy McNab. How do they know where to locate him, how do they know it's him when someone turns up etc etc ?

Andy McNab has been commissioned by Rage to produce SAS and Intelligence-based interactive games for a variety of different platforms, and is currently developing a series of films for the BBC.

He has broadcast regularly on military, defence, security and intelligence matters on CNN, ITV, and BBC TV and radio. He has written regularly for The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Mirror, The Sun and The News of the World. He lectures to police, security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and the UK. He is the only writer in the world whose books are so sensitive that even his fiction requires vetting by the British Ministry of Defence. For security reasons, Andy McNab's appearance and location cannot be revealed.

Going through US Army basic training some 40 years we had a young guy that had signed up and was going into the 101st Airborne. He had the tattoo done on one of our [few] weekends off.

Before we finished basic, he went to the CO and pleaded to be let out and refused to participate anymore, eventually they gave him a discharge of some type and he was on his way.

I bet to this day, he says he was Airborne; after all, he has the tat to prove it.

TH

Originally Posted by Thaihome

eventually they gave him a discharge of some type and he was on his way.

Likely a General discharge.

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Was right at the time the all volunteer army was starting up, but we were draftees (US) mixed in with the RN's. I believe they pretty much allowed the RN's to just leave if they had not been in 180 days. Agree it was most likely a general.

We were a bit miffed since if we had acted that way, they would have court marital us and sent us on to Leavenworth or Ft. Riley.
TH

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Once again I was just a paratrooper, nothing fancy or elite.

In the military, you are trained to obey without question, yours and other lives may depend on it

how do you get that training out of your system when you get back to real life? can you ever?

Originally Posted by DrAndy

you are trained to obey without question

it was all that marching up and down the square that put me off

I worked with an American from New York City who was the only member of the FFL (at that time). Knew the guy well-enough to know that it was a no-BS enlistment.

There's a FFL bar in Pattaya - can't remember the name...

Originally Posted by Thaihome

Going through US Army basic training some 40 years we had a young guy that had signed up and was going into the 101st Airborne. He had the tattoo done on one of our [few] weekends off.

Before we finished basic, he went to the CO and pleaded to be let out and refused to participate anymore, eventually they gave him a discharge of some type and he was on his way.

I bet to this day, he says he was Airborne; after all, he has the tat to prove it.

TH

I hear that tattoo is quite popular in the shops overhere.

I remember being in Nam in '74. The driver of the No74 bus going through Pratunam stomped on his brakes and I went spinning to the front of the bus and banged my head.

Ahhh..I love the smell of Tiger Balm in the morning.

Only action I've seen was when I was a rear gunner in the bombing missions over Baghdad. I can't disclose anymore info as it's still classified.

^ Remember being in Nam.......pratuNam

Originally Posted by Norton

Originally Posted by Thaihome

eventually they gave him a discharge of some type and he was on his way.

Likely a General discharge.

Can be quite nasty those general discharges, or so a friend told me honest.

Originally Posted by genghis61

often see mention of the numbers of ex SAS, commando, SEAL etc that are now residing in Thailand, especially Pattaya

does every country have them? There's even a website for NZ/Oz Military Imposters

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New Zealand: Veteran changes Vietnam story
27/04/2011

A man masquerading as a Vietnam veteran has confessed to a military record that shows he never served in the conflict after a genuine ex-serviceman paid him a house call today.

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Australia: Colin Gibbons' lies earn him jail term
18 FEB 10

A FORMER Monash parking inspector has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to impersonating a Vietnam War veteran. Dandenong resident Colin Maurice Gibbons, 57, lived a lie, claiming to have served as a military policeman and losing part of his lung to Agent Orange.
He spoke at the National Vietnam Veterans Museum at Phillip Island, describing the horrors of war and its impact on his personal life. Having joined the Dandenong RSL in 2009, Gibbons marched at its Anzac Day parade in the red beret of a military policeman and medals he had bought on the internet.
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pathetically sad....

Originally Posted by genghis61

From Ireland, now living Australia

McLARNON Robert Richard
born 28 June 1957 at Belfast, County Antrim, of the Hervey Bay area Queensland, a man of adventure, excitement, fought in many areas with different civil and military units all over the world and killed 400 people whilst attached to 22 SAS UK.

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UK

Medals are pukka...but I'm sworn to silence on how I won them, says the parade 'fraud'
A man who marched at a Remembrance Day parade with an impossible array of medals was named last night as carpenter Roger Day, 61.
Neighbours said the keen amateur actor was once thrown out of his local pub in a row over an SAS badge he was wearing.
But medals expert Martin Harrison said: 'He would be world-famous - and some sort of Rambo character - if he had been awarded them all.'

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USA
SEAL of disapproval: fake 'heroes' live a lie
May 12, 2011
It sounded too good to be true, and it was.
A US pastor who claimed he was a Navy SEAL has been exposed as a fake - with parts of his story similar to the Steven Seagal thriller Under Siege and Demi Moore's action flick G.I. Jane, US media reports said.
Hot on the heels of the elite military squad's raid of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan on May 1, which was widely celebrated in the United States, the Reverend Jim Moats told local newspaper The Patriot-News about his own time in the military during the Vietnam War.


The lying pastor ... Reverend Jim Moats and the fictional SEALs he copied ... Demi Moore in G.I. Jane and Steven Seagal in Under Siege.

But Reverend Moats's tale about how he was forced to wash dishes after behaving badly and subjected to waterboarding sounded familiar to retired SEAL Don Shipley, who confronted Reverend Moats about his claims after his story was published.
They were actually descriptions of scenes ripped from the 1992 Hollywood film Under Siege, where Seagal stars as a former SEAL battling against a group of terrorists on a ship, Mr Shipley told the Patriot-News.
And what about Reverend Moats's claims that he had been hit by instructors?
That too was taken from a Hollywood film about SEALs - G.I. Jane - in which Moore plays the fictional role of the first woman who survives the crack team's gruelling training regime, Mr Shipley said.

Mr Shipley told US television network ABC he spent much of his time looking for and challenging SEAL-wannabes, and since the covert operation against bin Laden, the number of people pretending to be SEALs had "skyrocketed".
"Oh god, it has skyrocketed," Mr Shipley said.
"I can't even keep up with the amount of fraudulent claims and phony SEALs. Guys who haven't ever considered doing this are coming out of the woodwork, and we're nailing them as fast as we can.

I was just Regular Army, Redleg all the way.