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Jihadin wrote: You won't being the article I believe your looking for contain pictures of the site and surrounding area. By photo's alone you can tell exactly where it is at. Also the equipment being used up there. Putin will shoot his favorite horse barechested just for 15 minutes up there unescorted.
Mind you the highest peak there they might not actually be on but a remote automated relay antenna setup to facilitate flow comms
Im guessing by your response that you are aware of the article I am referencing, and that its been pulled for OPSEC purposes?
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
Ok, so we shouldn't report crimes if we think the law being broken is stupid? Well, I just killed a guy* for eating my sandwich. I think the murder being illegal is stupid. Even though some of you may disagree, I entrust that no one will call this in because my opinion is what should drive how things work, right?
Lord Corellia wrote: Ok, so we shouldn't report crimes if we think the law being broken is stupid? Well, I just killed a guy* for eating my sandwich. I think the murder being illegal is stupid. Even though some of you may disagree, I entrust that no one will call this in because my opinion is what should drive how things work, right?
I think this whole thing is going in circles atm. I'll go out on a limb though and say that if this guy committed a crime on TV, I'm willing to bet more service personnel saw it than just our merry band here on Dakka. So, let's all calm down.
I asked our resident airmen at work, and they said that, yes, it was possible he was forward deployed in the region that long, though his tales of what he did there were highly suspect, it was not actually impossible, due to some of the shenanigans going on with USAF deployments at the time Their theory, and this sort of meshes with my own, was that he was deployed at someplace like PSAB and they rotated him between the airbase and Afghanistan. Throw in the usual 'there I was', and mystery solved.
However, the truth will out eventually. If he's a fraud, then he'll get his name up on a wall of shame someplace.
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Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
If he lied to get benefits, then yes, that's illegal.
But otherwise, why does it matter?
If I found out that someone wearing a clown suit, walking around and telling people he's a clown isn't actually one, I wouldn't really be that bothered.
Not a lot of glory to steal.
Because if he is cutting real Veterans out of benefits that adds to the douche nature of his activities, if he really is doing the stolen valor thing.
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Ashiraya wrote: No. If you are working as a clown or practicing the clown profession (even if unpaid), you are a clown.
For a better comparison, then, let's say a schoolbus driver.
If the impersonator was standing in line collecting handouts from the Schoolbus Driver's Union then you can rest assured that real bus drivers are going to have a problem with it.
Ashiraya wrote: No. If you are working as a clown or practicing the clown profession (even if unpaid), you are a clown.
For a better comparison, then, let's say a schoolbus driver.
If the impersonator was standing in line collecting handouts from the Schoolbus Driver's Union then you can rest assured that real bus drivers are going to have a problem with it.
If he lied to get benefits, then yes, that's illegal.
But otherwise, why does it matter?
If I found out that someone wearing a clown suit, walking around and telling people he's a clown isn't actually one, I wouldn't really be that bothered.
If the OP is such a big fan of the show, you do remember that Tia Torres is former military herself yeah?
Even if the guy is full of crap about being a badass SpecOps Ninja, she still would have gone out of her way to help him--or more importantly to her, his dog.
Well I also found his facebook page. Pretty sure it's him, lots of photos of the dogs. His "about me" says that during the time he claimed to be in Afghanistan he was working at Dewey's Pizza, and the St Vincent Hotel. Doesn't say anything about the USAF.
Chute82 wrote: The only thing that seems fishy in his resume is his hundreds of combat jumps. If he is talking about combat heavy jumps it could be legit. Combat heavy jump is at night with all your gear jumping for practice if the real thing ever happens. If he is talking about actual Combat jumps there has only been one done by the 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan and that was in the beginning of the war.
He claimed 'into hostile territory'.
There have been other small insertions via parachute which since they were in Afghanistan could theoretically be considered combat jumps, but nowhere near 'hundreds'.
Every time a terrorist dies a Paratrooper gets his wings.
chaos0xomega wrote: Pretty sure thats him based on the work history only, but nothing else (photo/bio/present location) matches up?
The photo is the guy from the video, and the two dogs are the dogs from the video. In the video it said he used to live in New Orleans, that's why he needed his dogs transported cross country to Cali. That's him.
EDIT: He also has a new professional facebook page, so perhaps this one just isn't being updated.
Maybe you guys can find the video somewhere else. It's season 6 episode 13 "Saving each other".
Automatically Appended Next Post: Heh, people really aught to sort out their privacy settings before they lie on TV, found this gem looking through his posts: "Destroyed phone lost all my numbers trying to find some smoke anyone holding?"
So far his life story is:
Wayne High School Class of 1996 · Huber Heights, Ohio
Sinclair Community College Dayton, Ohio
St Vincent Hotel 2005 to 2008 · Dayton, Ohio
Dewey's Pizza
McCormick and Schmick's Chef · 2012 ~ 2013· Beavercreek, Ohio
From 2013 onwards, he has some posts about life in New Orleans, and then around 2014 he starts posting from LA. Don't see many that look like army buddies on his friends list, but he has quite a few friends from Dewey's pizza.
Not sure when during all that, he found time for 9 years in Afghanistan.
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Lord Corellia wrote: Ok, so we shouldn't report crimes if we think the law being broken is stupid? Well, I just killed a guy* for eating my sandwich. I think the murder being illegal is stupid. Even though some of you may disagree, I entrust that no one will call this in because my opinion is what should drive how things work, right?
Um, yes. People have personal opinions on laws, and they don't get too fussed when people break laws they don't actually agree with.
If this really has you perplexed, consider that many people think laws against marijuana are wrong, and they won't report someone who's smoking it in their home.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Ensis Ferrae wrote: Dewey's must've opened a branch in the 'Stan... Pizza delivery on combat jump at a time!
Man! I laughed so hard, my drink came out my nose. The idea of him doing combat jumps into hostile territory to deliver pizza for Dewey's... Exalt, well earned!
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chaos0xomega wrote: Pretty sure thats him based on the work history only, but nothing else (photo/bio/present location) matches up?
The photo is the guy from the video, and the two dogs are the dogs from the video. In the video it said he used to live in New Orleans, that's why he needed his dogs transported cross country to Cali. That's him.
EDIT: He also has a new professional facebook page, so perhaps this one just isn't being updated.
Maybe you guys can find the video somewhere else. It's season 6 episode 13 "Saving each other".
Automatically Appended Next Post: Heh, people really aught to sort out their privacy settings before they lie on TV, found this gem looking through his posts: "Destroyed phone lost all my numbers trying to find some smoke anyone holding?"
So far his life story is:
Wayne High School
Class of 1996 · Huber Heights, Ohio
Sinclair Community College
Dayton, Ohio
St Vincent Hotel
2005 to 2008 · Dayton, Ohio
Dewey's Pizza
McCormick and Schmick's
Chef · 2012 ~ 2013· Beavercreek, Ohio
From 2013 onwards, he has some posts about life in New Orleans, and then around 2014 he starts posting from LA. Don't see many that look like army buddies on his friends list, but he has quite a few friends from Dewey's pizza.
Not sure when during all that, he found time for 9 years in Afghanistan.
Yep that is the guy, so the evidence is now stacking up that he is in fact a donkey cave and might be guilty of fraud if the PD chooses to press the matter.
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I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you mess with me, I'll kill you all
Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders
Maybe his 'jumps' are just an endearing term the drivers at his shop use for 'delivery run'. And as someone who once was a driver for Domino's, I can tell you 'hostile territory' accurately described one apartment complex I had to deliver to.
Every time a terrorist dies a Paratrooper gets his wings.
Maybe he had "Combat Mass Tactical Heavy Drop" after eating Dewey Pizza
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chaos0xomega wrote: Well, given the circumstances I will retract my argument, so long as ghaz admits that the USAF is tougher than it seems.
How many Air Force pilots have been able to get polaroids of MiG-28 pilots... while inverted??
I'm sure some pilot somewhere has done that whilst in the vicinity of an F-5. ;P
Being a former Marine he might need visual help
US Army A..........eerrrr...US Air Force F5
Topgun Mig 28/F5
An actual Russian Mig 28
I've a feeling they had to Vet the guy though before they threw his dumb ass on television stating what he did. Whoever vetted him needs a caning
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RIP Muhammad Ali.
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I've a feeling they had to Vet the guy though before they threw his dumb ass on television stating what he did. Whoever vetted him needs a caning
I don't know, people usually don't get "vetted" when they claim to be a vet . Case and point would be that scumbag who said he was a hero and went on the campaign trail with a bunch of candidates and made a bunch of speeches. only to be proven false later on. I wish I could remember that donkey cave's name.
I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you mess with me, I'll kill you all
Marine General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders
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