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Our country forbids to wear the official national emblems, they are reserved for servants of the state. The republic of Germany and also the federated states allow their citiszen to fly the flag but the rest of the national emblems e.g. sigills and coats of arms are not to be used, and there is also a service flag that must not be used by private people or organisations.

A friend of mine, being police officer, brought his uniform to a Vampire and Werewolf LARP we were having on new year's eve under the eye of the public in the middle of the city of Aachen. It was fun and all, holding up the masquerade between innocent bystanders - until I, playing a squatter, was contacted by the players in a pedestrian tunnel. Suddenly this cop turns up and asks for our papers and what we are doing here. Not until he called me by my role name and chatted with me like he was collecting me now and then for "lingering around and being drunk in the open" (forbidden, although not pressed upon normally) I recogniced he was our chap in disguise.
The scene got quite intense afterwards, when another of our friends came down and told us a real police car had been stopping above on the road, and the officers had left their car and were on their way to enter the tunnel, but the radio had called and they left.
Our friend later explained that he would hav been in gak up to his nose for - displaying the national insignia and the symbol of police without being in service atm, - as an officer, wearing his uniform outside of his unit's territory (Germany being a federation, he being from the city state of Bremen), - and most important, because he had committed an act of office by demanding our ID cards. He only could have made it worse by carrying his iron (strictly forbidden in Germany outside of needs like police service or licenced hunting).

Everything would have been okay, he said, had he taken away the national tricolor emblem and the coat of arms identifying him as a police officer from Bremen. He later donned his (stripped) uniforms to our LARP costume funds.

 AustonT wrote:

 Seaward wrote:
Wait, does this mean I can't trust the Delta Force bumper sticker on the car that always parks down the street?

I had fun with one of these dirtbags in a bar in Arlington once. He was mackin' on my girl before I showed up, mostly talking about how he'd just gotten back from "downrange." He couldn't quite remember where in Iraq he'd been, though. Just "a camp."

A few years back some battles and I were at an AIT post on TDY. We went to a club and met a group of other guys we hadn't seen in years and parties the night away. Later at the drunk cave (Denny's) we were all reminiscing about deployments and this random dude who had attached himself at some I remembered part of the the night started spinning a yarn about his deployment. Our interest was piqued. He looked about 12 and well, like an AIT student. So'se I ask him. What's your MOS? The army being in the wonderful transitioning phase of realigning MOS' to new numbers he jus so happened to pick one that makes up about a third of our company strength. Cept he used the new number and exactly ZERO of this job type who have been to thier units call themselves that. They have this primal fascination with the old MOS number "33" which they pray to like the omnisiah; which since we call them tech priests is twice as funny. So'se I say you mean a 33 right? No, the new one. The change had occurred like two months before.
Gotcha, we let him finish his story to look cool in front of the chicks we were with and invited him out for a cigarette.
Oh memories.
Honestly this story take like 15 seconds in person and took 5 minutes of typing. Lame.

Lol, sadly, as a 33 (a real one mind you) I find it sad that some of the new kids coming out of the schoolhouse don't identify themselves as their true MOS designator, until we educate them. In fact, at my unit, I am constantly "correcting" people on what my MOS designator is.... I'm also upset that this unit completely ignores, and pisses on army traditions that my section have a vehicle that has the bumper number of 33.

It was probably 5 years ago now. If it makes you feel any better battle: we told him what a 33 was.

 Ratbarf wrote:
You can wear the uniform, you simply cannot tell people that you are a member of that unit unless you actually are. Otherwise Halloween would be really boring.

But medal wearing is strictly forbidden.

So if I was in Canada and wanted to wear my father's medals as part of a service (as is often done here) that would be illegal?
What a joke Canada, what a joke.

Sorry, only Blood descendents can wear medals that were actually earned, but you can't wear a fake Victoria Cross for instance.

 Ouze wrote:
Well... there may be camping in Iraq.

Hey, camping is a valid strategy.

Quit hatin'!

I generally find people that feel the need to constantly trumpet the fact that they were in some service or another to be rather lame. Present company excluded of course. I have the utmost respect for the Marine Core.

 Ratbarf wrote:

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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
.... I'm really jealous of Canada's legal system on this one...

I wouldn't be. We ration legal system in Canada.

OT, these kinds of people are sad sad failures. If they are doing it for the accolades, that's just weak, If it for some kind of profit, well then that is fraud and they deserve jail.

Oh man, so many people aren't going to get the funny part of this, unless we tell them I guess.

We do ration the legal system in Canada.

Seriously.

I cannot stop laughing.

Where's Azazel when you need him?

He may have the flu and wasn't on the que for healthcare this year.

 AustonT wrote:
He may have the flu and wasn't on the que for healthcare this year.

He may be proper fethed, if he used too much of his rationed health care earlier in the fiscal year

Well, if you're interested in fake military people getting outed, here's the sad take of TheConvinvingSavant, a tale in two parts.

If you're not keen on reading a 5 year old Fark thread, here's a 3 sentence summary:


It's led since to many amusing memes to this day, such as "wife-like typing detected" and my personal favorite, "Semper Fib".