Re; Finding The Fakes Among The Heroes

[BoonDoc]

I had a guy tell me that being an Army paratrooper was a part of SF, is this true?

BoonDoc

The fakes, wannabes, and the phonies don't know what a MOS is. Even if they have been hanging out with real vets, or watching war movies. The number and letter combinations in a MOS, trip them up, and usually they will talk about units, war stories, or areas of operations,instead. Recently, I had an opportunity to ask a young hero vet who was working on my car and telling me his war stories after he noticed my PH auto tag. After awhile, I asked him "what was your MOS?" He said Strikers Unit. You could tell he was clueless about what a MOS was. This method works 99% of the time.

[john999]

Where were all these heros back in the late 60's and early 70's when people were doing everything possible to stay out of Vietnam? There was not one person in my basic training company who volunteered for the infantry. They were all draftees as far as I know, and you should have seen the faces when they got their AIT assignments. It was considered a possible death sentence to get sent for advanced infantry training.

[Pete53]

I was drafted and they sent me to radio repair school.

[Commander Bob]

I was drafted and they sent me to radio repair school.

Oh yeah??? What was your MOS? :P

[Commander Bob]

You are our hero Pete53, here at Hadit. :P :D B) :D :D

[jbasser]

Commander Bob,

You are absolutely right about the wanna be's. Like you I am very careful about folks who claim to be Vets. Especially Viet Nam Vets. I've had so many jerks come up to me and talk about being in secret units that "they'd have to kill me if they told me". However, they couldn't tell me where they took basic, what their MOS was or what unit they were assigned to in the Army.

I spent 20 plus years in combat boots either in Armor or Aviation, and I never saw a unit (other than Delta or the old Phoenix program) that was in black ops. Especially one that took civilians straight off the street and turn them into super duper ninji killing machines without benefit of any basic training and AIT.

I get so damn mad that I just want to grab them and kick their a**. Instead I usually expose these worthless creatures of dung for what they are and enjoy their dismay at being exposed as a fraud in front of a crowd. Heroes my a**. These pathetic, slimey, worthless POS do dishonor to our brothers and sisters who gave their lives for our country.

Excuse me--I just noticed that I am slobbering, my right eye is twitching, veins have protruding from my forehead and I have inadvertently chewed through my desk. Time to go take one of those little pills those nice people down at VA tell me to take for my anger management problem.

Cav

Man it aint going to do you any good to get so upset that you stroke out over this issue.There are fakes out there and there will continue to be fakes when we are dead and gone.

I have seen some fakes even here.

Get your mind off of it. Your better off. Dont stroke out over it.

J