[Ducimus]

Seems like I always hear stories about people being special forces. My fiancee met someone who claims their husband is a seal. I saw some jackoff in some book made for my 10 year high school reunion (which i didn't attend), who went out of his way to point out he was special forces. When i was stationed at my last duty base while active duty, the GS11 in charge of the shop claimed up and down he was an ex seal. (All the crap he put on his walls that you can buy at any surplus store didn't convince me).

Point is, there's a ton of people out there who try and paint themselves as military bad ass's. The INSTANT i hear that soandsoa is seal/special forces/ green beret/ranger, the first thing i say is, "Uh huh. Suuurree...", or " yeah right".

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I only met ONE guy who was genuinley all that and a bag of chips. I worked with the guy at my last base. He was a Ranger in vietnam, and he didn't talk up a bunch of crap. He didn't need to. Working with him (He was a GS worker in base maintanence), you could tell there was something different about him that was engrained in his inner character. You can't fake that.

I didn't find out what he did in the service until a long time friend of his told me. I got along pretty good with him. When I PCS'ed out, I gave him my extra pair of OD green jungle boots that was issued to me when i went to central america. (they were his size) He thanked me profusely, and remarked they were just like the ones he wore. That meant alot to me since i had just come back from overseas and didn't quite fit in with the lazy spoiled princesses that was my duty section.