Special Forces Ranger impostor

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Anyhow thats the same guy?

Good question. I'm still digging through those links in the first post.

[RickC Sniper]

Looks like the same guy.


This from the OP.
http://www.jerrypippin.com/I40Bridge.htm




I loathe morons like him.

[CptSimFreak]

That dude isn't bright. At all.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

And yeah, the Travis AFB sticker is odd. Spent my last year in active duty on the base. I wonder how he got it. They are controlled items, but I don't think they're always removed from vehicles if someone PCS's and sell's their car. (though they should).

My theory is he came by that base sticker one of three ways.

1.) PCS car, and prior owner goofed.
2.) Relative's car.
3.) He's a GS worker. Probably low on the pay scale. Although i dont remember what the deal was with officer stickers. If they got a special coloration or not.

One thing he probably isn't, is in the acutal military. Enlisted or otherwise. No freaking way would anyone be allowed to pack on that many pounds. The AF (Assuming he's affiliated somehow given the base sticker) would have him on the "fat boy program". He'd have to lose the weight or be given a medical discharge.

Yea my dad is friends with a guy who was in the Air National Guard. He gave my dad his old pickup and it still had the sticker for Niagara AFB on it. Looked a lot like the one in the picture.

We ended up junking the truck, I wish I kept the sticker.

[Platapus]

When I was in, we either had to remove the sticker (almost impossible at times ) or take a picture of it after we scrubbed it clean with steel wool (which worked great). Some bases would not accept a picture but wanted the handful of tiny slivers.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Platapus

When I was in, we either had to remove the sticker (almost impossible at times ) or take a picture of it after we scrubbed it clean with steel wool (which worked great). Some bases would not accept a picture but wanted the handful of tiny slivers.

Rubbing Alcohol and a razor blade works good for taking off stickers intact.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Wow, just wow. It amazes me how anyone do that **** and not expect to be caught. I guess asshats like that guy assume there arent any veterans or offduty personnel amongst the general populace.


And yeah, the Travis AFB sticker is odd. Spent my last year in active duty on the base. I wonder how he got it. They are controlled items, but I don't think they're always removed from vehicles if someone PCS's and sell's their car. (though they should).

My theory is he came by that base sticker one of three ways.

1.) PCS car, and prior owner goofed.
2.) Relative's car.
3.) He's a GS worker. Probably low on the pay scale. Although i dont remember what the deal was with officer stickers. If they got a special coloration or not.

One thing he probably isn't, is in the acutal military. Enlisted or otherwise. No freaking way would anyone be allowed to pack on that many pounds. The AF (Assuming he's affiliated somehow given the base sticker) would have him on the "fat boy program". He'd have to lose the weight or be given a medical discharge.

One more possibility... he forged it.

My late father in law had a car with a sticker for Homestead AFB on it. While he was still alive (retired) he let us use it to access the base to visit the PX. I kind of felt guilty when the front gate saluted us, I pulled up explained we werent enlisted and just running errands for 'him', we thanked them for their service. We were curtiously waved on. But thats a different situation.

ps; This was like 15 years ago loooong before 911

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Rubbing Alcohol and a razor blade works good for taking off stickers intact.

We had to put the stickers on the bumper and razor blades never did the bumper any good. If we were allowed to put it on glass, I would agree.

[SteamWake]

Hrm and I thought Goo Gone was the weapon of choice for this little trick.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

One more possibility... he forged it.

My late father in law had a car with a sticker for Homestead AFB on it. While he was still alive (retired) he let us use it to access the base to visit the PX. I kind of felt guilty when the front gate saluted us, I pulled up explained we werent enlisted and just running errands for 'him', we thanked them for their service. We were curtiously waved on. But thats a different situation.

ps; This was like 10 years ago loooong before 911

Defiantly before 911.

But that's nothing. I lived right by a NY Army National Guard base during Middle and High School. As kids we would just walk under a hole in the fence where a storm drain ran on to the base and be in the motor pool. The Gunships (AH-1s) were fenced in totally but we probably could have driven off with a HUMVEE or Duce and Half if we were so inclined. (In retrospect why didn't we?) The front gate? When one of my buddies got his first car we just drove though- there was no guard or checkpoint, I don't think there was even a stop sign.

Right away after 911 they got a chain link fence gate and they put concertina wire in the storm drains.

@SteamWake: That was the system my dad the mechanic used for years. Goo Gone would work too, but Medical Alcohol is dirt cheap.

@Platapus: Yea it works on glass, the one my friend's truck and my buddy's (Fmr. Navy) car has is on the windshield.

[Takeda Shingen]

Good lord, if you are going to fake a story about being in Special Forces, you should at least look like there is a remote possibility that you could be in Special Forces, ie not being 70 pounds overweight.

Well, at least we have finally learned the name of the guy in this web classic:

[August]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

One thing he probably isn't, is in the acutal military. Enlisted or otherwise. No freaking way would anyone be allowed to pack on that many pounds. The AF (Assuming he's affiliated somehow given the base sticker) would have him on the "fat boy program". He'd have to lose the weight or be given a medical discharge.

That Poser is definitely not military. His uniform is all wrong. For one thing SF officers wear their rank badge on their beret flash, SF enlisted wear their unit crest in that spot. You can clearly see the outline of a unit crest on the flash instead of a captains rail road tracks which should have been there instead.

Secondly there should be an Airborne tab between the SF arrowhead patch and the Special Forces tab and there ain't.

Thirdly US Army MP's don't wear their badges on their ACU's. They only wear an MP brassard on their left arm to identify them as a cop.

Which also brings up the fact that there is no such thing as a Special Forces MP either.

Oh and finally while the flash is SF (my old unit in fact) that beret looks black colored, not green like a "Green Beret" would be wearing.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by August

That Poser is definitely not military. His uniform is all wrong. For one thing SF officers wear their rank badge on their beret flash, SF enlisted wear their unit crest in that spot. You can clearly see the outline of a unit crest on the flash instead of a captains rail road tracks which should have been there instead.

Secondly there should be an Airborne tab between the SF arrowhead patch and the Special Forces tab and there ain't.

Im not completely aware of army uniform reg's, so i stayed quiet in that regard. It did seem off, I just wasn't sure why.

Thirdly US Army MP's don't wear their badges on their ACU's. They only wear an MP brassard on their left arm to identify them as a cop.

Which also brings up the fact that there is no such thing as a Special Forces MP either.

This however, stuck out to me like a sore thumb. One is either an MP, or they are not, as far as i know. He's probably getting his branch's mixed up. Air force SP's (Security Police instead of Military Police), DO wear a badge device, on one of the breast pockets. I honestly forget which side (left maybe). The AF has a couple of badges that can be worn there. Command badges (ATC, AMC, ACC, etc) and specialty like prime beef, red horse, ICB missle, fireman, SP, etc, but the point being they do wear them.

However, they are cloth on BDU's (or whatever they're calling them now) and subdued. An actual metallic badge is only worn on blue's.

Another thing that is off, is the radio. An SP (and im guessing MP as well), would not be off base in uniform, with a brick still on them. If they had the brick, then they were on duty. I'm pretty sure SP's have to turn those at the end of the duty day. I had one issued to me every day while in base maintanence, and I had put it back in the charger every day before I left my shop. So i SERIOUSLY bout you'd see an MP/SP, at a gun show, off base in uniform, with a radio on them.

[SteamWake]

I know it is against the law to impersonate a Police officer, is it not illegal to impersonate a military police officer?

[CaptainHaplo]

Yes it is. 18 U.S.C. § 912

Max term is 3 years. There are some other things involved though.