The dead giveaway that exposed this ‘Green Beret’ as a fraud

New York Post ^ | December 15, 2017 | By Kevin Fasick and Laura Italiano

[Terry L Smith]

The fraud’s eyeglass frames are ‘not within regs’.

[x1stcav]

Negative. Base Defense Officer.

The title was a little deceptive inasmuch as I had a battalion sized AO and my ‘platoon’ would use usually put around ninety effectives in the field. It was the brigade CO’s playing piece on the game board.

I had been the support platoon leader for 3/8th when I got transferred to the Cav and wanted back in the field with one of the line companies but got the BDO slot instead. I was pissed but it turned out to be a far more exciting and challenging job than if I had been with a company.

I had the time of my life.

[PROCON]

Thanks for your Service!

I was a lowly SP/5 avionics repairmen at Tay Nihn and later Song Be. It was a blast though getting to go on test flights to check out the repaired systems.

Even had the pleasure of being at 300' in an OH-6 Loach when it had a tail rotor failure and began spinning towards the ground. All 3 of us walked away and lived. I wished I remembered that pilots name. Fun times, Vietnam!

Welcome Home!

[x1stcav]

Same to you.

Those were the days.

[Pollster1]

I can spot Phony Soldier in seconds.

Army Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, and a Purple Heart on the same person . . . how could that be fake?

[MarkL]

Ya know, ya never run into the clerk, typist, cooks. They're all somethin' "special".

In the TV show "Last Man Standing," Hector Alesandro's character (Tim Allen's character's boss,) took some good natured kidding, because he was proud of his service in Viet Nam as a clerk, who never saw battle. But a combat vet referred to him as a hero, because he would hang out at the VFW hall, and help veterans with their paperwork to get their benefits, using the skills he learned as a clerk.

It was an important lesson, that there really are no non-important jobs. I learned that as a long term patient in a hospital, and I made certain to let everyone, for instance the cleaning and maintenance people, know how much I appreciated them and what they were doing.

Mark

[Bayou City]

My first question is “what was your MOS”, works every time.

[oldasrocks]

So why did it take so many years to figure this guy had the wrong color cover on?

[slouper]

I once had a homeless guy ask me for money while I was filling up. He said he was a Vietnam Vet. I noticed he was even younger than me and I was in elementary school during the war. I called him on it and told him to at least say he was a Desert Storm Vet next time, people might believe him. Surprisingly he apologized and moved on without words.

[Mark17]

With all due respect, I wouldn’t label you as an “REMF”.I would reserve that designation for the perfumed princes.

LOL. yes, I was kind of making a bit of a joke out of it. I worked one of the four or 5 busiest airports in the entire world, and I hacked the program. Don’t ask me how, I just did.
We USAF air traffic controllers thought we the best on earth, barring none. Is that cocky or what? 👍 I don’t know what they did before they took off. I don’t know exactly what they did while airborne. I don’t know what they did after they landed. All I did, was get them up and get them down. 😀😁 It was an operation, such as I had never seen before, and never saw again. I don’t know how any of us survived it, but survive we did.
I was just one of those lowly enlisted dudes. My son is a USAF 2nd Lt, and is going to attend USAF pilot training soon. The USAF is really short of pilots, so they didn’t give him much of a choice. It was fly airplanes, or nothing, so he chose pilot training.

[Mark17]

HHC 3d Bde. I was the BDO at Mace.

1877th Communications Squadron, Bien Hoa Air Base. I did a google earth search, and saw the runways are still there, 27 L/R and 9 L/R. They are still using them.
I knew guys at Phu Cat, Pleiku, Tuy Hoa, Danang, Cam Ranh Bay, Ton Son Nhut, NhaTrang, as well as bases in Thailand. We used to fight among ourselves, as to who had the highest number of take offs and landings. I don’t know which base really did. I just know each place was a veritable nightmare, in and of itself.
When I was on my last shift, I told a C-130 pilot, that he was the last aircraft I would control in Vietnam. He got a charge out of that. When I was on the Freedom Bird, we were holding short of the runway, and I saw a flight of A-37s take off ahead of us. I bet they were also wishing they were on the Freedom Bird 🦅

[ro_dreaming]

I didn’t have an MOS, but did have a NEW.

[Songcraft]

"Plus, I’m terrified that I’ll find out that they really DO issue a Rainbow Pride Ribbon with Trans Cluster."

These guys all received those awards...

       

[colorado tanker]

The impression I get is that the Master Parachutist Badge is for Pathfinders and Spec Ops people who do HALO jumps and other fancy stuff.

[BlueLancer]

Ya know, ya never run into the clerk, typist, cooks. They're all somethin' "special".

I did three years in the infantry .. regular mechanized infantry .. carrying the M60 machinegun (mainly because I wanted to really reach out and touch someone if push-came-to-shove).

I then reenlisted as a 71E .. court reporter stenographer. Did 16 years as that in the military and now 22 years as a civil service court reporter with the Department of Defense.

SAMURAI COURT REPORTER!