Anybody wanna bet on whether this guy is the real deal, or if he's got a case of "Stolen Valor?"
Note that he's close enough to that world to designate himself as a graduate of the Ranger and Airborne schools, rather than just calling himself an AirborneRangerSpecialForcesSealMarineCommando the way many outsider phonies do. That's certainly no guarantee that he's a graduate of those courses or served with such units, but it's an indicator that it is indeed a possibility.
And if he is a graduate of the three-week JOTC course, it's presumably since they changed the name to the more politically correct title from the old *Jungle Warfare Training Center* designation in 1970 and closed the JOTB in April 1999.
But it does offer certain questions as to the friends or contacts he might have made while attending JOTC in Panama, either at Ft. Sherman and the Pina Range Complex, or elsewhere in-country....
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