Lol...talked to a "Marine sniper"

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Well the kids I can see. Every teenaged male has an active imagination. But these 30 and 40 year old guys who've been lying for years, even to the point of getting tattoos. It's pretty scary. You have to be careful about confronting people like that. They have so much of their own identity wrapped up in the lie, they get pretty nasty when challenged.
 
"Snipers, real honest to goodness snipers, military or LEO are a quite bunch."

I guess you have never polished a few cases of beer off with any of them....

As far as the clown mentioned in the original post..... no reply needed. Almost feel sorry for the guy.
 
Besides the NASA satellite-feed on the scope, I'm sure most of the members here have heard a similar story at one point or another while hanging around the local gunshop.
That one is pretty good, though. The NASA thing really bumps gunstore BS up a notch.

Don't worry, if that guy ever meets a real Marine sniper then the situation should resolve itself.
 
I'll ask the former marine sniper who is the firearms training officer for our county sheriff's department about the NASA scope. :D I'm sure he'll get a big kick out of that, or else he'll be *real* disappointed he didn't get one. :rolleyes:
 
Posers are everywhere and not just in the civilian sector. I've run into countless guys in uniform that tell some of the most outrageous stories about themselves.

Some of the best:

"I got a part time job as a bouncer at a club." The PFC making the statement was 5' 6" and weighed, at best, 130 pounds.

"I was with the guys at 'The Red Roof Inn'" Spoken in hushed tones by an SSG in my company at Bragg. I have a couple of friends over there. A quick check revealed that the closest he ever came to the compound was driving past it on the way to Sicily DZ.

"I spent 18 months in Division, got 69 jumps and got sent to Jumpmaster School as a PFC." Stated by an SPC in the 101st just prior to his going AWOL to escape a Field Grade Article 15 for wearing unauthorized badges and awards.

I could go on, but I don't think there's enough band width to hold them all.

Mike
 
I had a G.M. once that used to tell people he made 750 combat jumps in Vietnam, and was the LAST American out of Siagon. Years later I found out he had spent two years with the Army Band.:what:
 
One of my favorites was the boot camp buddy that somehow developed a thick British (?) accent between the time he left BC and when I saw him again at our next duty station. I knew he was a little wierd in BC but this was the icing on the cake. He had a couple of guys in tow who were eating it up. I just played along until I could lose him again ( about 5 minutes).
 
Weelllll, I had a troop who as an A1C had been in Force Recon, played tailback for USC, and was a 4th degree black belt, all by the time he was 19. Of course, he probably played tailback when he was 12 and got his first jump in at 14. :rolleyes:

I brought my sparring gear to the field one time just to give him a chance (I was captain of the base Karate team at the time) and he didn't know how to put it on. :rolleyes:
 
I didn't want to tear his story down (there would be no point to it, and I have to work around the guy), so I didn't ask him any tough questions, like what the drop n a .50BMG is at two and a half miles. Or how Remington managed to squeeze a .50BMG into their model 750. Or if he could explain the concept of the mildot to me.
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Should have just asked him what BMG stands for.
 
I met a guy at the range Tuesday morning that said he was a big bore instructor at Quanico and never shot at anything less that 1000yds. He had just bought one of the DPMS .308's and was trying to zero the big scope he had on the thing. It took him over 100rd's to get on paper at 100yds and when he managed to get there his groups were not the kind I would expect out of an instructor from Quanico. I was making better groups at the same distance with iron sights. I will hand it to the guy he never once said he was a Marine but I think the above statement implyed it. It didn't take long for the bs alarm to sound off. Why do people feel as if they have to lie and make themselves feel important. I stopped talking to the instructor and started a conversation with a financial officer of one of the local schools. He had a nice Mauser K98 and didn't lie.
 
Well

When I went to 'Nam' in 1969, I was attached to the 5th recon patrol of the 18th mountain division of the 212 Rat Patrol Garrison. I was only 6 yrs old, but knew that I wanted to be a marine.

They issued me a tactical .22 with a starlight scope, gave me some candy and sent me out into the 'Bush' I racked up 47 kills that first day...Charlie had never seen a tough 6 yr old and I shot em while they laughed. I had confirmed kills out to 16 miles from information beamed to me from a C-130 Gun ship, which I later flew on several missions into Laos, Cambodia and the Antarctic to quell the penguin uprising.

I was then issued a full size Garand and told to be a tunnel rat. It was tough maneuvering <sp> in a tunnell with a Garand, but I jut fixed the 3 foot long bayonet and went crawling. I killed over 300 charlie in one tunnel alone and ended up coming out on the mexican border, near Juarez. It was a long tunnel.

Well, I turned 7 in 1970 and that's when the S really hit the fan. I had to rescue a downed pilot. If I remember rightly, his call sign was Bat21. I flew in, using phone books on the seat of the plane, and landed in a rice patty. I pumped the tires up really full to use as flotation devices. I hopped out with my GE 50mm gatling gun and proceeded to lay down suppression fire, levelling trees <for the take-off, of course> I then ran to the downed pilot and helped him into the plane. Just then, Charlie came running up. I didnt hear them, cuz they were wearing sneakers. Converse, I think. I promptly mowed them down like mice in a thresher with my 50mm gatling gun.

Awww, my memories of 'Nam' Of course, since I was only 7, the CO would make me come back to base and take a nap or id be cranky.

True stories, really!
 
Charlie came running up. I didnt hear them, cuz they were wearing sneakers.
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I respectfully call BS. We all know from war movies that Charlie either wear sandals or go barefoot. :)
 
I have a friend whom really was in the USMC and was in Force Recon back in the 1980's. The only thing he talks about is how happy he was to get out!
 
The only real story I have like that is a former Ranger that didn't know what a DD-214 was...
 
Well the kids I can see. Every teenaged male has an active imagination. But these 30 and 40 year old guys who've been lying for years, even to the point of getting tattoos. It's pretty scary. You have to be careful about confronting people like that. They have so much of their own identity wrapped up in the lie, they get pretty nasty when challenged.
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Heck I seen 60 year old guys that still lie that they were in Vietnam doing special forces stuff...hard to do if you never been there. They are usually over the top gun strokers, be careful not to set them off buy catching them in a lie. I caught a 30ish guy that worked in my office. He drove around with an personalized license plate that said EX-CIA, I reviewed his resume when he was hired and there was nothing about the CIA on his resume, yet he would brag to others that he did "stuff" during the first gulf war. One day I was in a foul mood (partly because he said he knew the CIA agent killed in the Afghanistan prison riot that John Walker Lind was involved in) and I just asked him, "Why didn't you you put you CIA experience on you resume?" I can't he said, I'm not allowed. But you are ok to have an EX-CIA license plate and talk about who you know in the agency and what you did. If you did such secret work shouldn't you keep your mouth shut about it :scrutiny: I know I just shattered this guy who was in his 30's, never married, never graduated college, never made over $30,000 a year, little fantasy world, but at the time it felt good. I can only hope that he moved on with his life and is happy for who he really is. :eek:
 
An acquaintance who really was/is a Marine and says he was a sniper (and I believe him- not a poser type) once mentioned using a 7mm Magnum in the service. Sounded a little off to me- I thought they went straight from .30 to .50 cal. Did the Marines ever use a 7 Mag?
 
If any of you ever go on the ESPN TOP 25 CFB message board, there is a guy with the Screen name " PHIL_Macodsak"

He claims he was an Amry sniper and I asked him to siply compute a slope dope for me and he said "What the hell is that? They don't do that in the Military!"
 
The guy mentioned in the first post is clearly a poser.

However, you should recognise the difference betwen a goose like this and some gentle story telling used sole for the puposes of entertainment.

They're were, back around 1986 a number of American soldiers on excercise in Northern Territory who where absolutley terrified at the thought of wandering through the bush late at night and encountering a herd of carnivorous "Kakadus":neener: :neener:

Yes, it was me that started that rumour..........
 
There's this 19 year old kid I see around town every once in a while. He once told me and a friend (who frequents this board, he'll confirm this) that he made a hydraulic-assisted suit of "power armor" made entirely from depleted uranium, it's 16 feet tall, he transports it by walking it into the back of his old pickup truck and driving it to the shooting range where he practices shooting a minigun he mounts to the arm of it. It's so strong, it can withstand a direct shot from a 120mm main battle tank cannon.

Kids these days....
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Me thinks he has been reading act of war or a few other books by Dale Brown a wee bit to often
 
Had a guy in Boot Camp (Great Lakes) back in 73, who scurried over to the Exchange on our first liberty. Picked himself up a bunch of ribbons to "embellish" his uniform when he went into town. Wore them proudly until someone told him that he was wearing 9 National Defense ribbons.......
 
Lupinus,
I was just about to write that. Reading it now. Pretty good book. This past Tuesday I actually met a couple guys from TGE at a vendor meeting. These guys were in the staffing division in the energy, power, utilities industries.
 
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