Lol...talked to a "Marine sniper"

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I could see some shooters being allowed to experiment with different calibers - 7mag, 7STW, 6/284 and 6.5/284 all come to mind as possibilities.... So the 7 mag fellow might be plausible...

I really don't like Navy Seels, Green WannaBeenies, etc....

There was a guy in my basic training company who was prior service. He'd gotten out, and wanted back in, and the brass made him go through basic again (he was 35). He'd been a special forces combat medic... Basic damn near killed him some days, but he kept us pretty much patched together - better than sick call for sprains and strains...

We were pretty much the best platoon in the best company, and got all the cool ribbons for our flag (which seemed to become progressively heavier to carry, much less twirl around with flamboyance upon passing other ribbonless units...), and we got ourselves an afternoon off and a beer pass toward the end of basic... Yow!

The DIs let Randy have his sew-ons... So it was off to clothing sales, and then to the e-club... After a couple of hours of tall-boy buds, several MP trainees walked in after they were out of school for the day... They saw this shaved head fellow with a baby face wearing skeeter wings on his collars, and right below them were a CIB, air assault wings, jump wings, and something else I dismember, and proceeded to try to remove them.

It was a beautiful thing to watch.
 
Posers can be really funny to listen to.

We had one who worked for me who was about 24 and claimed to have been in the marines. I had known him his whole life and I knew he had never gone anywhere away from his mommy for more that weekend never mind three years...I called him in and told him that posing was a good way to get your butt kicked and that we had two real marines working in another dept who really REALLY did not like him calling him self a marine...

About a month later I heard that he was at an afterwork social hour and started feeding a line to a new CAD tech about what he had done etc and the two real guys just had had enough. He had talked about being a marine chopper pilot and that he had spent time flying this and that. He had no idea what the cyclic was nor what a collective was. I have not flown a chopper but I had read enough to know that was like having a pilot who did not know what the stick was. I had warned him but he had to tell that girl he was a marine and had been someplaces where he never was. It got ugly real fast.

He did not show up for work after that. I think he finally got humilated enough to stop but I could never figure out why he did it.
 
"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.
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I'm sure he was full of it, but sometimes it's the LITTLE bouncers you need to worry about. There are some of them around these parts I wouldn't care to tangle with, while some of the big lugs will fold like a lawn chair.
 
It's the little bouncer that just pepper sprays you, then kicks you in the groin. :)
 
I love the stories that some people put out... I expecially love the guys who are "I'm Recon, or I'm Force Recon or I'm a Sniper" ... Since I'm still Active Duty and active though out several of the 'communitys' in my daily activities, I just ask them, what unit, what platoon, what team? So do you know this person or that person? I'll ask them about the Endoc or training, I'd say 1/10 actually are who they say they are, and once they get questioned enough they figure out I'm not impressed. It's really fun to do when POG's come over to hit on my wifes friends.

The quickest, way to put down a guy who claims to be a "Marine Sniper", ask to see his "hogs tooth"... unless the dude is buck naked, he'll have it, most wear it around thier neck or on thier watch and will still have it when naked, LOL.

I have buddies that have been through the Hawaii Snipers course, and buddies that are Full Fledged Force Recon / MARSOC Operators, you know what they tell people they do when we're at the bar and asked... Bulk Fuel, Vehicle Body Repair or Legal Admin Assitance. Very few times do any of us who are advanced into the community brag about what we do, or tell too many stories to people, who haven't been by our sides, this has come with age now, we used to mouth off about everything.

As for the LITTLE bouncers, one of my neighbors is about 5'6" 150lbs, MMA fighter, gold gloves boxer, USMC Black Belt IT, I wouldn't mess with the guy; it's not the size of the dog, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

here I am posting the the General Forum again, something I stay away from, but it's lunch time on a friday.
 
We have a lot in common, Dravur

My friends all know I was the youngest Navy Chief in Viet Nam, at 5. First grade was a cast iron bitch to adjust to, I went straight from my PBR to reading about Dick and Jane and nap time. I was GREAT at dodge ball, though. I started all that stuff in response to a Coastie, who was a former Marine, who was telling the younger guys of all his exploits in the Corp. He was only 6 years older than me but evidently was in on the end of the Viet Nam war.
 
To this day I remember this guy I ran into at a gun show. Was wearing camo pants and a wife beater shirt. Was carrying around a CHROMED M-11 Cobray 9mm. I was curious about it as I've never seen a Chromed M-11.

He said he was on leave from the SEALS and was selling his personal sidearm to buy a SKS (yep, his personal sidearm was the Chromed M-11).

Got a little hostile at me when I chuckled at the "I'm with the SEAL Team 6" comment.:D
 
I never understood the NEED some of these wannabe's feel to tell those stories. I was in for 7 years, I wasn't anything extra special, did time as a unit supply grunt, and a unit armorer. I was in NATO unit when Gulf War started. In those 7 years I have lots of stories; no need to say I was a Ranger or any damn thing else.
 
You are correct, Ian.

I was never a Marine Sniper, and I've never heard of that rifle and scope set up. In fact, I've been to three county fairs and a hog-callin'; never seen a rifle like that!

*chuckle-sob*

By the way, there were night vision scopes during the VietNam era. However as an idea of how much usable range they had, they were originally mounted on M1 Carbines. On an average night, they were far better than iron sights and somewhat better than a regular 3x scope (typical of the time). They were about as good as 7x57 field glasses - except the field glasses won't work as a scope.
 
Best way to tell if a guy claiming to be a Marine is actually a Marine is how his story starts. If it does not include the opening phrase
"Me and a buddy were out drinking on (insert Pacific Island here) one night and decided to...."

All others are usually full of fertilizer.:neener:
 
From: http://www.dailyhog.com/Sniper_Signs.htm


Top Signs You're Living With A Sniper

By Daily Hog Staff


Shotgun Wedding
He always has a smoke after shooting his load
Brushes his teeth with Aim
Doesn't know the difference between "Wack Off" and "Whack Off"
He's like a Bowler, you never know when he'll Strike
A great golfer, another "Hole In One"
He constantly says his picture will be on a box of Wheaties Serial
He titled his book "Insights of a Sniper"
He's always careful not to find himself over a Barrel
He's finally coming out of his Shell
He likes you to rub your Butt against his shoulder
He uses scope mouthwash
He likes to play hide in the Bush
He doesn't go out on a limb
Always comes home loaded
Plays blackjack, but can't stop hitting
Names all the family pets Trigger
Says the FBI's top ten list is better than Letterman's
You never see him without a magazine
The Death card is missing from your Deck of Tarot cards
Comes home and checks the VCR for messages
Calls you Mary, names the kids Jesus
Claims he's so good at oral sex it'll blow you away
Tells you Cross Hairs are just angry rabbits

I'm guessing this isn't a Marine sniper....just the wannabes

(Oh, and thanks to those that served....)
 
The guy that my 18 year old pregnant niece married swears that he is an ex Seal; at age 19. In just a year, he graduated High School, joined the Navy, made it through Seals, got injured, discharged and is back home. His alleged injury happened in Iraq; he took some sort of blast to his eyes and he had to be discharged. He says that the Navy will let him back in if he gets his eyes operated on (at his expense).

He still owes the Gov't money because they overpaid him (that's why he is always broke). There is more, but I forget what else he says. I tried to tell my niece that he is full of kaka and she should check things like his DD214, pages 3, 4, 5, and maybe 13 in his service record.

I also told her that IF everything is true and he did get wounded, the Gov't would at least try to fix your injury and if it is bad enough for you to be discharged, you will either be medically retired, or have some sort of compensation and will be allowed to use Vet Hospitals for free if it is service related. I believe that he joined, was a screw up and got kicked out. I spent 10 years in the Navy as a Yeoman and the last couple I was in processed discharges so I feel competent enough to shoot holes in his story.

As for me, the only remarkable thing in 10 years of service was that we were in a collision with a Russian sub just off of their coast. We were “looking” when it happen.

Oh, and I do have one of them satellite linked scopes, but mine has IntNetTrak on it. That gives me the ability to located and track targets through the internet.:D
 
So is the tooth literally a bullet?
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I'll find out, I've seen 2 different ones in person, they didn't look like brass to me.

In the USMC Sniper progression, you have "Pigs" that's a sniper that is doing on the job training with a sniper unit, then you have "Hogs" that's a man who's been through the formal school and has EARNED the MOS of 8541, unofficially you have "Wild Boar" that's the stuff you never hear about happening ;)

El Barto - I suggest you find out where he was recruited out of and talk to the recruiter, if you can't get ahold of his DD 214. One of the guys I went to high school with, broke his leg & hip in the 6th week of boot camp, he collects a check every month for disability. I can say with 99.9% confidence that the kid didn't do Navy Boot and BUDs training and go to Iraq in less than 2 years. I know for a fact that anyone injured in combat will collect disability and the gov't will pay for any medical precedure before thier discharge. I know this because one of my best friends just had plastic surgery on his nose, to remove shrapenal, grind off a bone spure and fix some cartilige up there. This is after haveing laser surgery on the rest of his face several years ago, when an anti-personel mine blew up under the man infront of him. I'm also a combat wounded vet myself, and have had operations to remove shrapenal, that I didn't have to pay for, LOL.

BTW: if he's in deserter status there is sometimes a reward ;)
 
Six months from now I built a timemachine and traveled back to 1916 to fight the kaiser. As i recall i took an SKS with me and killed over 200 krauts. I then transfered to the air corps and was an ace within 2 days. General Pershing shook my hand on the day i was discharged. Unfortunately the timemachine malfunctioned and brought me back to 2 years ago shortly before exploding. So i'm forced to lay low until the me that is supposed to live in the present goes back in time. Then I'll get my lab back and rebuild my time machine go into the future and bring back one of those sattelite linked scopes to show it to you guys. In fact if the machine works right i'll bring it back tomorrow. Come to think of it it might be me that Ian talked to since traveling thru time isn't exact maybe i came back early.
 
HAHA where are you from!?!?!?! I talked to a Marine once that told me he was in Marine Recon, his units name was "Lone Wolf"....Turns out he got his whole story from a video game!!! We never got those nasa scopes in the army...man I missed out, I bet its the same guy
 
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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Damn kids! Can't have nothin' nice...:cuss:
 
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