NotQuiteSane
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The Expert comes home tomorrow. be patient, in a week or so I may have more for you guys
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I work with a similar guy. When I first met him, he was saying he was an active duty E9, attached to the TN Homeland Security Office from Special Ops Command. He told everyone he had an issue M4 in the trunk of his privately owned car (against regs), used his personal laptop to store Top Secret data (highly against regs), and went on drug raids with local LEO's (also against regs - Posse Comitatus Act). After I started working for the company and was able to put the holes in his stories, everyone else woke up to his BS, now he's a running joke at work. Turns out, he was active Army during Gulf 1 as a Vulcan ADA crewmember, got out, went AF Reserve as a medic, then transferred to a TN Army Reserve unit, also as a medic. He's actually an E-5 and is his units Retention NCO.
I call people like that 'Special Feces' cause they're full of it.
Frank
I call people like that 'Special Feces' cause they're full of it.
Frank
You tell ol' Paul...
that he's on the prayer list. BS'er or not, he don't sound like somebody who'd vote for gun-banners, and I think we are more or less obligated to overlook a few 'personality warts' anyway. Feet generally solve more personal issues of this sort than harsh words do, and if the guy annoyed me too much I'd just avoid him. Jerry Springer would be out of business if people took this to a happy extreme.
I have been asked (for the court record) if I am a firearms 'expert'. The question itself is irrelevant because we all know that there are so many individual areas of expertise that no one person is an expert in all of them. My pat answer is that I don't consider myself one, but I'lll leave that for the lawyers to argue, and the court to decide.
That answer is based largely on a definition of the word that I learned when I was about 10 years old. Like so many other great thoughts, it was penned by Mark Twain-
"Expert- the village idiot, ten miles from home."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
that he's on the prayer list. BS'er or not, he don't sound like somebody who'd vote for gun-banners, and I think we are more or less obligated to overlook a few 'personality warts' anyway. Feet generally solve more personal issues of this sort than harsh words do, and if the guy annoyed me too much I'd just avoid him. Jerry Springer would be out of business if people took this to a happy extreme.
I have been asked (for the court record) if I am a firearms 'expert'. The question itself is irrelevant because we all know that there are so many individual areas of expertise that no one person is an expert in all of them. My pat answer is that I don't consider myself one, but I'lll leave that for the lawyers to argue, and the court to decide.
That answer is based largely on a definition of the word that I learned when I was about 10 years old. Like so many other great thoughts, it was penned by Mark Twain-
"Expert- the village idiot, ten miles from home."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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See, that's what makes no sense about a lot of these wannabes. Is he not proud of that? That's a lot of service. Why would a guy who did all that need to make up stories?
world is a Retention NCO?!?!?NotQuiteSane
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Well, I told you guys to be patient.
today I learned the Expert has killed a grizzly bear with a revolver chambered in 375 wetherbhy magnum. I mistakenly assumed he meant 357 win mag, but no, it was a 375 weatherby mag, same gun issued to the police
NQS
today I learned the Expert has killed a grizzly bear with a revolver chambered in 375 wetherbhy magnum. I mistakenly assumed he meant 357 win mag, but no, it was a 375 weatherby mag, same gun issued to the police
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Glad he's doing better! Has he dropped a black rhino with a .9mm cop killer yet?
El Tejon
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NQS, that's great. Please keep them coming. Which gun rag does he edit?
OEF_VET
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Quartus -- Reenlistment NCO / Retention NCO = same creature, different name, still tries to con people into forgetting everything they've griped about for the past several years, so they'll sign on for another several years of griping.
Ryder
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I've only ran into one guy like that. In the end I couldn't figure out what his problem was and just chalked it up to him being a lefty. Is "the expert" a southpaw by any chance?
Hehe, just testing a theory
Hehe, just testing a theory
stevelyn
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Ex-is a has been.
Spert- is a drip under pressure. Do the math.
Ex-is a has been.
Spert- is a drip under pressure. Do the math.
Whenever someone in the UK threatens the police/public with replica firearm, and gets shot by police marksmen:
Someone will write to the papers / phone in to TV shows saying:
"The police are trained marksmen. They should have shot the gun out of his hand." (Or shot him in the leg, etc)
(And usually followed up soon after with "We should ban replica firearms!")
Editeded: Oops - wrong thread. That was meant to go in the " What is the silliest thing you've heard in a gun discussion?" thread.[i/]
Someone will write to the papers / phone in to TV shows saying:
"The police are trained marksmen. They should have shot the gun out of his hand." (Or shot him in the leg, etc)
(And usually followed up soon after with "We should ban replica firearms!")
Editeded: Oops - wrong thread. That was meant to go in the " What is the silliest thing you've heard in a gun discussion?" thread.[i/]
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itgoesboom
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Whats funny is that I used to know someone like this, back when I was in high school. He didn't say as much about weapons and such, but he claimed to be CIA/FBI/SEEL/RECON whatever.
Well, I decided my senior year in HS to enlist in the reserves, and lo and behold, I scored well enough on my tests to get intel analyst (96B i believe). Well, due to physical injuries, I was unable to go to basic, so obviously never got into the service. But I was going into the delayed entry program, so it was several months before my injuries became severe enough. It was only like 60 days before I was supposed to ship out.
Well, I think it was the day after I enlisted, this guy comes into my work place and says "hey, congrats on getting intel, I hear that you are going to be down @ so-and-so base, with so-and-so unit".
But I hadn't told anyone yet, cuz I didn't want anyone to know that I was going to be in a position to get a TS clearance (i figured I would get all sorts of gruff over that).
So what still bothers me today, How the HELL did he find out and know??
I.G.B.
Well, I decided my senior year in HS to enlist in the reserves, and lo and behold, I scored well enough on my tests to get intel analyst (96B i believe). Well, due to physical injuries, I was unable to go to basic, so obviously never got into the service. But I was going into the delayed entry program, so it was several months before my injuries became severe enough. It was only like 60 days before I was supposed to ship out.
Well, I think it was the day after I enlisted, this guy comes into my work place and says "hey, congrats on getting intel, I hear that you are going to be down @ so-and-so base, with so-and-so unit".
But I hadn't told anyone yet, cuz I didn't want anyone to know that I was going to be in a position to get a TS clearance (i figured I would get all sorts of gruff over that).
So what still bothers me today, How the HELL did he find out and know??
I.G.B.
BluesBear
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Hmmm NQS seems to have gone missing.
Mizzoutiger
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Beware the undead thread!
It's a zombie!
It's a zombie!
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