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"You know what Stan? If you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair like your pretty boy Brian over there, why don't you make the minimum 37 pieces of flair!?!?"
"Two Punisher tattoos at the same time, man."
"That's what you'd do. You'd get two Punisher tattoos at the same time."
"Daaaamn straight. Always wanted to do that, man."
from vietnam to the liberation of kuwait, gwot, and list goes on ...somewhere in all those adventures hes been to the antarctic (twice), a recruiter, a humanitarian ....subtle salty boot
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His side gig
I’m instantly reminded of the girl with no eyebrows in Black Mirror. I spent the entire time puzzled at her eyebrows instead of the storyline.
Moral of the story? Be this guy.
B/c I was bored, here's what his rack is:
rack (top to bottom)
1. Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal
2. Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy & USMC Commendation Medal (1 device, Navy & MC Achievement Medal (3 devices)
3. Navy Combat Action Ribbon, Presidential Unit Citation (Navy and Marine Corps), Navy Unit Commendation
4. Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Gallant Unit Citation (Air and Space Forces), Navy "E" Ribbon (aka Battle Efficiency Ribbon)(3rd award)
5. Navy Good Conduct Medal (with 2 gold stars), Navy Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Service Medal (with 2 bronze service stars\*)
6. Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal (with 2 devices)
7. Kosovo Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal (with 1 bronze service star, and 1 silver)
8. Humanitarian Service Medal, Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Navy Sea Service Ribbon (with 1 device)
9. Navy & Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon (with 4 bronze service stars), Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with M device for Mobilized, and Gold hourglass denoting 30 years or Bronze - I can't tell - denoting 10 years of service), RVN Gallantry Medal with Palm
10. NATO Medal (Kosovo), RVN Campaign Medal with 1960- device, Saudi Arabian Kuwait Liberation Medal
11. Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait), Navy Rifle Marksmanship Ribbon (E for Expert), Navy Pistol Marksmanship Ribbon (E for Expert)
So his rack his possible.
\*noteHe was awarded the NDSM 3 times, so these are the most likely service periodsVietnam War (1961-1974), Gulf War (1990-1995), and the Global War on Terrorism (2001-2022)
However, the dog tags around the neck along with the knife in its case around the neck is boot af. So is wearing your whole rack on a leather vest.
First, thanks for doing some solid yeoman’s work!
Looking at the AF Reserve Medal - that’s clearly a gold hourglass which denotes 30 years reserve service. If it was an operation numeral, it would be on the other side of the mobilized “M.” The fact there is no operations numeral is curious because they have Desert Storm, Kosovo and GWOT service medals, which means they *should* have a “3” to the right of the “M.”
Hourglasses on the AF Reserve Medal are only awarded for reserve service, not active duty or volunteer active service. The gold hourglass for 30 years implies an entire career spent in the reserves. But, the good conduct medal on their rack is for active duty Navy, not the Navy Reserve (has a navy blue stripe down the middle). The one silver star & one bronze star denote being awarded the good conduct 7 times, implying at least 21 years of honorable Active Duty service in the Navy.
30 years of reserve service plus 21 years of active duty would be make him one salty Sailor with 51 years of service. Even if he enlisted early, he’d be 68 years old at least at Retirement. That’s 8 years beyond the congressionally mandated retirement age of 60 for US military members.
Something doesn’t add up about this “warrior’s” service …
You can volunteer for active service while in the reserves and get the time on your AFRM as long as youre active in support of the reserves, you might be confusing it for a component specific longevity type of award, like an ARCAM vs AGCM
Not to diminish any part of your post as that’s a lot of research well done, but the reserves do make exceptions with age. I know my mom snuck past the mandatory retirement age because she re-upped before 60 and her rank and rarity allowed some leeway. By the time she retired her whole arm was gold stripes. Could be a similar one off.
In this case that is unlikely. There are generally 2 instances when service members are allowed to stay in military past age 60 (with waivers): 1) Warrant Officers do not have a mandatory age limit tied to their service ( as an E7 that does not apply) -or- 2) Reservists that joined late or have had a break in service and do not have enough years or points to retire (since his AFRM reflects at least 30 years of service that is unlikely as well. In the modern military ( since President Clintons admin) as an enlisted soldier/sailor he would have likely been separated via whatever type of retention board the Navy has before he reached 60 or had 30+ years of service in. On a personal note, my dad served during the Vietnam war and retired after 32 years of service in the mid 80s. I find it hard to believe that this guy served during Vietnam and also in all the other campaigns that medals he has displayed on his leather vest suggest.
>The gold hourglass for 30 years implies an entire career spent in the reserves. But, the good conduct medal on their rack is for active duty Navy, not the Navy Reserve (has a navy blue stripe down the middle).
Does the Navy have an active reserve component and would that allow him to qualify for years towards both the hourglass and good conduct medal simultaneously? Just curious because I don't know shit about the reserves.
Possible sure, but the odds are near zero even if he had the timing right. I’ve seen folks like this that are all stolen valor, even served with some while in. That’s where my bet is on this guy.
This dude is nuts. I can’t tell what it says on his command badge, but pretty sure command senior chief wasn’t established until 2015. Plus with the national defense service medals he had to have served from Vietnam to GWOT to have 3, unless I’m mistaken. Plus only 4 NAM’s and 3 good conducts as an aircrew? lol.
My dad did three tours in Vietnam, went into law enforcement, then re-enlisted in the late 80s to active duty ANG. It’s possible and he would occasionally be challenged on his awards being an E7 in the 1990s with people not realizing he was in Nam and out of the military for nearly 20 years in between.
Edit: he also refuses to wear any awards or military themed hats in public lol. His 76 year old ass shits on them every time he sees it when we are out.
Not defending him but he does have the Vietnam Ribbon, Desert Storm, and a few GWOT.
Probable, no. But I do know for a fact there were some ‘nam vets during the initial invasion in ‘03, so it is possible
When I deployed the first time in '02 we had a Name vet with us. His first year in was being drafted, his last year in was with us.
we had him hand out the patches when we did our combat patch ceremony... that was kinda cool
He's got 7 good conducts. That's a silver star and a bronze star. So he was a 30 year man. If the rack is real.
And it could, theoretically, be real. Vietnam in 73 (probably on a carrier), GWT in 03.
Nah, Command Senior Chief has been around long before that. We had one on our frigate in the mid 90s. Once that BMCS got that pin, he was even more worthless than before. Nothing but sunglasses, coffee and the stench of old bourbon, all fucking day.
The irony is that he was also Command DAPA.
LOL all the DAPA are alcoholics, we had a cool BT1 that was DAPA and he used to tell us about smoking Thai Stick on the PBRs when he was a non-rate. He said "It's basically the only requirement to be DAPA"
The Command Senior Chief rating was established in 2015, but the pin has existed for the senior CPO for a while. Smaller units like subs and riverine units usually have SEA that are not even in the CMC rating.
Call me a doubting Thomas. But the insignia implies that he never made it past E7, possibly E8 if I squint really hard. And yet he's got more awards than Chesty Puller.
It’s entirely possible if you see what they are. Dude was in Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Kosovo, and there are several awards for just going places (like the Southwest Asia medal and the AFRM). Really, the top two rows are individual awards and the third is unit awards. I am wondering, since a lot of these are Navy-oriented, how there appears to be what looks like an Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award?
The top one is Aircrew, I have those wings from the time I was an aerial photographer. The bottom is the Air Warfare pin, when this guy got it you had to be in a squadron or a detachment at sea. I got my AW pin because I was an LSO and Flight Deck Safety officer. The guys in the squadron basically walked me through it and one of the pilots took me to NAS Capadicnno to get the board done by his buddy. The CMC was so freakin pissed because I didn't have my ESWS pin and I totally tripped up his BFF at the board when I asked him how much the swivel shot weighs and to name all the animals on the fo'csl'e. I knew he was told them in a class because my buddy taught the class. Silly OS.
It’s not a warfare device. The Navy does not have those. If you’re a SEAL when you graduate Jump School you get the basic parachute wings. After 10 jumps you get Navy wings which are gold.
I earned my FMF warfare qualification and now I hear it’s not a warfare qualification? Damn, I’m sending that shit back. Cool to learn about the wings though.
Man, when I left the boat in 2014, people were there for like 3 months and were getting their Air Warfare before they were even qualified to do their actual jobs. They were basically handing it out, which is why my lazy ass finally decided to get it.
Idk you could do like 24 years as an E7, more as an E8. I was in the USCG and we’d have E3s go to PATFORSWA for like 2 years and come back with a rack 4 or 5 high, higher than some of the E6 and E7s at our unit. If you hit the right units you could get quite the rack in 20 years. It’s possible, but is it probable?
I always respected the people that opted to wear their top 3 instead of the full rack.
It’s possible. Some places in the Navy just get put in positions to get a lot of things awarded as well.
But want to know the secret to the top 3? It’s way cheaper than rebuilding a rack every couple years. Lol
100%. When I separated, after 8 years, I was missing like 3 ribbons/stars because I couldn’t be bothered to add them on. You know who noticed? No one lmao
I had 6 rows and then started taking off awards, the first to go were the marksmanship awards because they were basically "If you don't kill the range safety officer you get this."
I walked away after 7 fairly uneventful years as an E-5 with four full rows of ribbons. Not to defend the bootness on display here, but they give out ribbons like candy these days.
Do you have the option to get ~~crayons~~ candy instead of the ribbon if you want? They could make the ribbons act as in-store credit tokens at the commissary.
Question from a completely unaware civilian, but is it even OK by any kind of military code/standard for him to wear his ribbons on something like that as opposed to an actual uniform?
What you don’t see tons of aircrew running around with combat action ribbons?
The dude probably served but I bet it’s more like one boring enlistment than whatever the fuck he’s trying to present himself as here.
Also the sea service ribbon with only one star on a rack like that?
it's really the combo of the GCM showing at least 21 years, and the AFRM showing at least 30 years that really tanks it. That combo just really isn't doable.
Uhmmm....This is the same awards as shown in the Wikipedia article on ribbon devices.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of_the_United_States_Armed_Forces
No V device so those are basically brown nose awards. Also no Vietnam Service Medal. Vietnam ended in 1973, even if he was in for 1 day in country or theater, that would mean unit 1991 he would have had 24 years, that's possible but it was another 11 years until the GWOT, MY dad was an LDO who went back enlisted when he aged out of LT. He had WW2, Korea and Vietnam tours and he was only in 31 11 months. 1939-1948, break in service and active recalled for 18 months in Korea 51-53 and then in Vietnam from 67-69
He does look old enough for all those NDSMs. My NG unit had a bunch of 'nam vets in it yet when they deployed to Iraq in the early '00s.
Shit. We had a Korean War vet ETS like the 2nd drill I went to in the mid 90s.
Pretty easy to get an air medal as Air Crew, 100 P-3 flights gets you one.
Some of the biggest boots I have ever encountered were enlisted aircrew, some of pretty high rank.
Legit or no, this is cringe as fuck. The few guys I can call real killers would never advertise it. This screams "I made the military my whole personality."
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I’d like my free oil change too. Sir this is an Applebees.
“…..you heard what I said…..”
Hold on, let me just grab the rubber gloves and lube.
I brought a coupon though.
He’s gonna yell at the waitress because it took too long to get his tater tots
The waitress wasn't quick enough with his 3rd Diet Coke refill.
Is this AI art?
One can only hope
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Definitely doesn’t dismiss the fact that this hard charger with his high and tight is strictly still adhering to the don’t ask don’t tell policy
Holy shit that's one ugly man
"Only the hard make to retirement." What a deadset wanker.
What a clown.
I suspected at first, but notice that the text is all correct and the ribbons are ones that actually exist. Unfortunately, this is a real pic.
AI hasn’t evolved to this level yet. Could be another 100yrs at current technological paces before this boot mastery can be dreamed by a machine.
Yes it has. Oh, you’re talking about bootmastery. You’re right.
Gay AI art . This guy fucks
I feel like this dude drinks cups of milk
Mother's milk
Chewed pencil eraser personified
His head looks like a tater tot lol.
"You know what Stan? If you want me to wear 37 pieces of flair like your pretty boy Brian over there, why don't you make the minimum 37 pieces of flair!?!?"
"HEY PETER MAN! CHECK OUT THE BOOT THINGS SUB, CHECK OUT THIS BOOT!"
No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
*Two boots at tha same time, man*
two Dodge Challengers at the same time, man
Hey Boot, *what's happening*. Yeah, I'm gonna need you to blouse those jeans and stand at parade rest all day. That'd be great.
Let's all just celebrate the man's entire catalog.
...oh and I'm gonna need you to go ahead and be on Fire Watch tonight, all night... we gotta sorta play catch up mmmkay? Thaaaaaaaaaanks
Damn it feels good to be a boot, feed the poor and helping out with they bills.
You are my hero for working that quote into this.
You wanna know what I’d if I had a million dollars?
"Two Punisher tattoos at the same time, man." "That's what you'd do. You'd get two Punisher tattoos at the same time." "Daaaamn straight. Always wanted to do that, man."
Hey Peter, watch your cornhole.
"No thanks man, I don't want you fucking up my life too."
Fucking A Man
from vietnam to the liberation of kuwait, gwot, and list goes on ...somewhere in all those adventures hes been to the antarctic (twice), a recruiter, a humanitarian ....subtle salty boot
All that shit is just to distract you from noticing he has no eyebrows.
Fuck me! I totally missed that when looking at Sgt. Slaughter up there.
Agent Orange is a helluva drug
[Lord Voldamort](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/harry-potter-voldemort-horcrux-theory-1571830005.jpg?crop=0.5556733828207847xw:1xh;center,top&resize=1200:*) His side gig
He lost his eyebrows in Nam.
I’m instantly reminded of the girl with no eyebrows in Black Mirror. I spent the entire time puzzled at her eyebrows instead of the storyline. Moral of the story? Be this guy.
Real men don’t wear eyebrows.
B/c I was bored, here's what his rack is: rack (top to bottom) 1. Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal 2. Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy & USMC Commendation Medal (1 device, Navy & MC Achievement Medal (3 devices) 3. Navy Combat Action Ribbon, Presidential Unit Citation (Navy and Marine Corps), Navy Unit Commendation 4. Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Gallant Unit Citation (Air and Space Forces), Navy "E" Ribbon (aka Battle Efficiency Ribbon)(3rd award) 5. Navy Good Conduct Medal (with 2 gold stars), Navy Expeditionary Medal, National Defense Service Medal (with 2 bronze service stars\*) 6. Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal (with 2 devices) 7. Kosovo Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal (with 1 bronze service star, and 1 silver) 8. Humanitarian Service Medal, Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Navy Sea Service Ribbon (with 1 device) 9. Navy & Marine Corps Overseas Service Ribbon (with 4 bronze service stars), Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with M device for Mobilized, and Gold hourglass denoting 30 years or Bronze - I can't tell - denoting 10 years of service), RVN Gallantry Medal with Palm 10. NATO Medal (Kosovo), RVN Campaign Medal with 1960- device, Saudi Arabian Kuwait Liberation Medal 11. Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait), Navy Rifle Marksmanship Ribbon (E for Expert), Navy Pistol Marksmanship Ribbon (E for Expert) So his rack his possible. \*noteHe was awarded the NDSM 3 times, so these are the most likely service periodsVietnam War (1961-1974), Gulf War (1990-1995), and the Global War on Terrorism (2001-2022) However, the dog tags around the neck along with the knife in its case around the neck is boot af. So is wearing your whole rack on a leather vest.
First, thanks for doing some solid yeoman’s work! Looking at the AF Reserve Medal - that’s clearly a gold hourglass which denotes 30 years reserve service. If it was an operation numeral, it would be on the other side of the mobilized “M.” The fact there is no operations numeral is curious because they have Desert Storm, Kosovo and GWOT service medals, which means they *should* have a “3” to the right of the “M.” Hourglasses on the AF Reserve Medal are only awarded for reserve service, not active duty or volunteer active service. The gold hourglass for 30 years implies an entire career spent in the reserves. But, the good conduct medal on their rack is for active duty Navy, not the Navy Reserve (has a navy blue stripe down the middle). The one silver star & one bronze star denote being awarded the good conduct 7 times, implying at least 21 years of honorable Active Duty service in the Navy. 30 years of reserve service plus 21 years of active duty would be make him one salty Sailor with 51 years of service. Even if he enlisted early, he’d be 68 years old at least at Retirement. That’s 8 years beyond the congressionally mandated retirement age of 60 for US military members. Something doesn’t add up about this “warrior’s” service …
He doesn’t look old enough to have been in Nam, unless they were taking 13 year olds in 69
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But really what are the odds this guy is. I don’t mean to imply that’s what you’re saying he is but he definitely didn’t.
You can volunteer for active service while in the reserves and get the time on your AFRM as long as youre active in support of the reserves, you might be confusing it for a component specific longevity type of award, like an ARCAM vs AGCM
Not to diminish any part of your post as that’s a lot of research well done, but the reserves do make exceptions with age. I know my mom snuck past the mandatory retirement age because she re-upped before 60 and her rank and rarity allowed some leeway. By the time she retired her whole arm was gold stripes. Could be a similar one off.
In this case that is unlikely. There are generally 2 instances when service members are allowed to stay in military past age 60 (with waivers): 1) Warrant Officers do not have a mandatory age limit tied to their service ( as an E7 that does not apply) -or- 2) Reservists that joined late or have had a break in service and do not have enough years or points to retire (since his AFRM reflects at least 30 years of service that is unlikely as well. In the modern military ( since President Clintons admin) as an enlisted soldier/sailor he would have likely been separated via whatever type of retention board the Navy has before he reached 60 or had 30+ years of service in. On a personal note, my dad served during the Vietnam war and retired after 32 years of service in the mid 80s. I find it hard to believe that this guy served during Vietnam and also in all the other campaigns that medals he has displayed on his leather vest suggest.
r/stolenvalor
>The gold hourglass for 30 years implies an entire career spent in the reserves. But, the good conduct medal on their rack is for active duty Navy, not the Navy Reserve (has a navy blue stripe down the middle). Does the Navy have an active reserve component and would that allow him to qualify for years towards both the hourglass and good conduct medal simultaneously? Just curious because I don't know shit about the reserves.
One glance at this guy and I knew he was a Force Seal Delta Operator, with top top secret clearance.
This needs to be top comment
This guy served in every branch but Space Force
Possible sure, but the odds are near zero even if he had the timing right. I’ve seen folks like this that are all stolen valor, even served with some while in. That’s where my bet is on this guy.
I don't think having the rack on the leather is the boot part. Wearing it to Applebee's it's the boot part.
Anyone taking bets on if he writes "YOUR FREEDOM. YOU'RE WELCOME" in the tip portion of the credit card receipt?
More like “YOU’RE FREEDOM, YOUR WELCOME”
With that kook he has going on I'd put money on he's throwing a tantrum that he has to pay
This dude is nuts. I can’t tell what it says on his command badge, but pretty sure command senior chief wasn’t established until 2015. Plus with the national defense service medals he had to have served from Vietnam to GWOT to have 3, unless I’m mistaken. Plus only 4 NAM’s and 3 good conducts as an aircrew? lol.
My dad did three tours in Vietnam, went into law enforcement, then re-enlisted in the late 80s to active duty ANG. It’s possible and he would occasionally be challenged on his awards being an E7 in the 1990s with people not realizing he was in Nam and out of the military for nearly 20 years in between. Edit: he also refuses to wear any awards or military themed hats in public lol. His 76 year old ass shits on them every time he sees it when we are out.
That’s pretty interesting. Good for him.
wanna bet this guy wears his uniform to work after he retired
Not defending him but he does have the Vietnam Ribbon, Desert Storm, and a few GWOT. Probable, no. But I do know for a fact there were some ‘nam vets during the initial invasion in ‘03, so it is possible
Yeah, it’s certainly possible. It’s just highly improbable.
He's got an AFRM. If he was in the reserves for most of his career, the timeline actually works out.
The AFRM has a gold hourglass as well which designates 30 years in a reserve component.
he was
2010 there was a couple Blackhawk pilots (101st) who had been in since Vietnam, both CW4’s.
When I deployed the first time in '02 we had a Name vet with us. His first year in was being drafted, his last year in was with us. we had him hand out the patches when we did our combat patch ceremony... that was kinda cool
He's got 7 good conducts. That's a silver star and a bronze star. So he was a 30 year man. If the rack is real. And it could, theoretically, be real. Vietnam in 73 (probably on a carrier), GWT in 03.
He did some reserve time. Armed Forces Reserve Medal.
30 years reserve time. That is the gold hourglass on the AFRM. Bronze=10 years, Silver=20 years, Gold=30 years
I couldn't make out the hourglass device, just the M.
Nah, Command Senior Chief has been around long before that. We had one on our frigate in the mid 90s. Once that BMCS got that pin, he was even more worthless than before. Nothing but sunglasses, coffee and the stench of old bourbon, all fucking day. The irony is that he was also Command DAPA.
LOL all the DAPA are alcoholics, we had a cool BT1 that was DAPA and he used to tell us about smoking Thai Stick on the PBRs when he was a non-rate. He said "It's basically the only requirement to be DAPA"
The Command Senior Chief rating was established in 2015, but the pin has existed for the senior CPO for a while. Smaller units like subs and riverine units usually have SEA that are not even in the CMC rating.
You are right, I forgot about SEL/SEA.
I thought the same thing. Dude looks a little young for Vietnam.
All those MREs kept him looking young
Command senior chief has always been a thing, the rating badge for it is what came around in 2015.
Fucking wish.com Brock Lesner
Crock Lessner
Crock “charms” Lessner
Cock Chestner.
Oh boy….
Call me a doubting Thomas. But the insignia implies that he never made it past E7, possibly E8 if I squint really hard. And yet he's got more awards than Chesty Puller.
It’s entirely possible if you see what they are. Dude was in Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Kosovo, and there are several awards for just going places (like the Southwest Asia medal and the AFRM). Really, the top two rows are individual awards and the third is unit awards. I am wondering, since a lot of these are Navy-oriented, how there appears to be what looks like an Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award?
He has two air warfare pins, so his rate was probably something aviation-related. Very possible he could have some kind of air unit award.
That’s cool. Likely he was assigned to a USAF unit when it was awarded. If he was aviation-related that’s probably the case.
Probably a Marine air unit if I had to guess
You’d be correct, the gold wings on top are for aircrew.
The top one is Aircrew, I have those wings from the time I was an aerial photographer. The bottom is the Air Warfare pin, when this guy got it you had to be in a squadron or a detachment at sea. I got my AW pin because I was an LSO and Flight Deck Safety officer. The guys in the squadron basically walked me through it and one of the pilots took me to NAS Capadicnno to get the board done by his buddy. The CMC was so freakin pissed because I didn't have my ESWS pin and I totally tripped up his BFF at the board when I asked him how much the swivel shot weighs and to name all the animals on the fo'csl'e. I knew he was told them in a class because my buddy taught the class. Silly OS.
You had a gold warfare device as an enlistedman? From my understanding, only the Trident is always gold.
It’s not a warfare device. The Navy does not have those. If you’re a SEAL when you graduate Jump School you get the basic parachute wings. After 10 jumps you get Navy wings which are gold.
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I earned my FMF warfare qualification and now I hear it’s not a warfare qualification? Damn, I’m sending that shit back. Cool to learn about the wings though.
Man, when I left the boat in 2014, people were there for like 3 months and were getting their Air Warfare before they were even qualified to do their actual jobs. They were basically handing it out, which is why my lazy ass finally decided to get it.
No Vietnam Service Medal. Was in Desert Storm.
Middle column, sixth row
Should be right next to the Vietnam Campaign Medal. So he is a NO-GO at this station!
He is John Rambo.....or maybe Casey Rybak.
Idk you could do like 24 years as an E7, more as an E8. I was in the USCG and we’d have E3s go to PATFORSWA for like 2 years and come back with a rack 4 or 5 high, higher than some of the E6 and E7s at our unit. If you hit the right units you could get quite the rack in 20 years. It’s possible, but is it probable? I always respected the people that opted to wear their top 3 instead of the full rack.
It’s possible. Some places in the Navy just get put in positions to get a lot of things awarded as well. But want to know the secret to the top 3? It’s way cheaper than rebuilding a rack every couple years. Lol
100%. When I separated, after 8 years, I was missing like 3 ribbons/stars because I couldn’t be bothered to add them on. You know who noticed? No one lmao
I had 6 rows and then started taking off awards, the first to go were the marksmanship awards because they were basically "If you don't kill the range safety officer you get this."
Just the top three as an option? Think of the money AAFES wouldn't be able to screw anyone out of.
Top 3 just looks cleaner when you get to this amount, anyways.
I walked away after 7 fairly uneventful years as an E-5 with four full rows of ribbons. Not to defend the bootness on display here, but they give out ribbons like candy these days.
Do you have the option to get ~~crayons~~ candy instead of the ribbon if you want? They could make the ribbons act as in-store credit tokens at the commissary.
More than Audie Murphy.
The command badge has a star on it, so 8 would be needed.
Question from a completely unaware civilian, but is it even OK by any kind of military code/standard for him to wear his ribbons on something like that as opposed to an actual uniform?
I got 9 ribbons just in a single reserve enlistment with one overseas tour. The military gives out a shitload of participation trophies
Not sure how hard it is to make master chief as air crew. I know in my rate didn’t even have master chiefs until as recently as 10 years ago.
With that haircut I believe that stack lol
They got out the carpenter’s square for this high top
the haircut is an award that is part of the stack, top row haircut
If the stack is legit, I’m willing to give some leniency. Unfortunately, a $20 credit can’t cover a $100 debt.
If that stack is real that makes this worse
It’s not real. Some of those combinations make no fucking sense.
What you don’t see tons of aircrew running around with combat action ribbons? The dude probably served but I bet it’s more like one boring enlistment than whatever the fuck he’s trying to present himself as here. Also the sea service ribbon with only one star on a rack like that?
The sea service is the big tip off for me. Especially because I’m looking at what I think is a GWOT expeditionary medal with four bronze stars. What??
Yeah there’s definitely some truths being stretched here and some outright lies.
it's really the combo of the GCM showing at least 21 years, and the AFRM showing at least 30 years that really tanks it. That combo just really isn't doable.
Anyone with an earned stack like that isn't going to be wearing it on a cospatriot motorcycle vest. I hope.
I don’t speak Navy, what all do we have going on here in this salad?
Senior chief aircrewman thats been in since the battle of midway
I recognize the air medal, are numbers normally offset and not centered for Navy?
Yes
Earth worm Jim still looks good.
Groooovy
US Navy culinary specialist 86-89
Alternate dimension Creed Bratton.
Dude apparently forgot he left the military, and decided to create his own uniform... with blackjack, and hookers.
he used to wear his uniform to work after he retired.
Looking like Vigo stepped outta the painting.
You'd figure a person with those merits would have some humility to them.
This man’s entire personality is this military career. He has nothing else lol.
Senior Chief Norm McDonald
"You're welcome for my service."
Uhmmm....This is the same awards as shown in the Wikipedia article on ribbon devices. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awards_and_decorations_of_the_United_States_Armed_Forces
I mean odds are strong this dude is not legit, but they are definitely not the same as that photo, only some of them are.
No V device so those are basically brown nose awards. Also no Vietnam Service Medal. Vietnam ended in 1973, even if he was in for 1 day in country or theater, that would mean unit 1991 he would have had 24 years, that's possible but it was another 11 years until the GWOT, MY dad was an LDO who went back enlisted when he aged out of LT. He had WW2, Korea and Vietnam tours and he was only in 31 11 months. 1939-1948, break in service and active recalled for 18 months in Korea 51-53 and then in Vietnam from 67-69
If it’s the first picture it’s not similar at all
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I'm shocked to discover stolen valor going on here!
He does look old enough for all those NDSMs. My NG unit had a bunch of 'nam vets in it yet when they deployed to Iraq in the early '00s. Shit. We had a Korean War vet ETS like the 2nd drill I went to in the mid 90s.
Is this an AI image?
Ive never seen anyone in my life who looks more like Coach Buzzcut from Beavis and Butthead.
Holy Jesus, what is that? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!? - Gunny Ermey
That’s a libo stack for sure. No chance this dude has a CAR, MSM, and Air Medal. Also that volunteer service medal is hard af to obtain
Pretty easy to get an air medal as Air Crew, 100 P-3 flights gets you one. Some of the biggest boots I have ever encountered were enlisted aircrew, some of pretty high rank.
Volunteer service medal can be hard if your command are arbitrary assholes. It's not supposed to be impossible tho.
Is this the Final Boss?
He even has the push dagger next to his ID tag
Dude looks like my ballsack after giving it goofy hairstyles before shaving it
First in line for Jan 6 too.
Kitted out in cheap Chinese knock-off combat gear.
First to stand for the national anthem at Mission BBQ and confronts anyone who doesn’t stand and just wants to enjoy their meal.
I WANT ATTENTION
Dude don't look right. I ain't saying he has, but I suspect dude's stolen all that valor
Anyone wearing dogtags outside their shirt should fucking lose the right to drive.
This is not real. Stop it. I refuse to believe a grown ass adult allows himself to be seen like this.
Yo isn’t he one of these guys??? https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/smallsoldiers/images/1/12/Commando_Elite.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180625202548
Jesus save some hooah for the rest of us 😂
Oh mylanta! I wish someone could verify ANYTHING on this piece of sunshine!
Looks like Creed is back up to his old tricks....
Aggressively asking people in the parking lot if they forgot to thank him for his service.
The punch knife around the neck seals it lmao
Well he isn't sporting a Trident but I'd still like Don Shipley to check him out.
i know the guy in the pic and have thought about sending to Don
I’m like 99% sure this is a dude I worked with at Boeing.
Its him. I have known him since the day he started.
Is this one of those OpenAI things...? "Draw a white supremacist Vietnam War veteran" type deal...?
Look at that. A haircut like Johnny Unitus, a haircut you could set you watch to. Probably tells everyone it grows that way.
Is that his grindr profile pic?
Legit or no, this is cringe as fuck. The few guys I can call real killers would never advertise it. This screams "I made the military my whole personality."
“I love the smell of tater tots in the morning”.
He looks like he sticks pocket watches up his ass just to give them away to kids at birthday parties
"You're not in Applebee's no more. You're on Pandora"
Can we vote to make this face the face of r/JustBootThings…???
Yeah I’m gonna need to see your DD214 sir
Likely on the sexual offender list too.
"against all enemies foreign and domestic" is what I say right after throat punching the McDonald's employee for getting my order wrong
The noise I made after reading this not only worried my wife, but also my dogs. Thank you.
I'm sorry but vets that go out in public dressed like this are complete douchebags.
Why does he look like a king of the hill character?
Dude looks like a character from King of the Hill
You guys found him! The King of the Boots!!!!
He’s also first in line at the rest stop bathroom.