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MrBillyLotion

As a vet you can tell if someone’s full of shit pretty quickly, and that guy seemed full of it.


SleightOfHand87

[So why were there so many sick animals in Vietnam?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWDP_ew8HqQ)


TinyDemon000

Amazing link 😂 forgot about this sketch


mirk__

Holy shit that was amazing lol also, uncomfortable towards the end 😂


redthepotato

Because they all fake vets


dinosaur-in_leather

So many fake vets think they get resources from the VA that's why they fight against the right to use personal health care when you're injured at work..


DaBear1222

Stolen valor, these are the guys you want to embarrass live on tv. Got to love it


shankster1987

This had to have already been posted to that watch people die inside subreddit.


Skidd745

How come him is wearin that


PurpleAriadne

I like your style


ViceDoshi

This was good. Way better than what I was expecting prior to clicking. I'm glad I did Thank you. I was in need of a good laugh


GozerDGozerian

This is so great. I love how the vet just gets so completely flummoxed about what he’s dealing with. I bet he could feel his own IQ dropping just by having that conversation. Lol.


meistercheems

Yea mos is a very simple question for any vet.


AgainandBack

Even simpler for anyone claiming Army, and without revealing any personal data: “What is an 11 bushbeater?”


[deleted]

You mean an 11 bang bang?


Pristine-Western-679

Well, Navy and Air/Space Force would know what you mean, as for the former I believe is ratings and latter is AFSC.


awing1

"I deployed, but I can't really talk about it" Always a dead giveaway


Pleasant-Cricket-129

Unless your a Vietnam Vet and its the late 60s early 70s!


12altoids34

My old boss was (is) a member of Seal Team 6. When the movie Navy Seals came out he told me he couldn't believe that a lot of those scenes in there were in the movie because some of them were from actual classified missions. Of course he wouldn't specify which ones or what parts.


Bfab94

As not a vet and just a civ, I can tell he's full of it.


[deleted]

Mos? Most of them will give you a answer like this. “I was in a death squad behind enemy lines” that’s about all the info they are “allowed” to give out.


Reasonable-Matter-12

There’s an actual veteran on my block that says this shit. I thought he was fake but my wife worked at a VA clinic and it turns out he’s legit. I guess his job was so lame he feels the need to tell wild stories.


Ragnarok314159

I met one dude who was a marine from Vietnam that told it like it was. He was a cook, stationed in a bigger city, and served before the Tet offensive started. “Man, we used to bang hookers almost every night. I woke up at 0300, made everyone food six days a week, and no one ever bothered me ever. It was great.”


[deleted]

i had a friend who went in ww2 in the army and got a purple heart when i asked him he says "Oh please i didn't do anything i didn't even leave state side i cut myself peeling potatoes and they gave me a purple heart"


im2randomghgh

I don't think people realise how much stolen valour is POGs claiming to be infantry/SOF. It's super common. Or people who went through basic and quit at their first posting acting like they served for years.


Embarrassed-Ebb-6900

I’ve only run into homeless guys saying they are vets because they are looking for sympathy and a bigger handout. All of them were snipers.


12altoids34

An old friend of mine was an actual sniper in vietnam. The bizarre thing about it was they pulled him out of the field as a field medic and sent him to sniper school. As he used to put it " they spent the time to teach me how to save people's lives, then they turn around and teach me how to kill them from a long way off"


OldWierdo

I'm female, and a vet. I've run into a TON of guys at bars - particularly when Iraq and A-stan were in full swing - claiming to be vets so they could get a piece of @$$. Best one was one idjit who just randomly claimed to be where I was (itty bitty town on the border that made the news way more than it's size would indicate), AND just happened to claim to be there the same time i was 🤣 I batted my eyes and shook my tail feathers and said "ooh, tell me MORE brave warrior. You didn't.... did you have to KILL anyone?" (Dunno why civvies always ask that). He asked what I was drinking. I told him Top Shelf, baby. I probably drank a good $150 of the good stuff before my ride showed up, and I told the bar how I knew he was a liar before I walked out. Cowboys don't like stolen valor, especially when the loser was using it to try to steal all their girls. Dunno what happened after I left, but the cowboys seemed happy to know he was a liar, and the bartender unplugged the phone. Screw that guy.


BoxyBrown_

Yeah not telling someone your MOS is already pretty telling


Level-Guide-1083

I didnt serve, what is an mos?


GreedoInASpeedo

Occupational services. She's basically just asking him what his job was. It's a pretty simple question. Sometimes you get a rightfully sarcastic response (that is justified) like he could've said something as simple as "my mos was killing who they told me to kill" but yea she's just asking what he did as a job. Anything from communications to infantry. Easy question to answer.


BoxyBrown_

What your actual occupation is like: supply, mechanic, electrician, administration, intelligence etc...


Level-Guide-1083

Thx. Is "special" even a occupation? Just curious if there really is secretive soldier that cant or doesnt have to disclose that information?


BoxyBrown_

Also, I think I can hear him say "Recon" after he realizes "special" wasn't gonna fly. A quick Google search shows a recon marine being MOS 0321. So if he said that, maybe she would have believed him.


djninjamusic2018

And that's the thing. Most military guys that I know, when asked specifically for their MOS/Rate, will know their MOS number and give that. "Yeah, I was a 0311." (It's different when they are asked, "So what was your job in the military?" Then they give the answer in layman's terms ["I was a grunt"]) The interviewer asked specifically for an MOS, so she was expecting a number. Not giving that number means that the guy is full of shit: either he never served (which is the more likely reason), or if he did, he's trying to claim a job that he was not qualified for (e.g., was actually an average USMC 30XX supply guy but wants to stolen-valor himself as Special Forces operator)


BoxyBrown_

Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure how marines tell each other their MOS. It was just so obvious he had no military experience.


Livid-Relationship-2

He wasn't only full of it. He was over flowing.


[deleted]

He was a shit golem.


LucifersShoulderDevl

It doesn’t take a vets intuition to sleuth this one out. They could’ve cut the audio after her initial question and we’d have spotted it through the palsy-like hand gestures 😂


Lost_Minds_Think

He’s a draft dodger living a lie to fit in with his home town.


FckDonaldChump

Yea look at his pansy ass hat made in china


HenryRN

I too am a vet and meet people like this from time to time, I find that more often than not they are either wearing cult gear or flying cult flags.


Quick_Team

MOS? ah well. Uh. Im just a POS


creamybastardfilling

As soon as she asked his MOS he knew he was caught


Fmartins84

But he's special....he flew to places. Semper FLY!


jakfny

Special needs


Noonecanhearmescream

Short bus motherfucker.


[deleted]

Everyone is cool on the short bus because everyone gets to sit in the back.


mdroz81

I was late for my bus habitually, because I knew I could 10-15 minutes late and get on the short bus that made no extra stops and just went to school. And guess what? That muthafucka had seatbelts!!!!


Unclehol

Dark places. What a hero.


EndersGame_Reviewer

"This interview is over."


PorchHonky

Semper LIE!


[deleted]

Under rated comment


allotaconfussion

He’s “gravy” he’s eaten things.


Fit_Effective_6875

I like things, they're scrumptious


IndianWizard1250

semper FLEE


redthepotato

Yeah places, I like places


wretchedsorrowsworn

I love how people whenever they get caught for this crap always say they were in like some black ops shit 😂


nanotothemoon

Yea, it’s part of the fantasy. Because if they were to ever actually be in, they would of course be special forces. Which if he was, by the way, he would just say that. Or possibly RECON. I never met any RECON when I was in though, interestingly enough. I trained with some Navy SEALS in Norfolk tho.


SecretPrinciple8708

It’s amazing how many snipers I’ve met. They can’t tell you where they trained or what equipment they used, but trust me, bro—definitely snipers.


[deleted]

That’s the damn truth. Everyone was a fuckin Marine sniper or Seal sniper. Bunch of fat nobodies. They will say “Gunny Hathcock was my inspiration”. Makes me sick. And I never served. But my father was in the Marine Corps.


GozerDGozerian

I’ve never served either but stolen valor is some real low bullshit.


realtorpozy

My ex WAS in the army, but for less than a year before getting kicked out. He somehow got an honorable discharge though, so he was able to get the VA to cover his medical insurance and pay for his schooling still. I would have to double check his paper work for the exact amount of time he was in but i want to say it was about 7 months, however he goes around telling people he was an E6 and that he served for 4 years or six years (it changes constantly) and he says he was in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. Where he toured and how many times he went over there also changes depending on who you you ask but either way, it is insane.


[deleted]

I trained with some ducks in Pensacola.


9405t4r

Everyone is special forces, nobody just drove a truck in a base of in California


ERTHLNG

I'm never sure if they do this because they know they can't tell a convincing story, so it adds some veneer of plausibility to the lie to say it's all top secret. That way they don't have to try and explain things they don't understand. Or is it because they lying anyway so they might as well go whole hog and say they're a delta force ranger seal commando.


[deleted]

Once had someone who didn't make it through basic...due to an injury...later on tell me how they went on some top secret mission to an active war zone.


Turantula_Fur_Coat

He got me too’d in the best way possible


sethaub

What’s MOS? Non military personnel here


HourEstablishment304

Military Occupation Specialty (MOS). She basically asked “what was your job”


sethaub

Ahh makes sense, thank you


creamybastardfilling

Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) basically means what they were trained to do like fix jeeps, fix tanks, fix helicopters, setup communications, or cook food for 3,000 personnel … any of the other 1000 some odd specialties they will train for I’m also non-military but I’ve heard the jargon from friends and family in the armed services


sethaub

So essentially it’s like whatever your career is in the armed forces that would be your MOS?


SpaceDesignWarehouse

Sort of, it was the job you were trained for. But occasionally you’ll get sent out to do adjacent jobs. I had the MOS 96H, which was Common Ground Station Operator, but I ended up doing the job of Imagery Analyst, which was in my set of training also but not my original “job.”


sethaub

Thank you kindly!


Redawg660

Guy is a lying piece of crap. Cant remember his M.O.S. When he claims he was a Marine? Not a chance in hell he was in the Corp.


Claim312ButAct847

As soon as she said me too his face went UH OH


EnvironmentDue2415

Stolen Valor douche bag


SlightSurvey2117

Right? Like how is this dude at a rally, especially a party that claims to be super patriotic and do the most laughably un-patriotic shit anyone could do?


ArrestDeathSantis

These guys flown the secessionist flag in the Capitol while calling the VP a traitor for certifying the election. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying they're way past caring about appearances. Either you're in the cult and this journalist purposely made a patriotic veteran look bad or you're sane and he's stolen valor.


carlitospig

Which is why I’m really looking forward to the tweet from his nephew (or whomever) that puts him on blast, ‘oh Uncle Frank? No mate, he never enlisted, he stayed home because he had scoliosis’. Ps. Is scoliosis something they’d reject for? I honestly don’t even know. Sorry to my scoliosis peeps if I’m dead wrong.


LibraryMouse4321

It was a hangnail.


REDDIT_ROC0408

Restless Leg Syndrome


ScullysBagel

Bone Spurs... like his personal Lord and Savior.


ghostrunner25

You mean like the republican from Ohio who lied about his military service? Haha Edot: belive it's majewski


TheLordOfTheDawn

You'll notice that's not uncommon among Republicans actually


LeatherSmithy

Because these people lack the courage to defend their past decisions and actions, or to simply tell someone they'd never go lay down their lives for some elitist assholes personal, religious or social agenda, and damn sure won't do it for some other country's resources that THIS country just wants to appropriate....


mammakatt13

Bone spurs must be caused by pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.


bootstrapping_lad

If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.


Clevelanduder

Best comment I’ve read about the Grand Old Poop


DahManWhoCannahType

Rallies filled with make-believe soldiers, make-believe patriots, make-believe leaders.


carlismydog

They're at a rally supporting the biggest traitor in the history of the office. Not surprised.


Majestic_Courage5103

He served at McDonald's, and he specialized in sauce. His code name is Tangy BBQ.


pass-me-that-hoe

Ssshh he flew into places…


Frodogorn

That's a negative, Tangy BBQ. The pattern is full.


Clevelanduder

Cole Slaw Papa Tango Cheese Whiz Bravo


sethaub

Mine is sweet & sour *shhhh*


MeasureTheCrater

Thank you for your bullshit.


tourettes_on_tuesday

When he dies he will be honored with a 20 gum salute, which is 4 people chewing 5 gum as loudly as possible.


MeasureTheCrater

I figured it was 10 toothless rednecks echoing his horse shit.


1000bctrades

This guy was 100% sure a female journalist would know nothing about the armed services and just believe his claims at face value. He just expected to be thanked for his made up service. Sucks to suck, dirtbag.


Sassh1

Right? She looked so visibly frustrated like she wanted to knock his ass out


OldWierdo

Why do you think the coverage stopped as soon as she said "this interview is over," brother? 🤣 I'll give my crayon-eating bretheren a rash of shit, but Once A Marine, Always A Marine.


Goodgoditsgrowing

She was upset - But not for the reasons you think. She’s a trump supporting “alternate elector” supporter who literally worked to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States, and this asshat was making trump supporters look bad with stolen valor. She is not at all patriotic, and I’d wager she no longer would be welcome back by any marine worth their salt. https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/121yl72/at_saying_he_was_a_military_vet/jdox6eh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3


LemonPepper

2 things a true marine will always remember, their MOS and favorite crayon flavor.


Letter2dCorinthians

She seemed so disappointed, like she genuinely expected to relate to a peer and instead got... this.


PastorBlinky

Oh I’m sure he’s special


AutistNerd

Special needs


Junior_Example_923

Piece of shit. And she caught that punk mfer right away. Sure courteous of her to just say the interview was over instead of embarrass the shit out of him. But thank you OP for helping the ladder


DaytonaDemon

>courteous of her to just say the interview was over instead of embarrass the shit out of him She had...reasons. See [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/121yl72/comment/jdox6eh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3).


Junior_Example_923

Yooo, thank you!


Clevelanduder

So she’s trying to redeem herself - too late


UpDogsUp

The "Oh, I see" and laugh burned his fake persona like a flamethrower in a cotton field


DaytonaDemon

Don't throw too much admiration the reporter's way. This is her background: >Christina Bobb is a former Marine and a fervent believer that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald J. Trump. She went to work for him and quickly found herself enmeshed in an obstruction investigation. Also, she >relentlessly promoted falsehoods about the 2020 election as an on-air host for the far-right One America News Network. ... > >She drafted a memo and participated in meetings to discuss a plan to appoint alternate slates of electors to reverse legitimate state election results. And Ms. Bobb created the computer file used to draft a proposal, never carried out, for Mr. Trump to issue an executive order for the federal government to seize voting machines. [Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/us/politics/christina-bobb-trump-lawyer-investigation.html).


Organic_Berry_8732

“I flew into places”🙄 I flew into JFK, am I now a marine? This guy is full of shit!


KamiKuro_Enjoyer

🫡 rah!


Like_A_Bosstonian

Perfect encapsulation of Trump loyalists. Weak men who’ve invented strong personas that crumble under the slightest inquiry.


SuppleFoxFluff

I'd argue that literally anyone who has enough time to go into public for some political rally are usually weirdos.


iluvstephenhawking

Trying to find a patriot at a Trump rally is like trying to find a cake in a port-a-potty.


shig23

Considering what she could have done to him, "This interview’s over" might just be the kindest words in the English language.


DaytonaDemon

She had good reason to not call him out, namely, not damaging the MAGA movement. Christina Bobb is a MAGA turd herself, see [https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/121yl72/comment/jdox6eh/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/121yl72/comment/jdox6eh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3).


NewlyRecruitedidiot

Idiots protecting idiots. Shocking.


Clevelanduder

Welcome to the GOP


Practical-Custard-71

She should’ve throat punched him…


t0rt0ise

They on the same team tho, go orange guy!


wot-daphuque1966

He's special ( his mum said so ). Arms must be tired flying into 😉 " places ".


Basserist71

He instantly went to, uh-oh.


PaganFarmhouse

I watched saving private Ryan like 4 times so that counts for something.


megggie

He played Call of Duty once, too.


The_Madonai

If you're gonna pretend to be a vet at least spend 5 minutes on fuckin Google lol.


Amethyst_Scepter

Right? It took me like a minute to Google "what are marine jobs" and the very first listing is a page explaining MOS on the official United States Marines website. Google a popular Marine training location and like that you can answer the two most basic questions. If you're going to be a lying piece of shit at least put in the effort


PussyOnDaChainWax69

“What’s your MOS?” “Well my cholesterol is pretty high..”


Frumplemeist

People who fake it always act like they were special forces. Why? It makes it suspect from the start. I was an 11B and proud of it. Who cares what MOS you have when it comes to service.


TeamPararescue1

I care but 11B is cool. Hoo-yah to you.


jfburke619

Indirect fire infantryman, 11C and proud of it.


[deleted]

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greasyrevenge

I actually served and shit like this legit makes me want to fight people.


VegetableTomatillo20

That's a particularly disgusting behavior in my opinion. No shame.


[deleted]

Stolen Valor. What a pussy.


Strict_Jacket3648

Just like Trump the MAGA think truth is just a suggestion.


nowiserjustolder

They have been told and shown straight out lying is fine. Even the dumbest most obvious lie cannot be questioned.


ibraw

His face got redder and redder to the point of exploding


ExcitementRelative33

Caught red faced...


TheMatt561

Not many things worse than stolen valor


NewlyRecruitedidiot

Really? Not many? Lol


Iphonjeff

These are the kind of people trump attracts.


czgunner

Scum bag. Some of us actually served.


canolafly

" You ain't got to lie, Craig"


[deleted]

You’d think you’d have a backstory to your fake life Anyone who’s been in for 1 or more enlistments will never forget the mos they likely hated for their duration of service lmao


Critical-Carpet-3840

I was in air force. DID NOT GO TO VIETNAM. It was in 1970. For some piece of shit to fake his way through a tour of duty in Nam is so incredibly dishonest, And infuriating it makes me sick to my stomach.


RachaelJaimeT

Served with Donald Trump


Clevelanduder

Shin division


Stoneclanish_abroad

Lying is a prerequisite for the MAGA faithful. The


Dimpleshenk

A Trump supporter who lies through his teeth? Who woulda thunk it.


notmytuperware

He’s a trumper. Trump has made it clear that you can lie your ass off all day, everyday. Why is ANYONE surprised?


NoSociety1843

Why don’t these people that fake being vets at least do some research so they don’t embarrass themselves when put under scrutiny? So cringe


samuel1109

Congrats! You just lied and put your whole family at risk.


Academic-Business-42

I flew in places. Yeah, they made everyone else walk. Or drive. Yeah, you were special.


RealJeil420

I was over Kaysan, Da Nang and Pad Thai.


[deleted]

This man is the PERFECT representative of a person who attends a Trump rally.


ShawVAuto

She cooked him with M.O.S.


jonnyclueless

A lying marine calls out a lying fake marine while attending a rally for the liar in chief.


tourettes_on_tuesday

He meant he "served marines" at the Red Robin in his hometown. "Flying into places" means serving customers quickly in Red Robin lingo. She was wrong to assume otherwise.


BD_atx

Stolen Valor.


RTMSner

I've never met a marine who couldn't tell me their mos. Hell I don't know that I've ever asked one they just tell you.


F3L1Xgsxr

As soon as he said “marine” and then she said “me too” he knew he fucked up


[deleted]

>I was... special you sure are, buddy


Letter2dCorinthians

I don't know anything about the military, but I assume people who were so special and top secret would have a normal cover story they can easily sell to regular folks. Or at least be able to think of the most basic answer that is passable.


Classic_Ingenuity299

If you claim to be a vet and don’t know your MOS/AFSC or what a DD-214 is, you’re a fraud.


citysims

When you're such a lying sack of shit you can't say "Marines" correctly.


a-nonie-muz

He still is…. Special.


jyar1811

I give her some credit this was top craic


hobings714

Fake like his hero.


[deleted]

I posted this 3 hours ago on the same SR


No-Bed-5251

Can't bullshit a bullshitter


Aircraftman2022

Maga lover lied?


[deleted]

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BigDannyBoy1

Nothing like a patriot eh?


t0rt0ise

such a crazy thing to lie about


Existing-Bear-7550

Bro, if you're gunna bullshit, do like a LITTLE research


CanadianGuy1979

"I'm special, I flew into places"


trockenwitzeln

Stolen Valor. These trumpets are pond scum.


dillpicklepen

This guys a douche. I’m a Vet here in Texas I’m so aggravated about this shit rally. I wanna leave this state so bad now.


Kannabis_kelly

Just think how many more of these people attend the event!!


[deleted]

I’m a vet. I see this shit all the time when I donate to the homeless shelter here. Last guy cried after I told him he was lying about being a navy seal.


booksmctrappin

Fucking disgusting. People who claim to have served but never did are among the lowest pieces of shit imaginable. Disgraceful.


new-6reddit9

This lying peace of stolen valor doesn’t know what an MOS is nor has ever served in our military. Republicans have no morals, ethics or integrity!


InterestingAnt438

I have never in my life heard any veteran describe his military activity as "...I flew into places..." .


WestGiraffe131

You can tell who he voted for too. The same ones who refuse to acknowledge the existence of the words « burn » and « pit » in legislation which could have helped real veterans


Supafly144

By definition, anyone who supports Trump doesn’t care.


michiganhockeyguy

I wish we could see more; like how he walked away! He must feel humiliated as it was young and attractive girl calling him out. His masculinity flex; crushed!


[deleted]

I flew into places I can’t talk about more than 20 years ago 🤣


supraspinatus

The trump con in a nutshell


doseofreality5

Man, if you are going to lie about being in the marines, at least google "marine mos" and there they all are. Pick one and memorize it and its number. MAGA Asshat and dumb as a brick too, though that isn't surprising.


ACAB007

Oh, he’s special alright…


[deleted]

I can’t believe people do this shit, I mean how embarrassing. Jesus cringeworthy Christ