Over the years I've come across some phoneys who a few minutes with real vets they are figured out real quickly with a few questions...Here's a real one..It just disgusts me when I encounter it and I just have to walk away quickly before trouble starts

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/1...ed-this-green-beret-was-total-fraud.html

And what makes this even worse is that he really was in the military. He should know better.

PM I frequent a Viet Nam vets face book page and there are plenty of posts about phoneys and some did serve but blow up their experiences to look more heroic so to speak....It's something I encountered when I came home and decided to join the VFW and got my balls busted by the guys who were in the "Big One" until an old Marine vet told me "The ones talking the loudest never saw combat ignore the a*****es ,,All I've ever told anyone is I served and that's enough Unless it's another Marine then we can talk

Mentally ill person

Needed an ego boost but didn't want to put in the effort....

Is it the Vietnam Veterans photo club?

letterboy
Here's the one I go to most..It's the Viet Nam Veteran's Don't Mean Nothin Speak Yo Mind Page


https://www.facebook.com/groups/1480904411944535/1768105606557746/

If I were to fake up military service, I'd go about it completely different.

Wear SGT (three stripes) rank.
Put on some jump wings, air assault wings, and load up with the campaign ribbons in a credible time frame. Want to get fancy? Throw on a Meritorious Service Medal above a couple ARCOMS. Unusual, but not impossible.
Put on a 101st patch. Put one on both sides if that makes you feel better.
Wear a glider patch on a garrison cap.
Blouse jump boots.
Wear Chaplain Assistant branch insignia.

Nobody can call you out, as nobody knows who the hell the Chaplain Assistant was in any unit, where they train, what they do, or even who they're really assigned to. Damned guys are invisible 99.98% of the time.

"I'd like to tell you about my deployments, but like the Chaplain I can't really discuss it due to privacy concerns."

if asked, I try to make certain I am understood to be a Viet Nam ERA vet, who spent his enlistment on Lake Superior, never in combat. My Dad was a veterans service officer so I spent lots of time around veterans at Legion meetings, and only rarely hear war stories that sounded like they enjoyed it.

Good on you and thank you for your service. I used to work with a lady who often mentioned her father was a "Vietnam vet". Once I asked her, innocently, what her father did in Vietnam. She said "Oh he was actually in Germany".

I've been serving since 1975 but that's all i can say due to the sensitive nature of my work

Coasty service is service thank you for that and thank you Haggart

you bring up a good point rwatson ... "serving one's country". It doesn't matter which service branch or even if it was classified as "military service" as a person can still be serving their country but necessarily in a military branch.

Yes Haggart Service is giving of ones self for the good of others and should be recognized as such..You can sit back or come forward I respect any person who stepped up and made a difference