He finally came clean two years later, giving no coherent reasoning for putting the lie out so damn long. For an up-and-coming name in an industry where everyone knows each other, this was fatal. Lost him a lot of work, killed off his forum and he dropped out of sight completely.

Sad thing is, he was actually pretty damn talented. Why he thought he needed to bullshit up a military record is beyond me.

http://socnet.com/showthread.php?s=dd41613080a51e249863d00f12d9ead0&t=78196

My dad’s not a seal, but he’s been in the military all his life, and always has a bottle of tums on hand. Watching this guy chuck back a few of them brought back memories.

I wonder what portion of tums sales are to military personnel.. and why these guys need so many of them.

It’s simple, contrive to find out if he can make a shot or not.

http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies.htm

http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=98116

It would make it hard for liars to lie very convincingly, and would make it easier for true heroes to be able to prove their accomplishments if there were a site where everyone not currently serving was listed with their rank and the group they were part of and any honors they received.

Er. No.

I did some reference work involving the Navy for a patron a while back and ended up learning about the GRUELING training process that SEALs go through. They have a 24 week “A” school, which is the BUDS (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) that Mr. Shipley was talking about. Then it’s a 28 week SQT (SEAL Qualification Training) plus s spec ops medics training course that’s another 26 weeks. There’s also Unit level training, physical fitness testing and any number of other educational courses that the Navy feels necessary. All told, it takes about 2 years to go from recruit to deployment in a SEAL team. Two years of some of the most punishing physical and mental training ever devised. Oh and the washout rate is upwards of 90% And once you are deployed, you never stop retraining and are constantly tested for fitness.

I interviewed a couple of retired SEALs for the project. These are some of the most disciplined human beings you will ever meet. The training they endure is almost unimaginable. It shapes them in ways most people can only guess at. The wiki on SEAL training has some amazing pictures of what going on in training.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEAL_selection_and_training

Claiming you are one of these guys is a bit like saying you out swam Michael Phelps at the same time you were disarming a bomb designed by Stephen Hawking in the middle of a war zone. I’m glad Mr. Shipley and his fellows are out there exposing these frauds.

Thank goodness the courts put the kibosh on that particular piece of legislative demagoguery. In a free country, saying the words “I earned a bronze star” out loud in a bar should not be punishable by a Federal prison sentence.

Actually, the part you left out was the bomb I disarmed was made of kryptonite.

Hilarious!

I actually enjoyed a lot of his writing and interacted w/him online [either his blog or forum - can't remember which.] I’ll always remember that story because he was giving service academy grads shit [of which I am one - USNA '94] perpetuating the most annoying stereotypes [that we're know-nothing elitist, ring-knocker assholes] and I called him on it. And later it turned out he’d been making up his whole military service out of thin air.

This guy is hilarious.

The guy he is outing sounds like a real douche, not only boasting about killing people but being the ultimate wanna-be. Nice job Don!

I think it’s getting easier to out the fake SEALS mainly because one can ask them “what class did you go through” and connected folks in the know can easily verify this against class rosters.

So if the first thing someone tries to tell me about to ‘impress’ is their service to country, a little alarm starts going of, “warning, warning, jackass alert.”

I have had the occasional jackass trying to impress me come up and start spouting that kind of shit and I just look at them, tell them they’re a loser and let them know I’m going to be ignoring them from now on. And do so. Oh, I can be polite, but if they push it i will cut them off at the knees with specific questions.

Just saying.

Just enough humor in this video to make it a pleasure to hear the whole story.