Hey...pssst... That one guy is here!

lol. I felt like shooting one of those AR-670's at times

 

11 series?

 

Both of my grandfathers were in WW 1; one on the ground, one in the air. My maternal grandfather (infantry) was the only one that lived beyond my birth and he never talked about his experience. He was wounded twice (shot and shell shrapnel) and gassed once; being hospitalized all three times. Fortunately the Canadian government is digitizing the full military records of all veterans, so I have his complete record available from enlistment to discharge.

Tracking down my paternal grandfather's record is a bit more difficult as he was still a Scotsman living in Argentina when WW 1 broke out. I believe the British government is doing the same digitization, but tracking down his record has proved to be a bit more difficult.

 

He knew that was the right answer because he'd been a supply sergeant in the army lol.

 

Not that much more outlandish than some of the paper tags I met in my early 20's. Lots of fat guys talking about having been SF basically... When they were the wrong age/size for that claim to be remotely possible. I'm not even a vet and seeing through these people was pitifully easy. Every last one compensating for sooooo many things.

EDIT: They were so prevalent and so annoying that I went out and looked up the phenomenon. I believe the term I found was 'paper tags'. I think that's right. If it's not I'd appreciate correction so I can sound less stupid in the future.

 

I've meet honest to goodness FOBets before. What did you do in Afghanistan/Iraq? "I was a FOBet."

 

The instant someone says they were SF I pretty much discard them as a person until I've verified. You know you're dealing with someone whose insecurity runs insanely deep. That's all I need to know sometimes.

 

a lot of those guys have like 80% PTSD disability rating from the VA too...

 

The same with some of the civilian contractor FOBets for disability.

 

Yeah I shouldn't be talking here. It's in poor taste. I'll admit mocking people for pretending to be military is fun, but I shouldn't be mocking people who actually served for having health conditions that could possibly be real. One of the crappy things about how these last few wars have played out is that the concept of 'front line' has gotten pretty blurry. There were an awful lot of air force reserve guys I knew 10 or so years back who had gotten sent to sit on 50 cals on top of supply convoys in Iraq. Lots of opportunities to get PTSD doing that job. Your MOS might be Supply Clerk II... Which just means you were in a bad situation without proper training. I wonder how PTSD could result from that?