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Posted: 12/13/2013 7:15:05 PM EDT
[#1]
I think you mean secret squirrel snipers. Not squirrel snipers
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Posted: 12/13/2013 7:15:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because lying about being an Army cook would be boring. FPNI |
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Posted: 12/13/2013 7:25:32 PM EDT
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My favorite sniper encounter was the guy who usually used aspirin for targets. That's how he embarrassed other snipers and won bets in 'Nam. When he wasn't outside the wire for weeks at a time hunting VC, that is. Told me everything I was doing wrong. And then proceeded to waste a hundred rounds of ammo sighting in his new M1A. At 50 yards.
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Posted: 12/13/2013 7:26:28 PM EDT
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This is a new, well thought out original topic. 
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:07:35 AM EDT
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It's the guys who said they were nothin' or a cook that are probably the liars... don't trust them.
I don't see why someone gaining weight after getting out disqualifies their service or calls into question their service. I was injured in the Air Force and over the last 20 years gained 30-40 pounds. Having back surgery (again) on Monday... does it invalidate my service or make me a poser because I'm not in shape anymore or am I being a sensitive little bitch? |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:31:39 AM EDT
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I had a guy in to give me an estimate on replacing some windows. He noticed my U.S.M.C license plate holder and asked if I had been in the Corps. I said yea 1967 to 1971. He then began to tell me he had been Marine Recon in "the nam", and the stories began. This guy was about 5'8" and a good 250lbs, Broke out in a sweat just climbing my front porch steps. I listened politely and said I call him back about the windows, if he was recon then I'm Chesty Puller.  Well he may be a fake but don't judge a book by its cover, I know a Navy F4 back seater that was shot down over the Nam twice. Looking at him now you would be like no way...until he pulls out his scrap book and then youre like damn you are a bad ass!!! 
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:38:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hey, I was some horseshit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Same rule for past lives. Everyone was a king or some horseshit Hey, I was some horseshit. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:46:44 AM EDT
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Had a customer back in San Diego that later turned into a friend that was in Seal Team One and taught the sniper courses.
I knew him over 6 months before he even mentioned a word about what he did. I actually asked when he showed me his "Man Cave" that was stocked with all kinds of shit and each rifle had a "dope log book". If I hadn't asked I doubt he would have ever said anything to me. It's like money, those that have it don't talk about it. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:47:40 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:47:46 AM EDT
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I am literally the only veteran in the USA who was straight leg infantry with boring ASI's and no tabs.
I may not snipe your ass with an improvised zip gun at 2,000m, but I'll keep your patrol base field sanitized like a muthafucker. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:50:12 AM EDT
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It's the guys who said they were nothin' or a cook that are probably the liars... don't trust them.
I don't see why someone gaining weight after getting out disqualifies their service or calls into question their service. I was injured in the Air Force and over the last 20 years gained 30-40 pounds. Having back surgery (again) on Monday... does it invalidate my service or make me a poser because I'm not in shape anymore or am I being a sensitive little bitch? Don't forget the Bath and Towel specialists. They'll kill you in your sleep. 
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:54:03 AM EDT
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When you corner them with details, they would explain it to you but they can't talk about it.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:02:20 AM EDT
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I had a guy tell me he was an army cook and took an entire battalion out of commission.
Death from within!
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:04:24 AM EDT
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I am literally the only veteran in the USA who was straight leg infantry with boring ASI's and no tabs. I may not snipe your ass with an improvised zip gun at 2,000m, but I'll keep your patrol base field toilet sanitized like a muthafucker. FIFY?
I kid. I kid. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:09:09 AM EDT
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Not one clerk in the whole war. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile No different than the WWI and WWII German bring back pistol stories. No one ever killed an enlisted German / Japanese soldier. Every bring back came off of an officer. Based on the number of stories, German and Japanese officers must have suffered a 105% casualty rate while enlisted enemy soldiers were barley scratched! |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:12:54 AM EDT
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Same rule for past lives. Everyone was a king or some horseshit I used to be the girl at the donkey show I always wanted to see one of those, do you still perform? :) Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:15:08 AM EDT
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Because video games make it seem easy to make 500+ yard shots. Even those who have never owned a toy gun think they can do it.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:17:20 AM EDT
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I worked with a kid that was "special" ops. He rightfully was napped captin america before he quit to go back to africa to stop salve trade....
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:17:36 AM EDT
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I actually work with the rarest Marine ever.
Thirty-two years old he was a heavy equipment mechanic when he was in. Heres the really rare part...... he was never deployed. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:19:22 AM EDT
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Because lying about being an Army cook would be boring. He has a point |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:22:51 AM EDT
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Walked into a hole in the wall gunshop in the middle of nowhere Virginia several years back. the owner was much younger than me. He was a Virginia National Guard Soldier and jsut got back from either Iraq or Afghanistan, it has been to long I don't remember which it was.
we get to talking and I tell him I spent 4 years in the 82nd in the early 90s and did not do much of anything. He kind of looks at me funny. I tell him, yeah I know a guy walks into a gunshop and claims to be ex military, but does not have super secret squirrel stories. he laughs and tells me he has met more navy SEALs since he opened his shop, then have ever been in the SEALs. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:25:53 AM EDT
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Snipers get all the chicks.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:27:25 AM EDT
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or when talking about guys they know. "dude, he was a Marine Sniper"
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:30:54 AM EDT
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Why is it when you run into the 350-400 pound mouth breathing neck beards at the lgs they ALWAYS say they were are is a sniper. Not only a sniper but black ops cia undercover squirrel sniper. How about a 50 year old woman who had to buy prescription underwear when her son enlisted, then when he was injured had to take his place on the 4 person sniper team, shooting the enemy from a helicopter? I have to admit, I work with her. I don't approach without my waders on, the shit gets deep fast-but her stories give me something to laugh at an hour later. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:32:26 AM EDT
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I was talking to the mall Santa the other day, and he told me he was working undercover as a CIA sniper.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:36:58 AM EDT
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It's the guys who said they were nothin' or a cook that are probably the liars... don't trust them.
I don't see why someone gaining weight after getting out disqualifies their service or calls into question their service. I was injured in the Air Force and over the last 20 years gained 30-40 pounds. Having back surgery (again) on Monday... does it invalidate my service or make me a poser because I'm not in shape anymore or am I being a sensitive little bitch? I was addressing the 350 pounders who say they are currently in or say they JUST got out |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 6:37:59 AM EDT
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This kid (maybe 21) was going on about being as in currently a sniper in between OPS as he put it and I shit you not he is 5' 6" and 350 lbs talking to a clerk at the gun counter talking about making mile and a half shots inthe "Sandbox" what the hell is wrong with these people Were you at a gamestop? |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:02:18 AM EDT
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No different than the WWI and WWII German bring back pistol stories. No one ever killed an enlisted German / Japanese soldier. Every bring back came off of an officer. Based on the number of stories, German and Japanese officers must have suffered a 105% casualty rate while enlisted enemy soldiers were barley scratched! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not one clerk in the whole war. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile No different than the WWI and WWII German bring back pistol stories. No one ever killed an enlisted German / Japanese soldier. Every bring back came off of an officer. Based on the number of stories, German and Japanese officers must have suffered a 105% casualty rate while enlisted enemy soldiers were barley scratched! Oddly enough my grandfather got his bring back a from Germans that were trying to surrender. He and his buddies were just trying to sneak off to go swimming for the afternoon. He never told one story about combat And the only badass story he told was when he was cursed out by Patton |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:06:46 AM EDT
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I met one of those Vietnam era "sniper" once. He knew nothing of ballistics.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:08:07 AM EDT
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I always wanted to see one of those, do you still perform? :) Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Same rule for past lives. Everyone was a king or some horseshit I used to be the girl at the donkey show I always wanted to see one of those, do you still perform? :) Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile No, I was banned from Mexico (well not banned but discouraged from going back to) over a misunderstanding where I did work for PEMEX and expected to get paid, they told me they had different expectations as in Gringo does some free work. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:12:08 AM EDT
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This kid (maybe 21) was going on about being as in currently a sniper in between OPS as he put it and I shit you not he is 5' 6" and 350 lbs talking to a clerk at the gun counter talking about making mile and a half shots inthe "Sandbox" what the hell is wrong with these people Retarded is my guess. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:13:19 AM EDT
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There are a number of non profits dedicated to hunting these guys down, although they tend to focus on those living publicly or profiting from their fraud. Example
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:17:04 AM EDT
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too big to be a tunnel rat, too nearsighted to be a sniper.
But I can buff a bay floor like a boss!
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:20:33 AM EDT
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A shooting buddy of mine was actually a Marine scout sniper during OIF. We've worked together for 2 years and regularly go blasting things in the desert. He has NEVER mentioned his exploits in the service. He has his patch on his locker and that's it.
Anyone who brags is full of shit. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:23:29 AM EDT
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A shooting buddy of mine was actually a Marine scout sniper during OIF. We've worked together for 2 years and regularly go blasting things in the desert. He has NEVER mentioned his exploits in the service. He has his patch on his locker and that's it. Anyone who brags is full of shit. Plenty of guys have been there done that and have no problem sharing and are not full of shit. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:27:13 AM EDT
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Well he may be a fake but don't judge a book by its cover, I know a Navy F4 back seater that was shot down over the Nam twice. Looking at him now you would be like no way...until he pulls out his scrap book and then youre like damn you are a bad ass!!!
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I had a guy in to give me an estimate on replacing some windows. He noticed my U.S.M.C license plate holder and asked if I had been in the Corps. I said yea 1967 to 1971. He then began to tell me he had been Marine Recon in "the nam", and the stories began. This guy was about 5'8" and a good 250lbs, Broke out in a sweat just climbing my front porch steps. I listened politely and said I call him back about the windows, if he was recon then I'm Chesty Puller. Well he may be a fake but don't judge a book by its cover, I know a Navy F4 back seater that was shot down over the Nam twice. Looking at him now you would be like no way...until he pulls out his scrap book and then youre like damn you are a bad ass!!!
I had a older very meek gentleman I knew so years ago. He was a route driver for the local newspaper. He picked up the bundles from the printer and delivered them to all the paperboys/girls on his assigned route. This guy literally looked and acted like Mr. Rogers. Never heard a cross word out of him, or any sign of not being the stereotypical wimp. then one day I saw a couple scars right at cuff length on his arm. That's when I found out he was twice wounded in the Pacific during WWII and I was honored to see his Bronze and Silver Stars. Holeee Shitttt what that man did to receive those awards. Dale Sir, Rest in Peace my friend. Your pain was not in vain. There's still a shit ton of us left that will make America America again when the time is right. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:27:30 AM EDT
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A shooting buddy of mine was actually a Marine scout sniper during OIF. We've worked together for 2 years and regularly go blasting things in the desert. He has NEVER mentioned his exploits in the service. He has his patch on his locker and that's it. Anyone who brags is full of shit. I have a close friend in ILL that was one as well. We usually talk on a weekly basis at least once. When his wife would answer the phone, I knew something was up, but all I ever got was "He is not home at the moment. I'll have him call you. It may take him a while." One of those "whiles" was over a year. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 7:48:06 AM EDT
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Not one clerk in the whole war. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I went to Ranger school with a cook who went out on the second convoy. RLTW. U talking bout Mogadishu ? A lot of soft skills ran to help their battle buddies that day. IIRC, there was even an Air Force Air Traffic Controller that went out on that convoy. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:01:51 AM EDT
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I am literally the only veteran in the USA who was straight leg infantry with boring ASI's and no tabs. I may not snipe your ass with an improvised zip gun at 2,000m, but I'll keep your patrol base field sanitized like a muthafucker. 
I needed that this morning! |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:09:48 AM EDT
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No different than the WWI and WWII German bring back pistol stories. No one ever killed an enlisted German / Japanese soldier. Every bring back came off of an officer. Based on the number of stories, German and Japanese officers must have suffered a 105% casualty rate while enlisted enemy soldiers were barley scratched! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Not one clerk in the whole war. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile No different than the WWI and WWII German bring back pistol stories. No one ever killed an enlisted German / Japanese soldier. Every bring back came off of an officer. Based on the number of stories, German and Japanese officers must have suffered a 105% casualty rate while enlisted enemy soldiers were barley scratched! That might have something to do with the fact that officers were primarily the only ones who were issued pistols. NCO's in the Wermacht mostly carried Schmeisser 9mm SMG's, while riflemen had K98's. After capitulation and massive surrender, there were a lot of P-38's and Lugers to go around. One of my dad's uncles brought back a Walther P-38 that he got from a German officer in Europe. He simply handed it to him when he asked for it as they were watching lines of German soldiers being processed as POW's. It was one of the main conversation pieces I would talk with him about when visiting their home. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:11:40 AM EDT
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FIFY?
I kid. I kid. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I am literally the only veteran in the USA who was straight leg infantry with boring ASI's and no tabs. I may not snipe your ass with an improvised zip gun at 2,000m, but I'll keep your patrol base field toilet sanitized like a muthafucker. FIFY?
I kid. I kid. Sit back down young'un. Slit trenches, we used to dig 'em, son.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:13:08 AM EDT
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Well he may be a fake but don't judge a book by its cover, I know a Navy F4 back seater that was shot down over the Nam twice. Looking at him now you would be like no way...until he pulls out his scrap book and then youre like damn you are a bad ass!!!
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I had a guy in to give me an estimate on replacing some windows. He noticed my U.S.M.C license plate holder and asked if I had been in the Corps. I said yea 1967 to 1971. He then began to tell me he had been Marine Recon in "the nam", and the stories began. This guy was about 5'8" and a good 250lbs, Broke out in a sweat just climbing my front porch steps. I listened politely and said I call him back about the windows, if he was recon then I'm Chesty Puller. Well he may be a fake but don't judge a book by its cover, I know a Navy F4 back seater that was shot down over the Nam twice. Looking at him now you would be like no way...until he pulls out his scrap book and then youre like damn you are a bad ass!!!
I had a regular customer that claimed to be one of the first Navy jet pilots in combat in Korea.....always thought he was full of shit...till he showed me his scrapbooks. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:13:20 AM EDT
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Sit back down young'un. Slit trenches, we used to dig 'em, son. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I am literally the only veteran in the USA who was straight leg infantry with boring ASI's and no tabs. I may not snipe your ass with an improvised zip gun at 2,000m, but I'll keep your patrol base field toilet sanitized like a muthafucker. FIFY?
I kid. I kid. Sit back down young'un. Slit trenches, we used to dig 'em, son. dont worry, we still dig slit trenches. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:16:50 AM EDT
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Why do people always say "he never talked about it" and act like all "spec ops" are like that. the SOTG, recon and snipers at Lejeune were some cocky ass guys and told everyone what they did in the Corps.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:19:08 AM EDT
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dont worry, we still dig slit trenches. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I am literally the only veteran in the USA who was straight leg infantry with boring ASI's and no tabs. I may not snipe your ass with an improvised zip gun at 2,000m, but I'll keep your patrol base field toilet sanitized like a muthafucker. FIFY?
I kid. I kid. Sit back down young'un. Slit trenches, we used to dig 'em, son. dont worry, we still dig slit trenches. Well, that's a relief. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:19:30 AM EDT
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I'm not a sniper, I'm a ninja.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:27:55 AM EDT
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I'm not a sniper, I'm a ninja. Doesn't count. You're Norwegian or from some other country up there on coldland peninsula. You don't get fat middle aged American former Delta operators and seals bragging about their 1,000m head shots in your gun stores. (I bet if i went to your LGS I wouldn't see one guy in a veteran baseball cap with scrambled eggs on the bill). What do you get? Fat guys with bad teeth claiming to be shaved Yetis? |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:29:38 AM EDT
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My father in law is that guy to the nth degree of retard. The stories that come out of his mouth are astonishing. Green Beret sniper in Vietnam, has shot other snipers through their scopes (yes, I had to hear that story more than twice), basically all of his documents are classified and only the CIA has access to them, smuggled M16A2 and a "tommy gun" back and has them buried in his yard with 30k rounds of ammo, has a bazooka in his attic that he smuggled back, and used to reload "special" ammo for the snipers in his platoon because the issued ammo was not accurate enough....I could go on and on...IMO its annoying as hell, and quite an insult to those who actually served....
On that note, this guy probably actually believes himself....which is just as fucked up. Would love to crush his dream of grandeur and show him proof that he probably never set foot in Vietnam. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:31:07 AM EDT
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Because lying about being an Army cook would be boring. But as an Army cook, they would have killed more people. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 8:31:15 AM EDT
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Doesn't count. You're Norwegian or from some other country up there on coldland peninsula. You don't get fat middle aged American former Delta operators and seals bragging about their 1,000m head shots in your gun stores. (I bet if i went to your LGS I wouldn't see one guy in a veteran baseball cap with scrambled eggs on the bill). What do you get? Fat guys with bad teeth claiming to be shaved Yetis? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I'm not a sniper, I'm a ninja. Doesn't count. You're Norwegian or from some other country up there on coldland peninsula. You don't get fat middle aged American former Delta operators and seals bragging about their 1,000m head shots in your gun stores. (I bet if i went to your LGS I wouldn't see one guy in a veteran baseball cap with scrambled eggs on the bill). What do you get? Fat guys with bad teeth claiming to be shaved Yetis? We usually get fat people claiming to have been some form of commando, typically Kustjägare. |
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