Originally posted by Westy
You're "boy" is a lying arnold with "issues" and IMO if you stand close to him you'll catch his perma-stink too.
This reminds me of an engineer I worked with for a few years (before he was fired). He claimed to have gone thru Seal training in the late 1980s. He had lots of stories to tell. However, I have several friends who were Seals and they never heard of him.
So, about six months after he started working for us, he was assigned to go with me down to Little Creek. I was working with a client who had developed a sophisticated electronic system that counts rounds fired from weapons. It date and time stamps each round, and via miniature magnatometers, can provide azimuth and angle data as well (You can find them on the web by searching for "accu-counter).
Our assignment was to instrument any and all weapons the Seals provided. This means attaching several accelerometers and recording recoil, bolt shock and resonant noise. So we test fired all manner of weapons, such as the MP-5, M4, M243, M60 and so on. We also brought along several weapons belonging to the client, including an H&K G91, M16A2 and a brace of Berettas (96D and 92).
During our lunch break, we sat around and chewed the fat with the Seals. I couldn't resist asking my associate to tell the guys about his Seal adventures....
Well, he went as pale as if I had just walked on his grave. Suddenly, the truth came out. It seems he was stationed at Norfolk, shuffling papers as the assistant Personnel Officer. That's where he had met some Seals. His stories were just stories. And he was scared chitless that these guys would take offense.
Later he asked me why I had put him on the spot like that. I told him seeing him squirm was the sole reason.
Talking with one Seal CPO, he told me that claiming to be a Seal is something they see all the time. He laughed loudly as I explained that I thought exposing him then and there would cure his baloney.
It didn't... He found new things to lie about.
My regards,
Widewing
