Quote Originally Posted by Whidbey78 View Post
They're easy to spot anyhow...they were usually a SEAL, Ranger, etc. and saved some General in a hail of gunfire and got three purple hearts that day along with a silver star and a nomination for the MOH. Ever notice how the loud guy at the end of the bar was never a cook? I seem to remember cooks on the boat, stateside, in Iraq, in Afganistan,...I guess Mess Specialists don't drink.
Isn't that the truth!

A couple months after Baghdad fell in 2003, I was still in Iraq, while my state-side brother met a guy in a bar that claimed to be a Marine sniper, who had already done TWO tours in Iraq. Funny, because I was still on my first tour, and we had only been in Iraq at all for a few months at that point.

Most of us who went to bad places and did and/or saw very disturbing things would rather not talk about it. I find it puzzling that someone would lie about military service, claim they did all this when there are plenty who were there and would like to forget, but can't, and have to learn to live with it.
This actually really bothers me with how gruesome some of the liars can get in their made up tales of war. There are some things I'll never tell another soul about... not even my wife. There are some subjects we've established should never be brought up, unless I do it first. My friends are all the same way. We don't want to talk about that stuff... especially not with some stranger in a bar somewhere. Combat sucks. There are many more pleasant things to talk about. But some of the made up stories I've heard are down right disgusting. Blood and guts everywhere, hand to hand stuff resulting in severed limbs (via Ka-Bar on one occasion)... the list goes on. For some reason, those types of stories offend me more than just simple lies regarding the earning of medals.