What Makes You Angry Today?

[Deleted member 43454]

Totally not worth the assault charges that will ensue. :p - Meant for Fridays post earlier must've forgotten to actually post it through? Hm.

Freaking non deployers posing!!!! Last night at a bonfire party for a friend some 20 y/old Air National Guard POG was wasted and bragging about his service time and how awesome he was. All I wanted to do was beat him senseless. He had his daddy's flight gloves and a polypro top on to top it all off. Funny thing is he didn't pace himself drinking, so he got sloppy/ stumbling drunk, and it ended up being *ME* that baby sat him making sure he didn't choke in his sleep or freeze. I served in the deadliest place on earth in 2012 and it pisses me off that someone who hasn't even been overseas could try and gain sympathy from people like that. Nine people I worked with were killed my first month in Afghanistan. One of them was my platoon leader. What kind of person tried to want something like that?

Agreed totally ColaBacon.

 

[Sludge]

What makes me angry is the douchebag false valor motherf*ckers that try to cash in on Veterans Day. One fellow in particular I know does this constantly. I can't prove he is a goddamned liar, but my gut tells me somethin' ain't right.

Case:

Dude lost a leg in Iraq to an "AK round". He does in fact have an amputation from the knee down, but definitely does not have a VA issue prosthetic. (In fact the thing costs about 10 grand and it is a damned good one)
The problems are with his dates. He is 31 now. I'm 38. We both got med retirement at the same time, 2003. He claims to have had ten years service, however. Is it just me or his math off? Is it me or does this mean he joined the Corps at age 14?
Something stinks here.
He and his mother run a "not for profit" concert each year, and do in fact have a non-profit set up for said show, but there is absolutely no evidence to support the claim they donate the proceeds to the Wounded Warriors program. In fact there is not a shred of evidence to support any of his claims, beyond some hospital picture. Oh, did I mention the 70K bike this dude rides?
Currently he claims cancer for the second time and claims to be undergoing chemo for the last six months, yet he has more hair than Chewbacca and is muscled up like a pro-wrestler. (Beard now a meter long!)
Oddly the hospital pictures show him with a foot and a half long beard. Even with a combat beard going, it takes years to grow one out that long. No way in hell anyone would be allowed a beard that long on active duty, war zone or not. (Okay, maybe the Spec Ops dudes that go out and play rag head for a year straight, but not a grunt. Or am I wrong here?

Something stinks and I am pretty goddamned angry about it.

 

[combatgoldfish]

I'd interrogate the hell out of him, honestly. Start with date he joined, bring it up in casual conversation, mos, where he was stationed, bring up something about the VA cards (Most should be issued the new ones by now or they're coming soon" etc.

Not sure how he'd go to Iraq get shot then med retirement within that same year (2003). Could be possible it happened in Afghanistan (2002) but I'd still call bs for the med retirement that quickly. Just my two cents.

 

[Deleted member 43454]

Yea that's what makes me think something should be done for each Branch.
Taken example from Don Shipley's youtube channel where he investigates phony navy seal claims.
Anybody can submit them to him etc, he checks the class number etc... catches them in tons of lies,
exposes them for their bullshit and squashes them exploiting and gaining profit from that non-sense.

 

[Sludge]

I dunno. Things just don't make sense, yet I cannot trust my own memory these days. Still pissed off though, but really don't want to stir the pot.

 

[Grizzly]

Something doesn't add up. If he is 31 now he was born in 1983. It would have been 2001 before he could have joined. Depending on MOS and boot his first duty would have been in late 2001 best case scenario. So wouldn't that have to have had him hit in 2002 to be TDRL'd by 2003? Like Combatgoldfish said, I can see the medical part happening so quickly. Especially with a static wound. I would expect a longer rehab time etc. I know a guy who had 2 1/2 years before he was medically retired with a lost leg. I have no idea how you fit 10 years into the equation.

 

[holdenmonty]

I was thinking and the only dumb asses that would try to make their selves sound tough is those that haven't seen shit. I meet a now friend about a week ago and I asked him what happened to him and he said IED in Afghanistan and I knew just from how he said it that him saying that was all he felt like saying. Nobody I know brags about what they saw.

 

[Sludge]

Something doesn't add up. If he is 31 now he was born in 1983. It would have been 2001 before he could have joined. Depending on MOS and boot his first duty would have been in late 2001 best case scenario. So wouldn't that have to have had him hit in 2002 to be TDRL'd by 2003? Like Combatgoldfish said, I can see the medical part happening so quickly. Especially with a static wound. I would expect a longer rehab time etc. I know a guy who had 2 1/2 years before he was medically retired with a lost leg. I have no idea how you fit 10 years into the equation.

Yeah, I can't figure it out. His whole story is shaky as hell, but the rest of the gang at the MVSC tink he walks on water. I just hate to call someone out and be completely wrong. If such a situation were to happen to me, I know I'd be rather pissed.

 

[Grizzly]

Yeah, I can't figure it out. His whole story is shaky as hell, but the rest of the gang at the MVSC tink he walks on water. I just hate to call someone out and be completely wrong. If such a situation were to happen to me, I know I'd be rather pissed.

Absolutely understandable. I would definitely do what CGF reccomended.

 

[Friday]

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[Friday]

Whoops. Didn't get back in time to edit this ^^^^

In short, what made me angry made me angry, so I deleted the sucker. How's that for irony? Yep. Mad about being angry. Stellar. Although honestly, it's the doubled emotions that kick my legs out from under me the most. Paranoid about being paranoid, 2nd guessing my own misjudgment, afraid of fear, crushed by being sad, ashamed of shame, raging at my own anger. WTFO? About retarded, me. Zero emotions to doubled emotions. Unsat. I need to knock that shit off.

 

[Grizzly]

Whoops. Didn't get back in time to edit this ^^^^

In short, what made me angry made me angry, so I deleted the sucker. How's that for irony? Yep. Mad about being angry. Stellar. Although honestly, it's the doubled emotions that kick my legs out from under me the most. Paranoid about being paranoid, 2nd guessing my own misjudgment, afraid of fear, crushed by being sad, ashamed of shame, raging at my own anger. WTFO? About retarded, me. Zero emotions to doubled emotions. Unsat. I need to knock that shit off.

I don't know what to say. I do the same often. Start a post and then give up the ghost in mid stream. I get too pissed at myself and the world to go on.