BEEN WATCHING DON SHIPLEY'S FAKE NAVY SEAL VIDEO'S AND I AM ASTOUNDED!

[chief38]

I recently found out about the retired Navy SEAL Don Shipley (OK maybe I've been living under a rock). Anyway, after watching many of his Youtube videos exposing fake Navy SEALS I am absolutely shocked at just how many fakes there really are out there!! According to Don, he states for every real SEAL, there are 1,000 fakes!

Anyone who has not watched these videos SHOULD! I was aware of looser's and wanna-bees posing and claiming they were ex-military however I just never knew the full extent of it. The reason I got into this is because one of my good friends just went down to VA for his Son's graduation from US Army Helicopter Repair School and he enlightened me on the subject of military posers.

I always knew how tough it was to become a SEAL and what a coveted job it is, I was just not aware of all the details, but now know after watching many videos and doing much research on them.

These Imposters, Posers, Liars, Scum of the Earth are a despicable group and should be punished, shamed and stopped at fast and severely as possible. Stolen Valor is no joke! I am not a Veteran, but have always supported them, donated to them and always show my respect and thankfulness.

Anyone who does not realize the extent of this should do a little digging - I sure learned fast just how bad the problem really is!

 

[Rock185]

Yea I know, encountered one myself. If he was ever a SEAL, I'm a ballerina.

Used to be, posers claimed to be Vietnam veterans. Always in some kind of Special Ops though. Never a regular troop. Sometimes I think I must have been one of the only guys in Vietnam, who was NOT some kind of super secret Ninja warrior

 

[SOS24]

When I was running a couple “A”and “C” schools up in Great Lakes, we had a student who got caught out in town wearing a SEAL trident. As part of his punishment, he had to do extra duty every weekend for his remaining time at the school with some Marines (we didn’t have any SEALs on staff). Those Marines took a lot of pleasure in making sure he regretted what he did.

 

[charles_the_hammer]

Pretending to have been in the service is pretty pathetic.

Know what's almost just as pathetic? Accosting a random person in a Walmart for wearing a M65 field jacket. I have a OD Green M65 field jacket I bought in a thrift store about 5 or 6 years ago. I pulled all the patches off it and I wear it in the winter for hunting, hiking, etc. It has a zip-in hood and removable liner.

One day, while standing at the ammo case in my local Walmart, some old man just walks right up to me and snidely asks "Did you EARN that jacket?"

I informed him that no one "earns" a field jacket. You are "issued" a field jacket and that he needed to get out of my face with that nonsense immediately. I have never served - nor have I pretended to have served - and his accusatory tone infuriated me. It's making me angry all over again just thinking about it.

 

[jack the toad]

IMO, posers are petty people living petty lives.

 

[DeathGrip]

Pretending to have been in the service is pretty pathetic.

Know what's almost just as pathetic? Accosting a random person in a Walmart for wearing a M65 field jacket. I have a OD Green M65 field jacket I bought in a thrift store about 5 or 6 years ago. I pulled all the patches off it and I wear it in the winter for hunting, hiking, etc. It has a zip-in hood and removable liner.

One day, while standing at the ammo case in my local Walmart, some old man just walks right up to me and snidely asks "Did you EARN that jacket?"

I informed him that no one "earns" a field jacket. You are "issued" a field jacket and that he needed to get out of my face with that nonsense immediately. I have never served - nor have I pretended to have served - and his accusatory tone infuriated me. It's making me angry all over again just thinking about it.

One way or another you pay for your jacket and your haircut and just about everything else. You earn your pay.

 

[BAM-BAM]

LOL seems I've never met a parent who's kid wasn't in "Special Ops"

IIRC there are something like 6-8 support troops(contractors?) for every trigger puller.

 

[charles_the_hammer]

One way or another you pay for your jacket and your haircut and just about everything else. You earn your pay.

Correct. I earned this jacket twice - the first time with tax dollars spent on the military contract and the second time when I bought it at the thrift store.

 

[ron_c]

No idea if these figures are true, however, it is estimated that they are about 800,000 real Viet Nam Vets still alive today, but there is about 2,000,000 that claim to be Viet Nam Vets.

Back in the 60's and 70's, you didn't tell people that you were even in the military, much less say you were a Viet Nam Vet.

This figure doesn't include guys that say they are Viet Nam "Era" Vets, not the same as Viet Nam Vets,

 

[Muss Muggins]

I've watched them. Pretty good stuff . . .

 

[squidsix]

There are only 1500 active duty SEALs at any given moment, and there have been fewer than 10,000 total EVER.
But if you sit at any bar in Virginia Beach or San Diego, you would think there were ten million of them.

 

[Dave.357]

SEALS

The SEALS I have known do not advertise

 

[DeathGrip]

The SEALS I have known do not advertise

And the other half advertise Tac Visors.

 

[nachogrande]

WORKING AT THE VAMC

After computers, & before HIPA, we were able to see much/most of a vets history. To hear it from many of them they were in some type of combat unit. I guess NOBODY cooked or was "in the rear with the gear". You see stolen valor all the time. It's despicable & usually an easy to spot BS story, the 6'4" 40 y/o Vietnam tunnel rat.

 

[Weimar]

usually its family - I have no idea if their kid told them the lies, but if military ever gets brought up, usually their son, but sometimes their brother, uncle or bestest kid served or is serving, and they are a Special Forces, Ranger Seal, and is a Major or Colonel.

I know I've hit the jackpot when they say, he's a young buck sergeant in supply working with a OPFOR unit. I believe that story

 

[Double-O-Dave]

One of the funniest things I ever witnessed was a bunch of younger guys sitting around a tire shop waiting room bragging about how "bad" they were. All of them claimed to be veterans, and of course it became a measuring contest pretty quickly. Being an older guy, they just ignored me, but another older guy, who was a pretty tough looking customer, just sat there quietly listening to the other guys.

Finally, one of them asked if he was a veteran. The man nodded and said he was. So he was then asked for his "special skills and qualifications". The man quietly said that he was the deadliest, and most feared man on the entire base. After he said that, the room got very quiet. After a moment or two of silence, the questions started - "bet you're a SEAL", "nah, he's gotta be a Green Beret", "nah, I bet he was Delta force", etc.

The man looked carefully into the eager faces of the crowd and said "Nope, I was the company cook. You know, Death from Within!"

That happened years ago, but still cracks me up.

Regards,

Dave

 

[Steve912]

Know what's almost just as pathetic? Accosting a random person in a Walmart for wearing a M65 field jacket. I have a OD Green M65 field jacket I bought in a thrift store about 5 or 6 years ago. I pulled all the patches off it and I wear it in the winter for hunting, hiking, etc. It has a zip-in hood and removable liner.

One day, while standing at the ammo case in my local Walmart, some old man just walks right up to me and snidely asks "Did you EARN that jacket?"

I informed him that no one "earns" a field jacket. You are "issued" a field jacket and that he needed to get out of my face with that nonsense immediately. I have never served - nor have I pretended to have served - and his accusatory tone infuriated me. It's making me angry all over again just thinking about it.

The conversation might have been a pleasant memory if you just said "no, I picked it up at Salvation Army."

 

[andy52]

In the four years I served in the USN 70-74 I never meet one single SEAL. I was pretty much a wild child in my Navy days and very good at my job. Once while underway I climbed the mast dragging a welding stinger lead all the way up and welded a new antenna base in place, it was pretty spooky but was child's play by comparison to what SEALs do. Never wanted to be one and won't pretend to be one.

 

[dave1918a2]

Sometimes I wear My U.S.S. Arizona hat I bought at the Memorial. Only had one guy challenge My wearing of the hat by asking Me if I was qualified to wear it. I said 'yes'. Most of the old guys knew what it was and told Me I wasn't old enough to have been on the Arizona so I got it at the Memorial.

 

[paulh]

No idea if these figures are true, however, it is estimated that they are about 800,000 real Viet Nam Vets still alive today, but there is about 2,000,000 that claim to be Viet Nam Vets.

Back in the 60's and 70's, you didn't tell people that you were even in the military, much less say you were a Viet Nam Vet.

This figure doesn't include guys that say they are Viet Nam "Era" Vets, not the same as Viet Nam Vets,

I got back in 66 and was never afraid or ashamed of saying I was a Viet Nam Vet. Just got into a huge spat on another site after Rolling Thunder was mocked. Some things die hard, some never do.