Glen Mason; Ricky Recon, phony Navy SEAL
Someone sent us these pictures last night of Glen Mason, a contractor with ITT Excellis who has been strutting around among the troops in Afghanistan bragging about his exploits as a Navy SEAL. The photos were made by those same troops who smelled a rat. Last night, we sent a request to Don Shipley to check out Glen’s claims. Don writes back;
Perhaps Mr. [our tipster], with his busy schedule, might dedicate some spare time to setting Glen on fire or pushing him off a cliff…
Thanks in advance, […]… Don
The fellow who sent this to us wrote;
[W]e recently found a copy of his resume, on it he list his rate, we looked it up and found it to be a welder.
So, a welder is just like a SEAL, right? Only completely different.
Category: Phony soldiers
#49: I’ve thought at the very least, the Navy would design the new Navy camo utilities to have a reversible orange side, so that any squiddie that went overboard could turn the utility jacket inside out into a rescue panel, but hey, what do I know 🙂
#51 Interesting that you should mention orange and squiddie. As I recall my combat history correctly, there were reports from sailors serving in the Battle of the Atlantic that squids were attracted to the bright orange Mae West life preservers and would drag sailors down to their deaths.
So maybe the blue digipat is to save sailors from marine life?
#52: Where’s Jacques-Yves Cousteau to answer these questions when you need him???
“And I don’t believe any Marine is going to tread water or swim with all of his combat gear.”
Think again, its not that hard. As a matter of fact its part of basic swim qual. The next step you had to swim 25 meters with all your gear,,, while pulling another Marine with his gear. Air pockets abound in packs, cammies and canteens.
Assclown.
Basic survival in water in Navy recruit training 1967:
1 – Take off your dungarees
2 – Tie knots in the legs, and fasten the zipper or buttons
3 – Splash air into the waistband until the legs inflate.
4 – Keep pants wet until rescued to hold air in. Replenish air as needed.
They make great water wings and will keep you afloat until rescue arrives.
Ex-PH2: Yes, we had to complete “drown-proofing” training (Army term for basic water survival tng) while I was attending Army OBC in 1987. The SOPs you described above was pretty much what we had to do. Interestingly, I grew up in Hawaii, but pretty much hated the water and water sports. I knew how to swim to save my life, but that was pretty much it…
“Hellraiser” is a song written by Ozzy Osbourne.
Know the beat?
Know substitute “Turd Pusher” for “Hellraiser”.
Great tune when calling these posers.
Much like this TP.
They get pissed.
Last time I saw a drown proofing was back in 2004… Strange for something that is a yearly qualification eh? But seeing as how I had to teach them as a lifeguard while BMM at Fort Hood and Fort Wainwright I think I remember. And now I play with mustang suits and Sea Mark II, and my unit doesn’t have an overwater designation. Funny as how we are near the thousand lakes area, and mobilize every year for east coast hurricane support.
Camp Pendleton, mid 1990’s. I Swim Qualified 3rd Class. Seemed pretty easy, I’ll shoot for 2nd Class. You had to swim 60 yards in full combat gear, which would be the width of the mainside pool three times (20 feet deep, or about). You were not allowed to touch the sides of the pool on your laprs. First lap across, no problem. Second lap, Hack was starting to wear down. On the last lap, about a third of the way out, Hack was beat. The instructor throws hack the ring, but he is a hard ass radio repairman. He doesn’t need no stinking life ring. Hack perseveres, tosses the ring aside, and heads for the finish line. Not so fast. About five feet from being SQ2, he decides to check out the bottom of the pool. So, they jump in, drag my ass out, and ask me why I didn’t atke the ring when they threw it I replied “Because I am fucking stupid.” I was pissing chlorine for a week. True story, although the chlorine part may be slightly exagerated.
Last time I did drown-proofing was 2000. It was another lesson in the genius of privates. Being an MLRS battery, the question was: when do we wear BDU so we inflate the pants?
Just an Old Dog: I don’t know if they still do it, but 1st Brigade of the 101st (327th Infantry) had an SOP where all gear was secured to the soldier through various ties and tapes. My ruck, being a Fister, with its two PRC-77 radios, security equipment, cables, batteries, and one each packet of Cherry Nut Cake weighed in 105lbs. Given all the good ideas since the early 1990s (and each good idea adds 5 lbs to the soldiers’ load), I am curious what is considered ‘equipment’ by the Corps, and why they go into a fight with empty canteens for floats?
DaveO@61, the canteens aren’t “empty”, it’s just that you have to have to caps off so that the water can get into them. Otherwise, some Marine on the higher end of the GT scale may get the bright idea of emptying his canteens, plcing the caps on them, and now he has (very little) extra buoyancy. Now, just imagine that your Amtrac just got blown up four hundred yards from shore during a hostile landing. AS you jump from the burning/sinking vehicle, there is some dweeb training NCO ensuring that the canteen caps are off, otherwise that may be playing by Al Qaida rules, and we are better than that.
@48–COB..the Aux tank? Ewwwwww.
Most of the dry stuff (flour, coffee, lard) went in the Engine Room on my boat (outboard the switchgear in ERUL) and the eggs, etc., usually went in the Valve Station in the Torpedo Room.
Easy way to tell eggs were going bad was when they didn’t do eggs to order anymore–only scrambled, and then only powdered.
Yeah, I dove the potty-water tanks as a nub during SRA once. Never drank water that hadn’t been boiled first, i.e., coffee only, thanks so much.