Tim Ralston; phony PJ

| April 12, 2018

Our friends in the Air Force Pararescue business asked us to check into this Tim Ralston fellow, one of those guys on National Geographic’s “Doomsday Preppers” series. He claims that he was an Air Force Pararescueman in numerous venues like The Blaze

Coming from a military family, Ralston signed up for the Air Force’s Special Forces ParaRescue division. But after putting in his time, he said it wasn’t the life he wanted anymore.

Everyday Tactical;

What I did was I went right out of high school and into the service…Once I was there I volunteered and tried out for the Para Rescue Team in the Air Force.”

After making the team, Tim changed course and went into air traffic control and finished out his time in the Air Force in Florida.

And his LinkedIn profile;

Tim Ralston served for the United States Air Force from 1981-1985. He volunteered and qualified to be a part of the Para rescue program, one of the most elite, Special Forces group in the military. Tim then transferred to the Air Traffic Control (ATC) where he finished his military career as an Air Traffic Controller at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

The Air Force doesn’t remember it that way;

Ralston did spend four years as an Air Traffic Control dude, no PJ training, no assignments to PJ units, just an E-3 after four years. Too bad that he didn’t think enough of his service to just stick to the truth.

And, oh, he shot his thumb off during the show.

Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures

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2/17 Air Cav

E-3 over four. Another rank rocket rider. Is he a prepper or a preppie? The pic screams preppie.

Carlton G. Long

I’m an army guy so let me ask this…would air traffic control normally be one of those jobs that an airman could make rank quickly? E-3 over 4 is bad, but it’s especially egregious if E-5 over 4 isn’t unheard of.

2/17 Air Cav

Hey. The Air Cavalry is Army. No matter what one’s MOS, a PFC with four years in is piss poor.

26Limabeans

I was Army in Viet of the Nam but shared resources with a TCS group. Most of the AF guys were E4 and above.

IntelPog

You were in Vietnam??? No one would have guessed that. You’re so quiet about it.

OldManchu

Welcome home! My Family never forgets. Even my pre-teen kids.

NormanS

I don’t know about AF; but I made Sp4 (E-4) just ten months after I enlisted in the Army.

19D3OR4-Smitty

I don’t know about the 1980s, but currently you need 36 months TIS or 30 months for a BTZ waiver to pin E4 in the USAF.

So assuming the reg was the similar back then, he should have made it then.

I do know it was slightly different in the 80s as they still had E4 Sgts as well as E4 SrA in the USAF at that time. So the TIS may have been different as well.

E4 Mafia For Life.

What was/is 19D30R4?
I was 19D10D300 in 19D20D300 slot (Bradley Gunner). And was a SPC/E-4 Mafia.
I also had a secondary MOS as Profanity Translator.

Mick

I’d go with preppie.

And he’s sporting a piece of poser bling that I recommend be added to the Official TAH Poser 101 ‘Poser Bling Checklist’:

The Tactical Desert Shemagh

Nothing says ‘PJ’ or ‘Special Forces’ quite like a desert shemagh worn with a snazzy 1980s Members Only jacket while enjoying a big night out on the town with the ladies.

Yeah, Baby.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Dude looks like he let’s his hips swap when he sashays down the passageway…

Cris

Never did get one of them on any of my tours. I never liked wearing or having extraneous gear on. And, then again, I haven’t felt the need to grow the “SpecOps” facial hair or sport the ball cap with the backwards facing flag (subdued color, of course)since I retired.

USMCMSgt (Ret)

“Members Only” jacket…

And he’s the last member.

This guy probably meets up with Joe Teti and they work each other’s balls.

Martinjmpr

It’s the popped collar that makes the jacket legit.

Only “members” do that (hence the name, “Members only.”) 😉

A Proud Infidel®™

Uuuhhhm yeah, E3 after four years is just as much of a stellar underachiever or dickstepper as E2 after two or more years.

Ex-PH2

Having no working TV (and not wanting one right now), I’d be interested in his ideas of “prepping”.

Is it a safe bet that he’s less likely to know what will and what won’t be useful in an emergency like a blizzard, flood or nuclear war?

I’ll bet he says ‘nukyuhler’, too.

E4 Mafia For Life.

I recall the episode with this guy and seeing him blow his booger picker off.
These people were a sham.
The first rule of fight club is there is no fight club.
If you want to prep and survive, you take the “Gray Man” approach.
In a nutshell; not drawing attention to yourself.

jonp

it does. I kinda regret my remark a few weeks ago about not enough fake PJ’s out there. Here comes turd sandwich to take the bait. Considering the PJ ranks are even smaller than SEAL’s I wonder how this shitstain thought he was going to get away with this

ArmyATC

As an old Army Controller, E-3 after four years is piss poor. He was probably stuck at E-3 because he couldn’t get rated.

Mason

I was an E-3 by the time I left basic. You really have to work at getting to that after four years.

At least we’re on the map! This is two phony USAF?

A Proud Infidel®™️

Hell, I came in as an E3 in my AD days (91-94) and during that time one was thrown out via the QMP Program if they were still an E3 after 36 months, same-o if they got busted to E3 after 36 months of service time, thus keeping him in the dickstepper/dirtbag category.

jonp

shit, my daughter was an E-4. I was just a mosquito wing.

Ex-PH2

Idiot. Idiota. Pendejo. Schwätzer. Dummkopf. Schwachkopf.

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

What a dope!

A Proud Infidel®™️

And a hearty KUTOMBA WEWE to that muy estupido dickstepping douchebag of a bed wetting booger-munching turd burglar.

USAFRetired

With Basic training, tech school, etc this 272X0 barely had time to get his five level and certified in his facility at Eglin. If he was a tower controller maybe, but if he was in the radar facility I doubt he got qualed at all the non-supervisory positions.

Keep in mind his career overlapped the FAA PATCO strike and firing by Reagan so AF ATCers were doing double duty.

USAF_Pride

Finally a PJ. So few and far between!!

Hayabusa

Nice to see the PJs finally getting some phony love. With all the phony SEALs and phony Delta guys, and finally a phony PJ, we should be able to put together a phony JSOC soon.

Martinjmpr

You’d need a phony general to command it. If only Brigadier General Ballduster McSoulpatch hadn’t shuffled off this mortal coil I’d nominate him for the job. 😉

RCAF-CHAIRBORNE

And MSGT SoupSandwich for the SNCO.
Bernath could be a Kamakazi.( he passed his practical training)

We should assemble a dead phonie unit.

11B-Mailclerk

Call it,

The SheissStaffel

jonp

Where are the CG Rescue Swimmers?

Ret_25X

why is it that the further in the rear a person’s job is, the more likely it is that they are going to pretend to be the second coming of Bruce Lee or SGT York?

I remember the “geardoes” on the FOB…they never leave the FOB but they have all of the latest “tacticool” crap on earth hanging off of their bodies…usually a good sign that you were seeing a Chaplain Assistant or parts clerk.

USAF RET

Tim Ralston, what a tool.
Tim Ralston should have been proud of his service as a scope dope.
Tim Ralston when did you start lying about your service? Was it just to sell preppin’ Tim Ralston?

Mick

From the National Geographic “Doomsday Preppers” link posted above:

“…making my time in the Military priceless by honing my abilities even further with extensive combat and rescue skills in the Special Forces.”

Yeah; sure thing, poser assclown.

Everyone wants to run their mouths about wanting to participate in “extensive combat and rescue” shit until it comes time to actually participate in extensive combat and rescue shit.

This phony would piss in his pants if he ever had to go out on a real CSAR mission in a high threat environment. He’d find out very quickly that CSAR operations are considerably more challenging than his TV “Special Forces” and “prepper” fantasies would lead him to believe.

I hope that ol’ Timmy here will now receive all of the personal attention that he so clearly seeks.

Good luck with that, ‘PJ’.

ChipNASA

Well, he’s not Google and TAH famous.
Let’s see how that works out for him.
OhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPleaseOhPlease

COME TO TAH and try to bullshit your way through this or even better, come and threaten Jonn and all of us with your “PJ SKILLZ”

Here douchenozzle, I’ll even give you a head start.

How to be a good phony soldier….

http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=39711

ChipNASA

not = NOW, Jesus, fat fingers.

Bobo

“We’ll spend all the time and money required to get you through the PJ program, then immediately laterally move you to a non-medical job as an E-3,” said no member of the PJ training and assignment force ever.

3E9

From a retired SMSgt; fuck off. Dipshit.

ChipNASA

Yeah, and from another SMSgt,
Choke on a Giant Dick, or an entire 463L Pallet of dicks, lying ass clown.

If I had the chance I’d lock your smarmy ass in a Lav Pallet and flip it upside down with a 10K AT.

E-1 out of Basic
E-2 6 months later automatic and
E-3 one year later
You should have been pushing E-4 by the time your enlistment was up.
This troop was a real shit smearer.

:-X

┌∩┐(ಠ_ಠ)┌∩┐

Bill R.

I enlisted in 1980. I sewed on Airman at 6 months and A1C at one year. I sewed on SrA (E-4) at a little over 3 years time in service and made Staff Sergeant (E-5) in less than four but sewed it on at four years five months.

There is no way the Air Force would approve a PJ retraining into ATC during a four year enlistment. He would have spent his whole four years schooling for his job.

rgr1480

You should have been pushing E-4 by the time your enlistment was up.
This troop was a real shit smearer.

This really annoyed me when I was USAF. After 4 years I was only an E-4 senior airman — then got “promoted” to E-4 sergeant just prior to getting out near the 5-year mark (additional time for overseas assignment) … yet all the army-dudes laughed because they could make E-4 in a year or less!

It looks like the USAF hasn’t changed much:

Moving up the Air Force Ranks: The Air Force requires for Airman First Class to have 28 months Time-in-Grade (TIG), or 36 months TIS and 20 months TIG. The average service-wide active duty time for advancement to the rank of Senior Airman is three years.

https://www.military.com/air-force/enlisted-ranks.html

So I got out and joined the army. Made 2LT right out of Basic! (^__^)

Well …. after OSUT *and* OCS.

Ret_25X

It didn’t take me a whole year to sew on SP4. But it did take 2 years for SGT and 4 for SSG…

That is just how the Infantry was…if you were willing to work and accept responsibility they were willing to promote.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Another TV “personality” who is allegedly full of shit….

Do none of these networks have an HR department capable of doing simple confirmation of employment form claims?

How do these guys get hired without documentation to prove their claims?

ChipNASA

Because Nat Geo and Discovery and history channels are just a bunch of reality wanna-be get ratings bullshit flingers these days.

Worthless crap.

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Indeed, I think the History Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” is one of the most unintentionally hysterical shows I’ve ever seen…Giorgio Tsoukalos is totally awesome on that show…

I laugh the entire time those guys are dissecting history to accommodate alien influence.

RGQ

I’m not saying it was aliens… but it was aliens.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

I wonder what those Navy pilots were chasing when those videos were released.

A Proud Infidel®™

Yeah, that boy on “Ancient Aliens” got abducted and anal probed a few times too often, look at the brain damage it gave him!

HMC Ret

Discovery Channel is pretty much a reality soap opera. History (LOL) Channel is the Big Foot Channel, Alien Channel and Hitler Channel rolled up into one. They will eventually have an episode in which Big Foot and Hitler are one and the same and are aliens. It will be ‘proven’ with lots of BS science. I miss the History Channel when their episodes were actually about history. I also miss CMT when they played country music.

GDContractor

“Do none of these networks have an HR department capable of doing simple confirmation of employment form claims?”

You speaking of entities that affirm the existence of USAF “Special Forces”.

GDContractor

*you’re speaking of…

2/17 Air Cav

Timmah Purina says that he made a bucket list and has done everything he ever wanted to do. Okay, Timmah, you know what follows. That’s why it’s called a bucket list. See ya.

USAF (RET)

OK reading between the lines:

“Tim Ralston served in the USAF…”

Yes he did serve in the USAF.

“He volunteered and qualified to be part of the Para rescue program…”

His recruiter was able to get him a spot for the Pararescue (NOTE: that is one word) Selection course. Which meant that he had to pass the Pre-Selection PT test; which would have “qualified” him to start the Selection Course. Now this POS most likely walked in the front door of the Selection Course and very shortly dragged his ass out of the backdoor and spent the rest of his USAF time as ATC.

So in little timmies mind he is telling the “truth”; it is all of us who are confused. It is not his fault that we mis-read what he has written.

Cris

In the mid-90s, when I was on recruiting duty (Ugh!) the Corps did have a program that guaranteed that one could be guaranteed to be able to “try out” for Recon. Didn’t say you would be recon just the opportunity to do the indoc. Don’t know if it’s still around.

QMC

All recruits had the ability to volunteer for any Navy SpecOps programs (SWCC, SEAL, etc) at RTC when I went through it. That doesn’t necessarily mean they would complete the indoc training in boot camp to even get to Coronado, much less complete the training there.

Martinjmpr

A bit OT but here’s a fun fact about air traffic controllers: It’s one of the highest paid jobs you can get without a college degree.

Seriously, there are mid-level ATC’s pulling down $150k. Many (if not most) of them got their start in the military.

Yes, it’s a stressful job and you have to work shifts, but the pay is sweet.

Cris

My dad was a ATC in the Air Force. A couple of his former ATCs had gotten out and were working as civilian ATCs when they decided to strike. My dad laughed at them when Reagan fired their asses.

He never complain about the job, said it was what you made it. At least for him, the stress was non-existent. The last couple of years we were in Torrejon he actually worked with the Spanish off base,at some central air traffic hub (I’d have to ask him what it actually was, I was only 13/14 then) didn’t even wear a uniform.

2/17 Air Cav

I know a guy who has served in every branch (except the Coast Guard but they are DHS now, anyway) as an ATC. He maketh the dough.

Michael Yates

I am amazed he hasn’t claimed to have been a commissioned officer because to be discharged as an E-3 after four years in Air Traffic Control he had to be a MAJOR screw up.

Cris

GENERALly speaking

AzDesertRat

What an ass clown. I don’t know what AF ATC training was like in the early 80’s, but in the late 90’s it had a pretty respectable washout rate. I remember talking to a couple of ATC’s who were doing their final bit of OJT training at Luke AFB back in ’99 (they took them out on the flight line so they could see the F-16’s up close) and I don’t remember any of them being under E-3.

And it’s about time we had a poser Zoomie! Break up the monotony of all the poser SEAL’s.

Atkron

Cocksucking turd pusher…

A Proud Infidel®™

And a booger-eating meat gazer as well.

AW1Ed

This loser isn’t qualified to shine the boots of a PJ.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Most all of you out there know of my slow learning process during my 3 year Kiddie Cruise and making MM3 just before I got out so I really can’t comment on Ralston’s promotion’s. By the way, is he related to the Ralston cereal family.

Mike Kozlowski

…Yeah, Numbnuts here stepped on it at some point, notice no GCM on his paperwork. E4 was as automatic as breathing at about 36 months as long as you didn’t good up. I’m going to guess that the lad was a consistent mid-level discipline problem who eventually collected enough paperwork to get denied promotion and therefore reenlistment.

Dennis - not chevy

Going along with your guess; I’m surprised he didn’t get administratively discharged for a pattern of minor lapses in discipline. We all know the barracks lawyer type who collected letters of admonishment and reprimands the way spoiled brats collect “time outs”.

USAFRetired

Depending on the unit/organization it was easier to just deny reenlistment for foul ups than it was to do the work to administratively separate him.

Mike Kozlowski

….Sorry, ‘good up’ should read ‘screw up’. A thousand pardons.

AF VET

I saw some of the other posts on AF rank. Bottom line – unless you screw up, you put on E-4 at your 3-year point. Back in those days (I came in 1985), you were an E-4 Senior Airman for a year, then at your 4 year point, you put on Buck Sergeant. So, he obviously did something wrong for him to get out as an E-3. And the PJ pipeline from start to finish is over 2 years of full blown training, yea, he completed the course but, you know, it just wasn’t for him, so he did ATC instead … seems legit. Dumb Ass. How about he graduated from basic, went to ATC school, then did that for 3 years. And this guy is on TV?

Ex-PH2

AF Vet, he’s on TV because he’s photogenic, vaguely resembles Alec Baldwin, and probably doesn’t use too many curse words.

AF VET

That’s hilarious!! So true. So the producers basically don’t do any back-checking I guess.

Skippy

Never under-estimate stupid
Like the show he host completely bat-shit-crazy
Nice to see AF is finally getting some respect

BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!

Dustoff

Some of the finest men and women I have ever served with were in the Army’s Dustoff community, having said that, we all ( at least all the ones I knew) were in awe of PJs. This shitbird couldn’t hold a candle.

Ex-PH2

I’d be interested to know what his ideas of prepping consist of. I’ve ordered Hannah Glasse’s ‘Art of Cookery'(1805) which she wrote for the purpose of informing housewives on preserving foods when there was no modern refrigeration available.

What we take for granted now didn’t exist, but almost every household had a root cellar and if they were lucky, an ice house. Otherwise, food spoilage was very likely.

If anyone can provide a link to a video of Ralston telling us naive, uninformed plebes, so that I can do a comparison, I’d appreciate it. He seems kind of smug and self-involved, but maybe that’s because of his leather jacket pose and the haircut.

Ret_25X

there is nothing that says “special” like shooting your own thumb off!

rgr1480

WHAT????

I don’t do TV. Link, please? Oh, ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qth1k962_9A

Geeeeze-louise

ChipNASA

J. F.C.
What an IDIOT. Now *EVERYONE* is going to know what a numbnuts this guy is.

rgr769

That is too funny! Tim says on tape: “It was one of those malfunctions where my thumb went in front of the barrel.” This dude really has some skillz as a trigger puller. He now has a thumb that is about one inch shorter than before the mishap. Thanks for the link.

Eggs

Thumb in front of barrel.

Like this??

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs9yhpMTGxc

rgr769

I should add, I have been and been around pistol shooters regularly for over 50 years, and I have never seen or heard of anyone who shot their thumb because it “went in front of the barrel” when the weapon fired. I went through ROTC with a guy that shot through his leg with a Ruger .357 Blackhawk while attempting a quick draw. He lost his leg and couldn’t be commissioned.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Back in the early 70’s, Brinks NY office where I worked out of hired a retired NYCPD LT. to be the head of security and he had a finger missing due to a fire arms accident on the job.

Martinjmpr

True story time: Infantry OSUT at Benning, September 1980. We were going through the “known distance” range when right in the middle of one of the firing tables, the range OIC blows the whistle and yells “Cease fire!”

We all stopped shooting and were instructed to place our M-16’s in the firing stake and exit the foxhole.

This was highly unusual as we had had it drilled into our heads from day 1 that our weapons were to stay in our grasp as long as we had them. Leaving your weapon unattended was a major no-go.

They then told us to move across the street into the tent city area.

A few minutes later, one of the drill instructors walked out into the flat part of the range, in front of the firing points, and tossed a colored smoke grenade. A minute later a MEDEVAC Huey landed and they took a soldier and loaded him on, then took off again.

The drill sergeant (one of the grizzled, old time VN vets) came over to us and had us gather around him. He didn’t yell or curse or anything, his demeanor wasn’t even angry, more just one of disbelief or disappointmnent.

He said “Men, if you get a malfunction on the range, clear your weapon or raise your hand for a safety to come by. DO not PUT YOUR HAND OVER THE MUZZLE AND START BANGING THE WEAPON ON THE SIDE OF THE FOXHOLE!” Then he just shook his head and walked off.

Green Thumb

Take all orders from the tower.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Maybe he was using an auto and showing that if the front of the muzzle was deppresed with a cocked hammer, the gun is not supposed to go off. Ex. 1911. That’s like gripping the cylinder of a wheel gun and you will not be able to pull rotate the cylinder and fire it unless the hammer is cocked.

A Proud Infidel®™️

TALK ABOUT Weapons Grade Stupid…

Ex-PH2

Ah! Thank you for preparing me for that episode before I looked. I’m impressed that he fainted slowly.

This should be interesting. While I’m aware of some preppers who use common sense because they live in areas that are least likely to get them help when they may need it, I’ve never before watched any of them perform surgical digit removal quite so efficiently.

I’d bet his strongest recommendation is “stock up on MREs”, too.

Here’s a piece of advice from my cat’s veterinarian: corn starch can be used to help clot blood and stop bleeding for minor wounds. It is a very absorbent molecule.

It’s also good for making a clear gravy with beef stock.

rgr769

From what is shown on the video, I doubt corn starch would have helped much. His new mini-thumb sure is cute.

Ex-PH2

Good thing I put the hot tea down before I read that. 🙂

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

I think that the left over MRE Ravioli I ate the other day from last years Hurricane where we lost power for 4 days plus the two slices of margharita pizza I had for lunch yesterday put my stomach back on the fritz again. Honey is also great for putting over cuts.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

At least he will have to use his other hand to thumb his nose at someone that he doesn’t like.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Ex; Check out the Cumberland General store catalogue online or order the paperback snail mail.

Ex-PH2

Lehman’s, too. They have hand-cranked grain mills, and all that other stuff I used to see and my Aunt Vashti’s house.

Green Thumb

The only traffic this turd has even witnessed was the line forming around his mouth.

Cris

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA What a maroon!

rgr769

AF types please correct me, if wrong, but shouldn’t he have gone to basic airborne (jump) school in order to be a PJ? I am not seeing any jump wings on his FOIA response.

USAF (RET)

Jump school is a follow on after finishing the Indoc/Selection Course.

If (BIG IF) he did any training he started the Indoc Course and failed. That would not show on his records since there is it is at Lackland and requires no move.

Frankie Cee

I left Tim Ralston my usual message of love and also posted on his wide open Facebook page:
I live in the Eglin AFB area, and have friends who are actual, “Real Deal” PJs. I just asked two of them about you and they said: “WHO?”
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=78824

Mr. Pete

Midget Didget. That says it all about this faggot.

Green Thumb

He does have that Brendan Fraser/Richard Dean Anderson look.

NHSparky

Personally, I’d dump a roll of dimes on a tile floor, then make him pick them up with his “bad” hand.

Oh, the hilarity.

26Limabeans

At least the dog didn’t eat it.
Happened to a guy a know. Skillsaw accident.

2/17 Air Cav

I get his explanation now, that his “thumb went in front of the barrel.” His thumbs were independent sorts that took no instruction from his brain. There were many times his thumbs, singularly or together, refused to go into a glove. He eventually switched to mittens. Same thing with a broom. Had to go to vacuum only. His thumbs, being union thumbs, just refused to oppose his fingers. Anyway, that’s how it happened that on range day, his left thumb decided to take a walk up the barrel and get shot off. Some guys just can’t trust their thumbs.

Ex-PH2

Just a question: when are you going to write your memoirs, laced with this rather acerbic point of view?

26Limabeans

I would love to see him do the “see, I can take my thumb off” kids trick.

Green Thumb

Hopefully he keeps his thumbs(s) off of kids.

This turd just has that I want to “lick your peter” look on his face.

Sicko.

Docduracoat

As a gun nut for the last 30 years, I have never seen a thumb blown off
I will say that the micro Uzi is the one submachine gun I refused to fire at the Gun Site machine gun course
It is so short that it is just too easy to accidentally get your support hand in front of the muzzle

L. D. Jeffries

This guy has been a pain in the ads for awhile! Thanks for posting and doing the grunt work Jonn. Enjoy your fame Timmy!!!!

Rick Fulton

I enlisted in the USAF in 1962 at age 17 and was assigned to the Air Police. Back in those days it was normal that one had to reenlist to make Airman First Class three stripes/E-4) I made E-5 while serving in-country. That was during the second enlistment. Also back then there were a lot of twenty year men who were paygrade E-4. Wasn’t their fault, just the way the USAF was.

Rick Fulton

I recently heard a man named Kevin Douglas Cook had died in Newberry, South Carolina and that he had been a captain in the Special Forces. That is what the obit said. I knew him at Fort Jackson when he worked there as a civilian. There is no way he was a captain in Special Forces. Can this be checked, and the record corrected?

Walter

I remember watching that episode, especially when he passed out form seeing his own blood. It that episode, he said he was in Special Forces. I was suspicious since then. Thanks for posting his BS.