Rick Fine; the sniper/CIA/sergeant major phony
AverageNCO bumped into this Rick Fine guy at an event that he was attending. Here, I’ll let AverageNCO tell the story;
While at dinner he went on-and-on about his days in the Army. He would never give an exact date that he enlisted, but said he was trained as an Airborne Sniper, and his first mission was to oust Noriega in Panama. Because of how well he did in Panama he was transferred to work for the CIA. Throughout the next two days he told great stories to me and other about all the people he had killed. How he was trained in “Terminal Interrogation” tactics with the CIA……and it went on. Even my wife’s stolen valor radar was going wild after sitting next to this guy for less than five minutes. Here are some more highlights from his stories:
1. He wore a Command Sergeant Major rank insignia on both his cap and as a tie clip. Claims he earned a stripe after every secret mission he went on for the CIA. He said he finally had “kill a few more guys” before they gave him his E9 star.
2. I asked him why he would be a “Command” Sgt. Major since he said he was assigned to a small black ops unit of the CIA, since CSM’s are by definition assigned at a Headquarters level unit? He looked at me dumbfounded, and said it was “different when you work for Central Intelligence.”
3. Since my wife and I had been using DOD lodging along our road trip, she slyly asked him if he enjoyed staying in the VIP units since he was a retired E9. He stated he had no access to retiree benefits because all his records were destroyed to conceal the work he did for the CIA.
4. He stated he has multiple medical problems due to Gulf War Syndrome, but can’t get VA benefits because his records were destroyed.
5. He was wearing a ranger pin. I asked if was “tabbed or scrolled”, and he obviously had NO IDEA what I was talking about.
6. He did know that Army Sniper school was at Ft. Benning, but when I asked him how long the school was…he couldn’t remember.
So he sounds totally legit, right? So, AverageNCO got Rick’s FOIA and it came back like this;
He asked Rick about that and Rick told him he had a DD214 and read stuff off of it to him on the phone. AverageNCO asked him to send a copy of it to him and he got it, but it was barely legible, well, except this corner which says the date of the form is 1958;
Fine told AverageNCO that he had another more legible copy of his DD214, so we’ve been holding our breath for nearly a month waiting for it and it never showed up. So I’m taking deep breaths while I write this one up. Here’s what he wears to formal events;
I love how everything about his career was secret, except for when he’s running his mouth at the dinner table in front of strangers he met just a few moments before. But, he’s persistent. He hasn’t crumbled even a little bit on his story, despite the fact that AverageNCO picked it apart piece-by-piece.
Category: Phony soldiers
All I’ve got is; wow, just wow.
The brackets are going to be filled early this year.
Yes, but he did state that his records were destroyed for the benefit of this nation and its best interests. Totally legit IMHO.
Has Panama become the new black ops special? Maybe Somalia was getting too crowded?
Did I ever tell you guys about the four years I worked as CNO? I put guns back on planes and ships and got rid of all that aluminum crap. I turned the Marines back into a lean, mean amphib machine and opened up the ROE to shoot everything that even looked hostile. Oh wait, that was a dream.
Never mind. 🙂
The tournament might have to start with over a hundred contestants based on the sheer numbers of tomfoolery going around here….
Ok. The more I think about this shitbag, the more pissed I get. If all his records were destroyed to conceal his work as a spook; then how the fuck does he have a DD214???
I hope the end of the story is that AverageNCO smoke checked this turd and called him on his lies – or at a minimum, pounded him into oblivion?
This dude shouldn’t be walking after an encounter like that.
I don’t think that I would sign up for anything in the military and do it for 20 years knowing that my retirement would equal $0/month.
Sweet Jesus WTF Christ, what would be really nice is if the FeeBee’s had just enough time to interview these jack asses and ask them why they are violating basic OPSEC and their space shuttle door gunner Non-Disclosure agreements. Then threaten them with serious time for their violations. I bet that this type of ass hattery would stop overnight.
I have came across a couple of individuals just like Mr Fine above, and when they start spewing their lies, I stop them, wish them a good day, and then just walk away. These stupid asses just are not worth raising my blood pressure over.
Yeah I was in the Ballduster Mcsoulpatch Stolen Valor tourney this year. I had pictures of me posing with a SEAL trident, recon ballcap and 30 medals, Unfortunately Spankarella mistook my records for a cheese Quesedilla and ate them,
How many guys do you have to kill to get a stripe? Is there a set number? Does it increase as you move up?
“Well you’ve been non-recc’d for promotion this time around as you didn’t kill ANYONE for the entire month of December.”
This makes what, three or four today?
Were do these turds keep coming from?!?
The poor CIA. They get blamed for everything.
@11: wiping spit off my screen. Thx!
Tourney is going to have to go to quarterly at this rate.
@11 HOLY Flying F*uck Just An Old Dog
Do you know how painful it is to pass an entire cheese sandwich through my nose. Sister Annunciado thought is was a miracle, y’know?
http://www.silverdisc.com/images/80/801291102721.jpg
I’m on the road, so I will post more later……but to cap it off, after 14 years in the Army he couldn’t remember the numbers/letters for his MOS….but he was a “sharpshooter”. Yep, that was his MOS, sharpshooter.
@16.
I ran into a turd like this at a WWP alumni convention years past.
When I brought him up the leadership, they blew me off.
One in particular, J.R., attempts to pass himself off as a Marine combat vet.
Weak.
That organization is full of them.
@6–I’ve suggested we have a “minors” tournament like the NCAA does with the NIT–teams that have a pretty decent record, but aren’t big enough or have enough “quality” wins to justify a bid to the big dance.
This guy would definitely fall into the big dance category.
@16: You have got to be f-ing kidding me!
Please tell me you administered a throat punch to this fucknut?
His career closely parallels mine. I too did the impossible, however I can shoot a rifle while piloting a parachute. I was required to kill prior to each promotion. A kitten, duckling, and gold fish were all sacrificed in order for me to be a Command Master Chief.
@20: Who do you think you’re kidding; you couldn’t even hack Space Shuttle Door Gunner school!
That should be @21
@4,I think it has more to do with the age of the liar. Some of them actually think about that (unlike Nikko the dolphin riding SEAL who claims service in Nam when he was 9). Here in 2013, unless you are old as dirt, you really can’t claim anything before Panama or Desert Storm (or Beirut at a stretch). Nam ended in 73, so they have to be 58y/o minimum to claim that now, but figure at least 65 to be a legit vet of Nam. I think others just wind the clock back 20 years.
No wonder he went CIA; he’s sporting a MACV-SOG lapel pin. Seems legit, guys.
I wonder what trash bin he fished that DD 2(14) out of? think he had a relative actually serve and he just pocketed all of their stuff and made a story to go along with it?
It cracks me up how the hard core ranger wannabe types always look like grocery store clerks who have never even seen a day of hard labor let alone combat. this type of life ages you quick.
@12. Well, Johnson “only” killed 2200 and retired an E7, so do the math.
@21. That’s where our services differ, MCPO. In the Army, we had a strict vertabrates policy. Invertabrates weren’t recognized for promotion purposes.
@20 Master Chief: were they merely sacrificed, or did you have to eat them?
This turd looks very famililar. Where did you meet him at?
Looks like some dude that would work at CIF handing out gear or Range Control handing out paddles and zero targets
For all the crap some of these asswipes come out with, I have to try this in a bar:
So there I was Chief of Maintenance on an Air Force submarine. Had to fix the front screen door while we under water. Suddenly all hell broke loose. One of the torpedos fell from it’s mounting and came through the door and I deflected it by kicking it off to the side of the sub. Saved over a thousand guys. Got promoted to EO7 before I even left the ship.
//sarc//
I couldn’t find him on Facebook else I would do a tribute page for him like our old buddy Nikko
@26 I’m nearly certain the DD214 belongs to his late father. Mary at POW Network has filed FOIA on his dad so we can compare. @30 I met him at an event in Atlanta, but he’s from Chattanooga. @33 We’ve been trying to get him to admit to BS’ing everyone, but he is stuck on stupid. When I told him he was going to be famous, he deleted his Facebook.
“He stated he has multiple medical problems due to Gulf War Syndrome, but can’t get VA benefits because his records were destroyed”
His medical problems most likely stem from going through life with no spine and no fucking heart. And to even talk about VA benefits while so many legit vets are having trouble getting what they rate makes me sick.
I hope this shit nozzle dies of cancer.
Door gunner on the space shuttle is SO 20th century.
I was the photon torpedoer on the STFU Stargazer back when all of you nimrods were twinkles in someone’s eyes. You couldn’t hold a candle to my lean, mean, torpedoing skills.
And neither could this SpecOps squirrel shooter.
Spanky Spankerella has nothing on me, either. Cheese quesadilla, indeed! My records are so secret I shipped them off to some dude in WV to keep them out of daylight so they won’t fade. I might need them again.
Weak sauce, all of you.
Ex-PH2, where can I get training as a photon torpedoer?
Probably lifted the 214 from his father.
This dude’s dad should have showered when he took his manhood from mama Fine’s butt before entering her vaginally…it’s clear that sh1t mixed into this turd’s DNA in a deeply disturbing genealogical stew creating the terribly weak sauce that is man’s double helix….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38895809@N06/3654899357/in/photostream/
@40 Kind of looks like the same guy.
The BS just keeps getting better and better.
I am waiting to hear some younger Stolen Valorist talk about being a part of the super secret TF141 and the hunt for the elusive Russian Ultra-nationalist Imran Zakhaev.
I am glad I spent my time as a Comm Troop. No one ever goes to military conventions and says they are a Comm Troop.
Also, have any of you ever seen the amount of books written about special ops types, especially romances. All I can say is WOW! You guys got it going on and you must be damn tired.
Can’t find his facebook but did find his wife’s.
https://www.facebook.com/lori.fine.79
Multiple pics of him on there.
Oh, my! This is interesting! This is in her FB photo album, also:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200861682083300&set=pb.1201822894.-2207520000.1424377263.&type=3&theater
Another poser? I’ll let you Army types pick apart his bling, but to my untrained Air Force eye, it looks pretty suspicious.
And Lori sure does love the plus-size beauty pageant stuff!
nvm–I see y’all have already taken care of him. LOL!
@37 Retired Master, you apply to the STFU Academy, and don’t ever tell them you’re 52 cards short of a full deck.
HFC Look at this shiatstain.
Mouthbreather.
Maddie, it isn’t all romance. Sometimes, it’s just delivering kittens on a tugboat in the middle of a thunderstorm.
I could tell you my super secret stories, but they were classified BBR – Burn Before Reading.
AW HELLS NAW!!!!!!!!