Brit phony soldier busted
Doubleplusundead emailed me this hilarious story of a middleaged British cadet instructor who bragged up his career on his MySpace page (Lancashire Evening Post link);
Mr McAuley, an adult instructor in the Lancashire Army Cadet Force, based at Fulwood Barracks, Preston, claimed that he had been a paratrooper at the battle of Goose Green in the Falklands War and that he was the second SAS man on the balcony of the London Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.
In fact married Mr McAuley, who lives in Chorley, used to serve in the Army Catering Corps.
Read the rest at DPUD’s house.
As DPUD said, I respect his real service, which was honorable enough until now, but that’s quite a leap to go from a cook to SAS trooper. Even before the war, I used to run into all kinds of fake heroes which makes me suspicious of many of the IVAW’s claims. All military service is honorable, don’t besmirch your own service with outlandish tales.
Did I ever tell you about the time I was a door gunner on the Space Shuttle?
Category: Phony soldiers
Door Gunner on the Space Shuttle? I thought that I was the only one that had done that in the Screamin Eagles, when the company commander took one look at me and moved me from PFC to 1st Lt, and gave me the Air Medal just for being there. Sheesh, how can a real hero keep his thing alive these days.
Thursday, I will have my annual wellness check up at the VAOPC here. I bet that I will hear at least unbelievable war story in the short time that I am there.
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Impressive. I too did a stint as door gunner, but in the Marynarka Wojenna Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (Polish Navy), aboard ORP Sokó? (294). …and a fine submarine she was.
Jonn wrote: Welcome, MSG. I hope you like the digs. This is much better than hanging out on YouTube.
As Jonn wells knows, it was in fact I who was the first and only Space Shuttle door gunner which after expending my basic load of photon rays, I jumped from 105,000 feet, flew over 55 miles and opened canopy at 3000 feet to land in the middle of Fidel Castro’s birthday party. To this day, I have the best Cuban cigars Fedex”d in each year.
And i had someone with me…it was …Morgan, yeah, Morgan Fairchild.
All of you guys are posers, yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket, posers.
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Well, there was the time when we were detailed to the Airborne Board, we rigged up in parachutes and loaded in a Huey, then they loaded the Huey in a C5A. At about 12,000 feet, they pushed the Huey out of the Galaxy and hot-started it in midair, then we flew in the chopper down to 3,000 feet and parachuted. It counted as two jumps on our logs. Well, that’s how I remember it anyway. Come to think of it, I woke up in the Flaming Mug the next morning…or was it the Rusty Nail? Hmmm. Maybe I am a poser.
Good one, the Flaming Mug is a great land mark. I woke up in Rick’s Lounge. Unfortunately Rick’s is no longer there. Actually that might be a good thing.
Missed this one too. Dang TSO.
I actually worked for NASA on the first 8 or 9 missions.
Maybe later missions had door gunners, but I never saw you.
Hmmm, well maybe?
IVAW Fulwood Barracks, Preston Chapter, coming soon!
Jonn,
[Maybe I am a poser]
Have you ever seen that Elvis Kokesh photoshoot on the Capitol Steps? Looked like he was posing for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover.