Military fraud shopping at the mall
Bobo sends us a link to ABC13 in Houston, Texas, Mike McManus‘ old stomping grounds, where someone thought it would be cool to walk around the Galleria in his blues, until a couple of actual soldiers approached him. When he refused to show them any military identification, they contacted mall security who escorted him from the building;
“So I went up to him and I was like, excuse me sir thank you for your service, Private First Class Kevin Barry said. “And like immediately he said, oh thanks bro. And I didn’t think someone in the military for that long would say bro to me.”
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
JACK ASS !!!!!!!
Well, you know if he said “oh thanks bro” to the young PFC, it had to be PV9 Gainey.
He calls everybody bro regardless of age.
Dalton Coldiron (aka: Dickless Cockholster) the gayboy rump riding rodeo star like calling everyone here “bro” or “brah”… cause he’s a real deal rump riding ranger.
Nah, I don’t think it could have been little *Fe-Fe Forker* Coldiron. He can’t even scrape enough pocket change together to buy a pre-stamped envelope to mail his updated DD214 to Jonn.
This was probably some upscale affluent poser who had enough money to buy a General Officer’s (Thanks 04-E) set of ASU’s with all the associated bling bling in hopes of scoring a free Slushie from the Chic-Fil-A at the mall.
So THAT’S where “Brother” AWOL/Deserter PV9 Gainey went. Probably to a Pet Store to buy more Crickets for the upcoming Cricket Cup Tournament. He probably said to the Mall Security “Ask me if I have my Military Bearing.” And in the meantime, Killam is still with the VA Doctor going over his wounds for those two Purple Hearts.
He’s wearing General Officer dress blues also. Going big on stolen valor. Everyone knows Generals hang out at the mall in full dress sipping a fountain drink.
One time in Dulles Airport I walked up behind another airborne trooper wearing his dress greens and slapped him on the soldier and asked, “Hey, Troop, got a light?” I damn near crapped my pants when a brigadier general spun around. He very graciously whipped out his Zippo and lighted my Camel. We parted with “Airborne, Sir!” and “Airborne, sergeant!”
I did something similar. I was on the burnerfront on the USS Saratoga when a Lieutenant brought a herd of reporters down the ladder giving them the fifty cent tour. I leaned against the other boiler & pulled out a Camel nofilter when one of the group (big guy military haircut wearing civvies)whips out a Zippo & lights my smoke. I said,”thanks Bud” when I noticed he had a gold plated nametag that said “RADM Something”. He started looking at me real close when I realized I had to make an adjustment on the steam-driven FOSP around the corner.
I became a cop in Honolulu after I retired from the USN.
I was on FTO and one day I stopped this old beat up jalopy that had an expired safety inspection.
Imagine my surprise when I walked up to the driver and it turned out to be a retired 4 star Admiral!
I was sorely tempted, but he had a great excuse, so I let him go. “We shipmates need to stick together!”
Oh, come now! I was crossing the street downtown. The guy wearing summer whites and an officer’s cover with serious scrambled eggs on the bill was crossing from the opposite direction. I flipped a serious salute at him and he returned it, grinning and laughing, stopped in the middle of the crossing to ask me why I saluted him. I replied, ‘Bad habit, sir.’ But that was 25 years ago before SV was an issue.
On the other hand, now the offbase undress uniform is peanut butters and that godawful spetznaz cap, so I think you can tell who is who and what is what if you give it a shot.
I was at the AFLC Command Headquarters building at Wright-Patterson and got incredibly lost. Finally I decided to ask the next person I saw for directions. There he was, wearing the light blue shirt without epaulets with officer rank on the collar that was the summer uniform of the day. His back was toward me but I figured him to be about a LT or Capt (based on his hair) who probably wouldn’t tear a SSgt up too much for asking for directions. I said excuse me and found out I was half right; he was a Lt Gen. He gave me a look that told me I had just screwed the pooch. After he insisted I tell him what I wanted he started laughing, pointed me in the right direction, and told me not to worry about it.
It’s a good thing that they distorted his face, otherwise he may have been compromised on his next classified mission.
Priceless…
Dumbass shoulda known Halloween is in October!
BHWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ! ! ,
WORD ^^^^^^^
And just who IS this “masked lone ranger”?
And does he hand out silver bullets?
Inquiring minds, etc.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but does he have two yellow stripes on his trousers? You know……like a General Officer would have?
Can’t resist this story: While in VN as an MP I was assigned to escort some POWs to the ARVH detachment in Bien Hoa. I asked an 0-3 who as an advisor to the ARVNs if he’d care to join us on the trip.
During the trip I asked the 0-3 if he knew a certain Captain X (who was in our battalion). He said he did. I then asked the 0-3 if I could ask him a personal question, “yes” he said.
I asked the 0-3 if he knew that Captain X, was despised by every G.I. in the battalion. I then said, “he’s such a jerk, he must have attended West Point. Did he?”
The 0-3 paused for a moment, then looked at me and said, “no, but I did.” At this point the pucker factor went to 10.
Fortunately for this 19 years old trooper, the 0-3 was a great guy and took it all in stride.
I ran across this 0-3 sometime later in another part of Vietnam. He remembered me and the incident.
We parted with a laugh, and a salute.
Notice that the soldiers in question handled the situation correctly, unlike the assclowns over at Popular Military. No in the face, no threats, just go get security who escorted him out. We’ll done.
Well. Damned autocorrect.
Bro – short for “Broke it off in my ass……..”
So it’s a really good idea to put on dress blues and go walk around in the mall, not. You could get your ass kick by someone who currently serving or has served. On the other hand you could be targeted by some terrorist who like to kill the infidel in uniform.
What a dumbass.