Conor Climo; Almost a thing
This video came up on social media the other night and everyone lost their minds over this dude;
This Conor Climo fellow went on neighborhood watch with his AR and his very limited military experience – in his words “very briefly” – and hundreds of rounds of 5.56mm ammo.
Well, in his favor he came out and apologized in this video;
He admits that he was an entry-level discharge for being a physical fitness failure – I don’t know how that even happens, how someone that young and thin can’t pass a PT test.
But, anyway, before my inbox starts filling up here he is.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Open carry just means the bad guys know who to shoot first. The folks with the CCWs carrying are almost never victims.
And in the burbs? Really?
Crazy thing is Arizona you don’t need a CCW to carry concealed like you do in a lot of states
Crazy thing? What the hell is crazy about it? Any slimey ass holes that want to start something here are going to be damned surprised with 25 people are suddenly pointing guns at them….AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN TO THEM…..
Exactly desert… that’s my point it’s taken Nevada a little bit to come around with common sense gun laws.. a few years ago you had to register hand guns in Clark county and some of the the city’s had laws that where at best archaic. you allow people to defend themselves and the bad morons figure out really quick to behave
I took crazy to mean there is no reason to open carry since you don’t need a permit to concealed carry.
Maine also is like that. No permits required for concealed carry OR open carry. No permits at all for anything except fishing and hunting. 🙂
In fact, here in Maine, the ONLY time you are required to fill out any forms is if you buy from an FFL holder. Most folks I know buy and sell from private folks with cash transactions so there’s no paperwork, background checks, and the gubbmint doesn’t know who has what.
I like it that way.
???
It’s the way it should be
He’s in Las Vegas, NV.
Someone PLEASE go straighten him out and point him in the right direction before he gets himself killed.
Being a former resident of the place, every tug in the valley maybe gunning for him.
Could never understand why anyone would carry open there. Between the police and the trash
You are setting up ones self for a bad day
He needs to try to enlist again…maybe he can pass this time and actually LEARN SOMETHING!
I’ve heard of 2 or 3 instances of open carriers being targeted.
If you know of more, please cite.
That said, this guy is the poster-child for “Doing It Fuggin’ Wrong”, and I have no intention of defending him.
It always comes back to simple little phrase to remember. “Just because the says you CAN carry your AR-15 openly, it doesn’t mean you SHOULD!”
Please insert the word “law” after “Just because the” in the last post. Coffee hasn’t soaked in yet.
AT least he showed up for basic. That’s more than most of generation snowflake will ever do. And he served longer than turd with a face John Giduck.
‘couldn’t pass PT’ – probably no stamina. May be too skinny, lacking muscle mass required to carry heavy loads, or couldn’t keep up with the other guys.
Frankly, the if you look at the videos and still shots of guys in the bush in Vietnam, they’re all that skinny.
I guess times have just changed.
I weighed 195 in Germany and a bit more when I landed in Nam after two weeks of home leave. I weighed 160 a year later at DEROS. Very little time in the bush and lots of good Navy chow. I think it was the climate. Hot and sticky one day, sticky and hot the next.
Similar for me, Beans; I was a staff weinie (Bn CBR NCO) in an airborne infantry battalion stateside and went to Vietnam as a replacement. The bn CO there decided he needed me more in a line company than on his HQ staff and sent me down to Bravo, 2d 327th.
I weighed 191 pounds when I left the states and when I finally got my real job at battalion a few months later, I was down to around 150 pounds. Most of that I lost in the first month as I sweated and humped off all those NCO Club Cheeseburgers and fries accompanied by shots and drafts.
Never was in Vietnam, but spent a lot of time in the Philippines. I still remember the first time I landed at Cubi Point and they opened the main cabin door. It was like a wall of heat just slammed into you. It was the only place I have ever been where you felt yourself slow down. If you didn’t you’d get heat stroke for sure. I can’t imagine being some boonie rat having to live in the jungle.
Having said that, my brother was an artilleryman with the 1/92nd from 1969-1970. He eventually ended up on a place called Firebase 6 (near Dak To?), west of Pleiku near the Cambodian border. He told me that they froze their asses off in the mountains and they couldn’t convince the Army to issue them field jackets. Guess the supply types couldn’t believe that you could freeze in a place like Vietnam.
That reminds me of a time in the PI when the temp went down to about 70. Believe it or not, people were walking around dressed for WINTER. Guess it’s all relative.
If he was anywhere in the highlands, yes, he would have been freezing. You either boiled or you froze up there.
I remember making a run down to Miami during my days as a Trucker when the temp dove down in the fifties and the people there were dressed like Midwesterners do for near zero temps!
Okay, I weighed 126 when I went off to Bainbridge RTC (W). We were not allowed to get into vehicles, period, so we marched everywhere, as a company or in pairs. After 10 weeks, I had dropped to 116. That was just from marching. I don’t know how many miles a day we did that, but walking is perfect exercise, even better when you’re carrying a load evenly distributed.
I went in the Navy when I turned 17, I had been working on a thorobred horse ranch, tossing 175 lb bales of alfalfa etc around and in top shape, weighed 154 lbs….went into boot camp, and came out 118 lbs! 😉 they ran the crap out of me lol……
I went to language school with a guy who grew up on a farm in North Dakota.
He told me that he LOVED boot camp: got to sleep in and didn’t have to milk the cows before breakfast!
Climate could be a factor. I just never saw photos of hefty muscle-bound guys over there, and still don’t when I look at those in-country souvenir shots everyone took. I see skinny guys, some barely out of their teens, some well past the age of 21, and only a VERY few hefty guys.
Those muscle-bound guys seem to be a product of The Age of Rambo. Back in the days of the draft there were very few, even in CONUS or Europe. Or the civilian world, for that matter.
There were a fair number of just hefty guys around then. You won’t see them in those photos though. They didn’t last long in the field. Like Charlie Sheen in the movie “Platoon”, the heat got them fairly quickly. And (sorry, Rambo fans) bulging biceps and pecs are just more unnecessary weight for the legs to carry.
Thanks for the heads up on that, Timactual. I did wonder about that, because big muscle mass adds more weight and bulk than is necessary in an environment like the jungle.
Bigger guys = bigger target.
Exactly.
When I started basic I was a fattyboy. Another guy in our platoon was as skinny as skinny can get. 8 weeks later I was down to 160 and he was up to about 150.I lost fat and he put on muscle.
PH.. while with HQ 4/2 in Germany we had a bunch joes in our RSS troop about 12 of them that came to us over weight and all PT failures
Thanks, Skippy. I guess those guys didn’t take any photos of themselves.
6’0″,155 lbs in Nam. Skinny. Rectified by regular sex. Got married (still married) immediately after getting back home. Went to 170 lbs in 9 months. Ahhh, the good memories.
Ex-PH2: here’s a link to my pictures (whole bunch so takes a minute to load). Skip forward to the China Beach pictures. There’s a group photo of Alpha Co in which you can judge for yourself whether we were all skinny or a mixed bag of skinny/beefy.
http://www.1streconbnassociation.org/Grimm/Grimm%20Nam%20Slide%20Show.pdf
Doc Grimm- Great pictures. Glad you made it back. Thanks for sharing.
20 yr. No-cbt vet. USA INF/SF. My son’s Wife’s Dad was Navy medic with combat marines in VN. Went on to 40 yr RN career. Great individual, good dessert baker!
6’0″,155 lbs in Nam. Skinny. Rectified by regular sex. Got married (still married) immediately after getting back home. Went to 170 lbs in 9 months. Ahhh, the good memories.
Ex-PH2: here’s a link to my pictures (whole bunch so takes a minute to load). Skip forward to the China Beach pictures. There’s a group photo of Alpha Co in which you can judge for yourself whether we were all skinny or a mixed bag of skinny/beefy.
http://www.1streconbnassociation.org/Grimm/Grimm%20Nam%20Slide%20Show.pdf
(If double post, my apologies, but IE was saying it stopped so not sure my first post went through)
Awwww, you’re cute!
I only see a couple of ‘beefy’guys. The rest of you look like the skinny guys I saw a lot of back then. May have something to do with time and distance, but these guys just seem somewhat beefier.
http://www.marines.com/photos/-/photo-library/detail/browse/1976838
Very nice photo collection. You (or I) don’t see many shots from the war, except the standard few seen everywhere.
…For some reason, every time I saw you with the glasses I started thinking “Lt. Ring” for some reason… 🙂
It happens (APFT discharge). We just had an APFT last week and a kid in my platoon scored zero pushups. A kid in another platoon cannot do sit-ups without someone holding his feet, and another kid in that platoon got a 57…for all three events. “But Drill Sergeant…”
Back during RVN , when you took your physical and got the x-ray –if your bones showed up on the x-ray , you passed . The Drill Sgts were responsible for turning out the finished product , and did a damn good job . Met one of my DIs in Viet Nam , on my second trip , took him to the VNAF Officers Club in Bien Hoa , and bought him all the adult beverages that he could hold .
In 1999-2000 I was on the trail and we regularly had kids come in that could not do any push ups or sit ups when they arrived at our unit. Often we would see that they had been in the reception for about five weeks “training” to meet the minimum requirements.
One that sticks in my mind was a kid who had five tests before passing: test 1 – PU 0, SU 0, 1 mile Run timed out. Test 2 – PU 0, SU 1, Run timed out. Test 3 PU 1, SU 1, Run 21:30. Test 4 PU0, SU 3, Run 21:01, Test five PU 10, SU 15, 1 mile Run 18:40.
Now he was our problem even though he could only do 1 PU, 1 SU, and timed out of the run.
From what I see on my ambulance, I’m not seeing much change.
A true embodiment of the saying:
If at first you don’t succeed, keep sucking until you get a seed.
Holden
While I was attached to a recutting station we had a low speed that was thrown out of reception for No-Go on PT. I didn’t even think it was possible
You can pretty much walk a mile in 19min. That is some kind of feat right there.
The record for a mile walking is 7:22 min, but that’s racewalking.
I bet he will feel really bad when the sons of alah pick his hood (AO) to attack some early morning and he is not there to sound the alarm. Anyone want to bet it isn’t going to happen?
Doesn’t the military publish the minimum requirements online now? If so, can’t he work up to that and try again? Obviously, he wants to do something important, but in a drawdown he won’t stand much of a chance. He’s more likely to get himself badly hurt or killed by doing something well-intentioned but rather foolish.
Clown.
1) He is not a Valor thief
2) He did nothing illegal so far as I can tell
3) What he did was unwise, if not stupid, and it caused his neighbors great discomfort. So, he did what? He stopped his one-man patrol and made a video in which he point-blank stated why his military service was “very brief” and took it on the chin.
A phrase I recall that some of my Drill Sergeants used was:
“Too thin to win and too light to fight.”
But Audie Murphy was 5’5″ and 110 lbs. so go figure.
Many a certified badass is smaller than the average male. As for weight, some of the strongest guys I tangled with in my much younger years had the long muscles going. Didn’t look like much but packed strength.
Just think “Audie Murphy.”
A BCT ELS for APFT failure these days? he must have been extra-shitty. Thus I ass-u-me his “Neighborhood Patrol” is a side effect of his Tiny Penis Syndrome.
There’s a video out there about a year old of him getting his ass beat for claiming to be in the Army when he was actually dropped after a couple months. Looks like he learned his lesson and hasn’t made any other claims to that point.
The kid was open, upfront, and honest about the length and nature of his service.
Admirable.
He also seems to have a deep desire to serve his country and community.
Also admirable.
He just has very poor judgement and it going about serving his community in a way that really freaks people out. I would be uncomfortable if a guy was walking around a suburban street with a AR-15 and LBV for no apparent reason.
Unfuckeenbelievable!!!!!!!! For ONCE in my life I am in agreement with Comrade Poodle Dik. Has the rapture already begun?
Take it easy, Jarhead. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Everyone is getting caught up in his size or lack thereof but I wonder if his mental limitations had something to do with his discharge? I doubt he would have shared that with the media all the while standing there loaded to the gills with ammo and his bushmaster not to mention his “handy, dandy knife.” He probably had a combination of mental and physical issues that got him discharged, but as someone earlier said, at least he tried to serve. More than what some others do. His heart was in the right place, but he is just a bit misguided.
His heart is definitely in the right place but I think there may be a short in his headset.
I didn’t do any prior training before basic training. I was somewhat of a pot head that like to mountain bike a lot. I never did any physical fitness in the DEP program. When I got to basic I barely was able to the 13 push ups to get past reception. I could do the sit ups and the run easily. I failed my first two PT test and passed the third one. I always failed the push ups. I was real skinny so my run time was around 13 minutes for 2 miles. I never got one blister on my foot after the 20 mile road march. This guy must have been a real couch potato.
I doubt it. He seems to have a few developmental issues.
People with mental developmental issues usually also perform poorly in athletic activities and have poor physiological endurance. The correlation between having mental developmental issues and also having physiological developmental issues is pretty high.
Just to be clear; his possible physiological developmental issues would not necessarily preclude him from entering service and going to basic but they may end up resulting in limits to his physical capabilities just like he has limits to his mental capabilities.
Not being able to do enough push-ups to meet army retention standards is not exactly a medical condition but it is not always due to poor fitness or lack of physical activity. Just like someone not being able to do well on a math test is not necessarily due to them not practicing enough math prior to the test.
People have limits. Both physical and mental.
Despite the special snowflake rhetoric not everyone is capable of being anything they want to be.
I was pretty weak and scrawny when I went in: 6’0″ and 135lbs when I started Infantry OSUT in August of 1980. After 3 months at the Fort Benning School for Wayward Boys (Harmony Church chapter) I was 6’1″ and 165, and it wasn’t fat that I added.
I stayed skinny until my 2 year tour in Germany. Good beer and good food will do that. 😉
When we first started we had the old 5-event PT test. IIRC that was pushups, the run, dodge and jump (remember that one?), the “inverted crawl” (AKA crab walk), horizontal ladder and the 2 mile run. It was an ass-kicker. Mid way through our cycle (I’m guessing with the start of the 1981 Fiscal Year in October of 1980) they switched it to the 3 event test (Pushups, situps, 2 mile run) that lasted through the rest of my career.