Know someone claiming to be a NAVY SEAL?

glen

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I have no reason to think my buddy is lying, but I submited the claim to have it verified.
 

Russ

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Is PCResources listed there? Should be in the memorial section.

Russ, NCNE
 

AzAbyss

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No seals, but I did work with a guy for a while that said he had ninjas trying to assasinate him. Funny thing was, for some reason they failed, I think he beat them down with his broom(He was a janitor).

-Az
 

Bulk Beef

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<< Holy crap. This guy must be a joke link >>

Whoa. :Q Navy seal, maybe (doubt it). Web designer, definitely not.
 

777joee

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Yes, I knew and worked with UDT/Seals while I was in the Navy. Let me tell you we had a lot of fun while on Guam the summer of 1973.
 

AndrewR

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I knew one guy from my VMI class that was a Navy SEAL. He was killed in a "training accident" several years ago.

Fake wannabe scumbags just rile me up. :|
 

glenn1

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<< Know someone claiming to be a NAVY SEAL? >>



Personally, i don't see what the point of claiming to have been in the SEALs, or SF, or the Rangers is... essentially, you're a glorified knuckledragger/pack mule. You don't really get any extra pay (well, jump pay, but that's nothing to write home about), everyone else in the military looks at you like you're a practicing voodoo shaman or engage in some snake handling religion, and it's not like all of a sudden you become an instant chick magnet if you get your tab. Of course, we had our share of "badge seekers" too - you know, the kind of guys that would go to school to learn how to have a telephone pole shoved up their @ss, so long as they got a shiny medal out of it - but a lot of the guys on my team felt exactly the way i did a good portion of the time (especially on long deployments to some sandbox country), thinking to ourselves, "explain to me again why i thought this was a good idea and let myself get talked into this?"
 

Halogen

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oh that reminds me, im a Navy Seal:
i was transfered straight from Marines and served in team 6 for a few years. my current mission is classified but i can tell you that i was a POW once. i got a medal of honor for getting shot in the testicles. that damage made it so i can't remember the name of my commanding officer :D

look
HERE for proof
 
Feb 24, 2001
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neighbor guy behind me was one. one huge black dude, one serious bad ass. what he said is that basically anyone who says they are/were (in a macho or braggin fashion) isnt one. the last thing a seal would do is brag about it.
 

Halogen

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by men-only do you mean gay?
most magazines i buy are based on women such as Maxim and Stuff
 

ShawnReeves

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<<<< Holy crap. This guy must be a joke link >>

He has a couple nice looking pics on there though.


Looks to me like someone hacked his page and had some fun.
You just has to scroll over a ways.




 

Mookow

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<< oh that reminds me, im a Navy Seal:
i was transfered straight from Marines and served in team 6 for a few years. my current mission is classified but i can tell you that i was a POW once. i got a medal of honor for getting shot in the testicles. that damage made it so i can't remember the name of my commanding officer :D

look
HERE for proof
>>



You too?
 
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<< Richard Marcinko
The baddest of the bad!!!!
>>

what the hell is that?


<< Ass-kicking Navy SEAL, C.E.O., and graduate-level business instructor Richard Marcinko >>

uh...yeah...

edit: upon further inspection this person is apparently real (and was the creator of seal team 6). from the fan sites out there, he looks a little over the top.
 

Johnnie

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Dickie is the real deal...read some of his books...very entertaining!!
 

Lucky

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cool site. but "Also, while there have been and continue to be SECRET MISSIONS, there are not now, nor have there ever been any SECRET SEALS. " is not true. My best friends father was a "secret seal" for 4 years, around its inception and during vietnam. He kept the secret from his family, kids, etc. for 22 years. His NDA also prohibits him from recieving medical care even though he is in bad health from the effects of Vietnam. Only after a divorce and a complete mental brakedown did he disclose (some of) what he did.
 

tcsenter

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<< the last thing a seal would do is brag about it. >>

There are exceptions, Richard Marcinko and Jesse "I was a romp-um, stomp-um, Navy Seal in Vietnam" Ventura, just to name a couple. Most members of the special forces community are embarrased by these types.
 

tcsenter

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<< but "Also, while there have been and continue to be SECRET MISSIONS, there are not now, nor have there ever been any SECRET SEALS. " is not true. >>

It IS true. Every SEAL has been required to go through UDT/BUDs training since around 1950. This is why Jesse Ventura, who was a UDT operator during Vietnam, is entitled to call himself a SEAL, though he was only a member of an actual SEAL TEAM in the reserves. UDT and SEAL units were gradually merged between the mid 60's to mid 70's. The UDT/BUDs training is MANDATORY, no one gets to be a UDT or SEAL operator without it, and every graduating member of every UDT/BUDs class has been publicly disclosed military record since the 50's.

Nobody's standard military service record is "classified". Their missions may be classified, their locations or theatre of deployment remain classified only until after the objectives are accomplished, but their name, rank, MOS, commission, command/station, medals awarded, etc. are never "classified".

For instance, Green Berets operating in Afghanistan were not able to tell their family where they were. But, after they come home, they can disclose they had been operating in Afghanistan, though perhaps not certain details of what they were doing there. The families of special forces members, Green Berets, Navy SEALs, etc. know they are Special Forces operators. If they don't, then the operator himself chose not to tell his family for his own reasons, but the Army or Navy doesn't require that.

If someone went from UDT/BUDs completion to a true 'black ops' group such as those operated by the CIA during Vietnam, they're still on record as having completed UDT/BUDs, even though they weren't deployed to a SEAL team.