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Rob Leahy — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 22:24:57 +0000

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This Whole Thread reminds Me... (reply)

Drago — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:20:38 +0000

of a time many years ago when a couple of co-workers were discussing their time in the 25th Infantry. They looked at me as if to say, "You can join in." I said in my best accent, " I vaz in zee Afrika Korps myzelf."

I had a math teacher who told us how "math saved my life". (reply)

cas — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 02:51:01 +0000

Because of his math skills he spent his year in the rear plotting artillery, rather than out in the bush where it was landing.

I know a local fellow here who is very proud..... (reply)

Otony — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 01:05:19 +0000

,.......of the fact that he was a cook on a Navy ship in Vietnam. He fed sailors and was in the Nam. Not a hero. A cook.

Ya gotta have cooks too......

Otony

Oh Lord, that's just stupid. (reply)

mcassill — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:43:08 +0000

Far from the only one who's done that, unfortunately. Some years ago the Army had a rash of officers - people who really ought to know better - throwing on extra ribbons for their official portraits. Of course, the promotion boards had before them the documentation for what each one had actually earned. Uncle ended up making an example out of some to slow down that kind of garbage.

It did happen but less often successfully because of better (reply)

Hobie — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:13:45 +0000

record keeping AND a greater desire to keep kids out of the service.

I had a guy who made such claims who spent his 12 months (reply)

Hobie — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:12:03 +0000

baking bread. How he thought that his personnel NCO wasn't going to get his actual record is beyond me.

And usually with those BS artists... (reply)

mcassill — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 22:22:06 +0000

If you do enough digging you find the real story is that they never served at all.

yep, still have mine....needed it recently when getting (reply)

cable — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 21:45:09 +0000

application for suppressor approved

not unless he volunteered and lied about his age. (reply)

cable — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 21:43:09 +0000

folks did that in WWII but doubt it happened much in the vietnam war.

Waaay OT: Vietnam vet question (reply)

Bob Hatfield — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 20:47:47 +0000

Well the last battle of the VN war was the battle of Koh Tang in 1975. Three Marines were left on the island and the Khymer Rouge executed them. So I doubt being born in 1957 you would have been there. 1955 maybe. Seems like there were some born in 1955 were there for a little while but I'll bet not in any combat role for sure.

Bob

And those clowns never claim they were supply clerks... (reply)

mcassill — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 20:44:17 +0000

or whatnot. I usually run into the ones covered in Force Recon regalia with wild stories of guarding the CIA dope farms in Cambodia or some such nonsense. Had one coworker a few years ago spinning yarns of having been a Force Recon sniper, and claimed the Marine Corps gave him his sniper rifle when he got out. Yeah, right. The next few months dealing with him confirmed my initial impression that he was a POS.
Old age seems to be making me less tolerant of such antics. Go figure.

I should add that... (reply)

Hobie — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:10:21 +0000

Possibility does not equal probability and...

I was in Korea in April 1975 and had been in service since June 1973.

Thanks fellas. (reply)

Hoot — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:17:42 +0000

My BS alarms were ringing but I let it slide.

I was born in '56 and had a draft number but was never called.

I was born in January 1957 (reply)

Frank S — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 10:10:34 +0000

And Joined the Navy in 1975...enlisted.....I am not a Vietnam vet! It would not have been possible.

Born Aug.1950 was RA 12B30 71 to 73 no newtroops or military (reply)

ERSisk — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 06:41:46 +0000

support after 1973 if memory serves. Any thing is possible but assuming enlistment Jan 1975 8wks basic +8wks AIT gets him to May, Fall of Saigon was April 30 but war for US army was officially over months before that. Navy was still offshore in South China sea.

ask to see his dd214. He'll have multiple copies (reply)

Rob Leahy — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 03:57:08 +0000

they are needed for ANY VA related activity; medical, dental school, home loans...
Send an Email to veriseal.org. Sounds like a stolen valor case...

There are numerous instances of "under age" troops in VN (reply)

cas — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 03:37:47 +0000

...but Id say its pretty unlikely.

Dan Bullock was the youngest US soldier killed at 15. Two days before I was born.

U.S. involvement ended 1975 (reply)

bj — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 03:26:58 +0000

per Wikipedia.

So someone born in 1958 would have been 17 years old, too old for the draft and probably too old to have enlisted. Someone born in January 1957 could have enlisted on their 18th birthday and served a few months.

no! Same age as me. I never even had a draft card. They (reply)

stonewalrus — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 03:20:42 +0000

Stopped the draft right before I turned 18 and started registration back up when I was 26.