Force Recon is in the hiz-ouse!

[Ooh-Rah]

Okay I cannot take it anymore! Sitting in my local cigar shop trying to get some work done and enjoy a very fine stick. There is this guy sitting a few feet away from me regaling a small group of guys with his animated "war stories" while he was a "Force Recon Marine" in the "sandbox".

So far it just sounds like he's just telling bootcamp stories. This guy may have been a Marine, but there is NO WAY he was SOF...no fucking way.

I swear to god if I hear him say something about "black operations" I'll engage in conversation for the entertainment value alone, but for those of you are are/were SOF, I can only imagine how crazy it must drive you when you run into these guys.

If I hear the phrase "Well what we'd do as a Force Recon Marine about that..." one more time in the next hour...

 

[Chopstick]

Pics?

 

[8654Maine]

First rule of fight club...

 

[Marine0311]

Put him in the camel clutch and humble him as The Iron Shiek would.

 

[Salt USMC]

Ask him what color the boat house at Hereford is

 

[x SF med]

Ask him about the "final mile"....

 

[Muppet]

I think pics when you place him in the camel clutch while asking him about the boat house and the final mile would be awesome.

F.M.

 

[pardus]

I remember in a bar one night, some douche was in there wearing a shirt with MARINES in huge letters on his chest.
He was bragging to everyone about what a badass sniper he was.

I just happened to be drinking with a Marine sniper, a Force Recon dude, a SOT-A guy and IIRC a SEAL. Douche was invited over and very innocently asked by myself about his service, douche starts talking... Then I say "Thats awesome, you're a real badass, let me introduce you to my friends..."

Douche looks like he's seen a ghost, starts stammering and leaves the bar very quickly

 

[Muppet]

I remember in a bar one night, some douche was in there wearing a shirt with MARINES in huge letters on his chest.
He was bragging to everyone about what a badass sniper he was.

I just happened to be drinking with a Marine sniper, a Force Recon dude, a SOT-A guy and IIRC a SEAL. Douche was invited over and very innocently asked by myself about his service, douche starts talking... Then I say "Thats awesome, you're a real badass, let me introduce you to my friends..."

Douche looks like he's seen a ghost, starts stammering and leaves the bar very quickly

That is awesome. Fucking posers.

F.M.

 

[Etype]

Just grab him by the shoulder and tell him you're part of an exercise and need his help, and that he should understand...

Then start making up crazy stuff and see what you can get him to do.

 

[racing_kitty]

I remember in a bar one night, some douche was in there wearing a shirt with MARINES in huge letters on his chest.
He was bragging to everyone about what a badass sniper he was.

I just happened to be drinking with a Marine sniper, a Force Recon dude, a SOT-A guy and IIRC a SEAL. Douche was invited over and very innocently asked by myself about his service, douche starts talking... Then I say "Thats awesome, you're a real badass, let me introduce you to my friends..."

Douche looks like he's seen a ghost, starts stammering and leaves the bar very quickly

This is funny. I love it when posers get outed. It's like the one E-5 who was reclassing the 89B (ammo specialist, aka bullet counter) at the same time I was going through EOD Phase I at Redstone Arsenal. He was rocking an unearned dive bubble and senior crab. While that took some serious brass balls to do, it's obvious that the reason he had the testicular fortitude to do it was because there was NO BRAIN AT ALL to divert the blood flow from his minuscule genitalia. Oddly enough, it took him getting caught in bed with an IET private before he got in trouble for it. UGH!!!!

 

[Hillclimb]

Douche was invited over and very innocently asked by myself about his service, douche starts talking... Then I say "Thats awesome, you're a real badass, let me introduce you to my friends..."

Perfect execution. Well played.

 

[AWP]

When I meet someone and they aren't with someone I already know or are somehow vouched for, I just assume they are full of crap. The more they talk about it to strangers, the more full of crap they are. Someone who's legit doesn't bukkake unknown persons with tales of badassery.

 

[Etype]

When I meet someone and they aren't with someone I already know or are somehow vouched for, I just assume they are full of crap. The more they talk about it to strangers, the more full of crap they are. Someone who's legit doesn't bukkake unknown persons with tales of badassery.

The way I look at it, the average person could never really understand or respect the merits of X, Y, or Z- so it's better to not get into it.

 

[Marine0311]

The way I look at it, the average person could never really understand or respect the merits of X, Y, or Z- so it's better to not get into it.

I like outing posers.

 

[TLDR20]

Here is how a normal convo goes with me.
Me: "I was in the Military."
Them: "What branch?"
Me:"Army"
Them:"what did you do?"
Me: "Medic".

Then depending on who I am with/who I am talking to either my wife will be like "he was a green beret....."

Or if they are a vet they will ask me unit, I say seventh group and that is normally it.

 

[amlove21]

I love saying, "Air Force" after my standard answers of "I am in the military" or "Government work" to the questions of "What do you do?"

The unwavering reactions I get (Air Force, hahaha, AF sucks, you're not really in the military, etc) are always waaaaaaayyyyy funnier to the people with me, mainly because I usually totally agree with their bashing and badassness for as long as I possibly can.

It's always great.

 

[0699]

Here is how a normal convo goes with me.
Me: "I was in the Military."
Them: "What branch?"
Me:"Army"
Them:"what did you do?"
Me: "Medic".

Then depending on who I am with/who I am talking to either my wife will be like "he was a green beret....."

Or if they are a vet they will ask me unit, I say seventh group and that is normally it.

Glad to see I'm not the only geting my "discreetness" undermined by the wife...

 

[Muppet]

I usually say I was President Lyndon Johnson's body guard until they realize I am not old enough. Then I say I was a space ship gunner and they give that black stare. Or, my friends on facebook refer to me as an Airborne Ranger cause they don't know that the 2 are not always together. I try to educate them but comes over deaf or retarded ears.

F.M.

 

[AWP]

I can't wait for my first run-in with someone on the UBL raid.