What gave this loser away?
:smack: :smack: :smack:
This putz got busted by patrons of the old CompuServe CB Chat system because he showed up at a Halloween party in CT & used his dress whites as a Halloween costume. The questions started, and the whole thing unraveled. I understand he’s up to the same thing on some ham radio board now:
http://www-catalog.cpl.org/CLENIX?S=JACOBUS+MICHAEL+J
VCNJ~
This really isn’t that new. When I was a recruiter, I met my fair share of fake Marines. If it was not a fake Marine, it seemed that everyone I talked to was a Green Beret, Navy Seal, or some other elite unit.
Every Marine (and even some non-Marines), former and current knows the first verse of the Marines Hymn, as well as our motto (Semper Fidelis). I used this to my advantage to catch them. If they said that they served in the Marine Corps, I would play stupid:
Me: “Damn, I just forgot our motto, what was it again?”
Them: Either “I can’t remember either” or “Come on, I don’t know” or they would say something that is not even close such as ‘devil dog’, ‘Esprit de Corps’, or ‘gung ho’. They were always catchable and totally see-through.
It is ashame that people feel the need to impersonate anyone, let alone step it up a notch with medals that represent heroism at it’s highest (Navy/Army Cross, MOH, etc.).
What’s especially stupid is that there are so many former military people out there that it’s so easy to make a stupid mistake and blow your cover. Why not pretend to be something that almost no one knows anything about…undersea welder, or paleontologist, or arctic explorer, or screenwriter with a couple of scripts in development with Miramax.
They should be sentenced to wear USMC Service Uniforms; but tailored out of bright yellow and pink instead of khaki and green.
I once had a great time at a party-by pretending to be a lawyer 9my speciality-extraterrestrial law!). I played it pretty well-even got an invite to speak (at a local HS)! 
As an arctic exploring undersea paleontologist with several welding scripts in development, I’m offended!
During my military career I did nothing special. I was just a door-gunner.
On the Space Shuttle.
I can’t really talk about it.
Maybe even a marine biologist. But then someone will ask you to rescue a stranded dolphin . . .
Jesus. I’m a Canadian who’s never served in any military, and I could bark out “Semper Fi!” if I needed to. That’s pretty pathetic, if they couldn’t even do any research on their fantasy life.
The sea was angry that day, my friend…
Or even better than pulling something out of the blue is pretending to have your actual job, just at a much higher and fancier level than you do in reality.
I’m a vendor software tester in real life. But my pretend career?
I guess I’ll tell people that I started my own company, and my company provides specialized services to Microsoft that their internal hiring processes aren’t able to fill. We’re more nimble, y’see. Tools, automation, development. Yes, it’s a grueling schedule, all those meetings and design reviews and inventing the future and whatnot. I’m thinking of selling my company and cutting back and enjoying life, but I’m still looking for the right woman to share that with…
I see so many cars with bumper and window stickers with Semper Fi and US Marines on them that I just can’t imagine anyone not knowing it. There’s two on my block, even.
And isn’t the Marine Hymm the “From the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli” song?
This is why I’m not in ROTC, but I take advantage of Military Science offerings at school. If I ever do want to fake being in the military (which I won’t since its a dumb thing to do), I could do it with flair. And I’d know my shit. 
Hell, we learned the Marine Corps Hymn in our grade school music class. Jeez, if I claimed to be in the CIA, I’d, like, at least browse around https://www.cia.gov/ for a few minutes or something.
I have nothing whatsoever to say about any involvement I might or might not have with the CIA. I neither confirm or deny the rumors that my parachute drop into the tribal areas of Pakistan were responsible for the leadership of the Northern Alliance joining us to take down the Taliban. You’re not a speaker of Pushtun, are you? No? Well, few are, few are. Not many people know about the ethnic groups of central asia, not that I can really talk about my time there. Let’s just say that I visited the area on a tourist visa and found out quite a lot of highly informative stuff. I really don’t want to talk about it. Too many memories.
Yep. Real Marines know the last lines of it as well:
“If the Army and the Navy ever gaze on Heaven’s scenes
They will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines.”
So will people who have ever known a Marine, for that matter.
I have quite a few friends who were in one service or another. Even though I havn’t been, I know enough that I can spot fakes fairly well.
One of my favorite time was a guy I met at a party who claimed he was a "spook" of some sort, claiming to work for "the company". The guy was not heavy, but very obviously out of shape. When questioned about this, he claimed that that was his "cover." Since he really didn't know anything about the military that hadn't been in "soldier of fortune" last month, those at the party who did had endless fun with this guy that got worse as the beer kept flowing.Honestly, I just don’t see how this is news or what the big deal is. Did he try to get something out of it? The story seems to indicate that he just enjoyed telling stories.
And that bit about the bill to make it illegal to verbally claim to have gotten medals? That’s one of the most asinine things I’ve ever heard.