It must be a real slow news day if this kind of thing is being reported. I heard about it on the radio today (ABC news) and I kept waiting for them to get to the part that would make me care. They never did. I felt let down.
That said, how did this guy even manage to find a uniform to fit him if he was that big? He must have been sucking in his gut major time.
coughwhalecough
If showing up at Marine social functions to rub elbows and garner attention qualifies as “getting something,” then yes. I agree it’s trivial in the scheme of things, but I’m sure it would annoy me something fierce if I were a real Marine or ex-Marine who encountered him.
You mean “The Stolen Valor Act?” :rolleyes:
Why do you hate America?
Sucking it in?!? Have you ever met a 400 pound person? 
Or even a whale with a chest cold. . . 
My FIL’s old USMC unit (1st Battalion 9th Marines, aka “The Walking Dead”, for those familiar with such things) had an impostor coming to their reunions for a while; he was so bold he even became the Vice President of the national organization for former members and participated in memorial services. He had fake medals, doctored documents (with my FIL’s signature forged on some of them) and photos, the whole nine yards. So, unlike the putz in the OP’s story, this guy did his homework–he actually was in the USMC, just never served with that unit or in Vietnam at all, and inflated his awards and rank–the only thing was, nobody could remember him, and that was what finally got somebody to do a little digging and turned him out as a fake. They were PISSED.
You too? :eek:
How many of us are there?! 
I thought that it was “Fuck the Navy”, sung over and over again to the tune of Alouette.
I have the opposite problem. I had a job that sounds fascinating. I was a AF Cryptologic Linguist - that’s right, a foreign language code breaker. While I also can’t really talk about it, let’s just say that the only times we weren’t fighting boredom we were fighting each other (pranking each other, actually). During my 2.5 years on base doing the actual job, only 2 things of interest happened…none, of course, on my shift.
No, that is the Navy Motto. FtN or our other motto N.A.V.Y = Never Again Volenteer Yourself. 
Seriously, I spent four years in the Navy, did we really have an official Motto?
Jim
Well somebody’s gotta keep the riff-raff out, so it may as well be someone without the intelligence or imagination to truly appreciate Heaven’s splendor. 
Whereas we intelligent, discerning, sophisticated (ex)Army types can truly get behind some Heavenly splendor!
Pssst! Are you gonna eat that Ham Loaf MRE? No? Great! Mind if I chow down?
In the AF, our unofficial motto was “We don’t catch bullets”.
I am happy to report that there is no official Navy Motto.
I am sad to report that the Navy’s official march really is “Anchors Aweigh”.
Some operational or organizational units have mottos (the Sea Bees do and many vessels do), but AFAIK the USN does not have an official motto. The USN Academy’s motto is ex scientia tridens, loosely “from knowledge comes sea power”.
-Did you ever do “FTN” to the tune of “Anchors Aweigh”? Makes it more subversive, and proper scansion requires creative usages of “fuck”, which is just gravy.
“I was Agent Orange”
As an scriptwriting undersea welder with a sideline in arctic paleontology, I’m equally offended. Semper Fi!
I’m the president of Liars Anonymous.
The unofficial Navy motto: Haze gray and underway!
Hey, you are lying. I am the President of Liars Anonymous. Our official celebrity rep is Jon Lovitts.
[RIGHT]Yeah, that’s the Ticket. [/RIGHT]
Heh. Now I can tell that BOTH of you are lying. I am the President of Liars Anonymous, and as you should know very well, our celebrity rep is David Leisure.