But Bean could have shot back: “It’s HE-RE-ford, you big wazzock” and made De Niro look silly in front of everyone. It would be needlessly high-risk and would question De Niro’s own credentials.
How is De Niro to know what color the boathouse at Hereford is unless he’s been there? If he’d been there, he would surely know its proper pronunciation.
…or maybe not.
A friend of mine works as a VA Police Officer in a VA Hospital and he’s an ex-Army enlistee too. He spends all day dealing with ex-military people. He makes this same basic observation about the number of Special Forces guys he meets versus the number of truck drivers or supply clerks.
My uncle whom I’ve known all my life served in the Army in the Vietnam era (but stationed in Germany, not Vietnam, so he never saw combat). To hear him tell it, his job mostly did, in fact, consist of driving trucks (when it wasn’t spent on time-killing stuff the military does like long hikes). It wasn’t until about a year ago that I learned that sometimes, the cargo in those trucks he was driving was nuclear weapons.
Most of the stories he told about his time in the service were about various pranks he pulled on his superiors and/or peers.
Marco
I would have thought that any driver tasked with such an important cargo would have been made abundantly aware of what it was, so that the necessary precautions could be taken - i.e., what to do if there is a fire, the extreme importance of not letting this cargo get lost or captured, etc.
He didn’t say his uncle didn’t know.
Facepalm - my bad reading comprehension today…
Also could be like a bad action movie, the truck drivers are told they’re delivering blankets to a nearby military base when there’s really a nuclear weapon under all those blankets precisely so nobody suspects it. Unfortunately the bad guys have a mole that knows this which is why a single truck carrying a nuclear weapon is hijacked by the simple construction zone trick and then Jean Claude Van Damme is sent to recover it.
That’s the second funniest comment in this thread. 
I missed it by that much
I haven’t seen his videos for a while but I used to enjoy watching Don Shipley exposing fake Navy SEALs. Shipley is a retired Senior Chief SEAL. It’s truly amazing how many of these guys are out there. He was getting so many requests to validate claims he had to start charging a nominal fee. It was overwhelming his regular business. And I’m not talking about someone with a stupid pickup line at a bar. These are people with the lie firmly engrained into their lives.
I get why Stolen Valor isn’t a crime for constitutional reasons but I love it when those lying mother fuckers are publicly exposed. Free speech works both ways.
I had a friend who was in the ETO in WWII, and then Army of occupation in Japan after the war, and the only stories he would tell were funny ones about mistakes he made and various shenanigans he and his buddies would get into. He would NOT discuss anything else.
What is ETO? In context of WWII, I’ve always seen that as The European Theater.
European Theater of Operations.
That what I said.
It makes no sense in a thread about Special Ops.
Not special ops, but building on the truck driver who didn’t talk about hauling nukes. My friend would only tell funny stories about his time in the service. He didn’t brag about his time in combat.
Gotcha, sorry.
It’s not a hard and fast rule that vets won’t talk about but it’s pretty common. My uncle was in WWII and Korea and would only talk about the times he was demoted except to me after I joined. He told me a lot about Korea.
Real Navy SEALs might or might not tell you but they are probably writing a book about it. “Silent Professionals.”
One telltale sign is if they tell you everything is classified. They may very well have been on some classified operations but the vast majority of their career would be unclassified. They can tell you what their MOS is, where and when they trained, where they were stationed… All the stuff anyone else in the military could tell you.