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Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: DFW
Hunt In: Texas
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Is there anyway to verify if someone has served?
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#2 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Euless, Texas
Hunt In: Sterling County
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Ask them for their DD214
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#3 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Flower Mound
Hunt In: Montague, Grayson
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not sure on how to verify but can we get some of the juicy details to your story please
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#4 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Garland, Texas
Hunt In: Cisco, Texas
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All I got is Discharge papers. Is that a DD214? Was way back in about 1975, so I forgot.
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#5 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Fort Worth, Tx
Hunt In: Jones County and Missouri
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In the 80s we got a DD214. Had to present it to employers.
Gary |
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#6 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: McKinney
Hunt In: Oklahoma- Public
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something happen that makes you think someone is stealing valor?
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#7 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Beaumont
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#8 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Texas
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Hey man, just because some one served don’t mean they can’t steal valor.
I was waiting on a bone scan at the VA in San Antonio when some yahoo that was in for 36 months was telling me he was a SEAL, Recon Marine, Delta, and SF. I called him a liar and the fight ensued and ended very quickly. I told my ole lady on the phone what happened after the VA cops settled things and I said “I’m not saying I deserve better, but I earned better because I’m retired”. So now I go on base or to private Doctors off base. If you are driven to question such, it probably ain’t someone you wanna be around anyway. |
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#9 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Boerne
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#10 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Garland, Texas
Hunt In: Cisco, Texas
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#11 |
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: Houston
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Ask to see their DD214. It’s basically a summary of their service. Ask them what their MOS and unit was also.
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#12 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Texas
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If he tells you strange stories about strange places and has an unusually high number of humanitarian medals and presidential unit citations then he is the “real deal”.
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#13 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Ask detailed questions. If he answers, "that's classified" he's full of ****.
If he's claiming be to a Navy Seal sick Don Shipley on him. If you don't know Don Shipley here's a link to his youtube content https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ry=don+shipley |
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#14 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Kingwood, TX
Hunt In: Leon County
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There were less than 300 Navy Seals that served in Vietnam. I've met all 5000 of them.
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#15 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Pandora, Texas
Hunt In: Nockenut, Texas
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#16 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Mansfield
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#17 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Apr 2014
Hunt In: Votaw, Del Rio, Eldorado, Bon Wier
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If he can't produce his DD214, then look up Don Shipley on the www. He can help ya
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#18 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Texas
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Too funny and sad Last edited by Johnny44; 03-12-2019 at 01:12 PM. |
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#19 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Houston
Hunt In: Polk County
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#20 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Texas
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#21 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Mansfield
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#22 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Texas
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I don’t know but some folk go to great lengths.
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#23 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Idaho Falls Idaho
Hunt In: Entire Mountain West, South Texas
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The DD-214 is proof positive that you served, and has all the basics of time, rank, rate, schools attended and type of discharge. It definitely does not have all the specifics of in-country experiences, and deployments. If you have yours, it is always a good idea to go down to your local county clerks office, and have it recorded. Cost is minimal and then it is always available if you need an official copy issued again. Another thing that is available now for Veterans benefits, and discounts on goods and services throughout the country is a Veterans ID card. It verifies actual service, discharge, and comes in hard plastic with your current picture on it.
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#24 |
Six Point
Join Date: May 2015
Location: San Antonio
Hunt In: Schleicher County
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Every time I see stolen valor I immediately think of this copypasta.
What the **** did you just ******* say about me, you little ****? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ******* words. You think you can get away with saying that **** to me over the Internet? Think again, ******. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're ******* dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable *** off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ******* tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you god**** idiot. I will **** fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're ******* dead, kiddo. |
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#25 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Hunt In: United States and its territories
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Did I miss the back story?
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#26 |
Four Point
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Crosby, Tx
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#27 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Cypress
Hunt In: East TX
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#28 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: El Campo
Hunt In: Jackson County and Utopia
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I thought you were supposed to file a copy of your DD214 at the county courthouse in the county where you live?
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#29 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Holly Lake Ranch
Hunt In: East Tx. and Anywhere I can!
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Easiest way is to ask them their service number. If they don't know it then my guess they DIDN'T serve.
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#30 |
Four Point
Join Date: Feb 2019
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In my opinion bloaters are worse than guys who pretend to have served. A bloater is someone who did indeed serve in the military, yet knows just enough information to bull**** and lie about what tours they did, where they served, with what unit etc.
I've encountered quite a large amount of marines and army guys here who do that ****. Usually involves a female...always funny hearing them backtrack "oh well well I didn't actually go out on patrol in that location" lol |
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#31 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: May 2015
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#32 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: The Woodlands
Hunt In: Retired Bowhunter
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I asked him about it and he simply said, "I was wondering where that was." He preferred not to discuss his service in Vietnam. "I save that for the VA Hospital." I respected that, and always will. |
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#33 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Texas
Hunt In: Texas
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Please, don't send Mr.Shipley after me.... ![]() I hope, I didn't steal anybody's valor..... |
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#34 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Euless, Texas
Hunt In: Sterling County
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There's 2 things I'll never forget. One is my Army Serial # and the other is my first piece of ???
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#35 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: San Angelo
Hunt In: Irion Co
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Seems like I meet more cooks that say they were seals than I do folks that didnt serve at all.
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#36 | |
Four Point
Join Date: Feb 2019
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#37 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Mansfield
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#38 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Texas
Hunt In: Texas
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#39 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Nevada,tx
Hunt In: Henderson
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I did 2 floats, granted one was only for a month, on LST-1191, the Racine. Fun times on those flat bottomed suckers
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#40 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
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You aren't by chance kin to Pocahontas are you? |
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#41 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Mansfield
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Were you on it during Beirut? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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#42 |
Four Point
Join Date: Feb 2019
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#43 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: San Antonio
Hunt In: Texas
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Ask him his MSU number. If he gives you a number then you’ll know he likes to Make Stuff Up. If he says “what’s that?” then you can continue your investigation.
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#44 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Vernon
Hunt In: Southern Taylor County, Tom Green County
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Can someone fill me in on the reasons somebody would “steal valor”? Is it just for attention, or trying to get the 10% discount at the donut shop, or what?
I see this stuff all the time on the book of faces and such, but don’t understand the purpose. |
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#45 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: San Antonio
Hunt In: Texas
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Lack of a moral compass coupled with a selfish desire for notarity or financial gain.
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#46 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Vernon
Hunt In: Southern Taylor County, Tom Green County
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#47 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Mansfield
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#48 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Vernon
Hunt In: Southern Taylor County, Tom Green County
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#49 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Plano
Hunt In: TX, ID, CO
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1. For those who believe no one claims to be a sailor. All Seals are sailors.
2. It has been more than 40 years since service numbers were used. 3. I respect those who served as cooks, it is an important , difficult and underrated job. 4. Not all branches use MOS |
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#50 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Hockley, Tx
Hunt In: Kinney Co
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