is this common ??????

[wedivebc]

i was on a dive boat in Florida a month ago,on the ride out i was listening to a man talk about being in the military and how they taught him how to dive and so on.......... to listen to him you would think he new everything there was to know about being under water ! he was even giving people advice on diving (scary).then when it came time to dive you would have thought he had never seen scuba gear before ,another man had to put it together for him .do ya ll see this a lot ?

whew, I've never dove in Florida

 

[mempilot]

I went to military.com and went to buddy finder to see if he even served and I did find him, but his rate wasnt a SQT desinator.

I wouldn't put too much stock in military.com. Neither my dad, nor I show up in their db. My dad was a medic in the Army Reserves in the late 60'/early 70's. I was in the AF, but took an early out in the early 90's. I did a search and find nothing on either one of us.

 

[seaducer]

I wouldn't put too much stock in military.com. Neither my dad, nor I show up in their db. My dad was a medic in the Army Reserves in the late 60'/early 70's. I was in the AF, but took an early out in the early 90's. I did a search and find nothing on either one of us.

Im in 3 times?:11:

 

[Nick_W]

I wouldn't put too much stock in military.com. Neither my dad, nor I show up in their db. My dad was a medic in the Army Reserves in the late 60'/early 70's. I was in the AF, but took an early out in the early 90's. I did a search and find nothing on either one of us.

See, but now is when you're supposed to say your dad was a super-secret Army medic, whose very existance is classified.

Like I said, I also wouldn't base anything upon what Military.com says. I also wouldn't start "outing" people unless they have a story so outrageous that there's just no way you'll be wrong. The door gunner on a Cobra would be one of those times.

Of course, its also fun to listen to people dig deeper. We had a support guy who was just not the brightest guy in the world and was basically worthless but we'd always fight to take him on deployments because he used to tell some of the greatest stories ever told. No one ever blew the BS whistle on him, no matter how crazy the stories got. In fact we would usually push him to see how far he'd go. It was just way to much fun to listen to his stories. I have to wonder if that guy still thinks we believed everything he told us.

 

[MBH]

I have the "pleasure" of knowing a pathological lier. If you call bs on something he said, it does not faze him one bit.
He's been a pro baseball player. Fell in the dugout broke both ankles and had to retire.
He's been a pro drag racer.
Pro stock car racer.
Drafted in the 60's and became a sniper (Army)
He was also a Seal.
He was also a fighter pilot.
He has found several $500 lottery tickets in the parking lot of the local store.
He has saved people from burning buildings.
He has been on TV (world series of poker or something like that)
I could go on and on with some of the wild stories he's told. If you've done it he's done it. If you have one he has two. What really shocked me was when he found out that I'm a diver, I'm thinking "here he goes", but he said that he's never done that. He's only snorkled. I asked him about being a Seal and he gave me some story about not all Seals are divers.
The lights are on but nobody's home. He's actually very entertaining.

 

[Pearldiver07]

Had me in there both enlisted and officer.

Chairborne!

(always at our fighting peak, six hours a day, four days a week!!!)

 

[boat sju]

This whole thread is depressing me - I believe all those stories I hear.

Next you'll be telling me that there are posters on SB that are upping their "Logged Dive Counts" in their profiles.

 

[mempilot]

Next you'll be telling me that there are posters on SB that are upping their "Logged Dive Counts" in their profiles.

I'm not sure why SB even posts the dive count. Stupid in my mind. Means nothing.

 

[northen diver]

During the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo days quite a few of the Navy Divers UDT and SEALS were trained in capsule recovery. I was one of those for Gemini and Apollo. There were main recovery teams but ALL the others, like myself, were back up teams should the capsule land way off the expected LZ.

My basic 4 week SCUBA school was extended to 6 weeks because of the added training involved. My ship was one of the few Destroyers they tried using to recover the Apollo capsules. Not only didn’t it work we nearly capsized the ship trying. That little sucker is just to heavy for a 42’ wide ship to pick up.

It isn’t unusual for Navy Divers in the 60’s and 70’s to be on the recovery teams. Now getting your hands on one was another story as they were normally picked up by the main team. Those tech guys were good at getting them to come down where they wanted them to.

We hired a guy several years ago who even put on his application that he was a Navy Diver. He got hired and did nothing but brag about all the stuff he did and once he got off of probation he was going to get on our dive team and straighten it up. I let it go on for weeks before I asked for his card or DD214. He couldn’t produce either and about dumped a load in his britches when he found out I was one. Turns out he was never a diver of any kind. He is no longer with the department.

Another one still is but didn’t put Navy Diver on his application. He just bragged a lot and cant produce a card of any kind. He said the shop lost it. What shop? It’s closed down. What agency? What what? Which agency did you get certified through? I can’t remember.

Then there are those who do get a civilian recreational certification while in the service and try to pawn it off as being a Military Diver.

Here are a couple of FUBAR training pics from the mid 60's.
ScubaBoard Gallery - Apollo training recovery - Powered by PhotoPost

ScubaBoard Gallery - Apollo traing recovery - Powered by PhotoPost

Gary D.

Question for ya Gary....

Do you still know what your class date or roster number was for your diving school?

 

[Nick_W]

Question for ya Gary....

Do you still know what your class date or roster number was for your diving school?

To be fair to those who may not be able to answer questions like that, I don't remember a single date, number, or anything from my military days. I hear people talking about how they never forget their boot camp platoon number, class date for this, roster number for that, or the date of this or that. Maybe I just suck at remembering things, I don't know, I also couldn't tell you my phone number off the top of my head. If someone said the numbers I'm sure I'd remember them, but I couldn't just pull them off the top of my head.


So again, I wouldn't use something like that as the only evidence to call someone out.