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Antiwar "veteran" is a fake
A man named Jesse MacBeth is the latest hero to the moonbatosphere, telling lurid tales of American war crimes in Iraq. He claims to be a "Special Forces Ranger."Citizen Smash presides over the debunking: (Multiple updates to this story at MilBlogs and Hot Air) JESSE MACBETH is a fraud. An imposter. A poseur warrior, and not even a very convincing one. MilBloggers explain why: BLACKFIVE: "The photo on the wall of this "ranger" is completely laughable." JIMBO: "This spindly little weasel wouldn't have made it through 10 seconds of RIP, let alone Ranger school or life in a Ranger Batt. The pic on his wall shows the wrong t-shirt, wrong sleeves roll, wrong flash, this boy is so many flavors of wrong I can't keep up." BUBBLEHEAD (compiling from several sources): 1. Special Forces Combat Patch (Wrong) 2. Two "Tabs" sewn above SF patch (Wrong- Only One) 3. No Ranger Tab 4. No Airborne Wings 5. No Unit Crest 6. No Sewn on Rank 7. No One in the Army rolls their sleeves like that. Bonus: 8. Mustache is out of regulation by extending past the corner of the mouth. McQ shows us what insignia MacBeth would be wearing, were he a real Ranger. POSEUR WARRIORS are not a new phenomenon. A junior sailor from my first ship was busted in the San Diego airport for impersonating a Navy SEAL. He was wearing choker whites with ensign shoulderboards and a SEAL trident. A Naval officer spotted him easily, because the shoulderboards were attached upside down. He was busted to E-1, and put on restriction for a month. But his real punishment was the years of ridicule that he got from his fellow Sailors. ALLAHPUNDIT has the roundup. Stay tuned to MilBlogs headquarters for more developments. Posted by: Mike 2006-05-23 |
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