Caught lying about military service

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I used to have to drink with this delusional Franco-Scottish bloke who I called Three Legs [cos if you'd broken two legs in a skiing accident, he'd claim to have broken three]. Amongst his BS was his claims to be both ex SBS and ex Delta force with loads of HALO jumps anarl, of course. He came rather unstuck when we bumped into some actual Paras on their way back from the former Yugoslavia and they questioned him on what high you open your chute in a HALO jump as his answers to them ranged from 1,000 feet up to 10,000 meters. :lol:
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From wiki:
<< Naval and wartime service
After leaving Gordonstoun in 1939, Prince Philip joined the Royal Navy, graduating the next year from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as the best cadet in his course. During the Second World War, he continued to serve in the British forces, while two of his brothers-in-law, Prince Christopher of Hesse and Berthold, Margrave of Baden, fought on the opposing German side. He was commissioned as a midshipman in January 1940. Philip spent four months on the battleship HMS Ramillies, protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean, followed by shorter postings on HMS Kent, on HMS Shropshire and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After the invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferred from the Indian Ocean to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet.
HMS Valiant
Philip served aboard HMS Valiant in the Battle of the Mediterranean.
Among other engagements, Philip was involved in the Battle of Crete, and was mentioned in despatches for his service during the Battle of Cape Matapan, in which he controlled the battleship's searchlights. He was also awarded the Greek War Cross of Valour. Duties of lesser glory included stoking the boilers of the troop transport ship RMS Empress of Russia. He was promoted to sub-lieutenant after a series of courses at Portsmouth in which he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the qualifying examination. In June 1942, he was appointed to the V and W class destroyer and flotilla leader, HMS Wallace, which was involved in convoy escort tasks on the east coast of Britain, as well as the allied invasion of Sicily.
Promotion to lieutenant followed on 16 July 1942. In October of the same year he became first lieutenant of HMS Wallace, at 21 years old one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy. During the invasion of Sicily, in July 1943, as second in command of HMS Wallace, he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a plan to launch a raft with smoke floats that successfully distracted the bombers allowing the ship to slip away unnoticed. In 1944, he moved on to the new destroyer, HMS Whelp, where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla. He was present in Tokyo Bay when the instrument of Japanese surrender was signed. In January 1946, Philip returned to the United Kingdom on the Whelp, and was posted as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire. >>
 
Do you reckon it's more common that these nutters have served and over egged their careers or they're just complete looney fantasists who either couldn't get in or bottled it?
 
oROSSo said:
Do you reckon it's more common that these nutters have served and over egged their careers or they're just complete looney fantasists who either couldn't get in or bottled it?
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There must be f***ing millions of ex special forces about. 'Infantry cook' doesn't have the same cache.
 
oROSSo said:
Do you reckon it's more common that these nutters have served and over egged their careers or they're just complete looney fantasists who either couldn't get in or bottled it?
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A mix I would imagine. Some TA types, some short termers, some may have been in a war zone and built it up.
My mate's FIL is constantly all over FB with stuff about the regiment he was in. Never makes any claims about his service but the amount he posts you would reasonably assume he had spent a long time in the regiment. Mate he reckons he did basic training and not much more.
 
Scotty said:
you've had a mare here, phil the greek is probably the only royal who done his fair share
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Don't forget Randy Andy delivering the post during the Falklands War in his helicopter. And Prince Ginge has been in active war zones in Afghanistan.
 
oROSSo said:
Do you reckon it's more common that these nutters have served and over egged their careers or they're just complete looney fantasists who either couldn't get in or bottled it?
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The bloke i mentioned talked one day about the only time he had visited Austrailia was when they were in a submarine, and stormed a beach down there, sorted the Aussies out then came back. I think he was trying to say it was an exercise as such. Considering he told us he used to be a para, what the f..k would a para be doing in a sub! never mind the rest of the story :lol:
 
Tex said:
Don't forget Randy Andy delivering the post during the Falklands War in his helicopter. And Prince Ginge has been in active war zones in Afghanistan.
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i had'nt forgotten those 2 (or Charlies very limited active service)

Just Phil's wartime record means he wins hands down against any other royal military career

Then i'd have King George VI, then the Ginge
 
True story.

My Dad's brother died in a submarine explosion (HMS Sidon) 60 years ago and had his name put on the wall near the war memorial in Mowbray park. I'd visited his grave a couple of times in Weymouth so when we were invited to the unveiling I went but as my old Ma is in a wheelchair we were in the disabled bit.

I was sat next to this bloke who looked not unlike Dave Herbal with a ginger 'tache, beret, a green military style jacket and a walking stick. He came out with the following: 'if anyone vandalises this they should be hung'. I replied oo I"m sure people will respect it.

Shortly after he hobbled off but that Friday I was out down the town on a Friday with work for a 50th birthday. We went in the Greens and I was about the youngest in there. When I went to the bog I saw this bloke in a loud shirt dancing for all he was worth. I'm 99% sure it was the same bloke or Herbal or they are one and the same :)
 
nandos sonic sauce said:
Used to work with a big bloke who was in the army. He did used to talk it up a lot, and come out with some stories that didn't add up at all. He was a big hard fucker though, but the lads i used to work with were relentless if anyone tried to bullshit etc. After he left one of the lads posed on facebook a link to that walter mitty site where he was shown wearing a load of medals at some memorial day. The thing is his dad was also in the army so some of the medals he wore that day, might have been his. I don't know if that's allowed or frowned upon, but it was a shame, as apart from some bullshit he spouted, he was a canny bloke
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I'm sure that when you're not in uniform you can wear relatives medals on the right hand side of your chest.

You wear your own medals on your left (if you've been awarded any).
 
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