SAS imposter rumbled
 

BBC NEWS | England | Cornwall | SAS impersonator faces the boot

silly bugger!

Found out when he wrote to the MOD......didn't he think they would check? What a knobber......:ugh:

What a nosher.

I wonder how common this type of wannabe actually is?

I've never come across a Walt of his age, but trust me, there are more Walts claiming service in 21/23 than you can imagine :ugh:

Is it really true you are excused being a Walt if you can get your leg over because of it?

denis

that's according to the Waltfinder General on ARRSE .... prolly not a factor in this case.

There's an amazing anti-Walt website dealing (mostly) with ANZACs, can't find the address just now - they've had a number prosecuted for (mostly Vietnam) walting. Incredibly, some even published (fictional) memoirs. Mind you, having read Pablo's published tales form NI ........

Edited to add:

Found the site here. There are some (almost) incredible tales to read about .......

When I was a guliable cadet a number of years ago serving with my local air training corp we had an instructor exactly like this...

Told everyone in the cadets that he was ex-RAF regiment who had then joined the TA Paras, most of my officers were all non-military guys so didn't really know much.

My dad was on leave from the army and came to pick me up one night when he got talking to the guy about who he had served with. My dad, being a para at the time, asked him about the paras when he admitted he had actually served with either the rations or signals TA squadrons as well as the RAF Regiment.

Anyway... Me and my dad were down at a local TA Base and got talking to the RSM about general stuff when he asked about the instructor.

Turned out he had failed RAF selection joined the TA where he was later kicked out of for being a lazy b*****d

We have a Captain who claims he was not only a Tornado pilot but a war hero to boot. Turns out he was a Tornado instructor, but actually only flew in the back of one once. A CRM nightmare and general weirdo, loathed by the cabin crew and nearly all F/O's at my airline. He still thinks we think his stories about JP233 etc are for real.:\

Shame!

Biggest Walt I have heard of was a guy who was head honcho at a very big US Software company ( no prizes ) about 10 years ago.

Said he was a US Marine pilot , saved a buddy by throwing a grenade out of a trench, ruptured his eardrums ejecting from a Phantom.

All b*ll*cks - he was an air traffic controller.

Trouble was he 'Walted' to everyone for years until the Wall Street Journal decided to investigate.

It was bloody... why do they do it.???

Guidedweapons
 

Thanks for the link.

I must admit it always took me by surprise just how many walts there were in my old Squadron. ......At least one bloke in each troop actually claimed to be a cook:}

Work with a guy who claims to been special forces during GW1. An inveterate bullsh*tter - can't even walk up the stairs without getting out of breath (probably puts it down to Gulf War syndrome but never bothered to ask). Always wondered if there was a way of exposing him....

I wonder if we get any bull****ters posting on here?

Is there no way the MoD could impose intellectual rights over military medals issued by the crown to stop these companies that supply walts being able to assist their lies?
Or perhaps insisting that all who attempt to buy medals attain proof of entitlement from the medals office?
That said, when on TSW I was asked more than once by younger airmen if they could borrow my swinging tin as they were going to a wedding and wanted to impress the easily impressed young ladies with 'their' medals so perhaps thats all walts really do it for. Oh and no, I've never let anyone use my medals other than my daughter for a show and tell this year at school during the week running up to Armistice Day and proud as punch she was too. At 5 years old I was impressed at that she remembered what they were for, although she did repeat an off-hand remark I made to my wife whilst explaining what they were to my daughter that the GSM NI was for watching MTV on a damp hill in Ulster!

That site is gold! There are so many of them. I used to wear my ribbons on my current uniform (no longer military). I copped so many bullsh!t stories from people claiming to be ex SAS (Australian) and even one bloke claiming to be an ex British clearance diver(he was fat and diabetic, and not that old), that I stopped wearing them.

Once met a guy who told me all about how he was at Lockerby shortly after the crash. He knew what he was talking about right down to the names of guys involved in a fatal car accident.

Thing is he was never there...... He was claiming to be part of the team I was on. It was only a small team of 10-12 ppl and he wasn't part of it.

When I pointed out he wasn't there and I knew it, he started back peddaling like mad. I told him what I thought of him and havn't seen him since.

Karl who were you serving with at the time? I've got a relative who was at Lockerby during it.

I was on 33 Sqdn.

We operated from the school for a short while then moved to a caravan in a field.
I will never forget the generosity of the locals. We returned from operations on more than one occasion to find beer and food waiting for us. Almost impossible to buy a beer or food anywhere, the locals insisted on feeding and watering us free. I was quite embaressed when I got my watch repaired and I wasn't even allowed to pay for that.

Lockerby? That's in Canada isn't it - what crash happened there?

Pedant alert! :rolleyes:

Lockerbie - perhaps?

Like most place names and people names, there are local variations. Or maybe Lockerby is the 'new english what is spoke, like'. :)