Originally Posted by
Neosporin
with respect to the question and being about SEALS. I was a hard hat diver and personally know three of us as airline pilots. Also I want to ask about the corpsman comment. I know teams from Hawaii, and while operating in Korea and the PI.
The two corpsman I knew regarding this conversation, they were both Dive Med Techs. One was with SDV's and wore cammies but wore his Med tech dive pin.
What is the real progression for them, I never was concerned then.
I heard there is one at Delta.
this one is just for the frogs out there to laugh about. We had a corpsman/frog turn up at Polaris point Guam as our new dive corpsman. He wore the Trident and had all the geedunk from survival training and knew all about BUDS, etc.
Well one day in Guam the Sam Houston pulled in and my Med tech buddy with the SDV team says, " Hey I know that guy, he dropped out of BUDS back whenever, he's not a frog."
Turns out he dropped out of BUDS, rang the bell. Rigged his service record to show that he was NEC 8*** whatever and then had an assignment at 29 Palms with some Marine battalion, then was assigned to us. this true med tech questioned him, the bogus guy had just put on E6. The busted him down to E4 took away his Med tech NEC and fake Frog NEC.
crazy
please remember TWA in Lebonan. PO2 Stethem, Hoo ya Deep sea.
I was visiting my dad over the summer, hanging around the marina, and this d-bag hat a seal hat and a t-shirt. My ol' man (a former squid) asked him what team he was on. The d-bag told him that he wasn't on any team, and he was wearing it because his "friend was a seal and wanted to show appreciation for " him. That upset the ol' man and I 'cause the guy didn't earn the right to wear it. It's like this CFI @ my school, he has the high and tight haricut, wears all these fighter squadron t-shirts, the olive drab flight jacket (with patches) but isn't going into the military him self; even though he thinks that being in the Civil Air Patrol is military enough.