In one video, 155 millimeter showed what looked like a coin. He claimed that the coin came straight from Washington. He claimed that it was pinned on his chest, in the battle field, for an act of valor that almost cost him his life.
Unfortunately for him, his "medal" looks like a coin, which you could purchase from a mint, or a battalion or company challenge coin. There is a medal "from Washington," and that's the Congressional Medal of Honor. There's a recommendation process that involves sending an award write-up through the chain of command to the person that could approve or disapprove the award.
These awards don't just mysteriously come down from Washington D.C.
What 155 Millimeter shows, on his video, "Valor Thief or Washington Recognized Warfighter? You decide," isn't the kind of medal that's pinned on anybody's chest.
This isn't the only indicator that You Tube's "155 Millimeter" aka "Kings of Battle" is a faker.
There's a training video that he put up that involved "room clearing." In that video, you see an empty hallway. Then you hear some toy electronic noises, then the door opens as 155 millimeter, wearing his beret and sporting a toy weapon, barges in. He points to one of the doors, and you hear the electronic noises from the weapon again. He opens the door after he "fires" into it. He lowered his "weapon" down to take a look into another door.
His demonstration doesn't match how things are really done.
In general cases, you don't just shoot at a door, then open it to see if you killed anybody. Moving as part of a team, you enter the room and "cover" the entire area with your team's firepower. You don't pull the trigger to take someone down unless you positively identify that someone as a hostile. If you shoot first, you're letting potential hostiles, on the other side of the door, know that you're there and... in 155 Millimeter's case... know exactly where you're at. You could also end up killing non-hostiles.
If 155 Millimeter did, what he demonstrated in the video, in the real world, he would've been shot and/or killed.
There's another video that he put up, that talks about doing "red leg" PT. In this case, it was a training exercise on doing ruck marches. Again, just by looking at how he does things, it's obvious that he's making things up, or basing things on pre-conceived assumptions.
First, he stuffs a duffle bag with nearly 500 pounds of weights. This is assuming that he's telling the truth. He claims that "pogues" ruck with ruck sacks, and that red legs rucked with duffle bags. I do recall a movie where military trainees marched around with their duffle bags on their backs. However; in the Army, it doesn't matter if you're combat arms, combat support, or combat service support. If the ruck march is the prescribed training/operational event, the ruck sack is generally the prescribed item that the Soldier must use. This is the case most of the time.
Second, that video doesn't show him carrying the riffle properly. He had it at somewhat of a port arms. When we do a tactical road march, we have our rifles at the "low ready." He also claimed that you used the weapon as leverage to assist your movement. To demonstrate that, he swung his weapon back and forth in front of him.
He looked really silly doing that, we don't use our weapons that way.
If you wear the rucksack, and other items on you, properly, you'll already have stability and balance. Moving the weapon horizontally in front of you doesn't serve a purpose.
One key issue, that Veterans hammer him on, is his DD 214. A service member that leaves active duty, actual active duty, receives one of these. 155 Millimeter aka "Kings of Battle" wouldn't have a problem showing this, less sensitive information, to personalities like retired Navy SEAL Don Shipley. The later did ask 155 Millimeter for a copy of his DD 214.
The response? Another video, done by 155 Millimeter, aka "red legs" or "Kings of Battle," showing a bunch of snot rolling down his nose... followed by a scene of him walking circles in his living room. In the video description, 155 Millimeter goes up in arms about Don Shipley's "daring" to ask him for a DD 214. Nowhere in that video does 155 Millimeter show a DD 214 that other veterans can examine.
155 Millimeter implies that he took part in operations in the "Secret Gulf War." This puts him in the same category... as those older people who claimed that they took part in the "Secret Vietnam War" that took place after US forces officially pulled out from Vietnam.
At best, 155 Millimeter did serve, but didn't come close to accomplishing the things that he claims to have accomplished. At worst, he never served, and he's basing his stories on what other people have said... or on the fiction that he as read.
Unfortunately for him, his "medal" looks like a coin, which you could purchase from a mint, or a battalion or company challenge coin. There is a medal "from Washington," and that's the Congressional Medal of Honor. There's a recommendation process that involves sending an award write-up through the chain of command to the person that could approve or disapprove the award.
These awards don't just mysteriously come down from Washington D.C.
What 155 Millimeter shows, on his video, "Valor Thief or Washington Recognized Warfighter? You decide," isn't the kind of medal that's pinned on anybody's chest.
This isn't the only indicator that You Tube's "155 Millimeter" aka "Kings of Battle" is a faker.
There's a training video that he put up that involved "room clearing." In that video, you see an empty hallway. Then you hear some toy electronic noises, then the door opens as 155 millimeter, wearing his beret and sporting a toy weapon, barges in. He points to one of the doors, and you hear the electronic noises from the weapon again. He opens the door after he "fires" into it. He lowered his "weapon" down to take a look into another door.
His demonstration doesn't match how things are really done.
In general cases, you don't just shoot at a door, then open it to see if you killed anybody. Moving as part of a team, you enter the room and "cover" the entire area with your team's firepower. You don't pull the trigger to take someone down unless you positively identify that someone as a hostile. If you shoot first, you're letting potential hostiles, on the other side of the door, know that you're there and... in 155 Millimeter's case... know exactly where you're at. You could also end up killing non-hostiles.
If 155 Millimeter did, what he demonstrated in the video, in the real world, he would've been shot and/or killed.
There's another video that he put up, that talks about doing "red leg" PT. In this case, it was a training exercise on doing ruck marches. Again, just by looking at how he does things, it's obvious that he's making things up, or basing things on pre-conceived assumptions.
First, he stuffs a duffle bag with nearly 500 pounds of weights. This is assuming that he's telling the truth. He claims that "pogues" ruck with ruck sacks, and that red legs rucked with duffle bags. I do recall a movie where military trainees marched around with their duffle bags on their backs. However; in the Army, it doesn't matter if you're combat arms, combat support, or combat service support. If the ruck march is the prescribed training/operational event, the ruck sack is generally the prescribed item that the Soldier must use. This is the case most of the time.
Second, that video doesn't show him carrying the riffle properly. He had it at somewhat of a port arms. When we do a tactical road march, we have our rifles at the "low ready." He also claimed that you used the weapon as leverage to assist your movement. To demonstrate that, he swung his weapon back and forth in front of him.
He looked really silly doing that, we don't use our weapons that way.
If you wear the rucksack, and other items on you, properly, you'll already have stability and balance. Moving the weapon horizontally in front of you doesn't serve a purpose.
One key issue, that Veterans hammer him on, is his DD 214. A service member that leaves active duty, actual active duty, receives one of these. 155 Millimeter aka "Kings of Battle" wouldn't have a problem showing this, less sensitive information, to personalities like retired Navy SEAL Don Shipley. The later did ask 155 Millimeter for a copy of his DD 214.
The response? Another video, done by 155 Millimeter, aka "red legs" or "Kings of Battle," showing a bunch of snot rolling down his nose... followed by a scene of him walking circles in his living room. In the video description, 155 Millimeter goes up in arms about Don Shipley's "daring" to ask him for a DD 214. Nowhere in that video does 155 Millimeter show a DD 214 that other veterans can examine.
155 Millimeter implies that he took part in operations in the "Secret Gulf War." This puts him in the same category... as those older people who claimed that they took part in the "Secret Vietnam War" that took place after US forces officially pulled out from Vietnam.
At best, 155 Millimeter did serve, but didn't come close to accomplishing the things that he claims to have accomplished. At worst, he never served, and he's basing his stories on what other people have said... or on the fiction that he as read.
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