I saw a post on Hot Air yesterday about someone claiming to be an Army Ranger. I had my doubts about 10 seconds into the video. I’m not an authority on the military and never served, but the uniform looked wrong. More suspicious though was that the framed picture on the wall showed him in a BDU identical to the one he was wearing in the interview. In fact, the photo looked like it had been taken very recently. It just seemed odd.

Uncle Jimbo, BLACKFIVE and Greyhawk were all over the story next. With those guys in the game, I figured the fat lady was singing for Jessy (Jesse?) MacBeth. I particularly like Uncle Jimbo’s quote:

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.

I wasn’t going to post on this, but I saw something today worth mentioning. It seems the guys over at ArmyRanger.com don’t take kindly to this sort of thing. They even go so far as to seek out posers like this and speak to them, in person. I’d pay good money to see this geek meet some real rangers. Why is it that posers always seem to be 110 pound geeks or 60 pounds overweight couch potatoes?