2 POS-ers1 week! #1 a LRSD/Ranger poser; #2 a Ranger poser
Well, hello guys and gals. I know I've been off the net for a minute. My 7 week old daughter had an apnia spell so well, you know, priorities. All is well now, she's on a monitor but it was super scary. Anyway, I did get some time to get on the computer and and while I was checking one of my old LRSD unit's sites on mil.com. I encountered a Mr. Goerge C. Mason Jr. from Minnesota, who had listed his profile on it. Read on... First, he related his years in D Co. 101 MI (LRSD) were from 89-91 (before my tenure of 92-95 there) and seeing as how we are having a reunion coming up, I fugured I'd post him an email via mil.com and see if he'd like to attend. I recieved no reply but I noticed he had a bunch of Maint. and Ord. units listed on his profile and he had posted a message relating he was looking for a "Rock Steady" coin (?). On the "Rock Steady" message he posted his email address, which is: gmasonjr5552@yahoo.com Of course, I'm only posting it in case one of you guys have a "Rock Steady" coin available for him; he's really looking for one. As a matter of fact, here's the message he posted: "if any one nose where i can get another rock steady coin let me no . email.gmasonjr5552@yahoo.com" Of course the atypical poser spelling raised some hairs on my neck but the big kicker was I also noticed he listed in his profile as having been in 1st ID LRSD and serving in Operation Eagle Claw; Gulf War; he also had CIB (2d award); CFMB; Ranger Tab; Air Assault Wings; MSM; ARCOM; JSAM; AAM; Drill Sergeant; and all of this in only nine years. The strange part is he's listed in the DoD records as George Crandall Mason Jr. from Minnesota; a 63B20 Reservist E-5. Weird! I'll post his profile, which was created on 18 June By the way. Anyway, the hair on the back of my neck stood up but since he was supposedly there before me, I posted another email to him via my home email (of course I BCCd all my old LRSD brothers to make sure he was, or wasn't legit) just to be nice. Here's tha email I sent him:
"Mr. George C. Mason,
Hello. My name is XXXX and I served with LRSD 101 MI from 92-95. I noticed you recently joined one of our sites so I'm writing to inform you that we are having a reunion coming up soon. A lot of brothers will be linking up and reconnecting and it's going to be a great time for all.
With that said, we are busy coordinating the details and making every effort to ensure we leave no one behind (I'm sure you understand); we are truly hoping all brothers will be able to attend. As the reunion is exclusive to former unit members and their family/friends only, I hope we have your understanding that because we can't seem to find you on our contact roster, we are requesting that you would be so kind as to provide some creds so we could verify your tenure (89-91 I believe you said?) in the unit? I'm sure you understand where we are coming from and it really isn't difficult to verify you as we only ever had a total of less than 160 personnel. Basically, we just need to know who the First Sergeant and/or Commander was while you were there; what team you were on; what type of radio we used and/or some names of people who knew you there. An answer to any or all of these questions would open a huge door for you to a world of brothers with open arms. As a former member of such an elite and select unit, I'm sure you already know our camaraderie is second to none and is a life-long spanning commitment we share. Also, would you be so kind as to tell us what Ranger School class you graduated with? Again, I'm sure you understand; we are standing by. I have pasted a copy of your public bio from military.com for our reference. Thank you."
Crazy as it may seem; I never recieved a reply from Mr. Mason but some of the guys who were there around Mr. Mason's supposed time frame wrote back the following:
XXXXX says:
"Does NOT ring a bell with me and considering I should have served a year with him during the same time frame (I was early '90 to late '93) something doesn't seem right."
XXXXX says:
"He is a poser. First of all he said he has 2 CIB's and he never been to Afghanistan or Iraq. that is impaoosible and also he claims he been to Operation Eagle Claw, well his service says he was in from like 1985 and Op Eagle claw was in 1980. I checked my orders for CIB's from the Gulf and he is no where on it. We had a Goerge XXXX on the detachment then but no Goerge Mason. And also, all I see is maintenance/ordanance units on his unit history. Why would we have one of those guys in the detachment? And what is a rock steady coin anyways, give me a break. Let me deal with this guy. I need some fresh meat anyways, lol.
Later"
SGM XXXXX says:
"My memories are not so clear but I do not remember him. I was there 90 to 92.
SGM XXXXX"
Oh, before I forget, here's Mr. Goerge C. Mason's public profile from mil.com as well:
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Service: Army
Status: Retired Military
Rank: E-6
Location: MN , US
Bio:
not available
Interests:
not available
Conflicts & Operations:
Operation Eagle Claw
Gulf War
Individual Awards:
Unit Citations:
Badges:
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George C Mason’s Units / Groups
George C Mason has joined 5 groups / units Current Status Years Served
79th Engineer Battalion
192 members Active Duty 1984-1989
541st Maintenance Battalion
68 members Active Duty 1989-1993
Dco 101mi Lrsd
30 members Active Duty 1989-1991
61st Ordnance Group
14 members Active Duty 1993-1994
79th.Engeers A Co.
4 members Active Duty 1985-1989
Yeah, so I'm thinking he's fishy at best. He's all yours now guys
Here's the second guy: O.K. so as I related before, my daughter stopped breathing a couple of days ago. We called 911 and she was admitted into the infant ICU up at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. She stayed the night; had some tests ran; etc. Well the next day, I went to go pick her and my wife up. As I got the release call right after duty, I picked up my son from Church Camp and headed straight to the Hospital. I was still in uniform. While I was walking through the hospital, I got a lot of looks and a couple of "thanks for serving" comments, etc. Anyway, when I arrived to my daughter's room, they were doing the paperwork for release up and my wife was getting changed as she spent the night with my little girl. Soon after this, a young guy named Joel arrived from "Transport" to help take my daughter down to the parking garage. Noticing my uniform, he struck up the typical "nice conversation" with me and commented about how his brother was joining the Air Force to be a helo mechanic but how he himself was currently serving in the Army. I told him I was prior Army and he asked what I did when I was in the Army. I told him Infantry and as the conversation progressed I told him I was a paratrooper and served in the ABCT and a LRSD unit. He didn't know what a LRSD was so I had to give him the quick explaination on it. Well, blah, blah, blah later and he told me his brother wanted to join the Army to "be a RANGER" like him but that he had talked him out of it. O.K., please understand this guy was very young so it raised the hair on the old poser detector, right away. Anyway, to make sure I wasn't hearing things I then said, "Oh, you're a Ranger?" To which he replied, "Yeah." I asked him what Bn. he served in and he looked confused at me. I then asked, "did you serve in the Regiment?" and he said "no." So I was thinking O.K. cool and then I asked him, "what was your Ranger School Class Number?" That's when the BS began, he said, "uhhhhhhh, excuse me?" I then replied, "What was the number of the Ranger school class you graduated with?" He then replied, "hmmmmmmm, ummmm, let me think... uhhhh, well let's see, I graduated TWO-FOUR-NINE... b-b-b-but, but, but that's different. Ummmmm, uhhhh, sorry man, I can't remember. I'm sorry." I then got a little angry, pointed to my SP badge and and asked him for his military ID; I also said, "Yeah, you are sorry with three Rs dude" He then said, he didn't have his ID on him and that's when my good old wife grabbed my arm and gave the old, "that's enough/MUSKRAT" look. Well, we ended up getting called back up to the ICU and oddly enough, the next "Transport" guy who came was not Joel. Weird how that happens huh? Anyway guys; my daughters doing fine; all is well and we smacked two poserasaurus-rexs in one week. Make sure when you call Sacred Heart, you ask for "Joel" and if you have a "Rock Steady' coin; be sure to give Mr. Mason a shout. By the way... anyway we can get his URL from his email address?
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