Ends of the Earth Sensationalism
I have to agree with Nick on this, some people simply cannot keep themselves from embellishing the facts. Having been in the military and again in war in civilian capacity, I can vouch that a great many people call home with ‘war stories’. He references a story on military.com that reeks of a bunch of hooey that seems to be todays calling card for gaining sympathy for those that have otherwise un-extraordinary lives in the military/gov’t sectors. Just because you ‘were there’ does not make you a fucking hero. Nick is a contractor on Antarctica, (and has experience in Iraq as well).
I like his take on this. The most interesting parts are the comments that came back to slam him from POV’s assuming fellow Ice Folk identities.
I once had another blog where I slammed the military and contractors alike for calling/writing home about how ‘dangerous’ it was… when none of these people experienced anything more dangerous than high cholesterol from the 4x daily buffet of all-you-can-eat DFAC meals. I would regularly get nasty grams about how insensitive I was to the war fighters.
One rather large group of correspondence was from the friends of a particular person that is now part of those fictitious Pajamas Media ‘experts’. He lied blatantly and embellished everything so bad that one blog entry claimed to have a mortar hitting next to his trailer when it was actually 4 kilometers away outside CP-1 (which I had to do the report on). He talked about having to endure the hardships of eating bland military food when he was actually only issued a single MRE for the flight over and had access to the Embassy chow hall at 4 meals a day…. and it was great food. I had his billeting info, his work schedule, his civilian work history, his palace office info & tasking, ..everything. I was not part of the RSO and the info was nonsecured. His was a social agenda - so was mine.
Even after calling out this supercool cat, his friends then slammed me for the act of ‘calling out’ instead of admiting their friend was a craptastic lier.
