One thing you DO NOT do, if you're for real, is brag about your accomplishments. Anyone who had ever been SpecOps or SOCOM wouldn't be talking about it in a convention hall.

As a Private at Fort Benning, I once had to report to the infirmary and saw there 2 men, bearded, in camo fatigues with no insignia. My buddy asked me, in a none-too-quiet voice, "Who the fuck are those guys?" I nudged him hard and said, "Shut up!!" out of the corner of my mouth. I explained later that Fort Benning was home to the School of the Americas, where Special Forces trains foreign operators in counterinsurgency tactics. We had almost certainly just seen a couple of Green Berets dropping by to talk to the medic on call, who had a Special Forces crest on his uniform. These were guys who didn't officially exist. Spooky encounter.

Hunley and Donald Trump should become friends.

If you smell smoke your burnt.

You can always tell the fakers, first if they seem a bit low on intelligence, because you have to be a little stupid to think you'd get away with it.
Next they'll claim to know all kinds of "Top Secret" stuff, I had a "Crypt Secret" clearance at one time, but it's not like they give you the keys to the secret libraries when you get the clearance. It's on a need to know basis only. If you have a top secret clearance and there's a confidential message going around you don't get to know what that memo is about unless you NEED to know.
I don't think I ever needed to know anything, so I still don't, despite my clearance.
I'm sure it's expired now, as if I ever needed it.

Even if he was, it is nothing to be proud of.

Pastor lies, bear sh!ts in woods... ok.

Disgusting. Bad enough to lie about the Navy SEALs and such, but the purple hearts and a goddamn navy cross? Now I'm not like a huge military fan or anything, but I have respect for those who go through the shit that they do, and great respect for those who make it into the special forces. Not to mention those who have earned their medals.

Yea.......The wonders of religion. Churches should be called the House of Stupidity, where ignorance and purposeful blindness are an essential.

Religious nutcases aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

Just being a pastor places him as, at a very minimum, a purveyor of false and misleading information.