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I don't necessarily believe he was lying about being a Marine, though he may have exaggerated some of the details (like having been blown up and shot). It was after being called on to verify those claims, and promising to do so, that he reversed himself.
I also called him on his post to Rich - the one in which he made comments about working on a mobile app for this site - but he fell well short of convincing me that Rich had commissioned him to do so. I don't doubt that he approached the subject; I just think he read more into Rich's response/responses than Rich had intended.
Self aggrandizement is a fairly common thing; but exaggeration is dangerous because there is no way to save face when one is called upon to verify claims.
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