Mark Tarbox; phony SEAL … legit criminal.

I'll never get why these people claim to be the pinnacle of Military prowess, when it is well known that these communities are very small and records are kept on who is "in the club." If you're going to be a SEAL poser, you have to know that eventually Don Shipley is gonna get you. If you're going to be a Special Forces poser, those communities are so small that everyone knows everyone else. So if you cannot drop the name of a REAL operator, and no one knows YOUR name, then you're done right from the beginning.

It would be a lot more plausible if you said you were a cook, or a mechanic, or something where you could just toss out a unit number and a place (hopefully the unit and place coincide) and leave it at that. But then again, I guess the hubris goes for the biggest most high-profile jobs.

I would imagine many of them have some type of psychological imbalance, because the odds of being found out are really high for those communities, and that's not a secret or anything.

LCDR (Join to see) Pitiful! What a poor excuse for a human being.

I laughed looking at his pictures in the article. In one, he's a LTJG. In the other, he's a LCDR. And yet, it's clear he couldn't have still been in the service in either picture. Apparently even he isn't sure about what he's posing as.