I just responded about DD-214s and posers and it reminded me of an encounter after I had been out of the military for about 12 years. I just landed a job as the Director of Information Systems, for the University of Florida Physicians Group. I was going through my first week of orientation. It was lunch time and I had joined a group at one of the tables in the cafeteria. We were going around the table talking about our previous jobs and a young man stated that he had been in the Marines. I was intrigued since most of you know I had spent time with the Marines. I asked him about his experiences and what he did in the Marines. He was all excited and told me he had been stationed in Germany as a Marine Medic. (TWO RED FLAG) I think he had said this so many times that he believed his own lies. I asked him what his job classification was, and he gave me some bogus number. It was neither a Marine MOS or Navy NEC that I recognized. It was at this point that I had enough. I kept giving him enough rope to hang himself, asking him questions like, what infantry units was he attached to, were he had gone to medic school, etc. It became clear to me that maybe he had been in the Army, but even an Army Medic would know were the Medic school was. There are very few Marine units in Germany. What this kid did not know is that my last meeting of the day was with the VP of Operations and Associate Dean for the University of Florida. So at my meeting with the VP I mentioned the kids name and told her my concerns. The young man was not going to hold a major clinical job, but my concern was that he would say he was a Medic and then people would get the impression that this is the caliber of training and professionalism they would get from veterans, and not want to hire any in the future. Needless to say, he was terminated.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:29:56 +0000
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