In Reply to: don't forget all the SAS guys Ron posted by DonRon on Friday, 20. July 2007 at 06:04 Bali Time:
They pop up here all the time. In the expat crew that I hang around with there are four genuine Vietnam Vets. Stan Hills who runs Annas Bar in Jalan Tamblingan, Gary "Botak" and Ron "The Gardener" there is also Russ from Lombok who was in the SAS.
These guys tend to get a tad pissed off when a pretender wanders into the crew. Most of these pretenders are not happy with just saying that they are ex Army, They always seem to want to colour in their story a bit and make themselves ex SAS. When this does not get the attention that they seek, the pretender then will mention serving in Vietnam.
Currently there is a guy wandering around Sanur telling about his time in Vietnam alas he loses credibility when you realise he is yet to have his 50th birthday.