JAFAAC: Overranked Soldier

I'm not sure how to do this kind of trope.

Semi serious suggestion.

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Not sure this can be properly pictured due to the unlikelyhood of universally recognizable rank insignia.

We could go with a couple of stars on a twentish person if someone has a picture.

Agree current is very much JAFAAC.

Oh right,

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Just A Face And A Caption.

Got 2 votes.

Pull. (Don't know how to do the orange text.)

Double exclamation points. It's outlined in the "Welcome to Image Pickin'!" thread.

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edited 13th Aug '11 1:55:08 AM by Deboss

Agreed that a picture of a tween general is needed. Stars on the shoulders is the only rank pretty much everyone understands.

It's unfortunate that Marissa Picard hasn't become a multimedia sensation with lots of images, because she's the reducto ad absurdum of this trope.

edited 13th Aug '11 8:51:00 AM by suedenim

edited 13th Aug '11 10:54:23 AM by Madrugada

Oh, I think I remember that guy - he was actually trying to impersonate an officer at some function, wasn't he?

Yep. That picture was taken at some politician's victory party. A vet was there, took a bunch of pictures of him, sent them to a tv station with a list of everything that was impossible or highly improbable about him having all of them. Dude wound up with a prison sentence for "Stealing Valor" (a federal offense that means 'deliberately claiming to have military rank or awards to which you are not entitled")

That one works fine for me.

I dont see the trope.

How could a guy that young have gotten all those medals?

Well considering how there is a british joke in WWII how the US army gives out medals for brushing your teeth, its not hard.

edited 13th Aug '11 9:54:19 PM by Raso

And there's a US joke about how the Brits won't promote qualified enlisted to officers. I don't see the relevance.

(And I'm honestly not sure the medal at the neck is a US award after checking Wikipedia.)

I am just saying that metals dont add to "over ranked" actual rank does.

I asked in the military thread, they just started listing characters >.>. I don't think they realized that it's the rank that's the hard part.

A manga panel of someone like Six years old introducing themselves as like a major general would work. Or Captain Bright or any number of Gundam captains who got a Battlefield Promotion to get their spot doing the same thing (Or any of the Char Clone s) lacking pics though.

edited 14th Aug '11 1:25:43 AM by Raso

The most obviously absurd elements of that guy's picture are, IMO:

• He just sewed a CIA patch (probably from a tourist shop or something) onto the jacket.
• I'm pretty sure the "soul patch" has never, ever been regulation for any branch of the military.

And, yeah, I forget what it actually is, but obviously the one around his neck was just chosen because he thought it looked cool.

CBE: Commander of the British Empire. A very high honor.

Bump...any objections to the guy with all the decorations?

I like it.