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I am calling this post, A Seal Who Did Not Fly. I am calling it because, have you ever seen The Navy Seals logo?. In the logo is a eagle with its wings out. The bird represents the strength of The Naval Seals. It is represented as an great American military unit. This was the unity which captured Osama Bin Laden, so you know they are great. But there was one man in Pennsylvania who thought they were so great, that he lied about being an actual Navy Seal. This man lied to the point of being a Navy Seal, that he pretended to be a character from the Steven Segal movie Under Siege. Under Siege is a great action movie. If you have not seen it, check it out.
In the movie, Steven Segal plays an ex-Navy Seals who is finishing out his last years of service before he retires as a ship's cook. Then the ship is hijacked by Tommy Lee Jones and his band of bad boys. I have never been in the Navy or maybe I forgot how the ship gets taken "Under Siege, but it is something how 7 guys take control of a ship with over 100 hundred trained military sailors. THINK ABOUT IT, BUT THAT IS THE MOVIES. In the end Steven Segal saves the day and rids the ship of Tommy Lee Jones and his crew.
This post is about Jim Moats who is a pastor, I say it again a pastor at Christian Bible Fellowship Church in Newville, Pennsylvania. This man faked being a Naval Seal. With all of the praise to The Naval Seals for capturing Bin Laden, Mr. Moats wanted to get some time of praise also, so he faked being a seal. So a preacher who lied, it is nothing new but it is unfortunate. Mr. Moats claimed during his time as a Navy Seal, he was water boarded and he was made to wash dishes when got in trouble. when he was going through Navy Seal trained at Little Creek Amphibious Base in Virginia Beach, VA in 1971.
Mr. Moats was in The Navy from 1971-1974, but he was never a Seal and he never fought in Vietnam. He never qualified to be a Navy Seal. He also claimed that he won The Navy Seal's highest honor, The Trident Medal. He soon confessed the medal he has was also a fake which he brought from a military supply store.
So this story is about one man's dream of becoming a Navy Seal, but it just did not come true. There are many people in the world who pretend to be something or someone they always wanted to be so Mr. Jim Moats wanted to be a Navy Seal. It is almost like alot of boys who want to be Superman, so they pretend to be Superman. They put on the cape, which is a towel and have the blue tights, which are actually blue briefs and socks that closely resembled red or had some red in it.
To me what hurts the most about this story is that it is not a little boy who is playing out a fantasy, but it is a full grown man, who happens to be a pastor.. One of the few people on Earth that you hope would not lie. This is one of the funniest and saddest stories I have heard this year so far. No one wants to be lied to to but it was not nice for this man to pretend to be something that he wasn't. Hopefully he will asked The Lord for forgiveness and not do this again. Not to judge Mr. Moats, but I should also ask the lord for forgiveness of my sins because I make mistakes just like Jim Moats. But to conclude, of all Navy movies to use, why "Under Siege". It was a great movie, but he could've used the movie "Navy Seals" which happens to star,Charlie Sheen. And no I am not trying to promote Charlie Sheen, but the movie Navy Seals was a great portrayal of this elite unit.
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