Walts, posers & wannabes (merged)

[Retired AF Guy]

I think this guy may be a bit touched in the head. If not he soon will be.

http://popularmilitary.com/valor-thief-catch-can/

According to the comments he has already been outed.

 

[Scoobie Newbie]

He Makes no bones about being a phoney. He's just daring some jacked up Ranger to track him down and beat 7 shades of shit out of him.

 

[JesseWZ]

If the American justice system has anything like a Canadian Production Order they can probably track this guy down and charge him in short order.

 

[LightFighter]

Quite the claim from a former Nav Comm(?)

Kiesza: From elite sniper to chart topper

Even when you're sneaking up on the enemy?

Ha, ha! Those sneak-up crawls are really painful but they're painful on the abs and the butt. I was actually really, really good at the navy [she was groomed to join the elite sniper unit].

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30327574

Kiesza also found herself breaking code for the Royal Canadian Navy, who attempted to recruit her as a sniper

http://www.universalmusic.ca/press-releases/29904/

 

[George Wallace]

Well....She definitely sets the record as the "Highest Maintenance Walt" yet.

 

[KerryBlue]

Doesn't really seem as though she is actively Walting compared to some others in this thread. Perhaps it is the misinterpretation by reporters and PR people who do not know any better. 

 

[FSTO]

This is more of an overactive immagination of the singer's PR section or an overactive immagination from the BBC reporter.
Groomed for elite sniper = did well on the range during basic and then back at TECUMSEH was considered for the Canadian Small Arms Championships?

Cut her some slack.

 

[Scoobie Newbie]

If she had an ethical bone in her body she'd get a retraction or issue a clarification.

 

[Good2Golf]

Concur with FSTO.  It is not uncommon for reporters to use "interpretive artistic license" on the basic facts gleaned from an interview.  Many an interviewee probably were left scratching their head wondering whom else a reporter may  have spoken to to collect all the facts for a personal story.

Regards
G2G

 

[George Wallace]

If she had an ethical bone in her body she'd get a retraction or issue a clarification.

That would take a lot of retractions.  As the days pass, the story is further expanded upon.  'Artistic License' on the part of someone is stretching the bounds a little:

From The Daily Beast (whatever publication that may be.):

Seven years prior, Kiesa Rae Ellestad was in simulation training, dispatching virtual terrorists with a Colt Canada C-7 rifle—the equivalent of an Armalite AR-15.

“Ours is advanced for cold weather, so the barrel won’t explode in arctic conditions,” she says with a grin. “I was really good at shooting.”

She enrolled in the Naval Reserve of the Royal Canadian Navy at 17 and soon learned that, due to an undiagnosed eye condition, her brain could lock focus on to a single target and refused to let it go. Before long, she was awarded the “Top Shot” award, and poised to be a top-level sniper. She was even recruited by the Calgary Highlanders—a Primary Reserve infantry regiment—which offered to have her be mentored by the Canadian who fired the longest sniper shot in history.

But killing CG enemies was as far as she got. “I could never kill a real person,” she says.

Now, as this story continues, and the 'Artistic License' of the PR folk grows, they do have to get the information from somewhere; and that somewhere has to be her.

 

[PMedMoe]

Now, as this story continues, and the 'Artistic License' of the PR folk grows, they do have to get the information from somewhere; and that somewhere has to be her.

Don't you know that she's been there and done it?  And if she hasn't, clearly she's going to....  :

:sarcasm:

 

[The Bread Guy]

This is more of an overactive immagination of the singer's PR section or an overactive imagination from the BBC reporter.

Concur with FSTO.  It is not uncommon for reporters to use "interpretive artistic license" on the basic facts gleaned from an interview.  Many an interviewee probably were left scratching their head wondering whom else a reporter may  have spoken to to collect all the facts for a personal story.

I'll buy that reporters sometimes get the wrong end of the stick, but in the case of studio information like this ....
http://www.universalmusic.ca/press-releases/29904/
.... the musician and/or her people have to OK the content.

From The Daily Beast (whatever publication that may be.) ....

Good catch - The Daily Beast is a pop-culture online news outlet (usual Wikipedia caveats apply):

.... The Daily Beast is an American news reporting and opinion website founded and formerly published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the short-lived Talk Magazine. The Daily Beast was launched on 6 October 2008, and is owned by IAC. John Avlon, an American journalist and political commentator as well as a CNN contributor, is the site's editor-in-chief, and Rhona Murphy is its interim CEO. Brown stepped down as editor in September 2013.

The name of the site was taken from a fictional newspaper in Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop.

On 12 November 2010, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced a merger deal, creating a combined company, The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. On 3 August 2013 IAC, owner of The Daily Beast, sold Newsweek to IBT Media, owner of the International Business Times.  In September of 2014, one year after Tina Brown's departure was announced, The Daily Beast reached a new record of 21 million unique visitors - a 60% year-over-year increase in readers, accompanied by a 300% increase in the overall size of its social media community ....

 

[FSTO]

Upon further review. She should clear a few things up.

 

[George Wallace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0lgqud30N8

 

[Jarnhamar]

Seven years prior, Kiesa Rae Ellestad was in simulation training, dispatching virtual terrorists with a Colt Canada C-7 rifle—the equivalent of an Armalite AR-15.

“Ours is advanced for cold weather, so the barrel won’t explode in arctic conditions,” she says with a grin. “I was really good at shooting.”

She enrolled in the Naval Reserve of the Royal Canadian Navy at 17 and soon learned that, due to an undiagnosed eye condition, her brain could lock focus on to a single target and refused to let it go. Before long, she was awarded the “Top Shot” award, and poised to be a top-level sniper. She was even recruited by the Calgary Highlanders—a Primary Reserve infantry regiment—which offered to have her be mentored by the Canadian who fired the longest sniper shot in history.

But killing CG enemies was as far as she got. “I could never kill a real person,” she says.

This is going beyond artistic license into full retard. 

 

[Eye In The Sky]

This made for an entertaining read:

Shared with the standard caveats:


http://t.thestar.com/#/article/news/gta/2014/11/21/flights_of_fancy_at_markham_airport_a_former_cold_war_pilots_big_plans.html

We sent guys to Area 51?

It says 'former pilot'.  He's sporting some version of American wings on his OD (Cdn) flying jacket in the pic,  but here it looks to me like he has the Photo Tech trade badge on.

 

[The Bread Guy]

It says 'former pilot'.  He's sporting some version of American wings on his OD (Cdn) flying jacket in the pic,  but here it looks to me like he has the Photo Tech trade badge on.

Good visual catch, EITS!  According to this, you're bang on ....

.... In 1957, as soon as he turned 18, Mr. Rubin joined the Royal Canadian Air Force as a ground and air-reconnaissance photographer, though he already had a pilot's licence ....

.... which is not exactly a "onetime reconnaissance pilot" and "former Cold War pilot."  Here, it's a bit broader, but not entirely clear if you read on the fly (no pun intended) ....

.... The former Royal Canadian Air Force photo reconnaissance specialist and NATO-decorated pilot ....

Since nothing is in quotes, I can't find any quotes of him saying, in effect, "I was a pilot in the RCAF".  That said, there is wiggle room in that the headline writer (who, most of the time, is not the same person who wrote the article) may not have read the piece carefully enough to differentiate "pilot" from "technician", especially if s/he read only as far as ".... the time he spent in the air force flying top-secret reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union .... He was briefly stationed in Canada before being transferred overseas to fly harrowing high-altitude missions for NATO and the CIA ...."

That said, I leave it to SME's to sort out the "I was in Area 51" stuff.

 

[Eye In The Sky]

The Area 51 stuff, I have no iron in that fire. 

As for aerial recce flights out of BC, who knows what went on back in those days.  The one guy I know who I could ask and trust anything he said was fact is my Dad but he didn't join the VP community until the later part of the '60's. 

Anyone care to tell me exactly what flights went on last week out of our operational Sqns?  No?  Didn't see anything or everything on the news?  I know some of it and, of course, won't be discussing what did, or did not, happen, outside of the crew room or Sqn lines.  Point being, just like our sub ops or SOF or whatever, not everything that happens at a flying Sqn is common knowledge around the CF and/or reported on the news in this day and age, image back then before digital media, ATI laws, etc. 

Could Clunks or Argus's been tasked to fly missions close to/approaching Russian airspace, maritime approaches, collect photo Int, etc?  Hmmmm.  Did/do the Russians do the same thing with their Bears? 

I guess it's like the Caramilk secret or Santa Claus...most people will never really know the facts.

 

[HARSH LASER]

BBC News article "Kiesza: From elite sniper to chart topper"

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30327574

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Elite navy sniper unit.

Hmm.  Nothing comes to mind on that one.  It must be on one of the CODs that didn`t come out for PC...I don`t have Xbox.  ;D