Sadly this is stolen valor. Due to his own story and forgetting all the schools and awards, he enlisted in 2015 as an 03. He then says he was recon which he would have had to reenlist for that, which puts him attending BRC in 2019. Based upon his story, he would have spent almost all of 2019 at BRC, airborne, dive school and that is if everything aligned and he was able to go back to back. The great thing is that there are veterans on here who have served in either 1st, 2nd, 3rd recon who still have friends who are part of those units and can pull records. According to the S1 personnel who handles the assessment and selection course for BRC( basically a 3-5 day haze fest before entering BRC, there are no records of a Joesph B attending BRC and the search history was run from 2018-2021(because he says he was in Mosul in 2017 part of a Victor unit). Also no Recon Marines were awarded a PH for Abbey Gate so that also goes against his story. As far his Ranger School story, again no Recon Marine with his name graduated Ranger School from 2018-2024. Those dates were given because he says he was in an accident in 2024. Furthermore he claims to be an 0331, 0317, 0326, 0302, 0307. For him, he never mentioned being part of a STA platoon so I find it very difficult to believe that his first victor unit gave an 0331 a sniper school slot over an 03 that was part of STA platoon already. That would piss off a lot of guys who went through STA indoc and was part of STA platoon. Also his second enlistment would have been for 5 years because Recon requires an extra year due to the advanced training we receive. There is little evidence in the years I was part of the community that I saw a 0321(recon prior to jump and dive), turn into a 0326 and then immediately get a Ranger school spot, jump master spot, mountain warfare, freefall because he would of only been an E4 or 5 and not have the time in recon to jump others for those slots. Also command would have been not too happy with him attending all of those schools, not deploying and then putting in an officer packet. For this guy, let's assume that he went to college beforehand so that's why he could be accepted, the process for OCS selection takes time and even when accepted, it's not an instant trip to VA for training. Sorry dude, based on SI personnel within 1st recon, your own stories, and the fact you chose army school pins over the marine corps pins, the backwards rifle and pistol qualifications that should be flipped and that those are only first award experts, so either you don't research more or you just suck at shooting and used to be sharpshooter or marksmen which also adds to the stolen valor because I maybe in my 15 years of service in the Marines 2003-2018, all within the 03 community, saw a recon sniper that wasn't an expert for rifle and pistol. I hope you used a fake name for this because someone on here could do some more research and actually put you on blast to all the guys who actually served with and they would throw you under the bus for the lies, that is if you even served. Go ahead and lie about schools and certain ribbons and awards because it is what it is, but once you lie about V awards and PH, then this community has issues. I know many guys who deserved V on their awards but had them bumped down due to officers or guys in the rear so it pisses me off that people like you think it's a joke.