Eric Starsevic: Phony Special Forces Krav Maga?

[longislandmma]

This guy is a joke.

[wetware]

(edit) that seems like an extraordinarily active career to be only a Major, or am I missing something?

Nope. He'd have to be pretty much everywhere at all times doing everything. That man is truly an army of one.

I'm trying to figure out what he's got between his jumpmaster badges...

I think it might be glider. It'd be just like this toolshed to use a badge that hasn't been used in his likely lifetime.

[submessenger]

Nope. He'd have to be pretty much everywhere at all times doing everything. That man is truly an army of one.

I'm trying to figure out what he's got between his jumpmaster badges...

I think it might be glider. It'd be just like this toolshed to use a badge that hasn't been used in his likely lifetime.

One thing I haven't considered is that he mixed in stuff from other services...

[submessenger]

The highest award he "received" appears to be PMOF.

Identified some more from the bottom two rows of his ribbon board:

(not sure) | (not sure) | UN Medal | NATO Medal
NATO Kosovo | (pick 2: NATO Iraq | NATO ISAF | NATO Article 5) | NATO Meritorious

Can anybody point out what would go in precedence between UN Medal and Army Service? My guess is that they are awards from other countries.

[Sam Browning]

Do we have any members in Greece? This guy is worthy of press attention.

[SLBC]

There's more info on his webpage. Not gonna post the link - maybe it'll be put down like the YouTube vid if I do, who knows? I fear the mechanics of the Internets. But you can find it at the This ain't Hell article link of OP anyway.

Brief description of the site: Greek words, pics and guns. It seems like they really enjoy training with guns. Sam Browning is right, it would really help if someone with proficiency in Greek language showed up.

There's a little KM history in English, though. To cut it short, after almost 2000 years of Arab bullying, Jewish people got fed up and created a fighting system to defend themselves. Many instructors gathered up and created something called Kapap - which would later become KM, supposedly. He also says Imi Lichtenfeld came along after such process was already underway.

My interpretation is that Mr. Starcevic's/Starsevic's organization argues that KM has no official founder. It's like KM is just something the Israeli Defense Force does. If that is the case, he's free to spew BS about it all he wants. It's funny because all the other KM guys I've seen before give long speeches about some sort of lineage and tr00 KM stuff. Hell, I've seen videos of KM guys bowing like karateka.

[submessenger]

@Phrost - was that your FOIA, or somebody else's? W. Rabbit was keen to point out that Starsevic != Starcevic; perhaps government efficiency beat us?

I've noticed that his ribbon board appears to follow proper precedence - not hard to do, but attention to detail is the point, here; similarly, he doesn't claim a Purple Heart (why lie about something that's guaranteed to get you called out?). He has Kosovo awards, and GWOT. Kosovo was only awarded in 1999, and GWOT beginning 2001.

If we assume he left active duty as a Major in 2002, that would put his approximate commission date at 1992, probably later based on his awesomeness. That makes sense, as he doesn't have either KLM - which likely pushes his initial commission out to 1995 or later. Likewise, he doesn't have ICM, which means he probably resigned 2003 or before. The logic, here, is what are the chances that he was so awesome but didn't serve in either major conflict? If it takes, on average, 10 years to make Major - one of those conflicts should be in his jacket.

[W. Rabbit]

As the honorable Quiet Professionals on that link I posted have noted, this guy is not so Krav Maga or SF at the moment, and is scrambling to show his mastery of fraud by trying to destroy his internet trail.

Good luck with that.

*Rabbit does his best Kurgan laugh*

[submessenger]

As the honorable Quiet Professionals on that link I posted have noted, this guy is not so Krav Maga or SF at the moment, and is scrambling to show his mastery of fraud by trying to destroy his internet trail.

Good luck with that.

*Rabbit does his best Kurgan laugh*

You know he's a fake, I know he's a fake... but, there is a deep sense of satisfaction I sense coming over the horizon in leaving this guy no argument, if/when he does show up to argue. Pretend I said that in my best NY Swiss faux-Scottish accent, it sounds better that way.

[wetware]

If we assume he left active duty as a Major in 2002, that would put his approximate commission date at 1992, probably later based on his awesomeness. That makes sense, as he doesn't have either KLM - which likely pushes his initial commission out to 1995 or later. Likewise, he doesn't have ICM, which means he probably resigned 2003 or before. The logic, here, is what are the chances that he was so awesome but didn't serve in either major conflict? If it takes, on average, 10 years to make Major - one of those conflicts should be in his jacket.

ISAF would put the end date of his imaginary "service" at some point past Aug 31, 2006.

The one between service and NATO medals that is white-yellow-blue-yellow-white is a Basic Military Training Honor Graduate Ribbon. It's an Air Force ribbon. The one to his right under the lapel looks like a COAST GUARD BCT Honor Graduate Ribbon.

This would mean that he has been prior service at least twice before he was in the army.

God, this guy makes me angry.

[MarJoe]

My apologlies for the nerco,but I could not let this pass. Unless he was enlisted befire becoming a officer . He cannot have a CIB. His CIB has a star on it, meaning he had to have frought in the RVN then the sand box wars. All the sand box wars under one (1) award period. This is a common mistake by POSers. Joe