Phony Navy SEAL of the Week? BUDS Class 7101, Soldier of Fortune Cover, Legit Navy SEAL Dude. 

Hahaha

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I hear ya i still can’t stop talking

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Lol

I'm seeing that lol. I've been wondering ever since I found his channel how he treats or reacts to actual Seals! I imagine with his seek and destroy mentality towards phonies that it bleeds into his interaction with Actual Seals. It would appear that unless he knows a Seal personally through interaction he treats them as phonies until they've been proven legit. Kinda reminds me of our judicial system Guilty until you've proven beyond a doubt that you are innocent.

No, that's the police. Court does indeed do innocent until.

A master chief demands more respect out of real seals I guess haha

He’s Italian, Italians NEVER stop talking lmao

It's the language barrier man. That you didn't deserve it anyway, he was legit. I love the way he said it was an honor at the end, Din showed great respect.

I served with many guys (mostly Caribbean countries) not citizens of U.S. As a group, I feel they were above average sailors. I also hope that helped them to eventually become citizens. Unless you are natives of this country, that’s how most of us got here.

​@@VanyaTheSlavic Must be worth it.

God bless that Italian American Seal. Also Don Shipley's patience.

I actually really enjoy Don confirming falsely accused Seals than outing phonies, it's really satisfying. Same thing with the ROK Seal, Ken Rhee, who graduated South Korean Seals and American BUDs.

Yeah, he really does seem like an awesome guy! I'd love to see a follow up video where he told his story. I bet it is an amazing one!

I was rooting for him to be SEAL. Nothing like a happy ending. I also had that copy of SoF.

Why relieved? He is legit. It would be Don's bad if he got it wrong.

Gurio sounds like a great guy. Maybe Don should bring him on once in a while to find some frauds...They could make a great Good Guy/Bad Guy team...Gurio is super gregarious and Donnie is the no B.S. guy....I'm telling you, it would be great...

Same! Seems like a cool dude.

It's very rare, Gary... Thanks for watching...

@@donshipleyformerbuds131 Thank you for the reply Senior Chief.

Great work, Senior Chief. I support your channel with 10 bucks a month. As an old army Radio Teletype Operator (that will show my age!), I can't stand stolen valor. It's an insult to all us vets!

@@donshipleyformerbuds131 Don I enjoy your videos, I never served, but you do a good thing!!

Gary Lunsford he was fucking hard to talk to though. wouldn't STFU

Lol hope ya get the chance to

Lol god bless Gurio

Right

Totally agree

LOL good joke. Guy acted miserably

No sir I'm not doing that again ..with the email part. Lmao

How true. LMAO!

That literally made me LOL. I'm a former fleet sailor, but really that's funny.

I would like to see that. When I was a kid I read those magazines. I turned out to be an aircraft maintenance working heavies, 22 years. I loved the Air Force! But those guys are bad ass.

Can’t blame the guy for being suspicious. If more vetting was being done stolen valor would be less of a problem. Granted this was just bar talk though lol.

He didn't even google him. Smh

badass? hes a toolbag that doesnt know how to stop talking over people while on the phone and lt the other peson talk. he desnt listen. he didnt learn any self discipline.

@@mikegrazio5376 He was at a bar. You ever heard some of the stories about seals and not just seals all branches getting in bar fights? Alcohol will do that. Don understood that. So yeah he's still a bad ass.

@Adolf Hitler For all we know, you could be a national socialist😳

@@mikegrazio5376 dudes out at a bar lol. You are the only tool bag here

@@jeanvaljean341 with a name Adolf Hitler one would think he wouldn’t judge.

A real life Michael Corleone.

@Electric Eye Slide: One of my best high school friends came to America from Italy in 1966. Paulo Paoletti. The only thing he could say in English was."Can I please bum a cigarette". We're still friend to this day & keep in touch. After we graduated high school in 1969, Paul was drafted in 1970 into the U.S Army even though he wasn't a citizen & immediately stationed in Vietnam for a tour of combat duty. Being a year younger I enlisted in the Air Force in Jan 1971, and couldn't have asked for better assignments. First in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon where I started a family, two years in the Azores where I lived off base with my family, and finally on the Oregon coast where we lived in base housing. It's been 52 years, and Paul still has nightmares about Vietnam.

@@nerblebun God bless him… Great character

Proud to be Italian 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇪🇸

I'm Italian also 3rd gen born in America my great grandfather came over before WWI an volunteered in the U.S Army an received his citizenship by volunteering. But sadly enough he past in the later half of 1930s from a combination of coil minners lung an from being exposed to muster gas from WWI. My grandfather was only 5 when his dad passed he never actually knew his dad .

giving the wrong class when you actually graduated is wild.

Yeah, what a great video. It should be viral, really.

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Eh. He wasn't that patient.

He was actually a dick to him!

@@superstarreviews9937 100%

Uhhh, I was being sarcastic. Shipley was talking with someone that sounded a little scattered. I talk with people like this all the time. They are incapable of carrying on a conversation because they can't, won't or lack the social ability to LISTEN so they tromp over anyone trying to interview them, giving disjointed and incomplete answers to only partially asked questions that they don't fully understand, along with a helping of irrelevant information. The situation is only exacerbated when they are speaking on the telephone. Mr. Vincenti sounds like he is a little forgetful and perhaps hard of hearing, and a rambling talker, which isn't uncommon for people in their 70s who suddenly feel like they've made a connection. Also, a lot of people who have spoken English as a second language for decades can suddenly start to struggle a bit with it past a certain age, further adding to the communication problem. Chief Shipley could have exercised more patience in teasing out the information required...but then as he mentions, perhaps it really was a long weekend and he was just tired himself. He did get a bit more respectful after he confirmed Mr. Vicenti's bona fides.

@@lynnpoint6395 Here's the thing. Vincente didn't deserve to be ambushed and have his service record questioned, nor be interrogated by a random smug goon making faces into the camera. Don does some good work here, but let's call it what it is. He was a prick to this man.

IRONY

He has to use his hands you can't see it over the phone.

He knows the phonetic alphabet! It seemed the man was hard of hearing.

Yeah it's the NATO phonetic alphabet after all lol.

It seems to me Vincente knew it when he was talking to Don himself. I think it was more a matter him having to deal with the guy giving him a hard time, and probably having to explain the phonetic alphabet to him really quick, because that's who was talking to Don when that occurred.

The Italian guy seems like a solid seal... Able to control his temper and make the guy buy drinks for the bar instead of knocking him out. Emotional flexibility and social dynamics

@@jordanbell4736that’s impressive for an Italian!!! I’m part Italian and we have some short fuses at times

Scary. 🇬🇧👍🤣😂

well said

But why the phoney title?

@@DaveSCameron so you can experience the same pleasant surprise that Don did.

@@FLAMINGBABYHEAD oh yeah he looked delighted all the way through....

Great. A bona fide. Good man.👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻

It probably doesn't happen very often at all haha

I know right! I would of loved to see the look on that guys face when he found out he was legit Lol….😲😂🤣

Aussi, welsh or scots accents can be a bit tough 😅

I'm an Australian son of a Welshman raised in the american south. My dad once asked me " Why do you sound like that?"

@@peterwhitehouse561 I'm still in Wales... Cymry Am Byth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍻👍

I laughed pretty hard at that too.

When I was with the Royal Marines I said it sounds like they’re speaking English but, I can’t understand what they’re talking about…

If he was there in the 80’s as a seal, how the hell does Don Shipley not know him. He would be easy to remember with that Italian accent. 😮

@@jimclemente6546 There are about 2500 active SEAL's at any one time...don't think you can know everyone.

@@catch-2259 There are only 10 six person seal teams at a time and they last for several years together. He was the east coast and Don was west coast, but being on the cover of soldier of fortune made him semi-famous becomes everybody thought that was Robert DeNiro in the Deerhunter. My uncle was serving in the Navy and absolutely knew who he was.

@@catch-2259 with all the support staff, it probably makes 2,500. I used to do all the home purchases for the Seals in Coronado and there were a ton of support and legal personnel.

@@jimclemente6546 I see. Every organization needs support staffs. That cover does look a lot like DeNiro. They are both Italian.

what I would give for one night of those stories... lol

Yeah, it really was.

Instead of the “oh gosh, it’s been so long I really don’t remember names….”

I bet he understands the word push-ups

@@hanktrill1498 lol had me laughing pretty good on that one

he speaks fluent Badass

@@CBDM777 Hahaha, no doubt.

What if he was actually a native English speaker but pretended to not speak it so that he could try and get away with things? 300IQ play

Honestly it was the other guy and Dons own fault he became so frustrated. The guy accusing him of being a fake seal fucked it up at first and then later on in the video where Don was talking to the Italian guy he asked him to spell his last name, He started to spell it and Don mistook him to be spelling his first name which frustrated Don and he said he didn't care about his first name to just spell his last but he was actually spelling his last name. Don being impatient and the other guy at the beginning of the call is what caused that whole debacle

At this point, I have patience with Don’s impatience.

How....in....the....HELL do you downgrade like that?! Semper Fi 😏

@@sonnyjs15 downgrade? I worked with many marines in my 30 years. Downgrade...now that’s funny.

Stop Glorifying defence services it's a job in lieu of which you are paid for 🙏🏼

Language barrier probably had something to do with it.

@@vaevictis5178 Probably more to do with old age. If it was a face to face it would have been much easier.

Yeah, this was real touching.

Lol what? No he doesn’t.

Easy to out the fakes, you ask the right questions they fold like a cheap suit.

Yes sir they do !!

I have encountered the same issues you mentioned. I am a Vietnam vet, serving as FN and clerk on an aircraft carrier in Yankee Station. I joined the Navy to enter the CB's to learn a trade and kill commies, but the military sends people where they are needed.

Fuckin A Brother, always have said if folks want to be cool they'd be saying they was Army Infantry, some cases Marine Infantry (never NG)

@@US_ARMY_25_INF._DIV. why you say this? What do you mean by loser? Please explain

Sorry for the late reply. Sad fact that the USCIS even deports some of them after their discharge.

life take us all down different roads.

Right?!?!

Don always says "No one ever forgets their SEAL class number." Well, here is one that did, ha ha. Don did a great job.

When you are remembering back 50 years it gets hazy

He's up there in years so that clouds time also

Lol I laughed