A really dumb question. Army Harrier Pilot

[Bill Murray]

But.......I thought this might be a place to ask as some of you have been in Afghanistan or know folks who are there.

Last night one of our occassional customers came in to complain about a repair job we did on his radio control truck last February.

The whole story is too long to tell here, but he was more than a bit drunk and got into quite an argument with my staff (I had already gone home and this was relayed to me by phone).

During his tirade, he played the Veterans card saying he had recently gotten back from Afghanistan and yelling at my guys for their very poor treatment of a combat Veteran. When the question of what he did to the truck to break it again came up, he apparently told them that he was technically much more proficient than they were and as evidence of this, said he was a Harrier pilot.

As he had been caught in so many other lies during this conversation my guys let it go but when I debriefed them this morning, this one stuck out. The guy is US Army and I am not aware of any Army Harrier pilots anywhere, let alone in combat in Afghanistan.

Anyone have any thoughts on this???

Bill