Meet Reed Pacheco.

Reed used to be the CEO of Warrior Pointe — an organization that claims to help veterans in some way or another — and a former member of the United States military himself. He was, according to fact, a PFC in the Army’s National Guard at one point, before he was discharged after a few years for “serious offenses”. He went to Korea for a short stint, but that was about it.

Earlier this year, however, if you listened to him and his fiction you would have gleaned an entirely different story/picture. A picture that was distorted in unforgivable ways.

Pacheco claimed (as seen in the video below) that he was a crew chief (staff sergeant) in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) during Operation Gothic Serpent back in October of 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. If this particular event rings a bell, that’s not surprising — it was immortalized in the famous Hollywood movie Black Hawk Down.

Hear and see it for yourself. It’s nuts.

He’s since “apologized” for his grandiose fibs, and even released this statement to Guardian of Valor, the watchdog website that nailed him in the first place:

pacheco apology