I'll add to the list the former-military who has to tell anybody and everybody about all his "missions" he completed and all his "I shouldn't tell you guys this, but..." stories. I worked for awhile at Sportsman's Warehouse and there was a guy there who was like this, coupled with some MAJOR napoleon syndrome. He would tell stories and show pictures from his missions and deployments and anytime he was in a discussion and was losing control of what he felt somebody should be telling a customer, he would immediately get heated and tell everyone they didn't know what they were doing because none of us had "seen anything" in our lives. He was an expert at everything from CQB to ELR, and apparently he helped trained Seal Team 6 when they went after Sadaam. I can appreciate the "tell it like it is" mentality, but I've met a few guys who just felt the need to be in charge of and over people, and they liked to make it abundantly clear that they were right and everyone else was wrong. IME, most of these guys work at small gun shops, and I've made it a point to avoid them like the plague. I just work with other people when I'm in those shops.
I 1000000% support military and combat vets and am sincerely grateful for their service. I also think that, just like I went to college, they should be able to profit from their experiences, since that's how they chose to gain an education. But newsflash of the day is that just because a guy was in the military, that DOESN'T make them an expert on all things firearm. No different than hunting elk a few times in the last 10 years doesn't make you a master elk guide.
