Mick Strider has some explaining to do.

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DX is an abbreviation for Direct Exchange, used in the Army to signify that a piece of equipment is going to be gotten rid of. If you break your issue gear, you take it down to CIF (the central issuing facility), DX it and get new stuff. Since soldiers jokingly refer to themselves and their bodyparts as equipment owned by the military, when someone is DXed, they are gotten rid of or removed from the area.
 
I admired US marketing and there is a lot of difference with the European one.
But the Strider collection of lies are impressive, I don't understand that a lot of people still believe his bullshit.
 
deovolens said:
I don't undrerstand that a lot of people still believe his bullshit.
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Give them time. It always starts with denial. "I can't believe this."

I'd be more than glad if this clears up and I'd apologize for for my statements if it turns out that I was wrong. But it really don't see it coming. Not after the reactions from his friends, the BS-answers, the distractions, the BS-PMs, the statements at badlands, the ban from another forum for asking a question here. It's indeed a huge shitburger to digest...
 
STR said:
Dx'd = Discharged.

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Spark said:
DX is an abbreviation for Direct Exchange, used in the Army to signify that a piece of equipment is going to be gotten rid of. If you break your issue gear, you take it down to CIF (the central issuing facility), DX it and get new stuff. Since soldiers jokingly refer to themselves and their bodyparts as equipment owned by the military, when someone is DXed, they are gotten rid of or removed from the area.
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Thank you.
 
Cougar Allen said:
What do you want to know about jaxurman aka Jack Alvaraz? It's all still here on this forum; use the search button. He fooled us for a long time; finally we caught him lying. Of course I don't suspect you of trying to hijack this thread with something irrelevant; the relevance is clear.
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Bullshiit Cougar, Like Jack, so is most of the stuff here about Strider. I just hope you BFC good deed doers will take the same effort and show the same enthusiasm to out other bad actors.

What about Vlad and don't give me the relevance bullshiit, look at the first post here. Tell me now what efforts you guys are going to on your expose on Thompson and cold steel?

The only relevance now is the witch hunt you guys have engaged in.

And KEVIN it took until today to finally be offended? yeah, right.....

And again, I don't know strider, never met him, know nothing about him beyond what I have read on the net and own not one Strider knife. Just hate witch hunts, period
 
Thanks Spark!

I looked closer at the DD214 and have come to the conclusion that the document is a complete forgery. Many areas are shaded to prevent alterations. This DD214 has a revision of July, 1979 and has a notation of having shaded areas. I do not see any shaded areas, just white background throughout. I am checking to see this revision date was in use in 1986 during Mick's "discharge".

THIS DD214 doesn't pass the smell test.

Mickey Ray Burger/Mickey Strider/Poser :jerkit:
 
wolfmann601 - you're way out of line in talking to Spark the way you are. There are a LOT of bad actors out there but you can only "out" the ones that continue to make a public specticle of themselves. There will be more outings to come on other people as they make asses of themselves in the community.

As for Lynn Thompson - he served in the military and left honorably as an officer according to Military.com and his DOD file.

Vlad is in another country and a theif but he's not a knifemaker right here in the industry in this country telling lies. If Strider had made apologies, etc. and meant them then that's one thing but the hits (and lies) just keep on comin'.
 
Spark said:
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Fair enough. How are these for motives:
I'm a veteran. This lie insults my service, and attempts to steal the valor of men like Gordon and Shugart to bolster the reputation of a convicted felon. How many of you have knives named after them, I think the model is the SnG? How do you think Gordon & Shugart would feel about a felon lying about going to be in that theatre, then making money off their deaths?

I'm a gun owner. A convicted felon talking about owning and using firearms is food for people like the Brady's.

I own this site. Mick Strider lied to me, and to the 80,000 members here, and to the industry as a whole.

How are those motives.



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I AGREE with you sir.
 
It's amazing that there are people willing to defend and excuse this guy - a guy still telling lies about his fantasy past as little as a week ago. I mean, it would be one thing if he sincerely repented but his behavior shows that he obviously doesn't. One thing for sure, I'll never buy a Strider knife.
 
For most people, the "Mogadishu Mick" plea bargain was "breaking news" just this week.

I know that this one account pushed me from thinking "that guy is probably a dirtbag" to "he's a total douchebag everyone should know about."

For a guy who has suggested violating various folks' orifices with wood products, you sure have curious standards as to who is deserving, Wolfmann.

Is money the only thing that can be stolen? Honor gets stolen everytime Mr. Mogadishu yaps about his fictional past.

Everyone who unwittingly has bought a SKI knife in part on the charm of the super spook yarns, has been duped into overpaying.

Perhaps somebody can clear something up for me? On military.com I don't find any Thomas D. or Duane Dwyer who seems to match Mr. Mogadishu's partner's "known" profile either.

There is a USMC entry for an E-5 who reputedly lives in Indiana, but who is a member at the website and does not provide dates of service or an MOS and an E-5 with a Vietnam Era MOS 2531 Field Radio Operator.

Well, at least that last Leatherneck really was an operator.:D
 
This is all incredibly sad. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Something I usually have no interest in doing.

But I'm a veteran. A lifer. I can't just ignore things like this.

I have to pay attention to facts. Not emotional claims, not angry refutations, not protestations about witch hunts. Facts.

I'll draw my own conclusions, thank you.
 
I can't ignore it and I just did my six year contract with four active years and two inactive. My wife is the lifer that retired after 22 years with full pension and HONORABLE status.

I looked at the DD214 again myself Spark and to me it reminds me of the UFO reports always shown on TV as 'proof' when nothing is left there but black outs. Why even publish that? What does it show or prove besides 6 weeks of training and a questionable Honorable instead of the norm HONORABLE?

I respect you fellas that have stood behind Mick as I said elsewhere and particularly two of them but at this point with reading this I must admit it worries me a bit on your behave. Alls I can figure is you certainly must be privy to some info that none of us has access to or need to know status to find out. I hope the latter of the two. Some of this stuff is new to me. I was not aware of many of the things Spark brought up actually.


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NorthStarXO said:
wolfmann601 - you're way out of line in talking to Spark the way you are. There are a LOT of bad actors out there but you can only "out" the ones that continue to make a public specticle of themselves. There will be more outings to come on other people as they make asses of themselves in the community.

As for Lynn Thompson - he served in the military and left honorably as an officer according to Military.com and his DOD file.

Vlad is in another country and a theif but he's not a knifemaker right here in the industry in this country telling lies. If Strider had made apologies, etc. and meant them then that's one thing but the hits (and lies) just keep on comin'.
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What the hell are you talking about?? I have been a member here a while, have batted back and forth with Kevin before, NOT ONCE have I been disrespectful. I might agree to what he is saying, the truth is may be uncontroverted so far. What I don't agree with is the delivery, thats all.

If what I said or how I said it is a bannable offense I will find out later when I try to sign on. If I am banned it won't change my long standing belief that in any matter there comes a point where repeating it is of no benefit

AND once again, I don't know the man and I have disected evidence for a long long time. This is not rocket science, the points been made and driven home, ALOT...........

Repeating this over and over trying to get Mick to apologize or further defend himself won't happen. Make this all a sticky so it stays on top forever and move on to some of the positive things happening in the knife industry.......
 
STR, you made a good point!!!

EVERYTHING is typed in uppercase. Mick's is not. If I remember correctly, All documentation was required to be in all caps.

Like I said, this DD214 does not pass the smell test.
 
Ira, I welcome any discussion of this matter that is productive and rational. Rest assured, you are not going to get banned - if I haven't banned you for arguing with me before, I'm certainly not going to do it when you are as calm & levelheaded as you are now.
 
Yes. I looked at my own DD214 and my wife's and ours are all upper case lettering on the forms.

Regarding the one posted today by Spark: It appears someone altered a federal document on the surface, which is not a small matter. Isn't that a felony also to alter government documents?

I can't say I was too happy to notice it when I first saw that DD214. Can't say I was aware of some of the things Mick himself posted about his past either until today so as far as I'm concerned some of you guys shouting old news are guilty of wishful thinking for a lot of it.

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Sometimes what we say about others says a lot about ourselves.

Now Boats is questioning Mr Dwyer. It is totally unbelievable.
 
Wolfmann,

Sir I respectfully have to disagree with you about this being old news. This is brand spanking new to me...and it hits home in a painful way.

I am not a combat vet....I am simply a SWAT copper who happens to be one of the gadget guys on the team (you know the type...flashlights, knives, guns, etc.).

Well, my best friend (and godfather to my son) left law enforcement after 9/11 and joined the army with his brother, both with SF contracts (18X). Well, as a gift I gave him a Strider/Surefire combo because we both believed that Mick Strider was a "high speed, low drag" operator who knew what guys going into harms way would need.

Well....I haven't called him to tell him the truth...and I certainly hope he never finds out...since I now feel quite foolish about buying the hype like a little school kid.

So...to me...it is both new...and relevant.
 
Why would Mr. Dwyer be above questioning? He has to know his partner is a fraud. Why would it be impossible that they might both be frauds?

Note I am not calling Dwyer a fraud---yet anyways. However, there is little or no apparent basis upon which to believe anything about SKI is the truth as it regards its founders.

If one of them doesn't check out, the other might not either.
 
This thread isn't about Duane Dwyer. I've never seen him make any outrageous claims about his service. I haven't seen anything that would question he is anything other than he says he is.
 
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