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Jorge Cruz; WTF?

by Jonn Lilyea••42

The folks at Terminal Lance sent this video to us last night and I’m going to chase this guy down, but seein’s how it’s a slow news day here’s some video for your entertainment. I couldn’t get through the whole 1 hour and 30 minutes of the video, but here’s some stuff I heard him say;

He claims he was awarded “Medal of Valor” for actions in Colombia. He was steaming towards Afghanistan on 9-11, and then he was the first Marine into Iraq where he was awarded a Navy Cross. And, of course, he was Force Recon – just based on his claim to be a Navy Cross awardee, I’m calling him a phony;

I made it to about 20 minute mark before I tapped out.

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42 thoughts on “Jorge Cruz; WTF?”

  3. From the looks of him, the only thing this guy ever “snuck up on” was his local McDonalds.

  6. The only way Jabba the Hutt was Airborne was with the assistance of riggers and riding a pallet.

  7. Sounds like he and “Heavy Drop” ought to get together and go bowling–provided Heavy Drop ever gets out of federal PMITA prison.

  8. I can’t believe he was asked if he was drafted or enlisted. With a dumb ass like that doing the interview he could have said anything without question.

  10. The Marine Corps always brings in the jail or USMC guys as E-3s. It’s an ROTC equivalent.

  12. As the Son and Godson of two Force Recon Marines, I can legitimately say that the only time he would have done beach reconnaissance is as a beaches whale… And the only recon he ever did is to the chocolate wonderfall at Golden Coronary, I mean Corral. Lol

  13. If this guy was ever a snake eater, as he claims, it was probably George Michaels’ trouser snake in a public shitter in Cali…..

  14. Well his name does sound familiar, I think his callsign on the net was FAT BASTARD…

  17. What the Vegas over/under on this guy coming over and threatening to sue Jonn/us after he finds out he’s been outed here?

    I’m betting by 0900 tomorrow.

  18. Guys, any question why I’m ready to go call these fools out and ready to go to jail for beating their silly asses down?

  19. #4 JP,
    Stole my line.
    If nothing else, he could roll over the enemy and flatten them.

  22. @ NH Sparky. I’ll take your bet and raise it to *zilch*…I wonder if I can be awarded the “Latrine Orderly” medal now…What say you? lol!

  29. Another in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project…go figure. If the Library of Congress lists him as a hero, that’s a pretty good endorsement, even if the Marines “have scrubbed his records.”

  30. I just read the entire transcript. Holy fuck this guy’s a pretty good liar.

    If I was single, I’d let him pick up chicks for me at the bar. He is so good, he could probably convince the ladies that I wasn’t a fat ass.

  31. From LOC Transcript of his Interview:

    All I can say about Columbia is that it was a drug interdiction. The feds found out where the people were doing what they were doing. I’ve got to keep it as vague as possible. Well, as gray as possible, should I say. We — how to best term this? They found their position, they found what they were doing. We were on MU. They asked us to intercede. We interceded. And a lot of drugs were seized and destroyed. And we operated, we got a Medal of Valor for that one. I don’t think I put that one down. I just realized I got a Medal of Valor for that one. It got very hairy. And in the end we lost two guys. But out of the 12 guys that went we did pretty good.

    This was — this was the beginning of Iraq, just before the beginning of the Iraq war. Right after 9/11, like I said, we went to Afghanistan. We suck out — we were seeking out high value targets. And there was one incident that kind of strikes me that I’ve always talked about and people wonder why I talk about it. But it’s, like, it’s always stuck in my mind. That’s where I got the Navy Cross. We were going into a cave and instead of using your standard entry technique we just kind of, like, three of us just stood out in front of the cave because the cave was pretty wide. And I was relatively new. I was, like, the new man on the stick. The fourth guy was higher up on the mountain trying to set up com so we could be heard because with the mountains in Afghanistan it’s hard to get the proper communication to move through the mountains. And two of my guys got hit. I picked up one guy. I returned fire. I couldn’t see what I was hitting because it was a dark cave. I guess they saw us because of the moonlight and they began firing. I grab the first guy, dragged him up. I told the com guys, I said, look, we need the other guys down there and they started firing. So he comes down with me. And we returned fire. I remember he came and threw a grenade in. I remember grabbing a second guy and you could hear, like, the bullets bouncing off the rocks. And then once he’s threw the grenade he realized once it went off they must have hid in some sort of crevasse, and they came right back out. So we grabbed the guy and started going back up. On the way up I guess he established some sort of com because on the way up he was talking on the mic that we had, they sent us air support and they picked up the guys. And for that we both got Navy Crosses because we didn’t leave them behind.

    The Purple Heart was we were clearing a room in Iraq. And when you clear a room you’re supposed to enter in, fan out, and take up 50 percent of the room. And when I cleared the room I was the first one in. When I went — I remember coming from right to left and cutting up the corner. Well, when I cut up that corner there was, like, a dark spot here and I didn’t clear that dark spot. I just kind of, like, for some reason, I mean, you train, you train, you train, but some reason you slip every once in a while. And I should have cleared that corner and I didn’t, I kept it moving. And sometimes I wonder did the guys come in so fast they didn’t even see the guy or did they — were they paying so much attention to the rest of the room they didn’t see the guy. But the guy came over my shoulder with a sharp object and stabbed me through the shoulder. I have a scar for it. That’s how I got a Purple Heart. I got a couple other Purple Hearts for, like, falling out of helicopters, being stupid and not being linked in when we were coming out. Broke my femur, broke some ribs. One of our helicopters got hit, that’s where I broke the ribs. Broke the femur just by not being linked in and we had to move, we were getting — receiving fire, fell out that time. You would think I would learn my lesson the first time. We got the Valor one for our operations in Columbia. I don’t understand how you do an operation and get a Valor for a non-wartime operation, but we got it for that one. That was pretty cool. They threw a grenade at us. I just picked it up, threw it right back. Didn’t even think about it. And I guess my CO decide I was supposed to get a Medal of Valor for that. And the Navy Cross one was — all this stuff. My Navy Cross one was because we left the guys — we didn’t leave the guys behind and they were shooting at us. So we just — it’s kind of, like, — it’s kind of, like, — I don’t know. It’s kind of, like, football. You catch the ball, you know they are going to hit you, but you do it anyway. And I didn’t — I couldn’t see myself, even if it meant dying, leaving those guys behind. It was kind of like, those are the guys that were, like, to me they were, like, my big brothers because they taught me everything. Because I didn’t go into the linear path of training I had to learn a lot of stuff from different people until I can go through the course, but yet I was being deployed because my secondary MOS is NBC, nuclear biological chemical. So the other secondary mission to a lot of things was if I found any nuclear devices, biological or chemical, like agents, I was to document it, dispose of it, keep it moving. And that’s why I got attached to that unit. And it was — it was interesting because I wasn’t going to leave them behind regardless, no matter what happened, even if I had to fight, like, multiple guys to get back to them. I was going to bring them home.

  33. The video above was removed as well. I hope someone copied the material before it disappeared in the fantasy ether

  36. This struck my eye: “We suck out”….

    If he had just left off “out”, it would be less ridiculous.

    It’s a shame that people with such vivid imaginations don’t put their ‘talent’ (I used that word loosely) to better use.

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