Blast From The Past — Thomas Reister is not a combat wounded veteran

This week’s blast from the past “winner” is Thomas Reister. Jonn’s post on him was simple compared to the other posts on phonies. Thomas came with a service dog, he wore paraphernalia identifying him as a Gulf War Veteran, and he sported awards and decorations he did not earn.

For some reason, the organization that gave him the service dog claimed that he had suffered things that only other wounded warriors would understand. A review of Thomas Reister’s official records showed that he left active duty before the Gulf War.

Additionally, it did not show him as earning any warfare specialist badge that would warrant him wearing one of the badges on his cap.

This is one of the posts that would’ve garnered the average amounts of responses that a stolen valor post would’ve received. However, Thomas Reister helped make this one of the stolen valor posts that garnered well above the average number of responses.

It didn’t take long for him to deploy his sock puppets to the thread to try to dazzle us with his baloney.

He jumped onto the post about him and kept arguing. Naturally, you guys jumped in and “ate him alive”. His persistence with trying to get us to respect him resulted in the response count to shoot up to 820.

Too many sock puppet posts to quote here, so I’ll highlight three of them.

Originally posted by “DAVE” (Sock Puppet):

WELL WELL WELL LOOKS LIKE MY OLD FREIND TOMMYS PICTCHER AND STORY IS OFF UR DUMB INTERNET SITE ;FOR LOOSERS. HAH HAH HAH WHO GOT THE LAST LAUGH LOOKS LIKE OLD THOMAS REISTER WAR HERO VIETNAM DESERT STORM MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER WAR HERO VETEREN. U ASS WHOLES PICKED THE WRONG MAN TO MESS WITH AND TELL LIES!!!!

Notice the grandiose claims he makes in that first quote.

He called us losers; however, Thomas Reister was the one that kept getting kicked out. He’s also the one that spent time in a homeless shelter. His attitude, as displayed on the post about him, was a common denominator for these experiences.

He deployed multiple sock puppets to make it sound like he had some buddies defending him. But, with the sock puppets constantly saying, “ASS WHOLE”, constantly utilizing all capitalized words, and constantly displaying similar patterns, we knew better.

Originally posted by “TOM” (Sock Puppet):

U LIKE TO TRY IT ASS WHOLE ID KICK UR A** SO HARD U CAN TASTE UR OWN SH*T. IF U FOUND TOMMY HED WHUP UR ASS AROUND THE BLOCK.

He accused us of being Internet tough guys. However, looking at how he described us in his responses, it was obvious that he was projecting his traits onto us. All one had to do was to read what he said about us to see what kind of person he actually was.

The following quote laments the “disrespect” that he received, the “lies” that he was subjected to, and also laments that he was “cheated on”. Judging by the attitude that he showed on that thread, there’s a good chance that his controlling, combative, sensitive nature drove his responses to other people’s reactions to him… As well as his responses to us.

He didn’t realize that what he was seeing, in his description in the below quote, was a result of those around him reacting to his toxic behavior:

Originally posted by “TOM” (Sock Puppet):

HE DID WORK HE WORKED HIS A** OFF FOR HERE AND ALL HE GOT IN RETURN WAS DISRESPECT AND CHEATED ON AND LIES JUST LIKE THE LIES NOW SOME LEOPERDS DONT CHANGE THEIR STRIPES.

You should mosey over to the other thread to read the hilarious exchange that followed.

Here’s what Jonn said in the original post:

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Someone sent us their work on this Thomas Magnum Reister fellow. He also goes by the name Thomas Riester. He’s in San Antonio, Texas, and he somehow convinced Service Dog Express to give him a service dog named “Connor”. This post used to quote from an article that the dog people wrote in which they claimed that Reister suffered “unimaginable things that only other Wounded Warriors could comprehend”. When we highlighted that, the dog people decided that they’d take the blame for it and they said that Thomas hadn’t told them that he was a combat veteran, that they made it up for their organization. OK.

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But they haven’t been able to explain how he wears this fugly Desert Storm Veteran cap everywhere, you know, seein’s how he’s not a veteran of Desert Storm;

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He’s been homeless at times since he left the Navy and he blames PTSD for his bad behavior, but I don’t know how much PTSD he has or which “unimaginable things that only other Wounded Warriors could comprehend” he’s seen. He spent three years in the US Navy from 1985 to 1988 (he left the service more than two years before Desert Storm) and another nine years in the Navy Reserves. He has no awards for any deployments to combat;

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The way I understand it, he does have some disabilities in regards to his legs and knees and he’s being treated by the VA, but those are not service-connected injuries.

Comments

28 responses to “Blast From The Past — Thomas Reister is not a combat wounded veteran”

  1. A deck ape and not a Snipe to disgrace the Engineering Dept.

  2. “DAVE”,

    “TOM” IS NOT A COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN.

  3. The Stranger

    Ah yes, I remember this crusty old turd. Good old Thomas Keister!

  4. Comm Center Rat

    “…why don’t you just take your Mama home some chicken and then I won’t have to stuff my boot all up in ya ass.” ~ Captain Spaulding, House of 1000 Corpses, 2003

  5. Mason

    Why does he always look like he’s smelling a fart?

    1. Ret_25X

      That will happen when you don’t change the skivvies…

  6. Mason

    The yardstick suspenders are not very slimming either. Tim Gunn would not be pleased with his style choices. Make it work.

  7. Skippy

    Jack-Ass

  8. Combat Historian

    …they claimed that Reister suffered “unimaginable things”…

    Reister visited the San Diego franchise of Brucie’s Bathhouse (Entrance in the Rear) and suffered “unimaginable things” in his rear…

  9. Ex-PH2

    Boring. Wretchedly boring.

  10. USMCMSgt (Ret)

    Thomas “Boris the Animal” Reister suffers from leg and knee problems because of the constant repositioning he does while servicing winos behind the dumpster at his local truck stop.

  11. AW1Ed

    And the hits just keep on rollin’ from TAH’s elite BFTP players! Another great choice, guys; I’m putting the Sock Puppet Suppression Team on Ready Alert 5 status.

    1. SFC D

      His Sock Puppets were pretty sub-standard. Wasn’t even worth priming the foo-gas.

  12. HMCS(FMF) ret

    The only “combat” that Thomas Reister has ever see was the time he got “shot” at as the pivot man for the weekly Junior Assistant Associate Towel Boy circle jerk at Brucies Baht House (entrance in the Rear).

    1. Ret_25X

      He received the Brown Star with bunghole cluster for that “engagement”.

      1. HMCS(FMF) ret

        LOL!

  13. A Proud Infidel®™

    Thomas Reister never deployed to DS/DS according to Official Records found.
    Thomas Reister conned an outfit into giving him a dog which I have pity for.
    Thomas Reister obviously wanders around San Antonio TX looking like a haggard BUM.
    Thomas Reister has gotten himself bounced from place to place including homeless shelters.
    Thomas Reister looks like the type of BUM one would see panhandling at finer Bus Stations.
    Thomas Reister has had some very uneducated sockpuppets screeching for him.
    Thomas Reister is obviously continuing his con games.
    Thomas Reister looks like someone who regularly camps out at The Blue Oyster, not even competent enough to be their dishwasher.
    Thomas Reister grimaces like he just sucked on a fresh dog turd.
    Thomas Reister continues to have The Power of Google®™ accumulate on him. Get used to it Thomas Magnum Reister, because the Internet is forever, got that, Thomas Magnum Reister?

  14. Is there some way to rescue that poor service dog?

    1. 26Limabeans

      Yeah, I hear ya. Everybody gotta have a service dog to legit the claim.
      Breaks my heart to see animal abuse.

      1. HMC Ret

        In one image I see the front half of the dog, not his rear half. I also can not see Reister’s right hand. I think something is going on there.

        This guy was raked over the coals when he last made an appearance. His sock puppets were among the most amusing. After reading some of their posts (written by ‘different’ friends but having the same misspellings), I had to shake my head and wonder what the hell I had read. All caps, misspelling, poor syntax, etc. I guess it could be several different people, all equally stupid.

        Where is his POW patch? I feel an intervention is in order to rescue the poor mutt. Dumbasses such as him don’t deserve to have the love and loyalty of a dog. Don’t see a Harley, either. This guy isn’t trying.

        We haven’t had a sock puppet in a while.

  15. GDContractor

    “WINNER” of the MOH. Always a hallmark of legitness.

    1. HMC Ret

      So we’re ‘loosers’ and he’s a Medal of Honor WINNER. Guess they had lottery and this turd won.

      Dude, could you be any more stupid?

  16. Green Thumb

    Pussy.

  17. Forest Green

    Even the dog knows he’s a phony.

  18. timactual

    Service Dog Express should liberate their dog from the clutches of the poser. If they wait too long the dog will need a service animal of its own. As it is it will undoubtedly need therapy.

  19. 5th/77th FA

    Thomas Magnum Reister, lying embellishing fake warrior, but true turd tonguer.

    Welcome back for another dose of Google fame.

    If gonna POSer, get your vest, mirrored shades, a Harleed David’s sons motor sickle, and a big chested hoochie mama.

    Can’t even fake being a fake. Somebody go save the dog. The dog deserves better.

  20. bim

    I remember this guy, with the tough-guy scowl and prodigious use of sockpuppets.

    https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/has-san-antonio-ended-homelessness-for-veterans

    “I did live under a bridge for quite sometime,” said Reister.

    Actual troll confirmed.

  21. NHSparky

    BM2 after 10 years active/reserves.

    Even the AO’s were calling him stupid, and that takes some SERIOUS effort.