Category: Phony soldiers

Massachusetts’ Eagle-Tribune tells the story of 93-year-old Morley Piper who appeared with President Obama at a Normandy 70-year memorial to the D-Day invasion. Piper now admits that he didn’t come ashore with the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day as he had told folks that he had.

In an interview at his Essex home Wednesday night, Piper apologized for lying about his military service. He said he served in the Army with the 459th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion and participated in the Normandy invasion but well after the 29th Infantry stormed the beaches and bore the brunt of the German resistance. Piper’s updated account of his military service could not be immediately verified Wednesday night.

Piper said he began lying about his experience when he needed a credential to attend the 50th anniversary of Normandy in 1994. He told organizers he had been a member of the 29th Infantry so that he could participate in the ceremonies, he said.

When he returned to the United States and was asked to speak about his war-time experiences, he began including the misrepresentation that he had been with the 29th Infantry, including in stories that appeared in The Eagle-Tribune.

“I could have shut it off afterward, but I didn’t,” he said. “It kind of spiraled out of control.”

He has been giving speeches and talks about his imagined escapades, bragging about his non-existent Bronze Star for valor;

In a message that Piper said he planned to send to friends and others affected by his fabrications, he wrote, “I am profoundly sorry that I have to tell you I am one of those sad old men with an altered WWII military record. I made a terrible mistake. It should have never happened.”

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“I meant no harm, though it seems inadequate to say that now,” Piper wrote in his message to friends and others. “People make mistakes. Mine is inexcusable.”

The Times of San Diego publishes a video in which Randy Voepel claims to have served in Vietnam combat with Korean Tiger Battalions.

From East County Magazine;

In the latest round of claims that Assemblyman Randy Voepel has inflated his military record, audiotapes and transcripts from two California legislative hearings last year reveal Voepel speaking of being in “heavy combat” in Vietnam and serving with the “Tiger Battalion.”

Military records indicate Voepel served in the Navy aboard the U.S.S. Buchanan do not indicate that he was involved in any ground or river combat.

Our search found no unit called Tiger Battalion. Voepel may have been referring to Tiger Force, an Army infantry unit, or possibly the Tiger Division of the South Korean Army, which did serve in Vietnam.

By: MCPO (SW) Terence B. Hoey, USN (Ret.)
April 25, 2018

By way of the figurative “death by 1000 cuts”, here are some nuggets for the public to consume with respect to Voepel.

Although the U.S. Navy failed to list all Voepel’s commands on a purported official biography recently obtained by San Diego area media outlets, we know exactly where Voepel was, what he did and what he was awarded.

He was stationed aboard two ships during his harrowing combat days in Vietnam: USS GURKE (DD-783) and USS BUCHANAN (DDG-14). He was a sea-going radarman during his “time in the jungles of Vietnam.” So, you, the reader, can square that peg!

But, according to Voepel, as he testified in the California Assembly, that, “I served in Vietnam with the (South Korean) Tiger Battalion and when they went into an operational area, the Viet Cong took a vacation. Seriously, all combat in that area would cease.” Go to 3:08 to hear the comedy about his in country action with Korea’s Tiger Battalion:

During the same time he was in combat with the Tiger Battalion (presumably) … he was aboard the USS GURKE (DD-783) and he had quite the time, check out the little quip he left on the USS GURKE (DD-783) website (top of page). I don’t really know what it means, but it is interesting:

Additionally, Voepel describes his time at sea, on the front page of a newsletter … he sounds like a fully qualified unabled bodied seaman to me:

It is very interesting that Voepel does not discuss his time onboard the USS BUCHANAN (DDG-14) like he does so vividly speak about his combat time “in the jungles of Vietnam”. Strange … is it not?

Voepel’s altered DD-214N is making its rounds now in the circle of those who deal in such matters serious matters … 18 USC 498.

“Whoever forges, counterfeits, or falsely alters any certificate of discharge from the military or naval service of the United States, or uses, unlawfully possesses or exhibits any such certificate, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

We have tee’d up two questions for Voepel’s camp to answer, yet we believe the crickets have taken over this discussion. Those questions are: 1.) Did you know Voepel’s DD-214N was altered before you provided it to the press with the caveat of confidentiality? 2.) Do you now regret providing an altered DD-214N to the press?

Our partners at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on this couple George and Eva Davila. His wife gets included in this bust because she was complicit with George’s lies about his service;

George Davila was NEVER a Green Beret of any kind

He was:

NEVER an 18C

NEVER an 18F

NEVER in the 20th Special Forces Group

NEVER even Airborne

NEVER saved the life of Marty XXXXXXXX

NEVER almost received the Silver Star “or higher” as he claims

NEVER spent 20 years in the service as he claims

NEVER even attempted the Special Forces Qualification course as he claims when he was giving advice to a young man getting ready to go.

NEVER hit a COL as he claims. (how does he think anybody would even begin to believe that level 10 Bullshit)

IS NOT a blood brother with the same mom as the president of a local SFA Chapter as he claims (verified by the guy himself he said was his brother)

Someone sent us their work on this Terrance O’Neill fellow. Folks tell us how he can’t go two minutes without bragging about his time in Vietnam when he was a Navy SEAL. For example, there’s this article from a few years ago when Francis “Frank” Lamantia Spivey, a friend of Terry’s was shot by Las Vegas police when he carelessly discharged a weapon a number of times during a standoff with police.

Terry O’Neil, a U.S Navy veteran, said he wasn’t afraid because he had three combat tours of duty during his 22 years of service.

Terry did an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and they took pictures of him wearing an Army Combat Action Badge cap and a SEAL T-shirt;

He tried to get Clint Eastwood to make a movie about his book (that I couldn’t find on the internet)

It looks like O’Neill was aboard the USS Kirk, a frigate, FF-1087, in April, 1975 when it participated in Operation Eagle Pull, the evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam.

He was an SH3 an E-4 Ship’s serviceman. Ship’s servicemen manage barber shops, tailor shops, ships’ uniform stores, laundries, dry cleaning plants and cobbler shops. They serve as clerks in exchanges, gas stations, warehouses, and commissary stores. Some ship’s servicemen function as Navy club managers. You know, just like a Navy SEAL. Somehow, a Combat Action Ribbon appeared in his records. Certainly not an Army Combat Action Badge.

No SEAL training, no SEAL assignments. I hear he now sports a dyed black mustache and a soul patch these days.

Someone sent us their work on this fellow Thomas Dakota Taylor who claims to be a MARSOC Marine. Well he lets his tattoos talk for him;

Local LEOs should know that he’s a felon and shouldn’t have firearms;

He was charged with arson, I guess that’s why he started a GoFundMe tincup to buy stuff to be a fireman;

The VA won’t be there to help him because he has an Other Than Honorable discharge. He spent less than three years in the Marine Corps as a mortarman, and he spent 4 months in Afghanistan, but I don’t see a Combat Action Ribbon, I don’t see any training for MARSOC and no Basic Airborne Course.

I’ve been trying to make sense of this story for a few hours this morning, so if I get some of it wrong, please blame the subject, Douglas Duane Roberts, aka Liz Roberts, and the author, Tony Messenger.

I think this fellow, Doug Roberts, tried to pass himself off as a hermaphrodite to folks after he was medically discharged from the Army. He claims to Messenger that he has been a woman all of his life, but, James Rogers served with Roberts and Rogers says that while Roberts served as a parachute rigger, he was a man. Somehow being a hermaphrodite gives Roberts some kind of credence in the world of medical marijuana advocates, I’m not sure how, but there it is.

So much of what Liz Roberts has told veterans, politicians, reporters and others about her background simply isn’t true.

Hers is a case of stolen valor, say two men who served with her when she went by her given name.

“She was lying about everything,” Rogers says. “It’s a complete disgrace. I’m embarrassed to say I served with her.”

Liz Roberts is not transgender. She is not transitioning.

That is what she told me in a phone interview early this month.

“I’ve been a woman all my life,” she said. “I was one of the first hermaphrodites in the military. The Army changed my sex for me.”

Roberts also claims that he was injured in an IED ambush in Iraq, even though he was never in Iraq.

According to various copies of Roberts’ military records, including her DD 214, the standard record of service issued to a soldier upon discharge, Douglas Duane Roberts served in the Army between 2006 and 2014. Roberts was a rigger — somebody who packed parachutes — who served one tour in Afghanistan. She was retired by the military because of a temporary disability…It didn’t take long for some of Roberts’ stories to raise questions. She told the Gradys the same thing she eventually told The Missouri Times, in a story about her efforts to promote medical marijuana: that she had been injured by an improvised explosive device while serving in Iraq. She told Kara Grady that she was pregnant at the time.

Roberts was never in Iraq. She never served as a woman. According to Jen Rogers, who changed the adult diapers that Roberts sometimes wears, Roberts still has male genitals.

Mr. Messenger started asking questions about Roberts’ background and he was threatened with legal repercussions – always the best way to deflect background inquiries.

It looks to me that this Missourians for Patient Care doesn’t really care about patients as their title suggests – it’s more about legalizing weed than any real patient care. I’m not surprised that they’re embroiled in this whole controversy. Remember Wayward Bill?

Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow Jesus Medrano who claims to be a former Special Forces sniper and fitness instructor;

Well, he was a drill sergeant for about nine months at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, but the rest of his time in the Army was spent repairing generators. He was a nasty leg even while he was stationed at Fort Bragg, home of the Airborne;

It looks like he took up the Clinton Administration on their offer of an early retirement in 1994. I don’t see any time he spent as a Master Fitness Trainer, in either the school or in his units. I’m pretty sure there are no special forces qualified generator mechanics who are also snipers.