Category: Phony soldiers

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this Vincent Battaglia fellow. He claims to be a US Navy SEAL in his social media discussions. He gives advice like a life coach;

He claims that we won’t be able to find his records because he was adopted by his stepfather and Vinnie changed his name after he graduated from BUD/S;

However, according to his own Facebook page, his step father’s name is Hutton;

His war wounds are so bad, and he’s so disabled, that he can’t even afford a T-shirt to honor his fallen fellow SEALs, so, please, won’t you buy him one;

Battaglia was indeed in the Navy, he spent two-and-a-half years as a signalman. He was discharged as an E-1. Not a SEAL;

We first wrote about Peter Lawler four years ago when Scotty busted him for lying about being at the Beirut bombing of 1983. He spent about 2 1/2 years in the Marine Corps and he was discharged as a Private (E-1).

He was in the wrong ocean to be anywhere near Beirut;

Well, two years ago he was arrested for sexually assaulting two thirteen year old girls in Chisago City, Minnesota.

Lakes Area Police started the investigation into 53-year-old Pedro Antonio Lawler, after a parent notified Woodbury authorities that her teen daughter was alleging she had been coerced into having sex with Lawler, and Woodbury contacted Lakes Area Police.

The teen girl was hospitalized for attempted suicide in late June 2016. Her parents checked her phone, which had lewd images of a male and other “sexting” activity. The girl then described having sex with a man, while she stayed with a girlfriend at GrandStay Hotel in Chisago City.

The criminal complaint centers on allegations of criminal sexual conduct by the suspect– identified as stepfather to the girlfriend– in April 2016.

Last week he was sentenced, according to KSTP;

The Lakes Area Police Department reports a 54-year-old was sentenced to two consecutive 200-month prison sentences earlier this week after being convicted of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Pedro Antonio Lawler was accused of engaging in criminal sexual conduct with two girls at a hotel in Chisago City in 2016.

This is his second trip to prison as a perv, he must enjoy it for some reason. On the original post, he asked us to remove the post about him so he could turn his life around. Of course, we didn’t. And, apparently, he didn’t turn his life around.

Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow, Robert Kenneth Hicks, who claims to be a Navy SEAL. Judging by his wardrobe, and his motorcycle anyway;

And, oh, look, he’s an Iraq veteran and a sniper, too;

Not according to the Navy, though;

He left with eight years of service as an E-4 Aviation Structural Mechanic between 1990 and 2000 – he never made it to Iraq and he wasn’t trained as a SEAL.

One of our ninjas found this article about Andrew Gaboury, a history teacher at Coyle Cassidy High School in Taunton, Massachusetts. Gaboury claimed to school personnel and to students that he was a wounded war hero of the War Against Terror – an Intelligence Analyst with a Bronze Star Medal and two Purple Heart Medals – medals that he bought on the internet.

It was a big deal at the school and he was featured in the student newspaper in an article headlined “Gaboury goes from military to history classroom.”

“I’m so pleased to have a man like Mr. Gaboury to be on our staff. He had a lot of experiences and was well educated. He even served for our country’s military,” Principal Kathleen St. Laurent said in that article.

Yeah, well, someone tipped off the local news that he wasn’t telling the truth, so they asked the National Personnel Records Center about Gaboury;

Reporter Ted Daniel contacted the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in St. Louis by phone and was told no record for him could be found.

A more thorough search was initiated, but while awaiting the results Gaboury came clean in an email.

“I made up time in the Army. Over the intervening years I added details as people asked. I am deeply sorrowful for this and did not see a way out,” he wrote.

Well, one way out would have been to keep that BS off of his application for employment, but he didn’t, so the school canned his lying ass.

Our partner Don Shipley shares his work on this goofy-looking fellow, William George Huurman, Jr who is a bail bondsman in Kissimmee, Florida. He claims to be a Navy SEAL and that he served in Team 2, but that he represents SEAL Team 7 because that is where the Navy tosses all of their “SEAL Jews, Christians and Muslims that were disowned by SEAL Team for being religious.” There are tattoos involved;

He’s wearing Tapout shirts so you know he’s legit. Huurman says that his SEAL code name is “Oakley-H” which is tattooed on his leg.

When confronted, Huurman has a “Naval Confidentiality Agreement” because his DD214 is so classified (Mr Shipley assures us that there is no such thing as a “Naval Confidentiality Agreement” for service in the SEAL Teams). Huurman claims that he’s a “SEAL of God” and he tries to “save” the folks that he takes into custody before he turns them over to the police.

Anyway, the Navy responded to the FOIA request with a resounding “Who?”

Huurman says that he changed his name after his service, but no, there is no record of him changing his name.

Mr Shipley recognized that Mr Huurman was too ugly to be a SEAL, so he asked the Army for any records. The Army responded “Oh, that guy”. Huurman had an impressive 21 days of service at Fort McClellan hoping, but failing, to become a Military Policeman;

Mr Shipley tells us that the SEALs would never accept someone that ugly and with that stupid name in their presence.

Our partners at Stolen Valour – Canada tell us that Peter Toth goes to court tomorrow to answer for parading about like a US Marine Corps hero on Remembrance Day last year. From Red Deer News Now;

Peter Toth, 58, faces one count under Section 419 of the Criminal Code of Canada for unlawful use of military uniforms or certificates. The case is scheduled for a brief appearance in Red Deer court tomorrow.

Toth is accused of impersonating a U.S. Military veteran by wearing attire and medals he did not actually earn to Remembrance Day ceremonies at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School, G.W. Smith Elementary and Aspen Heights Elementary last November.

Stolen Valour Canada contacted rdnewsNOW with their concerns that Toth was not as authentic as he was letting on. The group pointed out several flaws with the uniform he was wearing in pictures from the ceremonies, including wearing unauthorized camouflage and having pins and rank badges in wrong places.

“Based on our concerns, we contacted USMC experts, and they agree that this individual was likely never a Marine, and he is portraying one very poorly,” the group said at the time.

SV-C tell us that they’ll have a few ninjas in the courtroom to keep an eye on things.

From SV-C;

UPDATE – BOGUS MARINE Peter Miklos TOTH – UPDATE

The case has been adjourned ’til 21 March 2018 so, Mr Toth can confer with duty counsel as per the judge’s orders.

The judge acknowledged the vets in the front row…

Our partners at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on this fellow, Jose Igor Alvarez aka Igor Gretaldezky. He claims to be a special forces warrior, but his uniform says differently;

When the GB who sent him to us did a short recon on his FB profile, he saw a picture of him with a Combat Infantry Badge with a star, an Ranger and SF tab, Purple Heart and some comical SF crest on his black beret.

Wrong unit insig on shoulders, MP brass with Infantry blue disks, No Airborne Tab with SF unit patch (That’s part of the patch).

We reached out to ask him to remove his bogus pictures and were immediately blocked from further contact. The pictures remained.

In fact, the pictures are still there in spite of the egregious errors;

CIB w/ Star False

Special Forces Tab False

Ranger Tab False

Purple Heart False

Good Conduct Medal False

National Defense Service Medal False

Kosovo Campaign Medal False

Afghanistan Campaign Medal False

Global War on Terrorism Service Medal False

Humanitarian Service False

Armed Forces Reserve Medal False

NCO Professional Development Ribbon False

Army Service Ribbon Earned Earned

Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia) Service must have been performed in support of Operation Desert Storm and the liberation of Kuwait, between 17 January 1991 to 28 February 1991 False

Senior Wings False

Air Assault False

He had less than three years of service in the Texas National Guard, discharged as an E-2 Private petroleum specialist with only the Army Service Ribbon;

Late last year we wrote about John Adams, who claimed to be a Navy SEAL. At the time, the Navy told us that they had no record of his service. Well, today they changed their mind with no prompting from us.

He had four years of service, with intermittent Non-Judicial Punishment and finally he was barred from reenlistment. Most importantly, he wasn’t a Navy SEAL – our original contention. He was an Airman Apprentice (E-2).