Category: Phony soldiers

They’re called “Walts” across the pond in England, referring to the James Thurber short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, which was first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, about the meek little man who escapes his harpie wife and miserably mundane life inside his mind with his fabricated adventures. According to the UK’s Daily Mirror, British veterans are fed up with them;

Campaigners said it was a “shameful indictment” on the Coalition that fakers can get away with their lies.

SAS veteran and former 1 Para soldier Robert Henry Craft said: “Not only do we want to expose them as pathetic individuals, we want them punished.”

Shamed novelist Mark Powell, 47, was uncovered in January last year for lying about his “SAS past”.

The 47 year-old claimed he had been on covert operations and was credited in TV interviews as a Special Forces security expert.

They’ve set up their own website at Walter Mitty Hunt

We urge you to join in with the hunt, and help us to “out the Walt” these FAKE War Veterans and Emergency Service personnel?

These Walts are everywhere:

In virtually every single pub and club in the country,
buying our “stolen” medals on e-bay,
parading on Remembrance Sunday and throughout the British Legion, 365 days of the year,
giving it the “big one” saying they were 1029th man on the balcony,
or boasting “I was the first one up the beach in ’82”.

Walts are idiots! They really are! We’ve even caught them red handed in “some” anti-Walts pages of Facebook!

Yeah, we know the feeling. Some of the funniest phony discussions I’ve read were on ARRSE (The Army Rumor Service), another British site.

Sporkmaster sends a link from the Moscow News to illustrate that Americans aren’t the only people in the world wearing phony finery, and American Bloggers aren’t the only ones outing them;

Bloggers have announced that they have found fake World War II veterans walking around Moscow and allegedly even observing the Victory Day Parade on Red Square among top officials and the surprised top brass of the military.

A woman dressed as a general was caught on camera wearing numerous medals that belong to someone else, popular blogger Rustem Agadamov wrote.

“There was only one woman in our history who held the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Hero of the Socialist Labor at the same time, and it was the famous female pilot Valentina Stepanovna Grizodubova,” Agadamov’s angry blog entry read.

I guess it’s just human nature for some people to want to be more than they are.

Josh sent us these photos from Gregory Leveau, a Belgian, who thinks he pulls off the steely-eyed Marine thing. Actually, he looks like he used to eat second in the same mess hall as the Round Marine. His Facebook profile says that he works at “Division des Opérations Spéciales”, so you know it must be true, cuz it’s on Facebook.

Just the sight of him should strike fear in the enemy.

I see that Slats the Lightest Marine has been awarded a Purple heart and a Navy Cross – I’m surprised that there’s room on his scrawny breast to fit all of that phony finery. Those jump wings must make it hard for him to stand up. But I don’t think he could actually parachute – it takes 80 pounds to separate the jumper from the static line and I don’t think that even with a combat load, this waffle-eating ass-munch could make that weight. He might make a good wind dummy, though – or a lawn dart.

Josh said he hasn’t had any response to messages to Gregory, but that’s probably because he only speaks Français, you know, the language of all Marines.

There’s a guy running for Congress in Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional District, who happens to be a Democrat named Ken Aden. He had a perfectly honorable career in the military with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 1st infantry Division, but that wasn’t good enough for him. Apparently, he had been telling the media before his run that he was a “Green Beret” (remember I told you to be suspicious of people who say that?). For example, there’s an article in the Russellville, AR, Courier News Online in which he clearly tells the reporter that “I am a former green beret…” In case the article disappears, like many of the articles I’ve been searching for, here is the relevant screenshot;

He’s running against his former commander in the Congressional race, Steve Womack, who says that he doesn’t remember Aden in his unit when they served in the Sinai, but as you can see from his FOIA, he has the Multi-National Force and Observers Medal traditionally given to folks who served in the Sinai;

Here’s the addendum for the FOIA where the MNFO Medal appears;

Kos used to have an article about Aden and his Green Beret-ness, but if you click on this link, you’ll see they pulled it. But the internet remembers;

I guess someone got word that folks were checking on him and started cleaning up behind him.

Our newest buddy, Dallas Whittenfeld has been trying to get me to take down my post about him. He’s a real charmer, trust me. He began by threatening me with a lawsuit, which, I’m sure he’s decided since, was the wrong approach.

He insists that he’s authorized to wear the CIB and the infantry accoutrements which we questioned last month. To prove it, he sent me another copy of his DD214, but like I said, I have doubts about his DD214. We’ve seen instances of people who influenced the altering of their records. So I asked Mr Whittenfeld to send me a copy of his orders for his CIB. I still have mine, why wouldn’t he have his? Well, he offered to have some state historian somewhere to explain to me something or other. I told him that it would be futile, because I’m just asking for his orders.

So, then he called me a “leg” despite the fact that he knows I’ve served in airborne units. He explained that I’m a leg because he currently jumps and has a parachute by his computer. As proof that he currently jumps, he sent this picture;

Yeah, I can tell that’s him and I can tell that it’s recent. can’t you? So, in response, I sent him a picture of the Moon walk and told him that was me. That was the last we heard from him.

But, we did hear from the Special Forces Association which he told me that by virtue of his membership in the group authorized him to wear the Green Beret whenever he felt like it (when I asked about the beret, he said “So what?”). Yeah, they love him over there;

We did have him as an Associate member A-2119. He joined in 1997 and has been long inactive. Another member with questionable credentials. There is nothing attached to his application (we now require documentation) and all he lists is:

75th Abn Rangers Co D RVN Sep 69 to Feb 70

11th SF Reserves Lima, Ohio (compasionate leave) Feb 70 to Apr 70

Royal Thailand Army Rangers RVN (Advisor) Apr 70 to Sep 70

Those are his descriptions verbatim. He would not have been admitted today.

So, just send me the orders, Mr. Whittgenfeld and we can get this all settled. I’ll admit I was wrong (I’ve done it before, so the concept isn’t foreign to me) and we can clear all of this up.

Remember that amazing young studly National Guard Soldier Geoff Millard of IVAV fame?  That sterling young former National Guard super-trooper claiming 3 MSMs(!), an ARCOM, 3 AAMs, and a load of other decorations – all earned in less than 8 years of service!  Who was also later photographed wearing an unauthorized CIB?  And who was the President of IVAV’s DC Chapter?  Remember him?

Jonn previously posted the highly suspect “DD214” Millard sent in order to “validate” his claims regarding his military service.  Jonn has also pointed out a serious issue with Millard’s alleged “DD214” (I’m intentionally using quotation marks here) that calls the validity of the document into question – e.g., the document lists campaign and expeditionary medals, along with time in “Kuwait/Iraq” (more about that later), but lists no foreign service time.  Jonn also showed that, in 2008, a FOIA regarding Millard didn’t match Millard’s “DD214” (it wasn’t even close).

However, Millard can always claim that that the lack of foreign service was simply an oversight or error on the part of the clerk preparing the document, and that the mismatch was because NPRC didn’t yet have all of his records.  So I decided to take a hard look at the rest of Millard’s purported “DD214” to see if there were other parts of Millard’s “DD214” that were similarly problematic.

From Jonn’s original article, here’s Millard’s purported “DD214”:
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Sporkmaster sent us a link to the West Kentucky Star which reports yet another arrest of the scrawny douchbag Kyle Barwan for, what, the eighth time now. We talked about him before here and here.

The McCracken County Sheriff’s Department received several complaints about an individual impersonating a military officer. An investigation lead to the arrest of 22-year-old Kyle Barwan of Paducah, for impersonating a U.S. Army Warrant Officer with Special Forces for monetary gain. Barwan would ask individuals for money, stating he was being deployed and was having financial problems. Barwan was medically discharged from the military in 2009 as an E2.

I guess they’re holding his monkey ass on 12 charges of being a lying douchebag idiot (read the list of charges at the link) and they say he’s currently stashed away in the corner of Bubba’s cell, under the stainless steel toilet, whimpering like a sissy.