Category: Phony soldiers

Tomorrow morning I’ll be on the radio once again around 6am while TSO is standing in line with VTWoody at the Supreme Court. Here’s the producer’s explanation of the show;

I am a producer for the nationally aired public radio morning news show “The Takeaway” with host John Hockenberry. We are a joint production of The New York Times, BBC World Service and PRI – Public Radio International.

On tomorrow’s show we are interested in discussing the Supreme Court case US v Alvarez. We’re particularly interested in hearing why lying about a military record is so egregious to you and to other members of the military. The interview would take place from 6:07-6:15a EST and can be conducted by landline phone.

The guests will be our buddy Doug Sterner’s wife, Pam and the Stolen Valor bomb thrower, Jonathon Turley, the George Washington University law professor who thinks that we want to lock him up for lying to chicks in a bar.

I’ve already recorded my portion of the interview, and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. I was my usual charming self.

The link to the show is here. What? I’m always up cleaning up the blog after you nightowls mess up the place, you can get up early and listen to the show.

Andrew Bryson has been indicted in Baton Rouge, LA for trying to defraud the LA Motor Vehicle Office by attempting to get Purple Heart license plates for his vehicle, according to 7th Space;

The investigation of BRYSON was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations with assistance from the Louisiana State University Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Cam T Le.

I’m glad there are some FBI agents and US prosecutors who pursue these cases. The FBI office in Baltimore told me I had too much time my hands when I handed over evidence on General Baxter to them.

Donald sent us all of this stuff on Joseph Coyle, who claims to be a former adviser to Vietnamese troops during our adventures over there. He certainly wears a mountain of awards for his service doesn’t he? Well, because he’s on TAH, you already know it’s all phony bling. His FOIA release;

No Vietnam service, not even a little.

Maybe it’s because he spent more time AWOL than in formation;

He probably went AWOL so much because the Army didn’t send him to Vietnam, so he was sneaking off on his own to kill commies. Damn the consequences!

He did get a lot of promotions though;

Here’s a close up of the bling he thinks he earned;

The Army disagrees just a tiny bit;

Enjoy it while you can Joe, the Supreme Court is hearing about the Stolen Valor Act next week.

Eggs sends us a link from Tucson, AZ about a phony Air Force general, Jefferey Lee Bennett, who was released after nine months in prison for pretending in his general’s stars and for forging documents to get access to Fort Huachuca twice;

Several years ago Bennett became involved with a woman in Sierra Vista (there is no need to name her.) He had been living with a different girlfriend back East, but he left her to be with “his new love in Arizona,” court filings say.

Hoping to impress his new love and her daughter, he created a fantasy, casting himself as a major general in the U.S. Air Force. He had legitimately served in the military after he was 18, but this bit of reality was not enough. He wanted his girlfriend and her daughter to view him as heroic. He wanted to show them a brighter, shinier version of himself. He reinvented himself as a two-star general in the U.S. Air Force.

“He wanted them to love him and accept him, but felt he had to pretend to be more important in order for them to care for him,” court documents say. “This was, of course, far more hurtful to them than honesty would have been, and Mr. Bennett understands now how wrong his actions were and is deeply remorseful for the harms he has caused.”

He entered Fort Huachuca two times. Once in March, and again in April, shopping at the fort’s commissary and post exchange and buying $62 worth of groceries.

On March 30, he entered the fort wearing a general’s uniform, driving a silver Volkswagen with a fraudulent Department of Defense seal. He presented a fraudulent ID card to gain access.

A real Valentine’s Day love story. man finds love in Arizona, then finds more love in his prison cell than he can handle.

DG sends us a link to an update on Michael Allen Bradshaw, that grifter who fleeced the VFW and churches in Duluth, GA. Apparently, Bradshaw turned himself to two Gwinnett County deputies at a diner, while they were enjoying their meal.

According to Lt. Sean Smith with the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department, Bradshaw is in the Gwinnett County Jail on a $2,400 bond.

I guess he figured he couldn’t escape you guys.

Navy veteran Ronnie Glenn Eddings pleaded guilty to stealing for 16 years veterans’ benefits from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to the tune of about nine hundred thousand dollars. He claimed he was injured in the 1st Gulf War and wheelchair-bound despite the fact that he held down jobs as a security guard, a social worker and a sheriff’s office transportation officer.

Eddings is scheduled to be sentenced during the term of court beginning in May. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

That’s why when scumbags like Joe Cryer, the Chippendale SEAL tell me that their VA pension is proof of their fairy tales, I don’t listen. I don’t understand the process that DVA uses to deny benefits to guys who deserve it, but then there are these cumbubbles who slip through the cracks.

By the way, this dickweed stole from all of us veterans and it’s money we’ll never get back.

Kate sends us a link to a radio host in Portland who has discovered a phony Marine Sergeant, Micaiah Dutt. In this video, he says he terrorized entire neighborhoods in Iraq during his four tours in that war. He refers to himself as a “terrorist”.

But someone has discovered on the internet where he said he was in a transportation unit, not a door-kicker. The only terrorizing he did of neighborhoods was from his erratic driving skills, apparently;

I’m pretty sure that he had a crowded schedule if he did four tours of Iraq in his four years of service. And notice that the profile he filled out himself says he was a lance corporal, not a sergeant.

I guess hippie applause is intoxicating and makes people want to lie. I suggest that Micaiah turn himself in to the authorities immediately, since the Marines don’t allow their people to “terrorize” neighborhoods. Anywhere. It looks to me like he committed a war crime and must be punished. This is me, not holding my breath.

Is this a Marine uniform, I mean, he’s supposed to be a Marine, right;

And this looks like mechanics’ coveralls;

Apparently, Paul Schroeder, the numbnuts PTSD counselor we discussed last week has become national news. Fox News says that he told his clients that he still had nightmares of the time he had shoot a machete-wielding child during one of his secret missions to Rwanda. Yeah, everyone is always talking about their secret missions in a group setting;

His admission, according to the Houston Chronicle, raises concerns about vetting procedures at PTSD Foundation of America, the faith-based nonprofit for veterans in Houston where Schroeder had worked as director of counseling since 2010.

Tax records show PTSD Foundation has been in the hole for at least three years and is carrying more than $200,000 in debt, the paper reports.

The Chronicle first questioned Schroeder’s record after interviewing him almost a year ago. He said at the time that he served three combat tours in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, as well as secret missions in Africa and Central and South America.

The newspaper asked to see his discharge papers, but he never produced them. When pressed again this month, he said they were top secret.

It took them a year to figure out that discharge documents (DD214s) aren’t secret? How would we ever be able to prove we were discharged if we could only show the documentation to someone with a clearance? Think people.

And shame on the PTSD Foundation for not recognizing Schroeder as a phony the first time he started talking about secret missions to Africa. His discharge was secret but his missions weren’t? FFS.

Thanks to Pat for the link.