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Category: Phony soldiers

  • Follow up on Jasper Lake.

    More like a minor addition. The last time that we talked about SPC Jasper Lake back in December. Also trying to figure out what the Kayenta Veterans Organization knows about it. But also more about what they are going to do next. Well it seems that we have something worth noting.

    So does this mean that the Kayenta Veterans Organization has given up the notion that Jasper Lake was ever a Medal of Honor Nominee. Since they had made it their intention of not talking to me, I cannot ask, but I would as about this link that is still referring to Lake as a Nominee. Time will tell.

  • BOLO Michael Allen Bradshaw; phony vet grifter

    Michael Allen Bradshaw has been telling people in the Duluth, GA area that he’s a wounded Iraq veteran and abandoned by the Army and the Veterans Affairs Department to solicit funds to support his wife and child. You can tell by the mug shot that’s not true. He also ripped off the local VFW for a few hundred bucks until they finally checked on him and discovered that he was dishonorably discharged in May 2001 – before he could have had a chance to serve in Iraq.

    He told an emotional story about being a U.S. Army veteran who was wounded in Iraq when he and his Sergeant drove over a roadside bomb.

    Bradshaw claimed he’d just been released from a VA hospital in Texas and that he, his wife and 13-month-old daughter were in need of money.

    After being shown what appeared to be some convincing paperwork, Dain gave Bradshaw $100 in cash he had planned to use to buy his own child some clothes. He also gave him a $100 Kroger gift card. His church reimbursed him for all $200.

    He was also in Roswell, GA last year working the same scam there;

    According to investigators, Bradshaw received $350 from VFW Post 7583 after claiming to be a non-commissioned Army officer who was wounded in Iraq. Bradshaw also submitted fraudulent documents to the post, including an application for admittance to the VFW and an affidavit requesting money for a Purple Heart.

    Roswell police said the VFW manager became suspicious and ordered Bradshaw’s military records, which revealed that he was discharged from the Army for misconduct in 2001. He never actually served in Iraq and wasn’t wounded in combat.

    Someone is asking for a serious curb-stomping. Apparently, he’s still on the loose and anyone who knows his whereabouts is urged to contact the Duluth police at 770-476-4151.

  • Jacob R. Cruze, Las Vegas phony colonel

    Our friends at POW Network have another high-profile phony notch on their belt with Jacob R. Cruze, who claims service in almost every conflict in recent memory, including three tours of Vietnam. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, doubts were raised at a Ranger convention in LV;

    In 2004 in Las Vegas, Cruze raised suspicions of former Army Rangers when he showed up at the Riviera for their annual conference wearing a dress-blue uniform bearing a colonel insignia and numerous ribbons and medals on his jacket. But when he was asked about his military career by attendees, his comments didn’t fit with events, locations and dates of military operations.

    Wading into a shark tank wearing a meat suit, I guess would be a good metaphor in this case.

    Here’s his actual records;

    Apparently, he was arrested in Virginia for using false documents to get special veterans’ license plates, the weasel.

  • The passing of a legend (Morgue report added for doubters)

    Someone dropped off a link in one of our posts today that announced the passing of the winner of our Phony Soldier Tournament, the fellow whom I named General Ballduster McSoulpatch. Even the Army Times like the name.

    I remember when we first met, in a picture that the folks at POW Network sent me one Saturday and I distributed the photo to the MilBlog community and we started our first pitchfork brigade search for him. It was the first time that I realized the reach that TAH had when a member of the Houston gay community dropped a dime on him.

    Apparently, he passed just a few months before the tournament, so it’s sad that he never knew how much we really thought of him. But here’s the obit;

    RIP, General. I hope that tourney win will get you some special privileges in the eighth circle of Hell (Malebolge, for you Dante fans, is where frauds spend their eternity).

    Updated for the doubters who think he faked his death, too. Thanks to billo at Blackfive for the links for the final research we have to do on this ass-munch;

  • Paul Schroeder; Stolen Valor candidate counseled PTS vets

    40-year-old Paul Schroeder was a counselor for the nonprofit PTSD Foundation of America who worked with veterans suffering from PTSD. He also lectured to police departments about the condition and how it related to veterans they might encounter on the beat. Well, it turns out that he was lying his ass off in regards to his experience in the military says My San Antonio;

    But the Army has no record of Schroeder ever serving in Special Operations, deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan or anywhere else, and no record of him receiving the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman’s Badge or other decorations he claimed to have earned, said Mark Edwards, spokesman for U.S. Army Human Resources Command at Fort Knox, Ky.

    After being questioned by the Houston Chronicle, Schroeder confessed to a reporter Wednesday that he’d lied. He had in fact served 10 years as a military policeman stationed in New York, Panama and Fort Sam, and left the Army as a sergeant in February 2001, before the second war in Iraq or the war in Afghanistan even started.

    Houston’s Click2 reports that the FBI is on his ass.

    Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have begun a criminal investigation into Shroeder. He may face charges under the federal Stolen Valor Act.

    Nimnil resigned his position. It seems he played the typical crazed veteran in the media;

    The HPD training video featured portions of an interview that Shroeder gave to KPRC Local 2 in May 2011.

    In one portion of that interview, which was included in the HPD training video, Schroeder said, “One day in the middle of the afternoon, I’m sitting on my sofa. I’ve got a drink in one hand and a .45 in the other. I wasn’t sure which shot I was going to take next.”

    Yeah, Panama was tough like that – so many women throwing their tiny brown bodies at you, it was just like a war, well…sorta…maybe not. And with rum at $2.50/half gallon and Cokes for a quarter, who wouldn’t suffer? All that warm weather and hundreds of miles of beaches – it was Hell, dude, you can’t imagine.

  • Dominic Gallegos; super Facebook Ranger

    About twenty people wanted to make sure I saw this last night, but I figured it was a good way to start the day. Numbnuts, here, says that his work is classified and that he’s SF, Ranger, a sniper and anything else you can think of. In fact, he’s so secret squirrel that he’s not in AKO. the only Dominic Gallegos in AKO is a DA civilian in New Mexico;

    When you can’t even get the badges on your ACUs in the correct order, you’re pretty much a failure at being a phony. He says he’s stationed in Alaska, maybe Sporkmaster can track him down.

  • More on Jay Polk, the dead Master Sergeant

    Pat sends us a court document that says Jaymond Polk was in prison a few short years ago. We don’t know why he was a guest of the State of Louisiana, only that he was at Caddo Correctional Center in Shreveport, Louisiana in late 2009 when he filed a suit against the center for violating his civil rights, apparently he was on parole at the time, and in violation of his parole agreement;

    Before the Court is a civil rights complaint filed by pro se plaintiff Jamond Polk (“Plaintiff”), pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This complaint was received and filed in this Court on September 18, 2009. Plaintiff complains his civil rights were violated by prison officials while incarcerated at the Caddo Correctional Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. He names Steve Prator, the Caddo Correctional Center, Robert Wyche, and Cedric Glover as defendants.

    Plaintiff filed a civil rights complaint and an IFP application. On October 22, 2009,the Court granted his application to proceed in forma pauperis. On January 7, 2010, this Court received a letter from the Caddo Correctional Center stating that Plaintiff had been released on December 21, 2009 to another facility. To date, Plaintiff has not informed this Court of his new address.

    Who would have thought that bunch of hippies demanding things they didn’t earn would attract an inmate population? of course, he probably would have got more sympathy from the filthy hippies if he had told them he’d been a guest of the People of Louisiana.

    By the way, it appears that the case was dismissed because no one knew how to contact Polk. Well, we know where he was last month. And I’m still convinced he ain’t dead.

  • Jay Polk, the Occupy San Diego dead Master Sergeant

    That dead Master Sergeant Jay Polk who Vets For Peace memorialized last month, about whom there are doubts regarding his death? Well, he was almost a Special Forces Master Sergeant, well as close to a Special Forces Master Sergeant can get to a Reservist who got booted out in clerk basic training at Fort Jackson;

    Here’s his storied and extensive career:

    It looks like he spent more time in the MEPPS station than he did at Fort Jackson.

    Now you mean to tell me that those cum bubbles in VFP spent more than four months with this blivethead and they didn’t see a one month basic trainee drop out, but they did see a Special Forces Master Sergeant in him?

    But it was more about what he gave them than about what he actually was. He gave them a martyr, well, not now, he made them look like the dipshit goofballs that they really are. Of course, we’ve exposed a number of VFP phonies here, so their inability to spot a real veteran is well-known at TAH. At least this one wasn’t wearing his father’s medals to “honor” his service.

    We’ve exposed enough of these Occupy phony numbnuts to rightfully doubt that any of them are veterans. Not only did he make the Occupy numbnuts look like jokes, he took in the DU numbnuts, too, and got them thinking that there are SF troops in Syria. Good job, Jay, you jerk-ass BOLO, you. By the way, if it isn’t obvious, I think the fucker is still alive.

    Thanks to the POW Network folks who’ve been leading the internet on this guy.

    Added Feb 6, 2012; For posterity and through the magic of internet cache, the now-deleted DU hysteria;