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Category: Phony soldiers

  • Crybaby liar

    JAGC dropped off a comment in the previous Matthis post that I should go back and check the HuffPo article, so, cuz I always do what you guys tell me to do, I did, and lo and behold, I got the personal treatment from Matthis hisseff’;

    So I replied, but the comment is awaiting moderation. Firstly, I’d like to point out to Matthis and any other casual obseerver that I have more friends on freaking Huffington Post and that comment above is my fifth in my entire history in Ariana’s clown car ride. The other three comments was when some retard on HuffPo was trying to defend Ballduster McSoulpatch’s fakery. But he has 11 people who like him on HuffPo and I have 15…one of whom is a former girlfriend of his. I don’t even have a column and I have more fans than he does. Why is that? because he’s a rebel who doesn’t need friends?

    What would I have to gain by altering his records? There are people in our small community who served with Matthis in the Army who would be calling me out if I was wrong.

    Bueller? Bueller?

    Crickets.

    I think it’s cute how suddenly I’m the personification of everything that’s wrong in the world. But I’m not the one lying about my military records, am I? In fact, there was a whole shitload of people who left IVAW because he was claiming that he was an Afghanistan veteran and they knew he wasn’t. But there he is telling the HuffPoers that he is…again. Somehow by calling me an “ultra-cons­ervative ‘tea partyish’ blogger” that makes him right and me wrong. but I’m the divisive one.

    And most of the people on this blog would argue the “ultra-conservative” part with him, I’m sure.

    Lilyea has prior gone to such extremes as trying to have me expelled from VA hospitals and educationa­l programs.

    Darn tootin’ I have, and I’ve never stopped trying.

    however, because the VA, unlike Lilyea, knows for a fact that I have never lied about my service and deserve the special care I receive from them as a Veteran of Afghanista­n and elsewhere.

    Until I can get through that thickskulled VA IG’s office to investigate your narrow ass. Then you’re going to have a whoppin’ bill to pay. The VA not dumping his ass is not proof that he deserves care, it only means that they’re too lazy to do the leg work required to evict his ass. Remember the story I tell about the VA paying out millions to thousands of fake POWs? They even have the Chippendale SEAL on a monthly benefit. Their incompetence is not evidence of his veracity. But every dog has his day.

  • Active duty phony

    Kevin sent us a link to a Stars & Stripes article about a Vietnam veteran serving in Afghanistan, the title was “Vietnam vet joins ‘today’s war’” and it tells the story of Staff Sergeant Larry Marquez who says he was sent to Cambodia in 1973 as a raw recruit of 17 years. He compares the environment in Cambodia to Afghanistan and difference between serving in a war now to the war he saw.

    I screen shot the article, in case it gets pulled down;



    Well, SSG Marquez is a year younger than I am, he’s 55 and the article says he was in Cambodia in 1973, 39 years ago. that means he was in Cambodia when he was 16 years old, the year after combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, so the story began to sound a little odd. So I pulled up his AKO profile;

    It shows his first assignment as beginning in 1974 and he was a 13-bravo cannon cocker in the Texas National Guard. He admits in the Stars & Stripes that he was an artilleryman while serving an entire year in Cambodia. So I’m wondering why the hell they needed a howitzer in a place we weren’t even supposed to have troops? Later on in the story, the journalist says he was an infantryman. WTF?

    Anyway, I was looking at his profile in AKO. The profile part is filled out by the individual, it’s not driven by Army information records. I noticed that Marquez wrote that he was a 19-Kilo “Armored Tank Commander” I suppose that’s as opposed to an Unarmored Tank Commander. The years of that assignment are 1976-1980, but that’s pretty amazing because a 19K is the Military Occupational Specialty of an M1 tanker. The M1 tank wasn’t fielded until 1982. And I’m pretty sure they didn’t field the M1 in the TXNG more than two years before the active Army got one. And I’m sure he wouldn’t have forgotten that the MOS for an M48/M60 crewmember was 19E. So I wonder if he even tells himself the truth.

    So, anyway, the first thing I did was contact the author of the article with my concerns and he IMMEDIATELY attempted to contact Marquez and his unit to address my ruminations. And so I sat on this story for a few days until he got an answer back – which is what I hope someone would do for me if they found out I didn’t check all of my facts. However, after waiting for four days for an answer from S&S, today I get an email from Kuz telling me that the S&S has “no comment” to my inquiries about the results of their investigation, so screw them. I handed them this story and they can’t answer me…so much for my courtesy to them. So here is the article in all of it’s screenshot glory. I hope S&S chokes on it.

  • Jason Truitt; phony SEAL

    AverageNCO sent us a link to the Cortez Journal which tells the story of Jason Truitt who claims to be a Navy SEAL who had been a POW in Afghanistan and wounded countless times. All of which earned him a free hunting trip and a Weatherby rifle;

    It was a harrowing seven tours. He was shot 11 times. He was declared missing in action, twice a prisoner of war. Once he was MIA for two months and 14 days.

    He was tortured and disfigured. He was shot in the stomach, requiring several feet of his intestines to be removed. His tattooed skin is covered in scars. He has vision in only one eye.

    But he never entered a combat situation that he didn’t want to.

    “I’ve been through a lot, bro,” he said bluntly. “It’s kind of hard to talk about.”

    According to our buddy, Captain Larry Bailey, who himself spent 27 years as a SEAL and now spends his time busting phoney SEALS, tells us that it’s even harder to talk about when you’re “100% fake”. What set off bells for me was that I went to the publicy available list of POWs and MIAs at DoD and he wasn’t listed – that’s the same thing that the author of the story could have done.

    “What’s the hardest thing about being in the military, people ask me. I simply tell them, coming home. You go through all of these Christmas’s sitting in a foxhole and getting mortared, and people are back home eggnoggin’ by the fire,” he said. “I’ve come to hate the holidays. Every year I have some kind of breakdown around the holidays.”

    Truitt said every time he returned, the homecoming celebrations would fade after a while, and that the aftermath of his experiences as a soldier would resurface.

    “You’re a hero for the first two months and then your problems set in and all of the sudden you become a burden to your family, and they realize what actually happened to you over there. It’s things that people don’t talk about and they never will talk about,” he said.

    The hardest part about coming home is seeing all of the phonies stealing your valor.

    Captain Bailey writes to tell us that he’s offered to help the author of the story save himself from criticism by busting Truitt publicly for his bullshit stories of daring do, so there will probably be a follow-up to this story.

  • Matthis on the urination video

    Yes, Matthis is still calling himself an Afghanistan War veteran, hoping that i won’t continue to post the link to his records which show that he has no service medals related to his participation in that conflict. We’re pretty sure that he spent six days in the country, but the Army hasn’t reflected that brief trip in his records. But now he’s posting his phony military claims for the world to see at Huffington Post;

    In this missive, he uses his phony deployment to give himself a measure of moral authority on the subject of the behavior in the video of the Marines urinating on dead Taliban;

    To others, such as myself and the majority of veterans I associate with, the barbarity of these images is synonymous with our experiences within a military at war. No crime our brothers and sisters commit really surprises us anymore, but confirms to us our nation’s brutal history, of which for a time we became a part, and offers us a reminder that nothing’s really changed.

    Yeah, way to support your comrades, there, Matthis. None of us can think for ourselves and we’re just puppets of the machine which encourages us to pee on dead enemy.

    Yes America, our military is addicted to war porn, and this fact may ultimately usurp any legacy of honor or glory the military may cling to. No longer can the world be duped by the government-controlled facade of the U.S. soldier as a liberating force for good. Our image is that of an armed, drunken fiend in a public square with his pants down pissing into the wind. Sure, we may be an affront to those around us, but we’re only really soiling ourselves.

    Isn’t it great that we have veterans’ advocates like Matthis to stand up for us and improve the image that the American public has of it’s warriors?

    Actually, no. Matthis has a history of trying to drag all veterans down to his cowardly level. He justifies his lack of a martial record by elevating himself on the fallen bodies of his supposed comrades. Matthis is a pussy who didn’t want his New York City college student lifestyle disrupted by his commitment to the country – that’s why he didn’t deploy. It wasn’t due to any commitment to a principal or greater good. And all of this kerfuffle that he has created since has been to justify his cowardice to the rest of us.

    Thanks to Liam for the link. By the way, I’ve tried countless times to warn the Huffington Post readers of Matthis actual service, but my comments, for some reason are all deleted.

  • Vet as a phony cop

    Blanka sends us a link to a Washington Post story about Daniel S. Alloway who put on a badge, a siren on his SUV and started policing his community;

    Eugene Police Officer Dan Baker drove a blue SUV and set off sirens to clear cars in front of him at traffic lights. He pulled over motorists — though it’s unclear if he ever gave out tickets. And when he stopped by a youth shelter as a volunteer, he came in full uniform.

    There’s just one problem: There has never been an Officer Dan Baker in the Eugene Police Department.

    AKO says he is a Guardsman, a Specialist E-4, in the Oregon National Guard unit, CO.A 2-162 Infantry ORARNG. But suddenly, in the 9th Circuit’s jusridiction, it not free speech to put on a uniform and act like someone you’re not;

    “People get automatic credential with the public [in a police uniform],” McKee said. “Somebody could use that to isolate a person, a 16-year-old, and that is dangerous.”

    Yeah, that could never happen in a military uniform, could it?

    Alloway, 39…was deployed three times to Iraq, in 2004, 2007 and 2009, serving a year tour each time. An Oregon Military Department spokesman said Alloway received service awards for each tour.

    Three tours to Iraq and he’s still an E-4? It doesn’t look like he was wired too tightly in the Guard, either.

  • 10th Circuit reinforces the Stolen Valor Act in Strandloff case

    Unlike their numerically and intellectual inferiors in the 9th Circuit, the three judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court upheld the Stolen Valor Act in regards to Richard Strandlof/Duncan according to the Denver Post. Strandlof was a member of both the IVAW and VoteVets who pretended to be a gay Marine Captain with nine fingers (despite sporting ten in the average assortment) and a plate in his unscarred pate.

    Today’s decision by the 10th Circuit means the charges against Strandlof are re-instated and his case goes back to the trial court, where his prosecution can continue.

    The 10th Circuit is the second federal appellate court — one step below the U.S. Supreme Court in authority — to consider the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act.

    It probably didn’t help Strandlof’s case when he resurfaced in Colorado as a gay Jewish lawyer by the name of Rick Gold while he was awaiting the 10th Circuit’s decision. It’s beginning to look like he’s really married to the gay aspect of his personae.

    Thanks to Zero for the link.

  • Phony in Las Vegas

    Sporkmaster sent me this on Facebook from the Army WTF Facebook page, where someone snapped this in a casino in Las Vegas;

    First of all, get your hands out of your pockets, Big Sarge. And when you have to put your CIB on crooked just so it’ll fit on your uniform, you’re doin’ it wrong.

    I noticed there’s an ARCOM with what looks like a “V” and something to the right of that, so it must be an award that’ll get him a Stolen Valor charge.

    And is that a two-tone shirt, or the lighting?

  • Vet charity closes because of phony

    49-year-old Lehn Joseph Bundrick abandon his charity, The Long Road Home in Oregon when his phony record came to light. Sounds like something that happened in Colorado a few year back with Rick Duncan/Strandlof, doesn’t it? Local TV News reports;

    The charity helps veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

    This summer Bundrick led a ceremony in the town of Jefferson to honor Navy SEALs who died in Afghanistan.

    Other veterans say he claimed to have known some of those SEALs because he was a Navy SEAL himself. They say Bundrick claimed to have won the Silver Star, Bronze Star and several Purple Hearts.

    They say he faked a presidential citation for heroism before other veterans got suspicious and he took off.

    “He was very convincing,” said Bill Stam, a member of The Long Trail Home. “He had a lot of people snowed. He’s good. I didn’t think I could ever be, especially in the military aspect of it, but when I’d ask him military questions, he had the correct answers.”

    But it’s a victimless crime, right?

    The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating but says so far it appears Bundrick hasn’t used the charity’s money for anything illegal since he was an officer of the organization.

    So there’s nothing to charge him with except The Stolen Valor Act, but it’s Oregon and falls under the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit which has decided the Act is unconstitutional, so authorities won’t arrest him until the Supreme Court decides on Alvarez.