Category: Phony soldiers

In 2010, Chief Petty Officer Aubrey Barbour was preparing to retire from his time in the Navy. Someone noticed that parts of the logistician’s biography for his retirement couldn’t be true. His retirement was put on hold while, instead, he was treated to a summary court martial. From the Virginian Pilot;

Many of the charges stemmed from a program created for his retirement ceremony, which listed accomplishments that the government said were false: a combat action ribbon, the Navy’s expert rifleman medal and expert pistol shot medal, as well as Seabee Combat Warfare and Fleet Marine Force qualifications.

The Navy also said he wore insignia designating him as a parachutist that he wasn’t entitled to.

In a summary court-martial Feb. 3, Barbour pleaded guilty to one count of making a false official statement and two counts of wrongfully wearing insignia, according to the Navy. He was given a punitive letter of reprimand and a $2,200 forfeiture of pay.

He was finally able to retire. Fast forward to last summer, Chief Barbour discovers a lottery ticket that he’d forgotten he purchased six months prior, and it turns out that he became a millionaire over night. From WTVR;

A Virginia Beach man is still in disbelief after discovering a $1 million winning Virginia Lottery ticket in his drawer, more than five months after purchasing it.

“I think I’m dreaming,” Aubrey Barbour said while claiming his prize Friday.

Barbour purchased the Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle ticket while he was visiting family in Lynchburg for Thanksgiving.

Great luck, huh? Well, he’s going to need that million bucks for a lawyer now, because his wife turned him in back in November when she found a video of him having sex with a child. From 13 News Now;

Court documents say 48-year-old Aubrey Barbour Jr. allegedly engaged in sexual activities with a minor. A search warrant revealed Barbour’s wife told police she discovered videos of her husband on a 16 gigabyte SD card inside her home.

She told police she witnessed her husband having sexual intercourse with a child who appears to be middle school aged.

Officers arrested Barbour on Nov. 4 and charged him with one count of indecent liberties with a child and one count of aggravated sexual battery. He was released on bond on Dec. 7.

There’s going to be a preliminary hearing this month and he’s looking at 25 years in prison.

It’s almost always something with these valor thieves and too often, it’s abuse of children.

Thanks to one of our ninjas for the rundown on this ass-monkey.

WRAL reports that Christian Gerald Desgroux was indicted today for pretending to be a lieutenant general so that he could land a helicopter at SAS Headquarters in Cary, North Carolina (not Special Air Services SAS);

Christian Gerald Desgroux, 57, posed as a three-star general who was transporting someone for a classified briefing and asserted authority to land the helicopter at SAS, authorities said.

No other details of the incident were released.

If convicted, Desgroux faces up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Nice try, dimbulb. I don’t think even the president has any 3-star pilots flying him around.

The News Observer reports that he’s been a good boy until last year;

But he has multiple pending charges from 2017: assault on a female (April); misuse of the 911 system and violating a domestic violence protection order (May); felony conversion (November); and interfering with emergency communications, felony fleeing to elude arrest, misuse of the 911 system and misdemeanor stalking (December).

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this fellow, Larry Martin. He claims to have been a Navy SEAL, but he wasn’t brave enough to keep his Facebook page up after he was confronted;

Yeah, it’s called the “front leaning rest”, but you wouldn’t know that, you probably never did one.

He stole a stock image for this next one;

The BS flows often and deep;

The Navy says “Who?”

A more accurate depiction;

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Dan Stitt. He claims to be a former Navy SEAL and somehow his new wife got the idea that he served for 12 years, made the rank of Navy Captain, that he’d been wounded twice and he’d been twice a POW;

Well according to Don Shipley, Mr Stitt is not, nor has he ever been a Navy SEAL. The Navy, when asked about his service, replied “Who?”

You might remember the portly Major Tammy Feliciano pictured above from our talk about phony Sergeant Major Papotia Reginald Wright – she was the adjutant at his 8th Special Forces Regiment New York Honor Guard VSO.

Our partners at the Guardians of the Green Beret did the paperwork to verify her military service. She had told them that she had DD214s to prove her service as well as Reggie’s service, if only they would call her at the unit’s disconnected phone number;

The National Personnel Records Center says “Who?”

Yeah, I was surprised, too. A plus-sized female Major with a Special Forces tab? Why not?

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Wilbert Bass, who goes by the name “Beau” on Facebook, and on LinkedIn where he also claims to have been a Navy SEAL;

He tells folks that he was in the Air Force, but that he’d got out before 9-11-2001. When that terrorist attack happened, “they” contacted him and told him to “report to any branch” and he picked Navy SEALs. Lucky them.

He claims to have graduated from BUDS class 237…also claims to have been a sniper “with 250 kills, 160 confirmed, 3d only to Chris Kyle”.

Yeah, well, as nice and as realistic as that all sounds, the Navy says “Who?”

It looks like he has Air Force service.

We’re waiting on a FOIA for that period.

He was in and out of courtrooms for the last twenty years for bad checks and obtaining property under false pretenses.

From the New York Times comes the story of Elliot Kline, also known as Eli Mosley, a key organizer of the “Unite the Right” rally last year in Charlottesville, Virginia. Emma Cott did an interview with the young racist in which she asked him about his recurring theme, the link between veterans and the Alt-Right;

He kept emphasizing a connection between the military and the alt-right. He said many of his compatriots were veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who had become disillusioned with the American political system after fighting in unwinnable conflicts. In his telling, members of the alt-right were patriotic Americans who had come to their extreme worldview through honorable life experience, not hatred.

He mentioned that he too had served in Iraq. But when I asked him to elaborate, he waved off the question. “It was boring.”

Cott thought that was an odd way for him to describe his military service, so after the interview, she sent for the FOIA of his records. When it came back, she had the proof that he had never deployed outside the state of Pennsylvania with his National Guard unit. His fellow guardsmen confirmed that he hadn’t joined until the final year of the Iraq War and his unit didn’t deploy for the entire six years of his service. So Emma called him back for an explanation;

So I picked up the phone and called him. After informing him that I was recording the call, I launched right in.

“The Army tells me that you did not deploy.”

He paused. “The Army tells you?”

I explained that I had gotten his official records from the Army and the National Guard.

“So did you go to Iraq?” I asked.

“I was in Kuwait,” he said. “I told you that before.”

“You told me you went to Kuwait and then you went to Iraq.”

“Basically, it’s very similar the way it works,” he said.

We talked for a while longer and his story kept changing, but he did not back down. He wavered between blaming a military clerical error and saying that a military form he would send me would clear up the confusion once and for all.

He still hasn’t sent me the form, or any other proof that he deployed. He also doesn’t have any photos. (He had already told me that he lost them all when his Facebook account was shut down.)

This is not my surprised face. He’s no different than the Boys from Malheur. Or those ass-monkeys of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. They think that a phony military biography gives them a measure of credence they wouldn’t have otherwise, so they steal valor to make themselves believable.

Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow, Shane Kunzeman, who operates a resume writing business called Your New Life. For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea that he should become an Army Ranger, but he came to that conclusion after he left the Army, you know, when it was too late for him to attend training or to be assigned to a Ranger unit;

He did spend less than three and a half years on active duty as a 92A automated logistical specialist in an aviation unit in Germany. The he spent about a year and a half in the Army Reserves and he worked at the Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWP) as a logistics contractor;

No training or assignments that would make him a Ranger, not even parachutist qualified.