Category: Phony soldiers

Greg sent us a link to the story of retired Cmdr. Charles Coughlin of Severna Park, Md who did some really grand stuff at the Pentagon on 9/11 (Navy Times link);

Coughlin is a graduate of the Naval Academy and Harvard Business School who spent most of his 21-year naval career in the submarine service. He had a top-secret security clearance and commanded nuclear submarines. He was working at the Pentagon when a plane hijacked by terrorists crashed into the building about 75 feet from his office. He said he went back inside the burning building to help rescue others, and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and Purple Heart for his actions and injuries that day.

But then he screwed it all up by defrauding a 9-11 victims fund of $331,034 by claiming injuries that had happened before 9-11.

Coughlin’s claim to the victims’ compensation fund said he was left with constant pain in his neck and headaches, as well as weakness in his left arm and numbness in his left hand and elbow.

So the prosecutor caught him in a marathon a month after 9-11 and playing lacrosse. So U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced him to three and a half years in prison for stealing from the government fund.

I saw this yesterday and can’t stop belly laughing. I think Snakeeyes is just on a mission to piss off as many people as he can.

The earpiece and sunglasses absolutely convince me that he’s a Secret Service agent – I mean, you’d have to be total douche to wear that stuff and not be one of them, right?

And he sure looks like a Yale grad, doesn’t he?

Average NCO sends us a link from Waltham, MA in regards to the arrest of a phomy Marine collecting toys for tots;

An investigation showed [David] Lebrun was not authorized to wear the uniform nor the medals displayed on the uniform. He has been charged with Possessing military property without authorization; Wearing a military uniform without authorization; and False use of Veterans Organization insignia.

I guess the little pricks are everywhere.

I get emails about this dweeb almost everyday. You remember Steve Jordan, right? The little prick who calls himself “Snake Eyes” who TSO wrote about a few months back. Well, now it seems he’s taken to busting phony soldiers on his Facebook profile. I guess the old playground taunt “it takes one to know one” is true.

For whatever good it will do, 1490 people have signed the petition to arrest and prosecute Steve Jordan. No one has been able to find a military record on this POS, but apparently he’s saved a lot of money from living in his mom’s basement to buy everything he needs for his fantasies. Well, and it probably helps that he only needs to buy children sizes.

Someone sent us a report that this fellow Eliut Lopez-Enriquez was facing charges in court in Pennsylvania and he tried to mitigate his responsibility for his illegal behavior by claiming to be a Special Forces veteran with an honorable discharge;

He’s not a Special Forces veteran, although it seems that he had an honorable Army career;
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Our buddy, Doug Sterner, busted this old coot, Myron Brown who was a real veteran of the Korean War era, but decided he needed more recognition (Salt Lake Tribune link);

Brown said the written citations for the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Purple Heart came in the mail, so he ordered the medals from an online retailer and asked the congressman to formally present them to him, which [Rep. Jason] Chaffetz did at a Saratoga Springs town meeting in late June.

So, Doug had doubts about the guy and phoned Chafetz’ office. The Salt Lake Tribune says the citations are forgeries.

“The man had everything to be proud of and unfortunately he negated all that by trying to inflate his résumé. He didn’t just bump it up a little bit, he falsified that record to place himself among the 1,000 most decorated heroes of the Korean War,” said Doug Sterner, curator of the Military Times Hall of Valor, who places legitimate military honors online.

Doug tells me that these types of phonies are becoming more common recently. They forge documents and then try to legitimize their awards by convincing Congress members to award them in a public ceremony.

Stephen Chase, a Cape Coral, FL police officer was forced to resign when it was discovered that he had faked his GED completion, and now, the News-Press uncovers the fact that he had lied to them two years ago in an interview.

In a 2009 interview, Stephen Chase told The News-Press he had received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, among the nation’s highest combat decorations, during tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The National Guard, however, said no documentation exists for the three medals or of Chase being deployed to Iraq.

Let me make this clear for the phonies out there, honorable service is sufficient. You sully your otherwise stellar military career when you make shit up. You shit on the rest of us who didn’t have the opportunity to do anything heroic or particularly valorous. We’re proud of our service regardless. Free speech, my pink, pimpled ass.