Category: Phony soldiers

We posted about Gretchen Evens HERE.   Few things make me do the double facepalm more than a veteran with perfectly honorable service who decides to disgrace themselves.  She obviously did not get the memo to STFU about her phony feats of daring-do.

If Gretchen Evans ever decided to have a little fun with her resumé, it would be some fantastic reading.

It could easily say: “Deadly accurate grenade thrower, former spy, accomplished marathon runner and occasional owl rescuer who gave birth in an Army field hospital and led men in battle on numerous occasions before nearly dying in a mortar strike seeks to make your organization an amazing operation.”

“I am a badass,” Evans said with a laugh, sitting in her comfortable Enka home, which she shares with her husband, Robert. “I’m crazy bad.”

Jonn expressed a particular kind of fondness for her.   I take no joy in announcing that a Sergeant Major is full of  S#**.   You can read the entire article published by a gullible clown too lazy to use Google if you wish…   HERE. 

We first posted about Justin Paisley HERE on the case sent to us by militaryphony.com.  It seems one of the reporters we had talked to followed up on his case.

A K9 trainer in Parker who claims to have served two decades in the military has no military records at all.

That name was Justin Paisley, owner of Elite K9 Dynamics in Parker.

Online reviews were positive and according to their website they specialize in “positive reinforcement training” and are “veteran owned and operated”

“He had just tons and tons of certifications that he brought with him and all of this military training he said he had. He was training the military K9’s, police dogs, and he was a member of the military police,” she said.

Mercer signed up, paying $600 for six sessions.

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As her time ended, she raised concerns about the lack of specialty training.

“I would explain to him kind of what I needed from her and that I had started some of the training. He just never came through with it,” Mercer said.

She says Paisley told her it would take more time so she signed up for six more sessions. Half way through she noticed a change, but not the kind she was looking for.

“Presley jumped right out of the car and she saw him right away and she jumped right back in the car with her tail tucked and she’s never done that before… ever,” she said.

After cutting ties with Paisley, she learned he might not be who he claimed.

(credit: CBS)

A retired 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps who worked as a “military police officer with the specialty of 5812, which is a K9 handler” he wrote online.

Paisley has also made several posts on social media about the difficulty attending memorials saying, “I lost many fellow comrades in combat.”

Using a birth date we found on public records associated with his name and business, we asked for service records — both the National Archives and the Department of the Navy say they do not exist.

(credit: CBS)

“Did you ever question that any of it was false?” CBS4 reporter Karen Morfitt asked Mercer.

“Yeah, you know there were some questions,” she responded.

A background check through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation show run-ins with police almost every year since 1991 until 2003 at which time the Department of Corrections says he was in prison.

The dog training organizations he claims to have certification from say they had no record of a Justin Paisley.

Multiple calls, emails and a visit to the address listed on his state business license went unanswered.

Mercer is out hundreds of dollars and having to retrain Presley. Her story is a lesson for others.

“People aren’t going to be getting, you know, what they are paying for and their dogs may be abused and they are going to have to undo a lot of things that he’s done to them.”

For some reason Justin Paisley does not want to talk to me… I am beginning to think its because of you people.  Much respect to Karen Morfitt  for doing a follow up on this clown.  Feel free to say a kind word about her defending Valor from Vultures.   I think she has a Book of Face or try HERE

Hey, I just couldn’t let this one pass by…

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/actor-that-appeared-on-better-call-saul-and-longmire-admits-to-cutting-off-own-arm-posing-as-war-veteran

OK, so this guy cuts off his arm and pretends to be a war veteran.

Surprisingly, the move worked and Latourette found work off the severed limb and a story about being a war veteran.

The good news is – he got some roles.   The bad news is – he doesn’t have an arm.

Got to give him points for commitment.

John Wayne Bobbitt‘s porn career took off right after his wife took off… with his pride.

We finally received a response to our Freedom of Information Act request for Senator Richard Blumenthal’s military records.  I will let you people figure out if he qualifies as a Vietnam Veteran or if he knows anything about being deployed to or near a combat zone.

Most of you probably already know what my opinion is.  I manned a desk for a while during my career…cried like a baby when they took it away.  I try not to be a Richard.

The fine people over at militaryphony.com send us their case on  Sonny Smith who has been telling stories about his acts of daring-do while he was in Vietnam.

‘I Got Medals, But I’m No Hero’ – Vietnam veteran Sonny Smith finally shares his story

Most people who have seen him around town likely know that Sonny Smith, a 35-year resident of Eureka Springs, is a veteran. But only a small number of folks know the details of his war service, and those are the members of his American Legion Post No. 9.

The full story of the Vietnam War has yet to be told by anyone, he says, and some veterans are still reluctant to share their experiences.

But for the Lovely County Citizen’s Veterans Day commemoration, Smith decided to share his story in a typed letter:

M. Sonny Smith was born in Glendale, Calif., on Aug. 20, 1950.

After being drafted into the U.S. Army in August 1968 at the age of 18, and after basic combat training, field radio mechanic school and the U.S. Army Airborne Jump School, Smith was sent to Fort Bragg, N.C., headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division, 3rd Brigade, Combat Team. There he was assigned to the 1/505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, nicknamed “The Panthers.”

He arrived at Fort Bragg in November 1968. A week later, he was off to Vietnam.

Smith was in Vietnam for 12 months and eight days, returning with his unit in December 1969. During his last four and half months in country, he got “volunteered” into becoming a helicopter door gunner, he says.

Sonny Smith, front row left, poses for a photo with members of his squad in Vietnam. Smith and the men in the top row left and right corners, were the only three who survived.

“My primary military occupational speciality (MOS) was a tactical communications, radio mechanic/operator,” he said. “One day this helicopter comes in and its radio is shot up, and they have a personnel casualty. I had to wait until they pulled the body out before I could hop in to work on the radio.

“Just as I started to open my tool box, the pilot takes off and the co-pilot threw a COMM (communications) helmet at me and says ‘Put it on and man the machine gun, you’re our new door gunner now. That dead guy they just pulled out of here was our last one.’”

Smith finished his tour of duty in Vietnam attached to the 1st Cavalry as a helicopter door gunner. Toward the end of his tour, while door gunning in a fire fight, he was hit in the leg by enemy ground fire and was later awarded the Purple Heart.

The whole story is published HERE.

His official military records tell us a different story.

The Army says he does not have a Purple Heart, Bronze Star or Jump Wings.  According to his records, he might be trying to pull a Dick.  Knock it off Sonny Smith.