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Category: Phony soldiers

  • More on Joseph Cryer, the Chippendale SEAL

    Joseph B Cryer

    Late last month we wrote a bit about Joseph Cryer, the Chippendale SEAL who claimed, among other things that he’d been selected by members of SEAL Team Six while playing video games in an arcade to go directly to BUD/S training without the bothersome boot camp training. Then he was deployed to the coast of Libya, on the USS Caron from which he was launched like a murderous missile against Qaddafi and had a body count of 77 Libyans in just 102 hours of a killing frenzy. And then he was promoted to O-5.

    Well, the folks at POW Network sent us his records last night. They seem quite a bit different than his Hollywood-style stories;

    Nothing spectacular in his DD214 in the way of medals, other than the fact that he deployed with some damn fine units.

    And, oh, look, he went to boot camp at Great Lakes Recruit Training Center. How pedestrian. I don’t see any BUD/S training, not even a stint at the Fort Benning Academy of Gravity – a pre-requisite for any special warfare training.

    I know that prosecutors from Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General are regular readers here. According to POW Network, Cryer is receiving DVA benefits based on his wild-ass fairy tales so you guys might want to look into that.

    Cryer has threatened to file lawsuits against POW Network, and I want to let Cryer know that I’m available for a piece of that action, too. Please, please, please sue me, douche nozzle.

  • Willie Glenn “Bill” Floyd; Remembered with Stolen Valor

    Meet recently deceased Staff Sgt. Willie Glenn “Bill” Floyd. His obituary in the Times and Democrat was paid for by his family and recounts his military career;

    He enlisted in the United States Army, where he served two terms in Vietnam. He was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, the Green Berets.

    Yes, everyone knows that the 82d Airborne Division is known as “The Green Berets”.

    Upon completion of his first tour of Vietnam, he attended Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College for criminal justice, after which he re-enlisted in the Army and served his second term in Vietnam. He received 27 medals and ribbons: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldier’s Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Purple Heart, U.S. Nonmilitary Decorations, Good Conduct Medal, Service Medals (NDSM, AFEM, HSM, etc. in order earned), Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, NCO Professional Development, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Foreign Military Decorations and Service Medal and Vietnam Campaign Medal.

    After retiring from the Army after 21 years, he returned to Orangeburg to his family and was employed by Roper as a security officer, Ethyl Chemical Plant as a maintenance worker, Orangeburg County Detention Center as a correctional officer and Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College as a maintenance worker.

    I wonder how many staff sergeants with those decorations made it to 21 years. And what is a “U.S. Nonmilitary Decorations” and a “Foreign Military Decorations and Service Medal”. According to our buddy, Doug Sterner, Willie Glen doesn’t appear in any database as receiving any of those awards.

    In the picture, there’s no flash behind the SF device on his beret, I don’t recognize the branch on his collar or the flash behind his jump wings, but it doesn’t look like something that belongs in SF. If he was assigned to a support unit in the Special Forces, by the date, judging by his uniform (the poplin shirt), he should have had a “candy stripe” on the beret.

    So, our buddy, Doug Sterner, called the newspaper and told them that they published a phony bio. According to Doug, they were “downright rude” about it all, telling him that the family paid for the obituary and there would be no retraction.

    Nice journalistic integrity, there, bud. As long as someone ponies up the right amount of cash, they’ll print anything true or not. I guess we know how Alvin Greene won his party’s nomination in SC in the last election.

  • Jess “Skip” Hall; phony-hunting phony

    Stingerwooten sends us a link from Military.com and Professional Soldiers about Jess “Skip” Hall, a supposed security expert and another phony hunter who claims that he was a special forces soldier in Vietnam. But the hunter became the hunted;

    “He was a clerk typist and he spent all his time in Korea,” said Jeff “JD” Hinton, who routinely ferrets out and exposes phony war heroes on his website, ProfessionalSoldiers(dot)com. “He never went to Vietnam.”

    Hall’s military records, copies of which he provided to Military.com, show he was initially trained as a repairman for crypto equipment at Fort Monmouth, N.J., in 1966. Some months later, he was reassigned to Fort Dix, N.J., and trained as a clerk typist.

    Hall did not respond to Military.com’s requests for an interview or comment. As of late Monday afternoon, his blog page and the Hollow Point website were down. A message on the Hollow Point page stated it was removed because information had been added to the site without Hall’s approval.

    If you really want to read the Gumby shit from Hall’s website, our buddy Jeff Hinton copied a lot of it before he busted Hall. Someone is always adding shit to these dirtbags’ websites without their permission – must be the phony fairy.

  • Planning for Stolen Valor

    StrikeFO sends us this hilarious conversation he found on Facebook. Some guy claiming to be a Marine (who was also a Ranger and SEAL) is looking to replace his Medal of Honor and his Navy Cross. Inevitable language warning;

    And here’s a picture of Mr Studly;

    He looks like he might have eaten a seal once, but been one? Hardly. And the only reason he’d have been awarded an MOH is for saving lives by staying out of the military.

  • GA man can’t get over his discharge – phonys up

    I know how Anthony Todd Saxon feels – there are times I wish I was still in the Army. But ya know what I don’t do? I don’t put on a uniform, march onto the nearest Army base and talk the wienies there out of Claymore mines and night vision scopes;

    After the Army discharged him 15 years ago for a heart condition, Anthony Todd Saxon so desperately wanted to keep serving that he bought an combat uniform and fooled troops at Fort Gordon and his family into believing he remained in the ranks.

    Saxon, 36, insisted Monday he meant no harm when he went to the base last year and posed as a master sergeant, saying he was driven by a lifelong desire to serve his country that got cut short after just three years when the Florida National Guard dismissed him in 1994.

    Inman noted authorities suspect Saxon may have had a live anti-personnel mine at the time of his arrest, though a bomb squad blew it up before investigators could get a close look. Explosives charges were dropped as part of his plea deal, along with counts of theft of government property, theft of a firearm, illegal possession of a rifle with a shortened barrel.

    Nice bomb squad – blowing up evidence before it’s identified. You can’t take pictures of it before you blow it up? No one recognized a Claymore? It probably scared them when they read “front towards enemy” and it was pointed right at them.

    Yeah, this had nothing to do with his patriotism and his desire to serve in themilitary. He stole from the Army, he had an arrest record which prevented him from owning weapons, yet he owned weapons.

    Saxon’s wife, Rhonda Saxon, said she had forgiven her husband. When Saxon was arrested, prosecutors said, she and other family members believed Saxon was about to deploy overseas to Afghanistan.

    “He’s a good person,” she told the judge. “His love for the military is absolutely crazy. That’s all he dreams about and thinks about every day.”

    His love of the military made him steal practice grenades and claymores? She’s right, though…he is absolutely crazy.

    Thanks to Rick for the link.

  • Matthis in Philly HS last week

    TWo of my ninjas sent us this link to “We Are Not Your Soldiers” anti-recruiting efforts in a Philadelphia High School last Wednesday. Notice at about 4:50 into the video, Samantha goldman walks into the classroom and the camera follows her capturing some of the students’ faces.

    You don’t have to watch the video, it’s the same old “poverty draft” blather. At about 8:40 Matthis tells the students that he was suicidal after he got out of the military “because of what I experienced”. I guess the Baskin Robbins at Bagram ran out of Rocky Road one day.

    By the way, I have the collection of photos that Matthis circulating as proof that he went “outside the wire” during his six days in Afghanistan. I’d like someone who has been there to evaluate the pictures. If you want to see them, email me and I’ll send them to you. It looks to me that he didn’t get too far outside the wire, though. And how far can you get in six days?

    Here’s a sample;

  • Basic washout takes Stolen valor to the next level.

    First I would like you to met Melanie Evalena Gutermuth.

    She claims of being in the Army for four years before moving on to College. Except that was a lie. She never even made it out of basic. But that has not stopped her from wearing the Uniform to events.

    But it does not stop there. She has made people believe that she was a military widow. Has lied to combat injured Veterans about being a Veteran.

    She has been a speaker on student veteran issues on colleges. She says again that she was in the military for four years. What she means is that she was in four Companies at Basic before they discharged her.

    Oh and she tired to get into ROTC and was removed from the program after not passing a PT test after a year. Oh and in the video were she talks about having some challenges, being banned from TSU is the main one.

    Summer 2007, Gutermuth began making complaints to the cadre stating that she thought she was unfairly removed. She had nearly every excuse in the book as to why her performance during the last year was so bad. It included everything from her broken finger, to her classmates all conspiring against her to have her removed, an apparent pregnancy which ended in a supposed miscarriage, and trouble at home with a spouse whom none of us had ever heard of before this point. Her correspondence with the cadre showed increasing signs of delusional thoughts and rational. Eventually, she was permanently banned from the ROTC building due to the cadre’s fear of an incident if she be allowed to return. Not long after this in the fall of 2007, word was received that she was also banned from the Texas State University campus for posing a danger to herself or others.

    Oh did I forget that she is disabled?

    But some of the discrimination is overt. Melanie Gutermuth, a disabled veteran and graduate student from Hanover, Md., travels with a service dog. “Most of the time, this is not a problem,” she said. “However, in recent months, that’s changed. People will say, ‘You look normal to me,’ because I’m not in a wheelchair or blind. Consequently, I have been excluded from some services, and charged pet fees for others.”

    It seems that people suspected but not to the level that it has gone.

    A real classy one this is.

    UPDATE Sporkmaster: Guess who got arrested recently. Looks like she was arrested for trespassing after being warned.

  • Fake CSM McAndreis/Anderson

    Ok I am going to start off with one that just caught my eye. Here we have a poser pretending to be a CSM with high rated awards such as the Silver Star, Soldier’s Medal. The Purple Heart, CIB, Ranger and SF tabs are there too. But I would like to know were he got the idea that any unit in the 3rd ID was airborne.

    It seems he was spotted over at Fake Scots Titles It was originally was due to the fact that this person was also pretending to be a Clan Chief.

    Primarily ‘Fake Scots Titles’ endeavours to expose those using Scots Titles they are not at liberty to use. However, during our investigations into the Fake Chief, Calum McAndreis/Anderson, we became suspicious of his claims of being a Command Sergeant Major with a Distinguished Service Cross & Legion of Merit – “Calum Anderson DSC, LOM

    Also they have asked that anyone in the US military reply to help detail what the errors are and help build a case against him.

    We would now welcome comments from those who know more about such matters than we do here in Scotland. We find it difficult to understand how someone born in 1959 could possibly be entitled to the insignia and medals being worn in this photograph some of with relate to the Vietnam War. Mr McAndreis’ arms also seem to have shrunk since retiring from the US military.

    We have been informed that he also proudly displays in his home signed and personalised certificates relating to the above awards. A search of the internet leads us to believe that such certificates are a great deal easier to obtain than one might have thought possible in such serious and emotive circumstances – http://www.military-certificates.com/ARMY_Awards.htm

    This information has now been made available to the 3rd Infantry Division, US Army, for their investigation and comment. Anyone else wishing to contribute to this enquiry is welcome to submit their insight either in confidence by contacting Fake Scots Titles or publicly on this page.

    Love the comment about the shrinking arms.

    Jonn Added: I blew up the decorations. I don’t know what branch insignia he’s wearing, but it certainly doesn’t justify the blue Infantry cord. And I don’t know how he figures he gets to add his rank and duty status to his name plate. WTF is up w/the Kuwait Liberation Medal on the bottom row all by it’s lonesome?