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Category: Phony soldiers

  • Cobb County phony SEAL

    Just A Grunt sent me a link the other day to this story, and it’s a goody. Apparently the Cobb Public Safety Director Mickey Lloyd has been playing SEAL for quite some time. he’s even an expert on John Kerry;

    Lnenicka said Lloyd told him he was a “gunner’s mate and a SEAL in a sister unit to John Kerry’s unit.”

    “He talked a lot about being a part of the Riverine task force,” Lnenicka said. “He told me about his disgust for John Kerry because Kerry ordered his men to withdraw while under fire without picking up the bodies of American soldiers who were left behind.”

    Read more: The Marietta Daily Journal – News, Sports, Classifieds, Businesses in Marietta, GA

    I guess if you’re a phony, link your story to another phony for some credibility.

    Lloyd gave the county HR department a DD 214 form on March 22, for retirement incentive purposes, showing Lloyd earned the National Defense Service Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal, said county spokesman Robert Quigley. But two weeks ago, Lloyd delivered a different DD 214 to the county’s HR department to be “included in his personnel file,” Quigley said.

    That DD 214 has those two medals listed plus the Presidential Unit Citation, the Navy Unit Citation, the Combat Action Ribbon, two Bronze Stars and the Silver Star.

    The local TV station tells a little more about the two DD214s;

    The first DD 214 lists only two decorations: the National Defense Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal.

    The second DD 214 is nearly identical, including the signatures, but lists 5 additional medals, including the Presidential Unit Citation, the Navy Unit Citation, Combat Action Ribbon as well as two Bronze and one Silver Stars for valor.

    The word “citation” is also misspelled on two award listings.

    I guess he’s from Geoffrey Millard School of Veteran Fakery – if you had wished you had done more, you just add it to your records. And he must’ve taken lessons from Jesse MacBeth who had a few spelling errors on his fake 214.

    Well, POW Net has Lloyd’s number and if the Cobb County HR folks want to dick around waiting for the records and pay the little phony with their thumb up their collective ass, that’s fine. lloyd could at least have the decency to come clean now that he’s busted. I guess he’s going to use the old “secret records” or “Navy SNAFU” excuse. Loser.

    I’m thinking I’m going to forge a DD214 and pass it around…one that says I was a cook and a file clerk in 379th Messkit Repair Company in Wisconsin. I’ll be the first one to NOT pretend I’m a Ranger/SEAL/Sniper/Sapper/Force Recon/Green Beret. I think I’ll award myself the Expert Driver badge, too.

  • WCW at Warped Tour

    This very mature group of veterans manned a booth at the Warped Tour punk rock concert in Mountain View, CA this weekend for World Can’t Wait‘s We Are Not Your Soldiers.

    Oh, wait, there’s only one veteran in the group – Robin Long who absconded to Canada before his unit deployed to Iraq. And he’s the expert on the Iraq War;

    Some people thought Iraq had attacked the US on 9/11, and they didn’t know the difference between Al Qaeda and the Taliban. We asked them how Islamic Fundamentalists became a force in the world, and many of them would say that they have been around forever. They insisted that civilians being killed by the U.S is not the fault of the military but the result of “bad apples.”

    Robin talked about his experience in boot camp, where people are TRAINED to kill civilians – and that is why he resisted. He gave examples of being taught to shoot civilians and degrade people, especially Middle Eastern people. People would bust through the crowd and jump into the conversation, saying that these wars were wrong and they were on our side and would sign up on the spot.

    Yeah, that’s how you win wars – by training to kill people who have nothing to do with the war. Long is still trying to make excuses for his bad behavior.

    I wonder who the giant pedophile is in the back row of the picture.

  • The story is too interesting to research

    The folks at POW Net sent us this heartbreaking (not!) story of a poor GI who gave his all in Somalia then rejoined the Army to beat on Saddam’s Army for a while. His name is Earl Coffey and he’s been drummed out of the service for stealing a half-million bucks worth of Saddam’s hidden treasure. The Army Times tells his story like this;

    He joined the active Army, then completed sniper, airborne assault and Army ranger training at Fort Benning, Ga.

    He served as a Ranger sniper in Somalia in 1993, engaging in several fierce firefights and was shot in the leg during a battle that was later depicted in the movie “Black Hawk Down.”

    “It’s like what General Westmorland once said, that combat is a delightful thought to a young man who has never seen it,” he said.

    Nevertheless, after a short time away from being a full-time soldier, Coffey rejoined active duty after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, determined to serve his country. It didn’t take long before he found himself right back in combat, this time in the Middle East.

    Yeah, all of that “Ranger, sniper, airborne stuff – you can see it right here on his DD214, right?

    Coffey DD214

    What? You don’t see it? It’s right there next to his highest award – an Army Achievement Medal. Oh, wait…maybe not. And then there was the well-worn trail of tears in Iraq;

    “We were destroying everything, everything we came in contact with, whether it was a building, a bunker, a trench, a human being, it didn’t matter,” he said during a 2004 military court hearing. “At times it was terrifying, and at times you just felt completely emotionless.”

    Once, with Coffey’s unit taking sniper fire, he fired two rounds at a figure on a rooftop, only to discover he had shot an unarmed boy.

    Another time, at a roadblock, Coffey watched as fellow soldiers — jittery about suicide attacks — fired warning shots to stop an approaching Nissan pickup. When it kept coming they fired a larger round, the resulting explosion lifting the truck in the air.

    Inside, two children and a man died, and Coffey saw the surviving woman watch her family consumed by flames.

    They left out the part about how the whole US Army in Iraq was playing soccer with a baby’s head. What? Didn’t everybody?

    Since the Army Times did such a bang-up job of verifying his service in Somalia, I’m sure they got his storytelling in Iraq right. Right?

    So here’s the picture The Army Times runs of Coffey – do you see all of that Ranger and Airborne training on the uniform?

    You don’t? Well apparently the Army Times did.

    The article continues with the blubbering about going to prison for stealing Saddam’s loot, but at this point I wonder if anything about Coffey is true. The Army Times picked up the story from the Kentucky Courier-Journal, but you’d think they’d do a bit of fact-checking before they put on their own pages.

  • IVAW links to the ISO

    Someone sent me a set of photos of Victor Agosto, the fellow who went to jail in Texas for refusing to deploy with his unit from Fort Hood to Afghanistan last year. During his one visit here to TAH, he sounded fairly rational. What a difference a year in IVAW makes;

    I don’t even know where to find an heroic poster of Mao leading peasants – yet….

    And it’s a quick change from the IVAW banner…

    To the ISO banner;

    And, oh, he’s pals with Matthis;

  • Matthis’ big weekend

    Mattis went to Detroit for the US Social Forum and hooked up with flag-burning buddy Elaine Brower this weekend. Their big adventure was to post a banner in an abandoned building with some of the chumps from Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands;

    Yeah, he’s afraid of the police, that’s why he stopped to take a group portrait;

    Here’s the lame-ass crowd – they took several photos despite the fact that they were so afraid of the cops;

    If the Detroit police need the picture to identify the trespassers, I can still blow the original up another 200% to help out. Anything to help out Detroit’s finest. But obviously, Matthis and his friends weren’t all that interested in the social forum that was being held in Detroit, well not as much as they were enamored with the idea of childish, useless pranks. Given that the average age of the trespassers was about 90 years old, I think I can safely say “Grow up, Vets for Peace.” At least act half your age.

  • Matthis chases off another IVAW member

    So I got the whiff of another IVAW member leaving (actually, I’ve heard from a couple of folks who are leaving or getting run off) because of the antics of Matthis Chiroux. Someone mailed me this letter of resignation;

    I sit down at this desk and begin to write the hardest letter I have every written. A month ago, I came across a video of the “We Are Not Your Soldiers” stop at a California High School. What I saw was so shocking and devastating that it called into question my very membership in IVAW.

    After the Board of Directors voted not to take any action against Matthis Chiroux for burning the American Flag on March 20, 2010, I became sick of IVAW national politics that did nothing but undermine the work of local chapters. I stepped away from any involvement in the national politics, and stepped into local work, hoping that I might accomplish some real good. Alas, while the local results were encouraging, the idiotic ramblings of Mr. Chiroux found me.

    On the evening of May 24th, I was sent the link to a video of the “We Are Not Your Soldiers” Tour stop on May7th, 2010. In the video, there was one speaker, a woman, whom I did not recognize, and Mr. Chiroux. From the context, it appeared that they were speaking to high school classes about the video Collateral Murder. While some of what Matthis said regarding the fear that war instills was right, there was a slew of half-truths and exaggerations that offset any grain of truth he was trying to communicate. First there was the terrible editing job: interspersed video of US, German and UK soldiers with extremely graphic photos of dead and wounded people from Iraq, Israel, Afghanistan and violent street riots in the US and England. Then there was a stream of generalizations, over simplifications and half-truths about war that were laughable coming from a veteran who spent a week in Afghanistan. Even as a non-deployed veteran, I can tell when someone has never actually seen war.

    The final portion of Mr. Chiroux’s talk was the most shocking. After a short tirade about slavery to the American flag, Mr. Chiroux states that must not support the troops. I have to admit that this was quite a shock to hear, even from Matthis. Not support the troops? How does that work with being the leader of an organization that is of the troops and for the troops? He made it very clear that any soldier who deploys is committing genocide and should NOT be supported. He told the civilians in this class that they need to let soldiers know that they do not support them and that they should not honor the warrior or the war.

    At this point in the video, I was sick. I had been told of people like this: activists who attack all soldiers without regard for their humanity. Nevertheless, to actually see someone talk about soldiers like Mr. Chiroux did, was socking. I could not believe I was hearing. As a Conscientious Objector, I am keenly aware that not every soldier is opposed to the war. I understand that the decision to get out of the military is a very personal and very serious decision that no one can force a soldier to make. It is an absolute necessity that we support the troops while opposing the wars. While Mr. Chiroux makes no distinction between these two ideas, one can support a soldier without approving of the war he is taking part in. I have sent care packages, helped family members of deployed soldiers – I have even helped soldiers who have chosen to stay in the military! We can support and help soldiers even if we disagree with their decision to remain in the military and deploy.

    I am quickly running out of options with regards to IVAW. Over the last few years, members have left the national scene to focus on local work. Others have gotten more and more involved in the internal politics of IVAW. Neither option has proven very successful at either ending the wars or changing the problems within IVAW. For me, more involvement with the national scene has led to heartburn and stress, while just focusing on local work has been hindered by the national ravings of Matthis and his ilk. Thankfully, I have been given some very unique opportunities to focus more on reaching out and building relationships with soldiers, regardless of their position about war. I feel that IVAW will only hinder these efforts.

    I do not leave in protest. I do not expect IVAW to change to keep me as a member, nor am I demanding that. I am not leaving activism – I leave to free myself for more direct and personal involvement in reaching out to soldiers without the hindrance of IVAW.
    Signed,

    Daniel

    At some point, IVAW has to start taking into account that this is not the 1960s, that the membership of this organization is more mature, more rational and more intelligent than the smelly, illiterate twits of VVAW and VFP. Time and again, members of IVAW have made it clear that they have nothing against this country or their comrades who remain in the service, but the International Socialist Organization-affiliated members of IVAW are the ones who drive the organization away from it’s members.

    I have nothing against opposing the war, but I do oppose the far Left moonbats who want to manipulate that opposition into a Marxist revolution, and apparently some of the members feel the same way. Some of them are honest enough to admit that they don’t want to belong to an organization that is being used by radical extremists in the RCP and World Can’t Wait.

    The ISO members and their useful idiots as well as the dinosaurs of the VVAW/VFP are scrambling to mitigate the latest damage to their propaganda machine and I’ll have more on that tomorrow.t

  • I love going over to POW. Network.

    I mean it is even better then reading the funnies. I would like you to met a Bounds Kylen Rowe

    He thought of it would be a good idea to try to get into Naval Station Everett with a ACU uniform, except that he forgot one minor thing. He came to the gate without a military ID. He also had a Felony Record too book. This one is so new that there is nothing out on the internet on him and POW.Net has him listed as being booked on the 21st of June. Perhaps someone else will have better luck finding out more on our newest fake.

    ADDED:     Also notice the direction that his flag is facing. For those that do not know the blue part is facing forward to give the impression that the flag is flying in the wind. His is the exact opposite, a major indication that something is not normal.

  • Kerry asked to step down from POW Commission

    1stCavRVN11B sent us an article about the reopening of meetings between the US and Russia to determine the fate of American POWs during the Cold War according to Bill Gertz in yesterday’s Inside the Ring column..

    The White House National Security Council has been press­ing for the commission to resume its efforts to gain access to Russian archives where secret files on the fates of hundreds of missing Americans from wars are believed to be held.

    A meeting of the U.S. side of the commission was held June 10 on Capitol Hill, but a key member, Senate Foreign Rela­tions Committee Chairman John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, was absent, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, has not assigned a Democratic House member to the panel.

    Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Geor­gia Republican and the chief of staff for Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican and himself a prisoner of war in Vietnam for seven years, took part

    The absence of the Democ­ratic representatives was crit­icized by several participants. They also voiced concerns that the Defense Intelligence Agency failed to send one of its officials to the meeting.

    The Russians have recently opened their archives in regards to the Polish officers at Katyn Forest, which might signal a thawing of relations in that regard.

    U.S. officials have said privately that the Russians are believed to hold documents that will assist in the hunt for missing Americans, likely including those reported captured and held in Siberia during the Cold War and the Korean conflict.

    Russia has not released documents from this region since the commission was launched in 1992. POW activists suspect Moscow has blocked access to historical records because the records are expected to show the Russians executed scores, if not hundreds, of American POWs.

    Some groups assisting the Commission aren’t pleased with the participation they’re getting from the Democrats at this critical juncture;

    “We deeply appreciate the Obama administration’s efforts but are dismayed the Democratic leadership in Congress cannot find two lawmakers willing to support our POW/MIAs and their families. At a minimum, we call for Speaker Pelosi to fill immediately the empty commission seat for a Democratic congressional representative so that person can take part in the upcoming meeting,” said Dolores Alfond, chairwoman of the National Alliance of Families.

    “We also ask Sen. Kerry to step aside in favor of a senator willing to devote the time and energy needed for this critical mission,” she said.

    I don’t what John Kerry is doing with this commission, anyway. He left his shipmates embattled in Vietnam in 1969 and then bayoneted them all in the back (the same way he shot that wounded Vietnamese kid in the back) with his retarded behavior at Congressional hearings and at Winter Soldier in Detroit, not to mention his antics at various protests. Why does anyone think he’s going to give a tiny, furry rat’s ass about some POWs?

    He’s like Al Gore’s ritarded half-brother/cousin.