Someone sent us their work on Robert Frank Ahrens of Stokesdale, North Carolina, who claims that he’s an Army Captain to reinforce his political opinions on Facebook.
So, we decided to verify how much of his military career validates his politics. It seems that he was discharged as a private back in 1980 after five whole excruciating months of service at Fort Relaxin’ Jackson;
I’m impressed.
Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this fellow Kenneth Branden Sherley who also goes by Branden Dale. He claims to be a Marine;
The Marine Corps said “Nice haircut, but who are you, again?”
Back in May, we wrote about Mark B. Chartrand when he was arrested and pleaded guilty to pretending to be a wounded soldier to get a free stay in an Airbnb room in St Louis, Missouri. In August, he was sentenced to three years probation, according to the St Louis Tribune.
He’s still facing bad check charges in Jefferson County and he’s still hanging out in St Louis while he waits for his day in court. So, he went back to his old ways, according to someone who has had contact with him. He’s telling stories about how he’s a Master Sergeant and a Ranger about to deploy on a secret operation in order to separate well-intentioned women from their cash using the name Mark Bryant. Here are some pictures he’s sending them;
You can tell he’s legit because he has dogtags outside his shirt. And then there’s that totally legit beret and the oversized 5th SF Group flash. He has a Facebook page he hasn’t used for years which includes this picture. He pretends to be Army, but this picture he stole from someone is an Air Force uniform;
The boy just doesn’t learn. According to the Tribune, this isn’t the first time he was arrested for pretending to be something he wasn’t;
In 2012, Chartrand was placed on probation for five years on a charge of impersonating a federal agent and ordered to repay $138,000. He borrowed money from a “paramour,” and pretended to be a “clandestine counter-terrorism operative” working overseas to delay repayment, his plea says. He violated that probation in 2013 and was sentenced to nine months behind bars.
I’m thinking that his parole officer would like to know that he’s still up to the same old antics, still trying to fool women into giving him money. Especially since he has another trial coming up.
This fellow in Utah, Travis Luke Dominguez, was indicted for 11 counts of making internet threats to a number of people, including President Trump, according to CNN;
“I’m a Navy SEAL,” the indictment quoted Dominguez, 33, as saying. “I woke up and decided going to kill the president Donald Trump today. Please forgive me and then I will die by suicide by cop.”
The indictment went on to quote Dominguez as saying, “I’m going to kill the sexist racist homophobic President Trump today. Nothing you can do to save President Trump nor stop me pigs.”CNN has no confirmation of Dominguez’s claim that he is a SEAL.
Yeah, well, we know that he doesn’t appear in the database of folks who’ve completed SEAL training. The boy just ain’t right. He’s looking at a maximum of 100 years in prison for his threats to local police, movie theater employees, a bank, and other businesses.
He looks like he could only be a threat to a bag of donuts.
Our partners at Military Phonies bust the first phony SEAL of 2018, this fellow David Dwight Adams. His claims were found on social media;
The National Personnel Records Center says “Nope”;
It’s Frogman Thursday, cum bubble.
Stars & Stripes gets an opportunity to interview Papotia Reginald Wright who we featured last month when we caught him pretending to be a retired sergeant major of the Special Forces variety. He told S&S that he didn’t mean to deceive anyone, that it was just an honorary rank;
Wright, who goes by “Reggie,” told Stars and Stripes that his rank is honorary, not an attempt to mislead.
“Because I started the unit (the Honor Guard), I was the top NCO there,” he said. Wright has said he never claimed to be in Special Forces specifically, but that he drove trucks for the 75th Ranger Regiment and 5th Special Forces Group as an attachment.
Yeah, well, wearing a special forces tab, a Purple Heart medal, parachutist wings, none of which he earned, is an attempt to deceive, dumbass.
The article goes on to discuss Wright’s pudgy little adjutant, pretend-major Tammy Feliciano;
The post was signed by Maj. Tammy Feliciano from the group’s S-1 office, referring to personnel management sections in Army headquarters units.
The Guardians of the Green Beret claim they have been able to find no evidence that Feliciano served in the military after a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Personnel Records Center.
“She is calling herself a major. She was not active duty, she was not in the Guard, she was not in the Reserves,” Antson said. Wright says Feliciano is a civilian and the title was honorary. “She’s never been in the military and she’s never portrayed herself to be in the military.”
She could not be reached by Stars and Stripes for comment.
Yeah, her title was honorary, too, not an attempt to deceive. Here’s a picture of her wearing a Special Forces patch, with a Special Forces tab improperly displayed (worn only by soldiers who completed training);
Our partners at Military Phonies send us our last phony SEAL OF 2017, John Williams Adams Jr. As it happen so often these days, Mr Adams initially came to everyone’s attention bragging in social media;
Hoping everyone forgot about his first attempt, he tried it again a few days later with similar results;
He has a big-ass emblem on his cap;
The Navy said “Who?”
But, then on 2/27/2018, they, “Oh, that guy”. He served four years and got a bar to reenlistment;
Still not a SEAL.
We wrote about Stephan Holloway back in May when AverageNCO spotted a news story about him and his nine Purple Hearts. The NPRC wasn’t particularly helpful when they sent us two contradictory DD 214s for the same period. One said that he had 9 Purple Hearts, the other said that he didn’t. Both faded discharges agreed that he had been a supply guy in a Transportation unit in Vietnam.
Holloway claimed that he had flown a helicopter as it fell 600 feet to the ground after the pilot was killed. I guess that the co-pilot had been on a coffee break. Holloway went on to claim that he’d been a prisoner of war, in spite of DPAA to the contrary. He also claimed that he was a special forces soldier in Vietnam, neither DD214 indicated that was true.
Well, the Times Free Press has been trying to get to the bottom of the story, so they contacted him this Fall;
When Holloway was contacted in mid-June and again in October and November seeking documentation of his Purple Hearts citations and other awards, he didn’t offer proof. He offered excuses.
“I’d have to look,” Holloway started. “I threw when I came back from ‘Nam, I threw everything away, so I’ve got a few things and I’ll have to [look for them].”
After being told that Kendrick and others believe he faked the DD-214 bearing the long list of awards, Holloway dodged.
He said he was going out of town said he would call when he got back, but he never called.
In October, he again said he’d thrown everything away, adding that he was being treated for cancer.
In November, as another Veterans Day passed, Holloway still had not proved his claims. He said he was being treated for prostate cancer, was in line for knee replacement surgery, had kidney failure and bleeding behind his eyes and now was going blind.
Did he maintain his claim to the nine Purple Hearts?
“Yes, just leave me alone and let me get this stuff done and I will do it for you,” Holloway said on Nov. 14.
The Times Free Press extended an ongoing offer to seek the documentation with Holloway’s permission, but he declined again.
“No, because you can’t find nothing about me, do you?” he said. “That’s what I’m trying to tell you. You’re not finding nothing about me.”
Why is that?
“I don’t know,” he said.
Asked if he was lying about his record, Holloway bristled, “No, and I’m getting tired of talking to you about it, actually.”
On Nov. 28, Holloway didn’t answer his phone or return the call after a message was left.
Yeah, he threw away all of his documentation, but he still yaks about his 44 medals and his nine Purple Hearts and calls himself the most decorated Vietnam veteran – neither DD214 supports those claims.
He also claims that Lyndon Johnson pinned some of those medals on him;
He also claimed he earned more than 50 medals in all, including a second Silver Star, three Army Commendation Medals, three presidential citations and scores of others.
“I’ve got 57 medals,” Holloway proudly proclaimed, remarking that some were pinned to his chest by President Lyndon B. Johnson himself.
“And I hated President Johnson,” Holloway said. “Johnson was the one who gave me these. He pokes you every time he puts them on.”
I can’t imagine a trip to the White House to get a Silver Star or an ARCOM with a valor device. Presidential citations are unit awards, not individual medals. And there are no Presidential citations on any of his DD214s. I doubt that a supply clerk in a Transportation unit would find himself in a situation to earn nine Purple Hearts or fly a helicopter.