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Category: Phony soldiers

  • Phony soldier update

    You may remember the candy thief in Florida that claimed he was an Iraq War veteran and that entitled him to all of the free candy he wanted. The local newspaper actually identified him as a homeless veteran, even though a cursory check showed he’s been in and out of jail for the entire Iraq War including an arrest before the war for cocaine possession.

    Well, at the time, about a month ago, POW Net helped us submit a FOIA check on the creep. And here are the results;

    He has no service record. Can someone in Florida make sure this clown gets tossed in jail for a couple of years for that? And embarrass that newspaper for us , too.

  • Amateur phony soldier

    [UPDATE at Bottom from TSO]

    The other day I put this picture up of a guy harrassing TSO and me while we were minding our own business watching and filming hippies. He yelled at us that he “defected” from the Marine. We shrugged and he wandered away.

    Defected Marine

    Well, today one of my workmates got curious about the paper he’s holding, so I blew the photo up and it turns out it’s a certificate of the Delayed Entry Program for the Marines. Here, look;

    So this guy signed up for an enlistment in the Marine Corps, then chickened out and now he carries the little certificate around with him to prove he’s a “defector”. I guess he wears the mask because he thinks the Marines are looking for his pale little chickenshit ass. Of course, flashing a piece of paper around with your name in bold print probably doesn’t help him hide much better – Ryan James Vaughn, in case you didn’t click on the picture.

    If he only he’d showed up for that first day at the reception station before he crapped himself and ran away, he could have joined IVAW. I wonder if he read that last paragraph on his certificate.

    TSO Wrote: On the video tape portion you can hear me yell out to him that I want to see his DD214. The quizzical look he gave me now is a lot clearer. He was no more in the Marine Corps than my neighbors dog was.

    Editx2: If you watch the second video on the post below, you can see this clown college reject come in around 30 seconds.  His first comments are “semper fi, do or die” and then something about the Marine Corps.  Any dipshit that uses a DEP certificate to prove they were in the Marine Corps was quite clearly never in.  It would be like showing an advertisement from your newspaper for an H3 Hummer to prove to your bank that you bought a vehicle.

    Added: TSO sent me a link to DequalS which has a video on it from Russia Today. In it, they talk to Jim Goodnow;


    See under his name in this screeen shot where it says “Vietnam Veteran”? Jim Goodnow was in the Coast Guard and got a medical discharge in 1961 – four years before combat troops were sent to Vietnam. You’d think they’d learn after a while, wouldn’t you?

    UPDATE from TSO: Ms Olga found some more info. Turns out there is a Ryan James Vaughan from Towson Maryland. What makes him all the more despicable is that according to this, (if this is him) his great-grandad was a WWI veteran who belonged to the VFW and the American Legion.

    Ryan is also possibly a Hofstra Grad.

  • ANSWER March on the Pentagon

    Since the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War was the other day, ANSWER and it’s assorted affiliates of beggars, drama queens and ne’er-do-wells picked today out of the air to hold their March on the Pentagon.

    Brian Becker, the national coordinator for ANSWER said it’s important because it’s the first anti-war protest in the Post-Bush Era. So here’s the photos

    This was the most appropriate thought – a bumper sticker on the back of a coat;
    ANSWER 057

    Uncle Jimbo got some interviews in like this one with Code Pink
    ANSWER 043

    The Socialists are here – and at least one is appealing:
    ANSWER 046
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  • IVAW’s Chiroux responds

    In reference to the post I wrote from someone who knows Chiroux, another anonymous commenter sent me this from Chiroux who was writing in response to another series of posts that were broadcast around the internet from a fellow IVAW member (actually the one that TSO quoted here). Whoever sent it to me, thought that this would absolve Chiroux of charges of wrong doing. Heh, they don’t know me too well, do they? So here’s Chiroux’ email to IVAW;

    My response as well as that of our entire organization should be complete condemnation for whichever member wrote and shared this piece of libel.

    First off, I HAVE NEVER defrauded any of my supporters in any way shape or form. Every dime that has been donated to IVAW for my defense remains with IVAW and will be spent on my hearing as is required by law. As far as donations made to me personally or through my paypal (which have yet to exceed $1,000), the portion I have spent has been on professional expenses only as IVAW has not provided me any compensation for phone, travel or materials since early last fall, which does in fact exceed the amount donated to me by my individual supporters.
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  • Behind the IVAW Music; Matthis Chiroux

    Last night Tankerbabe sent me this link to a blog post about a protest in New York City against “the war” and she pointed out that Matthis Chiroux was there. This morning I find a link from LT Nixon to a New York Times article about the same protest – it also mentions Chiroux.

    Our interest in him goes back to the day that he announced his intention to disregard the letter he supposedly received from the Army ordering him to report for duty from his Individual Ready Reserve commitment. We’ve also checked out his somewhat spotty record and his false claim that he is an “Afghanistan veteran”.

    But there is someone who wants to let everyone know the truth about Matthis Chiroux This person has been in email contact with me intermittently over the last few weeks. Whoever it is claims that they’ve known Chiroux for the last few years since he was stationed in Germany.
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  • Obscuring the facts

    Wondering what I’d write to you about this morning, I opened my inbox and found this little nugget awaiting my attention;

    name = amerifag
    email = amerifag@osamaisgreat.com
    comments = dude you need to devote a homage to Osama on your site… 9/11 was FRICKIN SWEET… i was laughing the whole morning… fuckin americans jumping to their deaths…what could be sweeter (and funnier)???

    good times, good times…. cant wait for round 2

    have a nice day
    REMOTE_HOST: 38.103.144.42

    I shrugged and deleted it, because I often get little things like that in the morning from the meth-crazed freaks who can’t get to sleep. Then, I found more that had been sent to the spam folder – I deleted them as well, since it’s a fairly common occurrence, too. Then I saw jeffersonlives‘ comment. I wondered why the sudden surge, until I looked at incoming links, and I knew right away where the mental midgets were coming from.

    Yesterday, I referenced Brandon Friedman’s post at VetsVoice in one of my posts about the President’s attempt to charge vets for their service-connected treatment and Freidman tracked the link back here and wrote another Obama tongue bath and linked here. The Obama-bots and border-line psychopaths at VetVoice dutifully flocked over here to spam this blog with their immature and vile comments.

    But here’s a post TSO did on VoteVets in July which includes a debate he had with Friedman and here’s one I did on Soltz and Vote Vets after the election when Soltz emailed Melanie Morgan and called her a “stinky hag” keeping the debate civil. So now we’ve established a baseline on what I think about VoteVets, let’s look at Friedman’s post.

    Right in the title of his post, Friedman lies. “Administration Listens to Vets; Backs Off VA Insurance Plan”. Now if it was a timeline, it’s accurate because the Administration did back off after they listened to veterans – but they didn’t back off BECAUSE they they listened to the VSOs. Before the 1PM meeting yesterday, the last time the President had listened to VSOs, the meeting ended with him, in effect, telling the VSOs “pound sand, I’m doing it anyway”. He wasn’t even at the meeting yesterday, according to The Hill;

    Jim King, the national executive director for American Veterans (AMVETS), said that the meeting with Rahm Emanuel lasted all of 15 minutes and that the health insurance issue was the only topic discussed. The representatives of the 11 veterans organizations told Emanuel they were not willing to back down, and the chief of staff told them that he thought the issue was “off the table,” but that he needed to talk to Obama.

    Something that had happened between the end of the Monday meeting and the Wednesday meeting changed his mind. Nothing he “heard” from VSOs changed his mind – except that he was facing another Bonus March.

    The Administration was dictating to the VSOs what policy was going to be in regards to this issue. I have a theory as to why the Obama Adminsitration thought they could get away with it, and it’s related to the Salute to Heroes Ball dust up in January, but I can’t say anything about that. Yet.

    The only organization which took immediate action was the American Legion. The Legion had the good sense to make an issue of it, instead of taking the VoteVets approach of bending over for Obama (from here forward referred to as “BOFO”) and spreading their cheeks. While VoteVets was telling everyone to not worry, the American Legion mobilized the troops. That’s what changed minds. It wasn’t the media, either – it took two days for for the media to notice, well, except for McClatchy and no one reads them anyway.

    So Friedman is just wrong that we should just assume Obama has our best interests in his heart – the VSOs need to be vigilant, not BOFO like VoteVets.

    By the way, I have this picture so I’m using it;
    Perry Soltz
    It’s VV’s Jon Soltz meeting on a runway somewhere with VFP/VVAW member and IVAW advisor Bill Perry.
    And here they are inside the airport with more VFP/VVAW/IVAW members;
    VV IVAW VVAW VFP group hug

    Don’t tell me you have veterans’ interests in mind when you cavort with the mindless drones of IVAW who care about nothing except where they can score some pot and babe-age. VoteVets is a partisan organization that falls under aegis of MoveOn.org. Even John Bruhns, the former soldier – turned anti-war activist, left VoteVets because they were too much in the pocket of the Democrat party.

    And, Friedman, this isn’t an anti-Obama blog. I started this blog before Obama started running for President, so it can’t be an anti-Obama blog. I’m against his policies but mostly I’m against buffoons and charlatans who are climbing over the bodies of their former comrades using their motor pool dispatch credentials to lead this country down the road to ruin.

    I guess you can say I’m anti-dipshit.

  • Winter Soldier – Europe testimony

    I only sat through about an hour of it all so far, but the peace-nazis are working overtime to get the blather from yesterday of Winter Soldier Europe on the internet. They’ve already posted some of the testimony. And it’s pretty much like their Silver Spring horsedung. They make excuses for their childish behavior and they really have nothing to add to the discussion about the war except their own personal feelings. I’ve put the “testimony” of Shepherd and Baddorf below the jump.
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  • Fake Vet imprisoned

    A phony vet named Mark Mulcahy was sentenced to four years in prison plus three years parole for 24 years of fakery, according to the Glenwood Springs Post Independent;

    Mulcahy apologized to 9th Judicial District Court Judge Daniel Petre, to the Garfield County Jail, to the people he’s hurt, to his girlfriend, and finally, he apologized to the Glenwood Springs Veterans of Foreign Wars Post, of which he became the commander in 2004 under the assumed identity.

    Yeah, see, he didn’t just pretend to be a veteran, he pretend to be someone else who was a veteran;

    Prosecutors said Mulcahy pretended to be David Keith Anderson, also known as David Keith Ronayne, for more than two decades. Mulcahy said Thursday that he assumed Anderson’s identity to help Anderson.

    “I wasn’t trying to violate anyone,” Mulcahy said as he addressed the court. “I knew David Anderson. We did it as a favor to him.”

    Mulcahy said the reason for the situation was that the real Anderson wanted to leave the country and didn’t want his family to be able to find him.

    According to past Post Independent reports, the real Anderson lived in California for most of the 24 years Mulcahy used his identity. However, Anderson reportedly died in a bicycle accident in 2006.

    Anderson served in the U.S. Army from 1973-74, but Mulcahy, pretending to be Anderson, claimed he served in the Marine Corps. Mulcahy was able to obtain a “DD-214” form in Anderson’s name, which is issued on separation from military service.

    Thanks to 1stCavRVN11B for the tip.
    I learned something while trying to find more about this story; when you do a search on the internet for “fake vet”, sometimes you run across fake vets that are fake cross-dressing veterinarians so you might have to narrow your search parameters a bit.