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Category: Phony soldiers

  • Revisit Willie Williams and meet a new phony soldier

    I’m sure many of you remember “Willie” Williams from a post I did more than a month ago.

    Well, it took a month, but we’ve finally got Willie’s records and actually, he had quite an impressive career in the Army. He had several tours in combat as an infantryman in the Dominican Republic and 2 tours in Vietnam. He earned four Bronze Star Medals – all for merit and none for valor even though he’s wearing the “V” on his bronze star – and a Purple Heart in 1968.  His tours in Vietnam were with the 101st and the 173rd in ’68 and ’70 respectively – both were airborne units. Here’s his records;

    Willie stayed Airborne the whole 25 years, except when he was in Korea where he was in a Quartermaster laundry unit, the 101st and the 173rd in Vietnam and most of his time stateside was with the 101st and 82d – he even PCS’d to Germany for 13 months in 1958-59 with 1/504th to Germany when the unit PCS’d en masse . He went to Escape and Evasion School (the predecessor of SERE School) and the 82nd Division Raider Course (predecessor of Recondo School) – so it’s beyond me why he decided he needed all of the other stuff to pump himself up. And he was only 5’5″ and 123 pounds – he was the original Little Billie Badass.

    As far as all that goes, I commend him. And, in fact if you go back to the first post, I didn’t question SFC Williams’ awards for combat service – it was all the ancillary BS crap he wore that I questioned – like the glider badge (the school for which closed the year before he enlisted) and medals that didn’t come into existence until nearly two decades after he left the service.

    Is this an apology? Nope. I was criticized once recently for not unloading both barrels on him, but I kept my critique in the realm of what I knew from the picture. Willie was wrong for wearing all of that silly shit. Period. And so is anyone else who claims things they didn’t earn – civilians do that and we’re better than civilians.

    Here’s another phony soldier claiming stuff he didn’t do (on a tip from 1CavRVN11B);

    William Devereaux, the department’s director of veterans programs, was arrested Monday, issued a summons and released. A court hearing has not yet been scheduled.

    In announcing the arrest on Wednesday, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said the 63-year-old Laurel Springs resident invented a false history of combat heroism in the Vietnam War. The prosecutor’s office said its investigation was prompted by information provided by the county Office of Veterans Affairs.

    Prosecutors said Devereaux falsely claimed on military benefits forms for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that he served as a paratrooper and artilleryman during the war and was injured multiple times. He also claimed to have received medals including the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star with “V” device.

    See? They always claim they’re paratroopers, I dare you to determine which political party Devereaux belongs to from the AP story. He was appointed by McGreevey, so that’s the only hint.

    That’s Deveroux on your left in this picture;

    I’ve been unable to find anything on his party affiliation, but I found an example of his deception;

  • More phony soldier BS

    Yeah, yeah, I know. The whole purpose of milblogs is to elevate the opinion Americans have of our military members…I’ve been lectured on that recently. Several times. However, our military members come from our own society. When our culture is sick, some of the members of our military – a very small percentage…less than .001% – are going to be bad actors.

    When I was a NCO, one of our tenets was to never ignore a deficiency, whether it was low vehicle fluid levels, a dirty weapon, some doofus walking down the street in November with his uniform sleeves rolled up and his hands in his pocket or a cigarette butt on the ground.

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  • Bellyaching Jack Murtha hides behind Constitution

    If this doesn’t get your blood boiling nothing will; fatassed cow John Murtha claims that he can’t be sued by the Marines who he slandered by calling them murderers because to do otherwise would violate his freedom of speech as a legislator. In other words, the same crowd who claims they can arrest and impeach the President of the United States for supposed lies are saying that to hold them accountable for their lies violates their privileges. From The Hill, by way of Defend Our Marines, by way of Michelle Malkin;

    A government lawyer representing Murtha argued that the congressman does not have to agree to testify under oath and is immune from the lawsuit because he was acting in an official capacity as a member of Congress when he made the comments to the media.

    Last year a federal judge ordered Murtha, a decorated former Marine and Vietnam veteran and close ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to testify in the case. His lawyers are appealing that decision.

    Apparently this isn’t the first ridiculous defense the slimy, scum-sucking lawyers defending slimy scum-sucking Murtha have tried;

    Murtha cited a Time magazine report when asked how he knew the killings were conducted in cold blood and why he thought there was a cover-up. Murtha’s lawyers later claimed that Defense Department officials briefed him and “deliberately provided him with inaccurate and false information,” according to a court filing.

    Yeah, it wasn’t his fault that Murtha lied – the evil Pentagon fed him false information. Maybe if Murtha  wasn’t in the habit of shooting off his heavily-jowled face, he wouldn’t have been a target of this imagined misinformation campaign.

    What Murtha said on May 17, 2006;

    Now, two days after I made my statement, on November 19th, we had an incident in Haditha in Anbar province, where a Marine was killed with an IED. Time magazine reported it, and it’s kind of a puzzling report, because they’re investigating it right now. Let me tell you what the consequences of this have been.

    It’s much worse than reported in Time magazine. There was no fire fight. There was no IED that killed these innocent people. Our troops overreacted because of the pressure on them and they killed innocent civilians in cold blood. And that’s what the report is going to tell.

    So Murtha thinks his right to shoot off his stupid mouth supercedes the rights of those Marines to be considered innocent until proven otherwise in a court of law. It seems to me that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights was written to protect the Marines from the Murtha’s pompous and arrogant wielding of power.

  • Veterans for Peace at the Archives

    Well, I’m back from my trip to the National Archives this morning and Vets For Peace still up there on the scaffolding. I asked three security guards separately if VfP been up there all night; one said he didn’t know, one said they had been up there all night and a third thought they were workers cleaning the building’s facade and didn’t know they were protesters until I told him.

    In the After Downing Street post yesterday, they quoted some guy who said he’d seen their banner from over two miles away – dude had good eyes. I parked a block away and didn’t see the banner until I got to Constitution Avenue across the street from the Archives;

    More pictures and video below the fold;

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  • Vets For Peace campout at National Archives…again (UPDATED)

    I’m getting reports that the Geezers for Peace are “occupying” the National Archives again. Of course, “occupying” to them doesn’t mean taking over the building or anything. it means they’re standing on a ledge like they always do. I can’t find pictures yet, but there are some from the last “occupation” my previous post about their last shot at a measure of relevance back in September.

    Actually, they claim that they’ve climbed 90 feet of scaffolding and standing on the roof this time, taking advantage of the fact that most of the cops in town are providing security at the G-20 meeting about a mile down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Archives. Well that’s what I hear anyway. They plan on being up there until Monday – if that’s true, I may go down there tomorrow and get some pictures.

    Their stated reasons for camping out on the roof of a Federal Building is to “insure Bush and Cheney are arrested” – you know, the standard horseshit line of these delusional children. All they’re really doing is trying to draw attention to themselves.

    My sources also tell me that belly-licking Matthis Chiroux, the notorious deserter and pretend victim of water-boarding for Maoist organizations is on the roof, too. I hope no one gets hurt and Matthis has to lick their owies. Chiroux is still calling himself “an Army Sergeant who served in Afghanistan” – he always leaves out the “for six days, give or take a few hours” part.

    To my joy, there’s rain predicted all night and the temperature will drop to 44 by morning. Maybe Matthis will discover what it’s really like to be a soldier finally.

    UPDATED: Gateway Pundit picked this up last night, too, a few hours behind my mole at IVAW. Here’s the only picture so far;

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  • IVAW and friends

    An interested reader sent me this link to an article about an anti-war protest earlier this month in Boston on the anniversary of Congress’ approval for the use of force in Iraq. At this point, it’s almost funny that these groups are still demanding that we leave Iraq now that the tough part is almost over. Funny until you start taking into account the people involved in these protests.

    Let’s take, for example, Jabbar MacGruder who is quoted in the article. I went and looked at his profile at IVAW and found this oddly-written paragraph;

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  • More phony soldier stuff

    This morning, as I began reading the Washington Times, my eyes were assaulted by this image;

    This is an Obama supporter going into an Obama rally in Fayetteville, NC over this caption;

    PHOTOGRAPHS BY J.M. EDDINS JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES Charlie W. Williams of Raeford, N.C., a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars and supporter of Democratic candidate Sen. Barack Obama, lines up early to get into a rally at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville on Oct. 19. “He’s going to get a lot of white votes,” he said of his candidate

    I get real suspicious of veterans who wear all of their medals when they’re not in uniform. Although we’re usually proud of what we’ve earned, we don’t usually wear all of our “bling” because it looks too much like bragging. So I started checking the medals and ribbons on Willie’s left breast (Lord knows I don’t want to get started on the right breast full of Unit Citations). So I blew up the picture;

    I also looked for images of Army Medals and discovered that I also needed to find some Navy Medals, too.

    The highest award is two awards of the Bronze Star, one with a ‘V’ for valor. Since it’s illegal to claim a medal for valor you’re not awarded, I absolutely believe that, without further evidence to the contrary. The rest are (in order viewers’ left to right and descending);

    Purple Heart/Army Commendation Medal

    Defense Meritorious Service Medal/Army Meritorious Service Medal

    Reserve Component Overseas Training/Republic of Korea Service Medal/Army Acheivement/Good Conduct

    Army of Occupation/Southwest Asia Service (Desert Storm)/Vietnam Service medal (3 stars)/National Defense

    NATO Medal/Korea Service/Armed Forces Service Medal/Army Service Ribbon

    Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal/Army Overseas Ribbon /Navy Meritorious Unit/Navy Combat Action

    United Nations Service/Republic of Viet Nam Campaign/Multinational Force and Observers Medal/Outstanding Volunteer Medal

    Aside from the fact that his ribbons are all out of order (something a career NCO would never do), he has the Southwest Asia medal for Desert Storm, the Armed Forces Service medal (which is for service after 1992). He’s also wearing a Navy Combat Action ribbon, which he only could’ve earned as a member of the Navy or Marines. He also has an Overseas Service Ribbon which can only be awarded to people on active duty after 1981. The Multinational Force and Observers Medal didn’t come into being until Jimmy Carter started sending troops to the Sinai. His National Defense Service Medal has an oak leaf cluster, subsequent awards of the NDSM are denoted by a bronze star device not an oak leaf.

    Willie is wearing medals and ribbons that didn’t come into existence until after he left the service since he says he was in Korea and Vietnam. He wears a star on his CIB so that means he had to have been in the Korean War before July 27, 1953. Since his Good Conduct Medal has five knots, he must’ve served between 15-18 years (each knot is three years of service) but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he did twenty, that means he retired before July 1973 and many of the medals he wears didn’t even exist at the time he retired and they’re awarded for service he couldn’t have.

    The Outstanding Volunteer Medal didn’t come into existence until 1992 – Willie could have won it but he would had 40 years of service, but even Colin Powell only did 35. Most E-7s get booted if they don’t get promoted to E-8 before they hit 22 years.

    He’s also sporting a 555th Parachute Infantry patch – the famous “Colored” Paratroopers. They disbanded in 1950 before the Korean War when the Army desegregated.

    A few weeks ago, I busted out a warrant officer on Military.com who listed every conflict since Vietnam as wars he’d participated in during his thirty year career. Questioning him and comparing his profile to his medals, we narrowed his wartime service down to just the Global War on Terror – and surprise – he was an Obama supporter touting the IAVA report card.

    Zero Ponsdorf and Wpage sent me this article about phony soldiers from the Chicago Tribune. They seem to be everywhere.

    If you’ve been in the military, just be proud of your service for what it was, you don’t need to make stuff up to be accepted. Cheezum crow.

    Welcome, Gateway Pundit and Blackfive readers.

    UPDATED: It turns out that “Willie” did indeed serve, according to the folks at P.O.W. Network. He served from 1949 until 1974 – he retired the same year I enlisted;

    NAME: WILLIAMS CHARLIE W
    SERVICE: A
    COMP: R
    V_RANK: E07
    DOB: Edited out by Jonn Lilyea
    SEX: M
    V_RACE: N
    EDLEV: Edited out by Jonn Lilyea
    START: 490100
    DOR: Edited out by Jonn Lilyea
    PEB: 490100
    DMOS: 11B4O
    PMOS: 11B4P
    SMOS: 11C4P
    STOP: 740430
    TAFMS: 293
    YOS_SEP: 26

    But I never doubted his service, in fact I was careful to give him the benefit of the doubt on each point and still found him to be a liar. He’s wearing a glider badge and the school ended the year before he joined. He’s wearing medals that weren’t even in existence nearly two decades after he retired. I stand by this post.

    We posted Willie’s actual records here.

  • NH’s Ray Buckley; Astroturfing phony soldier

    Last night I got an email from Debbie Lee, the mother of Marc Alan Lee, the first SEAL killed in the war against terror, forwarded by Bev Perlson of the Band of Mothers. Now, I met Debbie Lee last year at the ANSWER/IVAW protest in DC and a sweeter woman doesn’t exist. But anyway, she was camapigning in New Hampshire the other day and she confronted one of the candidates who had neglected to return the call of a Gold Star mother who was calling the Congressional office seeking assistance.

    While Debbie was confronting the congresswoman, a man interrupted her. From her email;

    I turned around and in disgust commented that Carol had just lied. A man in the crowd chanted, “Where’s the proof? Prove it. Prove it!” I pointed to Natalie who was speaking with media and said. “She’s the proof. That’s the Mother who Carol refused to call.”  I repeated to the man “Our son’s gave their tomorrows, their futures, so that she could have her today’s and she can’t even return a phone call? That’s disgraceful.

    He then told me he had served in Viet Nam and had friends who were POW-MIA. I compassionately touched his arm thanked him for his service and told him I was sorry for his loss. I told him that no matter where you stood on the politics of the War on Terror that a Congressman or Senator out of respect should return a phone call to a Gold Star family member. He stated his disgust for what we were doing in Iraq and said “We’ve all lost things.” THINGS????? My son is not a thing. He was a hero who stood out in the direct line of fire 3 times that day and gave his life for this man and he has the audacity to compare his sacrifice with a thing???? I was livid!!! How dare him.

    After being told by debate officials to take the discussion outside, Debbie turned around and started to walk away;

    I could not believe what had just taken place. I knew I was wasting my time and started to walk away when the man I had the confrontation with told me “Your just being used by the campaign.” Oh my goodness again, I can’t believe the antics of this idiot. He obviously doesn’t know that nobody uses me. I turn around and tell him “NOBODY uses me!” You don’t raise a son to be a Navy SEAL by having a character that is used by people. Unbelievable! As I approached the other Blues Star Moms and campaign staff that was there they asked what had just taken place. I retold the confrontation with the condescending, heartless man. They asked me to point him out. I was informed that his name was Ray Buckley and that he was the Chairman of the Democrat Party in NH. I was even more appalled that the man who had disgraced my son and insulted me was a high ranking official in the Democrat Party.

    Well, as soon as I read the email (at about 2300 Zulu), I just “googled” Buckley’s name and hit on a Wikipedia entry (probably written by Buckley himself) and learned;

    Buckley’s first involvement in Democratic Party politics was at age eight, when he campaigned for a gubernatorial candidate by making homemade signs.[2] As a twelve year old in 1972, he was volunteering for the Ed Muskie primary presidential campaign.

    I don’t know how he passed himself off as eighteen years old when he was eight or nine years old and went to Vietnam as he told Debbie he did. Or maybe he’s just an opportunistic liar. In fact, a perusal of his Wikipedia entry turns up not one mention of ANY military service;

    His parents divorced in 1972. By high school, his family had settled in Canterbury, where at the young age of 14, he served as the town’s Democratic Party Chair (due to his young age, his mother held the post officially). He planned to go to college upon graduating high school, but lacking the finances, he accepted a job offer to work for then State Democratic Chair Joanne Symons. He has been a professional politician ever since.

    Buckley is openly gay and has faced opposition to his sexuality since his first election to the State House in 1986. Before that election, he helped found the New Hampshire Citizens Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Rights. Of his own sexuality, Buckley has said “You cannot make me straight, so get over it.”

    Apparently this morning, there is an acknowledgement in New Hampshire online media and the Nassua Telegraph that the incident occurred. There’s also a YouTube video of Buckley saying that Hitler should have bombed The Hague, picking his nose and eating the result for the camera, saying “F**k America”.

    And now he’s trying to pass himself off as veteran. Is this the guy Democrats of New Hampshire want in their fore?

    Welcome Conservative Grapevine readers (and thanks to DPUD).