Category: Phony soldiers

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this Brent Eckert fellow who claims that he was a Navy SEAL, of course.

He was in the Navy for about four years as an Aviation Warfare Systems Operator at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida. He never attended BUD/S or any training that could be confused as SEAL Training.

He does, however, have several convictions for possession of controlled substances and assault, so there are records that the National Personnel Records Center doesn’t have in their archives. There’s a list of those arrests at Military Phonies.

We’ve written about John Garofalo a few times since he was busted by Don Shipley after he appeared on Fox News talking about his glass sculpture that he was creating for the President. That report has been removed from Fox’ website, but here it is if you missed it;

Well our partners at Military Phonies went and got his records from the National Personnel Records Center to document his claims that he was a wounded Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam. His claims go back at least three years.

Here’s a shot of the time in 2015 when he lied to Dee Snider;

Here are his actual records;

He spent four years in the Navy as an Aviation Boatswain’s Mate, leaving as an E-4. No SEAL training, no Purple Hearts, no service in Vietnam. His only overseas deployment was to Spain.

David Santini a 55-year-old in Lincolnshire set up collection buckets for his charity “Help for Heroes” and took up and swindled folks out of about £7,000 ($9171.47) until he was confronted by police officers who he told that he had just returned from Afghanistan and that he was taking up money to help veterans. The officers learned that Santini had been dishonorably discharged in 1983;

“One of the officers became suspicious of the uniform he was wearing as it was part Royal Marine, and part Royal Airforce.

“There were also suspicions from another stallholder who said Santini could not talk about his regiment.

“He was asked for his Armed Forces identity card. At that point he said he didn’t have one and tried to say that he hadn’t said he was in the Forces, but had been in the past.”

He was sentenced to 15 months in jail.

Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on this robust-sized Tim Clark guy who claims he was a Navy SEAL. Here’s a picture of him on the hunt for Bin Laden;

It must be true, because the person pictured is wearing the same patch I wore when I was teaching in Cadet Command (ROTC) – we were real badasses hunting down our nation’s enemies from college campuses across the country.

Here are some more recent pictures of him hunting down a jelly doughnut or twelve;

The National Personnel Records Center says “Who?”

Our partners at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on this fellow, Donald Cakerice, also known as Don WaterHawk who claims to have served as a Special Forces medic in Vietnam. Yes, there are tattoos;

He claims a Bronze Star with a Valor device, an Army Commendation Medal and a Purple Heart;

His records show that he washed out of the Special Forces Qualification Course, he went to Vietnam, served with Headquarters Battery, 11th Artillery in the 101st Airborne Division. When he came back from Vietnam, he went AWOL and the became a deserter. They tossed him in jail in April 1971 and then booted his ass to the street in July;

No special forces training, no Bronze Star Medal, no Purple Heart, no valor. Also, no Combat Field Medical Badge. Yeah, Florida.

From Frankfort, Indiana;

A Frankfort homeowner shot and killed a man he said had broken into his home late Tuesday evening.

Officers were called to a home in the 300 block of north Bunnel Street around 10 p.m. after a man called and said he had just shot an intruder.

When police arrived they attempted to revive the man but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Clinton County Coroner identified the man as Kevin Huffer, 37, of Frankfort.

Police detained the homeowner for questioning. His name has not been released and no charges have been filed.

From Belleville, New Jersey;

A resident fatally shot an armed intruder during a struggle with the would-be burglar late Tuesday in Belleville that also left the homeowner wounded, authorities said.

An armed man entered the Berton Place home around 10 p.m. and struggled with the resident, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. The resident was shot during the confrontation with the home invader.

“However, the resident then fatally shot the would-be burglar. After being shot, the unidentified burglar fled and collapsed in Nutley,” acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino and Belleville Police Chief Mark Minichini said in a joint statement Wednesday.

From Miami, Florida;

An investigator with the state attorney’s office opened fire inside a Perrine CVS after another man walked into the store and pulled out a gun in an attempt to rob it, police said.

The incident happened at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night at the CVS, 11503 Quail Roost Drive, in south Miami-Dade. An incident report described the man who fired a weapon as an investigator with the state attorney’s office, police spokeswoman Robin Pinkard said.

Police say the man who was shot left. Shortly after, a man with a gunshot wound showed up at Jackson Memorial South, according to police.

From Columbia, South Carolina, another internet sales goes poorly for the crooks;

“The female lures the guy into a breezeway, another male steps out has a gun, brandishes it,” Wilson said.

Luckily, the seller had a concealed weapons permit and shot his potential robber. The coroner has identified the man as 23-year-old Jaquel Deshawn Cornelius.

Our partners at Guardians of the Green Beret share with us their work on this fellow Leif Bill Arousell. As you can see in these pictures, Bill wants folks to believe that he was a special forces soldier in Vietnam.

The folks at Guardians called him and he told them that he never made that claim, that he was wearing someone else’s shirt. They also called his daughters and they replied that Bill had indeed made those claims. Here’s the phone call;

Bill Arousell, Green Beret… NOT!! from Guardians Of The Green Beret on Vimeo.

Of course, there’s a motorcycle vest involved. And a Ranger T-shirt;

He spent eight years on active duty, served in Germany and Vietnam, then he spent another ten years in the Guard and Reserves before he was discharged as a Specialist (E-4). He didn’t earn a Combat Infantryman Badge, he never attended the Basic Airborne Course, or any special forces training;