Category: Phony soldiers

Remember JJ Lang the phony SEAL/MMA fighter?

Here’s some entertainment for you.

The MMA shit ain’t workin’ either. He can’t get those fat baby legs off the floor.

Our partners at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on this plus-sized model for the ACUs, Christopher Lee Robbins. From the looks of his uniform, he’s claiming to be a Master Sergeant, Special Forces qualified, Ranger, a combat veteran, a parachutist, Air Assault trained, and a Pathfinder. He also claims that he served in the 1st Ranger Battalion in Grenada;

Actually, he was a 13Foxtrot, fire support redleg artilleryman for about 23 months in the 7th Division who shot up to the rank of Private (E-1) before the Army kicked him to the curb;

Actually, Mr Robbins is just a fat slug with a credit account at Ranger Joe’s and unfulfilled dreams. Why do they make plus-sized ACUs?

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Russ Minton, who was interviewed in Washington, DC by WTOP about his time with the Tuskegee Airmen when he visited the African-American History Museum;

Minton served in 1944 in Ramitelli, Italy, as part of the Tuskegee Airmen. He was a flight cadet, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, the predecessor to the Air Force.

“There’s a couple things about Tuskegee Airmen that I disagree with but I can’t find who to talk with to correct them,” he said after visiting the museum’s Tuskegee Airmen exhibit.

Minton said Alfred Anderson gave him his first flying lesson. Anderson, known as the “Father of Black Aviation, lived down the street from him in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia.

Yeah, Minton was born in 1932, so he was 12 years old in 1944 when he claims he was a cadet pilot and a second lieutenant. Ron Brewington, the Tuskegee historian says that Minton’s name doesn’t appear on any roster of Tuskegee Airmen.

He didn’t join the military until 1959. When Minton joined the Army National Guard, he was a Battalion Surgeon for an artillery unit in Boston, the only active duty that he had was for training and he left the Guard after nine years and never set foot outside of the United States in uniform the whole time.

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Alvin Jamison who claims that he’s a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, that celebrated group of African-American pilots and crewmen of World War Two fame. He’s been fêted by State Senators and at veterans’ events;

Our buddy, Ron Brewington, the historian of the Tuskegee airmen says that Alvin is an associate member of the organization, but he was never a member of the military unit. Jamison was in the Air Force, but eleven years after World War Two and eight years after the unit was disbanded;

Alvin Jamison retired as a Senior Master Sergeant (E-8) with a Distinguished Flying Cross and numerous Air Medals. He was a loadmaster, stationed in Vietnam for more than a year. He had a career as a medical corpsman before he became a loadmaster and a total of 24 years of admirable service. But Alvin Jamison is not a Tuskegee Airman.

Someone wrote to us about this guy, Joe Weldon Cox, who told them that he was a Gunnery Sergeant in Force Recon, that he had trained Chris Kyle while he was serving with SEALs. The poor guy can’t get to the VA for his medical problems because his ex-wife burned his DD214, so we decided to help him out after we found out that he’s legit, because, you know, he has the tattoo;

He had about two weeks in the Army before they kicked him to the curb. I think he holds the record for the least time in service. His 2-1 says that he reported for duty on September 15, 1976 and he was out on October 4th. Thank you for your service

Our partners at Guardians of the Green Beret share their work on this David Murphy fellow. He claims that he was a special forces soldier, a Ranger and a wounded veteran of Beirut, Just Cause, Mogadishu and who knows what else.

David Murphy was sent to us by someone very close to him with questions about his claims. We took a look at his pictures and statements on a few of them and knew immediately that most, if not all he was saying was a lie.

A few of his claims are Combat Infantry Badge with star, Both Master Sergeant (E-8) and/or Chief Warrant Officer 4 (CW4) depending on the picture, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Soldiers Medal, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Infantry Blue Cord, Jungle Expert Badge, Air Assault, Pathfinder, Jump Master, Sniper, Army Ordnance, Ranger Tab (2nd in class in 76) and also shares a picture of Graduation Ranger class 177-2. He went through twice? 101st Combat Patch, 1st Special Forces Grp, 5th Special Forces Group, CAG, Trainer at USASOC, CIA, Combat Wounded Veteran

Claims to have been a Teammate and friend of SFC Randy Shughart (Medal of Honor) and MSG Gary Gordon (Medal of Honor).

Every and all claims above are 100% FALSE

David never spent a day in the military. The Class number he uses for his Ranger Class in the picture section isn’t how classes are numbered. That being said, we did verify with RTB and they confirmed David Murphy never attended, much less graduated Ranger school. He shares a 2nd picture from 1977 claiming it as a graduation picture. We have contacted two people in that picture and the picture was taken at Ft Lewis in 80/81. Not in 1977 as he claims. It’s a number of Ranger medics. We have aquired all the names of those in the picture. David Murphy IS NOT one of them.

He claims ODA 1220 in 1993. Four digit ODA’s didn’t come about until 2008/9

He claims CAG teammate of SFC Randy Shughart (Medal of Honor) and MSG Gary Gordon (Medal of Honor). He should be ashamed of himself. We contacted a brother that was there that day. Who served side by side with Gordon and Shurghart. He confirmed what we already knew. David Murphy was NEVER in that unit.

David Murphy also claims to have been CIA. WE contacted an asset who’s former CIA and he yet again confirmed those CIA certificates are bogus.

Even his house lies about his service for him;

Yeah, well, the Army doesn’t remember his service;

They tried to call him, but he hung up on them twice, a sure sign that he’s legit and the NPRC doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Someone sent us their work on this fellow Eanos Thomas Evans, who claims that he served in both the Second World War and the Korean War. His picture went out for “likes” on Facebook recently. I saw it, but I didn’t click on it;

He claims that he left the service as a First Lieutenant, according to his “Together We Served” Profile”;

In that rack, he claims the Silver Star, 2 Purple Hearts, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation w/V, CAR, Navy Presidential Unit Citation (3), Navy Unit Commendation, Good Conduct, China Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korea Service Medal,Navy & MC Overseas Service Ribbon, Marine Corps Drill Instructor Ribbon, Korean Presidential Unit Citation,China War Memorial Medal, United Nations Service Medal (Korea).

Well, you can throw out all of those medals for service in the Korean War. I don’t have his World War Two service records, so I’ll give him a pass on that, but according to his service records for the Korean War, he was a drill instructor for the entire war and never set foot outside the United States;

I’ll give him a break on the Combat Action Ribbon, because it didn’t exist when he left the USMC and when it was established on 17 February 1969, it was retroactive to 7 December 1941. But he’s wearing it upside down in the picture above.

There is a Silver Star and a Purple Heart (not 2) in his records, but there are no Korea service awards;

Eanos claims that he served on Okinawa and that may be true, I have nothing to refute that, but it seems to me that would be enough to last a man a lifetime of free beer at the VFW.

He claims that he saw his first combat at 17 years old, but he didn’t join the Marine Corps until he turned eighteen. His birthday was December 10, 1926 and he enlisted on December 9th, 1944, so he was technically 17 when he enlisted, but the next day he turned 18 – less than four months before the Battle for Okinawa (the battle began April 1, 1945).

In the Orange County Breeze, he told that reporter that he joined when he was 16 years old, nope, he was 18 years old when he enlisted. He also told them;

He fought at Peleliu in September 1944 when he was 17 years old. Daytime temperatures reached 110°F and water tasted like diesel fuel. According to Military History Online, the 1st Marines defended the left flank of the landing force. The division then advanced along the West Road that ran beside the Mumurgrogol Mountains (dubbed Bloody Nose Ridge by the Marines) that sheltered a hardbitten Japanese defense force in an intricate series of caves.

But Lt. Evans’ speech mentioned little about Peleliu.

That was three months before he enlisted – the battle lasted from September to November 1944 – all before he enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was seventeen when the battle took place, but he wasn’t in the Marine Corps yet.

He has a book “Hold Your Head High, Marines” and there may be some more BS in there.

He was discharged as a Staff Sergeant, not a First Lieutenant, and he wasn’t parachutist qualified. Doug Sterner says that he has been unable to verify Evans’ Silver Star, so we’re taking another whack at his World War II records. For some reason, these guys with a break in service have stuff in their records that they didn’t earn.

Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow Scott Bessinger who was spotted by a real deal SEAL at the Waffle House parading around the restaurant in his SEAL cap. The picture above was taken at the encounter in that hallowed place.

When confronted, Bessinger told the real deal SEAL that he was in BUD/S class 151 – which later turned out to be false.

So the folks at Military Phonies got his records;

Based on Scott’s summary sheet, he did just over 3 years, 2 months, 5 days of active service and 3 years, 5 months, 13 days of reserve duty. Scott was discharged as an E-3, Machinist Mate Fireman. No BUD/S, no SEAL Team.

Bessie fractured her taint and caught a medical retirement and figures that makes him a SEAL, I guess.