Category: Phony soldiers

The folks at Military Phonies share their work on this fellow, Dean Dominguez, formerly a deputy sheriff with Adams County, Colorado’s department. He was arrested last year on a domestic violence beef. According to Military Phonies, a member of their staff, a SEAL, encountered Dominguez at a Denver Gun Show in 1999;

During this show, he saw Dean with a SEAL shirt at which time he asked him a few questions. Dean stated he was at SEAL Team Two and BUD/S class 178. After our Teamguy stated that he was at SEAL Team Four, Dean then stated that he did secret missions in South America. Pre-9/11 SEALs had their own Area of Operation (AO) and no Teams crossed into each other’s AO without the other SEAL Team knowing. Our Teamguy immediately confronted Dean and ask simple questions that only SEALs or other SOF units would know. Dean couldn’t answer and never backed down from his claim.

They found transcripts from his divorce proceedings in which he claims that he was a SEAL;

The Navy disagrees;

Nine months of service and booted as an E-3. I’m sure he claims to be a sniper, too, what with the Sharpshooter badge.

According to his ex-wife, he’s a woman-beating pussy;

The woman said the assault began as an argument on Wednesday night at the couple’s home when she accidentally spilled a Red Bull on the carpet. She said it quickly escalated when Dominguez picked her up and slammed her onto the living room floor.

“He just closed fist punched me, and then he grabbed my head and started shaking it into the floor,” she said.

When it was all over, the woman said her 12-year-old daughter picked up the phone and dialed 911.

This fellow, Patrick Joseph Flores, infiltrated my Facebook “Friends” list a few weeks ago.

Hiding in plain sight, I suppose. I didn’t pay any attention to him – he was in a couple of groups I belong to, so I didn’t think much of it. The folks at Green Beret Posers Exposed, however were more suspicious when he joined that group. They checked at the JFK schoolhouse and could find no record that he attended special forces training. They tell me he fessed up and apologized, but he didn’t stop pretending;

When confronted, Flores claims that he’s using a pseudonym, that Patrick Joseph Flores isn’t his real name, that he can’t use his real name for security reasons. Yeah, well, whose records are these, then;

Three and a half months in the Reserves hardly equates to a career in special forces as a captain. One of his Facebook IDs has disappeared over night, I suppose for security reasons.

Added May 16, 2017;

The folks at Military Phonies send us their research on this 90-year-old World War II veteran, Andrew Nelson. He’s been telling people that he was a frogman for at least 18 years. Here he tells the Hartford Courant in 1999;

And the Post and Courier in 2005;

He claims that he earned a Bronze Star for Valor and a Purple Heart;

Well, he was a veteran of World War II and despite his claims that he was in the Korean War, his service during that war was limited to working in Maryland.

During WWII, he was assigned to the USS Kishwaukee, a fuel ship that supported the Okinawa and Philippine campaigns, but probably far from the battle given their cargo. He was a yeoman (a clerk);

He was finally discharged in 1952. In 1954, he wrote to the Navy asking what awards he earned for the Korean War;

They responded that he’d earned the NDSM.

Late last year, we wrote a bit about John Hemphill who Fox6 in Milwaukee busted for pretending to be a Marine. Fox6 reports that some folks in the area are getting involved so Hemphill might be the first person to be prosecuted under Wisconsin’s brand spanking new stolen valor law;

[M]ilitary records obtained by the FOX6 Investigators show he never served a day. We first exposed Hemphill’s bogus backstory last fall, and when State Assemblyman David Steffen saw the report, he didn’t mince words.

“Scumbag. Absolute scumbag,” he said.

The Green Bay Republican says what Hemphill is doing is an affront to veterans.

[…]

Steffen wrote Wisconsin’s own stolen valor law in 2015, which makes it a Class A misdemeanor to falsely claim military service for any kind of personal gain.

[…]

FOX6’s investigation landed Hemphill on the front pages of pro-military blogs and websites across the country. It also caught the attention of West Allis Police Detective Tom Kulinski, a retired Marine. Detective Kulinski recently took a stack of paperwork he’s compiled on Hemphill into the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office. He’s seeking five misdemeanor charges against Hemphill for lying about military service to get a discount on his cell phone bill, a bank account with USAA, membership in the Wisconsin American Legion, and more.

Federal prosecutors were unwilling to prosecute Federal laws, so the state legislature stepped up and it looks like Mr Hemphill will be the test case.

The Dick Blumenthal, senator, serial liar and valor thief from Connecticut called the firing of James Comey a “constitutional crisis”, you know, because he says so. So, the President reminds us of Blumenthal’s past;

Watching Senator Richard Blumenthal speak of Comey is a joke. "Richie" devised one of the greatest military frauds in U.S. history. For….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2017

years, as a pol in Connecticut, Blumenthal would talk of his great bravery and conquests in Vietnam – except he was never there. When….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2017

caught, he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness…and now he is judge & jury. He should be the one who is investigated for his acts.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 10, 2017

From The Hill;

Trump was referring to a controversy in Blumenthal’s 2010 Senate campaign in which he admitted misspeaking about his military service.

Blumenthal held a press conference during the campaign to clarify that he had said he served “in” the Vietnam War when he meant to say he served “during” the war, as a reservist and not overseas.

Yeah, he should be investigated. Especially since when he did his tearful apology, he was accompanied by other valor thieves on the stage.

Thanks to QM1 for the tip.

ADDED: Dicky responds;

President Trump – Your bullying won’t silence my calls for an independent prosecutor and investigation.

— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) May 10, 2017

The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow, Benjamin Jesalva who claims that he was a Navy SEAL in Vietnam.

The Navy doesn’t remember his career like that. He doesn’t appear in the database of folks who trained to be SEALs according to Don Shipley and the Navy is convinced that he was an E-4 cook (SD3) on a couple of ships.

He does have a Vietnam Service Medal, but two of the ships he was on, the USS Cowell and the USS Arnold J. Isbell, were near Vietnam during their patrols of the Taiwan Straits. While he was on the USS Haven, a hospital ship, it was stationed in Long Beach, California as a floating hospital.

The New York Daily News reports on this Jeremy Wilson fellow who used the story of being a wounded soldier to steal a BMW;

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Neil Ross gave Jeremy Wilson seven to 14 years in prison — and no sympathy whatsoever.

Ross ripped Wilson, 43, for his fake soldier act, calling him “the antithesis of these selfless individuals who put their lives on the line for others.”

The judge was especially irked by Wilson’s “horrific lie regarding having earned two purple hearts.” That, he said, was “abhorrent and despicable.”

According to the News, Wilson had just been released from prison for a similar crime and now he’s traveling to Massachusetts for the same thing. Good for him, the little weasel.

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Joseph Odom also known as Joey Hayden. He pretends to be a US Marine;

But two responses from the National Personnel Records Center are “Who?”

He tells folks that he served from 1992 until 2004. DoD disagrees;

Here’s a conversation he had with Devil Chief;