At the risk of sounding redundant, our friends at militaryphony.com send us this Jack Frank Edward Vreeland guy. Jack likes to dress up with lots of patches and pins that say UDT/SEAL on them.
Jack takes his claims of being a Navy SEAL so seriously that he likes to leave comments on the UDT/SEAL Museum page. Of course people began to notice that something was not right about him.
If people are going to fake being a Navy SEAL they shouldn’t try to “blend-in” at the UDT/SEAL Museum.
The folks at Military Phonies sent us their work on this fellow, Dave Townsend, from Prince Edward Island, Canada (his Facebook page went dark last night). As you can see from the pictures, he likes to tell folks he’s a Navy SEAL;
Because of the difficulty tracking Canadian citizens, we couldn’t find a record of his military service, so he may have been in the US service, but we do he’s not a Navy SEAL, thanks to Don Shipley;
Sir,
I greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. My efforts to expose SEAL imposters are performed as a service to the public, and in honor of my fallen SEAL Teammates… men who truly earned the right to the title “US NAVY SEAL” but who are no longer able to stand forward in defense of their honor, their reputations, and their TEAMs.
If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL Database (SEAL Teams, Underwater Demolition Teams and predecessor units from 1943 to the Present Day) for anyone named DAVID/DAVE TOWNSEND. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations without finding any that appear to be applicable.
Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be evidence in the form of court documentation) since his claimed participation in SEAL training, and based upon the information you have provided, I can state conclusively that DAVID/DAVE TOWNSEND NEVER COMPLETED SEAL TRAINING, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL or a Navy Underwater Demolition Team member.
Countless SEAL Imposters show proof of their SEAL claims in the form of SEAL Insignia (Tridents), SEAL Coins, SEAL Award Citations, and SEAL Training Graduation certificates which are unfortunately all available on-line. Numerous others get SEAL Tattoos, Photoshop their faces on SEAL Pictures and alter actual Military Discharge Papers to show SEAL service. Myriads of imposters claim the Navy removed their name from the SEAL Database when they encountered trouble during their service and nothing could be further from the truth.
Many SEAL imposters when confronted with the information I have provided will resort to claiming that their records are sealed, burned or their SEAL Operations were classified as Secret and that there are no official records of them. Before any classified operations may be undertaken as a SEAL Operator, a man must first successfully complete the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training program and then the follow-on secondary training program. The names of all those who successfully graduate from that training program sequence are compiled in the SEAL database. Later participation in classified operations has “NO IMPACT” on whether or not a person is listed as a graduate of the training program.
There are records of every man who has qualified for the title of “SEAL”; there have been and will continue to be secret missions, but there are NO secret SEALs.
When discovering that a person was never a SEAL, many people would like know what that person actually did in the military or did he serve at all. For a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request of that person’s military service you should contact www.pownetwork.org and provide the necessary information. A $20 donation will cover the cost. Please inform POW Network that I have verified the SEAL claim when contacting them.
Thank you again for your concern in this matter, and for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams. If I can be of any further assistance to you in this matter, please contact me at your convenience.
Respectfully, Don Shipley BUD/S 131, SEAL Team ONE, SEAL Team TWO.
We talked about Clayton Donoghue back in the Spring. He pleaded guilty in Orillia, Canada last month, according to the Orillia Packet;
Clayton Donoghue, 62, entered guilty pleas in Orillia court to the possession charge along with charges of uttering a forged document and obstructing a public officer of the Armed Forces.
While sentencing for two of the charges has been put over until Jan. 26, Justice George Beatty sentenced Donoghue to two years probation on the child pornography count.
Beatty also ordered a 10-year ban prohibiting Donoghue from attending parks and other areas where youth congregate, along with compelling him to provide a DNA sample and appear on the national sex offender registry.
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Besides the above three counts, Donoghue also faces charges of accessing child pornography, making a forged document, using a forged document, breach of trust, unlawful use of military uniform (wears a distinctive mark) and unlawful use of military uniform (possession of a certificate).
He was granted bail in June, but he violated the terms of his parole, so he went back to jail in October to await trial.
The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on this Bill Humphries fellow who really doesn’t understand how the military works, but that doesn’t stop from entertaining the civvies with his fairy tales. For example, this gem;
Bill attended The University of Georgia became a member of The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, eventually president and joined R.O.T.C. where he earned his Army Rangrer Tab within his first year which had never been done at The University of Georgia.
The reason it had never been done is because the only ROTC cadets who attend Ranger School do so in between their Junior and Senior year, and it’s done instead of Advanced Camp – not willy-nilly sometime in their college career.
At Georgia Bill developed an affinity for girls and parties and his grades started to fall. He was known for his wild side and finally he made a mistake that would change his life forever , He was at a celebrated fraternity party where the brothers set the pledgr mobile on fire and when thet firemen came to put the blaze out Bill stole a fire truck as a pramk which ended with an 18 man SWATT team and a felony of 10 years in prison. Billl was athletic very smart with an IQ of 133 and gifted in tactical thinking an exceptionally skilled in combat weaponry, explosives leadership and navigtional tactics so the Commanding Officer of The ROTC AT The University called a contact at the Pentagon who recruited young men that fit the blue print of an experimentl elite Black Operations Unit that worked as an arm of Th C.I.A. the N.S.A. and The Special Operations Force for The United States Navy. The full bird Colonel flew down with a team ran some tests and Bill was a perfect fit for a candidate for this lethal unit. The Colonel went to the judge said tehy need guys like Bill and the survival rate was close to 30% in the operations they ran. The judge gave the choice to Bill and Bill accepted the challenge. Bill became a trainer in the Elite Black Opertion teams running missions, operations and the most dangrous assignment in the world all over the world for seven years. Out of his twelve man kill team and over 72 life fire operations 4 men survived out of the ten year commitment. Bill struggled to heal from darkness no man or woman should ever have to see or do, he reinvented himself in acting and fitness studying theater in New York City
Yeah, Special Operations units aren’t populated with criminals and general college shitbirds, just the opposite. For every college student who thinks he would be a hot shit operator, there are a thousand actual operators who would make the college students look handicapped. That bullshit is all a Hollywood creation, but then so is Bill;
Believe it or not, Bill did actually serve – in the Marine Corps Reserve. His only active duty service was for initial training, though;
I guess when your looks fade as fast as Bill’s looks did, you need to make up bullshit in Hollywood.
The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on this Thomas Beaumont fellow. He claims to be the most decorated soldier of the 1968 Tet Offensive with his four Bronze Star Medals, his Purple Heart and some sort valor award from the South Vietnamese.
Yeah, he has four bronze stars – four bronze service stars on his Vietnam Service Medal denoting the campaigns that happened during the war while he was in the country. His VSM would look like this;
Even if we gave him a pass for being ignorant about the four bronze service stars, though, there’s still the Purple Heart claim. His assignments show him as a patient in Japan at the end of his Vietnam tour beginning on October 11th – October 15th. Ten days later, October 25th, he’s back on the block, out on the street growing his hair long. That makes me think that his stay in the hospital was due to an illness and not a war injury, especially since he was an ammo records clerk. Either way, there’s no Purple Heart in his records. Scotty tried to tell him about the 4 Bronze Stars, but he wasn’t hearing of it.
Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Phillip Lorne Lovin of New Braunfels, TX. He pretends to be a Marine Corps colonel around the country and he hands out flags from 9-11. Apparently, he passes himself off as one of the first responders on 9-11, folks tell me that’s not true either, but I only do military records.
He tells some folks how the lessons he learned about life he learned as a soldier at Fort Jackson. All of you Marines who are soldiers and at Fort Jackson, raise your hands.
Yes, well he was in the Marine Corps, for about 10 weeks, hardly enough time for the rest of us plebs to make colonel. He was a private first class (E-2);
But he does wear goofy dork-identification hats;
Someone sends us their work on this fellow, Blaque Kuchel who is a real womanizer since the invention of Al Gore’s internet. He’s got a pretty bad reputation for cheating on his family to score some strange, according to his entry on Dating Complaints;
He is a liar, a cheat, and a narcissistic sociopath. He is married and have children. He claims online he’s divorced and you know how the story goes but at the end it’s a big fat lie! Blaque is so low that speaks badly about his own children and claims they are a mistake….THAT right there is a huge red flag. If a man speaks badly about his own family he’s the biggest piece of crap on earth. His wife is a lovely person and this fool has done her wrong one to many times.
I hear that he claims to have earned a Purple Heart, but I couldn’t find any of those claims. All I found was claims to be Special Forces;
He spent nearly nine years in the Air Force an got an early out as an E-5 Staff Sergeant supply clerk;
Nothing special forces about being a supply clerk.
Watch out, ladies, it’s a jungle out there.
Comes now the story of Shawn Oliger in Cincinnati, Ohio who fleeced the VA for thousands of dollars. In fact the VA was complicit with him in his endeavor, according to WCPO;
Shawn Oliger, 43, filed an application for disability compensation with the VA in April 2015, the report said. He claimed he had been a Marine from 1990-93 — a period of time during which, a later investigation found, he had been in prison in Arizona.
When the VA could not verify his service, it mailed several documents requesting verification. Although Oliger never completed any of these and his claim was closed, his unverified service was still recorded in VA databases.
When Oliger filed a second claim in November 2015, the Cincinnati VA granted it based on the previously recorded data. Oliger subsequently received a VA identification card, $124,335 in health care benefits — including multiple hospitalizations — and $5,786 in housing assistance.
At Fox19Now, they interview an Iwo Jima veteran and he explains the problem exactly as I would;
[Noah] Switzer told us he was a Hospital Corpsman 1st Class during the Battle of Iwo Jima. All of his sons also served in the military and are veterans. He explained that there are vets in need that could have used the aid.
“They need money and can’t get it. A guy like that comes along and rips off the government for a couple hundred thousand dollars with ease,” Switzer said.
The VA has no comment thus far.