Category: Phony soldiers

The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on William George Miller who wants folks to believe that he was a member of SEAL Team 5 decades before it existed;

Despite his claim that he was so secret that his records would be archived for 50 years (even though he was talking about this classified record on top secret Facebook and wearing a SEAL cap that only those with a clearance could see) the National Personnel Records Center wasn’t bashful about releasing his records;

No Vietnam Service, no SEAL Training.

Back in 2012, Elwyn Evans was sentenced to six years in prison for manufacturing automatic firearms in Canada.

Evans claims he was stunned to discover his property was home to a massive weapons operation, but jurors rejected that story in finding him guilty of running an illegal enterprise. The case revolves around an August 2006 police raid in Komarno, about 75 kilometres north of Winnipeg. Officers found 19 Sten submachine-guns, 121 Sten magazines and a homemade .50-calibre rifle. They also discovered three solid-steel pen guns — homemade weapons disguised as ballpoint pens.

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Evans admits to being an expert at working with metals and that he would have been capable of assembling the guns in his shop. His life reads like a movie, including having his father killed in the Second World War, serving a stint as a paratrooper in the British Royal Air Force, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1971, losing a five-year-old son to a tragic house fire a few years later, being severely injured by a workplace accident in the 1990s and fighting skin cancer on three occasions.

According to our friends in Canada, he’s also a military phony;

He claims he served in 2 Squadron of the SAS and was taken POW in Vietnam however, Australian Government records tell a different story. The Aus SASR and the NZ SAS served in Vietnam, and there are legends that the UK SAS may have fought alongside them. However, there were No Diggers or Kiwis taken POW during the Vietnam War, and it isn’t a great stretch of the imagination to say that there were no UK POWs either. ELWIN / ELWYN EVANS of Teulon MANITOBA is just another just another poser who believes standing next to legitimate veterans, serving CF and RCMP members validates his claims…

Regardless of his claimed country of origin and service, Elwyn David Evans isn’t a recipient of the Military Cross (MC)! He’s rocking’ Sergeant’s rank badges, and during his time of his “service” in Vietnam only Officers below the rank of Major and Warrant Officers were eligible recipients… He’s not listed on any of the MC databases (UK, Aus, NZ). This dude is filthy lying sack of shit who has worn a pseudo-uniform adorned with bullshit insignia and spews tales of his adventures in SE Asia for a gullible audience!

William J. Burley has been in our gallery since October 2012. He once sent a phony lawyer after us because, ostensibly, he had turned his life around and had quit pretending to be a SEAL. Until he stopped quit pretending. According to the Northwest Herald, he offered his services as a highly decorated SEAL to an aid agency to recover their kidnapped employees. They paid SEAL prices for a brig rat. Of course, he failed to get their aid workers released and now he’s headed for jail;

Burley made more false representations about his past achievements in 2012 when he went to Crystal Lake to present “rescue plans” for the hostages to IAS America, the release stated. The organization ended its relationship with Burley when it learned he was not a Navy SEAL.

Burley pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Aug. 30, 2016, the release stated. On Monday, he was sentenced to three years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to the news release.

He also was ordered to pay full restitution of more than $32,400 to IAS America, the release stated.

Maybe his phony lawyer chick can get him a deal.

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Alton Doyle Glenn who chose to get in a pissing contest on the internet with some real snake-eaters who called him out for his claims of being a SEAL and a Vietnam veteran. Here he is with his little SEAL ballcap;

Well, he was in the Navy, more than two years after the fall of Saigon;

Yeah, six weeks in the Navy – he didn’t even finish boot camp, but now he’s a damn SEAL.

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, William Thomas who likes to tell stories about being a B17 pilot during World War II around Northport, New York;

The truth is that William joined the Army a year after World War II ended in September, 1946 and he was discharged in December 1949 as a private. It looks like he had more than 90 days of bad time to make up during his service;

Instead of being a pilot, Private Thomas was a photolab technician for most of his service time, when he wasn’t in the brig or AWOL or whatever the 90 days bad time was. I wonder how many years before the internet existed that he told those stories.

The folks at Military Phonies sent us their work on this James Edward Rice (aka Jim Rice Peters) fellow.

He claims to have been a helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps, like in this article from the Tulsa Beacon when he was running for sheriff;

And some conversations that he had in social media;

Of course, when he was called out, someone had hacked his Facebook account;

Well, he was a Marine, but not a pilot – he was a wireman, not that there’s anything wrong with that. He didn’t serve 6 years and he wasn’t a warrant officer.

It looks like he has a bunch of bad time which explains why he was discharged as a Private after three years;

Our friends at Stolen Valor-Canada send s their latest bust. This fellow, Curtis Roush who claims to have earned a Navy Cross, a U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Medal and a Purple Heart during a brief stint in the Navy reserves in the late 60s.

He was an executive member of the Smithville Legion until he was busted out. From the Grimsby Lincoln News;

Curtis Roush has resigned from his position as first vice president of the branch and volunteered to not enter any Royal Canadian Legion branch after it was discovered he likely didn’t earn two United States Navy medals he was pictured wearing.

“They’re probably right,” Roush said when asked about allegations he wore the Navy’s Purple Heart and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Medals, despite not earning them.

“It’s something I deeply regret,” he said. “There are a lot of people there (at the Legion) that I respect.”

The Legion sent out this letter to it’s membership;

Roush sent this letter around;

Another of those magical fires, this one in 1982, conveniently took out his documentation. The military should really look into the reason that so many military records burst into flames.

Roush said he was in the U.S. Naval Reserves in 1967 and 1968 before receiving a medical discharge. Roush provided the News with a copy of his discharge, dated July 1, 1969. The document refers to an honourable discharge, and recommendation for re-enlistment.

If Roush wanted to cooperate, he’d give us his social security number so we could find his records, but he doesn’t seem to want to be helpful for some reason.