Category: Phony soldiers

Someone told us about this Andrew Chadbourne fellow who made the mistake of telling his jump school stories to a former Blackhat (Blackhats instruct that particular course of endeavor). The BS flag went up.

He’d have you believe that he’s one of these two steely-eyed killers;

That these are pictures of him at Ranger School;

Not according to the National Personnel Records Center;

HRC couldn’t find even one moment of active duty service.

Medic09 sends us a link to the resurgence of phony Chuck Hoelzel who was busted years ago at POW Network and now he’s resurfaced at SOCNET. He alternates between pretending to be SEAL and pretending to be a Beirut Marine. The first screenshot is from a USATODAY article about him;

This is from a blog that bears his name;

The truth is that he was in the Navy for 15 months from 1982 – 1983, he got out of the Navy a month after the Beirut barracks bombing;

No SEAL Training, No time in the Marine Corps. No awards. He doesn’t even sock puppet very well. He sends sock puppet emails from his own email address;

WFIE in Indiana writes about Richard Reisz, one of their locals who operated a gym, Ground Zero Fitness, in Evansville. Reisz had veterans license plates on his car which made some of the folks there curious. I guess he had been busted last year by our friends at Guardian of Valor and Green Beret Poser Patrol, but the folks at GBPP tell me that they let him plead out – he promised that he’d never pose again and make a donation to the Special Forces Association if they’d let him off the hook.

As far as the license plates go, it looks like Indiana DMV has a problem of their own;

In order to obtain those types of plates, you’re supposed to supply paperwork proving you’re a veteran.

When we questioned the supervisor of the vehicle department at the Henderson County Clerk’s Office, the supervisor discovered the problem.

The certificate of registration for that vehicle shows a veteran issued plate but the correct forms to prove military service weren’t in the file.

The vehicle is registered to two people.

A woman and another person described as the “owner of Ground Zero Fitness”.

After we alerted the supervisor to this problem, the supervisor called the number associated with the plate and requested it be brought back.

That person immediately brought the plate back.

According to the supervisor, the owner said he would bring the correct military record forms into the office, but he never has.

Reisz has been arrested for pulling over people on the highway dressed in an Army combat uniform claiming to be an Army Sergeant Major (the last person I would pull off the road for). He’s also been arrested for posing as a state trooper in Kentucky. He’s also been arrested for possessing forged documents and also for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and theft by deception. So, I’m not sure why our partners would want to believe him when he says that he’d promise to quit pretending to be in the military.

Anyway, he called the folks at GBPP a few days ago to get another pass. That one didn’t work.

So, you phonies out there begging me to remove the post about you, this is why I won’t. Live with it.

Someone sent us their work on this James Gregory Fincher fellow who had these photos of his wedding posted to his Facebook page until recently. Someone must’ve warned him we were coming;

As you can see in the photos, he claims a second award of a Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Senior Master Jump Wings, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal 2 awards, and a Purple Heart. Each one qualifies him for prosecution under the provisions of the Stolen Valor Act. We’re told that he also claims to be a retired First Sergeant.

Well, according to the National Personnel Records Center, none of that is true. He was a Petroleum Supply Specialist in the National Guard and he deployed during Desert Storm. No valor awards, no jump wings, no time in the infantry. He did eight years in the National Guard and left as a specialist (E-4);

Everybody wants to be infantry until it’s time to do infantry stuff.

Someone sent us their work on this young lady, Kate Garneau who is claiming to be an active duty sailor in the US Navy;

I think she’s claiming to be SeaBee;

But the Navy says that it’s not true;

She spent two months and five days on active duty last year and then they put her back on the street.

Someone sent us this fellow, Matthew Corcoran who likes to tell folks how he was “Special Forces Navy Sniper in the Middle East and South America”. On Facebook, he says that his job was “population reduction specialist at the US Navy” – ha-ha-ha, big joke.

His car is festooned with sniper and Purple Heart decorations;

Don Shipley says there’s no record of Matthew training as a SEAL.

The Navy disagrees with Corcoran’s version of his career;

I know it’s a little hard to read, but the DD214 says that he had eight months in the Navy before they decided that he wasn’t worth the trouble and put him back on the street. I’m pretty sure the Navy’s idea of infantry is a little different from mine.