Category: Phony soldiers

Our friends at Guardian of Valor send us their work on this Christopher Piro fellow who was an Air Force veteran after nearly four years of service as a communications guy with service in Korea among other places. But I guess that didn’t give him the leg-up that he thought it would.

He began by convincing a US Senator that he had been wounded during his service in Afghanistan;

You can see at the GoV link that Piro altered that letter and used it as references for all kinds of stuff. But that wasn’t good enough either. He forged a letter supposedly from his Air Force supervisor to attest to his military derring-do, this time in Libya;

Piro eventually parlayed his forged letters into an acceptance at Johns Hopkins University. But then, along comes GoV with their pesky FOIA requests;

From GoV;

According to PIRO’s official military records he did not serve 6 years in the USAF; there were no multiple deployments to Afghanistan. PIRO apparently served in Korea and Germany, however there is no confirmation that he was in a combat zone. Additionally there were no “selfless heroics”, no documented “Bronze Star with Valor device” and no record of him receiving a Purple Heart; and further there is no evidence that he received the Air Force Commendation Medal. PIRO forged all of the letters from Senator Boozman (excluding the one marked original; this letter was filled with the same lies…all told to the Senator by PIRO. The Senator was innocent in all of this and lied to by PIRO), all of the letters from professors, and all of the letters from a nonexistent Master Sergeant. PIRO even wrote a fictitious letter for a brother in arms to get into college; where PIRO claimed to be the NCOIC of the Special Operations unit. He even polished his skills in photoshop as he created all of the headers and footers from scratch. All to advance his hopeful career in politics and to further his acceptance into prestigious schools across the nation; most recently the University of Tennessee.

They say that Johns Hopkins canned his ass, too, because of his fraud. Four years in the Air Force and he exited as an E-3 Airman First Class. Even for the Air Force, that progression is a little slow.

We heard about this fellow, Clark Schreiber, from someone who had served with him in the 1/9th Cav at Fort Hood, Texas back in the early part of the war in Iraq. Schreiber’s former workmate couldn’t remember him deploying with them in 2004, but Schreiber seemed to remember it;

Schreiber’s social media profile used to say that he was “Airborne infantry” and he likes wearing airborne tabs on his authentic looking vest;

Yeah, well, the NPRC doesn’t remember him being in the Ranger Regiment, nor do they remember that he graduated from the Basic Airborne Course. Also, they forgot that he deployed. There are no awards for service in war against terror, besides the accolades that everyone got. And there’s no Combat Infantryman Badge.

ADDED: Schreiber has sent me some authentic looking orders and it looks like NPRC didn’t do their job again. He indeed graduated from the Basic Airborne Course and he was assigned to 75th for a brief period of time – it looks like he terminated (un-volunteered) as soon as he arrived at the Ranger Battalion, that’s why it doesn’t show on his records.

Joe sends us a link to the story of Chalice Zeitner. Our partners and us busted her for stolen valor in 2013, she was arrested and found guilty of illegally obtaining a state-funded abortion in April, now she’s facing charges of identity theft and defrauding folks with a phony charity;

In 2012, Zeitner fraudulently obtained the personal information of the Veterans Hope founder and used his family’s personal information — Social Security numbers, names and dates of birth — to open a credit-card account under their names without consent, according to Quigley. Money was then deposited into Zeitner’s boyfriend’s account without his knowledge, Quigley said. Charges on the card that totaled about $25,000 were not paid off, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

It was also alleged that Zeitner contacted the Veteran Tickets Foundation to say that it was to be a preferred sponsorship organization for a veterans fundraising gala she was planning in Washington, D.C., according to the Attorney General’s Office. Veterans Ticket Foundation agreed to sponsor a placeholder on a race car that was to be debuted at the gala. The placeholder sponsorship cost $10,000. Zeitner provided wire instructions to the Veteran Tickets Foundation for transfer of the funds to a personal account. The Veteran Tickets Foundation also purchased several thousand dollars worth of tickets to the gala through Zeitner’s personal PayPal account.

None of the funds was returned to the foundation and the gala was not held.

Zeitner doesn’t even have the guts to face her victims; she’s watching the proceedings on video in another room during the trial.

Someone sent us their work on this Christoper Lafayelle fellow. He changed his name from Christopher Kincell several years ago;

He probably changed his name because he was arrested in Fayetteville, North Carolina for trafficking in drugs in 1990;

Regarding the earlier charges by local authorities, Mr. Smith is charged with conspiring with Fort Bragg soldier Christopher Shannon Kincell to possess, sell and deliver steroids between Oct. 27 and Nov. 17.

Mr. Kincell, about 22, was charged Nov. 17 with four counts of possession with intent to sell and deliver anabolic steroids, four counts of sale of anabolic steroids and one count each of conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids and maintaining a drug vehicle, according to records.

The steroids allegedly bought from Mr. Kincell were believed to have come from Mexico, West Germany and France, according to authorities.

His LinkedIn profile doesn’t mention his time in the slammer, but he does make reference to his time in “Special Operations”;

Well, he was “special operations” if that is what you call a prime mover driver for air defense artillery systems in the 3/4th ADA in the 82d Airborne Division.

Lafayelle/Kincell got out of the Army as a Private First Class after four years. He was activated for Desert Storm, but that war ended before he could leave Fort Bliss, Texas. He claims that he has two honorable discharges from the Army and that’s why he has two – that three months at Fort Bliss earned him one and he was discharged before the drug arrest in 1990.

Our old buddy and serial phony, Joe Rice was featured in Associated Press photo spreads of the Republican National Convention this morning, as well as UPI. No, AP, Joe is not an Afghanistan veteran. The last time he was on active duty was in 1988 and he’s been telling lies about his service ever since.

Rice has claimed Purple Hearts for wounds and service in the first war against Saddam Hussein during which he claims his helicopter was shot down twice and he was captured both times by the Iraqi Army.

Joseph Rice is a serial liar and his lies may have caused the deaths of nine firefighters. I’m ashamed that he gets to own an American flag.

Thanks to our buddy Nate Thayer for pointing out this egregious error by the Associated Press.

Someone sent us this guy, Rick A. Patterson who claims that he was a Pararescueman in the Air Force. He tells tearful stories about his time, about the friends that he lost and the wars he fought. Here’s one;

Well, I contacted LD Jeffries, a real Air Force PJ, and he could find no training for Patterson. So he decided to troll Patterson on his Facebook page;

Yeah, he left LD hanging and blocked him. With good reason.

He was an Air Force Sergeant and an aircraft maintenance guy for four years in Arizona and Germany. No PJ training, not even trained in the Basic Airborne Course. His Facebook has lots of pictures that he claims are him, but, no they’re not.

I know he’s not wired too tightly, so there’s no need to tell me that, but his lies are heinous. Here are some more screen shots of his mindless drivel that LD sent me, if you can stand it. It’s not even good fiction;

The word whack-a-doodle comes to mind.

UPDATE: Last night as I was preparing this post for today, Patterson posted this;

Hack Stone sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that Wayne Simmons, the Fox News commentator, was sentenced to 33 months in prison while he was in Federal Court yesterday;

“There is not a day that goes by that I am not haunted by these mistakes,” Simmons said. “I stand before you a shameful and broken man.”

But Simmons, who wore a blue suit and an American flag lapel pin, did not back down from his claims that he spent 27 years as an agency operative doing work so dangerous and secretive that it went entirely unrecorded. He said Friday that he lied his way into military contractor work to make use of a “special skill set” he implied was acquired undercover.

Judge T.S. Ellis III was unconvinced.

“I read spy novels,” the judge said before issuing his sentence. “Every spy novel has black-ops, off-the-books operations. Maybe these things exist.”

He said that, like the many people Simmons fooled, he was initially impressed by the defendant’s charisma and “fascinated” to see what proof Simmons would offer — only to get none.

The Post goes on to explain that Simmons was discharged from the Navy for medical problems after a few weeks of training. Simmons claimed that he was recruited from basic training by the CIA. The CIA claims that they don’t recruit basic trainees. That admission alone screws up several phonies’ stories in our archives.

Four former senior CIA officials interviewed by prosecutors said the dramatic undercover operations Simmons described were imaginary.

David Cohen, a former director of the clandestine service, called the descriptions so “far-fetched” and “inconceivable” that they were nothing more than a “Hollywood script.”

I’m sure he’ll be able to entertain his new roommates in the Gray Bar Hotel with those tales, though.

Earlier this year, we wrote about Bobbie Glen Davis, a member of the Board of Montrose County, Colorado Commissioners. In a meeting last August, he tried to give the public the impression that he was some sort of secret squirrel intelligence agent working with the French in Vietnam and in Thailand during our war in southeast Asia.

After that post published, he called me and accused me of undermining his political standing and siding with his political opponents. I don’t even know his opponents. I am apolitical when it comes to lies about military service, I just know unadulterated BS when I see it. His records say that he was an Air Force taxi driver in Korea and various duty stations in the continental US from 1961 – 1965.

When we talked on the phone, he admitted that he’d never been in Vietnam, then he went on to tell me about his time in Vietnam. The implication was that it was all hush-hush that a taxi driver was in Vietnam.

Well, there was another meeting of the Board on June 6th and the conversation drifted back to Bobbie Glen’s wild-ass tales;

Davis still claims that he was “more than a taxi driver” and I’ll concede that – he was also a driver school instructor. He claims that we can’t get his records without his signature, but there they are. He claims that he ordered a copy of his records – it’s been six months, so where are they? He admits that he’s never been to Vietnam, then he tells tales about being in Vietnam, in the same breath.

If you want the discussion about your military service to end, Bobbie Glen, come clean and quit casting dispersions on those of us who are only seeking the truth. Act your stinking age.