{"id":107840,"date":"2020-12-04T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107840"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:13","slug":"blue-maurer-retired-navy-seal-lt-corpsman-silver-star-purple-heart-air-assault-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107840","title":{"rendered":"“Blue” Maurer – Retired Navy SEAL, LT, Corpsman, Silver Star, Purple Heart, Air Assault Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on Steven Louis Maurer<\/a>, who prefers to go by “Steve” or his nickname “Blue.”\u00a0 Maurer comes to us from Grants Pass, Oregon and he is 59 years old at the time of this writing – December 2020.<\/p>\n

As you can see in the above photo, Maurer has a ‘PURPLE HEART COMBAT WOUNDED’ patch on his sleeve, a ‘U.S. NAVY RETIRED’ patch below that and a Navy SEAL trident on his chest.\u00a0 Here is one below for clarity and comparison.<\/p>\n

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Maurer has three Facebook profiles that we could find.\u00a0 He claims on one of his Facebook profiles<\/a> that he was in the Navy from 1977 – 2002.<\/p>\n

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On another Facebook profile<\/a> he claims that he was a ‘Medical Corpsman’ which most would say “Hospital Corpsman.’\u00a0 For those that do not know, a Navy Medical\/Hospital Corpsman is an enlisted rating.<\/p>\n

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Yet, in this photo he displays the rank of LT (O-3), along with a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a SEAL Trident and an Army Air Assault Badge… because… well, why not?<\/p>\n

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He also signs his name that he is a S3 Lt Retired Navy.<\/p>\n

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One of his friends seems to think Maurer is a Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n

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Other photos reinforce the SEAL claim.<\/p>\n

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He is often seen in group photos with kids wearing the SEAL “bling” but we’re not sure of his capacity with the children – as some kind of military mentor or what.<\/p>\n

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In a series of photos about a deer kill in 2015, he speaks of the deer, he also speaks of having a Jeep, so there is a reasonable assumption this is the deer tied to his Jeep.\u00a0 The Jeep has a SEAL sticker on the back windshield.<\/p>\n

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Let’s get to it…<\/p>\n

The BUD\/S-SEAL database was checked and there was no ‘Steven Maurer.’<\/p>\n

The Silver Star databases were checked and there was no ‘Steven Maurer.’<\/p>\n

The Department of the Navy said they do not have a military record for him at BUPERS, but they do have one at NPRC.\u00a0 This means his service wasn’t beyond the mid-1990s so it puts his claim of 1977-2002 in doubt.\u00a0 The DoN also said that the records at NPRC are designated as Enlisted vs. Officer.<\/p>\n

The NPRC is operating at a reduced capacity and although a FOIA was filed, we may be waiting until the Summer or Fall of 2021.\u00a0 This case is built up circumstantially.<\/p>\n

The BUPERS NDAWS system did not show any records for him, which would also point to later service.<\/p>\n

The Department of Defense Manpower Data Center \/ SCRA records revealed the following.<\/p>\n

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Then, his high school photos established him as still in high school during the years 1978, 1979, and 1980 so he couldn’t have been runnin’ and gunnin’ with the Navy SEALs.<\/p>\n

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Since he was in high school, he may not have had the experiences – according to the frogman creed – of being around the world twice. He couldn’t have seen two whales hump. He couldn’t know a man in Thailand with a wooden cock. He may not have even pushed more peter, more sweeter and more completer than any other peter pusher around. He may not have been a hard-bodied, hairy-chested, rootin’ tootin’ shootin’, parachutin’ demolition double cap crimpin’ frogman.<\/p>\n

He claims to have been in several conflicts, however.\u00a0 This is – of course – all prior to a Navy retirement.<\/p>\n

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If the service dates for the results in SCRA are accurate – it is hard to think of a conflict that he was in between 1985 – 1988.\u00a0 Although most of his claimed service time *could* have been in the Reserve, he would have to have been on active duty and in a conflict to be wounded and awarded the Purple Heart.\u00a0 The only exceptions that we know to this rule is the terrorist shootings at Ft. Hood TX and the Chattanooga Reserve center in Tennessee.\u00a0 The wounded or killed were awarded Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n

We do not have his records from the NPRC, but there are enough doubts raised about Maurer’s claims that he has some ‘splainin’ to do.<\/p>\n

Maybe he was pushing some sweeter peter, it just wasn’t in the Navy.<\/p>\n

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A couple more side notes:<\/p>\n

“BLUE”<\/strong> – Who’s old school and remembers a Navy vet named “Blue?”\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

DEER<\/strong> – Some of you non-hunters may be curious how much money it costs to get into deer hunting.\u00a0 Beyond that, how much do those costs translate into per pound of meat.\u00a0 The answer is: it depends.\u00a0 If you get your deer on opening morning just as dawn breaks, you save man or woman hours spent doing it.\u00a0 Then, if you hunt illegally and have to factor in court costs… well, you do the math.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: The photo above was from a deer killed in 2015, so the court costs involved a deer killed years earlier. Just trying to create a visual.<\/em><\/p>\n

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