{"id":63983,"date":"2016-01-24T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63983"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:48","slug":"william-joseph-mitiu-phony-seal-phony-first-sergeant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63983","title":{"rendered":"William Joseph Mitiu; phony SEAL, phony First Sergeant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us this fellow, William Joseph Mitiu<\/a> who claims that he retired from the Army as a First Sergeant after a stint in the Navy. He claims at least two Combat Infantryman Badges, that he was a SEAL in the Navy and a special forces soldier in the Army with a combat parachute jump. The odd part is that his records support a portion of that. He spent four years in the Navy, during the Desert Storm era. He was assigned to the USS John F Kennedy which was the first ship to launch aircraft against Saddam Husein’s Iraq twenty-five years ago. But Mitiu’s assignment to the Kennedy seems to be preceded by a 5-month period of confinement at Naval Air Station Memphis. <\/p>\n

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There is evidence, however, that he was able to alter his records, or that some clerk altered his records, to add a SEAL Trident (Navy Special Warfare Insignia) to his records. Don Shipley tells us that he never attended BUD\/S training, but there it is right on his FOIA.<\/p>\n

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Of course, that makes the rest of it suspect as well. Things like the Master Parachutist badge with a combat jump star, the Navy parachutist wings, the scuba badge and the rigger wings. <\/p>\n

For example, the FOIA and his ERB say that he only reached the rank of Sergeant, but he claims to have been a first sergeant;<\/p>\n

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His ERB also shows that he was assigned to Service Battery, 1\/214th Field Artillery, a National Guard unit in Georgia, not a special forces unit. It’s also not an assignment that would earn him a CIB, which he is wearing in the top picture on his hat along with a Special Forces Unit pin, but not supported by even his altered records. It’s possible and likely that he deployed to the war against terror – it looks like he was called to active duty twice for deployments in 2003 – 2004 and 2006 – 2007. So it looks like he did his part, but didn’t accomplish all he wanted to accomplish, so he made stuff up. <\/p>\n

Folks who have known him, say he wears the third award of the CIB, but he doesn’t even have a first award of the CIB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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