{"id":87863,"date":"2019-06-11T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87863"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:53","slug":"thomas-gagne-phony-seal-fake-combat-action-ribbon-fake-purple-heart-two-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87863","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Gagne – Phony SEAL, Fake Combat Action Ribbon, Fake Purple Heart – Two each"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on Thomas Eugene Gagne<\/a> who claims to have been a US Navy SEAL.\u00a0 Thom, as he likes to be called, lives in Pittsburgh PA and is 57 years old as of May 2019.<\/p>\n

Tommy had a Facebook page and Google+ account that were adorned with Navy SEAL implications.\u00a0 Some SEALs got onto him and he removed both profiles.<\/p>\n

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Oddly enough, Gagne doesn’t mention anything about being a SEAL on his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

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But in some photographs of Gagne visiting a cemetery, he displays a chestful of medals and a Navy SEAL Trident.<\/p>\n

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People he knew commented when the photo was posted.\u00a0 The photo displays a SEAL Trident, two Bronze Star Medals, two Purple Hearts and two Combat Action Ribbons (i.e. a CAR with a STAR).<\/p>\n

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On a Facebook page where they were talking about the bell at BUD\/S training, the bell that a BUD\/S trainee rings to designate they would like to drop out of the training, Thom states that he never rang it…\u00a0 meaning he never dropped out or perhaps that he never went in the first place.<\/p>\n

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The BUD\/S-SEAL database was referenced and Gagne’s name could not be found.\u00a0 His official records were ordered through a FOIA request.<\/p>\n

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Department of Defense Manpower Data Center \/ SCRA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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National Personnel Records Center (NPRC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NOTE: The assignments during the period of 1988 \u2013 1996 was not included. We are not sure, but he may have been commissioned and that is why his tour ended early (i.e. JUL1988 vs. NOV90).<\/p>\n

In any case, Gagne was finally discharged as a Lieutenant (O-3) in 1996.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NO SEAL Training, NO SEAL Team assignments, NO Combat Action Ribbons listed, NO Bronze Star Medals listed, NO Purple Heart medals listed, NO Navy & Marine Corps Medals listed, NO Navy Comm listed.<\/p>\n

Here is what was listed…<\/p>\n

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Other than the rank of LT, the records seem to not cover his stint as an officer.\u00a0 However, how can one obtain two CARs from 1988-1996?<\/p>\n

It is odd that he has the parachute insignia because he seemed to be in the medical field the entire time, even as an officer.\u00a0 What billet would require him to get parachute qualified?<\/p>\n

He did not qualify as a SEAL from 1988-1996, so it makes some of the other claims suspect as well.<\/p>\n

If Thomas Eugene Gagne has two Purple Hearts they are not in his official records.\u00a0 He may want to get that straightened out or some may feel it is a case of Stolen Valor.\u00a0 Also, he may want to fix the two Combat Action Ribbons as well as this also may have some feel it a case of Stolen Valor.<\/p>\n

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Maybe Tommy has a reasonable explanation for everything.\u00a0 Someone very close to him sums it up by saying Thom was in BUD\/S Class 117 and there is a Navy-wide SNAFU with records.<\/p>\n

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Maybe when the Navy does their systemic housecleaning, people will suddenly remember Tommy as being on their SEAL Team, because right now they can’t.<\/p>\n

What we do know for a fact is that Thomas Gagne was never a Navy SEAL,\u00a0 never attended BUD\/s and never served in any SEAL Team.\u00a0 He did serve when most people wouldn’t and should have been proud enough of what he actually did do.<\/p>\n

All I can say for sure is that many of those awards he is wearing are not in the official records we were provided.\u00a0 It seems he is playing that usual game of “Partly Fact and Partly Fiction”…I am putting my bets on mostly fiction.<\/p>\n

That’s the disgrace in what people like Thomas Gagne are pulling, they had enough legit service to be proud of and had no need to embellish with fake medals and sporting around with a Navy Trident he never earned.\u00a0 As if all that is not bad enough he packs his plump pudgy ass into a uniform that appears to exceed usual pressure testing levels.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it particularly repugnant when someone that should know better plays dress up with a uniform full of awards he never earned while standing over the graves of those who gave all.<\/p>\n

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