{"id":88185,"date":"2019-06-20T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88185"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:52","slug":"ken-woerheide-phony-seal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88185","title":{"rendered":"Ken Woerheide – Phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phony<\/a> sent us their work on Kenneth Miles Woerheide<\/a> who is a retired Senior Chief Boiler Tech.\u00a0 Ken lives in Carrollton Virginia and is 64 years old as of June 2019.<\/p>\n

Ken both claims he was a SEAL and was jump qualified by nature of wearing a SEAL Trident Insignia as well as Parachute Jump Wings.\u00a0 This case may hold the record for the longest time – almost 40 years – to acquire the necessary evidence to nail the facts down.<\/p>\n

It seems Ken was saying he was a SEAL as far back as 1981-82 when he served aboard the USS Blandy.\u00a0 Later, he was called out by SEALs and made an appearance on a list of SEAL wannabes put out by VeriSEAL.<\/p>\n

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We don’t know how successful this was at stopping his claims, but recently his girlfriend posted a photo of Ken and incorporated it as part of her Facebook profile.<\/p>\n

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After contacting the SEAL archives and checking the SEAL-BUD\/S database, the name ‘Kenneth Woerheide’ was not<\/strong> found as being a Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n

Woerheide’s official military records were ordered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.<\/p>\n

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This is peculiar – Woerheide has a “SEAL TRIDENT INSIGNIA” listed under his awards and decorations, but he has no entry for BUD\/S training or any SEAL duty assignments.\u00a0 On his Summary Sheet, it has him as Surface Warfare (SW) qualified but does not mention SEAL.\u00a0 If he was a SEAL, he would also have an entry for the SEAL NEC and how long he held it.<\/p>\n

No training as a Navy SEAL.\u00a0 Most all training is as a Boiler Tech.<\/p>\n

There is no parachute qualification, either.<\/p>\n

Thinking this may be confusing to some, we contacted Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to get the final word…<\/p>\n

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So, if SOCOM as the ultimate authority confirms that Ken Woerheide was not a Navy SEAL, how did the SEAL Trident get in his official records?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We look forward to how the good folks that read this will speculate as to how this could happen, but our money is on a yeoman\/personnelman doing it with or without a full understanding of what they were doing.\u00a0 Either that or there’s a possibility that Kenny himself took liberties with his own record between duty stations.\u00a0 Back in the day, a member could hand carry their records between duty stations.\u00a0 They changed this policy to avoid people making entries in their own records or tearing out page 13 entries with embarrassing administrative remarks.<\/p>\n

As for Senior Chief Woerheide – he should have known exactly what he was doing and would know he did not rate the SEAL Trident or the Jump Wings.\u00a0 There is no possibility he thought they looked similar to other insignias and put them on by mistake or mistakenly thought he earned them by doing a few correspondence courses… NO, not a chance.\u00a0 One could possibly buy those stories if Woerheide was a junior rated sailor, but as a Senior Chief in the Navy, he KNEW.<\/p>\n

He’s retired now and drawing a pension.\u00a0 There has been some talk about how retirees are still subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).\u00a0 The question is – did he use the SEAL claim as leverage for job positions and advancement?\u00a0 It is hard to believe that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

Just to clear up any confusion – Kenneth Miles Woerheide was NOT a Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n

Oh… and let’s not forget the bathroom selfies:<\/p>\n

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