So there’s this secret squirrel dude J. Max Taylor, aka Johnny Max Taylor, code named “Ice Man”, tells the fanciful story about his tour of duty in Southeast Asia in “black ops”, of course, he explains in the video below that the military erased his records and he vanished as the military James Bond-type dude crawling on his belly and killing Viet Cong like crazy. So here’s his FOIA and his 2-1s;
No Vietnam service records, and he’s assigned to the Headquarters Company of the 8th Corps in Korea at G2 when he claims that he was in Vietnam. he did end up in Germany, where it looks like he was injured towards the end of his service. His job was on a “MUX team”. A MUX according to wiki is a Multiplexer;
An electronic multiplexer makes it possible for several signals to share one device or resource, for example one A/D converter or one communication line, instead of having one device per input signal.
He claims that he was fighting terrorists in the late 70s and that’s how he was injured. You know, even though there’s nothing in his records that would indicate that he had any special training and he was assigned to a Signal Company, which we all know is full of snipers and terrorist-killing folks.
But, he’s selling a book “Inside the World of Mirrors; the Story of a Shadow Warrior”, but I think the mirrors are in his head and anyone stupid enough believe this crap.
But you can listen to his wild-ass tale at this video, and he’ll tell you why the records we have aren’t accurate. Ice Man kills me (skip to about the 2 minute mark to get past the BS commercials);
There’s more at Scotty’s place.
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111 responses to “J Max Taylor; aka Ice Man, the Vietnam War phony”
Airborne qualified , Sniper qualified. But that is all blacked out on his FOIA. Because that’s what Black opts mean.
What a freaking moron !
Two-hole qualified is more like it.
“Legion of Mert”? On the FOIA form.
Legion of Merit(s) are given to senior officers.
I know of several legion of merits that went to enlisted soldiers. One was a on the spot award from a general officer to a soldier for doing a specific action. I was surprised when I saw it on the guys uniform (he was a warrent officer at the time) and he explained when and how he got it. It was legitimate. However most are to field grade officers and flag rank officers.
WTF: The FOIA shows he received the Legion of Merit Medal??? They also spelled Medal incorrectly below that.
Great.
A Legion of Merit recipient. A Signal Soldier. And now, a disgrace to both and the military as a whole.
Hangs and shakes head in disgust.
you nailed it….
Fuck me,I could only take about 5 min of his utter bullshit,what a cunt giblet.He needs to have his ass kicked,they take a black felt pen and wipe out your records omg hahahahah.
They first start talking about the lack of truth in society.
It is both sad and fascinating to consider the moment that a person made the CHOICE to drag their honorable service through the mud of dishonor to become a poser.
Tossing a big bullshit flag here. I was 24 years Signal Corps, a good portion of it as a 31M. I saw exactly 1 Legion of Merit awarded, and that was a retirement award for a CSM with 30 years. Something is amiss with that FOIA. It’s a full of BS as he is.
Yep. There really isn’t much truth in the world.
Um… the FOIA has him going back in time in 1977
8 September 1977 to 6 February 1977
He must have been involved in some real deep doo doo
Steinbrenner sent him back in time to carry out the Son of Sam killings to distract the media from the Yankee’s clubhouse turmoil. It worked and the Bronx Bombers won the 1977 World Series so Steinbrenner got him the LOM.
See-there’s a simple and logical explanation for everything.
Dude know how to split atoms… WITH HIS MIND!
It List him as Retired, 4 years ???
Sure. I was in 8 years 4 months and am retired. Medical retirement.
E4y, it was undoubtedly a Medical Retirement. He did spend his last five months in the Army as a patient at Walter Reed. And, Mr. Taylor, just to let you know if you are reading this, you and I share the same GT score from the ASVAB and I don’t believe a word of your “story”
Military education: Code of Conduct
Fail.
OMFG! Da shit is getting deep.
Will somebody contact Mike Rowe? Da shit is gettin’ nasty around here…
I was a 31v assigned to an MP company. We had a guy nicknamed Sparky, destroyer of radios. I would put him up against Ice Man.
I still can’t get over the fact an E5 sergeant received a Legion of Merit with no prior Meriorious Service Medal. Seriously, whatever he’s not telling the truth about (or is) … he must have done something really hot shit to warrant the LoM. Quite possibly a (medical?) retirement award?? Must have done something special!!
I would’ve killed for an LoM!
There’s no Legion of Merit on his 2-1, so he probably Rieckhoffed the clerk who was typing his DD214.
Owch!
Much like this guy that Mary busted:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/07/17/critics-former-dod-speaker-salted-war-record.html
Word has it that he is working for Commander Phil Monkress at All-Points Logistics as their VP of Public Relations.
rgr 1480, you need to remember that back in this time frame we Army types were allowed to hand carry our 201 files upon PCS. Access to forms/typewriter by a knowledgeable individual (and an S-1 buddy)and you can figure out the “Rest of the Story”
D’OH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6GuEswXOXo
It shows he had to go back through Basic also. back in the day I know that if you had a complete break of service of 5 years or more, then you had to go again, but he only had 4 years. These 2-1s are ate up.
We know he is full of shit, but the FOIA stuff sure doesn’t help our cause any….
I’m probably late on this but here’s his site.
http://jmaxtaylor.wordpress.com/
Wow.
The “Ice Turd”.
Was that your experience as a 31v also?
Maybe you didn’t score in the top 3% of the world like he did. LULZ
Almost. I still can’t talk about the “Antenna Incident”.
That might be a good thing haha
I am still scarred to this day. Maybe I will write a book and see if I can get a movie deal. At least a video game.
Why do I have the feeling that your story revolves around erecting a field antenna in the immediate vicinity of overhead power lines? We lost a few Marines in 29 Palms that back in the early 1990s.
Nothing that bad. It involved Privates with too much time on their hands.
When I was in the Pentagon we got a report from an O6 in Germany who was field testing a new antenna mast for the 292’s. He wove into the report that “female soldiers had trouble with 50′ erections”. He was proud of that.
The “Ice Turd” is wiping posts on his site.
You got to read his twitter. This guy is freaking epic.
Yeah.
Top grade Turd. Zero defects.
One of the comments for the book says, “I loved your book, Max. I also learned a lot. Losing a brother in Vietnam made it even more poignant for me. Thank you for your service.”
But hey, stolen valor is a victimless crime isn’t it?
In my era, LOM was an O6 retirement award. I knew only one O5 who got one: my bro.
I think some E8/9’s got them too.
Nary an E5.
I wonder if he and “Ranger” Burrell graduated from the same MFA program?
YO! Holy f’ng *batshit*!! I’ll bet it was the “jungle radio school” at Gordon that did it to him. Listening to those taped convo’s and practicing to be a intel analist (see?) done took him by the nap of his neck and drug his ass back to 1960 something Vietnam.
Wait, wait, wait…the NCO Club was prolly out of cold beer, pretzels and chips, so he caught a ride into Augusta to go drink at the White Stallion. Yea…man. That’s it!
Hell, I’m surprised he didn’t spend the night with some Oriental Dominatrix and call himself a POW because of it!!
Nah…that happened out at the recreational lake. Lotta small pines around there to play in, lol.
Yo, Scotty…TWO phonies with one shot! You done purdy good for a Marine. Just saying, everybody read that link below. 😎
http://jmaxtaylor.wordpress.com/2014/04/22/echoes-from-the-past/
“then Panama for 4 weeks of Sniper school training.” about sums it up.
😉
I don’t care what he says, my ops are blacker than his.
And I agree, his FOIA asks more questions than it answers.
Actually that FOIA is easy to read…FT. Gordon for sig school, then off to conduct black op’s in GERMANY (Wish i coulda gone there) BUT! He got to close to the Russians on the eastern front and they shipped him back in time to Vietnam. 🙂
Black OPS in Germany??? Isn’t he the guy who rescued those guys in the movie “Stripes”? Yeah, that’s the ticket..I was driving the EM-50…no wait..I built the EM-50…..
“What we have here, is one heavily armed recreational vehicle.”
“Proceeds from Inside the World of Mirrors benefit The Arizona American Legion, an organization author J. Max Taylor is heavily involved in, for use in the Vets Helping Vets program.” http://jmaxtaylor.wordpress.com/donations/
Meh…. I would have just used the “I had AML3 Cancer and I didn’t know what I was saying” defense, but I am no PhD.
That was a few months after an Amazon review called him out for that.
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-World-Mirrors-Shadow-Warrior/product-reviews/1481718584/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
Read the one by E B Travers.
E. B. Travers bent him over pretty good LOL.
They lied to him because he wasn’t there. Its a secret.
Translation: He once went to Thailand, got really wasted, and woke up entwined with a couple of ladyboys.
Sounds like the plot to a Metal Gear Solid game.
What a loser.
Ugh! I just drug my fever addled body from bed to mark all the reviews praising his book as “no, review was not helpful” and clicked “yes” on all the negative ones. That’s all I can offer now.
Jonn you should write a book titled “something that plays off the title of the phoney’s book but I am to sick to think of anything clever or witty. Use your own clever or witty imagination”.
Btw that name “Ice Man” is already taken by a mafia hit man. He wasn’t even cool enough to come up with his own nickname. He’s not only guilty of Stolen Valor but stolen nickname coolness also.
Peace! I’m out.
And the movie Top Gun.
Another phucking phoney. He could have gone to Vietnam if he really wanted to… but went to Korea instead. Now home safe and happy…he says he served in Vietnam as a quick killing machine. Pisses me off.
In EVERY school in the Army the class should start off that the Airborne, Rangers and Special Forces are hiring. Always have, always will be. No phucking excuse from these clowns.
Although I have 30+ years in the Navy, I did 4 years at Tripler AMC. I saw a number of E-7’s get LOM’s as retirement awards. It doesn’t surprise that it’s POSSIBLE than an Army E-5 got an LOM, it just surprises me that this guy did.
That’s Crippler AMC.
There. Fixed it for ya.
Isn’t that the same hospital that once operated on the wrong knee of a guy? That was the rumor when I was stationed in Hawaii.
Among other things.
I made it, oh, about 10 seconds into J(eneral) Maxwell Taylor’s story. How did we get this far into the comments w/o anyone pointing out that the J(eneral) is being interviewed by a guy named KLutz?
His book is listed on Amazon.com
If you have the chance, feel free to go over there and sign up. When you do, you can leave a review of his “book” and also comment on other folk’s reviews.
Seems like a good chance to set the record straight to those poor fools who bought his book and are “looking forward to other stories” by him.
File under “fiction” and “fucknugget”.
LMAO!
With this coming Saturday being Armed Forces Day, it’s probably too much to hope he’s setting up a “Book Signing Booth” somewhere to take advantage of the increased military traffic on that day. Unfortunately, no mention of that on his Facebook/web site. Would be nice to pay him a visit.
Jorge, did you ever get that NUC?
And here I thought we’d all get Silver Stars and shit 25 years after the fact.
Yup, about 15 years later!
Maybe one day he’ll tell us about his sooperdooperseekritsqwirrel missions out of his underground base camp at Pho Née Phuk?
This dude can blow my SnoCone.
Probably love slurping down some of that Cream of Sum Yun Guy waiting for his missions into “the shit”.
…While he’s at a gay brothel in Al Phuk Tup!
IDK, I was in Signal and our company was full of heart breakers aND life takers. During black ops of course none of which are in my records for obvious reasons.
I’m sure that DuLlAsS, Crash, and Frankie can all back him up
Lying ass, POG.
LOL…He “ran ops” out of Korea and into Viet Nam. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Let me guess – His planning cell was the Navy Club in Yongsan or Polly’s Kettle House over in Itaewon.
Haha! Polly’s Kettle House! I ran some black ops out of there in my day! And by black, I mean that’s what I remember about them after the third or fourth kettle…
Wow…I spent my time at Osan in 1986 briefly…. Wish I knew about Itaewon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQrRbnvzVrU
I ran ops out of Osan in 73-74. The Aragon club and Five Spot were my headquarters. Had to run missions outside the gate at Osan AB //
Holy Crap that brings back some (fuzzy) memories!
Itaewon? *WHOOP!* THAT was MY FAVORITE destination when I got a Warrior Pass on a weekend!!
My liver STILL has seizures in fear any time I even think of all the Soju I drank on that tour!
To paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, there’s nothing more depraved than a man in the depths of a Soju binge.
Wasn’t “Ice Man” the one in “Top Gun” who told “Maverick” (Tom Cruise) that “You can ride my tail anytime you like?”
Gayest. Line. Ever.
😀
It ain’t gay if it’s underway.
It ain’t queer if it’s at the pier.
If it’s Tom Cruise saying it… it’s gotta be one of the above
I always though Slider was the two-hole bandit.
I bet the Iceman here would know.
I must have been Black Ops in a career I was unaware of. I am getting ready for retirement and finding out its hell to get copies of 214’s.
So hey, he could be telling the truth. 🙂
You too, Maddie? I spent 35 years in service. Alas, after my intial hitch, I was erased. I simply did not exist on any records anywhere, least of all in the philes, as we called them. That’s really all that I can say about it. I wonder how many of us there are. In my nonexistent group, each of us swore to kill any member who attempted or effected contact with another group member outside of a mission. And that explains why we ac never have a reunion.
rofl, we are not prone to violence in combat comm, just laziness. 🙂
Yep. ‘Splains also why so many were on food stamps. When we were “erased,” the paycheck stopped and we were on our own again.
Why would anyone begrudge us the wearing of some imaginary medals and stuff?
I guess I can share this, too. Each month, I get an anonymous message telling me where to find the bops pension money. The medium and method vary from month to month. Sometimes it’s a call, an email, or a note left on my windshield. Last month’s contact was rather unusual. My doctor’s office called to confirm my appointment there and just as we were about to hang up, Mary (the receptioist) said, “Oh, I was told to tell you it’s under second base at the Little League field nearest your domicile.”
Yeah, I’m calling BS on that. If you were REAL Black Ops they would have implanted a microchip in your brain and sent you signals by radio using reruns of “Gilligans Island” to carry the message.
OK, Folks, I have it on good authority that this guy J Max Taylor and Forrest Gump are interchangeable in every way, shape, and form. In reality, Taylor’s military service is what Forrest was doing for the Army after Vietnam instead of being on The All American Ping Pong Team. It’s just that the scenes of his life ended up on the cutting room floor and were deleted from the movie. See, figured it out for you.
Anyone, and everyone, should go to his site and post reviews of his lies.
http://jmaxtaylor.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/my-battle-with-ptsd/
The publisher of this literary masterpiece is a company named Authorhouse. Is anyone surprised that is a vanity press (You pay; We publish)?
Wait….wait. He paid them to publish his true life adventure book? Lemme see here…counting on my toes and fingers the ways I could profit offa his junk were I to charge him.
Sum is! *zero* File it under make believe and call it a day, troops! lol
I see nobody has tried yet OR somebody has and he is deleting comments…Hehehe!
He’s started moderating comments. Several of mine are “awaiting moderation.”
His FB page is still open. Anyone can make comments on it. I say go over and let him now what you think.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/J-Max-Taylor/470084949731078
Taylor and Burrell must have had the same “handler”, if you know what I mean…
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