Don and I talked about this clown, Jay “Major” Kerwin, last week. He runs Boot Camp LA. He claimed to be a SEAL and Air Force pararescue. Don told him that he’d post this video if he didn’t come clean, and, well, you guessed it, he didn’t, and so;
He did time in Leavenworth for dealing in steroids, so I guess that counts as pararescue training in his mind.
ADDED 1/26/2014: Jay says that he never claimed to be a SEAL. But certainly, folks thought he was a SEAL, for some reason. For example, Alex Arnold, one of Kerwin’s trainees thought he was a SEAL. At Alex’ website, the paragraph that reads thusly, currently;
Before last week, read like this;
The internet is forever, boyo. You can scrub and scrub and scrub, but it all remains.
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Specially selected from among tens of thousands of candidates for membership in an exclusive inter service (i.e. Army, Navy, Marines Corps, and Air Force) highly regimented organization.
Oh. Did the organization have a name?
Um. Yes. It was (cough) Lea/(cough)5$l#&*@.
I’m sorry. What was that name again?
Leavenworth.
Private Major Jay Kerwin, the drill private for Boot Camp LA.
I have to wait until I get home to watch the whole video, my phone suddenly turned into “The Tard-O-Vac 200” after the first few minutes, but jay-Boy acts like a California candyass in the part where he’s “coaching”, and a “Special Ranger Tab”? Holy sheepshit!!!
Geesh, This guy may even be a bigger loser than William Derek Church
So-will we be graced with the video of Don’s conversation with this clown? That oughta be real entertaining. I especially want to see the part where he refuses to take down his SEAL claims because “it would be bad for business.” I can’t imagine what Don’s reaction was, but I bet it was priceless.
In the part where they showed “Jay-boy” Kerwin, he acted more like Richard Simmons than any real Vet I’ve ever known!
Who the hell brags about an 8th Grade wrestling accomplishment decades if it ALLEGEDLY occured? A Major E-1, that’s who. An ex-con, for another. And we have them wrapped up in one package here. That’s convenient.
…decades after it…
HS Sophomore: likely not. California – where the tool in question here lives – is a “two-party consent” state with respect to recording telephone conversations. Don almost certainly knows that, and also certainly won’t get this j-hole’s consent to tape any conversations they might have. And I’d guess Don wants to stay out of court if he can. (smile)
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Proud Infidel: if the CPT you were referring to received a “Dismissal”, he didn’t get a BCD. Under the UCMJ and MCM, commissioned officers can receive neither BCDs nor DDs. However, for a commissioned officer a “Dismissal” is legally equivalent to a DD – including all the felony conviction baggage associated with a DD. An officer receiving a “Dismissal” has thus essentially received a DD with a different name.
Don’t ask me why there’s a different name, or why an officer can’t receive a DD or BCD. I have no clue; “that’s just the way it is.”
@59 It is similar to when I was in and enlisted medical records reported, Venereal Disease, while Officer’s med records reported, Communicable Disease. I guess because their med records are reviewed for promotion. At least that is what an officer told me was the reason.
Sparks: actually, the UCMJ and/or MCM (Manual for Courts-Martial) prescribe those differences. I think it’s a matter of law, actually.
There are a couple of others as well. Commissioned officers cannot be reduced in rank as part of a court-martial sentence; they either retain their pre-trial rank or get the full “heave ho” – nothing in between. (A commissioned officer’s grade can be reduced at retirement if they’re deemed to have “not served successfully” at their current rank, but that’s an administrative action vice a part of a court-martial sentence.) And if memory serves, a commissioned officer can receive a Dismissal for literally any court-martial conviction if the court-martial imposes that as a punishment. For enlisted and non-commissioned warrant officers, I believe a DD can only be imposed as punishment for certain crimes.
As I said previously: I have no idea why, and it makes no sense to me. That’s just my recollection of what the UCMJ and MCM prescribe.
The Shipleys rock! Period. My day can be shitty as hell, then I watch one of Don’s videos and wala! Excellent work, D&D!. This “Major” Jay E-1 Kerwin (Google hit) and his Boot Camp LA (Google hit) have got to be at the least, fraudulent. Where the hell is Dan Noyes? Oooooh! He’s on my FB list….*hehehe*
@62 local radio around here would be a good media outlet for this sort of thing. After all, we’re all stuck in traffic 🙂
Are court-martial proceedings or records made public (like criminal cases)? It’d be interesting reading.
There are four types of bad discharges, three (bad conduct discharges, dishonorable discharges, and dismissals) are punitive and given by a sentence of a court-martial for criminal misconduct. The crime convicted of committed must authorize the punitive discharge.
The least serious, the under other-than-honorable conditions is considered an administrative discharge. A fraudulent enlistment is example of the nature of criminal wrong doing that if convicted of may, could, and can result in this type of discharge.
(8) Punitive separation. A court-martial may not adjudge an administrative separation from the service. There are three types of punitive separation.
(A) Dismissal. Dismissal applies only to commissioned officers, commissioned warrant officers, cadets, and midshipmen and may be adjudged only by a general court-martial. Regardless of the maximum punishment specified for an offense in Part IV of this Manual, a dismissal may be adjudged for any offense of which a commissioned officer, commissioned warrant officer, cadet, or midshipman has been found guilty.
(B) Dishonorable Discharge, A dishonorable discharge applies only to enlisted persons and warrant officers who are not commissioned and may be adjudged only by a general court-martial. Regardless of the maximum punishment specified for an offense in Part IV of this Manual, a dishonorable discharge may be adjudged for any offense of which a warrant officer who is not commissioned has been found guilty. A dishonorable discharge should be reserved for those who should be separated under conditions of dishonor, after having been convicted of offenses usually recognized in civilian jurisdictions as felonies, or of offenses of a military nature requiring severe punishment.
(C) Bad conduct discharge. A bad-conduct discharge applies only to enlisted persons and may be adjudged by a general court-martial and by a special court-martial which has met the requirements of R.C.M. 201 (f) (2) (B). A bad-conduct discharge is less severe than a dishonorable discharge and is designed as a punishment for bad-conduct rather than as a punishment for serious offenses of either a civilian or military nature. It is also appropriate for an accused who has been convicted repeatedly of minor offenses and whose punitive separation appears to be necessary.
Oh boy, he wrote a weak apology and claiming he never made those claims about Seal on his Facebook page. I did not even finished reading it.
He wrote that on his boot camp la page by the way. Saying that he never made claims of being a SEAL. Looks like he will take that to the grave.
Private Major Jay Kerwin, Head Drill Private at Bootcamp L.A., made the following post to try to do Damage Control:
BOOTCAMP LA
I am writing to address the claim that I have promoted myself as a Navy Seal. I am not a Navy Seal and I have not claimed to be one. Unfortunately, as sometimes happens, media or programs the information gets reported incorrectly and for that I apologize. As far as the Yula School in particular, we have been trying to contact them to correct the information on their site but they are on Winter Break.
Regarding the questions of my service in the military, I did go through the Pararescue indoctrination course and graduated from it. After Pararescue indoctrination, I then went on through what was called the “pipeline,” during which I completed Airborne School in Ft. Benning, and then HALO School in Fort Bragg. No,I did not complete the program based on poor decisions on my part 20 years ago.That is all that is stated on our website – one sentence about my completing the course. I have said in interviews that I have based the training on what I have learned in the program. It has never been my intention to offend anyone as you will see on this social page there are no posts about the SEALS or me being one and this is a main social networking place for our business and the posts are all focused on health and nutrition.
Yeah, I bet it is painful to talk about his jailtime in Kansas. Which is why he tries to minimize it as a mistake. Spends more time writing about his attempts to be a jumper than he does about his mistakes that left a black mark on his records.
@59-Dang. I forgot about that. And I should know that, living here and all. Well, good on him anyway.
Why didn’t he post pictures of himself in prison, instead of doing military stuff> This guy is a turd. On his linkin
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=35814591&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=v5JZ&locale=en_US&srchid=2074869061390448192316&srchindex=1&srchtotal=2&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2074869061390448192316%2CVSRPtargetId%3A35814591%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary
It is still saying “There were over 500 guys that tried out and I made it with 6 other guys.”
Liar. Piece of shit!
“JAY-BOY” KERWIN,the Richard Simmons of SEAL posers!!
@67 That is some weak sauce. I don’t think the Great Hair would post a youtube video if you didn’t clearly make SEAL claims. I like the tap dancing around the fact his presences did have those claims but got whitewashed and now he’s trying to rewrite history. Yeah. Ok, Major Douchebag, who or what would prompt the YULA school to put up a bio that included a SEAL claim? Did that just come out of thin air? No, it came out of a hot, lying, steroid abusing gas bag.
Liars never stop lying, of course. This guy may never post a SEAL/PJ claim online again, but I’ll bet you he’s telling his poor students about his high speed background and will continue to do so, because, as the Major Malfunction said, “it’s good for business”.
#44 et al
Yes, LD is a retired PJ who is a little like our Don. He is the PJ who handles most of the POS who try and claim being a PJ. And does a very good job of exposing those POS. He has also help to link some real PJs up with the PJ Assoc.
LD does not do this on his own, but is usually the one who makes contacts with the POS.
Seems to me that Kerwin, the E-1 Major, SEAL, phony PJ, is as ghey as a day in May.
Bedwetter, too.
Who was that other turdball that claimed this BS?
johca: thanks. I’d forgotten that uncommissioned warrant officers were subject to receiving a DD for any crime, regardless of specified maximum punishments in the MCM, if convicted by a court-martial. The reminder’s appreciated.
Ya get older, the CRS becomes stronger. But that still beats the alternative. (smile)
“It wasn’t my fault. The media got it wrong. I have no idea how they would have believed that I was a SEAL unless I told them that I was. My claim of being a SEAL was in multiple media sites for years, and it never occurred to me until now to let them know that it needs to be corrected.”
Now, where have we had that excuse before? Maybe All Points Logistics could hire him for their next corporate team building event. And by the way, did he ever address the Major claim? Maybe he meant that while in the service, he was a major supplier of performance enhancing drugs.
let us not forget that before Don Shipley took to video on this, he gave Major E-1 Hard Time 8th Grade Wrestling Champ clear opportunity to apologize, set the record straight, and wash away the lies with truth soap. I guess Major E-1 Hard Time 8th Grade Wrestling Champ called Shipley’s bluff. Not a winning move for Major E-1 Hard Time 8th Grade Wrestling Champ. And now he has the PJs to contend with as well.
You can rate this crap on the Yelp link by the way…I been having fun! lmao!
Looks like Private Major Jay Kerwin, Drill Private for Bootcamp L.A., made the Bootcamp L.A. facebook page disappear from my facebook view. 😀
@80, he did the same to me as well. But what Jay Kerwin the Phony SEAL and AF para Rescueman fails to recognise, is that this is what people will see now if they google his lying ass.
Almost all his Facebook pages have been pulled down.
The Pain Train came through.
He posted on his Web Site in the About Us that he is not a navy SEAl, or a “ful fledged” Pararescueman… and he is sorry for saying anything misleading about being that.
I would say he felt the pain train run his ass over a few times.
http://www.bootcampla.com/aboutus.htm
@83 rb3215th.
Oh I just saw that….
” Disclaimer:
I am Not a Navy Seal or a Full Fledged Pararescue Commando. I apologize for any confusion or misrepresentation on my part. ”
Oh well then, that just makes everything Okie Dokey now, doesn’t it?
/ SWEEP THE FUCKING LEG. END HIM.
“I am Not a Navy Seal or a Full Fledged Pararescue Commando. I apologize for any confusion or misrepresentation on my part.” – Private Major Jay Kerwin, Drill Private for Bootcamp L.A.
That’s a half assed attempt at an “apology,” it attempts to save face, and it attempts to “have it both ways” with the “not a FULL FLEDGED” claptrap.
Private Major Jay Kerwin, Drill Private for Bootcamp L.A., here’s what you should say instead:
“I am not, nor I ever was, a Navy SEAL. I am not, nor I ever was an Air Force Pararescue Commando. I’m sorry for misleading you with my claims of being a SEAL and a PJ.”
Then, from that point on, rely on what you’ve done for those who attended your program as a way to get future business.
And take off the fucking rank insignia while you’re at it. It doesn’t work for Third World douchebags, it doesn’t work for you either, you roided out freak.
This dude obviously spends a lot of time with his backside in the air.
Know what I mean?
Green Thumb: um, his favorite exercise is the “mountain climber”? (smile)
He claims to be a paramedic, yet there is no license record of him in the State of California, nor National Registry.
Isn’t that an 8 pump, I mean, count exercise?
Green Thumb: nope – four
pumpcount; starting position is the front leaning rest position.http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/Drill_Sergeant_Resources/2004_pft_presentations/the-mountain-climber.shtml
But I don’t think this guy counts his
pumpsreps that closely.What exactly does he mean by “full fledged”? To me that sounds like he is still trying to cling to the claim.. wonder why he does not tell everyone he was actually in Leavenworth doing time for drug dealing instead of Par Rescue training… Guess that would be “bad for business”.
I still say that Jay Kerwin is a Richard Simmons version of a FAKE SAEL!
I sent him an email a few days ago. Whether he read it or not cannot be confirmed. The email states how and why he got into his falsifying his service resume predicament and what he should avoid doing that would not help in damage control.
The email:
Mr. Kerwin:
Unfortunately you are being subjected to more concern of how you misrepresent your accomplishments during your military service.
Although you completed the Pararescue Indoctrination Course and a few other required courses during the period from 13 October 1993 thru to 16 October 1994 you were not a trainee for this whole period, particularly after you arrived at Kirtland AFB. The student records and instructor recollections are you never left casual status to enter and complete any training at Kirtland AFB. Regardless, official record is clear beyond any doubt that you were not awarded the Pararescue 3-skill level AFSC and thus you were never held any qualifications to perform pararescue duties. Any assertion, suggestion or implying you successfully went through all required training is false.
More importantly, none of the training given students at the Pararescue Indoctrination course or any other course you may have successfully completed provides very little training the Department Of Defense deems necessary to be a military trainer or a military instructor. The training you obtained while in the Air Force certainly is not sufficient to be any validation of being a competent or qualified personal fitness trainer.
Such exaggeration or embellishment of completing the Pararescue Indoctrination Course to attract clients/customers while appearing harmless can be considered a lie although it retains an element of truth. It becomes deception when others unaware of the complete information about your service history make a decision to become your client/customer based on a falsified professional reputation or resume of being the best of the best with other important integrity and character of service information not being disclosed.
I wish you well, but insisting to others you successfully went through the whole or all required training to be pararescue and perform pararescue duties isn’t a wise corrective course of action.
Respectfully,
Yeah, usually a physical trainer who has to admit that their body came about through methods which would embarrass even Lyle Alzado, Barriod Bonds, or Alex Roidriguez, would likely end up pissing off most if not all of their clientele.
BTY on http://bootcampla.com/aboutus.htm he has posted:
Disclaimer:
I am Not a Navy Seal or a Full Fledged Pararescue Commando. I apologize for any confusion or misrepresentation on my part.
This guy reminds me of someone who fails out of Nuclear Power School at the Week 3 academic board and then claims he was a nuke based on his completing SOME of the schools (well, one, anyway) in the pipeline.
Nevermind the fact that our boy Elroy here never held the PJ MOS (or whatever the AF calls it.) No tickee, no washee, dickhead. I went to GT for two years, but I’ve never claimed to have graduated or be an alum of that school. Get the picture?
He isn’t a “Full Fledged” Pararescue Commando.
You are either “ARE” or “NOT”. There are no 1/2 Seals and 1/2 PJ’s. With putting “Full Fledged” in there he is trying to skirt around the fact that he is a E1 Criminal who was put in jail for 2 years for selling steroids!
It doesn’t matter if you attended some of the courses. You are NOT a PJ. You are NOT a seal…and you never will be.
Why is this Private /E1/ Airman referring to himself as a MAJOR?
Is this playtime hour?
With rare exception, good universities require that a prospective student take the SAT or ACT. Accordingly, employing the logic of Major E-1 Hard Time 8th Grade Wrestling Champ, anyone who took one of those exams satisfied one of the requirements for an Ivy League education and can say so. Similarly, anyone who completed Basic Training can say that he satisfied a requirement of any elite unit. See how that works? Sure you do. It’s called bullshit.