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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296 responses to “Jay Kerwin meets Don Shipley”
@145 – Way to multitask! However, I would have beeen more impressed if you had managed to read your bible, clean your gun, AND drink a beer at the same time! 🙂
As for the “Major” here, he’s a “Major” Shitbag!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/boot-camp-la-los-angeles-2
Please post more bad reviews on the yelp website of this phony Major.
Major Douche has adjusted the disclaimer again
Disclaimer: Jay Kerwin is not a military officer nor has he ever been. Additionally, any reference made by third parties online or in the media to Jay being a member of the U.S. Navy or a Navy SEAL is inaccurate.
Of course the exception is all the screen captures of what he had written on his web page prior to being caught.
I don’t see the disclaimer anymore. Also, the bootcampla facebook has been taken offline?
Check out this facebook page.
Veterans against Jay Kerwin
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Veterans-Against-Jay-Kerwin-Of-Bootcamp-La/199380340269568
They have him wearing Major rank on there.. on his cap.
Major Dildo is avoiding calls and inquiries of his claims.
http://www.bootcampla.com/aboutus.htm no longer mention the falsification and misrepresenting his Air Force service history.
Disclaimer: Jay Kerwin is not a military officer nor has he ever been. Additionally, any reference made by third parties online or in the media to Jay being a member of the U.S. Navy or a Navy SEAL is inaccurate.
Basically he just went to the, “Those mean people are picking on me!” card.
Altogether now: “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
You screwed up by trying to bullshit your clients then coming on here and insulting people that called you out.
You don’t want to mess with us or piss off “the hair”
When I took Oceanography I wasn’t surprised when I found out this little tidbit.
Sharks have a Don Shipley Week.
@143 Still at 3.5 stars, sadly. Also, Yelp has a special program by which business owners can pay to “clean up” their reviews, so don’t be surprised if a lot of 1 star reviews disappear.
One thing I’m noticing with his kool-aid drinking defenders is they all write, “I’ve never heard him claim to be a SEAL…” It seems a strange and specific parsing, as in, “we all read/heard his claim of being one of a handful to make it through the PJ pipeline, and thus a Special Ops Commando Badass, but this SEAL claim, noo…”
Sorry folks, trying to pull the Jedi mind trick of “these are not the SEAL claims you’re looking for” doesn’t work on the Hair.
The latest one I saw by a “RobG” is hilarious in that he claims he never saw any claims of SEAL/PJ anywhere. Good ol’ Rob claims he’s one of them newspaper writing types but never saw these claims anywhere. Yeah, real Pulitzer quality there. BTW, if you give Pink’s hot dogs 5 stars, like Rob does, all your Yelp reviews are garbage. Those mediocre and overpriced dogs only taste halfway decent because you’re starving (ie: if you wait 5 minutes, like you would at their less crowded locations, you’d be asking wtf the hype is about). I live here, and I’d say hot dogs aren’t really our thing (burgers and tacos, on the other hand…)
Oh, and RobG understands stolen valor because his daddy is a veteran. Maybe dad needs to teach his son a few new lessons.
Someone should start a topix thread like what was done to William Derek Church. I think that might spread the word.
With his false SEAL claims, I wonder if he’s actually a diver, EMT, and pilot, or if those claims are all exaggerated to puff up his tiny and fragile ego.
ArmyATC, no, but he does appear to imitate girls, when you see him walking around with his hands on his hips. He’s so pretty,isn’t he?
I would have a whole lot more respect for you guys if you cleaned your Bible, drank your rifle and read your beer. Priorities, man.
So how soon will the floodgates open up on Jay Kerwin, the Richard Simmons of Phony SEALs like they have on others?
Ask him about his martial art claims.
@163 ex-PH2, He does look like he’s imitating a runway model. I wonder if his mother bought him a tutu when he was a kid? I understand a real point of contention between him and his wife is him wearing her clothes all the time.
Jay Kerwin completed about one third of the training and courses required for award of the entry level pararescue specialty (occupation). His service records clearly state the first 294 days (42 weeks, approximately 10 months) of his enlistment he was a student. The remaining 1045 days (149 weeks, approximately 27 months) he was either not in training (casual status) connected to pretrial and trail activities or on and after his 15 June 1994 court-martial, a convict.
As far as his Pararescue Indoctrination claims, the “only” truth is Jay Kerwin was one of seven PJ students of Class 93-003 successfully completing the course. Unfortunately, Jay omits disclosure of the other seven CCT students also successfully completing the course as it was a joint PJ/CCT Indoctrination course during the period from 18 December 1987 thru July 2000. Another convenient Kerwin misinformation is Class 93-003 started with hundreds less than 500 students enrolled.
Jay Kerwin did complete Basic Airborne Course, Military Freefall Course, and a few other required prerequisite courses necessary to actually start the Pararescue Apprentice course, but he never started or completed this course. Kerwin’s service history claims of four years special operations is more accurately described as one year steroid juiced student/trainee and three years convict.
Apparently he is trying to salvage as much of his being less than a full-fledged pararescue commando as possible. His short lived disclaimer of — “I am Not a Navy Seal or a Full Fledged Pararescue Commando. I apologize for any confusion or misrepresentation on my part” –has been changed to omit any disclosure of how much he falsified and misrepresented his actual Air Force service history. His disclaimer currently reads “Disclaimer: Jay Kerwin is not a military officer nor has he ever been. Additionally, any reference made by third parties online or in the media to Jay being a member of the U.S. Navy or a Navy SEAL is inaccurate.”
I just added this to the post;
Jay says that he never claimed to be a SEAL. But certaily, 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.
So basically this guy’s whole business is built on a lie. He wasn’t an officer in the Military he wasn’t a SEAL or a PJ and he wasn’t and maybe still isn’t a “natural bodybuilder”, right? At this point one has to wonder if he’s even a man and if his name is really Jay. He can’t seem to tell the truth about anything.
As usual, the Stolen Valor is a symptom of something much worse.
@160–the plastic in Pamela Anderson’s tits is more “real” than probably 80 percent of the people in Califunny.
And yeah, there are about 5 hot dog places I can think of right off the top of my head that are better than Pink’s.
But then again, I can see why so many people there are taken by this douchetool. Hell, I used to recruit there and some of the crap I saw still makes me shake my head 15 years later.
@169 Val:
I can’t help but think his name is “Nancy”…
What bothers me the most about this guy? His aloofness.
He has created this whole world based on the military. I am not sure if you viewed the video, but he awards “Ranger” tabs to students that excel.
He walks around with a ballcap with “MAJOR” rank on it.
He was enlisted!
He could have chosen to prance around with his hands on his hips wearing Master Sergeant or Technical Sergeant.
But no.. he is too good for that. He is too aloof for that. He has to wear commissioned officer rank. He can’t pretend he is an enlisted Airman, he has to up it a notch and be an Officer.
It’s really ridiculous to even think Air Force Majors and Lieutenants are out conducting training, physical training in a Boot Camp environment. Master Sergeant or Tech Sergeant would have been more appropriate, but E1 Kerwin is too good for that.
Also, he didn’t serve honorably. He was a trainee before he got busted for selling steroids then spent time in prison.
To think of it, he didn’t even train honorably because he was all roided up.
He wasted taxpayer money and DID NOT SERVE HONORABLY.
If he wants to base his life on the validity and honor of his military service, then he must not gloss over the fact he is a convicted felon.
Once again.. the aloofness. He couldn’t pose just as a AF para-rescue. He had to pose as a PJ and a Seal!
Just lying and stating he was one wasn’t good enough, he had to say he was 7 of 500 or some horse shit.
He will get his..
OH, IT’S A’ COMIN’, I think he acts like Richard Simmons when he’s coaching, but even as much as I dislike R. Simmons, I have more respect for him than I do Jay Kerwin, Simmons never engaged in Stolen Valor!
“He was a champion natural body builder”
So he just sold steroids, but didn’t take them? …right
@175. He was a body builder. He never said it was his body he built.
Felon.
I did like Pamela Anderson’s breasts, though.
Major loser.
AC- I was quoting from 168 above. I was just assuming he was the champion referred to, not that he trained champions.
In any event, it was the word ‘natural’ I found ironic when discussing a steroid dealer. If he was training champions, I doubt they were ‘natural.’
@171, hey man, I’m real. A real dork. And Pamela Anderson’s breasts are real nice.
I think people would get fooled if Kerwin were one state east over in AZ just as well as they do here. The fact remains that we civilians would take phony claims like his at face value. “Why would they lie?” You’ll see a lot of defensiveness now, and that will be natural too. No one likes to admit they’ve been the mark.
Assplug here has changed it (his disclaimer) up again.
Also, this turd is co-writing a book. Maybe he should contact “Ranger” Burrell for some pointers.
Maybe his claim to fame that he was the fourth most steroid juice inmate at Leavenworth.
@181.
Probably the fourth most used.
Note the way JayJay spelled ‘seal’ and ‘navy’.
Now, we all know that the US Navy is ALWAYS capitalized, so he must be referring the the COLOR navy, instead of the military service. Right?
And we ALL know, as well, that the acronym SEAL is an all-caps title using the initial letters of SEa,Air,Land, plus the (s) at the end when referrign to more than one SEAL. So he must be referring to the kind of seal, e.g., sea lion, leopard, harbor, that is found sunning itself on beaches and rocks.
In other words, jayjay is a midnight blue sea-going mammal with flippers that barks, catches fish in its mouth, and hogs the pier at Fishermen’s Wharf in San Francisco.
When is the fire going to be lit under this thief?
I used to see these douches doing boots n’ utes runs up and down Ocean Park Blvd in Santa Monica… concrete sidewalk… in boots. Lots of favors he’s doing for the knees of his trainers/trainees.
One thing nobody has mentioned is that these people use taxpayer-funded land and facilities to conduct private business. They train people in parks throughout Los Angeles, and are compensated by their trainees.
To be fair, they aren’t the only one who do it, but for those of us who like to use the parks for their intended purpose, its really obnoxious when a platoon sized element of these jackasses rolls up and starts occupying the area where myself and maybe 2 or 3 other random circuit trainers are taking turns on the pull up bars.
Though not illegal (yet?), its kind of a dick move.
People are paying him to use publicly funded park resources. If I had time and patience, I’d just stand around and “audit” one of his courses… hang out off to the side but within earshot and just copy whatever they’re doing, and see if anyone does or says anything. It is in public, after all.
Anyways, anything you folks can do to reduce the number of BDU trouser and extra medium T-shirt wearing jerkoffs with yoga-mats polluting the parks in LA is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely, a random Army Reservist who happens to live and work(out) in Los Angeles.
Anyone notice all of the grammatical errors on this tool’s website?
Loser.
Anyone notice all of the grammatical errors on this tool’s website?
Major assclown.
@185…yah, I noticed that too. I used to live in Hermosa Beach, and back in the day, it never happened. After 9/11, it was EVERYWHERE.
@185 Maybe we should organize a nice big workout with all of your buddies at the La Brea Tarpits where this douchebag scams his customers. You can provide a lot of public commentary, like, “hey, Jay, did you learn that in Leavenworth?”
Don Shipley updated the video on this asshat.
@190.
What is updated? Looks the same to me.
@180 GT
Yeah, he has updated the whole thing. No more “Major”, no more “LT” for the girl, and he has fixed up the Navy & SEAL reference. Notice how he blames unknown “third parties”, and the media for any SEAL references. Now, where did those folks get the idea that Gay Jay is a former SEAL?
I guess a bedwetting, gay, douchenozzle needs lots of scrubbing..
“http://www.bootcampla.com/aboutus.htm”
@192. He still has up all the MAJOR AND LT stuff
I don’t think that Major befits him. I am unsure whether to promote him to Generalissimo or Field Marshal. On the one hand, Generalissimo Jay has a nice ring to it but, on the other, Field Marshal Kerwin has its appeal.
2/17 Air Cav: I’m kinda partial to calling him “Jailbird Jay”. But that’s just me.
I wonder what Joel Lambert would think of all this. He’s a former SEAL who lives in the LA area.
Oh, the possibilities…
What you can do, which drives these ego freaks nuts, is show up at the places where you know he’ll be giving his ‘instructions’ and start a big workout ahead of him, preferably with a group of your pals. If it’s public land, it’s a first come, first served basis, isn’t it?
Maybe start a game of basketball polo, which is like soccer, except the ball doesn’t touch the ground. And touching another player or grabbing the ball and hanging on when someone else has it are both allowed. I just invented that, just now. Feel free to use it. Make up your own rules. Oh,yeah – there’s no tossup on the ball, someone rolls it in. And have some women with you who can get in his face and tell him to piss off.
Oooh! Remember the video of the Air Force chick in a taser training class, who got tased and did the pack whack? Well, you can always plan accidents like that, can’t you?
Sometimes, I am SO naughty. 🙂
@197, Ex-PH2, how ’bout playing a game of “Anarchist Football”? Make up tour own rules as you go, kinda like the “Combat Football” games we’d see Troops from 3/75th play in their spare time, they did “Combat Basketball” too, coming from the court or field with shiners, bloody noses,..
P.S. AND OF COURSE, they could just “BRING” that ‘roid-juiced ‘lil Richard Simmons wannabe right into the game without waiting for him to ask to join!!
Thank you, Proud. That’s what I was aiming at.
I particularly like the rule that says if one player has the ball and starts running with it, another player has two choices: he or she can grab it and hang onto it while being dragged, or pull the ball carrier’s pants down.
And just think: bringing Vajay-jay’s lithe and sculpted form onto the playing field, willy-nilly, will add that much spice to the rules of destruction.
Use of foul language is both allowed and encouraged.