Greg sends us a link to the Scranton, Pennsylvania Times-Tribune in which they explain to their readers how Matthew Gajdys, a local veteran told them tall tales about his war-time experiences;
An Army veteran profiled in The Sunday Times lied to the newspaper about his military service.
After the story published Sunday, the newspaper received messages from soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with Matthew Gajdys and said he lied about being in combat.
When a reporter confronted Gajdys about the accusations on Monday, he admitted he never fought in combat and lied when he told a reporter he was shot in the chest but his bulletproof vest saved his life. He also said he embellished his role in killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Gajdys, 35, of Dickson City, served in the Army from 2006 to 2012, including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, repairing attack helicopters, said Valerie Mongello, an Army spokeswoman.
The original story is posted here with some redacted phrases. Here are the redacted phrases rescued from the cache copy of the article.
You don’t know that it’s a bad guy until he starts shooting at you.”
Gajdys shot and killed people. He took a bullet to the chest, but his body armor saved him.
“It’s not fun to get shot at,” he said. “After you do it long enough, you kind of get immune to it.”
[…]
“It was the first time I ever accidentally killed someone,” he said.
The comments for the original article are still posted. It seems that his mates busted him out. For example;
I was in his squad for both Iraq and Afghanistan. Though we worked our butts off (on post mind you), We saw ZERO combat. If we had, he’d be wearing a combat action badge in the above photo. He did indeed do ONE dart mission but it was uneventful. They actually extended his enlistment so they could punish him for failing a drug test. That should say enough.
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83 responses to “Matthew Gajdys lies to hometown newspaper”
COCKSUCKING ASS HAMSTER!
Hey my daughter has a Hamster ?
Gerbils would be better term to use
They also have a proven track record
With turd burglars like this shit-stain
Pillow bitin pickle smoocher!
And there it is…shut it down, you win the Internet today!
I’m adding that shit to the great WALL O INSULTS!!!
EXCELLENT!
That’s some special looking specialist.
That’s a whole lot of ‘fruit salad’ for a helo mechanic that worked on base. Does he have a chit for the UA fuzz & phony 1000 yard stare? You did more than most people, but you shit all over that…now enjoy the Google fame!
Not really. The only personal decorations he has are the Army Achievement Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. The rest are all service or campaign medals/ribbons (NDSM, ACM, GWOTSM, ASR, and OSR, plus one – the inboard ribbon on the bottom row – that I can’t make out well enough to positively ID). Most of those are issued for breathing while serving on active duty or deploying.
The unit awards (over his right pocket) are doubtless holdovers from his last unit of assignment. Soldiers wear their unit of assignment’s unit awards plus any personally authorized unit awards while assigned to a specific unit; they remove all unit awards pertinent to last unit of assignment on PCS. Unless he was assigned to the unit during the period for which the unit awards he’s wearing were awarded, he shouldn’t be wearing them at all after separation.
The mystery ribbon is most likely the NCO Professional Development Ribbon.
To my eyes it’s the Korea Defense Service Medal (KDSM).
Those would have been my two guesses. However, either would be in that spot via order of precedence – and I can’t tell which of the two it is due to the photo’s relatively low resolution. That’s why I said I couldn’t ID it with certainty.
There is a much clearer picture of him in uniform w/ribbon rack on his FB page and Yep, it’s the KDSM.
Also in one of the linked articles/comments it said he had done a tour to Korea as well as the sandbox tours.
Well, until 2015 timeframe, you could go to PLDC-WLC (whatever what flavor you want) prior to being an NCO. I have seen PFC’s being sent.
Today, you cannot pin on E5 without SSD1 (nonsense online class) and BLC (formerly WLC/PLDC), can’t pin on 6 without SSD2/ALC, can’t pin on 7 without SSD3/SLC, etc.
Can you Army-types determine what kind of wings he’s wearing in the photo above?
Would he rate some type of wings as an attack helicopter mechanic, or for being assigned to a Downed Aircraft Recovery Team (DART), as mentioned in his colleague’s comment in Jonn’s original post above?
(My background is Marine Corps aviation, so I genuinely don’t know what he actually would be eligible for.)
Army Aircrew Wings. What no DFC of Air Medal with “V” device?
Enlisted air crew wings. Do enlisted air crew members not wear wings in the Marines? I’m pretty sure Navy enlisted crew wear wings and I know USAF enlisted crew do as well.
I believe all Army aircraft maintenance crew members wear wings whether their job requires them to fly regularly or not. For example, a crew chief on a Blackhawk will get a lot of flying time but a crew chief on an Apache will not since there’s not a seat for him on the bird. But both will wear crew wings.
I believe (not sure, we have some AVN types who can chime in, I’m sure) that a soldier only rates “flight pay” if flying is a regular part of their job.
Yes, qualified USMC enlisted air crew wear the same gold Naval Aircrewman Wings that the Navy air crew do. There are also Marine Combat Aircrew Wings for Marine Corps enlisted air crew who have flown in combat.
The reason that I asked about this guy’s wings is because Marine Corps helicopter mechanics don’t wear wings unless they are also specifically qualified and designated as Naval Aircrewmen (i.e. Crew Chief or Aerial Gunner).
There was a change in 2000 where anyone in an Army Aviation MOS gets the, “Army Aviation Badge”, whether they fly or not.
I earned the old, “Aircraft Crewman Badge”, as a school trained Grumman OV-1 Mohawk, “right seater”,(Technical Observer, back in the days when you actually had to fly and earn your Wings.
That 2000 change looks like more of that participation trophy shit that has infected our military. Somebody from the Clinton regime’s DA crew prolly thought that was a good idea. Maybe even ol’ Shinseki himself.
I was born too early. Back in my Cold War days, there were no campaigns ribbons like they have for OIF, OEF, DS/DS…just deployments to stave off nuclear annihilation was all we did. I heard a Cold War Medal was rumored to be in the works, but that was a long time ago. I did my part, but my ‘fruit salad’ was anything but impressive: Good Conduct & Sea Service 1 star. Not bowling over the ladies with that…oh well.
That’s affirmative, Hondo. Retired in 2012 with 7, count ’em 7, rows of pretty ribbons. Nearly all of them are “thanks for showing up” awards.
I don’t know the regs, but is one required to wear the “participation” ribbons?
My only experience with fruit salad (of this nature) is in BSA, but people being people I suspect the attitudes are the same.
– Some want the decoration and do just the minimum to get it, then are off chasing the next piece of bling.
– Some want the decoration, but want to be the kind of person the decoration is supposed to honor.
– Some don’t care about the decoration per se, and even though they are entitled to wear it, leave it off the uniform.
I personally thought of my fruit salad as a way to tell others “this is what my skill set is, if you need me to help you accomplish your goal.”
Back in the olden days, many officers did not bother to pin on ribbons, especially on the khaki uniform. I served with Maj. Charles Q. Williams after he was awarded the MOH for some amazing heroism in the viet of the nam. I never saw him wear the medal, even with greens, and he rarely ever wore his ribbons. An ex 82nd 1stSGT who went to OCS, he was one of the finest officers I ever encountered. Nowadays, even SP4’s apparently have more ribbons than I had as an O-3 with over 5 years of AD and a 15 month combat tour.
You have to wear them for DA photos, boards match your rack to your file. Wearing one you don’t have in your file will get you bad paper. Not wearing one is a major gig. Most people keep them current to avoid hassle.
Perfectly honorable service thrown in the toilet to impress a reporter…
To me, he is more like a perfect asshole who threw his technically honorable discharge in the crapper.
A spherical asshole.
No matter which way you look at him, he’s still an asshole.
In what Virtual Reality (drug-induced or otherwise) does he think that wearing the uniform with that scruff on his face is acceptable?
He ought to be held down, shaved with a dull knife without benefit of soap or hot water, then doused with rubbing alcohol.
Then offer to light his cigarette for him.
Yes, just what I was going to say! Hey, dude, if you’re going to wear the uniform, shave the pubes off your face!
Oh, and if you can’t rock a real beard, don’t even try (and no, I can’t either – that’s why I shave 😉 )
My co-workers were ticked that not only could I rock a full beard, I was not bald either.
For most of them, it was one or the other.
That standard wino trim is disrespectful enough. The wino look is what makes the decorations so incongruous. They are second things noticed. NO way says the vet area of the brain even before frontal lobes brings it up.
Another scruff face.
A scruffy looking nerf herder !!!
Cocksucker.
Since nobody else has sent in the sound effects, I’ll step up to the plate.
BOOOOOOOMMMMM !!!!!!!
I’m not sure if I am authorized, but maybe I can get a medal or something for stepping up and going above and beyond the call of duty or something !!!
KaBlam!
Shack
He certainly looks impressive with that scraggly beard and in greens. I love the bow tie, as well; but it would look more appropriate on him with a pair of testicles hanging in front of it.
“i’m a bad ass”–that’s his FB post. He is bad at many things, I am sure. He looks like he smells bad, too. But a bad ass? Not a chance.
He certainly looks like ass and prolly has the smell to go with it.
I think he meant “bag of ass”, 2/17.
What an effing retard.
Mu cat Punkin is a bad ass. She attacks without warning. Mean as a snake. Lies in wait for my feet to pass by and then goes after them.
This waste of trace chemicals and water is not a bad ass.
But if he wants to debate the point, Punkin will meet him in a brightly lit alley, no holds or claws barred.
ChipNASA, if you think it worthwhile, please add ‘waste of trace chemicals and water’ to your insults dictionary.
LOL….done! “Trace Elements?”
“It was the first time I ever accidentally killed someone,” he said.
So, he’s killed other people ‘by accident’ since then?
I don’t know which is more disconcerting, lying about doing it while downrange, or proclaiming there are more dead people because he’s stupid.
In reality, the only things he’s ever killed were cheeseburgers, flies and mosquitoes. And even then, the flies and mosquitoes were few and far between.
As most flies and mosquitoes struck by him flew away laughing!
Cowpill volunteered a great new phrase for the Wall O INSULTS.
This dickhole Matthew Gayjizzez shit all over his service, liked about being in combat lied about killing the enemy, lied to a reporter for some glory before being busted by his brothers in arms.
For that offense, on Thursday, I make a motion to list the WALL O INSULTS for cumstain Matthew Gajdys
Do I have a second?
Seconded, on behalf of others who can’t be here because they’re dead.
Send it…
I vote AYE!
TACTICAL NUCLEAR ROUND OUT!!!!
DANGER CLOSE!!!!
MOPP LEVEL 4!!!
TAKE COVER!!!!!
Matthew “GayJizz” Gajdys, ALLEGEDLY, but not confirmed, but in some people’s opinion, works balls, tickles taint and tongue punches hobo’s crusty fart boxes all, I Guess, while being a syphilitic, turd-sucking feces factory, pile infested, onion-eyed flapmouthed butt-bailiff, “Fowl” mouthed Chicken fucker, inflamed, “Towel boy” in a gay bath house, Ambulatory verbal dissembling anus, gaping, Cambodian cunt sauce, ball working asshole, Poster-child for abortion, shit tonguing, munching wanktoaster, cock gobbling, sperm burping, sniveling, codpiece licking toilet seat sniffer, lying, Pillow bitin pickle smoocher, Bowl of ass soup, Sparklepony, worthless, Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas, would wear Richard Simmons’ used jockstrap as a facemask, useless bag of monkey fuck, Mayor Grundle of Scrotumburg and Anusville, waste of oxygen, numbnuts, snowball, giggling beerflecked canker blossom , maybe a “buggerer of little boys”, rottencrotched, rump wrangling, culo de chongo, booger eating, Lemon Party-lusting fruitcake, putrid, rotting, whoreson whale’s carcass, bed wetting, follows in Victorious Felder’s bovine excrement -filled boots, as fucked up as an opossum eating shit out of a hairbrush, moron, Prevaricating Sphincter, terminal crotch infection, asshat, dick pickle, wanker, herpes-ridden dung beetle target, first volunteer for being part of a jailhouse human centipede, should eat a nice steaming pile of monkey shit you ass clown, helmet wearing short bus riding window licker, shitbag, dipstickus giganticus, knob gobbling, galactic Jackoff, Assistant Jizz mopper in training, inbred, your penis lives in eternal darkness, I’d hate to see your toilet, retardus maximus, Microcephalic Toad Licker, catcher not pitcher, Arschloch, impotent koekeloeren, slaptard, couldn’t even be trained in my AFSC in the USAF to suck farts out of C-5 seat cushions, mumpsimus, reverse dirty sanchez lover, douche & enema nozzle, likes to molest small farm animals, dead and alive, is a hemorrhoid, schlong juice, Fuck Tart, Sitzpinkler, Milksop, puss soaked jackwagon, waste of trace elements and water, Pettifogger, donkey raping shit-eater, pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo it, may he lay a lip lock on the snotty end of a moose cock,butt munch, man of the night in a large animal bordello, I bet you’re the kind of guy that would fuck you own mother in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give her a reach-around (Thanks R. Lee),
NOT a combat veteran, Not a heroic killer of the enemy, NOT wounded or even shot at , Lied to a newspaper reported because he’s an insecure dickhead who couldn’t be proud of the service he DID have, fuckstain skidmark on the underwear of life, taint cookie, Fartleberry, Some NCO Should have beat you within an inch of your life, insult to humanity, shit-filled meatsack, masturbates to videos of Jar-Jar Binks, walking shart shooter, test subject for Preparations A thru G, Remedy critch, stupid enough to try to sandpaper to a wildcat’s ass in a phone booth, Handgallop, twat, Obamawad, tool, bint, sleezebag, weaksauce, Gobshite, fuck hole, Pilsburry Dough Bitch, Should NOT be around CHILDREN, touches himself inappropriately, Turd-Burglar, rimjobber, cum-dumpster, bucked tooth, Useless mangy crotch-dropping, Putz, rectal inspector, ferger, Sheep tits, gonad, queefer, chicken shit, choad, dopus, Blue Falcon and Blue Waffle, Fuck Apple with mold, twizzletits, tallywacker, Bozack, Gerbal Felcher, dingleberry, bitch, Saprophyte, ATM, pap smear, shitmitten, Dandy prat, Tazmanian Dorkwad rat fucking, shit-sucking warthog’s asshole, gimp, bescumber, coccydynia, sack of siberian sheep shit, mangina micropeen, turd burglar, possibly likes to pick his teeth with Bernath’s used catheters, Hircismus, cheat, pope-fondling, turbo apeshit crazy, Cacafuego, Cock-juggling *Pussy* thundercunt.
FUCK YOU, ASS HAMSTER!!!
Well said…
The Mt Everest of insults has been conquered…
Well done Chip NASA…
Beers on the house all around !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1JOFhfoAD4
IMHO he’s also an expert First String Skin Flute Virtuoso as well as a wino nutsack and sphincter aficionado.
Prevaricating Sphincter
Ambulatory verbal dissembling anus, maybe?
BOTH added.
Sending shortly
prevaricating sphincter….nice. I’m all of a sudden reminded of the phrase “prevaricate on my treatise”
well done, brother.
This guy has a higher kill score than Gladys. Can we just take tweezers and pluck that beard?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16gQeEtuyw
Maintaining/repairing attack helicopters and keeping them in a constant Full Mission Capable (FMC) status while forward deployed is extremely demanding, difficult, and often thankless, work. It’s not glamorous or ‘high speed’ so to speak, but it’s critical to the overall success of the mission. While certainly under-appreciated, it’s perfectly honorable service that one should be very proud of.
Why couldn’t that be enough?
The linked article and comments by those who served with him and/or knew him are quite telling. Aside from all the valor BS, the guy got thrown out for a hot whiz quiz, his wife left him because he wouldn’t get help for his drinking problem from the VA, then he killed his friend who took him in while driving drunk leaving an 8 yr old boy without a father. His friend chose to ride with him, so he bears some of it. I’m awaiting ChipNASA’a assessment of this POS.
Self-inflicted wounds that injure others.
Dude looks stoned in the picture.
It’s because ‘mechanic’ just doesn’t quite have the ring of cojones that is attached to something like ‘cannon cocker’ or ‘door kicker’.
But ask yourself how many jobs aviation mechanics can find in civilian life, and how many doorkicking or artillery firing jobs can be found in the civilian world.
I kicked a door for Uncle Sam just this morning, ok just kind fell into it when I was walking into my office, but I’m getting paid either way.
Chairborne!
Chairborne! Ha!
So the old running cadence that we used to hear around Camp Lejeune of:
‘…jump right out and shout Marine Corps!’
has now changed to:
‘…sit right down and -gasp- Marine Corps’?
Same here.
Semper Fi, Doc.
I shouted “Marine Corps!” at jump school when we were practicing exits from the 38 foot tower. Blackhat cited me for “improper exit” and I had to do the sequence of proper exits over again from scratch.
Totally worth it.
Semper Fi!
LOL
Nobody thinks artillery firing is cool or “high speed” besides the gun monkeys lol
Nice beard.
My best guess is another General Discharge MF’ing Shitbag.
A walking human wreckage who blames all his personal ills on Fobbit tours in the box, and then makes up bullshit stories to embellish his crap; sad and pathetic…
From His FB Page:
About Matthew: “i’m a bad ass”
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
An enviable career except for allegedly pissing hot. Oh, and that lying bullshit, too. Well, except for those things …
In my civilian job as a flight nurse/medic, I work with several aircraft mechanics (A and P guys) who learned their trade in the military. My life and my crew’s lives depend on these guys everytime we fly. We might get to save someone else’s life because these guys do a reliably good job. No doubt their work was well-appreciated in the military, especially when damaged aircraft needed to be repaired and turned around to go back out. It is so sad to me that this guy just shat all over his service.
+100
Forget the beard… this guy’s largest protrusion is his asshole.
That scruffy beard and bow tie reminded me of a photo of Willim Tecumseh Sherman from the 1870s I’ve seen online.
If the maintainers couldn’t keep em flying than my crew and I wouldn’t have had anything to break.
I picked up on the fact that even though Rambo here told a whole rucksack full of lies he made the strangely insightful decision not to hit the MCCS for a CAB or a V device. Gotta wonder if the Stolen Valor laws are having an effect?