The other day, we ran one of Don Shipley’s videos in which he confronted Michael Douglas Salsa who had been acquiring forged certificates for medals and schools he didn’t attend. Little things like a Navy Cross and SEAL School. Scotty went and did a FOIA on the little turd;
Yeah, hull technician, that’s almost like being a SEAL and earning a Purple Heart and a Navy Cross. Well, except that it’s completely different. So when someone calls him out on Facebook after Don Shipley’s video, he’s on medication for being a lying sack of shit;
I didn’t know that we have pills now to stop people from lying about their service and buying forged documents on the internet. Go see the forgeries and his Purple Heart license plates at Scotty’s place.
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65 responses to “Michael Douglas Salsa; phony SEAL”
What a D-Bag, but the one blonde in his facebook photos is HOT!!!
Seems he’s not only a shitbag poser, he’s an illiterate shitbag poser.
I don’t what is worse: 1) the shitbirds who play wanna-be SEAL or 2) their friends who think its no big deal for him to steal the honor of men better than him.
He’s also a dumbass who can’t use an encyclopedia or the Internet. His faked Purple Heart certificate says it’s for wounds received on 15 March 1989 “during special operation (sic) in the South American region in and around Panama”.
Operation Just Cause took place in December 1989 – not March.
Jonn says, “I didn’t know that we have pills now to stop people from lying about their service and buying forged documents on the internet.”
NICE!
NEXT!
Gives a new meaning to the moniker “Turd Chaser”. Or, in this case, he was evidently the turd his fellow HTs had to deal with.
The PH plate pisses me of the most. There are people out there that shed blood and limbs that recieve those plates. May he eat shit, live, and never brush his teeth.
I love it when phonies are exposed. I would give a hundred dollars to see their faces and watch as they try to cover their ass’s. Have seen almost every excuse there is from somebody else put that up there to I have mental issues. Beyond my comprehension how they can live with themselves knowing they are claiming heroism or glory for something real true servicemen and women have attained through true accomplishments. Makes me wish we had the same punishment as the quakers and a few other groups where the person as well as the rest of his or her family is shamed and shunned. Their only recourse is to move far far away and hope what they did don’t catch up with them. When i was a kid in the early 50’s I always wanted to be flash gordon. Can’t remember to good that far back but pretty sure i told all my 5-6 year old friends I have super powers or my father was superman. But most kids grow out of it and mature. Keep it up Stolen Valor, we love what you do.
From his on line footprint here are some accomplishments for EL DOUCHO:
-Car salesman for Tempe KIA
-Active in various car clubs and shows around the Chattanooga and Atlanta region
Jonn, do you know if Scotty has contacted local LE in this tool’s county of residence and tipped them to the fraudulent plates? The Georgia Bureau of Investigation can only get involved at local authorities’ request or if the Governor so directs. I’m guessing he’s getting a pretty good vehicle tax break based on his fraudulent claim of having a Purple Heart.
Georgia DMV might also be interested in Mr. Salsa. Contact info listed on the GA DMV is
Vicki Lambert, Director
4125 Welcome All Road
Atlanta GA 30349
Phone: 1-855-406-5221
Email: motorvehicleinquiry@dor.ga.gov
What’s a ‘Hull Technician’? Is that the naval equivalent of a ‘Shower/Laundry and Clothing Repair Specalist’? 92Sierra for those of you that are interested.
@10 Hondo,
Thanks I was about to post the same thing. Also I think that his current employer may want to know about this guys lies.
ANCCPT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_Maintenance_Technician
Short version: serious metal work, plus work on other systems as required.
Was on a captured sub once (it was at a museum). Does that mean I can claim being an enemy spy?
@11 & @13 HT’s aren’t known for their brain power
Hondo, that sounds like a serious business job. Damage control, repairs, all that stuff. That’d take some hard people to do that, and keeping the damn ship afloat seems like a damn noble job. I just don’t get it. I feel like these SV guys are kind of pathological in a lot of respects.
Reality of HT life: they are known as Turd Chasers for a reason. Despite the fancy job description, they spend most of their time aboard ship fixing the plumbing.
Well, well, well, our boy could actually be looking at criminal prosecution. The military-related license plate (including Purple heart designation) in Geogia requires the applicant to complete a form, sign/date it, and attach supporting documentation. Immediately above the signature line is notice that it is a violation of law (the crime specified is false swearing, “whether or not an oath is administered”)to falsify an application for the tags.
http://motor.etax.dor.ga.gov/forms/pdf/motor/MV-9W_Request_for_Manufacture_of_a_Special_Veteran_License_Plate.pdf
ANCCPT: Country Singer is correct. One of those “other systems” they work on – a lot when underway – is the ship’s plumbing. The do most of the other stuff you reference when the ship is either in port or gets damaged at sea.
Current SIL is a HT. (smile)
To obtain a Purple Heart plate in my state, and most others, you have to show a 214 awarding the medal. Dollar says he used a forged 214. And doing so here is punishable with jail time and the vehicle can be seized.
Someone need to let the state or local pd know about him.
A large portion of what the HTs did at the time frame EL DOUCHO was in was to keep the pissers opened for business as well as building the ever popular bootleg lockers that we could comshaw cans of peanuts, coffee and other hard to get items in trade.
Between the salt water and urine, the plumbing lines would often clog and the Hull Techs would be the folks that would snake out the lines. Shitty job in more ways than one.
The rating was busted out sometime in the 90s to Damage Controlmen (DC) and Hull Techs (HT) with the DC side of the house specializing in damage control.
Most of the HTs I interfaced with were salt of the earth people that would bend over backwards to prove their technical ability in repairing what ever was broken or making whatever was asked of them, but as a whole, they would never be in the running for being the sharpest tool in the shed.
If you were throwing a party you would want one or two in the mix because they could be bat-shit crazy every now and then but you would have to limit your liability by limiting the numbers in your home.
2/17 Air Cav: my understanding is that it’s true in many if not most or all states, but that the renewing the plates once obtained doesn’t generally require the same certification. Most cases thus aren’t prosecuted due to expired statutes of limitations, and an investigation usually results in confiscation of the plates.
Bubblehead and Country: Makes sense now. And would I be too far off in guessing that if you fail out of AIT or have low test scores upon entry you get the line ‘Needs of the Navy’
and are assigned to it? And I think I had auto shop in high school with some of the guys that would go on to be the HT types of guys. They could repair a fender on a ’79 Firebird or rebuild a 427 Big Block on a weekend but couldn’t read their way through a cliff notes version of Old Yeller if their lives depended on it.
Another liar-fraud. Both the Trident and plate tick me off equally, or exponentially. Hope he gets prosecuted.
@22. In Georgia, the crime of false swearing is punishable by a fine of not less than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five. Misdemeanors usually carry a two-year limitation on prosecution but if our boy re-registered his bike, it most likely restarted the two-year clock. If he sees this, and he might, I would like him to be nervous. Five years is unlikely BUT you never know; perhaps he’ll run into a judge who is a Veteran or, better still, one who received a Purple Heart.
Anyone have a shovel handy? Looks like it’s time to scoop that turd up and throw it into a septic tank!
@23 I would say that’s a fairly accurate description. Not saying they are dummies by any stretch of the imagination, though (though they, like every other rate, get their fair share). They did tend to generally be the burly type, hence the fun in sending some wet behind the ears FNG kid to the engineering spaces to get an “HT Punch”.
The best Chief Engineer I ever worked around was a mustang LCDR that had been an HT. I walked into the head one day to see a pair of legs sticking out from under the sinks. Thinking it was an HT1 that I often drank with, I made a smartass comment, only to have the guy laying on the deck to swivel himself out, and returning some snark; it was the CHENG, with a pipe wrench in hand. When I mentioned that he had guys whose job that was he replied that it got him out of the wardroom and he considered it therapy to get dirty fixing something.
@11, careful maligning the Quartermaster Corps. A couple of the best weekend hookups I had in AIT was with a 92S Chick.
As for this douchenozzel, he’ll probably try falling back on the “The SCOTUS said Stolen Valor isn’t a crime” defense. It might work until he realizes that fraud is a crime.
Here’s hoping for him to be sent to a nice little state-run facility with guys who want to prove they’re “tougher than a Sealy.”
OFF Topic: I guess you haters will bust Dear Leader’s balls over his daughters being in Sun Valley skiing. But wait, you’re going to bust my balls for getting it wrong. You’ll say that they are in the Bahamas.
El Wrongo. Bahamas was Spring Break. This is Easter break. The poor children…can you imagine the jet lag they are enduring?
http://www.kmvt.com/news/breakingalert/Obama-Daughters-Vacationing-In-Sun-Valley-200546761.html
See now why we need to cut TriCare and funerals?
2/17 Air Cav: you’re the lawyer, not me. I hope you’re right and that this guy ends up with a prosecutor willing to push it.
IMO proving false swearing could be problematic, though. In most states you don’t sign anything to renew your car or bike tages. You merely return a form, without signing anything, and send a check. The state sends you new stickers for your tag in the mail afterwards. I still think false swearing might be somewhat difficult to prove if his original false statement was years ago (and outside the statute of limitations) and he’s never submitted another one since.
Tax evasion and/or fraud, however, could well be a different story. I understand many states give PH recipients and/or disabled vets a break on vehicle registration fees and taxes. One could certainly argue that knowingly submitting a renewal for a low/no tax tag for which one did not qualify would qualify as evidence of intent to evade taxes and/or defraud the state.
Hopefully this tool registered his bike (looks like a bike tag to me) fairly recently, and will have to worry about both possible problems (false swearing and tax evasion/fraud). Since the tag starts with “Z”, that could be the case.
Maybe I’ll drop the GA DMV a line with a link to Scotty’s page on Mr. Salsa. For his sake, I hope his last name correctly implies he can take some heat – ’cause I think he’s about to get some.
HTFR?
The FR is for Fireman Recruit, or E-1. After 2+ years being an E-1 would indicate to me some sort of a courts martial.
Flagwaver: Not maligning, I seriously didn’t even know that they had all those subspecialties until I was running Sick Call once at a WAR-EX and I asked a young specialist in the clinic for something or the other what she did. She told me she was a ‘Bath, Laundry and Shower specialist’. I asked why she picked it, and she replied quite honestly she hadn’t. She’d failed out of another AIT and was told that due to the ‘Needs of the Army’ she was being sent to the 92S course, and she actually really enjoyed it. “All the hot showers and clean clothes I want, and not as many details” were her exact words. It’s why I enjoy working with lower enlisted. I learn so much from them!
GA DMV notified. Whether they’ll actually do anything or not – who knows?
Thanks, cryptical – missed that. Yeah, E1 and discharged at an odd time (2 yrs 3 mo) generally means either (1) court-martial, (2) General/OTH discharge in lieu of court-martial, or (3) one or more NJP plus reduction(s) followed by an admin discharge.
Damned Navy and their encrypted rank abbreviations . . . . (smile)
Well this is where the big lies end up, fraud and prosecution….photos look like a nice extended family, now the family will find out the lies. Your kids, friends, significant others all disappointed in what a lying sack of sh1t you are, and how you’ve betrayed their trust with your lies. If you will lie to your family, you will lie to everyone…and for what? A few hundred dollars off an excise tax on your vehicles?
I feel for the family and any victims, but those who choose to now stick up for him reveal the content of their character as well….he’s done a bad thing and he needs to pay for that….no excuses, no hiding, just pay for the crimes….
@ 33 Hondo … Perhaps the Navy should publish their rank stucture and acronyms written in crayon on a piece of cardbaord so you US Army guys can understand it!
What still has me stumped is, how can these people (?) live with themselves knowing everything they portray themselves as is a LIE!!! My “I Love Me” shadow box is a post-it-note but what pathetic little bit there is MINE! My insignificant single three year tour was served honorably. This anal orifice is too lo to even call a $hit-bird!?
Ooops! …to LOW to call…sorry
Master Chief, you really think that’ll help?
@36. It wouldn’t help. I have taken many difficult courses over the years and I have multiple degrees in multiple disciplines. Yet, when someone says “Navy rank” my eyes gloss over, a humming starts in my ears, and I lapse into a semi-conscious state. It took me six years of study to learn port is left and the other one is right–and I got that only because port and left both are comprised of four letters.
2/17 Air Cav: I think they encrypt that stuff to confuse everyone, including themselves. (smile)
@36, You could do that, but we would probably just end up chewing on the cardboard.
“A ship and a boat aren’t the same thing.”
“I get that.”
“Really?”
“No, I lied.”
“Okay, let’s talk Navy rank. What the…? Put that gun down!”
A “Salsa” flavored Turd.
I’m with them through forward and aft. Most of the time. Much better with things having a fuselage.
@45. Yeah but their nose is a bow and their tail is..wait…wait…wait. I forget.
I was under fire in Beirut, at the airport, and wasn’t awarded a Combat Action Ribbon (CAR) because I was TAD and I was at the airport for less than 30 days. Guess what I was actually shot at and I don’t wear a CAR, why I wasn’t awarded it, and you just wear it! You disgrace every individual who earned a CAR and wears it proudly. SHITHEAD!
His facebook status was updated to reflect visiting the Paulding County DMV office. Wonder what is going on in that office. I have a screen grab that I saved as a jpeg and will email to addresses above.
Hmmmmm. Wonder if the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office might like to know about this matter too?
He can’t get rid of that plate fast enough!