|
Name |
Location | Date reported | ALL Claim POW or MIA and then some |
Actual Records Indicate/Notes |
|
| Abate, Michael Francis | Palm Beach FL | 03/2007 |
Claims to be a former Vietnam Navy Seal and /or
Intelligence Officer. Claims to have been a POW. Uses these statements
to solicit business from actual war heroes. Says he destroyed his
uniforms and medals in a PTSD episode after returning. Now lives
in Palm Beach, Florida and not only uses a pilfered handicap pass, but
Navy license plates. Claims to be the son of Admiral Alfred Abate of
the Kittyhawk.
|
NOT
a POW
NOT a SEAL |
|
| Abraham,
Thomas Francis, aka "Bud" |
U.K. | 09/2002 11/2002 |
Claims enlisted in 1964, served with 7/1st
Air Cav in the Central Highlands. Captured by VC and spent 2 days
partly submerged in bamboo cage before escaping and evading and finding
friendly forces.
Published his accounts in "THE CAGE" by U.K. Bantam Press as a biography/auto-biography Oct '02. Military & Aviation Book Society is selling THE CAGE for one
pound 49 pence.
ACTUAL
RECORDS
|
UK Daily Mail had large article on
09/21/2002 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 *'I fought in Vietnam'* http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-486444,00.html Vietnam veteran's torture tale 'the work of a
phoney' By Richard Alleyne VETERANS RIP 'POW' BIO AS A VIET 'CON' By PHILIP RECCHIA New York Post 11/24/02 Jerry Nachman Show - 11/26/02 (final Segment) -- MS NBC transcript http://www.msnbc.com/news/840646.asp THE REBUTTAL - THE FACTS - by those that served and knew him..... |
|
| Abrams, Richard | Ft Myers FL area | 01/2008 |
... contacted by a man who claims to be a former POW of Vietnam and was in the cell next to John McCain. |
. | |
| Abrahamson, Dale G. | Wakefield, LA | 10/01 | SEAL, POW. Claims POW several times, hired killer | Born November 1939 | |
| Acree, Anthony J. "Tony" | . | 2000 | . | . | |
| Adler, Paul Herman | Queens, NY Boca Raton, FL |
07/2002 | POW | Born 1942 | |
| Agnew, Cyrus "Bull" | . | 2000 | . | . | |
| Aguila, Richard | . | 10/2006 | Claimed Green Beret stationed in Nam and was a POW for 7 years... he was on the first plane of returnees, 4th to disembark. | Deceased | |
| Aguilar, Louis | VFW | 09/01 | Supposed
to have enlisted in 1941but had to have sister forge mothers name (that
would mean had to be under 18 - BUT he says born in 1920, and that
would have made him 21 at enlistment) first assigned to 2nd Infantry
stationed in Wisconsin. Wounded and spent 8
months in Stalag 17B at Hammerstein, Germany. liberated by the French on
May 15th, 1945 and taken to Camp Lucky Strike. He then was one of 18
survivors of Pork Chop Hill in Korea (awarded silver Star there too),
then to Vietnam (two tours) where he was again wounded (third time) and
awarded the DSC.
American Ex-POWs does not show him eligible for membership. He is not noted as a DSC recipient. |
||
| Ailstock,
Claude Wayne
|
Virginia VFW |
08/2003 12/2003 |
Claims POW for 9
months; the first thing the Vietnamese did was break both his hands. He
stated they beat him in the jaw with the butt of a rifle and then later
in life he had a malignant tumor removed from that jaw, had to
have jaw bone removed. Claims he and another built explosive out
of plastic and blew up the building they were in, along with the
Vietnamese. Claims when he finally got home he weighed 114 pounds, very
malnourished, he could barely see, he had an injured leg which the
doctor wanted to remove in a hospital in Georgia. Claims he had to wear
glasses with lenses as thick as Coke bottles for two years because he
was nearly blind from his ordeal in Vietnam. He claims his
discharge papers, medals, and all he had that connected him to service
were burned in a fire in White Sulphur Springs, WVa. He claims is
a member of VFW Post 1033 in Covington, Va where he claims he has
been Commander twice.
12/2003 Claims he was Green Beret |
||
| Albert,
Jerry S. aka Albert, Jerry Albert, Jack William In May 2002 claimed to be
Jack. W. Albert 2007 |
Port Charlotte, FL | 08/01 09/01 10/01 04/2005 05/2005 02/2007 03/2007 |
Claims Navy Ret Vice Admiral, POW, 3 yrs.
Escaped. Claims POW pay withheld when mission refused! Claims BUDS class
128 and Class 6. HAD FLORIDA POW
[04030] AND PURPLE HEART [17233] LICENSE PLATES.
========================================================= ALBERT, JACK WAS RETURNED TO THIS POSTING AFTER NEW CLAIMS WERE REPORTED 04/25/2005 and again 5/11/05. 2007 -- He is still telling people he was a Navy Seal, and a POW...he has falsified his dd214 to obtain govt. jobs with Sarasota county and Ocala here in Florida. He has been using two different SSN's, on the two DD214's. He has also fabricated documents from the CIA and has a new alias .... on the passport image he is working on. ----------------------------------
Obviously due to his failed attempt to
con another woman, he has now come up with a new story. He is
currently back with his current wife.... He claims that he has
cancer and made up some sob story and she bought it and they are now
back living together.
|
Served under "Jack
William Albert" Oct 60-Feb 62 in USAF, E/2; ONLY award,
National Defense Medal. Served under "Jerry Albert" Feb 63 to
Sep 64 USN, E3, on the USS MAZAMA. NO awards or decorations. Florida DMV
revoked license plates.
RECORDS INDICATE NO FOREIGN SERVICE.
Arrested in '68 for forgery. DOB 23 Sept 43. NOT To be confused with Jerry Albert Tester, a real POW. EXPOSED |
|
| Alberti, John Marcus | WA | 09/2006 |
Claims
covert ops, Navy
SEAL - airborne (before they were called SEALS) and was a POW from 3/1962-10/1962. Was personally
decorated by President John F Kennedy. He
was in |
FALSIFIED
DD214 WAS PROVIDED NPRC FOR VERIFICATION
NO MILITARY RECORDS FOUND WITH REPEATED REQUESTS FROM 09-2006 UNTIL MARCH 5, 2008 |
|
| Albertson, Jim | Hot Springs AR | 2nd 10/01
08/2005 |
Claims POW 2-3 weeks, escapee,
Air Commando
2005 - Still claims he was a POW!! |
Owns golf cart shop near Hot
Springs Village, AR.
Jim Albertson is now the President of the VVO of Hot Springs, Ar. They are having their annual reunion in September 2005 at Mtn, Harbor Resort on Lake Ouchita. |
|
| ALFORD,
BOBBY
AKA cAPT bOBBY (BAMA) aLFORD |
01/2009 | CRAWORDVILLE FL |
Claims Captain, Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze
Star, Purple Heart, Prisoner of War, Marine Corps Good Conduct, American
Campaign, National Defense, Global War on Terrorism, Armed Forces
Reserve Medal
OR
|
ACTUAL RECORDS |
|
| Allbritton,
Gus A. aka Gus Albritton |
GA 05/2007 He has put his house up for sale and is saying he is going to get an RV and hit the road. Dublin, Ga |
01/2007 03/2007 04/2007 again 04/2007 05/2007 11/2008 |
SHOWS
OFF VA POW ID CARD. Claims Airborne,
Ranger. MEMBER OF VFW, DAV AND COMBAT VETERANS GROUP INC. Reluctant to talk about capture because it was such a "short" period of time. Claims Ranger, having 3 purple hearts (he has framed), being a POW for that short period of time. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN EX-POWS CHAPTER IN WARNER ROBINS GA AS A VIETNAM EX-POW. Uses an Army document showing that he was a POW in 1969. |
11/2008 - Allbritton is being considered for a Representative of MOPH Department of Georgia. |
|
| Allen Edgar Dale "Eddie" | CA | Oct 2001 | Claims POW, CIA and more. | EXPOSED - POSSIBLY DEAD 03/2004 | |
| Allen, Richard | Half Moon NY | Dec 1999 | POW | . | |
| Alleson,
Charlie Ray (birth name) aka Chuck aka Charles |
TX | 09/01 09/02 |
Claims SEAL, Nam 1963, POW - Grew up in Japan; trained very secret style of Martial Arts; Designated an "Air-SEAL"; Navy never acknowledged SEAL training because it was "punishment"; never had to go through entire SEAL training because he was such a Martial Arts expert.... | Served Dec 64 to Oct 66 Aircraft Engine Mech, E-3 | |
| Alper, Michael | . | 1998 | Claims POW. He also claims over 300 missions over Vietnam in Phantoms and EA-6's apparently flying Shrike-like missions. He gets mail as an alumnus of the Citadel, was raised in tidewater Carolinas, claims to be a Rear Admiral USN, Claims to have been a Marine first then transferred to Navy to fly. Claims to have been shot down O/A 2 more times on North Vietnam missions and was resqced by the Air Force.. | The letter from St. Louis Records center states "we have been unable to locate any information that would help us verify the veteran's military service ....provided proved a negative search on the above named veteran." | |
| Alsip,
William Perry aka "Bill" Alsip
REPORTS OF HIS 2009 DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED! not dead yet! |
Grand
Rapids, MI Norristown PA Kentucky and now in Texas. |
02/2003 TWICE 05/2005 07/2005 05/2009 |
Claims Captain, Navy Seal, POW
and more
05/2005- He showed me a Physical ID card with his photo and SEAL Group as the header. He said he was in the SEAL Group from 1972 to 1985 and that his wife was a Navy Intel Officer currently stationed in the Mediterranean. As of this week ..... he was nowhere to
be found I tried contacting him several times by telephone and
email..... Bill got himself into trouble and in no fewer word (was in
jail) he would not elaborate ... 2009- He reportedly had
USAF papers that had been falsified
several times. |
HIS proof
Served from June 75 to May 79 IN FLORIDA
He was a munitions maint specialist
His ONLY medal is the AIR FORCE good
conduct.
Bill
Alsip had a short tenure as a construction manager with T-mobile. One
of his sites was in |
|
| Altee, Robert E | Germany | 08/98 | Claims POW | ret officer, civ USAF employee | |
| Alverti,
Antonio G. aka Tony Alverti |
Sherman Oaks, CA | 03/2007 | Claims
Vietnam Green Beret, black ops, and a current officer in the Army
Reserve. Claims he used to "be a merc back in the day." Claims
he was "with the teams and trained Navy SEALS. Claims he's been captured and tortured. Carries a pistol with no sight. Magazines are "clips." Frequently wears clothing with SF insignia. |
NPRC
unable to locate any military record. SF experts deny his claims. |
|
| Alvez, Dennis | Baltimore, MD | . | MOH, SF | Born Aug 1947 | |
| Amill, Ralph | PA | 04/2006 | Claims POW, captured and tortured while on covert ops. | . | |
| Amiot, Francis Edward | MI | 05/01
11/2002 03/2008 |
Navy
F-4 Pilot, shot down by SAM, POW 1971
Claimed then to be a POW, having been a Navy fighter plot flying off the Forrestal around the same time as John McCain. He claimed that the injury to his hand was caused by ejecting when he was hit by a SAM - was missing his thumb. |
Nobody
named Amiot was ever listed as missing during the Vietnam conflict. I
don't know of any camp named Lon Tesh. We had American nicknames
for all our camps. PG
============== ...this guy was never known by DOD to be missing or a POW for even a day. .... You can always call Larry Greer at the Pentagon to confirm our information. Sincerely, Mike McGrath (POW 30 June 67 to 4 March 73) NAM-POW Historian |
|
| Amoruso, Louis E. | Romeoville, IL | 12/2002 | "Delta Force 82nd Rangers 1966-1968 POW from July to Aug 1969" | http://www.somf.org/guestbook.htm
- his entry Born Sept 1942 |
|
| ANDERSON | Orlando | 03/2009 | http://www.examiner.com/x-905-Miami-Veterans-Affairs-Examiner~y2009m3d18-American-gove rnment-supplies-military-healthcare-or-maybe-not quote ... There is another option. A couple of days
ago I met a Marine that was deployed into the bush in Cambodia. (Vietnam
era). Sometime during his first year he was captured and sent to
North Vietnam where he was regularly “Treated Badly” as he put it.
He was a POW for three years. When he was released he was crazy,
mentally ill, physically ill,and had emotional scars visible by me and
anyone else. He has no home. He has no job, he has no real friends. He
is a loner. He hated the American Government. He hates the V.A. He hates
the blowhards in government today that talk about how the new wave of
vets need to be handles today. He laughs and says “they” still
don’t know how to handle the vets all the way back to Vietnam, and he
conceded probably Korea and WWII also. They have certainly failed me! end quote quote ... In the first part of this two part article I mention at the end, a Mr. Anderson. Last night Mr. Anderson was rousted by a rookie cop. I know the whole story because there was an eye witness. Mr. Anderson is in jail today because he suffers from PTSD, severe beating he received as a POW (Vietnam) and he isn’t going to let some rookie cop embarrass him and make him seem like wuss in front of his friends. Therefore, Mr. Anderson wound up in handcuffs and was taken to jail. Now here is a rookie cop that should have dispensed with street justice and said deal with your problems and I'll come back later to see how things are going. The way Orlando works it, they hold people without charging them or incommunicado for 45-days give or take. Mr. Anderson will get at least three hots and a flop. It is really too bad OCJS doesn’t have a plan to weed out the people like Mr. Anderson and try to get him something else, like a halfway house, or better yet counciling of some kind. Instead his demons from war and being a POW have caused Mr. Anderson to wind up in jail because that is how the Orlando police force sees A combat veteran EX-POW. I will be there to meet Mr. Anderson when he is released for Jail. I wonder about Mike, knowing now that Mr. Anderson is a combat Veteran as well as a POW, if he will get out of his chair and leave his office and go down to the jail and try to offer some sort of help or support to Mr. Anderson? I hope that is so. Just the same, America stands in disgrace and shame every time I find yet another homeless Veteran. Till the problems get fixed at the V.A. I will continue to find clear cut examples of Mr. Anderson being failed by his country and by his V.A. and by the police in Orlando, and by the general population that doesn't give a damn. |
NOT A POW by any
name.
=======================
Open letter to POW NETORKHey POW NETORK Dude! I know learning to read is a tough thing, but most of us master the rudiments by the time we get to the comic book stage. My article clearly says Mr. Anderson was held in Vietnam. He was caprured in Cambodia. If that is too tough I will take steps to more clearly explain it to you on a simpler level. As Far as Mr. Anderson using a false street name; If you don't know why people use street names I can't explain it to you in 2000 words or less. Also by the way, there are 40 lines dealing with real POWS. MIAS from the Vietnam era named Anderson. We have nothing but respect and give the highest honor to those of our vets both POW and MIA. But then you didn't read the article well enough to know that, did you? I understand that there are higher learning courses available on the internet for reading challenged people. You are a real wizzard on the internet so I am thinking you already know that. Be Blessed; Harm............................
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Andrews, Charles Frederick aka Andrews, Chuck |
Richmond, TX. | 1999 03/2003 |
SEAL, POW, 1st Marines, "7 Horsemen"; display of medals including the Congressional Medal of Honor | . | |
| Andrews,
Howard Eugene
aka Lieutenant Colonel Howard 'Andy' Andrews |
Texas | 04/2006
|
Claims
USMC - served 3 tours during which he was supposedly shot down and captured
as a POW.
Claims to have served 3 tours in Vietnam as a USMC helicopter pilot. |
Served
on USS Hancock and participated in the evacuation of Saigon in April,
1975 - Operation Frequent Wind.
|
|
| Andrews, Marion Hugh | . | 01/2007 | http://www.starherald.net/obituaries/local_story_361112040.html Published: December 27, 2006 11:20 am Marion Hugh "Andy" Andrews Retired Staff Sergeant Marion Hugh "Andy" Andrews, 60, of Kosciusko died Dec. 25, 2006 at his residence of heart failure. Services will be held today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Coleman Cemetery. Rev. Jerry Meggs will officiate. Visitation will be held Dec. 27, 5-9 p.m. at the funeral home. Andrews was a Tac Fire Operations Specialist for the U.S. Army. He served three tours of duty in Vietnam where he was a POW for three years. He received the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Bronze Star Medal, two Purple Hearts, Combat Infantry Badge, Army Achievement Medal, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with a Silver Star, two Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with a Bronze Star, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry with Palm, six Overseas Service Bars, Good Conduct Medal, Army Commendation Medal (1st Oak Leaf Cluster), Army Service Ribbon, three Overseas Service Ribbons, and two NCO Professional Development Ribbons. Andrews was recommended twice for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery, unyielding service, and saving of numerous military lives.... A full military service will be conducted.... ===================================================== ....he had shackle imprints in his ankles that he said were from changes he war as a prisoner. He said that he escaped from his capters. We were told stories by him of things that were done to him.... |
NOT A
POW.
There is no 3 yr break in his
assignments. |
|
| Ansel, Dallas Richard | Ohio | 10/2005 | Claims POW, Army Special Forces Sniper | Served in Germany and Korea as a tractor operator | |
| ANTHONY, DWIGHT (TONY) | MN | 08/2009 |
CLAIMS Nam P.O.W. in 1968 but
eScaped and freed all the other Marines captured with him- winning the
Medal of Honor. He is a plumbing, heating contractor. His
company is USMC--United Services Maintenance Co. He works out of his
house in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stated he used to live in New Orleans
till the hurricane blew his house away.
He didn't say how many Marines were
captured but said they were kept in cages. The V.C. had staked him to
the ground while they had some kind of party and got high on drugs.
All he remembered was the AK47 starting to slide off of the shoulder
of the V.C. as he bent over to cut him loose and put him back in his
cage. Said he must have grabbed the AK and killed all the enemy and
freed the other Marines.
|
NOT
A POW.
NOT AN MOH. |
|
|
Anthony, Wm. Arthur aka David Anthony Johnson aka Wm Angelo Anthony |
. | 08/98 | Claims POW | . | |
| Apfel,
Dan aka Apfel, Daniel R |
Ottawa, IL | 06/2004 |
Peoria Journal Star
Sunday June 20, 2004.
Quote from news paper page A16
"Dan Apfel and his wife Debbi of Ottawa
pause in silent prayer during Saturday's dedication in Marseilles of a
monument to the U.S. service men and women killed in the Middle East.
Dan Apfel, a Vietnam War veteran, was held captive by the Viet Cong
for six weeks until he escaped. He says he was the only one in his
unit who survived."
|
Apfel Daniel R
PVTArmy MOS 62E20 Heavy Construction Equipment Operator State of record Illinois Race: Caucasian Entered service Feb 69 Discharge date Dec 29, 1971 |
|
| Apple, Bill | . | 12/2002 | Claims POW, Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars, 4 yrs + 4 more, CWO2, records sealed for 100 years, in coma 8 months, bamboo shoots under the nails, and NAVY SEAL and Frogman. | . | |
| Arellano, James | Colorado | 08/2003 | Claims POW for 3 years | . | |
| Arita, Edwin (Striker Nine), Maj | Millen, GA | 07/2005 | Claims
USMC Ret Maj, Escaped POW (Laos) Hill 881 N, Battle of Dai Do, Navy
Cross, 6 Purple Hearts. Claims Kilo Co 3/1 - claims to have been an
admin chief at a Marine unit 3/1 in
Vietnam for 3 years.
Mar 22, 2002 - 19:26 - |
UKULELE
INSTRUCTORS Georgia Edwin N. Arita Jr, Sylvania: (912) 863-3423, edarita@netscape.net Records do NOT authorize a Navy Cross nor SIX Purple Hearts. Discharged a MSgt in 1986. Military ed focuses on Forms Mang; General Admin Procedures; Personnel Admin; Personnel reporting; Spelling |
|
| Arnce, Mark | New Jersey | . | Claims POW | . | |
| Arnold, Thomas | Idaho | 03/2004 |
Thomas Arnold was a man
with a firm grasp on history, probably because he watched the History
Channel almost constantly.
"That's why we have two TVs," said his wife of 22 years, Shirley Arnold. Thomas Arnold died March 18. He was 58. He passed that love of history to his oldest son, Eric Arnold. Whenever Eric saw a show on the History Channel that he thought his father would like, he'd call him and make sure he was watching it. "Our birthdays were only 10 days apart," his son explained. "We're pretty much alike. We like the same stuff. He was easy to shop for at Christmas." The other thing that connected father and son was their service in the military. Thomas Arnold served in the Navy and the Marines and was in Vietnam for a period of time. His son served in the Navy during the early 1990s. But no one is sure exactly how long Thomas served. His daughter Kerri Arnold, who also served in the Navy, said he told her that he served as a machinist mate third class aboard the USS Topeka for a time. The family knows that he was wounded at some point and was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for a while. But he wouldn't talk about the painful memories, and his service came before his children were born and before his marriage to Shirley, his second wife. When they married he had terrible dreams and would wake her up with his screaming, Shirley said, but he never told her what the dreams were about. "I know very little about Vietnam." She said she thinks he was part of a secret military group toward the end of his service, which may be part of the reason why he avoided specifics. He talked to his son Eric the most about his time in the military, but even Eric doesn't know any details. "He didn't tell me how long (he was a prisoner) or where he was," his son said. "He would talk about places he went and friends who were on the ship he was on." |
Official records indicate Mr. Arnold was NEVER a Vietnam POW: http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/pmsea/pmsea_html_a.htm | |
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Ashley, Otis "Bain" aka Ashley, Otis Hueges III aka Ashley, Otis Hedges "Bane" aka Ashley, Q.H. aka Ashley Otis Bane aka Punky Ashley |
GA Philomath, OR |
1973 1997 1999 2000 08/2002 03/2003 |
Claims POW, Ranger, Special Forces. Claims
not held long enough to be noted [one story he escaped hours after
capture, another tale held 90 days]! Claims Medal of Honor, Silver Stars and other awards...
POW 30 DAYS, 90 DAYS, CHANGES ------------------------------------ ========================= Ex-POWs share the bond of survival BYLINE:
HANSELL, SALLY Sally Hansell Staff Writer Cobb A group of some 30 former war prisoners living in Cobb and Cherokee counties are flesh-and-blood survivors of some of the nation's most historic military engagements like Normandy, Corregidor, the Bataan Death March and the Battle of the Bulge. The North Central Georgia Chapter of American Ex-Prisoners of War Inc., a Congressionally chartered group, unites approximately 30 veterans from World War II and the Korean and Vietnamese wars, into a brotherhood that means much more than swapping war stories, organizing parades and promoting legislation for former prisoners. A group of some 30 former war prisoners living in Cobb and Cherokee counties are flesh-and-blood survivors of some of the nation's most historic military engagements like Normandy, Corregidor, the Bataan Death March and the Battle of the Bulge. "They're a unique and positively vanishing breed. They did things that you and I only remember from history books," 38-year-old Bane Ashley of Marietta said of the graying veterans, downplaying his own heroism as a Green Beret and Ranger captured in the Vietnam War..... |
04/11/09 Another copy: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/04/ap_pow_sidebar_ashley_041209/
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| Ashworth, Vinston | . | 11/97 | Claims POW | . | |
| Astafan, Romeo Frederick | NY | 06/2001 2004 02/2009 07/2009 |
Claims
Navy SEAL and also claims to have been a POW. He falsified a DD214 and
added in the SEAL's and POW info. Previously listed at VERISEL's Hall of Shame as a law enforcement officer claiming to be a former SEAL with his buddy (phony SEAL) John Hudson. quote ==============================
STILL working as police officer - has cancer and
has had two fundraiser benefits based on the fact that he got
exposed to Agent Orange while a SEAL in Vietnam.
Both he and Hudson still claim to have been SEALS in
the same unit and will not hesitate to tell you about all the
people they have killed.
Romeo Astafan // Employed by Madison County Sheriffs
Dept.
John A Hudson // Employed
by Village of Central Square Police Dept.
======================================== Dear
POW Network, This
is in response to your inquiries regarding Mr. Romeo Astafan and his
reported claims of being a US Navy SEAL. Mr.
ASTAFAN’s claims of being a former Navy SEAL are entirely without
merit. His name does not appear on the comprehensive roster of men (end
of WWII to the present day) who have completed UDT/SEAL Training and
served with the US Navy’s Underwater Demolition Teams or the SEAL
Teams. Mr. ROMEO ASTAFAN is not now, and never has been, a UDT
“Frogman” or a Navy SEAL. It
appears that Mr. ASTAFAN’s false claims of duty as a Navy SEAL span a
number of years. I first became aware of Mr. ASTAFAN’s false SEAL
claims in 2001. His false SEAL claims were reported from yet another
location in 2004. He is known to at least three organizations which are
now (or were previously) involved in exposing military imposters –
AuthentiSEALs, VeriSEAL, and the POW Network. It also appears that
whenever Mr. ASTAFAN’s false claims have come to light, he has simply
relocated to a new employer and once more fallen back upon his false
claims for both professional advancement and personal glorification. No
one gets to the SEAL Teams without first completing BUD/S Training
(formerly UDT/TR). There are records of every man who has qualified for
the title of “SEAL” (including UDT “Frogman”); there have been
and will continue to be secret missions, but there are NO secret SEALs…
we know them all. Very
Respectfully, Steve
Robinson RM2 (SEAL) |
ACTUAL
RECORDS
===================
"Willebrand, Todd WARCOM JOC" wrote: There has NEVER been a SEAL POW. Could be this guy is one of those truth stretchers. ========================
From: RD Russell
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: SEAL Verification
No Astafan at all, one Amos J. Hudson who would be about 50+. RD ================================== Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:42:04 -0500
After an exhaustive search of the
authoritative database of all UDT/SEAL training graduates, I can say
with 100% certainty that Mr. Romeo Astafan was never a SEAL.
Larry Bailey
Captain, USN (Ret.)
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| Aton, Robert | OH | # | Claims POW | . | |
| AUSHERMAN, LOUIS | Houston, TX area | 04/2009 | CLAIMS he was a member of Green Beret and Special Forces. CLAIMS HE was a POW originally in Cambodia but was moved around until he ended up at the Hanoi Hilton. | ACTUAL
RECORDS
NO Purple Heart, NO POW medal. |
|
|
Ayers, "Doc" Ronald Michael aka R. Michael Ayers |
VA Beach area,
Virginia Roanoke |
. | 8 months POW, Special Forces, speaker of 5 languages, Alabama before discharge teaching field medicine | 1996 New
York State - Top Ten Deadbeat Dad Records indicate no Purple Heart, NO POW medal. Served USN 48 months 11/71 - 10/75 as an E5, then 24 months USNR before 5 years National Guard 10/85 - 07/90. Seems to have been a medical specialist. All GUARD in Buffalo NY. Can be found at ABBEY ROAD Pub and Rest, 203 22nd St. Virginia Beach most nights telling tales. Born Sept 1943. |
