Heroes or Villains?

INTRODUCTION

CLAIMING VIETNAM PRISONER OF WAR:

V V A - Claims by members of  Vietnam Veterans of America

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Reported Claims of:
Medal of Honor, Other than Vietnam POWs, Son Tay Raiders, DSC, DFC, Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Navy Cross, SEALS, Rangers, Pilots, Special Forces, Green Berets, Combat, Vietnam Helicopter Pilots, Flying Tigers, DOUBT EVERYTHING, Don't Encourage and more.

APOLOGIES AND CLARIFICATIONS

Individuals reported as of 01/2012
CLAIMS AS NOTED 
#  =  on list over 15 years

All claims highlighted in lavender may be eligible for prosecution under U.S. Code Title 18  or under the  STOLEN VALOR ACT signed into law Dec 20, 2006.

Note: The names listed in the next pages have made VARIOUS or multiple claims
that cannot be substantiated or have been proven FALSE. 

These individuals
are IN ADDITION TO those investigated and named in the book STOLEN VALOR.

Those with a "LINK" have records, news articles, pictures or tales posted.
All names are first checked here  http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/ if POW claims are made. 

Comments in GREEN are from information contained in military records (or lack of military records) obtained
through FOIA when requested THROUGH the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis.

THOSE CLAIMING MEDAL OF HONOR
NOTE: In 1996 HLI Lordship Industries (at the time, the OFFICIAL USG contractor for the Medal of Honor) admitted selling THREE HUNDRED unauthorized medals for $75.00 each from 1991-1994. They were fined $80,000. NOT ALL of those medals have been recovered. Offenders in possession of an unauthorized medal can be arrested, fined ( The maximum fine for a criminal offense is $250,000, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 3571(b)(3) ) and jailed (up to a year). It is the only military medal that CANNOT be bought, sold, bartered, traded, collected, auctioned, exchanged.... EVERY Medal of Honor is awarded by act of Congress. Less than 84 REAL Medal of Honor recipients are alive today.
 

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Name                                       Location Date Reported ALL Claim POW or MIA and then some Actual Records Indicate/Notes
ODEN, ROBERT WAYNE

He claims he has "used" this name and  it is not his real name.
Houston, TX 11/2008
01/2009
Claims he was a thirty-six year Navy veteran and retired as an Senior Chief Engineman (ENCS). Further, he advised that was "just in the right place at the right time doing his job" and was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star. He further advised that he was a POW and knew Senator John McCain, then LCdr. McCain, in prison and that Senator McCain collaborated with the enemy while in captivity.

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https://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/Aircraft/Boeing-B17

I purchased the green B-17. I am enjoying it. I did find one small mistake. The engines on a B-17 are studebaker built wright-cyclone, nine cylinder, R-1820-97 developing 1200 h.p. each. I know this for a fact because I work on the "TEXAS RAIDERS" B-17g, gulf coast wing, caf Colonel Robert W. Oden (7/06)

NOT A POW

ACTUAL RECORDS

O'Donnell, James   04/2003 Claims POW Army, discharged as a PVT - never  served in Vietnam
Odom, Archibald "DOUG" . 08/2002 Claims POW captured by VC, held 2 weeks, escaped from Cambodia.  Served honorably in Rangers and Special Forces. NOT a POW
Ofrias, Frank The Peoples Court
May 16, 2002
02 "I was an Airborne Ranger and a POW in the Vietnam War" New York accent...
Ogren, L.A. "Snake" E Swanzey, NH 1997
03/2005
Claims POW
Claims he was captured as a SP4 with the Special Forces. He escaped by jumping from the tree he was held in after 9 months. Broke both ankles. Last time I saw him was in 1982 and he was about to be promoted to Major in the Army Reserves.
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O'Hearn, Travis E. Mindanao, Philippines

Leclaire IA

1989 Clamed POW for 5 years, USMC, beaten .
O'Henry, Roy L
aka Royal O'Henry
aka Royell O'Henry
Modesto, CA 12/01 Claims SOG, 5th SFG POW .
O'Keefe, Damien
aka Demien
Moves FREQUENTLY 2000
2001
USMC, MIA, 3 tours Nam -- he was MIA then declared dead, but he was actually a POW when he returned to his unit after escaping, says wife Shannon. He had to serve under another name it was all so secret.

NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH 
former P.O.W. NETWORK advisory board member , 
Navy Submarine 
veteran and volunteer:

Daemien "Deacon" O'Keeffe
Website dedicated to the War Dogs!
http://www.geocities.com/madnovelist

Olin, Loyd Arthur Houma, LA 03/2006 From: "sue olin" <sueolin@bellsouth.net>
To: <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject:
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:11:39 -0500
To Mary
My name is Loyd Olin......I have just gone on your site and found the information that you have printed about me.....why did you not notify me first to obtain correct information on me......you just chose to print information you found on the internet.....first of all let me say" THAT I AM NOT A POW AND NEVER CLAIMED TO BE".....a POW is a soldier that has been captured and held for at least 30 days.....I was only away from my unit for 10 days which included torture, bieng left to die in a cage shoved in the mud, leaches which made a meal of me until i went unconscious, and bieng rescued and probably sold back to my unit but this I don't know for sure.....you made a statement about my service in Vietnam......my Vietnam service was Aug.64 to Aug.65......which I have a DD214 to prove......
 
I have dedicated a big part of my life to the POW issue and feel the same way as you do about wanabees......but you have made a big mistake here in making assumptions......you have even put a block on my computer on your site.......are you seeking the truth or do you just want to bash me??????    I chalange you to talk to my friends......ask them how I feel about POW......ask them if I ever told anyone I was POW......I want to meet with you and your husband to clear this up immediately.......
                           My phone number is  985-872-9484

 

SO MUCH MORE

 

Olivier, George A.

deceased

Jackson, MI 09/2005
11/2007
Claims POW for 22 months in 1968 and 69; wounded with a bullet in the right temple which exited below his left cheekbone.  Claims captors put him in with officers who kept his secret so he would get better care.  He was supposedly fixed up by French doctors.  Claims Medal of Honor and Special Forces. 

http://www.publiusforum.com/eberleflyit.html

"...General P.G.T. Beauregard ( by the way one of his descendents, Medal of Honor winner in Viet Nam, George Olivier' is a member of my staff), realized that a different banner was needed to prevent the confusion and needless bloodshed from happening again. But, it had to be a banner that would represent the view of all Southerner patriots and their religious belief..."


George A. Olivier 
OLIVIER, GEORGE A. ­ Of Jackson, passed away September 20, 2005, age 55. Survived by his beloved former wife, Debbie Olivier; four children, Danielle Olivier, John (Amanda) Olivier, Christina Olivier, and Andrea Olivier; one grandson, Darrell Hamlin; and one more grandchild on the way; one brother, John Olivier; two sisters, Josephine Kennedy and Tina Marie Horton; numerous nieces, nephews, and friends. He served in the Army during Vietnam and was a member of the VFW and the American Legion #246, 101st Airborne Association and Special Forces Association. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home Monday, 10:30 a.m. ! with Reverend Father Randy Miller officiating. Burial Ft. Custer National Cemetery, 1:30 p.m. Visitation today 6 to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Olivier Trust Fund. Chas. J. Burden & Son 1806 E. Michigan Ave.
Published in the Jackson Citizen Patriot on 9/25/2005.

11/2007:

I am not writing this to validate all my dads claims, however my dad was a POW and I have possession of the paperwork to prove it along with possession of his medals. You see the PSD that my dad suffered from because of the war starting causing other illnesses such as narcism. I seen there is a picture of my dad on the Internet in a suit with the CSM label before his signature. Story behind this basically was my dad was bullshitting a woman and her friends. If another veteran would have asked my dad if he was a CSM he would have said NO HE WAS NOT. However he was a special forces 101st airborne sniper. Back to this illness thing my dad would become very confused about events regarding all sorts of things. I'm not talking even war events, things such as visiting people and going places, he would be confused as to what took place.  So some people might have heard some bullshit stories boo fucking hoo, because of my dad being in the war he is no longer with me on this earth. He passed away do to an enlarged heart which was caused by his pain medication for injuries (gunshot wound to the head) he suffered while serving our country. I really do not care if you leave him in this area of your site, I just wanted to clear up some things.
 
Sincerely,

 

ACTUAL RECORDS

 

EVERY Medal of Honor Recipient:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm

 

Olivieri, Michael A. . 1998 Claims POW, Jolly Green, held 6 years .
Olson, Robert L. . 2001 Laos - special ops, CIA rescue! Purple Hearts .
Olson, Rodney Jay . 01/2005 Claims to have been in Vietnam and held prisoner and tortured for a couple years. Claims he rescued several other POW's and obtained a purple heart.  He claims the combat date discrepancy is because of secret missions.
Born 1957
Stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego United States Marines
Served Feb/March of 1975  until Jan. of 1978.
O'Neal,  Michael H. . 03/2005 Claims green beret.  Claims captured by the Viet Cong and kept for almost a year in a cage; claims he was released in 1971. .
O'NEILL,  TERRANCE G

aka TERRY O'NEILL

Deceased 01/20/09

Las Vegas, NV
Colorado
05/2008

12/2011

From: Elegantinspect@aol.com
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 7:07 PM
Subject: Terry O'Neill US NAVY RETIRED

Hi,

I was on PBR 1 during the 1964 mission in Cambodia to get the down CIA copper crew out .During the extract we got capture and held capture for two years/I have a book coming out later this year telling the story of how the US Government cover this up and how this mission never took place/I have talk to a retired ONE STAR General and he new of this mission and the capture boat crew.By chance do you have any records that I can used for proof of this .My book is going to be publish with [PUBLISH AMERICA ]The name of the book is [ONE DAY OF GLORY/TWO YEARS IN HELL.

Any help in this will be helpful.

LC control no.:      2006927756
 
Type of material:  Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
 
Personal name:     O'Neill, Terrance G.
 
Main title:        One day of glory / two years in hell / Terry O'Neill, SH'
                      <SW> US Navy Ret.
 
Published/Created: Pittsburgh, PA : Dorrance Pub. Co., Inc., 2007.
 
Projected pub date:                   0708
 
Description:       p. cm.
 
ISBN:              9780805973860 (pbk. : alk. paper)
 
Quality code:      pcc
                  
CALL NUMBER:       Library of Congress Holdings Information Not Available

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Here is a link showing that O’Neil is trying to tell the world that he is a POW:

http://ca.askmen.com/men/entertainment_100/114_clint_eastwood.html/posts/801114/2

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Elegant Home Inspection Service
Hire a Vet,US NAVY RETIRED, Serving the complect Front Range.Member of N.A.C.HI
303-818-7394 

Respectfully yours, Terrance G. O'Neill, SH1(SW) US Navy Retired Cynthia D. O'Neill 2340 Heartwood Ct. 303-818-7394 ...

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NEVER A POW

17 IN 1964.

1964 - 1967 RECORDS

1967 - DISCHARGE  RECORDS

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Delivered-To: info@pownetwork.org
From: Elegantinspect@aol.com
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:36:05 EDT
Subject: Terrance G. O'Neill SH1 9SW 0 US NAVY RETIRED
To: info@pownetwork.org

    DEAR SIR !
MY HUSBAND SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN TIME OF WAR AND GOT FULL MILITARY HONORS WHEN HE RETIRED .Granted their is no records that you can fine nor us but we don't need to proved about a cover up.here is what we will do and if you don't take our name off a legal law suit will take place and we will own the pow net work.And I will like a reply back you have until next Tuesday or I will turn this over to ours attorneys!!!!!!
 
Cindy O'Neill
 
 
THE Author would like to add that under the VALOR ACT signed into law DEC, 20,2006 the time frame in this book from when he entered Viet Nam in 1964, and his time in Cambodia cannot be verified. The Author is not trying to claim a POW recognition status. The Author is not a member of the Vietnam Veterans of America, nor is he affiliated with any other POW organization. The Author is a member of the American Legion. The Author would like the readers to make up their own minds about the topics in his book. The Author was stationed with ACU-2 and on board the USS AUSTIN LPD-4 during this time frame of 1964-1967 [ DD-214 FORMS FOR PROOF ] of the story. The Author would like to mention that all events from 1975 up to 1992 are documented in DOD Records except the cover up of OPERATION PRAYING MANTIS in 1988 while he was on board the USS BAGLEY FF-1069. The Author would also like to state that this is a story that has non -fiction and fiction events, and is for the entertainment of the reader. The Author is not in any way trying to discredit any POW organization. The Author needed to tell his story in order to heel himself mentally and emotionally from time served (1964 to 1992). The Author did pass the Chief Petty Officer test (E-7). The Author did retire as First Class Petty Officer SH 1 [SW] and has not been advanced in RANK since retirement. Because of the Freedom of Information Act, anyone who needs to or has the desire to, can pull all DD-214 forms.One under the old service number 778-68-83 The others are now under his Social Security Number.

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Mary and Chuck Schantag
 
In stead of helping you guys want to start a war.What do you think the FBI will do.Is this a violation of national security or just that the both of you just got to much time on your hands? I guess you will probally vote for OBAMA too.
Have a great day.
Terry O'Neill
US NAVY RETIRED
EX COMBAT ACTION VETERAN.
 
Oh look that up it is on my DD-214

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From: Elegantinspect@aol.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:57:15 EST
Subject: Terry O'Neill SH1 [SW ] RETIRED
To: info@pownetwork.org

Dear Sir!
 
Now since you have all my records and as you can see I do have a Combat Action Ribbon.How long are you going to keep my color the color of a someone that did not have loyal and dedicated service for the land I love and Fought for ?You web site is a smear campaign and is being down maybe just maybe a honorable service member and just maybe you should take another look at what you are trying to do.But every time someone write your site you add it .So change the color or we will talk in court.
Terry O'Neill
SH 1 [SW ]
EX COMBAT VET.
US NAVY RETIRED

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From: Elegantinspect@aol.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:45:34 EST
Subject: Re: Terry O'Neill SH1 [SW ] RETIRED
To: info@pownetwork.org

While like I told my men in COMBAT  fire when you see the whites of their eyes.We need to sit down and meet face to face sir!Oh by the way have you ever see combat?Maybe not
 
T

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The early years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ashland_(LSD-1)

...Ashland was recommissioned on 29 November 1961. Assigned to Amphibious Squadron 4, she began a routine alternating operations off the East Coast with 6th Fleet deployments to the Mediterranean and to the Caribbean. In October 1964, she participated in Operation Steel Pike I, during which the ship served as a primary control vessel and boat repair ship. Upon completion of Steel Pike, the dock landing ship visited ports in Spain and Portugal before returning to Little Creek, Virginia, her home port, on 19 November.

Early in February 1965, Ashland took part in Operation FirEx, a joint Navy-Marine Corps exercise off the Puerto Rican coast and returned to Little Creek on 6 March. She got underway for the Mediterranean in June along with five other ships of Amphibious Squadron 4 and there served in six amphibious landing exercises. During this deployment, she visited nine European ports of call before returning to her home port on 3 November.

The ship was deployed to the Caribbean on 3 March 1966 as part of the Caribbean Ready Group and conducted numerous amphibious landings, including Operation Beachtime which involved over 40 ships of the 2d Fleet. Upon her return to Little Creek on 27 June, Ashland conducted upkeep until sailing for Narragansett Bay on 18 July for a series of training exercises. She was back in Little Creek later that month and went alongside Amphion for an availability. Ashland spent the next few months in training exercises and then entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 18 November for overhaul....

O'QUINN,  JOSEPH  HOWARD FLORIDA 05/2008 Claims prisoner of war for 2 days, jump wings, diver, force recon. Refused MOH "just doing his job." ACTUAL RECORDS

More complete records will be posted soon. 

Ortiz, David D Jr.

EXPOSED

aka Ortiz, David F. Jr.
aka Ortiz, David Miguel
aka Ortiz, David Florain
aka Tellez, Miguel

TX - CA - MO 

1999
2000
09/2001
10/2001
06/2002

02/2006
06/2008
04/2010

POW, PH, MOH, NC, SF, Ret Officer. 
2002 claims include NOT the Medal of Honor, but the FRENCH version of the Medal of Honor! Covered in burns from his plane crash and capture! Demands respect for his service time. Expects to be called to the Pentagon at any time etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. No end to the lies.

Reported AGAIN 09/01 
-  stating Vietnam POW on a Bail Bondsman job app in Independence, MO.

NEW CLAIMS AGAIN - 06/2002.

06/02/2008 AGAIN CLAIMED POW - TO A DAV SERVICE OFFICER ATTEMPTING TO GET MORE BENEFITS. SAID HE WOULD REPORT THIS TO THE PRESIDENT ET AL! 

2010 - He is upset because the VA is denying his claims, and he claimed that we were "unfairly influencing the VA' regarding the false statements he previously made in his other claims. He also stated that the "General Attorney" had ordered DAV to remove that information from his file. Based on all of this, he said he wanted to "resign" from DAV.
MILITARY SERVICE 1955-1957 - DECORATIONS AND AWARDS "NONE".

Felony Record 

Has falsified DD214

2nd source for information on Ortiz

1st WORTHLESS APOLOGY BELOW

From - Sat Jul 08 11:03:27 2000
To: pownet@

    TO ALL POW'S/MIA'S of VIETMAN VETERANS:

      I, DECLARE WITH MUCH HUMILATION, OF CHUCK SHANDAG DISCOVERY OF MY NOT BEING A VIETNAM POW DURING THIS WAR.  I HAVE NO EXCUSE FOR MY ACTIONS THEIR WAS A PERIOD DURING THIS TIME THAT ALL VETERANS WHO WERE NOT ALLOWED V.A. BENEFITS AND BECAME AN ADVOCATE IN ORDER TO TRY TO OBTAIN BENEFITS AND WAS AT TIMES ABLE TO SECURE SOME TREATMENT FOR THESE VETERANS, VIA MY INPUT ALL OF THIS IS THE PAST.

I AM APOLOGIZING TO ALL THE VEITNAM POW'S FOR MAY ACTIONS OF MY CLAIMING I  WAS AN AVIATOR AND P0W.  IF THE POW'S WISH RETRIBUTION AGAINST ME I AM  WILLING TO BE PUNISHED FOR ALL THE HARM I DID TO YOU.

I STAND BEFORE YOU IN HUMILITY  WITH  RESPECT STANDING CORRECTED FOR MY  ACTIONS.  I MUST TELL YOU THAT ALL THAT , ACCORDING TO MY CIVIL RECORD THERE WERE SEVERAL MISTAKES AS SOME OTHER INDIVIDUALS USED MY SOCIAL SECURITY CARD.

AGAIN I STAND BEFORE GOD ASKING FORGIVENESS AND ASHAMED IN WHAT I DID HOPING YOU WILL FIND IN YOUR IN YOUR HEARTS WHAT I AM ASKING.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING 

SINCERELY,

DAVID ORTIZ
JUNE 8, 2000

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ORTIZ MADE NEW CLAIMS IN SEPT/OCT 2001. HE WAS THEN EXPOSED AGAIN ON FOX TV NEWS KANSAS CITY, FOX TV NEWS SAN DIEGO, and Satellite FOX NEWS Sunday.

When called at home on June 11, 2002, Ortiz stated "you want me to send another apology? Well, go ahead and try and prosecute over the gun. The police gave me the permit."

O'Shanahan, Patrick Donavan

aka Richards, Col Arthur Allen

aka  Sisson, Roger E.F.

AKA Sir Patrick Donovan Flannagan O’Shannahan

AKA Dr. Khristian Knight

 

Brevard County, FL

03/2011 - Fresno, CA

1999

09/2002

09/2010

01/2011

03/2011

01/2012

Claims USMC - 7 yrs POW     (ONLY IN HIS MIND - NEVER A POW)     BORN IN 1955 per some records....1945 on others.

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2002- - Melbourne Florida
Claims SF Colonel,  POW escapee, cambodia

Dr Col Patrick D O'Shannahan 
OR aka Arthur Richards (original name, legal name change to O'S...) 

Claims records won't be found cause he was SF.
Trying for a VA loan.
Has suitcase full of documents.
Some say POW.

Realtor says obsessive/compulsive/PSYCHOTIC
Claims gets VA check
Wears "uniform" with medals.

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Here is something new on Roger E. F. Sisson, AKA Patrick O'Shannahan etc.

http://www.state.mi.us/mdoc/asp/otis2profile.asp?mdocNumber=166815

This is regarding to a 1979 crime in Michigan.  Birth year again listed as 1945.  The three states don't seem to talk with each other much.  Each state has different info.
 

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Hoarders on A&E today (6 Sep 10). One of the Hoarders episodes   had a character everyone called Sir Patrick.  He showed a lot of items with Marines insignia on it.  He claimed to have been in special ops and a tunnel rat, among other things.  He had a uniform hanging in one picture. This blouse had the kind of ribbon rack you see made up by people by pinning SEVERAL racks on a blouse, with no sense of historical order, precedence, or even branch of service ( WWII ribbons, some Air Force ribbons, and a full-size Silver Star Medal on the other side of his blouse.  It all flashed by so quickly it was hard to see what all he had.  A nametag on it said  both Colonel and Doctor on it, as well as his name.  He was knighted by Prince Charles.  That's how he came by the "Sir"....

http://beginning.anitawirawan.com/2010/09/the-troubling-history-of-sir-patrick-oshannahan-epic-hoarder-and-convicted-felon.html

10/2010 - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/hoarders-star-convicted-sex-offender
 

MILITARY RECORDS HAD BEEN REQUESTED - but none were located.

"Hoarders" show unknowingly features a sex offender
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The producers thought "Patrick Donovan Flanagan O'Shannahan" was a quirky old guy who collected dolls. They didn't even have his name right.

"Hoarders" show unknowingly features a sex offender

 

01/2012 
quote:
I was wondering if you were aware that one of the phonies, "Patrick O'Shannahan," aka "Khristian Knight" on the list is actually getting VA funds despite the fact that there were no records located for this individual. I have it on good authority that he has tried to get loans from the VA in the past, if he isn't currently doing so. ....   Speaking of this man, I think you may want to add this link to the listing for him, so people can see exactly how dangerous and despicable he is. Fair warning, there is a story that is beyond disturbing.
http://anitawirawan.com/sirpatrick/
endquote

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http://www.ccso.org/localcrime/bookingsheet.cfm?bn=59777-001

 

Family Watchdog profile http://www.familywatchdog.us/search.asp

enter OSHANNAHAN and PATRICK - click all the tabs for more info on his case.


Missouri Sex Offender Registry profile

aka:
Arthur A Richards
Shanahan O
Patrick D Oshannahan
Patrick Donovan Oshannahan
Arthuralan Francois Richards
Roger Sesson
Rogette Siasson
Roger E F Siesson
Roger Eldon Floyd Sisson
Patrick Oshannahan
Patrick Donavan Oshannahan
Arthur Allen Richards
Aurther A Richardson
Aurther A Sesson
Roger E Sesson
Rogette E Siasson
Roger Sisson
Roger E F Sisson

 

03/2011

He's apparently living in Fresno, CA using the name "Dr. Khristian Knight" now.

Emails:
 

 

 

Ott, Daniel H. Lexington, Oklahoma 1998
08/2008
Claims POW Reportedly fired from prison job.
Ott, Maro . 1998 Claims POW .
Outland, Brooks W. Florida 06/2005 While attending the Vietnam Veterans Homecoming in Branson, Missouri, Outland claimed to be a former POW (held 14 days but can't tell you where). 

Claimed to have been in a  "POW rescue" unit.

Claims CIA recruited before UDT 21 graduation. 

Business associates state he would never lie about his service. Claims were heard by hundreds (and various days, in various venues) including a reporter.

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http://www.vetspac.com/Bios.htm#Brooks_Outland

Brooks Outland retired from the Navy in 1973 as a Senior Chief, after serving a little more than 20 years active service. His last duty assignment was as the Navy’s first Enlisted Flag Officer Personal Aide. He also performed duties as the Admiral’s Administrative Officer and Writer.

During his career, he completed four separate tours of duty in the NATO headquarters in Europe as well as in the U.S. In 1950, he served aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri (BB-63), which successfully completed 19 shore bombardment missions during the Korean War. Brooks volunteered for duty in Vietnam in 1966 and was assigned to the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam/Special Operations Group (MACV/SOG).

Upon retirement, he accepted a Civil Service position, reaching the GS-11 level before he was forced to resign due to complications of his service-connected injuries. Brooks has been a proactive supporter of the Concurrent Receipt issue since 1989 and served as Editor/Partner at CRLegislation.com.

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Served 22 May 1950 - 19 March 1954 and 12 November 1957 to 1 November 1972.
Transcript of court martial not in file.
Retired E8. 

August 1951 NavSchool (Yeoman) Class A:
Typwriting105 hrs
File and Filing 10 hrs
Terms and Spelling 10 hrs
Office and Records 30 hrs
Clerical performance 35 hrs.....

"9-4-51 Trans to: USS Missouri at NORVA to resume duty."
Was with MACVSOG .... (combat position not likely with his training)

March 1961 Yeoman Class"B" Service School
Correspondance 30 hrs
Admi 45 hrs
Military Justice 50 hrs
Moral Leadership 30 hrs
Advanced typing 20 hrs
Gregg shorthand 242 hrs...

Awards: Navy Com w/1GS; Good Conduct (5th); National Defense (2nd); Korean Service Medal; United Nations Service Medal; Armed Forces Exp (Lebanon); Vietnam Service; Joint Services Com.

Overman, Clerance WA 09/2006
Clerance "Dave" Overman   
1943 - 2006
Clerance "Dave" Overman, 62, of Kelso, died Sept. 11, 2006.

He was born Sept. 24, 1943, in Valentine, Neb.

He had served in the Navy as a Seabee during Vietnam, during which he was a prisoner of war. A local area resident for about 20 years, Mr. Overman worked locally as a pipefitter and retired in 2004....


Columbia Funeral Service is in charge.
Published in The Daily News on 9/14/2006.
NOT   A   POW
OWEN, ROBERT . 12/2008 CLAIMS POW and Special Forces  
OWEN, ROBERT L . 12/2008

Claims USAF 1972-1976. Claims to have been a ParaJumper in the Air Force and a POW for 11 months. Claims he can’t prove it because it was in Cambodia and was classified.  He says he still has to sign papers every 2 years.

Actual Records
Owens, Carl L. MS 10/2000
11/2001
07/2006
12/2009
POW note entered on DD214 in pen.

Carl L. Owens , Hernado, Ms. Rides around town with a License plate that was issued by the state of Mississippi with a  P.O.W status. It is a shame that he get's away with this crime.
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OWENS, FRANK . 09/2009 Claims to have been captured, tortured and escaped in Viet Nam after being shot down as a crew member on a C-130 aircraft (USAF) about 1968. .
OWENS, WILLIAM "Billy" L Charleston, SC 08/2008
11/2008
04/2009
Claims POW, Navy Captain

Now has POW license plates. Claims captured in a patrol boat off coast of Laos.

actual records
OZLEY, LEE MADISON HILTON HEAD SC 05/2003

02/2004

07/2010

Claims  / Actual Records

Claims Ret Major, 6 yrs Air Force (60-66), 2 tours, 324 combat missions, shot down and captured by VC. He led 16 POWs in a successful escape attempt. Claims Silver Star, 3 DFC, 2 PH, Air Force Commendation, PUC and POW medal.   Public speaker!    Claims 172 days captured as a member of PHOENIX program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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INTRODUCTION

CLAIMING VIETNAM PRISONER OF WAR:

V V A - Claims by members of  Vietnam Veterans of America

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More Reported Claims:

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APOLOGIES AND CLARIFICATIONS

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