| Name |
Date Reported |
Hometown |
Claims |
Findings |
| Abbate, Steven |
05/2004 |
. |
Claims
Medal of Honor, black
ops.... works with another of questionable claims and character -
PISTILLI - as Sensei. |
Deceased
2007 |
Abbott III, Marshall Rand
aka Randy Abbott |
05/2005 |
Carlsbad,
Oceanside CA |
Claims he was issued
the Medal Of Honor for some type of mission that had nothing to do with
any type of conflict or war.
He works at Weseloh Chevrolet, right next to a Marine Corps
Base.... he says this to Marines so that they will like him, and so they
will buy a car or truck from him. |
. |
Abel, Warren
Douglas
aka "Doug" |
05/2007
02/2008
05/2009 |
Cincinnati,
OH |
Claims
Capt, USAF, Special Forces. Claims Sniper with work in Cuba, Osuth and
Central America.
2009- in Cincinnati, with a big horse boarding and
training facility still playing the role of Captain in the Special
Forces, PBR Bull Riding Champion, and former big executive with
Southwest Airlines.
|
Served USAF Jan 23, 1984 - Feb 28,
1984. No military education, no awards or decorations.
Worked for SW Airlines as a ramp agent (baggage buster) from
2002-2004.
|
| Acel, Stephen |
02/2004 |
. |
Claims
SEABEE, Vietnam Vet "12 years in the fleet and 14 years
as a Sea Bee." Uses
ANYONE'S actual service as his own from vets posted chats and
profiles on AOL.
Online
known as Gsmythy02@aol.com
. |
QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!
St. Louis MADE A POINT to note: Service in Vietnam or in its
territorial waters is NOT
a matter of record -- [CLICK blue text FOR RECORDS.]
Claims 100% PTSD - VA has no records of care/disability. |
| ACORS,
LLOYD ELVIS |
08/2008 |
. |
THE
CLAIMS |
ACTUAL RECORD |
| ADAMS,
RONALD L |
06/2008 |
LEXINGTON,
KY
New Miami, OH
Hamilton, OH |
- CLAIMS retired, or honorable discharged Marine.
- Claims he was shot.. that's what ended his military career or he'd
have gone on to be a merchant marine.
- Claims his date of birth is 23rd of April 1970, born in Kentucky
and his parents were Ruth and Eddie Adams.
- Seriously believe he is 57-60 yrs old.
- Claims he receives a monthly military pension.
- Claims moved into Hamilton to be closer to the
hospital.
- Claims many health problems with his back and knee.
- Claims he was shot in the knee while serving in Iraq in the early
90's.
- Claims he served during the Desert Storm conflict and he says he
was shot there and received a Purple Heart.
|
ST LOUIS COULD LOCATE NO MILITARY
RECORD. |
| Adams, Terry Lee |
04/2003 |
Memphis, TN |
Thrown out of American Legion - conduct VERY unbecoming - accused
of theft and worse by Legion members. Claims black ops in Laos,
found himself zipped "in a body bag". Claims Marine
D.I. Caused problems at WALL
with Family member and USMC..... Now raising money to send
items to troops in war. If prior alleged conduct repeated, troops
may never see a thing....
Campaigning for STATE positions in both Legion and VFW (5/2003) |
QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!
NO RECORD of
Vietnam Service. Record of "AdminClkCrs
- 1970" |
Agioto, Joseph Anthony
aka Agiato, Joe |
2000
2005 YET, AGAIN |
Florida |
Claiming SEALS and/or
Frogman...
SEAL, Police officer |
Note USMC logo on shirt.
|
Served
from April 1958 to January 1960. Records
indicate no SEAL training. Rank at discharge "FA".
Coral Springs Police state
also "impersonated a police officer"
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| AHSON, JEFFREY R |
12/2008 |
MI |
Sunday, October 21, 2007
AHSON OBITUARY/Ellis
JEFFREY AHSON, NAVAL ENSIGN, DIES AT 79
By Paul Ellis
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Jeffrey R Ahson, a native of Chico Calif, died
yesterday at his home due to emphysema at age 79.
"Ahson was a genuine American hero," said Navy Lt.
Cmdr. Jeraldine Fyfe.
Mr. Ahson was promoted to ensign after his display of bravery at
the Battle of Midway. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Navy
Cross for crossing the burning deck of the USS Emery to pull
four wounded sailors and a wounded gunner to safety followed by
manning the gunner's seat and shooting down three enemy fighter
planes.
After retiring from the military, Mr. Ahson moved to Kalamazoo
and joined the Kalamazoo Fire Department where he worked until
1966. He collected firefighting memorabilia and was part of a
group that restored a firetruck. He used the restored truck to
drive to local elementary schools teaching fire safety to the
children at those schools. After retiring from the fire
department, he became a car salesman where he worked until 1985.
Mr. Ahson became the post comander of the American Legion 702
and the VFW 4206 in Kalamazoo. He also became a member of Elks
Lodge, Gideons International, the National Checkers Association,
and was an usher at John Calvin Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Ahson married Therese Alpert and they had three children,
Richer Ahson, of Philipsburg, Kan; Lela Stalling, of Pipecreek,
Texas; and Angela Molino, of Omaha, Neb. He had a brother and
two sisters. Henry Ahson, of San Francisco; Judith Eaker, of
Reedsville, N.C.; and Shirley Solomon, of Newark, N.J. along
with five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Viewing will be held this Friday, 4:00-5:30 and 7:30-9:00 PM at
Littleton Mortuary and the burial will be held Saturday at 10:00
AM at Memorial Park Cemetery. The family requests no flowers.
-30-
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This
same one keeps cropping up…TOTALLY BOGUS.
First
of all, if this was a 2008 death, and subject was
Age 79, that would make his year of birth 1929. The Battle of Midway was
June 4 – 7, 1942…Ahson would have been 13
years old at the time….
I
don’t know why, but this guy keeps cropping up.
Sincerely,
Doug
C.
Douglas Sterner
3111
Thatcher Ave.
Pueblo,
CO 81005
(719)
564-1755
|
| Allward,
Mark |
08/2007 |
Fontaine
CO area |
Claims former Navy fighter pilot, P3 pilot, Navy SEAL, and now
claims that he is a Sniper for Blackwater. He shows up every
once in a while, claiming that he has just gotten back from Iraq.
==================================================
I greatly
appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL
Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. Before answering your questions I
must make clear that I am a private individual, not affiliated with the
US Dept. of Defense or any other government organization. I am one of
about a dozen men in America who possess a copy of the SEAL Database, a
comprehensive and regularly updated listing of all men who trained and
served with the Naval Special Warfare units (SEALs, UDT, NCDU, S&R)
from the end of WWII to the present day. I also have access to archival
sources who can verify/deny claims of service DURING WWII. As a former
US Navy SEAL myself, I am fully familiar with the NSW training program
and the standard operating procedures used by the Teams, as well as an
in-depth personal knowledge of many of the ‘insider’ events and
incidents which UDT “Frogmen” and SEALs offer as a part of their
bona fides. My efforts to expose SEAL imposters are performed free of
charge, as a service to the public, and in honor of my SEAL Teammates
who gave their lives in service to our nation… men who truly earned
the right to the title “US NAVY SEAL” but who are no longer able to
stand forward in defense of their honor, their reputations, and their
TEAMs.
If the name
you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL
database for anyone named MARK
ALLWARD. Be aware that I have also examined possible
alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations.
In fact there are no names listed in the entire SEAL Database (10,700+
names) which begin with the alphabetic letters “ALLW”.
Unless he has
undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for
which there would be court documentation) since his claimed service with
the SEAL Teams, and based upon the information you have provided, I can
state conclusively that MARK
ALLWARD has NEVER completed SEAL training, and he is
not now, nor was he ever a US Navy SEAL or UDT “Frogman”. Please be
aware that the SEAL database includes the names of all men who served
with the Underwater Demolition Teams (“Frogmen”). Since 1983 when
the UDTs were all re-commissioned as SEAL Teams it has been the
convention within the Naval Special Warfare community to use the modern
term “SEAL” when referring to all men who ever served in any of the
SEAL ‘precursor’ units.
When members
of the Naval Special Warfare community meet others who claim similar
service, but whom they do not recognize, there is a conversational
exchange of information that establishes the bona fides of each to the
other. There is no set formula for this exchange, nor for the
information that is exchanged, but it ALWAYS takes place, and the REAL
Naval Special Warfare members can ALWAYS spot a phony as a result of
this exchange. I urge you (or those who may have contact with him) to
ask Mr. ALLWARD
three questions:
(1) What was
his BUD/S Class Number?
(NB: No SEAL ever forgets the class number he shouted all day long,
every day, for 6 months)
(2) Where
did his training take place? (NB: Training has been conducted at several
locations over the years; different portions in different places)
(3) When
did he graduate from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training?
(i.e. a specific graduation DATE)
The answers
to those three questions may then be compared to hard, firm,
comprehensive documentation to absolutely verify his claims. There are
many other questions which could be asked to further establish the level
of veracity or untruth regarding his claims, but those three questions
are absolutes; the answers are totally UNCLASSIFIED, and every real SEAL
will gladly provide that substantiating information upon request. If Mr.
ALLWARD
offers you any specifics which he claims are definitive and valid
answers to these questions (or if he offers reasons why he cannot answer
them), I would be very interested in learning about it.
The only men
who can legitimately call themselves SEALs are US Navy sailors who have
completed the entire SEAL training program which lasts approximately 2
years and who have received a formal/official designation as
“Combatant Swimmer [SEAL]” with an attendant entry in their military
records of a specific Naval Enlisted Classification Code (NEC). There
are no SEALs in any other branch of the US military armed forces.
While many units of different branches of the military services are
called upon from time to time to work “WITH” the SEAL Teams, it is
incredibly rare for any non-SEAL to ever be engaged in an operation as a
part of a deployed SEAL unit. These rare exceptions generally involve
members of highly trained Special Operations Forces from those other
branches of service or ‘other government agencies’ involved in
gathering/evaluating intelligence information. Non-SEAL Navy units and
other branches of the US military services do occasionally send men to
the SEAL Teams for brief training sessions. Those training sessions do
NOT confer the qualifications for being a SEAL on any of those
‘students’. Such training is most generally intended to facilitate a
familiarity with the way SEAL Teams operate, and are intended to make
cooperation between different units easier and more effective when they
are in the same area of operations.
It is quite
common for those making fraudulent SEAL claims to cite a “secret”
training class, “special selection and skills which allowed them to
bypass BUD/S training”, or “secret missions” as an explanation for
the lack of military documentation to back up their stories. SEAL
imposters also tend to claim their military records are “sealed” and
cannot be accessed. Occasionally inventive imposters claim their records
were destroyed in a fire at the
National
Personnel
Records
Center
. While that facility did experience a fire, no Navy records were
involved, damaged, or destroyed. I would caution you that despite
anything the man might have told you, there are NO secret SEALs. Before
any classified operations may be undertaken, a man must first
successfully complete the totally unclassified BUD/S Training program;
the names of all those who successfully graduate from that training
program are compiled in the SEAL database. Later participation in
classified operations has no impact on whether or not a person is listed
as a graduate of the training program. No one gets to the SEAL Teams
without completing BUD/S training; there are NO EXCEPTIONS! The
graduates of that training program are listed in the SEAL database –
an unclassified document which is nonetheless considered “highly
sensitive” and therefore not available for general public circulation.
There are records of every man who has qualified for the title of
“SEAL”; there have been and will continue to be secret missions, but
there are NO secret SEALs… we know them all.
I might
suggest that you also ask Mr. ALLWARD
to specifically identify WHICH SEAL Team(s) he served on, and when. I am
in direct contact with several hundred of my SEAL Teammates whose
collective experience covers virtually all time periods from the Korean
War to the present; I can quickly contact those individuals to verify
any specific names, events, or other claims offered by Mr. ALLWARD.
If he feels that his name has somehow been mistakenly omitted from the
SEAL records, I’d be pleased to speak with him and hear details of his
service which would serve to validate his claims. The Director of the
Naval Special Warfare Archives – a close personal friend and SEAL
Teammate – is only a phone call away and standing by to amend the
records if this is ever found to be true. However, I’ve made the same
offer to more than 3,600 SEAL imposters in the last five years, and none
of them ever turned out to be a valid SEAL. If Mr. ALLWARD
subsequently suggests to you or others you know that he has contacted
me, the Department of the Navy, or “the government” in some way and
“straightened things out”, I’d be very interested in hearing from
you again.
You will not
be surprised to learn that false claimants of being a US Navy SEAL
vastly outnumber the men who actually earned that title.
Informally-gathered statistics (2001-2004) indicate that there are
approximately 350 imposters for every real SEAL who ever served in the
Naval Special Warfare community. I recently visited a web site which
ranked claims overheard by bartenders during the course of their work…
“I was a Navy SEAL” was at the top of the list! Statistically you
are more likely to encounter someone who has played football in the NFL
than you are to encounter a real Navy SEAL. So, ask yourself this; how
many professional football players have you met?
I checked
another online database held by the Department of Defense and accessed
through www.military.com
under the Freedom Of Information Act by using their Buddy
Finder. That database contains over 20 million records, is
one of the most complete available to the general public, and is fairly
accurate from about 1974 to the present day. That database originally
began as a listing of all military service personnel who might have been
exposed to Agent Orange while on duty in
Vietnam
, and was a means of keeping records for later possible monetary
compensation. It was quickly recognized by the DoD as the start of a
very comprehensive database of military personnel, and subsequently
expanded to include virtually ALL members of the military in later
years. The closer to the present time, the more detailed and complete
the records in the database. From about 1978 to the present date that
database is extremely comprehensive. I found absolutely no listing in
the DoD database for anyone by the last
name you provided
(ALLWARD).
Government documentation does not appear to substantiate his claims of
military service in ANY
branch of the US armed forces, and he was most definitely
NEVER A US NAVY SEAL!
One last
note; It was formerly a violation of federal law to WEAR
specific military unit insignia, badges, patches, pins, tabs, awards,
commendations, medals, or uniform garments for which one did not have
formal/official authorization. Such actions were listed as a
prosecutable offense under Title 18 US Code Section 702 and 704, which
specified up to $5,000 in fines and up to 6 months imprisonment per each
count on which an offender was convicted. It was subsequently recognized
by lawmakers that a loophole of sorts existed within the wording of
Title 18 USC which allowed imposters to make false verbal claims
regarding military credentials, and to then display items for which they
had no legitimate authorization as keepsakes without legal repercussions
so long as they did not actually wear them on their person. To avoid
prosecution false claimants often filled their walls with forged
citations, commendations, and awards for valor, and then posed for
pictures beside those false certificates, but never actually WORE them
on their person.
A recent
amendment to Title 18 USC, Section 704, called the “STOLEN
VALOR ACT” (S.1998), which was signed into law on 20 Dec
2006, now makes it illegal to even make false VERBAL
claims of receiving “any of the
service medals or badges awarded to the members of such forces, the
ribbon, button, or rosette of any such badge, decoration, or medal, or
any colorable imitation of such item”. It must be presumed
that since the earning of the status of US Navy SEAL carries with it a
special Naval Enlisted Classification (NEC) code and a unique breast
insignia (SEAL Trident badge) that the offering of false verbal claims
of being a SEAL would fall within the jurisdiction of this amended
version of the 18USC. This matter, of course, would be for the courts to
determine.
Thank you
again for your concern in this matter, and for your assistance in
upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams. As noted in my opening
paragraph, I am a private individual and am in no way affiliated with
the US Department of Defense or the US government. Despite any reports
you may make/send to me regarding Mr. ALLWARD’s
false SEAL claims, any such information which I might pass along to the
authorities in this matter would be classified as “hearsay” and
therefore inadmissible in a court of law. The responsibility for
reporting the individual named in your inquiry to the federal
authorities rests with you and with anyone else who may have personally
heard or received these claims from the individual himself. Whether or
not you decide to report him to the federal authorities is entirely up
to you, but at least you now know the truth regarding his bogus claims.
If I can be of any further assistance to you in this matter, please
contact me at your convenience.
Very
respectfully,
Steve
Robinson
USN 1970-1978
SEAL Team ONE
Inshore Undersea Warfare Group ONE
UDT-SEAL
Association
Special Operations Association
POW Network Advisory Board
Naval Special Warfare Archives - SOF Analyst/Contributing Journalist
Disabled American Veterans - Life Member
FORMER Special Investigator - SEAL Authentication Team
Author of the book NO
GUTS, NO GLORY - Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters
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