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.

Worked for SW Airlines as  a ramp agent (baggage buster) from 2002-2004.

QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!

QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!

 Note USMC logo on shirt.

 Coral Springs Police state also "impersonated a police officer"

• SEAL, BUD's class # 118 (ironically also the first numbers on his license plate)
• partial name change (last name he was "allowed" to keep, had to change first, middle. Will tell only a woman he marries what real name is) Mom, family had to adapt to calling him by "new" name. Also claims he "died" at one point in order to go totally covert in foreign country, family was informed of "death" and later resurrected with new ID.
•  DOB change (got to pick his new birthday upon discharge)
•  SS# change (upon discharge, along with partial new identity)
• was member of DS-12, and Black OPS, answered only to CIA and President Clinton. 
•  removed from active duty when he was shot during covert ops
• allowed to return to ailing mother after being shot in head in secret location overseas
•  DOES carry military photo ID in wallet, has faded DoD sticker on vehicle, no vet plates, DD214 nowhere to be found. Claims he hand-carried his military discharge papers to Pentagon to be sealed up. DOES have formal Navy picture with Stars and Stripes, presumably enlistment picture.
• claims requirement to go to local VA hospitals once a month for updated shots, blood tests, visits with former commanders to check on his "welfare", since SEALs do not get therapy. Just in case he's ever reactivated. Commanders fly in special for him.
• Uncle is Lieutenant Commander and is now mercenary only. Uncle got him into BUD's, by-passed basic training. He never had to serve on board a ship.
• Currently armed to the teeth.

2007 -    Claims continue - and "armed to the teeth" confirmed 

 

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WAS RETURNED TO THIS POSTING AFTER NEW CLAIMS WERE REPORTED 04/25/2005

Read the claims and the real record

Claims he's a Green Beret and gave numbers for Camp McKall and Ft Bragg, all which turned out to be bogus. The uniform is not a "real" military uniform but some civilian type copy. He goes from American Legions, to VFWs, to bars owned by military people foraging for free drinks. Traveling across the country.

     Actual records 

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/pae/News/Pr/2007/aug/allevainfo.pdf

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/pae/News/Pr/2007/nov/allevaplea.pdf

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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,

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