INTRODUCTION

CLAIMING VIETNAM PRISONER OF WAR:

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

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More Reported Claims:
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 

APOLOGIES AND CLARIFICATIONS

Heroes or Villains?

Individuals reported as of  03/2008
CLAIMING VIETNAM POW STATUS  or as noted
#  =  on list over 11 years

All claims highlighted in lavender are eligible for prosecution under the  STOLEN VALOR ACT signed into law Dec 20, 2006.

Note: 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
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 (up to $10,000) 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 150 REAL Medal of Honor recipients are alive today.

 

The names listed in the next pages have made VARIOUS or multiple claims that cannot be substantiated or have been proven FALSE. Due to the size of the list and constant additions, the previous "grouped by claims" pages have been merged into an alphabetical list and the various claims noted. Please checks your links and bookmarks for the NEW pages.

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Name                                          Date Reported Hometown Claims Findings
Anderson, Gerald Francis . Springfield, MO Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... 

teaches "survival" skills  <gfa885t@smsu.edu>

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Anderson, John Adolph 08/2007 Willard, MO Claims LTC, active duty, assigned to Fort Leonard Wood. Claims . He claims to work out of several buildings, but the one that he works out of the most is next to an explosives detonation unit. He said that he is close to the commissary. He said that he is under something called an HER program, that due to his age, he was put under this program. Claims 20+ years of service, and his work at Ft. Leonard Wood is secretive. He stated that he was drafted into the Marine Corp during Vietnam. He states that he was accepted to West Point sometime during his time in the Marine Corp. He claims to be attached to Ft. Leonard at this time from Fort Benning. He claims to have received a Purple Heart. He states that he did serve in Afghanistan with an airborne company. He claims to have went through Airborne Training. Claims to drive a 2000 Marquis. He states that he has an Army decal in the back window and a Mo. State trooper association sticker in the back window. He also claims to have some personalized tags that say something about army airborne on them. States that he is doing top secret type work. He is saying that no one, but 5 people in the U.S. know the type of work he is doing. He stated he goes to Ft. Leonard Wood everyday in a military uniform but "The long hours, days, weeks, months and years has taken a toll... "

and yet MORE
usually profiles 20 YEARS young than his 66 yrs old.

He claims to drive a 2000 Marquis. He states that he has an Army decal in the back window and a Mo. State trooper association sticker in the back window. He also claims to have some personalized tags that say something about army airborne on them.

NO such officer works at FLW.   ACTUAL RECORDS

Ft Leonard Wood has NO officer and NO enlisted by this name on base.

The name was checked while ON base peaking with personnel having total base access - and knowing every LTC on base.

Past acquaintance states  that he did serve with  John Anderson, but that he would no longer be in the military. He said that he did not go through Airborne training and that he would not have received a Purple Heart. He said that he would never have been in any military battle to be able to receive a Purple Heart.

He CLAIMED to be mid 50's. Actually born in 1940.

Andrews, Clarence 05/2004  North Carolina Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... 

Member of DAV Schackner-Whitley Chapter 21 of Durham, NC. Service cap has a mix of Army and Navy insignias - SEAL trident worn with the Army Corps of Engineer Officer’s Insignia. Claims to be a WWII veteran of the Philippines and Japan.  

Andrews, Robert T. 06/2005 .
Robert T. Andrews of Choptank died Thursday, May 12, 2005 at the home of his daughter in Lewes, DE after a heroic battle against pancreatic cancer. He was 62.

Born on June 20, 1942 in Easton, he was the son of Isabell “Belle” Andrews of Ridgely and the late Thomas J. Andrews of Easton. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1960 and fought in the Vietnam War as a member of the 1st Infantry. He was awarded The Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal and Medal of Honor. Following his honorable discharge in 1968 he began a career as a brick layer until he had to retire for health reasons.

Mr. Andrews was a member of the E. E. Streets Memorial Post 5118 V.F.W; Moose Lodge 1520, both of Easton, and the Hurlock American Legion Post 243.....
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Anthony, Dave Matther 07/2006 Oregon
Drives a Tan Ford Taurus with Lic. Plates; FIRST MARINE DIV USMC, Oregon.
Claims  USMC as past employer.
Claims "Decorated Iraq War Veteran", was a "Drill Seargant", and a "Blackbelt taught by the USMC". Claims "Congressional Medal of Honor."
Multiple requests for military records  find "Mr. Anthony cannot be identified as a member or former member of the U.S. Marine Corps or Marine Corps Reserve."
Appleby, D.C. 08/2005 .
To the Editors of the Jacksonville.com, The Florida Times Union:
 In your 1 August 2005, you listed Mr. D.C. Appebly as being a recipient of the Medal of Honor during WWII. http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:eq_CsSFTvIEJ:www.jax2go.
com/obits.html+2005+obituaries+medal+of+honor&hl=en
Official records indicate Mr. Appleby never received this prestigious award. http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm
 Was this typo error?
 Thank you.
 LTC (Retired) P_____ M_______
US Army
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APPLEBY Mr. D. C. Appleby, 82, died July 21, 2005 after a long illness. He was born in West Lake, Louisiana on October 19, 1922 and lived his adult life in Jacksonville, FL. D. C. served in the Army during World War II where he earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, Purple Heart and an honorable discharge. D. C. (the ol' man) had a nautical career with a Coast Guard License for 43 years. He served on tugboats, steamships and automated ships. He traveled around the world with Marine Transport Line as a marine engineer on the Marine Princess until his retirement in 1994. ... D. C. will be cremated and have a burial at sea. Arrangements by HARDAGE-GIDDENS FUNERAL HOME, 729 S. Edgewood Ave. Please Sign the Guestbook @ Jacksonville.com http://www.jacksonville.com/classifieds/logos/7435906_1.jpg
Subject: Question on a 1 August 2005 Stating Mr. D.C. Appleby was a
Recipient of the Medal of Honor
 Sent:    Mon, 8 Aug 2005 05:26:56 -0400
 
was deleted without being read on Mon, 8 Aug 2005 12:50:15 -0400
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 To:      Weyer, TJ; Ray, Rich
 Cc:      P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag; MOH Society
Headquarters
 Subject: Question on a 1 August 2005 Stating Mr. D.C. Appleby was a
Recipient of the Medal of Honor
 Sent:    Mon, 8 Aug 2005 05:26:56 -0400
 
was read on Mon, 8 Aug 2005 07:38:55 -0400
Archer, Kevin Alan 08/2007 .
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ACTUAL RECORDS

note: web has been edited and his previous statements
removed now.
Ardizzone, Nick  10/2006 . http://www.gotozonefitness.com/whois.html
Who is Zone Fitness?

If you have been keeping up with your local fitness trivia, you have probably heard of the name "Nick Ardizzone." He has been on local and national radio, television, and has been mentioned on the "Oprah" show, for his training abilities.

Specializing in personal training, Nick has worked with clients not only locally but nationally, and internationally. Nick has been a trainer to movie stars, local sports icons, and even Olympic hopefuls.

For many years Ardizzone has been helping individuals achieve their fitness goals by designing wellness programs for them and working out with them in their homes.

After many years in the fitness industry, including being a Marine Corps Drill Instructor, and completing B.U.D.S. with the Navy SEALS, Ardizzone has recognized a problem with fitness facilities that do not always offer the individual attention they need. Now he has decided to offer the personal training touch at fitness center prices.

 

 

military.com - DoD record

Name :  NICHOLAS M ARDIZZONE
Service :  MARINE CORPS
Service Component :  REGULAR
Pay Grade :  E-6
Military Specialty :  2531
Home of Record :  Unknown

    2531  Field Radio Operator

10/24/2006

Dear Sir/Madam
,

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 government organization. Additionally, although I worked for/with the AuthentiSEAL verification organization for several years as an Investigator (and later as a Special Investigator dealing with the media), I ceased to work for that organization in any capacity in late 2004. That said, I assure you that my copy of the SEAL database is current and complete to the present date.

If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL database of successful graduates for anyone named NICHOLAS “NICK” ARDIZZONE. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations. Please be aware that I do not have access to any records (official or unofficial) listing the names of individuals who reported for SEAL training, but who subsequently failed to complete the training program.

Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be court documentation) since his claimed attendance at BUD/S training, and based upon the scant name-only information you have provided, I can state conclusively that NICHOLAS “NICK” ARDIZZONE has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL.

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. They also tend to claim their military records are “sealed” and cannot be accessed. I would caution you that despite anything the man might have said, 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. No one gets to the SEAL Teams without completing this 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 have been and will continue to be secret missions, but there are NO secret SEALs… we know them all.

Thank you again for your concern in this matter, and for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams.

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

Arender, Loyde "Snake"  09/2007 . http://www.combatwife.net/mmsnake.htm


http://iwvpa.net/arenderlp/index.php


http://semperfiheart1.homestead.com/Words.html


http://members.tripod.com/snake_arender_usmc/CryingInTheRain.htm


http://members.tripod.com/snake_arender_usmc/Words-From-The-Heart_index.htm


http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700019815&tstart=0&mod=1190206393457
BS and PH are bogus.

 

He is former 3/26 Vietnam Marine who has a very creative imagination.  Bad paper did not preclude his being hired as a Monroe LA policeman. 

Arnold, Frank

aka Kohn, Fredrick L.

aka Arnold, Fredric
07/2005 . http://www.doorknob52.com/html/military.html

http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=500002913&messageID=
600095234&start=0

http://www.doorknob52.com/html/military.html

"Escapee/Evadee German POW camp, Sicily, July 1943"

 Cinetrope is planning a full length feature film in addition to the short "documentary", "Between 2 Worlds" that they have already released on Mr. Arnold.  The film is based upon Mr. Arnold's wartime biography "Doorknob 52", and they are currently in production.

Search Results 
 
File Unit Title: World War II Prisoners of War Data File
Member of: Record Group 389: Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General;  Series: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, 1942 - 1947

Search Criteria
Column Title Operator Value
NAME CONTAINS ALL VALUES FREDRIC L. KOHN
 
 No records found. Please revise your search

File Unit Title: World War II Prisoners of War Data File

Member of:  Record Group 389: Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General;  Series: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, 1942 - 1947

Search Criteria

Column Title

Operator

Value

NAME

CONTAINS ALL VALUES

fredric arnold

 No records found. Please revise your search

"ARRIVE, RAISE HELL, LEAVE" 10/2007 .

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-_aNI_cM5d6RH7Bfj8NT5O0.AUA--?cq=1&p=579 
                   A MUST READ EXPOSE WITH A SMALL QUOTE FROM IT  BELOW

QUOTE: 
Excerpt from actual conversation with Kurt, this was his response to having been called out about the Dietz pic:

ARRIVE, RAISE HELL, :}: I did not lie, I had that picture there out of respect, my accuall pic is of me runnig

This is the link to his page; see for yourself that he is still claiming that the same picture posted here is him running:

Now, PLEASE read about the REAL man behind the picture...

Celebrating The Life of Navy SEAL, Actor & Athlete, Scott Helvenston ...
END QUOTE

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Atchison, Thomas 12/2006 Last known Moulton, AL  Has veteran license plates on his car.  Claims Helicopter pilot. He never served in the military. 
Atwood, Rod
aka
Rodney W. Atwood
04/2006 .

http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_
16736_4624733,00.html
(click for entire article)

Memories take flight at meeting in Vero Beach for Navy pilots
By KEONA GARDNER
keona.gardner@scripps.com
April 16, 2006

VERO BEACH — Art Culver expected to meet some new friends and reminisce about the good old days in the Navy at his first meeting of the Old Tailhookers.....

But the fact he can talk to former combat pilots, who knew the bombs they dropped would kill with people, draws Rod Atwood.

"People who haven't done it don't know what it's about," said Atwood, a retired commander who received the Navy Cross for bravery after being shot down in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. .....

Asked if they had a good time in the Navy, Atwood hesitated.

"Well, I got shot down," he said....

Providing all the information required, St. Louis could NOT locate a service record for Atwood.
 
Aucker, Raymond E.  1999
2000
06/2006
EXPOSED Fri Jan 07,2000

Raymond Aucker  under federal indictment for posing as a SEAL.

Aucker hit by charge of altering his record

U.S. prosecutor says former Panther Valley superintendent changed military certificates.

By CHRIS PARKER
Of The Morning Call

Former Panther Valley School District Superintendent Raymond E. Aucker  was charged  Thursday in federal court with falsifying his military records to show he had received a  Vietnam Campaign Medal and Service Ribbon, a Purple Heart and a Navy SEAL medal that doesn't  exist.

Aucker who moved to Iowa in February after his claims of being a SEAL were exposed as lies,  faces a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison if found guilty of altering his discharge  papers, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Malachy Mannion.

Aucker "did use, unlawfully possess and exhibit military and naval discharge certificates,  knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered," according to a document  filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton........
2005 - 
He did NOT serve in the navy from 1971 to 1975.  He entered service in 1974.  He claimed he was in the Mekong Delta and the nearest town was Da Nang.  Also, his buddy was  a truck driver on  the Ho Chi Minh Trail.  Obviously, he didn't know what he was talking about.   He has always been phony.
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The  SEAL phony group busted Aucker three or four years ago; he was superintendent of a school district in PA, and he left in the middle of the night and headed west.  We tracked him to Georgia and Alabama and kept him from being hired by the school systems there.  You're right--he's one of the worst frauds we have dealt with.  His Master's and Ph.D. are phony, too.
 
Larry Bailey
US Navy SEAL (ret.)

Denied licensure to teach by both Arizona and North Dakota

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Ex-Panther Valley official sentenced
Oct 20, 2000

BY FRANK ANDRUSCAVAGE
Staff Writer

The former superintendent of the Panther Valley School District has been ordered to perform 200 hours of community service for falsifying his military records.

Raymond Aucker, 46, was sentenced earlier this week by Judge Mark W. Bennett of the U.S. District Court in northern Iowa. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 4 in Sioux City, Iowa.

Bennett had the option of giving Aucker a jail sentence but opted for probation and the 200 hours of community service.

Aucker, who moved to Iowa after being fired from his post in January 1999, was charged in federal court in January with altering his military records to reflect that he received a Purple Heart, a Vietnam Campaign Medal and Service Ribbon, and a Navy SEAL medal.

Aucker's claims that he was a member of the elite Navy Sea, Aid and Land team were later exposed to be false.

In sentencing, Bennett said Aucker must perform his community service working with military veterans at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Mason City.

Aucker's stories began to unravel in November 1998 when he told his so-called accomplishments to Ty Weaver, a Virginia native and United States Air Force veteran who visits the Coaldale/Panther Valley area on a regular basis.

Weaver became suspicious of Aucker's stories and went to the Navy Special Warfare Archives where he found no record of Aucker. The archive lists the names of every person who graduated from the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEALS Team program.

Aucker moved from Iowa to the Coaldale area after he assumed the superintendent post.

Becoming a member of the Coaldale American Legion, he introduced himself as a former Navy SEAL and wore a Navy SEAL emblem on his cap.

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06/2006 - Reportedly applying for a position at a TX VA facility!

08/2006 - Raymond  Aucker has been given a position with the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles ... he will be starting in about three weeks.

Ayala, John 04/2007 Wash DC
John Ayala, Wash DC leader for the Guardian Angels is 37 yrs old. 
He is wearing Vietnam mini-medals, including the Purple Heart.
Ayers, "Doc" Ronald Michael .  VA Beach area Claiming SPECIAL FORCES and "GREEN BERET"...
8 months POW
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Other individuals can be found on various web-sites
Their statements have yet to be substantiated or have been proven false.

Those that have admitted lies/apologized....

 

INTRODUCTION

CLAIMING VIETNAM PRISONER OF WAR:

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

==================================
More Reported Claims:
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 

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