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| Gallagher, Anthony Joseph aka Tony |
. | MO | Claims multiple Purple Hearts, Retired Drill Sgt | ONLY award Marksman with Rifle Bar. Never left U.S. Served 59-65 INCLUDING reserves. | |||||||
| Gallup, Bruce Raymond | 06/2006 06/2007 |
North Haven CT | Claims Special
Forces, rescuing P.O.W.’s and part of an elite unit.
======================================================= http://www.navysite.de/cv/cv15.htm .... In the summer of 1962, RANDOLPH again steamed to the
Mediterranean. Returning to the western Atlantic as the Cuban missile
crisis broke, she operated in the Caribbean from the end of October
through November. After a Norfolk overhaul, RANDOLPH resumed her station
in the Atlantic. During the next five years she made two Mediterranean
cruises and a northern European cruise, while spending most of her time
off the east coast and in the Caribbean. “AN” means “AIRMAN” (E3 in the generalized Aviation rating skills) and the NP91600-A is the code identifier associated with that course. The “Airman” rank is not skill-specific. All it means is that the person will eventually work in a skill field having to do with aircraft in some way and generally tied in with duty on an Air Station or Aircraft Carrier. “BMR”
is “BASIC MILITARY REQUIREMENTS” and the NP-91202-1A is the
associated code identifier for the course. |
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| Garcia, Josh Adam | 07/2007 | . |
Marine chef cooked up details about his service
Marine Corps Times
By C. Mark Brinkley - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Jun 15, 2007 5:47:53 EDT
Would you like lies with that?
Former Marine Josh Adam Garcia <http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_nf_vote/text/0,,FOOD_20356_62437,00.html>
has been cooking up some tall tales in the kitchen on his quest to win
the title of “The Next Food Network Star <http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_nf_vote/>.”
The popular reality television show, now in its third season, brings
together 11 real-world cooks to compete for a six-episode series deal
on the network. Last season’s champ, Guy Fieri, has quickly become a
standout on the network, now working as host of the new shows
“Guy’s Big Bite” and “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.”
After a June 1 interview with the former Marine cook, Military Times
began digging deeper into Garcia’s past. It seems that much of the
story, provided by both Food Network and by the man himself, doesn’t
check out.
Touted as a graduate of the New York Restaurant School <http://www.artinstitutes.edu/newyork/>
and a former Marine who served in Afghanistan, Garcia’s record is
actually much less stellar. For starters, he never finished culinary
school in New York.
“He attended, but did not graduate,” said Midge Elias, director of
public relations at the school, now known as the Art Institute of New
York City. Privacy rules prevent the school from releasing any further
information, such as number of course hours completed or whether the
former Marine used the GI Bill to help finance his training, as he
claimed in multiple interviews.
Garcia, who turns 26 later this month, was a Marine, enlisting Aug.
15, 1999, for a four-year enlistment that should have ended in 2003.
Instead, Garcia was discharged eight months early as a private for
reasons that the Marine Corps declined to discuss due to laws
protecting his personal information.
Enlisted for more than three years with no promotions? Not even the
Marine Corps is that tough.
In a follow-up interview Monday, Garcia was asked to explain why he
called himself a former corporal. He owned up to non-judicial
punishments that cost him rank, but he blamed his military troubles on
a hazing conspiracy at his former unit. Garcia also claimed that he
fought his administrative separation and was ultimately exonerated,
but none of that can be independently confirmed because of privacy
rules.
The Marine Corps has no record of Garcia’s rank being upgraded from
private by any review board.
Likewise, the service has no record of Garcia ever deploying to
Afghanistan, and certainly not as a member of 2nd Battalion, 8th
Marine Regiment, the infantry unit Garcia said he accompanied to the
war zone in 2002. In fact, Marine officials at the battalion’s home
at Camp Lejeune, N.C., said the unit did not deploy to Afghanistan
that year.
“When I was in the Marine Corps, I was a grunt for a year and a
half, two years, and um, became a cook,” Garcia says in a video
profile for Food Network, going on to tell his story of growing up in
low-income housing in New York’s south Bronx, cooking for his family
at age 7. Marine officials said Tuesday that the only military
occupational specialty listed in Garcia’s file is food service, and
there’s no record of him holding an infantry specialty.
Now living in Havelock, N.C., not far from the gates of his final duty
station, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Garcia is the chef de
cuisine at the French fusion restaurant Stacia’s Lieu Secret <http://www.lieusecret.com>
in nearby New Bern.
When confronted with the inconsistencies, Garcia said he never
specifically told the Food Network he went to Afghanistan, but instead
let producers there “believe what they wanted to believe.”
During the June 1 telephone interview, a conference call with the chef
and a publicist for the network, Garcia was asked several times
whether he was embellishing or omitting details from his military
record. Rather than correct any inaccuracies then, the former Marine
stuck to his story.
“I was just afraid of what they would say,” Garcia said in the
follow-up interview Monday, which was not monitored by the publicist.
“I’m not dishonorable, dude. The unit was trying to cover up
hazing, a big hazing scandal.”
During a second phone interview later that day, Garcia asked that the
truth behind his military record not be revealed. He told stories of
fights that stemmed from being a victim of hazing, and of a command
that wanted to ruin him forever.
“Everything I’ve worked so hard for will come crashing down,” he
said. “Everybody there (in his military unit) told me I’d never
amount to nothing. The worst thing I did was let the Food Network
believe something that wasn’t true.”
It’s unclear what role his military past and culinary training
played in his selection for “The Next Food Network Star.” There
was no requirement for either in the audition process, and some other
contestants have no culinary training or formal kitchen experience.
But, the former Marine admitted that it was
during the final selections for the show that he let the “war
hero” notion take hold.
“That’s my fault,” he said. “I let them believe it, that’s
my fault.”
When contacted about the inconsistencies Tuesday afternoon, Food
Network issued a brief written statement:
“Food Network conducted routine background checks on the competitors
featured in the series,” according to the statement, attributed to
Bob Tuschman <http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_nf/article/0,,FOOD_20096_3754879,00.html>,
senior vice-president of programming and production for Food Network
(and a recurring judge on the show). “It has come to our attention
that some facts about Josh Garcia may have been misrepresented. We are
currently investigating this situation and will have a resolution
soon. His updated bio, pending further review, has been posted on the
Web site.”
The online profile no longer included any references to Afghanistan as
of 6 p.m. Tuesday, but still referred to Garcia as a graduate of the
New York school after the statement was released. By 8 p.m. Tuesday
night, Garcia’s profile had been updated to say that he only had
attended the school. Garcia’s personal MySpace page <http://www.myspace.com/jagbeyond>
also listed him as a graduate of the school, but as of Tuesday
evening, his MySpace account had been made private, thus restricting
access.
When contacted a final time for comment Tuesday afternoon, Garcia
finally stopped talking.
“You’re going to have to talk to the Food Network,” he said.
“I don’t have anything else to say.”
The bulk of “The Next Food Network Star” episodes have already
been filmed. New episodes of air each Sunday night (repeats air
throughout the week) through July 22, with a panel of guest judges
voting on who stays or goes.
The voting is opened up to America when the
field is down to the final two, and viewers will decide on the winner.
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| Garcia, Manny | 10/2004 | . | BIOGRAPHY
CHICANO/CHICANA
MILITARY An Accidental Soldier: Memoirs of a Mestizo in Vietnam Manny Garcia "I was born in a log cabin just like Abe Lincoln, except our cabin was a rental." Starting with this account of his humble origins, Manny Garcia, who describes himself as "a left-handed, rather contrary Mestizo-American," has written a memoir that begins in late 1947 in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado and takes him to Utah and a stint as a Mormon and ultimately to Vietnam. In late 1965, a cocky, naïve, alienated teen-ager, Garcia joined the army almost accidentally, enlisting for three years. At eighteen he became an Airborne Ranger, a combat infantryman with the crack First Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles. His book shows you the war from the point man position, up close and personal, at eye level. ...... ============ Author speaks as part of Hispanic Heritage WeekBy Hilary IngoldsbyPublished: Friday, October 15, 2004 Media Credit: Photo by Jessica Alexander |
Garcia served from Nov 66 to Nov 72
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| Garcia, Thomas M. | 12/2007 | NY | http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tmgarcia/resume.html
quote
end quote |
..... 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 of successful graduates for anyone named THOMAS M. GARCIA. 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. There are a total of ten (10) men with the last name GARCIA in the entirety of the SEAL Database, and none of them has either the first name THOMAS or a middle name beginning with the alphabetic letter “M”. 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 information you have provided, I can state conclusively that THOMAS M. GARCIA has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL. .... Very Respectfully, USN 1970-1978 |
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| Garris, Preston | 09/2007 | NC | http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/09/marine_faker_main_070916/ Former Staff Sgt. Preston Garris
From: La Grange, N.C.
The lie: In order to be appointed to the Veterans Affairs Commission
in North Carolina, Garris, in 2005, produced a DD 214 for the
Department of Veterans Affairs stating he retired as a first
lieutenant and earned a Silver Star and two Purple Hearts during the
Vietnam War, said Charlie Smith, assistant secretary of the North
Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs.
The reality: His real DD 214 provided by the Marine Corps states he
got out of the Corps as a staff sergeant. One Purple Heart he earned
after a portion of his leg was amputated due to a wound he sustained
in the Vietnam War is not disputed. At press time, the Marine Corps
was still trying to find records of his Silver Star and the second
Purple Heart. Doug Sterner, who maintains a database of Silver Star
recipients and is frequently contacted by the FBI and other government
agencies for confirmation of awards, could not find him in his
database.
The result: Once members began questioning his service in 2005, he
resigned in November of that year, but he did not admit embellishing
his record. He was also running for junior vice commander-in-chief of
the Southern Conference of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at that time.
His biography posted during his campaign on the VFW Web site reported
he earned the Silver Star, Combat Action Ribbon and two Purple Hearts.
Garris lost the election.
His case was investigated by the FBI, and the results of the
investigation were handed off to the Justice Department this summer,
but no charges have yet been filed, said FBI agent Greg Baker, who
oversaw the investigation.
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12/30/2007 |
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| Garland, Ronald Christopher | . | . | Claims joined at 17 ( Actual Dob 1973 or 1974) - Special Forces, Army Ranger, Jumped into Panama and Army Officer in Kuwait |
QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!Served April 7, 1993 to July 10, 1995. Awards: Army lapel Button, National Defense Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Sharpshooter Marksmanship Qual w/Grenade Bar, Marksman Qual w/Rifle Bar. Discharged "Specialist". From April 16 1993 to July 30 1993 - Served with Co B 2/54th INF USAITB FBO. Was a Fighting Vehicle Infantryman with E co 2-16th IN Ft Riley Kansas till "med hold" discharge. Oct 4 1994. Hillwood Plaza TN - Executive Martial Arts. |
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| Gean, Gregory Neal | 11/2005 | Laevenworth KS |
Claims he was an F-14 Fighter Pilot and
got discharged for sickness he said he encountered while flying.
Allegedly in the past has illegally
represented himself as a Police Lt. from the Leavenworth Police
Department. Also still tells people that when in the Navy as an
Aviator that he held the rank of Ensign.
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Records indicate Gean
was in an Aircraft Maintenance Indoctrination course from 2 Sep 87 to
15 Sep 87. And from 21 Sep 87 to 05 Oct 87 Gregg attended
Avionics Technician School in which he did not graduate and was
dropped due to lack of motivation. He was in for a period of about 15
months and never went any further than an E-1 in rank.
Rumors abound that Gregg went AWOL while on active duty.
Gean works at a local GM Car dealership
as a car salesman. Probably partially due to the fact that
they wanted to associate themselves with a former Navy man as the
dealership put in their ad in the Leavenworth Times, "Our Gregg
is a former Navy man."
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| Gee, Theodore Vernon | 08/2007 | . |
Claims to have served from 1982 to
1989 and then was called back up to "be the one of the first on the
ground for Desert Shield/Storm". Says his rank was a CPT when
he got out but went to college from 82 to 85 and only took one year of
ROTC. Claims "rank of O3 in Special Operations". He claims he was a Ranger. |
Actual Records | |||||||
| Genot,
Werner J. aka "Jack" |
09/2003 | Marengo, Illinois | Claims
USMC POW Chosin Reservoir - escaped after 8 months Korea. Claims
retired USMC Captain, but no records of receiving retired pay, field
commission by Chesty Puller while he was a member of the 7th Marines and
Chesty was CO of the 1st Marines.
Jack Genot was
kicked out of the Marine Corps League. The documentation provided
and additional documents gathered with his date of birth show he could
not be at the Chosen Reservoir. |
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| George, Chester | . | Tuscon AZ | Claims Medal of Honor, PH and special ops | . | |||||||
| George, John Edward | 10/2006 | NC | www.starnewsonline.com
Article published Oct
22, 2006 Please see the newspaper
website for the rest of the story! |
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| Gerka, Jerry | . | Florida | Claims Navy SEAL, Claims Medal of Honor. Was (may still be) a member of Vietnam Vets of Florida, Northside chapter. 05/2003 | . | |||||||
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Ghalam, Shariar
aka Shariar Meshkin-Ghalam aka "Jack" Ghalam
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03/2007 |
Boulder, Colorado
and/or Chugwater, Wyoming
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Ghalam claims he was a 1st Lt. F-5E pilot who "did 823
hours of combat" against Iraqi fighters with "62
aerial kills" (two of them by 20mm cannon).
He also claims that he did contract work for the US military in post-9/11 Arabic translation and intel analysis.
Ghalam has given many interviews and public speeches
highlighting his air force combat claims, the below of which
was videotaped:
American Patriotism: An Immigrant's Perspective. 9/26/01, 7pm
at CU Boulder
(April 24, 2007, Update: Shariar Ghalam's credibility as a
source is in serious question. I apologize to my readers for
unintentionally conveying information regarding Ghalam that I
now regard as dubious. -- Ari Armstrong)
Photo and MORE |
NPRC could locate NO MILITARY RECORD |
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| Gilbert,
Nelson T.
aka "Shane" |
03/2008 | Vicksburg
AZ |
Claims SEAL from 65 thru 74.
Had a special tag in Kansas (USNSEAL) Claims to have been in service for 9 1/2 years and said he got out when he had his throat cut and got shot. Even claims to have shot a little girl while serving. Alos was claiming to be a Marshal in Vicksburg. He wears a marshal badge and carries handcuffs as well. Has had a 02 P71 Interceptor and marked it up like a police car. Has quit the job, and moved on probably back to Arizona. |
NOT
a SEAL.
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| Gillette, Rock H. | 10/2007 | . | Obituary: Rock H. Gillette '64
25Oct07 - Rock H. Gillette, age 65, of Bristol Township, died Friday,
October 12, 2007 at Chandler Hall Hospice, Newtown.
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..... If the name
you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT
find a listing in the SEAL database of successful graduates for anyone named
ROCK H. GILLETTE. I have also
examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar
pronunciations. There are only two (2) men with the last name GILLETTE who
have completed the UDT/SEAL training program since the end of WWII; one man
graduated from training in JULY 1985, the other man graduated from training
in DECEMBER 1997. 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 information you have provided, I can state conclusively that ROCK H. GILLETTE has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a UDT “Frogman” or US Navy SEAL...... 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 |
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| GILLUM, ANTHONY D | 02/2008 | MI | THE STORY | THE RECORDS | |||||||
| Gilmore, Steve | 2002 residence NOT listed under Gilmore. | Springfield, MO | Claiming SEALS and/or
Frogman... Claims Navy SEAL Team 6 AND Marine Force Recon 1, 2, 3 and 4. Claims BUDS 1976, discharged from Yuma as a "Renegade". Member of American Legion, was present to "cut the cake" as youngest Marine at 2001 Marine Corps Ball. Tales related to news reporter, Navy SEAL and another Marine. |
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| Gish, Douglas Edward | . | Midvale, UT,
Draper, UT, Santa Anna, CA, Anaheim, CA |
Claims F-4 Phantom pilot in VN. Says always go for the one wire landing ....claims shot down twice, evaded capture. . Dob Apr 48. Has police/court problems back to1995. Cannot I.D. a Phantom when in front of him. | ACTUAL Aircraft crash, fire and rescue USMC E5 | |||||||
| Gleiter, Roy | 09/2007 | . |
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48 yrs old = born
approx 1959.
================ The American involvement in the Vietnam War ended when U.S. troops
left in April 1975. For years after the war, the Vietnamese government
had limited relations with the U.S. government. ============= Veteran added to Pentagon list: Beilke was last
official combat soldier to leave Vietnam |
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| Glick, Jeffery | 11/2004 | Lyndhurst, OH | Claiming
SPECIAL FORCES and "GREEN BERET"... The 57-year-old Glick said he had served his country in an “advisory role,” but did not elaborate or offer verification. He served in Vietnam. Three tours. Special Forces. Green Beret. Decorated with medals. EXPOSED
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=26077
===================Councilman admits he didn't serve in Vietnam
POSTED: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:45:28 AM LYNDHURST, OH -- A Lyndhurst city councilman
has admitted that he isn’t a veteran, after previously insisting he
fought in Vietnam.
Sunday, November 14, 2004
Regina Brett
Plain Dealer Columnist
The Lyndhurst councilman lied and lied and lied.
He even lied to a soldier's mother. Like a fish story, the lie grew bigger each time. He served in Vietnam. Three tours. Special Forces. Green Beret. Decorated with medals.
Jeffrey Glick had his combat routine down pat. He would
sit for hours and dazzle people with stories about secret
missions......
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| Glycenfer, George | 1999-2003 | NJ | Claims Korean War POW. DAV - Claims Purple Heart. VA states NO service connected disability | . | |||||||
| Godbee
Jr, Visal aka Vince |
2002 2003 10/2006 |
Wash DC |
CLAIMING COMBAT STATUS Claims USMC combat sniper, claims retired DC police, now "security". |
ACTUAL RECORDS | |||||||
| Gogerty. Sherrie
E aka Sherrie Record |
11/2006 | CA | Claims that she had won a Silver Star for bravery in Viet Nam - she had been shot down in an Army helicopter, and while the pilot was unconscious, she took his pistol and killed an enemy soldier who was charging toward the downed helicopter. | Served March 73 to June 77. Served in Germany. Only awards National Defense, Good Conduct. | |||||||
| Golden, Robert A. | 08/2007 | . |
http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/G-Quest/
All the above was confirmed from his Form 66.
All his time in RVN was with the 5th Bn 27
Artillery 41st Artillery group. His
web page reeks of "padded" experience and qualifications. Golden's
web page, Ranger Bob: http://www.greenberet.net/
Url for his records: http://www.sflistteamhouse.com/G-Quest/golden_robert.pdf
Wearing jump wings 3 plus years prior to attending jump
school. Golden fresh out of Artillery OCS. Also, the first
time I have seen a wannabee wear an unauthorized Good Conduct Medal.
He had 10 months enlisted service. Was not qualified for a GCM:
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| Gonzales, Gilbert | 07/2003 | Golden Village Palms RV Resort - Hemet, CA | Seen at Apache Flats RV park. Claims Medal of Honor, "will show certificate" when challenged and confronted. Claims MOH presented by Colin Powell. Departed the RV park after confrontation. Also claims Army Warrant Officer, medivac helicopter pilot, fully disabled. | . | |||||||
| Gooding John Mansell | 09/2007 | FL | Claims to have been
a Marine serving in such major actions as the Tet Offensive, Special
Forces Operations in Cambodia, Khe Sanh, the Dak To Special Forces Camp
attack, Hue City, an NCOIC at the Marine Corps DI School, Parachute Jump
Instructor, an adviser to the Rhodesian Army for the USMC during the civil
war, a doctor who has performed mercenary work in interrogations and torture
for the CIA and NSA, a USMC Force Reconnaissance Member in Vietnam and
Cambodia, a prizewinning boxer for the USMC, and one of the residual special
forces teams who remained in Vietnam to do cleanup work after the American
withdrawal.
He has promoted himself as a highly qualified doctor who learned leadership and stability under fire while serving in such high-risk, notable battles. He has made a reputation for himself as a doctor who saw firsthand the horror of war while holding dying Marines and Green Berets in Vietnam. Claims to have thrown away the four purple hearts, silver star, Navy
Cross, and other medals he received in Vietnam. Many people know him as a
bitter Vietnam Vet who has seen so much horror that he regularly lectures
people on it. Furthermore, claims he was once an Olympic alternate, a former bodyguard to Menachem Begin and one of the wounded bodyguards who threw himself in front of Anwar Sadat. His license plates "Force Recon". |
actual records | |||||||
| Goodpasture, Thomas | . | Portland, OR | Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... | . | |||||||
| Goodrow, Timothy Edward | 12/2006 | Wash DC area |
Claims and wears, the Navy Cross, Silver Star, Combat Action Ribbon
(and more), also claims to have been a FMF Corpsman....
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Actual records and more | |||||||
| Goon, Walter E. | 09/2007 | Florida |
Claims to have been member of Seal Team 6, Vietnam Vet,
Sniper, Black Ops into Laos, Cambodia and secret missions lasting months to
capture NVA generals. Discovered Secret enemy Supply lines that no one else
could find and destroyed. Claims PTSD and also states all military
records lost in fire when asked to verify.
Works for a home building contractor: Classic Homes |
ACTUAL RECORDS | |||||||
| Grade, Jeffery T | . | formerly with Harnischfeger - Illinois | claimed Navy EA-6B combat pilot, shot down and forced to fight for freedom "Rambo style... See July 12, 1999 BARRON's. No record found by Barron's or US News and World Report (Nov 22 199 article.) |
QUESTION EVERYTHING !!! |
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| Graham, Donald Augustus | 08/2003 | ALASKA | Graham, Donald Augustus 88, died Aug. 27, 2003, at Alaska Regional Hospital.... Mr. Graham won the Medal of Honor and later the Silver Star for gallantry in action over Milne Bay on Aug. 26, 1942.... http://www.adn.com/obituaries/ | . | |||||||
| Graham, John | 1997 | Missouri | USMC -- Claims 23 months Korean War POW, actual 15 months mailroom. STILL CLAIMING POW - March 2003 - Quoted in Springfield, MO, NEWS LEADER March 25, 2003 as "former POW." Graham was confronted in 2001 by his peers re his lies. | . | |||||||
| GRANT, JAMES ALEXANDER | 2005 | . |
Claims
to have been an army ranger but knows nothing about the school.
He has some fantastic stories about the 3 years he was in the
Army. |
MOS was Indirect fire Infantryman. Discharged E1, served Feb 19, 198- - June 8, 2001. Awards: Army Service Ribbon; Air Assault Badge. | |||||||
| Grasso, Dick | 01/2007 | . |
Grasso:
‘This Case Is About Honor'
In
an interview today, former NYSE chair Dick Grasso
told Bloomberg that the total costs of his lawsuit challenging his
infamous compensation package maybe be over $100 million. But guess
what? He doesn’t care. “What this case is about is honor,” Grasso
offered, in what, oddly, sounded like an affected Italian accent.
“It’s not about money anymore.” Grasso
also told Bloomberg that “What we’re asking for is the right to go
to trial, a trial by a jury of my peers, hopefully later this year. Once
the whole story is told, my reputation will be vindicated and my case
will be over turned.” We’re told that the following is a rough draft
of the opening statement Grasso has prepared
(to which we’ve added a few notes): In
the hopes of clearing my family name, in the sincere desire to give my
children their fair share of the American way
of life without a blemish on their name and background. I have appeared
before this committee and given it all the cooperation [come on
now—you’ve been pretty difficult along the way. Someone (Judge
Ramos), and we’re not saying who (Judge Ramos) even told you “you
are acting like a petulant child. Do petulant children get to keep $190
million compensation packages? I don’t think so, Mister"] in my
power. I
consider my being called before this committee an act of prejudice to
all Americans of Italian extraction. [That’s a bit of a stretch] I
consider it a great dishonor to me personally to have to deny that I am
a criminal. I wish to have the following noted for the record. That
I served my country faithfully and honorably in World War II and was
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in defense of my
country.
That I have never been arrested or indicted for any crime
whatsoever... [what about those DUIs
back in the summer of ’71? Do those not count?] that no proof linking
me to any criminal conspiracy, whether it is called Mafia or Cosa
Nostra or whatever other name you wish to give [“Mafia” is fine],
has ever been made public. Only one man has made charges against me, and
that man is known to be a murderer, arsonist and rapist. [Really, we
think Spitzer might have a problem with this part] And
yet this committee had used this person to besmirch my name. My personal
protest can only be made to the people of this country [It’s kind of a
stretch to say people in Michigan or Nevada care about this. New York
we’ll give you, maybe New Jersey but that’s really all we can
offer]. I can only thank God that in this country we have a legal system
and courts of law to protect innocent people from wild accusation
[Obviously you didn’t follow the OJ trial]. I thank God for our
democratic due process of Law that shields me from the false charges
made by this committee's witness. I have not taken refuge behind the
Fifth Amendment, though counsel advised me to do so. I
challenge this committee to produce any witness or evidence against me,
and if they do not, I hope they will have the decency to clear my name
with the same publicity with which they have now besmirched it [That
could be a tough one, you know Spitzer’s
always had a hard time saying “I’m sorry”]. I ask this without
malice, in the interests of fair play. The
blog above was posted at http://www.dealbreaker.com/2007/01/grasso_this_case_is_about_hono.php
and contains a link to your story. My concern, what apparently is a
quote from Mr. Grasso regarding his World
War II military service. (The quote is NOT in your article, so I can not
yet independently verify if this is actually a quote from Mr. Grasso.)
If this is a quote from Mr. Grasso (“That
I served my country faithfully and honorably in World War II and was
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for actions in defense of my
country.”) I
believe we have a major problem here. While my database on World War II
DSC recipients does have a few “holes” in it, I believe it is 99%
complete and accurate and does NOT reflect anyone with the surname
GRASSO receiving the Distinguished Service Cross in WWII or any other
war. 1)
Verify from the record if Mr. Grasso has
claimed to have earned the DSC, and if that is correct: 2)
Endeavor to verify that award through military records. My
believe is you will not find any record of him receiving the DSC, which
would make any such fraudulent claim to such since President Bush signed
the Stolen Valor Act on December 20, 2006, a Federal Offense and would
certainly add a SERIOUS complication to the matters facing the former
head of the NYSE. Feel free to contact me at any time if you have questions or need more information. Sincerely, Doug C.
Douglas Sterner |
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| Graziano, Michael | 06/2006 | . |
Dear
Mr. Chaney, In
a Missoulian article which you authored,
entitled “Project gives
Frenchtown students new appreciation for veterans”
(pasted below my signature), you cite a man named Michael Graziano
as having been “a Navy SEAL in 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 limited information
you have provided in your article, I can state conclusively that no
one named MICHAEL
GRAZIANO
EVER completed SEAL training, nor ever served as a US Navy SEAL or UDT
“Frogman”. Please be aware, as I described above, that the SEAL
database also includes the names of 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, including those who served before the acronym
“SEAL” was created. Thus it is currently acceptable to refer to a
member of the WWII Naval Combat Demolition Units of D-Day fame as a
“SEAL”. 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. This informal exchange of bona fides
virtually always includes the following minimal information: (1)
What was each man’s BUD/S class number? (2)
Where did each man’s training take place? (3)
When (specific date) did each man graduate from Basic Underwater
Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training? The
wording and tone of your brief mention of this man in your article
would seem to indicate that Mr. Michael
Graziano is now deceased, since
the information regarding his service appears to have come from his 7th
grade grandson. This makes for a very unfortunate and somewhat
‘delicate’ situation. Michael
Graziano’s claims to his
family of having served as a Navy SEAL are false, and that false claim
is an insult to the men who REALLY completed the training and served
on the US Navy SEAL Teams. It is most particularly insulting and
hurtful on this MEMORIAL DAY as the members of the Naval Special
Warfare community honor the memories of the forty-nine (49) real SEALs
whose lives were lost in the Sadly,
I have had to deal with too many similar cases in the past; most often
as a result of receiving a copy of a published obituary. The public
has a right to know the truth, and the honor and dignity of the real
fallen Navy SEALs should be upheld. At the same time it serves no good
purpose to make a huge public issue of the matter and humiliate the
surviving family members of the man who lied. In these cases, unless
those false SEAL claims are literally being ‘set in stone’ on a
grave marker, it has been customary to request that a very brief, very
simple “correction” be published; something to the effect “In a
recent Missoulian article Mr. Michael
Graziano, a US Navy veteran,
was incorrectly identified as having been a US Navy SEAL. The Missoulian
regrets this error”. In the very few instances when surviving family
members were planning to have the false SEAL claims included on grave
markers, more extensive and substantive documentation was sent to them
and to the newspapers in order to curtail that action. In
the event that Mr. Michael
Graziano is not deceased, it
would certainly be appropriate to discuss the details contained in
this email with him. I would be pleased to provide any additional
information that might be necessary or helpful for such an exchange. Almost
no one in the media or general public is aware of the existence of the
SEAL database; most are completely ignorant of the ability to rapidly
obtain authoritative verification or denial of claims regarding
military service as a SEAL. Because of this ignorance and in light of
the rise in respectability regarding our nation’s military veterans
since the days of Vietnam and the anti-war protesters, the incidents
of military imposters is rising at an alarming rate. After years of
fielding between twenty and fifty individual inquires about claimed
SEAL service every day, and upon comparing the number of real SEALs
reported to the number of SEAL imposters reported, the statistics show
that in our nation at the present time there are more than 300 SEAL
imposters for every man who really served as a SEAL (or as a member of
a Naval Special Warfare precursor unit). During the entire history of
Naval Special Warfare, beginning in the early days of 1942 and
continuing to the present day, there have only been approximately
10,700 members; this number includes all past veterans of NSW and all
currently active/serving members. In light of the many millions of men
and women who have served in the Substantiation
of the information which I have provided herein may be obtained from
the Naval Special Warfare Archives (originators of the SEAL database)
or the POW Network (with 16 years of experience in dealing with all
sorts of military imposters); both organizations are included as
‘copies to’ addressees of this email. On
this Memorial Day when we in the Naval Special Warfare community honor
the memories of our fallen SEAL comrades, your attention to this
matter is greatly appreciated. Should you require any further
information regarding this situation or the problems with military
imposters in general, please feel free to contact me at your
convenience. Very
respectfully, Steve
Robinson
Project
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