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 have made VARIOUS or multiple claims that cannot be substantiated or have been proven FALSE. 

 

I - J

Name                                    Date Reported Hometown Claims Findings
Iannone, John
aka JOHN YANNONE
over and over Pittsburg, PA
08/2003 -  AMERICAN FORK UTAH.
Claims Medal of Honor
CLAIMING SILVER STAR

 

CONVICTED
aka JOHN YANNONE

Tell him what you think:  (801) 455-0215

Idema, Keith 
aka Idema, John Keith
aka Idema, Jonathan
aka "Jack"
03/2003
2004
arrested overseas Claims Special Forces 18 years, youngest ever at 18. Delta Force

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Insco, David . Central Wisconsin Claims Medal of Honor .
Ivery, Louis
aka Louis Ivory
aka Lois Ivery
aka L J Ivery
08/2005 El Paso, TX Claims Army Ranger, Special Forces 5th Special Forces Group, Retired 1st Sgt. Claims 3 tours of duty in Vietnam, 5 tours Korea, 1 tour Europe, various stateside locations. Claim Master Jump Wings, Air Assault Wings, Pathfinder Wings, Drill Sgt Badge, Recondo School Badge, Jungle Expert Badge, Silver Star, Bronze Star w/OLC, Purple Heart w/OLC, CIB, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry AND MORE. 

All City, All-State in football and baseball for all 4 yrs of High School.
PhD in Education.

Expelled from Ranger Assoc and Special Forces Assoc for forged and fraudulent documentation in late 1990's. Uses multiple names, dates of birth and social security numbers.

Education Degree also bogus.

ACTUAL RECORDS

Jackson, Bert D . . Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman...  .
Jackson, Daniel L 05/2006 KS Claims rescued NUMEROUS Prisoners of War from Laos in the 70's while with "101st Airborne, 50 Duece." Claims 3 Pysch degrees, gained during 15 yrs in prison  (Four felonies per www.dc.ks.us.kasper2/offender.asp?id-1304 )

Claims on video tape.

"The veterans served in Army from 15 January 1975 to 13 February 1975, for a total of 29 days. He never got beyond basic training at Ft. Jackson, S.C."
Jackson, James "SEAMUS" 06/2007
again
06/2007
. The tale .
Jacobson (Jacobsen), Dennis . . Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman...  .
Jacobs, Larry Sherman 01/2005

08/2006

12/2007

Salt Lake City, Utah Larry was an academic advisor in 1986, at the Hospital Corpsman Training School, in Great Lakes Illinois.  He was known to all at that time as a decorated NAVY SEAL, and claimed among other things, to be a recipient of one of the nations highest awards, the NAVY CROSS.  In 86, he walked around the halls of the training facility as though he owned them.  He demanded respect, and took command of every classroom, or in any social atmosphere by wearing his khaki Navy Officer uniform, with pride.  He was on the Mike Douglas show, talking about his exploits in Vietnam, as a war hero.  Amongst several of his claims, he claimed to be the only surviving member of SEAL TEAM 13, which apparently he walked in battle in Vietnam with this team, and was the only member to walk out of that jungle alive. In 1988, during a combat awareness drill, on Camp Pendleton compound he showed up, still wearing the NAVY SEAL Trident, jump wings, and this time, the hardhat emblem that symbolizes being an expert diver as well.  By then, he was a Lieutenant Commander....

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WOW…….shit………I actually remember seeing this MF When I was in Hosp. Corpsman school in “Great Mistakes” in 1985.  Jacobs was wearing a Medal of Honor ribbon (blue with stars) over his right chest pocket by itself and I saw him (then a lieutenant) walking with two enlisteds and someone saluted him with the left hand….

...the story I heard……..that he survived an attack that killed everyone in his unit and “crawled out of the jungle after 2 months” (or something…….).  I never could find him listed as SEAL-MOH winner….

Previously EXPOSED IN STOLEN VALOR

Jacobus, Michael J 07/2006
again
FL
 The Plain Dealer 1993
Michael Jacobus wore a Navy uniform to his father's funeral, dress Whites at his wedding and a flight suit on military bases. He also Never served in the Navy, an investigator said yesterday.

Jacobus fooled two ex-wives, other relatives, girlfriends and the Navy for nearly 10 years, said Diane Nelson, an agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

"His motivation appears to be that he was the, quote, black sheep in his family," Nelson said at a detention hearing. "Being in the Navy Was an ego boost for him."

There is no evidence Jacobus collected military pay or attempted to fy an aircraft.

Ruth Pavilonis of Willoughby, who is Jacobus' fiancee, said she had Given a statement to naval investigators. But she declined to comment further and referred questions to his lawyer. Jacobus has Said Pavilonis did not find out he wasn't really an officer until His arrest.

He was arrested Oct. 29 after Navy officials became suspicious after He posed as a test pilot at several bases.

Yesterday, Magistrate Susan Novotny ordered Jacobus, 38, held Without bond until his Jan. 3 trial for allegedly impersonating an Officer. She said she did not believe Jacobus could be trusted to return for trial.

Jacobus, who is being held at the Escambia County Jail, earlier Yesterday pleaded not guilty before U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, a former naval aviator. But Assistant U.S. Public Defender Robert Dennis told Novotny he was unsure whether the case would go To trial, and Jacobus said he wanted to get it over with.

"I need to get my life straightened out," Jacobus said. He is Originally from the Fort Pierce, Fla., area.

Witnesses have described Jacobus as acting and dressing like an Officer since 1984, and the Navy has documentation of a 1986 Incident at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Nelson said.

Jacobus said he stopped the charade after the Navy confronted him in 1986 but resumed it recently when he became depressed.


In October, he posed as a test pilot at naval air stations in Pensacola, Marietta, Ga., Patuxent River, Md., and Oceana, Va., where he was arrested Oct. 29 after Navy officers became suspicious and reported him, Nelson said.

The Pensacola station, home to the National Museum of Naval Aviation, historic Fort Barrancas and the Barrancas National Cemetery, is open to the public. Jacobus used forged travel orders at the other bases, Nelson said.

Several women believed the ruse, and a woman in Akron has accused Jacobus of taking $56,000 she gave him to invest for her, Nelson said. No additional information regarding that lawsuit was available.

While Pavilonis apparently did not know of Jacobus' background, he said he told his second wife and relatives he was a fake in 1988.

Jacobus could face three years in prison, but sentencing guidelines call for no more than six months, Dennis said.
He is still claiming to be a Navy Pilot and goes as far as to claim that he was working in the Pentagon the day of the 911 attacks and flew several sorties over Afghanistan the following year.

Ham radio operator with the call sign  of N4DIA

 

 

 

Jarka, Edward H . IL

CLAIMING COMBAT STATUS
Claims name changed by "the government." Claims Bronze Star, Purple Heart, E-7!

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Jarvis, James G. . Kansas (Branson, MO - 1999 St. Louis, MO - 2001 Springfield, MO)

NOT AUTHORIZED to wear ANY award or decoration
Claimed Vietnam Helicopter Pilot, Purple Heart,  Medal of Honor

  • Records indicate he is NOT AUTHORIZED to wear ANY award or decoration. Served August 5, 1974 to September 15, 1975.  DoB Dec 11, 1954.

  • Former VFW POST COMMANDER of Mt Vernon Post 4541. Was found to be INELIGIBLE after his term in May 1999. Has LIFE MEMBERSHIP.  HAS VHPA MEMBERSHIP ROSTER he uses to validate his claims.

  • Reports in July of 2000 indicate Jarvis STILL active - this time claiming Medal of Honor with citation certificate.

  • 2000 - Claims CW2, Army, 69-79, Special Forces Group Airborne/1st Cav 101st Airborn Avn.  Dates of Vietnam Service 9/70-7-71; 1-72-11/72; 1/73-12/73;1/74-12/74. Claims DFC, Silver and Bronze Star. OCCUPATION JOB TITLE: "IMPERSONATOR". Springfield, MO, VVA member.

  • Additional units claimed: "5th SFG Abn 1st Special Force"; "111th Abn 188th AAC"; "227th Avn 1st Cav 180th AB"; "170th Avn"

  • November 2001  - claims SF Medic. REAPPEARED in Branson only to walk into the same room with the helicopter pilots that nailed him in 1999 while looking for "his" SF buds. He has moved back to Springfield, MO. Now in suit and tie. 1999 in Purple Heart Jacket, hat, and FLIGHT SUIT beneath jacket!

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Jeffers, Neil E . . Claiming SPECIAL FORCES and "GREEN BERET"...
Claims SF from 70-91. 
Records state CARPENTER/CONSTRUCTION - in Missouri, Alaska, Korea, Germany and New York from 1974 till 1990. NO SF training, NO Vietnam medals.
Jennings, Ray El Paso 1999
02/2005
12/2006
Clarendon Texas
bi-weekly 
Sept 99

POWs, MIAs to be honored with banquet in Borger (Texas).

A former member of the US Special Forces in South Vietnam will be the featured speaker at the POW-MIA banquet set for 7 pm Saturday, September 18, in the Student Union Building at Frank Phillips College.

The speaker, Ray Jennings of El Paso, First Sergeant (Ret.), served two tours in Vietnam. One tour was with the 101st Airborne Brigade at Hue, and the other tour was with the Special Forces Group at Ban Me Thuot.

"Mr. Jennings is a highly south-after speaker," said Larry Barnett, president of North Plains Chapter 404, Vietnam Veterans of America.

"He has been featured at many veterans and military affairs gatherings. We are honored to have Mr. Jennings for this special occasion.
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Used forged DD-214 that says he was awarded three Purple Hearts.  Avail is an audio tape where he is talking on a radio station about being in Special Forces, being wounded in combat and being put in for the CONGRESSIONAL Medal of Honor but only received the Distinguished Service Cross.  Also  4 photographs of him wearing the medals while in uniform and wearing the Green Beret performing the POW/MIA ceremony at Angel Fire, New Mexico at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ... newspaper clipping where he states "Jennings Remembers Recommendation for Congressional Medal of Honor.

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2006
Says he had taken the eyes out of 2 green berets in a fight in Nha Trang, was a 6th degree black belt and his hands were registered with the police,   2 tours in  Nam, etc

Vietnam Veterans of America has revoked his life membership in January 2005.

 

EXPOSED

Jensen, Michael  . . Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... and  SNIPER no record of service
Jerde, David A 07/2006 MO Claims Navy SEAL in Vietnam 1967-1972. Claims youngest ever to be trained. Claims mercenary in Falklands, necklace of "ears..." (testified under oath) Records Requested. NOT  a SEAL. Born in 1955.
Jett, Frank Stephen . . .
Johnson, Art  December 06, 2002 . "... like most of his friends, and men his age, Johnson enlisted in the army on January 13, 1942. To get into Army Special Forces, you have to possess a higher IQ than most, and it was something that Johnson qualified for. He didn't advance too far because he was considered too "wild." They called him "freight train" back in those days.... When he left for the war, he weighed 250 pounds. When he got out he was around 120, and the man stands tall at 6'6". The drop in weight was due to the fact that he spent 15 months in a Korean Prisoner of War camp after he was wounded in combat and captured by the Koreans. "I played as dumb as I possibly could and during interrogations they couldn't get anything from me," he said. Counting anything around him was how he survived the 15 months, and was the only way to "remain sane ... It was suicide to attempt to escape."... (Suffolk Life Newspapers 12/06/02) .
Johnson, Harold D. ("Doug")  . . Our Dad Harold D. ("Doug") Johnson quietly passed away May 21, 2002 at the age of 85. He has now joined with his wife of 54 years, Margaret Johnson and all of his friends. He was a man of great wonder, intelligence and a gypsy at heart, who worked on the original space project in the 50's at Redstone National Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama and helped design and build many of the buildings and attractions in the Phoenix Amusement Park in the 60's known as Legend City. He served in World War II and the Korean Wars receiving numerous medals including the Medal of Honor, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He will be greatly missed for his kindness, wisdom and many great artistic  talents. He is survived by [clipped]      Arizona Republic newspaper, dated Monday May 27, 2002
Johnston, Lee A. 11/2006 .
 
This mission was relayed by John Colter in Baton Rouge.
THIS IS AN APPROVED MISSION REQUEST FROM THE FAMILY.

Mike/Eagle

This is an APPROVED MISSION – date and times still pending.  

On Wednesday night, Nov. 8, a US Army combat veteran of the Vietnam War, 9th Infantry Div., 75th Regiment, 4th Battalion, LEE JOHNSTON, was involved in a fatal motorcycle crash at around 2145 hrs.  Details on the crash are not available aside from it appeared to be a single-vehicle crash and alcohol was not a factor.  Additional details on military service are pending and should be available by tomorrow (11/11) or Sunday at the latest.

Lee was an Honorary Member of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the Blue Knights, LA VII.  After separating from the military after
Vietnam , he worked as an OTR truck driver until becoming a Toyota service technician with Coleman Toyota for many years, working his way up to service manager.  Most recently, Lee worked as the service manager at Calmes Motor Sports in Denham Springs. 

His wife, Betty, has invited the PGR and the Blue Knights to attend the services.   The services are still being arranged but the target date is Monday. The funeral home is Charlet Funeral Home,
4230 High St. in Zachary, services will be at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Zachary.  More likely to end up going Tuesday or even Wednesday as the family is trying to have him interred in the Port Hudson National Cemetery – and they are closed due to the holiday weekend.    

Lee Johnston obituary

Lee Johnston   
Johnston, Lee A devoted husband and loving father, he died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center as a result of a motorcycle accident. He was 50 years old, a resident of Slaughter and a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. Visiting at Charlet Funeral Home Inc., Zachary, on Monday, Nov. 13, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with recitation of the rosary at 7 p.m. Visitation at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Zachary, on Tuesday, from 8:30 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m., celebrated by the Rev. Jeffrey Bayhi. Interment will be in Port Hudson National Cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Betty Crochet Johnston, Slaughter; three daughters, Melissa Massey Foster and husband Benton, Zachary, Dr. Leslie Massey Birke and husband Matthew, River Ridge, and Elizabeth Massey Stelly and husband Eddie, Opelousas; two sons, Christopher Lee Johnston and fiancée Michelle Holloway, Texarkana, Texas, and Patrick Stephen Johnston, Honolulu; 11 grandchildren, Gabriel, Garrett and Dylan Gustafson, Thomas, Adam and Elizabeth Foster, Noah and Madeleine Birke and Luke, Beau and Ethan Stelly; parents, Harry James Johnston and Olive Ann Johnston; two sisters, twin sister, Gina Johnston, Houston, and Rachel Vedder, Chicago; two brothers, John Charles Bogeman, Houston, and Gregory Paul Johnston, Albuquerque, N.M.; two sisters-in-law and a brother-in-law, Jane St. Germain and Patricia and David Borskey; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by an infant sister, Katherine Marie Constable; father-in-law, Lavoide J. "Buddy" Crochet; and maternal grandmother, Irma McClain.
Published in The Advocate from 11/11/2006 - 11/13/2006.

Actual Records

Jones, John Melvin 2002, 2003 Addison OH,  WV Claims Nam vet, POW, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Silver Star, MEDAL OF HONOR. Served USMC. REMOVED from AMVETS chapter membership. Attempted to join local American Legion with false DD214. .
Jones, John R. . OR Claiming SPECIAL FORCES and "GREEN BERET"...
100% disability, VA POW ID. POW SS claims Special Forces, rescued w/2 others by SEAL Team 11. VFW Junior Vice.
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Jones, Montana 01/2007 TN http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2007/01/27/news/centralcoast/news07.txt

Highway Patrol honors life-saving truck driver and officers
By Julian J. Ramos/Staff writer

Montana Jones is a lifesaver, but he isn't making much of it.

“I don't think it was anything special,” said Jones, a Tennessee-based truck driver and former Navy SEAL. “I did what I've been trained to do in my life.”

Friday at the Buellton CHP station, Jones and four local CHP officers received certificates of commendation signed by CHP Commissioner Michael L. Brown for their actions after a September rollover accident in the Los Alamos area.

Jones was behind the wheel of his big rig, hauling tomatoes, on the night of Sept. 26, 2006, traveling south on Highway 101 near Los Alamos when a 1991 Ford Probe driven by a 43-year-old Santa Maria woman sped by him.

In a split-second the car, driven by Sandra Gomez, entered the center divider. Gomez reportedly overcorrected, causing the car to roll and eject her, and then she was pinned from the waist down when the car landed on top of her.

Jones, who had extensive pararescue training in the Navy, along with another driver who happened to be a nurse, rushed to Gomez.

Jones - who said he keeps two full medical kits in his truck - worked with the nurse to clear Gomez's airway until it was deemed safe to lift the car off her with the help of CHP officers and other drivers.

After a search with a flashlight along the roadway for a passenger who may have been ejected - ultimately, searchers realized Gomez had been alone in the car - Jones jumped into his truck and continued his drive. ....

Julian J. Ramos can be reached at 688-5522, Ext. 6008 or jramos@santamariatimes.com.

Jan. 27, 2007

NOT A SEAL
Jorgensen, Jack Scott
aka Jack Scott Jorgenson
aka Storky Jorgenson
aka Jack Scott Jorgeson
aka Storky

07/01
04/2002
3rd report 04/2002

Vinton,  IA  Claiming SPECIAL FORCES and "GREEN BERET"...


Claims: 5th SF Group June 70-71; POW, Hanoi Hilton [3 days to 3 yrs]; Staff Sgt, Army; In country Sept 69 - May 72; wounded 3rd tour; guest speaker on tour in IA mid 80's - on PTSD and his experiences.

ALSO claims newspaper background; AP reporter; Sports Illustrated reporter/photographer; Clemson U football grad.

St. Louis cannot locate any records with SS number, unit/POW claims. Received VA TREATMENT - has received POW monthly benefit payments etc totaling approx FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($512,000.00)! HAS BEEN REPORTED FOR FRAUD.

Between 69 and 72 was convicted of felony (s) and served time in Anomasa State Penitentiary. Paroled, parole was revoked, more time served. Criminal record 1969 - 1997

Clemson denies ever a student.

uses the name
Joyner, Wihuna "Fire"

aka
Lane, Grace Edna
Lane, Grace E H
Lane, Edna
Lane,  Grace W
08/2007

02/2008

Accomac, VA
Newman, GA
Villa Rica, GA


current where-a-bouts unknown

Claims USMC, nurse Colonel, retired after 20 years of pulling wounded Marines into helicopters in Vietnam.  Reportedly claims she was wounded three times. At native American Indian powwows, she  wears a shawl with  Navy Cross, Purple Heart and Silver Star.  

PICTURES!

 

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Jurla or Jerla  . . Claims Green Beret captured Laos '67. Held 8 months. .

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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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