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. 

M     [2]

Claiming RANGERS and...

2006 .... went to TSW International in Maitland, Florida today as a potential client.  I met with a CJ McDevitt, who told me right out of the chute that he was a Navy SEAL.  Upon returning home, I put “TSW International Maitland” in my search window…and was led directly to your site.  Interesting to note he is still telling the same lies he told about a year ago, when you posted him on your site.  If he wasn’t aware of it before, he most certainly is now.

2007 - quote

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Prelim name match finds only one veteran:

10/13/2005
There is no one with the last name McDEVITT, or anything even close in spelling or pronunciation in the BUD/S database. As you are aware, while there are secret missions, there are no secret training classes and there are no secret SEALs. We know them all, and McDEVITT is NOT one of them! Just to be clear – C. J. McDEVITT is not now and never has been a US Navy SEAL. He is not a member of the Naval Special Warfare community.

Please note; as you are also aware, SEAL challenge coins can be purchased for as little as $10 over the Internet, and a SEAL Trident “Budweiser” pin can be purchased at virtually any military surplus store. Possession of those items of SEAL paraphernalia don’t make a SEAL.

Because of the cost of training submariners, the Navy does NOT permit sailors who are training for submarine duty or serving on submarines to apply for SEAL training/duty. Men who wish to apply for SEAL training/duty must hold one of a limited number of authorized source skill taskings/ratings. None of the submarine ratings is included in that list.

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/10126171p-10948823c.html
Fresno Unified official retires
Former principal of 3 high schools, Stan McDonald quits after 35 years.

By Erin Kennedy / The Fresno Bee
(Updated Monday, March 14, 2005, 6:23 AM)

.... He crowed, "I'm off to play."  The former military helicopter pilot plans to finish building a gyro-copter and fly it to air shows. ....

VHPA

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Prelim investigation finds only one name match for military service.

Name STANLEY J MCDONALD
Service AIR FORCE
Service Component REGULAR
Pay Grade E-5
Military Specialty 81150
Home of Record Unknown

81150 Security Policeman
81150 Security Specialist

still at it 04/2007

10/2007

02/2006
Robert G. McDowell is now teaching forensics at New England University. Evidently NH and ME don't care that he has lied about his medical degree nor his military record.

at it again 02/2005
05/2005
POW in the Philippines, a Navy SEAL, a senior EOD Tech in Afghanistan and Bosnia, and a forensic pathologist.  Rec'd an OTH from the Navy, has "lied since late 2004 about his military exploits, and turns the stomach of every veteran that has heard these lies." State of NH may have finally taken away his Purple Heart plates.

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NY

Fresno. Lindsay, Porterville CA

Formerly of San Antonio, TX

05/2005
03/2006

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"Only the guilty crys his innocence the loudest" -Ben Frankiln
per Peter McKay

Transcript of Court Martial not in file.

Another "too good to be true!

LIFE MEMBER Riverside, CA  VFW Post 9223.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

Lance corporal promoted himself to colonel

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Funeral services will be held Wednesday for a highly decorated Jones County WWII veteran. 

Cooper McKenzie served with the 100 First Screaming Eagles Airborne Division during WWII and was awarded two purple hearts and the Medal of Honor.  He was also a POW during the war. 

Visitation will be held Tuesday night from 5-8pm at Memory Chapel Funeral Home in Laurel with funeral services Wednesday at 10am at Memory Chapel.

Cooper McKenzie was 85 years old.  

Rudy Schwartz Mejia is now going only by the name Rudy Schwartz

Claims service with 1SFOD-D from 1990-96, 7th SFG in El Salvador.

spooke10@excite.com

He claimed to be in the Miami VA Hospital's 14 Day PTSD program in March.  (claims for disability compensation, based on his also claimed PTSD due to all the black ops he was on in El Salvador)

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http://www.3rdmarines.net/3rd_Marines_Roster_L_Z.htm

Mercado

Louis

G

Charlie 1/4

0311

1968-1969

New York City

Name : 

LOUIS G MERCADO 

Service :

Army 

Service Component :

REGULAR 

Pay Grade :

E-4 

Military Speciality :

76D1O 

Home of Record :

Unknown  

State of Residence :

NY 

76D = Ordnance Supply And Part Specialist

05/2007

03/2008

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The DD215 form was "dated" 28 September 1971. (standard Roman Font)

Then in the "correction to read block",  IN ARIAL FONT IN ADDITION to corrections in standard Roman font:

quote

"AIRBORN LARSON FIELD FORT GENNING GA (3 WEEKS)

SPECIAL FORCES JFK TRAINING CTR FORT BRAGG NC (52 wks)"
endquote

It was filed at his county courthouse in 2005. 

12A10
  AMMUNITION HANDLER
  ASSISTANT DRIVER
  BRIDGE APPRENTICE
  LIGHT DUMP TRUCK DRIVER
  LOADER
  MACHINE GUNNER
  SIGN PAINTER
  TOOLROOM KEEPER

He was born in Wadena on Nov. 20, 1930 to Eldred and Norma Meyer. He served in the U.S. Air Force for 21 years, including the Korean War and Vietnam War, where later he had earned the Congressional Medal of Honor award. After his retirement from the service, he drove school bus for the Bigfork School District and had worked in the mines. He was a member of Swampsiders Snowmobile Club......

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm

Seal Team 6, Laos, SOG

Dob 1/57 
Claims Navy Seal. Photos abound of Ed wearing a trident. Reporter saw photos - numerous stories in local paper on salvage op.  Claims to be salvage diver that  "found" a Type X1B U-Boat off of Nantucket. Claims gold on wreck. Salvage Company TRIDENT RESEARCH & RECOVERY. Has numerous "contacts" within the intelligence community. Sharing some of his "findings" could cause "major international repercussions." Is looking for "investors" in his X1B salvage work.  During court proceedings [Investment Group of Fairhaven, Inc. v. McDermott Incorporated - C.A. No. 89-2623-2]  Michaud could not provide sensitive information on another wreck he claimed to possess. 
Actual records show served Feb 76 - March 77 - Seaman Recruit.  ONLY award, National Defense Service Medal - records note "notes of court martial not in file." NOT A SEAL.  Has criminal history (1976-87). 
Historical references show no such UBoat ever built. 

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http://www.subsearesearch.com/contact.htm

Edward Michaud – Senior Researcher
Ed is well known for his vast documentation on WW11 German U-Boats lost worldwide. While researching the archives he has compiled a data base of well over 150,000 shipwrecks. He has over 20 year’s hands on experience in both research and application. Ed has been involved in projects worldwide and has been very successful in proving his research. He has searched the archives of England, France, Spain, Canada as well as others.

http://news.bigg.net/n8527-Richest_Treasure_Ever_Lost_Found.html

Richest Treasure Ever Lost - Found
By: Greg Brooks (PRWEB)
Monday, Dec 5 2005, 5:00am

in the website http://blog.myspace.com/  Go to  http://blog.myspace.com/shiprex1

Greg Brooks and others of Sub Sea Research have more dramatic personal and detailed accounts of their salvage exploits going to Haiti and a story of kidnapping and murder. And a story of their diving boat sinking at the pier in Florida and hassles with the marina's owner etc. etc. The stories on myspace.com are a bit more wild and far-out. Basically it gives investors interesting stories for their financial investments. At the end of this URL there is Michaud's incredible story of the U-boat with hitler's gold. This was posted 7 JUL 06.

Underwater explorers who’ve examined the wreck say their research indicates that it’s the Notre Dame de Deliverance — a 166-foot, armed merchant vessel of French origin. The research includes surveys of the site by state-of-the-art remote sensing devices, ROV’s and divers, a study of historical records, and the discovery that a few silver items — including a crucifix, plate and some coins — were brought up years ago by other salvagers. recent underwater video footage is now being analyzed to determine the best procedure for recovery.

Greg Brooks and John Hardy of the Sub Sea Research states “It was one of the richest ships ever lost,” they estimate the value of the Deliverance’s trove could be between $2 billion and $3 billion. The Deliverance departed Havana on Halloween with an armed escort of seven or eight smaller, schooner-like vessels according to Brooks’ research in Cuba and elsewhere. The ship soon met a fate that Brooks now believes was remarkably similar to what befell the Atocha and its hapless crew in surrounding waters 133 years earlier.  http://blog.myspace.com/shiprex1

PA

LACK OF RECORDS

Attorney - Claims Navy SEAL 

Shain Memorial Cemetery Butler, MO

Claimed Army Ranger Lt with 173rd;  3 Purple Hearts; member of covert Phoenix and SOG  Programs

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11./2005
03/2006
02/2008

 Oregon in 2005

Frankfort MI in 2006

Traverse City, MI in 2008

CLAIMING AFGHAN WAR STATUS
see also POW claims....  and NAVY SEAL....

2008 is now living in Traverse City MI - claims that he is Indian shaman, and navy SEAL, special forces, poetry writer 

click his name

Has been seen in a COAST GUARD uniform. Has a Russian wife.

QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!

Army 1973- 1981
2/325 Inf (Publications NCO/Company Clerk) MOS 11B1P/71T1P
Lab Tech, Fort Lewis WA Nov 75 - June 1978 - MOS 92B2P
Lab Tech, Turkey July 1979-1980, MOS 92B2
Lab Tech Aug 1980-Nov 1981, MOS 92B39Ft Lewis, WA.

No degree ever issued from Brewton-Parker College.
No Degree from Georgia Southern.
Never attended University of Georgia.
St. Phillips College - received Med Lab Tech Associates of Applied Science Degree in 1979.
No degree issued Bastyr University.

excerpted from the Post Standard, editorial by Dick Case.

DONORS BEWARE.........  Reportedly barred from all NY VFW posts. Keeps attempting to raise funds for "phone cards" for wounded vets. When told one  host business would write the check for the amount collected.... Monarski cancelled the fundraiser  rather than allow the host to have any oversight as to monies collected by Monarski.

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Subject: Death of one of the frauds listed on your website
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:41:44 -0500

Roanoke Times 03/24/08

Jury says 'Ranger' made up service

Randall Moneymaker was found guilty of fraud, claiming years of combat service.
Mike Gangloff | The Roanoke Times


Randall Moneymaker was found guilty of fraud.

Was Randall A. Moneymaker a soldier's soldier, with decades of service that included combat tours to Grenada, Panama, the Balkans and the Mideast?

Or had the 44-year-old Roanoke man spun a few troubled years in the Army into a made-up tale of firefights, Ranger missions and hundreds of parachute jumps -- and eventually into a job as a recruiter in Roanoke and Christiansburg, and more than $18,000 in military disability payments?

Were the scars on his back the basis for the Purple Heart he claimed to have earned? Or were they the marks of liposuction?

After three days of testimony in federal court in Roanoke -- and a thorough dissection of Moneymaker's long list of supposed awards and overseas postings -- a jury took just over two hours to find him guilty of six charges tied to fraud and theft.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig "Jake" Jacobsen called Moneymaker's inflations of his record "despicable" and an insult to veterans, especially those who'd been injured.

"As a combat veteran myself, I took this case very personally," Jacobsen said after the verdict.

The trial was filled with arcane details of military paperwork. Several witnesses testified in uniform, and Jacobsen and Moneymaker both wore short, military-style haircuts. U.S. District Court Judge James Turk remarked that he spent years as a member of the 2174th Garrison Support Unit, an Army Reserve unit based in Salem that Moneymaker joined in the early 1980s.

Jacobsen said that Moneymaker was in the Reserves from 1981 to 1982, then in the Army from 1983 to 1985. He left after misconduct that prompted an "under honorable conditions (general)" discharge, a certificate below an honorable discharge. He was supposed to be barred from re-enlisting, but in 2004 talked his way into the Active Guard Reserve, claiming he'd been on active duty since the early '80s, Jacobsen said. He became a recruiter and often wore medals including combat and Ranger badges and a Purple Heart.

But there were no records to document Moneymaker's military service between 1985 and his return to the Reserves. The Ranger school at Fort Benning, Ga., said it had not trained him. And a resume he filed in 2000 when he successfully applied for a job at Verizon listed civilian jobs from 1985 on.

The only witness who said he served with Moneymaker in the 1990s, Reserve Sgt. Noval Wright, admitted it was only after a discussion some time after 2004 that he realized they had been in Panama at the same time.

Moneymaker did not testify, but based his case on the argument that military records are routinely lost and confused.

"The government records are just jacked up -- that's a military term," defense attorney C.J. Covati said in his opening statement.

Retired retirement reviewer Robert Gruber testified that the documents Moneymaker sent to support his claim of more than 20 years of service immediately raised flags. "This guy makes Audie Murphy look like a rookie," Gruber recalled thinking.

Martha Lacy, a nurse practitioner at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salem, recounted examining Moneymaker when he applied for disability. She said he told her that he pulled shrapnel from a wound on his abdomen after a grenade attack in Panama, and that a wound on his back required more medical attention. But when Jacobsen produced records of liposuction Moneymaker received, Lacy said the scars on his back were at the same spots indicated as liposuction sites.

Defense witnesses said Moneymaker has two sets of scars.

The last defense witness was World War II veteran William Fauber, who testified from a motorized scooter and with the chest of his sports coat weighted with medals. Fauber said he was a member of the famed Darby's Rangers and that Moneymaker had helped him gain a Ranger badge years later. He acknowledged that all he knew of Moneymaker's service was what Moneymaker told him, but told the jury, "If he's not a Ranger, then I'm not a Ranger."

Jacobsen asked jurors to note that Moneymaker could not produce photos from his time overseas, much less soldiers who worked closely with him. He dismissed the records and accounts Moneymaker had given as forgeries created to gain benefits.

"The only thing this defendant has lived up to is his last name," Jacobson said.

Moneymaker's charges included five counts of making false statements on forms he filed or in claims he made while applying for disability benefits or inquiring about a military pension. He also was charged with theft for receiving $18,449.32 in disability payments to which he was not entitled.

Most of the charges carry a five-year maximum prison term, but no date has been set for sentencing.

Asked during a break midway through the trial how he was holding up, Moneymaker nodded.

"I've been through worse."

01/2008

• The U.S. Government promised to hide any mention of his being a Seal to "PROTECT" him. This is why his DD214 is "wrong".
• He was captured on the beach in Cuba, and held for days on the beach in his wet suit, while President Johnson negotiated his teams release with a prisoner of war exchange.
• He was given every drug known to man during his training, including but not limited too: cocaine, acid, pot, and class three narcotics, to see how he would perform under drugs if he were taken hostage.
• He had to parachute out into some arctic wasteland with four buddies, and survive for days with only what they had on their backs, until they were picked up.
• He was presented a 48 star flag by President Johnson, on the White House lawn, for "Duty to his Country"
• He can not go to Cuba, and some South American Countries, "because they have his name and are still looking for him." And is even uncomfortable flying through Cuban Air Space.
• He served in Vietnam.
• He "rang his own bell", after he was injured during "Seal operations" and in doing this, he was honorably discharged because he said "I can't keep up with my team"
• He was taught how to kill, "swift and silent", and he knows how to make "someone pay".
• He was a Lieutenant Junior Grade, and qualified as a sniper. He has Black Lieutenant Bars, that he has worn on a tan blouse, with tan slacks, that he wears a frogman tie tack. We do have pictures of Ron in this "uniform", .
• He wears a "Trident" patch on his black leather motorcycle vest.  
  
      
  ACTUAL RECORDS
• 1/29/2008, you wrote:
  

  Update...
  
  Still swears he was a SEAL, and has secret documentation to show, but only those that are "Worthy" can see them.  He HAS Steve Robinson's phone number, and the FBNI agents number to call to correct this mistake in his records.
  Montagna still insists it is important to his safety that he remains protected by his government.

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...If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL database for anyone named RONALD PAUL MONTAGNA. Be aware that I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations, but found none that were even close.

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 RONALD PAUL MONTAGNA has NEVER completed UDT/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. ...

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 4-digit Naval Enlisted Classification (NEC) Code.

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. MONTAGNA to specifically identify WHICH SEAL Team(s) he served on, and when. The generic term “Group 2” offered by Mr. MONTAGNA is meaningless. It should be noted that specific historical Team assignments are not classified in any way. 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. MONTAGNA. 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. MONTAGNA 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.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s claims of being involved in a POW Exchange are preposterous and I can assure you that no such action/exchange took place. Please contact the POW Network (info@pownetwork.org) for confirmation of this fact. I am taking the liberty of sending them a copy of this message so that they might be prepared for any inquiries you send their way. They will also provide you with absolute verification of the following statement: “NO UDT “FROGMAN” OR US NAVY SEAL HAS EVER BEEN CAPTURED, DETAINED, OR HELD AS A PRISONER OF WAR… NEVER!”

Mr. MONTAGNA’s claims of being administered narcotics or drugs of any kind during any portion of SEAL training are absolutely without merit. In accordance with US Navy policy the use of any such substances is sufficient to immediately terminate a man’s continued training or service with/for the SEAL Teams. To claim that the NAVY would violate its own policies by administering such chemical compounds is patently ridiculous. His further claim that the administration of drugs/narcotics was done in an effort to prepare him for capture and to evaluate his possible weaknesses to those drugs under such stressful conditions is absurd in the extreme. SEALs undergo survival training AFTER they complete SEAL training, and a portion of that survival course involves exposure to a mock POW camp. That course is known as SERE (Survival Escape Resistance Evasion) School. The exercise difficulties that are experienced during that exercise are entirely physical and mental, and no drugs are ever administered.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s claims of parachuting into an arctic wilderness and undergoing a survival test are ‘generic’ at best and such descriptions may be applied to virtually any survival training or testing techniques as conducted by the US military in general. His statements do not reveal any inside or ‘special’ knowledge nor offer any proof or substantial evidence of his participation in any such training or testing. While all SEALs are put through survival training in a variety of climatic conditions, the circumstances described by Mr. MONTAGNA do not accurately represent reality.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s claim of being presented a 48 star flag by President Johnson, on the White House lawn, for "Duty to his Country" is patently absurd! At the time that President Johnson served in office there were FIFTY (50) states in the union... and there had been since 1959; no reason could justify or explain presentation of a 48 star flag when there were 50 states in the union.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s claims of being unable to travel due to his claimed SEAL service are without merit. Real US Navy SEALs travel as civilians after they leave the service without difficulties. His claim of someone “having his name and still looking for him” is ludicrous and unrealistic; such claims are the stuff of Hollywood and nothing more.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s claims of service in Vietnam are not supported by government documentation (DD-214). US Navy SEALs who served in the Vietnam War, no matter how secretive or covert their activities, all show Vietnam service on their DD-214 Report of Separation documents. Again, his claims are taken straight from the movie screen and bear no resemblance to the reality of military service.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s use of the phrase “rang his own bell” is a complete fabrication based upon media descriptions of the manner in which SEAL Trainees may voluntarily end their participation in TRAINING. Once a man gets to the SEAL Teams he is obligated for a specific number of years of service with the Teams before he may “UN-volunteer”. The only way this legal contract may be terminated early is by death or injury, and the decision regarding whether a man is capable of continuing duty as a SEAL is left to medical professionals. There is no “bell ringing” once training is completed.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s claims of being taught how to kill “swift and silent” are without merit since it is well known to the public at large that training of this nature is the standard for all Special Operations Forces in the US military. His further claim of being trained to “make someone pay” is nothing more than a pitiful attempt at intimidating his listeners against questioning his claims.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s wearing of a US Naval Officer’s uniform, no matter what color the pips on his shoulder, is a breach of Title 18 of the US Code, Section 702, as it pertains to the unlawful wearing of a uniform of the US armed forces for which the wearer has no formal authorization… either an actual uniform or facsimile thereof. This is a prosecutable offense and if convicted, he may be subject to fines, imprisonment, or both. This violation of FEDERAL LAW should be reported to federal law enforcement agents (I recommend the FBI) along with any photographic evidence you might have which clearly depicts Mr. MONTAGNA in such attire.

Given the preposterous nature of all the claims offered by Mr. MONTAGNA I am absolutely certain that his claims of being a SEAL Sniper are entirely without merit. This may be ascertained by asking him to identify his Sniper training class number, graduation date, and training location. This information can then be compared to official DoD documentation for verification or denial.

Mr. MONTAGNA’s wearing of the US Navy SEAL “Trident” patch is a direct violation of the same Title 18, USC, Section 702, as it pertains to the unlawful wearing of any military unit insignia, badges, patches, pins, tabs, awards, commendations, medals, or uniform garments (or facsimile thereof) for which one did not have formal/official authorization. Such actions are listed as a prosecutable offense under Title 18 US Code Section 702 which specifies up to $5,000 in fines and up to 6 months imprisonment per each count on which an offender was convicted. This section of the USC has been recently amended and signed into law (20 Dec 2006) making it a punishable offense to offer 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”. As Mr. MONTAGNA’s has apparently gone beyond the offering of simple verbal claims and undertaken the actual wearing of the SEAL Team emblem, he is clearly in violation of Title 18 USC and chargeable under the both the spirit and the word of that law.

I would strongly encourage you to disseminate the foregoing information to anyone who might have been the victim of Mr. MONTAGNA’s fantasies, braggadocio, chest-thumping bravado, and outright falsehoods. I might suggest that your local print and broadcast media be contacted in this regard; if I can be of any further assistance to either you or them in exposing Mr. MONTAGNA’s charade and preventing him from misleading others, please feel free to contact me.

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. MONTAGNA’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

aka Dr. or Prof. Montgomery

Florida

Montgomery was soon featured in a Sydney newspaper under the headline "Meet Major Fraud." Montgomery admitted that he fabricated military documents, but claimed it was part of a "secret government project to demonstrate how easy it is to impersonate a war hero." Due to his fraudulent past, Montgomery lost his university job.

Read on True Lovefraud Stories - James Montgomery

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On Feb 10, 2006, James A, Montgomery, SFA member A-939 was found to be in such serious violation of the SFA constitution that it required immediate expulsion. The proceedings were initiated, Montgomery was given an opportunity to either appear at a formal hearing or voluntarily resign without further recourse. On Feb 1, he signed a voluntary resignation. He has been expelled from SFA Chapter LX and his name struck from the roster. National has done the same and it will be formally announced in the Spring edition of The Drop.