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  10/2009
CLAIMING VIETNAM POW STATUS  or as noted
#  =  on list over 12 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.
All names are first checked here  http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/.   When not found, an investigation is opened.

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. 

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Name Date Reported Hometown

Claims

Findings

McDade, Justin 12/2008 .
Phony Marine nabbed at Lititz vet's funeral
Mourner bought full uniform on eBay. Cop says ‘I can’t explain it.’
Lancaster New Era
Published: Dec 17, 2008
10:26 EST
Lititz
By TOM MURSE, Staff Writer

Justin McDade was decked out for a Vietnam veteran's funeral last week in his crisp U.S. Marine Corps dress blues — a scarlet "blood stripe" up the trousers, sergeant stripes on the blouse, white hat and all.

One problem: The 21-year-old Lititz man is not, and never was, a Marine.

He picked up the elaborate military getup on eBay for about $200, police say.

When an on-duty Lititz police officer assigned to escort the large procession on Thursday recognized McDade — and knew he was not a Marine — he walked over to him.

"You need to leave," Officer Ken Wolfe told McDade.

The young man left the service and walked down to headquarters.

He turned over the uniform and was arrested on an obscure, rarely enforced law against misrepresenting yourself as a member of the military and dealing in medals and decorations. Police were still preparing the charges this morning.

"It's a weird charge. It's not an often-used section of the crimes code," said Lititz police Sgt. Kerry Nye. "The issue is, he was in full uniform."

McDade, who lives in the 400 block of West Marion Street in Lititz, admitted to the offense, police said, but did not offer any explanation.

"I can't explain it either," Nye said.

McDade could not be reached for comment this morning. A telephone number listed for him in Lititz was not in service.

The criminal charge, dealing in military decorations, is a third-degree misdemeanor and punishable by up to a year in prison under the law, which was enacted in the early 1970s.

A person is guilty of the charge "if, without authority, he purchases, sells, or offers for sale, or accepts as a pledge or pawn, any medal, insignia or decoration granted by the United States for service in the armed forces."

McDade was among an estimated 150 mourners who packed the funeral home on South Broad Street for the late 65-year-old Vietnam veteran, a Lititz resident who had served in the Marines and was widely known in his hometown. Police declined to identify the veteran by name.

McDade was an acquaintance of the veteran. "It wasn't like he just walked in to someone's funeral," said Nye.

The young man was, however, the only one there in uniform — and, as one witness put it, "stuck out a little bit."


Staff writer Tom Murse can be reached at tmurse@LNPnews.com or 481-6021.

 

From: Kent SgtMaj Carlton W
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:45
SgtsMaj, MGySgts, CMDCMs,

We have received numerous e-mails and phone calls IRT to the atttached photo.  The individual in the photo was never a Marine and is being charged  for this violation.  Semper Fi.

 SgtMaj Kent

 

 

http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2009/04/a-fraud-he-was.html

Friday, May 01, 2009

A Fraud He Was!

 He was among one of the 150 mourners who showed up at the funeral home on Broad Street.

They had come to pay their respects to a Vietnam Veteran, a Marine, who had passed on at the age of 65. 

One person stood out from the rest, easily visible in the crowd.  He had on a Marines' dress uniform.  A uniform he had not earned the right to wear!! .....

 

McDaniel, Michael . in prison in Lovelady, TX

Claiming RANGERS and...

using identity of legit (now deceased) Ranger, bogus DD214 and bogus 201 file
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McDevitt, C.J. 
aka Charles J. McDevitt
01/2001
10/2005
08/2006
08/2007
Maitland, Florida
2001 - Checking on Chief (MTC) Charles J. McDevitt, Jr.  Claimed to be member of  SEAL Team 2 with Vietnam service and later during Gulf War reactivated with SEAL Team 6.  After Vietnam left the SEALS and was submariner. Retired in 1994. While  Chief McDevitt was NJROTC Instructor at Cypress Creek High School,  Orlando,  FL.  Chief McDevitt normally worn his SEAL pin along with his Dolphin  pin on  his uniform.  He has been removed by CNET from NJROTC duty over the  SEAL pin.
Chief McDevitt does have a DD214 which lists the SEAL pin in block 13  along  with several other decorations, metals, etc. that he is authorized to wear.
 
2005 - Claims he was a Navy SEAL.  Somehow he was also a submariner.  He works for a company called TSW International in Maitland Florida helps vets find jobs.

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

CJ McDevitt wears a gold Navy SEAL emblem necklace boasting that he was a SEAL for a brief time during Desert Storm.  He claims to have been seriously injured by a sea mine during an operation that went bad.  He said he laid in a military hospital for months recuperating from this injury that almost killed him.  When asked why he doesn't get injured status or disability payments in his retirement, he says its because the operation was so secretive that the records cannot be publicized as they were somewhere they never should have been.
 
Despite his true service, commendations and efforts of serving the Navy, he feels the need to elaborate his service and tell this huge tale to all he comes in contact with.  He uses this story to woo ladies and deceive them into thinking he is of strong character and integrity when all he is - is a charlatan.

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Prelim name match finds only one veteran:

Name :  CHARLES JOSEPH JR MCDEVITT
Service :  NAVY
Service Component : 
Pay Grade : 
Military Specialty :  MT 3317
Home of Record :  Unknown
Name :  CHARLES JOSEPH MCDEVITT
Service :  NAVY
Service Component :  REGULAR
Pay Grade :  E-7
Military Specialty :  MT 3317
Home of Record :  Unknown
3317 Missile Technician (TRIDENT-I SSBN) Electronics Mechanics and Technicians
3317 Missile Technician (TRIDENT-I SSBN) Data Processing Equipment Repairers

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.

Steve Robinson
USN 1970-1978
SEAL Team ONE
UDT-SEAL Association
Special Operations Association
POW Network Advisory Board
Naval Special Warfare Archives - SOF Analyst/Contributing Journalist
FORMER Special Investigator - SEAL Authentication Team
Author of the book NO GUTS, NO GLORY - Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters  

The doubtful "proof"

McDonald, Stan
aka
McDonald, Stanley J
03/2005 Fresno, Morro Bay CA Claims he had flown helicopters in the war and mentioned some of his flying experiences. Claims that he hadn’t gone through flight school, but as a supply officer he was in a unit that was short of helicopter pilots and they taught him how to fly.

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.

.... 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. ....

"In any case, he did not fly helicopters in Vietnam"

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

McDougald, Nathan Ellis . . CLAIMING SON TAY RAID PARTICIPATION .
McDowell, Robert Gill

 

. 2004
2005
at it again 2006

still at it 04/2007

10/2007

QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!

04/2007
  Still at the University of New England where he teaches Biology, Anatomy as well as Forensic science (and possibly others), and has claimed affiliation with the FBI, as well as the CIA in class.  When he tells stories of his military life in class, they never seemed to add up and many seemed fictitious.    He claims direct connection to the Terry Schiavo autopsy among being part of every branch of military that exists.  He has also claimed to possess superhuman immunities to terminal illnesses (has contracted malaria twice, etc...).  He has told many stories that correlate with the ones on the website, and is still claiming to be a POW

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.

2005  -  McDowell surfaced in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Amazingly, the high school principal who hired McDowell says McDowell's resignation is the only sanction he'll receive, because "he's been through enough." 

2004 -  McDowell scammed the Yeshiva of Greater Washington DC, claiming degrees he didn't have and military service he didn't perform to get hired as a teacher.

2007: 

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Robert G. McDowell is a retired high school educator, current university professor, and a 30 year veteran of the United States Naval Reserves and United States Marine Corps.  His military expertise includes counterterrorism, explosives ordnance disposal, coastal defense, and operational oceanography.  He is a certified diver.  His civilian expertise includes public school administration, teaching the sciences to secondary and post-secondary students, and forensic pathology. He has managed and developed numerous skill based educational programs such as High-Adventure training programs, and has led students in a variety of non-traditional field experience training and coaching programs.  He has been recognized on numerous occasions for outstanding commitment to education in areas of science and leadership.  His primary current interest is local government response to the unique natural disaster and terrorism threats to local governments along coastlines, rivers, and lakes, as well as volunteer involvement and management in disaster. Rob holds undergraduate degrees in biology,  marine biology, and science eduation, and a Ph D in education.  He teaches anatomy and physiology and pathophysioloty to medical students and other allied health professionals in the post-secondary eduational system.  
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McGibbon, Geoff  Australia 10/2009 The story and the expose .
McGuinn, Louis Lowell 

NY

11/2006
05/2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com:80/id/18414118/

Feds: Man Lied About Silver Cross, Silver Star Medals 
WNBC-TV  8:59 a.m. EDT May 1, 2007

The FBI arrested Louis Lowell McGuinn on charges he wore medals on his uniform he never earned including the Purple Heart, Distinguished Silver Cross Cross and Silver Star. Investigators said he also lied to employers that he was a former Lieutenant Colonel with the Special Forces in order to gain security consulting positions. Federal prosecutors said McGuinn, 62, served as a private in the military and that the wearing of unearned medals is a violation of federal law punishable of up to a year in prison. Investigators said McGuinn was seen wearing the medals at a ceremony at the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point when an official there noticed he was wearing his uniform decorations incorrectly. McGuinn pleaded not guilty and was released on $5,000 bail after his arraignment in federal court in Manhattan.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/13229192/detail.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/05/01/2007-05-01_vet_medals_tarnished
_in_phoney_hero_scam.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/05/02/2007-05-02_vet_more_like_special_farce.html

http://www.queenscourier.com/articles/2007/05/04/news/news03.txt

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/05/06/2007-05-06_war_crime_fbi
_targets_fake_heroes-1.html

McGuinn served in the Army for a short period of time. He was discharged an E2. MOS was 11C.

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Community service for soldier with phony medals who posed as war hero

Thursday, April 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM

A soldier who pinned phony medals on his uniform in a sham display of valor was sentenced to 100 hours of community service Wednesday by a judge who blasted him for dishonoring real heroes.

Louis McGuinn, 59, became one of the first accused fakers sentenced under the federal Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a crime punishable by a year behind bars to pose as a war hero.

"I beg the court's forgiveness," McGuinn told Manhattan Magistrate Judge Kevin Fox. "I realize now that I did something wrong. This has been a tremendous hardship on myself, my family, my friends, employment."

McGuinn, of Flushing, Queens, pleaded guilty in December to wearing the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and several Purple Hearts and claiming to be a retired lieutenant colonel. McGuinn was discharged from the Army in 1968 as a private.

McGuinn's ruse was revealed when an eagle-eyed vet became suspicious after meeting him at a military gala at The Pierre hotel in Manhattan. A photo of McGuinn, with medals on his chest, eventually landed in the Washington offices of the FBI unit that tracks phony war heroes. McGuinn must also serve a year's probation.

United States Attorney
Southern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:    U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
April 30, 2007
YUSILL SCRIBNER,
REBEKAH CARMICHAEL
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
(212) 637-2600


FBI
NEIL DONOVAN,
JIM MARGOLIN
 (212) 384-2715, 2720


MAN ARRESTED FOR WEARING UNEARNED SERVICE MEDALS AND BADGES, INCLUDING SILVER CROSS, PURPLE HEART, AND SILVER STAR

MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced that LOUIS LOWELL McGUINN, a/k/a "Lowell Craig McGuinn," was arrested today by agents of the FBI for wearing service medals and badges, including the silver cross, purple heart, and silver star, that he did not earn.  According to the Complaint filed in Manhattan federal court:

McGUINN, who was discharged from the armed service in 1968 as a private, stated that he changed his name and date of birth to reinvent himself and provide himself with maturity when applying for employment.  In addition, he informed at least one security company that he was a Lieutenant Colonel attached to the Special Forces in order to obtain employment with them as a security consultant.  Later, in December, 2006, he similarly told a New York Police Officer that he was a Lieutenant Colonel, and further stated that he was currently working with Homeland Security as an outside contractor and was involved with the Latin American Carribean Security Council. 

As part of his ruse, MCGUINN wore numerous medals and badges on his uniform without authorization, including a Purple Heart, Silver Star, and Distinguished Service Cross, among others, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 704(a) & (d).  McGUINN was observed wearing the medals at social functions, including an event at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, Long Island, where the Executive Director of the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines & Airmen Club noticed that McGUINN wore decorations on his uniform in the incorrect manner.  McGUINN was photographed wearing the medals to a social event at the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan.  

McGUINN faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison, among other possible penalties.

Mr. GARCIA praised the investigative work of the FBI and the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division.
Assistant United States Attorney Michael M. Rosensaft is in charge of the prosecution.

The charges and allegations contained in the Complaint are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

07-105                         ###
 
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Vietnam vet pleads guilty to posing as a war hero
7:19 AM EST, December 13, 2007

NEW YORK - A Vietnam veteran who posed as a war hero has pleaded guilty to wearing several medals that he never earned.

The Daily News says Louis Lowell McGuinn, 68, of Flushing, Queens is among the first in the nation to be prosecuted under the Stolen Valor Act, which became law in January. McGuinn admitted Wednesday to wearing a Purple Heart, the Silver Star and the Distinguished Service Cross among other medals he didn't deserve.

His trial was to begin in U.S. District Court in Manhattan Thursday, but his attorney Xavier Donaldson told The News "it was time to let the past be the past and get this behind us."

McGuinn faces up to six months in prison when he's sentenced Feb. 12.

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Information from: Daily News, http://www.nydailynews.com

MCHUGH, JAMES 10/2009 . THE TALE AND THE TRUTH .
McIlwain, Luther 02/2009

08/2009

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http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2009/02/13/news/news03.txt

Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:28 PM EST

Luther McIlwain, a Tuskegee Airman, speaks at North Shore Community College Thursday as part of Black History Month. Item photo / Owen O'Rourke

Tuskegee Airman speaks at NSCC

LYNN - Six decades ago, Lt. Luther McIlwain was a scared black college student from Massachusetts experiencing the segregated south for the first time as the world was once again on the cusp of a Great War.

With rampant racism throughout both the government and the military, McIlwain endured hate and abuse that most Americans couldn't conjure in a nightmare as he embarked on a personal journey of courage and determination, becoming one of the country's first black fighter pilots - one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.

Donning his well-decorated military garb and equipped with a Congressional gold medal awarded to the remaining 131 members of the group in 2007, McIlwain spoke to a small group of students and faculty at North Shore Community College's Lynn campus Thursday in recognition of Black History Month.

"We were the one and only. We are the Tuskegee Airmen. We are the best of the best," McIlwain triumphantly stated as he began his speech. "Of the original 992 of us, there are only about 131 left. My duty to those that are fellow Black Eagles in Tuskegee is that I carry on."

Born in Methuen, McIlwain was the only black student in his high school class. Despite horror stories from his father, who escaped to Pittsburgh as a young man because of racism is South Carolina, the former school council president chose to attend an all-black college in that same state in the late 1930s.

His journey to the military - one that he undertook his sophomore year - was not an easy one. At a time when blacks were believed by the military to have smaller brains and inferior work ethic to whites, McIlwain set out with a goal to become a fighter pilot.

Reading from an actual Army document sent to Congress in 1939, McIlwain detailed blatant racism in the military as officers believed that along with being mentally and physically inferior, that blacks were "low on the scale of human evolution" and if any black soldier scored well on a military test they must have had a "heavy strain of white blood."

As a young man, McIlwain was told he could not excel beyond routine maintenance work in the military. He was even run out of a recruiter's office in South Carolina and was only eventually able to enlist because of the help of a South Carolina game warden who employed the mother of a girl he had been after at school.

Although his sights were set on the top-secret Tuskegee "experiment" taking place in Alabama, McIlwain was first sent to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where he was forced to write and translate letters for "60 black men plucked from the fields of North Carolina" who couldn't read or write.

At Fort Bragg, McIlwain recalls a sense of being held hostage, a feeling he would later recall at Tuskegee when his white flight instructors banned he and his fellow black pilots from reading black literature and newspapers.

"If they had the technology we do today they would have taken our cell phones away, too," he said. "We were held captive. We were held captive in Tuskegee, Alabama."

McIlwain's story was less about his time in Tuskegee as it was about the struggles with racism that he and the other pilots experienced throughout their young adult lives in the military.

The Tuskegee "experiment" was so frowned upon at the time that Americans were not even aware of the Air Force's first batch of African American pilots until years later, when then President Dwight D. Eisenhower finally released the documents from Tuskegee, bringing their heroics - and racism in the military - to light.

"There were two and a half to three million Americans that didn't know (what happened in Tuskegee). But there was one man that did know, and that was probably why he was president and all the others weren't," he said. "He (Eisenhower) looked at (the confidential Tuskegee information) and said 'enough is enough.' He issued an executive order and said, 'There will be no more of that.'"

Since the history of Tuskegee was released, the story of McIlwain and his brothers has been recreated in movies and novels - none of which, he says, are entirely accurate.

But one thing he says is accurate is that he and his brothers have forgiven the American people and have dedicated themselves to keeping the story alive as they continue to age. Something that they acknowledged in 2007 when then President George W. Bush awarded the group with the Congressional Gold Medal and offered them a presidential salute.

"Even though you have slighted us for many, many years, we have dedicated ourselves since 1970 to let the American people know exactly what happened," he said.

Attn: Cheryl Rock, Metro Editor, The Eagle Tribune...
 
Greetings, Cheryl...Please see below story about Luther McIlwain who appeared Thursday at North Shore Community College...
 
As I indicated to you and many others in your area, he was NOT a pilot...he was a NAVIGATOR, who graduated from Class N45N at Randolph Field, TX on January 20, 1945...
 
Also, when is he going to stop putting out wrong information: 992 vice 994, "131 of us (pilots) left" [NO ONE knows how many are still surviving!!!], the Congressional Gold Medal being awarded to him!!!
 
In other appearances, he has stated that he was an instructor...we have no proof of this statement...he also tells that the Tuskegee Airmen never lost a bomber to enemy fighters!!! Again, when is he going to stop!!!
 
All I can do is ask you, the local media, to stop giving him media coverage...he is doing a serious injustice to the reputation and good name of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen by going around putting out incorrect and false information...
 
Thank you for your understanding...Ron Brewington, former National Public Relations Officer, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (TAI)
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08/2009

Thanks for returning my original message...We have had numerous problems with Luther McIlwain in the past either extremely exaggerating or straight out not telling the truth...

 
According to our records, he was a navigator ONLY, graduating from Class N45N at Randolph Field in Texas in January, 1945....he never flew any planes, especially overseas...the P-40 and P-51 aircraft that was mentioned didn't have a navigator, just a pilot...
 
As a navigator, he was assigned to bombers, and they never went overseas due to the war ending...(see attached press kit)
 
As far as he being one of 5 living members in the New England area, that is also NOT true...NO ONE knows how many of the estimated 16-19,000 persons who participated in the "Tuskegee Experience" (1941-1949) are still living!!!
 
Please understand: These guys are OLD!!! They forget a lot of events and especially FACTS!!! When they give incorrect information, from a public relations standpoint, that is extremely damaging to the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen...
 
He probably told you that he was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal...that is NOT true...he AND the others collectively received the CGM, not individually...please see the list of ALL CGM recipients at:
http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/goldmedal.html ...you will NOT see his name, only that of the Tuskegee Airmen!!!
 
All I can do is tell you is my perspective...what you do with it is your decision...
 
I thank you for your patience and understanding...
 
Blessings!!! Ron Brewington, former National Public Relations Officer, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (TAI)
 
For your second question, ANYONE can buy those bronze replica Congressional Gold Medals (CGM) from the U.S. Mint...please see the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. (TAI) national website at: www.tuskegeeairmen.org ...click on the CGM logo on the home page and you can see the ceremony where the Airmen got the CGM from former President George W.Bush and the U.S. Congress, plus you can see how to order a bronze replica...
 
Please note that when the Airmen got the CGM (March 29, 2007), that a generous benefactor paid for the 300 bronze replicas which were distributed at the ceremony...the original CGM was taken to the Smithsonian Institution after the ceremony, where it now sits...
 
Again, I can't tell you what to do...all I can do is tell you what I know...I thank you!!! Ron Brewington
McKay, Peter A
aka Peter Ellis
aka Patrick David Ellis
aka Michael Ellis

Fresno. Lindsay, Porterville CA

Formerly of San Antonio, TX

05/2005
03/2006

 

"Actually I can identify...I did four tours in three different theatres. I was a combat medic so include a collapsing litter, trauma bag and field set up you can add another 25 lbs to that. I never carried the AT4, I trained on it but the LAW was better IMHO. I only carried the pig once, in an exercise in Texas during the hottest summer Lubbock has ever seen. But being an officer I only carried it to the nearest enlisted man, or about 1/2 a mile.

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

Records were requested under:

Peter A McKay
they matched social and Dob!

and sent

"Patrick David Ellis (Name shown on Record)"

Served Oct 16, 1978 to Feb 8 1979.

Private

Transcript of Court Martial not in file.

McKay, William Sanford . . Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... 
Airborne Range, shot, woke up in Japan as SEAL, CIA, "Virginia Boy"
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McKeaque, William L. 5 decades of lies Riverside CA

Another "too good to be true!

Riverside National Cemetery, dedication of the Veterans Memorial  Saturday 25 May 2002

LIFE MEMBER Riverside, CA  VFW Post 9223.

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McKelvey, Albert T. 01/2006 PA http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_416847.html

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA

Lance corporal promoted himself to colonel

By Jason Cato
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

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McKenzie, Cooper 05/2007 . http://www.wdam.com/Global/story.asp?S=6582762

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.  

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MCKENZIE, IAN DELROY 08/2008 Canada http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/local/story/4210553p-4803205c.html

Ian Delroy McKenzie

THE CASE: Robbed 13 businesses during a spree in 2001.

WHY: McKenzie was dressed as a navy seal during the holdups and believed he was fulfilling his patriotic duty. He also claimed to be hearing voices in his head and told doctors that a jail guard was directing him to commit a series of crimes. McKenzie's mother told doctors her son had been struggling with mental illness for the past five years, but would regularly stop taking anti-psychotic medication.

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McManus, Kevin B.  06/2009
08/2009
FL
THE FAIRY TALE

 

not  to be confused with kevin joseph mccmanus, former pow
McMillian (McMillan) Donald  . . Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman...  .
McMillian, John  Andrews Jr. 11/2006 FL Wears Marine Gunny Sgt stripes on his hat and says he has 5 Purple Hearts from Vietnam.
Discharged a private, never in Vietnam. AWOL - 4 months confinement.
"JOE McKNIGHT" 
aka McKnight, Willie Joe 
aka LONGTABBER PE
10/2009 Florence SC The tale.... .
McWhorter, Wendell Fay 02/2007 . http://www.legacy.com/saltlaketribune/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=86568562
Wendell Fay McWhorter Gone Fishin' 11/10/1924~2/20/2007 Our loving father, grandfather and great-grandfather returned to his Heavenly Father, Feb. 20, 2007. He was born Nov. 10, 1924 to Fay Edward McWhorter and Mabel Carver in Treasureton, Idaho. He married Thelma LaRue Butcher, Oct. 22, 1948, in Salt Lake City; later divorced. Married Helen Ann Hess in 1970. Decorated World War II. He fought in Okinawa and Guatal Canal; Presidential Medal of Honor. He worked as a molder at American Foundry, Union President for Lundy &Mayne for umpteen years, also worked for and retired from the US Post Office and Sutherlands. Wendell "Breezy" enjoyed fishing, deer hunting, camping, gardening, his beautiful roses, and spending time with his family. We will miss his guitar playing and wonderful voice. ...
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MEEKS, MIKE
meeks, michael l
05/2009 CA THE FAIRY TALE .
Mejia, Rudy

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

08/2002
01/2003
2005
08/2006

07/2008

CA Claims Somalia Ranger, POW, works at VA in Los Angeles. Medals  claims include scuba bubble, combat jump wings, air assault, pathfinder and Ranger Tab, with E5 rank. Claims jumped into Panama.  Rangers say NO WAY. Actually, they said "this guy should he hung by his toes....." pictured in American Legion Magazine as former POW. 

When confronted by Rangers in 01/2003, jumped from 2nd story window into BBQ pit. Injured, not seriously.

02-2003 - Claiming Medal of Honor - soliciting donations.

2008 - still at it!!

REAL RECORDS and more
Melendez, Edwin (NMN)
aka EDDIE MELENDEZ, CSM, RAINBOW SIX

again
02/2005
again 02/2006
again 07/2006
again 05/2007
dozen addresses since 1992 in New York and Florida. Latest is Orlando, FL Melendez was arrested [again] on 04-23-09 for impersonation of a law enforcement officer. 

Claims to have attended and been awarded and Ranger School and Tab in 1986.

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)

He admitted to having been in the joint for nearly two years during the nineties, while simultaneously claiming not to have been discharged until 2002.

 

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Mercado, Louis G 10/2007 NYC Arrived in country as a E-6 and left service as a SgtMaj. He as a picture in the C Co. 1st Bn 4th Marines web site

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

Mercado Louis G Charlie 1/4  0311 1968-1969 New York City
Only possible match on military.com
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
Mercer, Charles Danny 09/2005

05/2007

03/2008

09/2009

Lisbon, OH Claims Green Beret for two tours in Vietnam. Another instance stated " Five months S.F."

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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. 
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The pretrial hearing was rescheduled for 09/21/2009 on a matter unrelated to his lying about his military service.  Mercer pled no contest to a charge of falsification. He was found guilty and sentenced to 180 days in jail with all but 5 days suspended, 3 years probation and random drug testing at his expense.

The REAL news is that his lawyer, to perhaps receive favorable treatment from the judge for his client, stated to the judge that Mercer spent a year in Vietnam and was a Silver Star recipient! The actual truth was that he spent 5 months+ in Nam and of course no Silver Star. We shook our heads in disbelief and the judge, Mark Frost, noticed, which led to me telling the judge that Mercer spent only 5 months in Vietnam with NO SILVER STAR. Mercer's attorney then presented a letter to the court from the DAV as proof of Mercer receiving not only the Silver Star but the Purple Heart!

The case number was 2009 CR B 675 STATE OF OHIO vs. MERCER, CHARLES D COSH MAF. It took place at the Columbiana County, Ohio, Municipal Court, 38832 Saltwell Rd., Lisbon, OH 44432.

 
 ACTUAL RECORDS

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

Metzger, Robert D. 2001 AL VVA MEMBER Claims Medal of Honor .
Meyer, Keith L.  10/2005 MN http://www.grandrapids-mn.com/placed/Obits.php?obit_id_
ser=52941&date=2005-10-02

Keith L. Meyer, ,
Keith L. Meyer, Marine on St. Croix, formerly of Bigfork, passed away peacefully with family members at his side on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005,  at Fairview-Wyoming Medical Center, Wyoming, Minn.

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......

If you go to the following Official Medal of Honor Recipient Website, you will find his name is NOT listed.

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

 

Meyers, Dennis, 
aka Myers, Dennis
. Flagstaff, AZ Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... 

Seal Team 6, Laos, SOG

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Michaud, Edward Richard
  
aka Michaud, Edward
   aka Michaud, Edrward R.  
. Massachusetts Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... 

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

MICHNIEWICZ, MICHAEL  A 03/2008 Philadelphia

PA

Mr. Michniewicz can be seen here wearing a captains rank on his hat.

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc263/56456tass702/Argent009/argentspartast0.jpg

The still is from a video that was later deleted.  The "character" in the background was super imposed.

This is one of Mr. Michniewicz's "channels" were he posts videos.  http://www.livevideo.com/argent009

In one of his video comment sections.  Mr. Michniewicz comments on how he had to "buy" his medals on ebay
because his medals were stolen.  http://www.livevideo.com/media/commentmedia.aspx?cid=811FBB5E28674F0CA10CF4AE39012183

This is a still from that page showing the conversation where Mr. Michniewicz makes the claim.

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc263/56456tass702/Argent009/Image2.jpg

LACK OF RECORDS

Miller, Christopher Ralph . Santa Rosa, CA Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... 

Attorney - Claims Navy SEAL 

Actual electronics training at Treasure Island - 18 months service. Dob  Aug 44, 5'10", 180 lbs
Miller, Paul J MO Cemetery 12/2005 Bottom Line engraved: Medal of Honor

Shain Memorial Cemetery Butler, MO

Miller, Steve . Litchfield Pk. AZ thrown out of Civil Air Patrol , AZ Wing, cadet program  for misrepresentations. Claims USMC, Purple Heart, kevlar leg, shrapnel wounds, wears Col's uniform. .
Milne, Michael Foster
aka "Phoenix"
08/2005 Wilkes-Barr PA

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

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Spec 5, Sr. Engr Mechanic with 541 Engr Co and Co A 36th Engr Bn, and 94th Engr Det.
NO Purple Heart, no awards of "Valor"

MILNE, THOMAS R

2001
2003
01/2009
Canada

Milne, Thomas R., PASTOR  (Bob) WARLORD - Canada (POW,  "MACV 1099th River Patrol PBR's" - captured for a short time but a group of us got out...

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.APOLOGY VOID

 

Mitchell, Lloyd Keith  05/2008 .
Bogus DD-214 claiming USNA, Top Gun with Navy Cross w/Clusters and SS/w Clusters (no such animal in USN). He is a commercial pilot and NRA Instructor in NM and was passing this around along with a Navy Cross Citation (actually, save for the name, it was then-Congressman Randall Cunningham's citation--) in
efforts to enamor a stewardess and get her to marry him.  No record of him EVER in military service,
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Mitchell, Robert   
aka BK Mitchell
again and again and again

11./2005
03/2006
02/2008
09/2008
08/2009

 Oregon in 2005

Frankfort MI in 2006

Traverse City, MI in 2008

2009-  Now on the run from money problems has gone to Susan City CA with girl friend. 

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

Was living in Traverse City MI - claims that he is Indian shaman, and navy SEAL, special forces, poetry writer.
09/2008 - Robert Mitchell is once again on the move...we do not know where he is headed... .He was exposed in the book Stolen Valor on page 511. 

MORE INFO

"This man never quits!"

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Mizelle, Arcie Gray
aka Dr. Arcie G Mizelle
aka Arcie G Mizelle N.D., Ph.D.

09/2004 Statesboro, GA Claims 5th Group (Bragg) Special Forces highly decorated NCO, Medic, Naturopathic physician, and PhD. 

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

QUESTION EVERYTHING !!!

42 addresses last  20 yrs. Married before being divorced. Filed bankruptcy to avoid paying judgment of $375,000.00. Restraining orders; arrest pending for Class B Felony, Theft of service; Federal Tax Lien; Warrant - Failure to appear, Theft by check AND MORE.

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.

MOCK, VERNON

 

DECEASED

05/2008 . HE AND NOW HIS WIFE CLAIM HE HAD valor awards, including a DSC and Silver Star.         ACTUAL RECORDS

http://www.humifish.com/kaliki/injury.html

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Dear Chris;

            I have a number of friends who are widows of Special Forces soldiers. I have two sons who are SF sergeants who just left for Iraq and one has a wife and two daughters he loves very much. The other one is very much in love. They and we understand that they could be killed and leave us and their loved ones behind. I have helped several SF widows from the GWOT with problems they have had to deal with, and just lost my team-sergeant from my A-Team in 1969 while he and his wife were with my wife and me in Oklahoma City , so please understand it is something very near and dear to my heart.

            I looked at the website about Vern and also checked around thoroughly. I know that you loved your husband very much and respect that, but I pray that you two did not have children together, because it is unfair to pass on a legacy of dishonor. In short, based on all I have read, your husband was simply a good yarn-spinner who read some VN books to get sketch information, but if he were alive today he could go to prison and be heavily-fined for violations of the Stolen Valor Law enacted in December, 2006. The website indicated he had a DSC, Silver Star, and Purple Heart. It is grossly unfair to true heroes who gave their lives in service to our country and legitimately earned valorous awards only to have impostors go down as heroes when they were never there. He may have been a SP4 or PFC in the US Army reserves and that is it, if he was even in anything. He did not serve in Vietnam and that photo showed with an RT from Vietnam , does not show a photo of your husband. I am sorry, but that is a Montagnard striker in the photo, not an Asian-American. Also, if you will check www.homeofheroes.com it lists all recipients of the DSC and MOH, and you will see your husband is not mentioned.

            None of the dates or stories match up. One of the documents talked about a guy who he said was one of his best friends. How could he be?  The document stated the man was KIA in 1962, but your own timeline shows Vern in middle school then. Another thing is the story about the guy suspended upside down, spread-eagled, penis in his mouth, and saying “Just shoot me,” and that is straight from Hollywood , along with combining together several Vietnam urban legends at once. It never happened and never happened like that, not once, only in the movies.

            Your own reconstruction of his records does not allow for anywhere near the time it takes to earn Jump Wings,  Ranger Tab, let alone a  Green Beret. I earned one, and so did two of my sons, and it is unfair to anyone who has earned a Green Beret when less than 3 out of every 100 who tries makes it, to claim one when even the timeline alone would make it impossible.

            You mentioned Billy Waugh on your site, and he is going to be very upset when he reads the BCC to this, as Billy Waugh was with me all day today and yesterday. I work with Billy and he is a very close friend, and I know he will not be happy about his legendary name being used to aggrandize somebody’s legacy who is fake.

            I know that many think our federal government and the CIA is involved in all these giant conspiracies because that is what Hollywood always shows, but I only wish more people in our government even had the smarts to pull off a few of these conspiracies, but usually they do not.  Why would your husband have been involved in such a Top Secret enterprise working for  the CIA or whoever and have so much success when he could only be very low rank with very little if any college and very limited experience? Use your common sense. It makes no sense at all. Green Berets train for years in many areas. How could he even have had the time to? Billy Waugh for example did 7  and a half years in Vietnam, and most in MAC-V/SOG. Dick Meadows never would have signed your husband’s orders, because he was an NCO back then. He got his commission much later, but even then would not have been high enough rank to sign orders. He was only a Major when he retired. The Tet Offensive had zero to do with Laos . That is like saying Cinco de Mayo was being celebrated in a French neighborhood in Quebec . Does not compute. The reason the SFA did not tell you anything was not because they are hiding anything, they let you know he was not a member, period. It is a non-profit organization like VFW, DAV, etc. There is nothing to hide and no reason to hide anything. They want members, and I am a member. If your husband did all the things he claimed trust me, he would have proudly become a member, and would have been welcomed with open arms.

            Ma’am, I have checked, and you have basically been trying to tell men of honor who risked their own lives to serve this country such as Steve Sherman that they are liars or covering something up.  No, we will not bend when a phony is trying to put something over even in death. It is not fair to those who actually spilled their blood on the battlefield, or those like my sons who are in harm’s way now, who are willing to. It is not fair to you to live with a lie. I was in Phoenix which was Top Secret. Some were in MAC-V/SOG which was Top Secret. That does not make a person’s records Top Secret. When you leave the service you are issued a DD-214, and it does not matter what Top Secret unit you might have served in, your DD-214 shows how many days, months, and years you served overseas, what your actual medals earned were, what schools you attended, your MOS or job title, etc. Nobody’s records are hidden away in a vault or locked in a TS file somewhere. That is another method phonies use to cover up the fact they were never in the service. I do not care if you are Rambo, no matter who you are or what you did, there is proof you served in the military.

            Now , I am sorry to come across so hard and harsh, Ma’am, but I have found out others have tried to help you, and you apparently have watched way too many conspiracy theory movies, so you label those trying to help you as the bad guys. So I guess now I get to be one of them, too. I would prefer to think that you would simply love your husband for all the nice things he did for you and the nice ways he treated you and treasure those memories, because unfortunately the memories he gave you of this colorful military career are made up. If you look into his actual background, you will probably learn the scars he showed you were from a car wreck or something when he was younger.

            By the way, his bio mentioned Kajukempo. My first business partner in my first karate school in the early seventies was Al Gene Carulia, a Kajukempo pioneer  from Hawaii , and I was good friends for years with the late-Ed Parker, father of Kempo in the US , who was from the famous Hawaii Parker family.

            I wish you the very best and am sorry I could not be of more help, and I am sorry for your loss.

Blessings, 

DON BENDELL

MOELLER, Charles Alvin

aka Charles “Skip” Moeller

aka Captain Charles Moeller, USN-Ret.

aka  Gary Moeller

2001

08/2008

07/2009

 

 

NC

Cincinnati, OH

Claims Navy SEAL, retired Captain.

2008 Business Card reads:

Captain Gary Moeller, USN, Retired

MME BSAS PHD

Counseling, Elder Care  

2009 -  Still telling the same lies as before.
http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies85.htm

... "  Charles A. ''Skip'' Moeller won't discuss any claims he may have made about being a SEAL. The Navy says he never was in the service." ...

Monarski,  Edward John  02/2005 Syracuse New York Claims USMC, Korea. Claims commander of Korean War Veterans International Inc.

Forged a DD214 to show service in Korea.

 

".......Dropped from membership roles of the Korean War Veterans Assoc national organization, New York State department and the local Central New York chapter because he was never ( on active duty)   in the Armed Forces during the Korean War...."

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

This is to inform you that Edward Monarski, Syracuse, NY, died a few weeks age.  He appears to have been a fraud to the end, as it is my understanding that he appeared at the Syracuse Veterans Hospital requesting treatment, but died before getting any medical help.  Never served a day on active duty, National Guard member who was never activated, and organized Central NY Chapter of the Korean War with fraudulent DD214 claiming service as Marine  in Korea during that war. 

A V
Past Commander, CNY Korean War Veterans Association
Moneymaker, Randall A. 10/2007
03/2008
VA

Man who lied about military service sentenced to 3 years in prison

 
MONNIN,  JAMES  JOHN 01/2009 NY
  • CLAIMS  to be a Marine. 
  • Claims he injured his knees while in the service. 
  • Claims that he was part of some military Police Unit or special operations group. 
  • Claims to be a Marine Sniper.
  • Claims to be a retired Federal Agent
  • Claims to be a retired FEMA Investigator
  • Claims that he was one of the investigators on site during 9/11 at the World Trade Towers. 
  • Claims to get a huge pension check every month from the government.
He also carries a badge to back these claims up, but never shows it to anyone closely, nor had he ever produced a ID card to go along with it.
 
This guy walks the walk and talks the talk when you first met him. Its only after IT'S TOO LATE - DO YOU DISCOVER YOU'VE BEEN HAD.
Local court records show 9 cases alone in the County Clerks office mostly to do with fraud. (In one case, he took a elderly woman for almost $23,000.)

He uses the military background to gain their trust - then reportedly steals property, assets or cash.

Former employers state money or stock was missing during his employment with them.

HAS FILED CHAPTER 13 02/22/2002 AND 02/07/2003

IF YOU HAVE BEEN A VICTIM OF JAMES JOHN MONNIN, PLEASE CONTACT US

ACTUAL RECORDS

Montagna, Ronald Paul
aka Ronald Paul Alexander 
aka Ron Montana
aka Ronnie Montana
08/2007

01/2008

. He wears a "Trident" patch on his black leather motorcycle vest.  

    
Montgomery, James  Alwyn

aka Dr. or Prof. Montgomery

2005 Australia

Florida

James Montgomery: Exposed in Australia
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Lovefraud.com launched with the story of how James Montgomery defrauded Donna Andersen. At the same time, the Coalition of Patriots for Military Honor, an Australian organization that exposes military imposters, debunked Montgomery's service claims on its website.

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.

Montiglio,   Dominick 04/2009 .
04/27/2009 - Dominick Montiglio is on American Justice right now. 
The episode is titled "Witness Protection"

They stated (and showed photos of him) that he volunteered to serve 3 tours in Vietnam as a Green Beret to get in good with his Uncle. He goes on to say he "used his Special Forces training to eliminate certain hard to get targets with hand grenades and silenced pistols"

Burkett  -  Author of Stolen Valor has written about this guy and now here he is on National possibly International TV running his mouth again about his Vietnam service that he never did!
STOLEN VALOR - PAGES 424-430
Mooney, Robert . Virginia Claims Medal of Honor. DECEASED - had MOH license plate for 5 yrs. .
Moore, Edward Dean 09/2006 KY SEE CLAIMS AND RECORDS

Bogus DD214 previously posted on Moore's site.

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 http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/NEWS01/710110365

Thursday, October 11, 2007
False Vietnam claim proves costly
By Paul A. Long
Post staff reporter

The former head of the Boone County Republican Party will have to volunteer hundreds of hours in a Veterans Affairs hospital after he admitted in court Wednesday that he lied about his service in Vietnam during a run for public office last year.

Ed Moore pleaded guilty to a single count of fraud for altering his military discharge record to falsely show the in-country record. In exchange, prosecutors recommended the community service - 350 hours in the next year at a veterans hospital or nursing home. ... more

MOORE, RONALD STEPHEN 08/2009 Wichita, KS Claims Sergeant Major in the Marine Corps; Has been seen wearing a baseball style cap with the Silver Star medal sewn into it. He bragged openly about his saving 16 Marines from a downed helicopter. Claims he has  many ("thousands") of hours as an aviator. He also claims he was a Limited Duty Officer (LDO) and later a Lieutenant Colonel.  ACTUAL RECORDS
MORALES, ALFREDO JR 01/2009 PR CLAIMS BG AND MORE

CLAIMS ATTORNEY

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MOREAU, RICHARD "ROSSI" 11/2009 Vail CO The stories .
Morgan, Craig
aka former SSG Craig Morgan Greer
03/2007  
quote
Greer claims Ranger and Special Forces on his website, www.craigmorgan.com and his MySpace page www.myspace.com/craigmorgan.  However, he was a medical drop from Ranger class 06-90, but DID go to ROK Ranger School and loves to tell that tale about how it was so hard that they stopped sending US Soldiers to it.  All you have to do is google his name and "Ranger," "Green Beret," or "Special Forces" and you get all sorts of stories.  Craig has never come clean on this and continues to let people believe this nonsense.  I mean, it's even on his website (he seems to count ROK Ranger for the actual).  He even lied to in Kuwait, claiming he had been promoted to SFC and that he had a Top Secret/SCI clearance.  In actuality, he had been out of the USAR for over a year and his Secret, not Top Secret, clearance expired in 1996.  He claimed that  the Chief of the USAR at the time, told him that he didn't need to re-enlist (he had only accrued two good years for retirement in the 4 years he was back on the books) and to keep singing for the troops.  He loves to embellish and tell tales.  He also told how he couldn't get MOS qualified to be a rigger in his unit because he "had too much rank" to go--complete BS--I know, I put people in schools ALL the time.  Craig knew that once he became MOS qualified he was deployable, and he couldn't deploy while he was cutting country albums.  I'm just tired of his lies. 
end quote 

www.myspace.com/craigmorgan:
.../ Craig has made over 150 appearances on the Grand Ole Opry.

Craig spent 10 years as an Army Ranger (with Special Forces) on active duty before launching his music career. He was awarded the 2006 USO Merit Award for his tireless support of US soldiers and their families. Past recipients include Steven Spielberg, Elizabeth Taylor, and Bob Hope....

Name: Craig Morgan Greer
PEBD: 07 Feb 1985
Release from Active Duty: 09 May 1995
USAR IRR: 1998-200
USAR TPU: 2001-2004
MOS: 13F3P (he is Airborne)

 

Morrell, Tony 05/2007 Iowa I've seen this guy's show and a current thread has also  popped up in a message board and the comedian by the name of Tony Morell claims to have been a Navy Seal in Panama. He apparently told these people he was also a former Marine. Heard the Navy Seal bit, but never the USMC part. Not sure if former Seals would appreciate the way he carries himself. 

http://iowa.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=811&tid=94367942&
mid=94367942&sid=940&style=2

http://www.myspace.com/tonymorrell

 .....  If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL database for anyone named TONY MORELL. Be aware that I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations. There is only one (1) man listed in the entire SEAL database of 10,700+ names with the similar last name “MOREL”. Our man “MOREL” stayed in the Navy long enough to become a SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER (E-8), and was then selected for advancement to officer ranks and promoted to CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER 3rd. The time required to accomplish this level of seniority makes it obvious that our man “MOREL” is not the immature stand-up comedian whom you have encountered.

I would also note that the action in Panama took place in December 1989. All of the SEALs who took part in that action in any capacity had already been in the Navy for a minimum of two (2) calendar years. Given the minimum age requirements for participation in the SEAL program, this means that all of the SEALs in Panama were at least 20 years of age in Dec 1989, and most were 2 to 4 years older than that. For comedian TONY MORELL to have participated in that action in Dec 1989, he too would have to have been at least 20 years old at that time… which would make him around 38 – 42 years of age now (2007). It is obvious from the photographs of Mr. TONY MORELL which he himself has posted on his own web site, and from photographs which others have posted on a discussion board/forum, that Mr. TONY MORELL is NOT old enough to have even been in the military in Dec 1989, much less a fully trained US Navy SEAL. .....

 SR

Morrell, William "Bill" 11/2005 Kissimmee, FL
Claims he was a POW in Korea.
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morris, michael dywayne 07/2009

08/2009

Killeen, Texas Claims to be a Special Forces sniper. {But it's classified}
   
  • Claims Special Forces Sniper
  • Claims a purple heart and other medals he did not earn. 
  • Did  not know what the "Q" Course was. 
  • Claims was born in Germany and spoke fluent German [background check indicates that he was born in Harris Co. Texas]
ACTUAL RECORD 
MORSE, PATRICK JOSEPH 08/2007 OH, WA, TX
Claims to be a officer and a NCO in the Army.  

He was reportedly kicked out of the Navy and the Army both as enlisted.  He even joined the Army with a stolen SSN and name.  He is a con man that recently did time last year in Ohio for some bad checks he wrote years ago.   He "borrowed money from many women that he would make up stories and even talked his way into getting an official government passport while in WACO TX area.  He swindled a lot of money out of a lender under the pretense that he was enrolled in a OCS program.  Claimed to be a paratrooper in 82nd , wounded, made combat jumps, was a army diver and as well.  Guy used to use a PV1 army ID card to use with police when stopped and claim he just got back from Iraq.  Stopped many times and his impersonations give real soldiers a bad name.

 


NO RECORD of Regular Army Service can be located.
Morton, Matthew 08/2009 . A don't miss expose -  http://www.bullshido.org/Matthew_Morton .
MOSER, LAMONT  JAY 02/2008 .

Lamont J Moser   http://profile.military.com/member/view.do?memberId=9106683

Actual records
Moss, Richard A.

aka "Dick" Moss

Bayside, NY 11/2005

03/2009

Claims Navy Cross, 3 Silver Stars 3 Purple Hearts, Korean POW

Claims Corpsman /w USN, w/ 1st MARDIV, POW 7 months

He was at a USMC birthday celebration at KC'S bar in Bayside NY when he made these claims ... many at bar say he is a well known hero in the community.

 

Charlie
charliemoss@bellsouth.net
864 907 0084

Pate is with the Korean War Ex-POWS.

Also checked THREE lists of returnees from Korea - NOTHING found.

He's not noted on the Home of Heroes Navy Cross-Korea list either.
http://www.homeofheroes.com/verify/0_NC/ncross_korea_list.html

Mary
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From: <lwpate@bellsouth.net>
To: "P.O.W. Network - Chuck and Mary Schantag" <info@pownetwork.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Claims to NC,3 SS 3 PH, Korean POW
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:35:14 -0500

Nothing on him being an Ex-POW.

Pate

RECORDS REQUESTED BUT NONE WERE FOUND when NPRC was provided with a full name, date of birth and other identifiers.

Moss, William John 06/2006 NY

New York Times Obituary Section....

Wed. 28 Sept,2005

William John Moss ....Garrison NY , 85 YOA, highly decorated WW11 veteran, US Army ,North Africa, Italy  PVT to Captain, Medal of Honor, BS ,PH, CIB, Italian Cross of Valor. Funeral Home in charge is Clinton Funeral Home ....21 Parrot ST. Cold Spring NY I telephoned the NYT, asked if they would have investigated a claim for a Nobel Peace Prize as thoroughly as they did this claim to the MOH... no call to me for further info was made nor a  correction made in todays paper. I put this in your hands now.

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MOUREY, RONALD JOSEPH 09/2008 IN http://www.legacy.com/fortwayne/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=117514582
 
RONALD JOSEPH MOUREY, 60, passed away peacefully Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, at home. A lifelong resident of Fort Wayne, he was a Vietnam veteran and recipient of the Purple Heart, Commendation Medal of Honor and Air Medal. He retired from Zollner Piston after 37 years of service. he coached Little League and Tee-Ball at Wallen. ...  He was preceded in death by his father, Joseph R., in 1995; and his mother, Betty J., in 2001. Funeral service is 10:30 a.m. Thursday at C.M. Sloan & Sons, 1327 Wells St., with calling one hour prior. Calling also from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Arrangements by C.M. Sloan & Sons Funeral Home.
ACTUAL RECORDS
MUELLER,  JOHN  H. 07/2008 OK drivers license

TX

CLAIMS  Navy SEAL.  States he entered the Navy in February 1982 and retired July 3, 2008.

RESUME  with SEAL claims!

Recently released from Palo Pinto County, Tx jail. 

Arrested in Grayson County TX in 1999 - theft by check.

 
Naval Operational Support Center has determined that not only is this individual not a SEAL, but he has never even been in the military.
He not only never served in the military, but he took the ASVAB on 8-17-93 and scored a combined total of "8". Can't get into the military if you fail the ASVAB!!
>>>>    See resume Pdf file.
Mulcahy,  Mark 
aka David Keith Anderson 
03/2008 CO New Castle man accused of scamming veteran benefits       Arrested for seven identity theft felonies after wife’s phone call
Mullenix, James A. 04/2005 . Claims Navy SEAL, Navy Cross, Former Chief Petty Officer SEAL teams 5&6. NO Navy Cross. NOT a SEAL.
MULLER, Jeffrey Morgan 

aka Jeffrey Carhoota-Cornplanter
 

aka mullen

04/2009 FL/NJ/PA Claims 3 bronze stars, chief warrant officer, 5th Special Forces and more

Dec 2008

ACTUAL RECORDS

His sudden move resulted in him "forgetting" items in 
his garbage. Many Belt Buckles, medals aviator wings etc....  were found.  

 

 

Mullett, John Andrew
aka
Pushboats
08/2006 Maine Make up your own mind. Adult reading only. .
Murphey, Cassius 12/2002
07/2006
Burbank, CA Claims Navy SEAL

On a boat crew in Mekong delta and other assorted assignments into the 80\'s, active duty and as a reservist. Started as an enlisted man and then as an officer. 3 years as enlisted and 2 years as commissioned officer (5 years active duty time???)

Thanks for checking with us - we greatly appreciate your interest in
upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH.

If the name you provided was spelled accurately, we do NOT have a listing in our database for anyone named Cassius Murphey. In fact we do not have ANYONE with that last name, and only fifteen (15) men with the similar last name "Murphy" (and none of them is named "Cassius"), in our entire database of  nearly 10,000 names!

Our database is thoroughly researched and based on original US Navy records and documentation dating from the present back to the mid 1940's. Principal in the compilation of our database are the graduation records for the Navy's Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training program. There is no other more official resource, and it is certainly the best and most accurate method of verifying an authentic, genuine Navy SEAL. This is the same database that SEALs use for authentication among themselves when they are not known to each other....

Steve Robinson
SEAL Authentication Team
SEAL Team ONE 1971-1973
Author of the new (2002) book
NO GUTS, NO GLORY - Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters

Murphy, David  M 10/2007

05/2099

Presoctt, AZ

Worcester, Massachusetts 

.....Where I have serves three ee different branches of service The US Army Spec Ops, The US Coast Guard & the US Navy Special Forces. I have been more than five conflicts / wars incidents what have you, but am concerned in the recognition of others not just myself....
 

Thanks for listening,
 
Dave M Murphy
 
USARM Spec Ops, USCG & USN Seals
 
06-04-2007   Please see below:
 
Concerning Medals: I have quite the assortment.  Not only do I have a Commandants letter of Commendation Ribbon & Award, I have a Unit Citation Ribbon & Award, Meritorious Citation & Commendation ( all from The Commandant Washington D.C.) Sea Service Cutter mans Pin, US ARM Quartermaster Ribbon, US ARM Service Ribbon, 45 Semi-Auto Qual, Riot Shot-gun Qual, AR-15 Marksman Qual, Expert Hand-Grenade Qual Ribbons, SQT Medal Qual Spec Forces, UDT Qual Spec Forces Medal, Counter-Insurgency School Qual Medal & Ribbon Award, CAG-Spec Forces School Ribbon & Qual ( Counter-Assault Group), & SOG (Surveillance Operations Group) Qual Medal (Black OPS).
 
As you can see, I have allot of Medals, Citations, Commendations & Quals to include Ribbons & devices earned.
 

MORE

 

"He damage a lot of people  in Prescott, Arizona then ran. "

 

MURPHY, James Michael
aka Jim Murphy
aka J M Murphy
aka Mike Murphy 
aka Big Irish

CLAIMS 
TWO Medal of Honor
 (from JFK and Richard M. Nixon)
3 Purple Hearts
Numerous other medals 

5’10 240 lbs blue gray military haircut beard cut close to jawline mustache diamond earring in left ear lobe; tattoo on upper left bicep; lower left forearm; eyeglasses  Lives in small town outside of Clarksburg) Actual residence is on Thorn St. in Wilsonburg, West Virginia just outside of Clarksburg. Subject drives white Ford 4x4 but has other vehicles make and model unknown. Also has a bright yellow dirt bike 

Claims:

  • Enlisted into the U.S. Army in 1960
  • MSG James Michael Murphy 7th SF retired (25 year veteran).
  • Assigned to both 1st, 5th and 7th SF (retired from 7th)    
  • A104 Team Leader
  • Recipient of numerous medals. 
  • He was one of JFK's elite and worked directly for him. He was the first to receive his beret. 
  • Claims that at the time of JFK's death he was in Vietnam and that he was brought back and sat in the church with his family and helped guard his casket. He stated that his team of twelve laid their berets on his grave.
  • Claims he retired from Army in 1985.
  • Access to high security records in Pentagon. 
  • Indoctrinated into the Green Berets by his first kill being a female, 19 years old, VC, whom he shot in the back of the head. Stated that he continues to have dreams about her.  Subject then talks about an episode occurring in 1964 where his camp was hit and he was one of three that survived. At this camp he indicated that SGM Miller caught 79 rounds. 
  • He goes to VA hospital in Clarksburg, WV for treatment of his tumors caused from Agent Orange; claims to have stab wound in leg inflicted by VC during a struggle; claims to have been shot in the shoulder.
  • He has two sons who live fairly close to him and claims they are both ex SF.
  • Wife, Carolyn, died on August 23, 2002.  Carolyn Murphy is alive and well and answers the phone.
  • Claims he is 1/2 Cherokee, 1/4 Iroquois and 1/4 Irish. Raised mainly by Mrs. Hatfield of the Hatfield's and McCoy clans there in West Virginia.
  • Retired NSA
Murphy, Lawrence Francis Jr
aka:  Lawrence W. Bennett
aka Murphy, Lawrence R.
08/2003
03/2005
09/2006
CA CLAIMS,  STORY AND RECORDS 

MORE - with photo

ARRESTED  - confessed to Army CID - impersonating an officer. Charges files US  Magistrate 07/27/00

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Murphy, Michael D. 12/2006
09/2007
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What Is It With The Air Force JAG Corps?
 
Myers, Dennis, 
aka Meyers, Dennis
. Flagstaff, AZ Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... 
Seal Team 6, Laos, SOG
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