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INTRODUCTION V V A - Claims by members of Vietnam Veterans of America ==================================
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Individuals reported as
of 01/2012
Note: The
names listed in the next pages have made VARIOUS or multiple
claims Those
with a "LINK" have records, news articles, pictures or tales
posted. |
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THOSE
CLAIMING MEDAL
OF HONOR |
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| Jackson, Bert D | . | . | Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... | . | ||||||
| JACKSON,
Curtis James III
AKA stage name 50 Cent, |
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/arts/music/03unit.html?ex=1215748800&en=88cd08bd90430331&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Music Review
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| Jackson, Daniel L | 05/2006 | KS | Claims rescued NUMEROUS
Prisoners of War from Laos in the 70's while with "101st Airborne, 50
Duece." Claims 3 Pysch degrees, gained during 15 yrs in prison
(Four felonies per www.dc.ks.us.kasper2/offender.asp?id-1304
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Claims on video tape. |
"The veterans served in Army from 15 January 1975 to 13 February 1975, for a total of 29 days. He never got beyond basic training at Ft. Jackson, S.C." | ||||||
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JACKSON, frederick william aka fred jackson aka Frederick "Boom Boom" Jackson AKA "BOOM"
aka
Robert David |
04/2009 | TX, CA Scotland |
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| jackson, george m | 11/2011 |
WI |
Claims
USMC combat service in
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Actual record shows no combat - no Vietnam. | ||||||
| Jackson, James "SEAMUS" | 06/2007 again 06/2007 12/2008 |
. | The
tale
"....Three Marines were kidnapped and after the ash cleared we went after them. We dropped in over their HQ and were engaged in combat when I was shot above my hip. The bullet went through me and into my right hand. Another Corpsman performed CPR on me for 45 minutes until I was brought back to base. When I was finally revived, my heart beat was 17 beats a minute and I was sent to Germany to have a pacemaker inserted to keep me alive. Because I was kept alive by my friend and my blood was being pumped through me artificially, I suffered from Hypoxia, (lack of oxygen to the brain,) which caused me to start having seizures. I still suffer from seizures and recently underwent surgery to try and aleviate them." OR He claims he was serving in the Marines and was shot in the Philippines in 1991 after some volcano erupted? His heart stopped for 22 minutes while a Corpsman performed CPR on him and this is what caused his seizures. |
NO record of service can be located. | ||||||
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"JACKSON, SAM" aka sampana, CHURCH aka Jorrel Sampana aka sam sampana AKA "sam jackson"
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12/2011 |
S CA |
http://www.airsoftsociety.com/forums/f41/marine-poser-everyone-must-see-37460/
...... "Hey buddy, you in the Marines?" |
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| Jacobson (Jacobsen), Dennis | . | . | Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... | . | ||||||
| Jacobs, Larry Sherman | 01/2005
08/2006 12/2007 |
Salt Lake City, Utah | Larry was an academic advisor in
1986, at the Hospital Corpsman Training School, in Great Lakes Illinois.
He was known to all at that time as a decorated NAVY SEAL, and claimed among
other things, to be a recipient of one of the nations highest awards, the
NAVY CROSS. In 86, he walked around the halls of the training facility
as though he owned them. He demanded respect, and took command of
every classroom, or in any social atmosphere by wearing his khaki Navy
Officer uniform, with pride. He was on the Mike Douglas show, talking
about his exploits in Vietnam, as a war hero. Amongst several of his
claims, he claimed to be the only surviving member of SEAL TEAM 13, which
apparently he walked in battle in Vietnam with this team, and was the only
member to walk out of that jungle alive. In 1988, during a combat awareness
drill, on Camp Pendleton compound he showed up, still wearing the NAVY SEAL
Trident, jump wings, and this time, the hardhat emblem that symbolizes being
an expert diver as well. By then, he was a Lieutenant Commander....
========================= WOW…….shit………I actually remember seeing this MF When I was in Hosp. Corpsman school in “Great Mistakes” in 1985. Jacobs was wearing a Medal of Honor ribbon (blue with stars) over his right chest pocket by itself and I saw him (then a lieutenant) walking with two enlisteds and someone saluted him with the left hand…. ...the
story I heard……..that he survived an attack that killed everyone in his
unit and “crawled out of the jungle after 2 months” (or
something…….). I never could find him listed as
SEAL-MOH winner…. |
Previously EXPOSED IN STOLEN VALOR |
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| JACOBS, MICHAEL RAY | 02/2012 | VA |
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/former-va-beach-man-charged-impersonating-navy-officerEx-Va. Beach man accused of posing as Navy officerPosted to: Crime Military News NorfolkNORFOLK A former Virginia Beach man with a long history of defrauding people has been charged with impersonating a Navy officer, complete with medals he never earned. Michael Ray Jacobs, 52, made his first appearance Monday in U.S. District Court to answer a 9-count indictment. He’s currently serving a 14-year state prison term on convictions from four other jurisdictions....... |
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| Jacobus, Michael J | 07/2006 again |
FL |
The Plain Dealer 1993
Michael Jacobus wore a Navy uniform to his father's funeral, dress Whites at his wedding and a flight suit on military bases. He also Never served in the Navy, an investigator said yesterday..... Witnesses have described Jacobus as acting and dressing like an Officer since 1984, and the Navy has documentation of a 1986 Incident at Pensacola Naval Air Station, Nelson said. Jacobus said he stopped the charade after the Navy confronted him in 1986 but resumed it recently when he became depressed...... |
He is still claiming to be a Navy Pilot and goes as far as to claim that he
was working in the Pentagon the day of the 911 attacks and flew several
sorties over Afghanistan the following year.
Ham radio operator with the call sign of N4DIA
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| JAMES, MILTON EDWARD | 07/2010 | Boerne, TX | Claims Navy SEAL who lost team members in Grenada. Has a framed Trident in his home. Owns Accacia Electric. | ACTUAL RECORDS | ||||||
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JAMES, Steve Morris
if its his real name
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06/2011 |
His middle name if true, is Morris and he says he has a house on
Long Island, N. Y. and was born there. His birthdate so he says is
June 16 and he is 50 and will turn 51. His email address is
steve.james@yahoo.com.
Could not find that in New York or Afghanistan BUT found it in
Sunnyville, Ca. and Illinois...Belleville. Steve Morris James. The
phone number he texted from was 1-11-044-0601.
He tried to get me to get him something. Told him I was onto him and
that I knew he is a fake and is impersonating an officer...said he
was an Army Captain. He called me a snake and a mother which
indicates to me he is guilty.
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ALL INTERACTION WAS ON MATCH.COM |
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| Jarka, Edward H | . | IL |
CLAIMING COMBAT STATUS |
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| Jarvis, James G. | . | Kansas (Branson, MO - 1999 St. Louis, MO - 2001 Springfield, MO) |
NOT AUTHORIZED to wear ANY
award or decoration
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| Jaracz, "Bob" Robert A. | 11/2009 | NH |
What is interesting is that public records
indicate Mr. Jaracz was born in July 1937.
A ceasefire for the Korean War was
called on July 1953.
Mr. Jaracz would have been 15 or 16
years old at the time of the cease fire.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Senior Class - Week 33. Good Fortune |
No record of captivity. | ||||||
| Jarvis, Randy LYNN | 06/2009
10/2009 01/2011 |
TX | Claims and actual records | . | ||||||
| Jeffers, Neil E | . | . | Claiming SPECIAL
FORCES and "GREEN BERET"... Claims SF from 70-91. |
Records state CARPENTER/CONSTRUCTION - in Missouri, Alaska, Korea, Germany and New York from 1974 till 1990. NO SF training, NO Vietnam medals. | ||||||
| Jennings, Ray | 1999 2003 02/2005 12/2006 01/2010 |
El Paso TX |
THE STORY AND THE EXPOSE |
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| Jensen, Michael | . | . | Claiming SEALS and/or Frogman... and SNIPER | no record of service | ||||||
| JENSEN, LUKE | 07/2011 | CO | The story | . | ||||||
| JEPHCOTT, ERIC | 05/2008 | UK | Fake
WWII hero is Scambuster The Sun - London,UK By JOHN COLES A FRAUD who posed as one of the RAF’s legendary Dambusters heroes was shot down yesterday – by his daughter. Eric Jephcott, 84, boasted of ... |
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| Jerde, David A | 07/2006 | MO | Claims Navy SEAL in Vietnam 1967-1972. Claims youngest ever to be trained. Claims mercenary in Falklands, necklace of "ears..." (testified under oath) | Records Requested. NOT a SEAL. Born in 1955. | ||||||
| JERONE, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 02/2009 | NY | THE STORY | . | ||||||
| Jett, Frank Stephen | . | . | . | |||||||
| JOHN |
12/2011 12/2011 |
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It's a digitized book from Amazon titled "Vietnam
Veteranos: Chicanos Recall the War." The section -
begins on page 84 and recounts the adventures of "John"
who claims two tours in Vietnam. John's story is as
bizarre as it is phony -- he claims to have joined the
Army at age 16, got out, then was recruited by "DIA"
after which he went through training including
"airborne, ranger, and Green Beret" -- all lasting a few
weeks at a time.
Among "John's" adventures were service in "Operation
North Star" in Vietnam where he was part of an elite
unit (what other kind are there?) that tracked down and
killed US deserters......
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| JOHN, ALBERT | 03/2011 | CA | Claims Army Ranger and Special Forces | . | ||||||
| Johnson, Art | December 06, 2002 | . | "... like most of his friends, and men his age, Johnson enlisted in the army on January 13, 1942. To get into Army Special Forces, you have to possess a higher IQ than most, and it was something that Johnson qualified for. He didn't advance too far because he was considered too "wild." They called him "freight train" back in those days.... When he left for the war, he weighed 250 pounds. When he got out he was around 120, and the man stands tall at 6'6". The drop in weight was due to the fact that he spent 15 months in a Korean Prisoner of War camp after he was wounded in combat and captured by the Koreans. "I played as dumb as I possibly could and during interrogations they couldn't get anything from me," he said. Counting anything around him was how he survived the 15 months, and was the only way to "remain sane ... It was suicide to attempt to escape."... (Suffolk Life Newspapers 12/06/02) | . | ||||||
| JOHNSON,
BERNARD CRAig
aka "dusty" johnson |
Johnson claims he served with the USAF in
Germany prior to going to Vietnam in 1966 where he was involved with
the earliest Air Force Spec Ops units.
Here is a bio that he has on a website that he is involved in. |
ACTUAL RECORDS - KITEFLYER AKA BEN FRANKLIN ACTUAL RECORDS - "DUSTY" JOHNSON
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| Johnson, Harold D. ("Doug") | . | . | Our Dad Harold D. ("Doug") Johnson quietly passed away May 21, 2002 at the age of 85. He has now joined with his wife of 54 years, Margaret Johnson and all of his friends. He was a man of great wonder, intelligence and a gypsy at heart, who worked on the original space project in the 50's at Redstone National Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama and helped design and build many of the buildings and attractions in the Phoenix Amusement Park in the 60's known as Legend City. He served in World War II and the Korean Wars receiving numerous medals including the Medal of Honor, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He will be greatly missed for his kindness, wisdom and many great artistic talents. He is survived by [clipped] Arizona Republic newspaper, dated Monday May 27, 2002 | |||||||
| johnson, james | 10/2011 | FL |
Has worked at
VFA132 1988 to
decommissioningStudied at
UfLives
in
Tampa, FloridaFrom
Riverview, Hillsborough
County, Florida
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James Johnson is NOT listed in the SEAL Database... He was NEVER a Navy
SEAL. The last UDT Team was decommissioned in 1983, which would have put
James at 13 years of age...
I did speak with James... He's a little hothead and doesn't like me
much... I asked about UDT 11 and he said he was attached to an Air
Squadron and "how could I have been with UDT 11 when they were
decommissioned in 83?" The fact that they were decommissioned in 83 is
a little known fact, even to a real SEAL, it's not something that sticks
in our heads... He then asked me if I was with "veriseal." Veriseal was
the original phony busters and haven't been around in a while... James
has been busted before... |
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JOHNSON, James David
AKA J. David Johnson AKA James D. Johnson |
11/2011 | TX |
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Sir, I greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. Before answering your questions I must make clear that I am a private individual, not affiliated with the US Dept. of Defense or any other government organization. My efforts to expose SEAL imposters are performed as a service to the public, and in honor of my fallen SEAL Teammates… men who truly earned the right to the title “US NAVY SEAL” but who are no longer able to stand forward in defense of their honor, their reputations, and their TEAMs.
If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL Database (SEAL Teams and predecessor units from 1943 to the Present Day) for anyone named JAMES DAVID JOHNSON. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations without finding any that appear to be applicable.
Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be evidence in the form of court documentation) since his claimed participation in SEAL training, and based upon the information you have provided, I can state conclusively that JAMES DAVID JOHNSON has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL, a Navy UDT “Frogman”, a member of any Naval Combat Demolition Unit (NCDU), or a member of the Naval Amphibious Scouts & Raiders (S&R).
Many SEAL imposters when confronted with the information I have provided will resort to claiming that their records are sealed, burned or their SEAL Operations were Classified and that there are no official records of them. Before any classified operations may be undertaken as a SEAL Operator, a man must first successfully complete the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training program and then the follow-on secondary training program. The names of all those who successfully graduate from that training program sequence 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.
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.
Once again I must stress that although I am a US Navy veteran, and a former SEAL, I am a civilian performing in an entirely unofficial role. I strongly recommend that you obtain a formal/official US NAVY statement regarding Mr. JAMES DAVID JOHNSON's claimed SEAL credentials. To do so you may contact the PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE at the NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COMMAND in San Diego by calling (619) 522-2823, or you may contact the FOIA COORDINATOR at the NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COMMAND in San Diego, California, and submit a formal FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT inquiry in writing addressed to:
Commander Naval Special Warfare Command FOIA Coordinator 2000 Trident Way San Diego, CA 92155
Thank you again for your concern in this matter, and for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams. If I can be of any further assistance to you in this matter, please contact me at your convenience.
Respectfully, Don Shipley BUD/S 131, SEAL Team ONE, SEAL Team TWO. Owner http://www.extremesealexperience.com/ |
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| JOHNSON, LLOYD H | 07/2009 | FLORIDA OHIO
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Claims
that he is an Iraqi War Veteran who served two tours.
When Lloyd was released from Florida Prison he came to live with relatives who kicked him out after he stole money and guns. He then went on to yet another residence - where another young family member would let him in each morning after adults went on to work. He has since connected with a retired lady who feels “sorry” for him and will defend him saying he wouldn’t hurt a flea. He is hiding in plain sight.
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| JOHNSON,
MATTHEW AKA MATTHEW THOMPSON AKA JESSY REYNOLDS |
10/2009 | Cartersville, GA |
Gets his jollies of walking around town picking up women, trying to
get free food, discounts, hand out, whatever he can get by portraying
a service member.
This person is impersonating a US Army soldier Corporal type, and
managed to "acquire" a set of ACUS and rank. Has back pack
and ACUs.
Uses MY SPACE to locate women and uses "his sister" "Jessy Reynolds" to befriend them Claims he was Airborne in Texas. Cannot state his "MOS. May have stolen the uniform from a past girlfriend. |
Described as short, flat stomach, short wavy black hair, glasses, "bullet hole" scar in his stomach. In his 20's. | ||||||
| Johnson, Merle Todd "BJ" | 2005 09/2009 |
Galena MO | See the story and the expose | . | ||||||
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JOHNSON, RUSSELL EDWARD
aka Ed Johnson |
03/2010 | Oak Harbor, WA |
CLAIMS: Served in Army from 1968-1975 9th Infantry 2nd Ranger Battalion. Spent 18 months in Vietnam. Drill Sergeant at Fort Dix NJ. Graduate from San Diguito High School in Southern CA. Masters Degree for San Diego State. Homicide Detective.  |
Ed Johnson is currently in Oak Harbor WA and is
associating with Clarence Hubert Johnson. Clarence is listed on this
site as a convicted Felon.
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JOHNSON, Thomas Roger aka Dom Tom Johnson aka TomTerrific4u@yahoo.com |
01/2007 02/3007 |
Rockville Centre, NY | There is a guy with an EXTENSIVE page on MySpace.com calling himself tomterrific4u. He claims a Navy Cross and battlefield commission for the Mayaguez Incident in 1975 at the age of 20. | . | ||||||
| JOHNSTON, JESSE BERNARD iii | 04/2010 05/2010 |
TX |
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| Johnston, Lee A. | 11/2006 | . |
This mission was relayed by John Colter in Baton Rouge.
THIS IS AN APPROVED MISSION REQUEST FROM THE FAMILY. Mike/Eagle This is an APPROVED MISSION – date and times still pending. On
Wednesday night, Nov. 8, a US Army
combat veteran of the Vietnam War, 9th Infantry Div., 75th
Regiment, 4th Battalion, LEE JOHNSTON,
was involved in a fatal motorcycle crash at around 2145 hrs.
Details on the crash are not available aside from it appeared
to be a single-vehicle crash and alcohol was not a factor.
Additional details on military service are pending and should
be available by tomorrow (11/11) or Sunday at the latest.
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Other individuals can be found on various
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CLAIMING VIETNAM PRISONER OF WAR: V V A - Claims by members of Vietnam Veterans of America ================================== Medal of Honor, Other than Vietnam POWs, Son Tay Raiders, DSC, DFC, Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Navy Cross, SEALS, Rangers, Pilots, Special Forces, Green Berets, Combat, Vietnam Helicopter Pilots, Flying Tigers, DOUBT EVERYTHING, Don't Encourage
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