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April 25, 2003 Federal Investigator's visited Gyi....

  • At 12:15 he knocked on Gyi's door

  • Gyi is told anything he says can and will be used against him.  Lying to the Federal Investigator is and will be a federal offense

  • Gyi is questioned about impersonating a military officer. He distracts by having the investigator watch VIDEO tapes of his "accomplishments" as a martial artist!

  • Gyi is asked first to provide copies of his diplomas from various colleges, Gyi did show a certificate from OU on his PhD. When asked to produce a diploma from Georgetown,  Gyi could not and would not do it, nor would he produce any types of documents from the CIA or any military branch.

  • Originally Gyi would not acknowledge that he had actually worn the uniform and denied the photo on this web site was him. 

  • Eventually,  Gyi did admit he was pretending to be someone in the military and that he gave the investigator his word it wouldn't happen again! 

Gyi, Dr. Maung, 
aka Dr. U Maung Gyi
aka Winston Maung Maung 
aka Manbahadur Rai

01/29/01 aka Naik Minbahadur Raji

The Synopsis

The LONG version

The WWII Stories

1982 Poetry

Emails Notes

http://www.phonyveterans.com      (MORE ON GYI)

If you are a student of Dr. Gyi's and have heard his outlandish claims of having been a POW in Korea, Vietnam, or elsewhere, please provide details as to the story as YOU have heard it.

Your name will not be revealed. Feel free to send anonymous email if necessary. Just state when and where it was said, and in front of how many witnesses. 

SEE THE PENALTIES

There IS a price to pay for lies!

EMAIL Notes

The LONG version

The WWII Stories

1982 Poetry

 

The Synopsis


1998

As a result of an international search on the birthday of Gyi (and his other names) his DOB records in the United States, drivers license and place of employment - Ohio University, show 1936. That would make him approximately 7 years old in 1943 and 10 years in 1945 when the Japanese surrendered. He was  a child during the time he makes his claims of fighting the Japanese in World War II. Gyi's very own personal Asian high school yearbook and Asian researched records show a birth date in 1933. This would make him 10 years old  in 1943 and 12 years old when the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Still, he would still be child during the War he claims to have fought in. 

Internationally researched prisoner of war records have never once documented Gyi (and his other names) as having been captured or becoming a prisoner of war, in any war, certainly a requirement for his alleged rehabilitation in American military hospitals in Okinawa. POW records are meticulously keep by The US and British/Gurkha militaries, among most militaries of the world.

British/Gurkha military records researchers cannot find Gyi (or any of his other names) as having ever served in the Gurkha army.

US Military records show no record of Gyi or (any of his other names) serving  with, being attached or affiliated with any branch of the United States Armed Forces, certainly not with the Marines as he has claimed. He in fact claimed an attachment to the 3rd Marine Division in the Korean. The 3rd Division did not serve in the Korean War.

United Nations Archives and Training sections have no record of Gyi (or any of his other names) having served with their forces in any capacity, nor is he on record for officially training any United Nations troops.

Even claims of his schooling - with replies like " I do not have a record that any person with the names below was enrolled at Georgetown Law" from the Director of Office Services, Office of the Registrar, Georgetown University Law Center bring his claims of numerous degrees into question.

Biographies and records of Gyi (then in his late forties) report that he was in Ohio teaching his Bando and other subjects in 1967 and there after when so many of Gyi reported claims on his involvement with the Vietnam War were said to have occurred.

The editor** of a long and popular military article of Gyi's that appeared in Command Magazine several years ago, (that also appears on this website) is now convinced that the information in the article has been researched AND WRITTEN by Gyi from the words and experiences of others, rather than his own experience (especially since was a child during the WW II years.)

By all accounts in this investigation Dr Gyi is a phenomenal martial artist.

We stand waiting for Dr Gyi to produce any single scrap of evidence that he has ever served in any military and has ever been a prisoner of war. Till this date he has not.

Our deepest thank to a more objective friend for the editing of the above piece.

** The editor of that 1992 Command story is an ex-paratrooper,  former Bando student, and contributing editor to Soldier of Fortune Magazine. The reprinted story originated from a single-spaced, 10 to 12 page manuscript provided by Gyi.

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Fort Benning

March 20, 2008

First of all I would like to thank you for taking the time to expose Maung Gyi (or whatever he is going by now) for the fraud and liar that he is. I am the soldier in the photo where he is demonstrating the choke hold. I was a Sergeant (E-5) in the U.S. Army at that time, stationed at Fort Benning with the 988th Military Police Company. The photo was taken in the woods behind 4th Ranger Training Bn HQ in the Harmony Church section of Fort Benning, I believe some time in 1999. Gyi was teach a "UN Tactical Baton" course as a weekend seminar through Troy State University. It was officially listed as "Special Topic Martial Arts" and I even got 3 Semester Hours credit out of it as an elective for my Associates Degree.

Gyi was welcome and sponsored by the Ranger Training Brigade (RTB) as one of the original Merrill's Marauders. This and a few other pictures taken were used in an article in the post newspaper "The Bayonet." I didn't even know of this site until after I became a Warrant Officer and volunteered for assignment to the 75th Ranger Rgt that he had been exposed. It was during my Ranger Orientation Program that I ran into an officer who had also been stationed at Benning at the same time as I had and when I mentioned Gyi, the officer told me that Gyi had been exposed as a fake. He went on to say that when the Regiment and RTB found out they were quite embarrassed and supposedly let Gyi know in no uncertain terms that he was no longer welcome on Fort Benning.

Also I believe I still have a copy of that newspaper article that this picture came from and the course outline for Gyi's "U.N. Tactical Baton" class that he taught if you are interest I will try to dig them out and forward you copies.

U.S. Army Officer currently serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment.