Father & son phonies in Fort Worth
From Andy, a link to a story right out of the pages of The Duffel Blog. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram tells us about Brigadier General G.B. McDowell and his son, Colonel Michael Douglas McDowell whose story begins when the elder McDowell passed and his online guest book filled up with names and tributes from the likes of General David Petraeus.
McDowell, 57, has never been in the military. Neither had his father — actually an Irving evangelist who died in 1985 while leading a revival in California.
The comments from top military officers were fake; investigators believe they were written by McDowell to go along with the phony obituary that he’d created for his father.
“I thought the guy did a pretty good job writing that. It’s better than I could have done,” Furlow said in a telephone interview from East Texas.
“Unfortunately, there’s a lot of these people out there that are taking away the glory of people who have done things. … This individual has to be sick to do stuff like this.”
Now, McDowell faces criminal charges as local and federal investigators continue to dig into a ruse that they say spanned at least 15 years and enabled him to fool government agencies and immediate family members.
It’s a pretty long article and in order to get a complete picture of the depths and lengths this guy went to are astounding and should be read at the article rather than me stealing the whole thing.
Dude had a drivers’ license with no picture of him because he had convinced Texas motor vehicle folks that he was an intelligence officer and couldn’t have his photo in the public record. He had Purple Heart license plates, walked around with three cell phones so “Washington” could stay in touch with him – and he’d have imaginary classified conversations with other people in the room. He carried files marked “Top Secret” in a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He even had a vehicle with government plates with which he’d pick up VIP folks from airports.
Actually, all I can think of to say is “Wow, just wow.” It seems like a real job would have taken less effort.
Category: Phony soldiers
NR Pax: I’ll have to let TSO give the official answer (it’s his tourney to run) – but I believe we exclude those that we know have passed away from consideration. Ballduster kept his award as an exception because we only found out 3-4 months AFTER the tourney that he was dead.
Fort Hood Gate security seems to take pride in busting peoples chops and acting like hot shots. I remember going through there 2 years ago w my brother. How anal they are with checking IDs and stuff.
The Father really cant be blamed for his sons dumbass lying ways though. The son seemed to have concocted this story himself. Probably will sitting on the john, pretty shitty story for him to create.
Wow.
Just fuckin’ weak.
Sloppy Joes.
@50 – the other half of the asstard duo is still alive and kicking.
Besides, FUCK the consideration! This asshole cannot possibly be a bigger candidate for a kick the carcass contest until there’s nothing left!
#51: dual winners this year? “colonel” kendude crotchrot and “colonel” mcdouche mcdowell…the colonel cockeater twins…
@51: As I recall, we demanded concrete proof that he was dead when the original announcement was made.
#55
Damn it, you owe me a new chair…I fell out of my laughing so hard and broke it.
We need to start branding these shitbags. With running irons.
And he did all this because he was jealous of his late brother who was KIA. That makes him a bigger slime even than Col. Crotchrot, but since he didn’t crop up until after the list was started and there is still an ongoing investigation (and his dead father isn’t involved in this), let’s save him for next year’s SV tourney. We might be able to find even more morons cropping up.
Seriously, I excpet to see someone impersontaing a Greek Army officer and insisting that he fought next to Achilles and Ajax.
That should be “expect to see someone impersonating”. Proofread!!! Sorry.
Ex-PH2
I agree…let’s save him for next year since he’s still under investigation. Plenty of morons are around.
About the Greek officer…I wouldn’t doubt it.
#57: Sorry, my chair repair budget has already been expended for this fiscal year
Just heard from a friend in Fort Worth who has been in contact with the local authorities. They are not letting this go and intend to prosecute to the max on everything that they can. Not sure yet just what that will be, but it is good to know that they remain very interested in this clown.
This just made today’s Stars and Stripes. They used a shortened version of the article linked above.
Yeah, I think this dude should definitely win next years Stolen Valor contest. Just go ahead and give it to him now.
Everything about this douchebag irritates me, he is a fake and deserves the heaviest of punishments. However, something you may not know is that the SOC-JC Patch can be issued as a Combat Patch, (Or CSIB). But only if you are in a unit not otherwise SF who is for special purposes attached to one of their TF’s in country. Such was the case for my unit as we served as the Guard Force for the camp which they were operating out of in Afghanistan. I can’t say where or anything, but since we weren’t SF but attached, we fell under Joint Capabilities. As such we were assigned both the SOC-JC patch and the Patch of the CAV Unit to which we were also attached. We are authorized both, (but wear the SOC-JC because that is who we actually worked with). That all being said, this guys pisses me off that much more for thinking he has to right to just go and buy that CSIB and put it on his uniform without ever joining the service, or setting one foot in Iraq or Afghanistan.