George T. Bolis; phony SEAL corpsman
Scotty sends us his research on George T. Bolis who actually did do 22 years in the Navy. He had a pretty exciting career, but I guess it wasn’t exciting enough for him. He told his former classmates that he was a corpsman for a SEAL Team in Vietnam and regaled them with tales of being wounded in that endeavor.
I guess that tale got him more attention than being a supply clerk;
Yes, he served in Vietnam, but there’s no Purple Heart;
But, there was a perfectly logical explanation for why the medal doesn’t appear in his records – he wasn’t awarded the medal until twenty years after his injury;
Makes perfect sense, I suppose, or not at all. I’m pretty sure his SEAL Team was pretty upset that their corpsman was only trained as a supply clerk, though.
Category: Phony soldiers
It is sad to see those with perfectly honorable service and that did their part take this direction. In some ways it is more offensive because they should know what it means and the cost of it. There is no dishonor in not having a Purple Heart or for that matter not having been in action. I had a navy LT with me in Iraq that was determined to go out of the wire so we took him with us one time, we made the run down Irish and back incident free and he says at the end how disappointed he is that nothing happened because he wanted a combat action ribbon. I flipped and explained that we were happy and content anytime we left and made it back with nothing happened. I suppose there will always be some that want to be a hero or decide that their service does not mean as much as those with more badges and time in combat. Fact is if you have served your country honorably than be proud of it and stand with everyone else you have done your time and served your nation selflessly and that is what counts.
islandofmisfittoys: bingo. In a war zone, quiet and boring is a good thing.
Hey … There IS a big difference between a HM1 and AK1 (aviation supply clerk), but we MUST cut him some slack for that stylish beard he is sporting!
That beard, those glasses,I swear I thought I was looking at John Anthony Walker when I saw that picture
Like I said not so long ago, what’s wrong with being a bridge builder? Or a cook? Just a lowly, lowly cook?
I did 23 years in the AF.
That being said, for better part of 15 years, I was part of a rapid deployment team able to go anywhere in the world in 72 hours and set up airfield operations. (Air Cargo Port)
I deployed for Somalia and made it to Dover AFB and stayed there. I deployed for Desert Storm and Desert Shield and ended up at NAS Norfolk and ran the port there.
When my unit was activated in 2003 I was at the table with the Top Three and Commander and First Sergeant deciding who would be part of the two 38 man teams that deployed. Why was I not going…I was the Unit Deployment Manager and had to work that angle from home.
The last 5 years I was in, even though I volunteered, I never left Andrews AFB because I had “Other” things I had to do that were more important to the unit. (ORI, Unit Compliance Inspection, etc) so I bit the bullet and did as I was told.
My best friend who just retired as a Chief in April did deploy to Afghanistan last year and said it was the most difficult assignment or TDY he’d ever done and I was mad I wasn’t there to support him. (I had retired a few years back myself).
I told him I felt guilty I had never forward deployed in theater when so many of my folks had and he said words that took a while to soak in……they eventually changed my whole outlook and eased my guilt.
** “You can’t change what didn’t happen.” **
Point being that yes I trained and I was ready for the better part of my entire career but did I get the call. No.
Would I ever embellish my service to try to say I did something I didn’t do? *Unimaginable*
@ islandofmisfittoys,
My mind has a difficult time grasping just how someone who *DID* have honorable service would even want to do that, much less actually trying to pull it off.
/*shakes my head ruefully*
The look in that picture is “my, that’s a big one you’ve got there sailor”. 😉
He said that he received three medals upon Retirement. One of the medals he claimed was a Coast Guard Medal.
Sometimes with the vets in this age bracket I do wonder if there might be some delusions resulting from medications, either prescribed or otherwise. Then I think of my own father who ended up on some pretty heavy duty meds and still did not embellish his Army career.
Sad does not even begin to describe what must be going on inside someone with honorable service who must exaggerate that service. Yes, I understand the emotion akin to guilt we who escaped ever being a target of a hostile force feel when we remember all our warriors who sacrificed so much. Yes, I get that because I have it myself. But, I also know that without those meals served, the bullets transported forward, and all the other things that must occur well behind the front lines, our warriors at the front would have an even more miserable existence. And more would die if we do not do our jobs.
These are the ones that really piss me off. I mean, someone who chaptered out during basic and claiming wild tales is a douche but this guy RETIRED HONORABLY! WTF? I wish I had stayed in and had his career….his real career…
@9 Well said OWB
Sorta makes me glad I mowed and trimmed the 1st Sergeant’s lawn and straightened out bent blades of grass, wash and wax the CO’s assigned unit before guard mount and play MP for 8 hrs.
Thanks, Chip. Spent a bit of time on one of those K-loaders (actually, more than one) myself. ALCE augmentee for a bit, too.
Hi. First time posting on this. This one has really ruffled my jimmies. I was USN SK for 5 years. And while I got to see and do some of the most AWESOME stuff you can imagine, I have never felt the urge to lie about what I didnt do.
This assclown probably doesn’t know the Hospital Corpsman’s Pledge (something that every HM takes when they graduate from school – it’s something like the Hippocratic Oath for doctors). Love to know where he went to “A” school at… and this clown was TDRL from the Navy. I guess he figured out that since he spent so much time at Naval Hospitals that he was able to unofficially cross-rate to HM (that info is probably in the same place that some of his medals are at).
He worked with NCIS prior to retiring in 1987? Sure he did.
@13 OWB….This one’s for us…..
http://i.imgur.com/znexVLP.jpg
Yet another SEAL.
A GED as a pre-req for being a SEAL?
Was that how it was back then?
Also, a GED a those degrees? I know one can pursue higher education w/ a GED but those are fairly specific/competitive quasi-medical fields.
@ #17: That’s great! Thx.
He got Agent Orange on a boat…. I have two Brother in Laws who are getting VA comp for Agent Orange exposure …. They are not having a good time. I’m sure they would trade their VA rating to him for their health,
A sailor who had an honorable career and who is now a lying sack of shit…
And were we to look a little deeper, one wonders what they’d find. Scratch a poser, find a criminal. All too often.
NHSparky: check out the 2nd comment by the guy in the screencap Scotty provided.
I’m hearing a familiar sound: “Ca-ching.”
@23, well Sparky, he did do 22 yrs and retired as a E6. I don’t know about the Navy, but I saw a lot of turds just float along and retire at 20 as E6s. Strangely enough, most of them were in the Army’s supply MOS. He could have just been an all around dude and that’s why he’s making up these stories. Anyone share this guys rate? How hard is it to advance past E6?
John Milton said it best: “They also serve, who also stand and wait”
Yesterday’s 9 Chickweed comics http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/9-chickweed-lane-slideshow/20131029-cw131029-gif-photo-050051896.html
gives a short summary on how these people think
Oops, wrong link go back to the one for Monday 28th October
I found the former AK1/HM1 SEAL. Seems to have gained alot of weight: http://www.peekyou.com/george_bolis/56214151
Don’t think that’s him MCPO. That page gives his age as 39. That would mean he was born in either 1973 or 1974. This guy joined the Navy in Jan 1965, which means he was born no later than 1948. Could possibly be a relative, though.
@25–not sure what HYT was back then, but I’m sure he was close to it (23 years then, maybe?)
And with the same drawdown/hollow force issues in the Navy back then as the other forces had, I find it very surprising he didn’t sign his name to the CPO exam and make at least that, if not SCPO. There were a LOT of guys back in the early 80’s who had made rate based solely on their being around rather than any competency or leadership ability.
Also, how the hell does someone get a NCM without ever having received a NAM? Was it a retirement award? And when I see a guy wearing a PUC, my Spidey sense IMMEDIATELY starts going off. Yeah, they’re THAT rare, unless you were on the Parche.
Reading some of the comments of never to hear the bugle call to war – you are correct in saying there is (or should not) be any shame in not going. As long as we did nothing to prevent this from happening. I did not deploy in my 28 1/2 years. But as all good soldiers do, we salute the flag, and we continued to train and train our soldiers to the standard and above. For a while I had the guilt of not being deployed but that all went away when one of my prior soldiers came up to me in a restaurant and thanked me for the training he received from me. I have been accused of being hard on my soldiers but I wanted all to be trained for the job at hand. He said it made all the difference in his deployment. That really made my day and I will never forget what he said. But do not shame yourself by embellishing your record and shame your service to your country and your family like some do. Just my take on the issue.
# 29 MCPO…. That is his photo.But the age is way the Hell off.
NHSparky: I suspect the FOIA may be in error in one respect.
The FOIA indicates he was transferred to the “temporary disability retired list”, or TDRL. If I recall correctly, that status is temporary and cannot exceed 5 years. At or before the 5 year mark, the individual must be medically evaluated and either be (1) reinstated to duty (if recovered sufficiently) or (2) permanently medically retired/separated (if still unfit medically for continued service). Also if I remember correctly, a member reinstated gets full service credit for time spent on the TDRL.
I suspect the Aug 1987 date on his FOIA is actually the date he was permanently retired vice placed on the TDRL. If so, he could well have been put on the TDRL as early as August 1982 – or well before he hit 20 or approached E6 HYT.
It’s also possible that he was indeed placed on the TDRL in Aug 1987 but that his final retirement orders never made it into his OMPF. If so, then yes – I’d guess he was approaching HYT as an E6 before he was medically retired.
Dog turd.
way to ruin a perfectly honorable record of service. Why?