Chris Mullikin; phony general swim coach
Patrick sends us a link to a KENS5 article about this 39-year-old Chris Mullikin, who told folks that he was a one-star general and a medical doctor to get a job as a swim coach in San Antonio, but apparently none of that was true;
Recently, Mullikin boasted to fellow natatorium staff members he was a one-star general in the United States Air Force, a graduate of the Air Force’s Combat Rescue Officer School and a medical doctor certified to train EMT’s.
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Officials with the Air Force Personnel Center confirmed to the I-Team this week the branch has no record of Mullikin serving active duty in the Air Force, in the Air National Guard or in the Air Force Reserve.
Late last week, Mullikin told KENS 5 over the phone he got his medical degree in 2001 after graduating from the Medical University of South Carolina.
But the National Student Clearinghouse, the top company for verifying college degrees for employers and other entities, found no record of Mullikin graduating from MUSC.
The dude of course, falls back on the secret squirrel explanation, even though there is no record of him in the general officers registry. And, oh, to reenforce his story, he resigned during the investigation.
The video says that he did serve 22 months in the Coast Guard which is almost as good as being a general in the Air Force, right? He’s just lucky that no one died in his pool. Maybe Texas will be able to dust off their Stolen Valor laws and spank his useless ass.
Category: Phony soldiers
Re: “no record of Mullikin serving active duty in the Air Force, in the Air National Guard or in the Air Force Reserve.”
Did they check with CAP or the Texas State Guard?
Brother, you read my mind. Just don’t read the stuff in there about Olivia Wilde. It’s…dirty.
RIMSHOT!
Perhaps Civil Air Patrol?
He’s not one of ours. To be a GO in CAP, you have to have served as the National CC or National CV and those records are easily acessible.
With my apologies to Queen…….”Another one bites the dust”!
Does this phony General also sport a “scrotum-tickler” patch of hair on his chin?
This dufus is obviously not historically-minded, or he would know that in this day and age, it is pretty much impossible to make O-7 at age 39, no matter how high-speed you are. If you are commissioned at age 22, seventeen years is not going to get you GOFO rank. This is not the Civil War or WWII years, where that would have been actually somewhat common…
My thoughts exactly.
“The video says that he did serve 22 months in the Coast Guard which is almost as good as being a general in the Air Force, right?” Right.
I’d actually like to see the documentation of his USCG service. I believe USCG records are also stored at NPRC, since it’s one of the US uniformed services.
Speaking of military records, back in January I sent off for my late mother-in-law’s Navy records. I just received a reply. If I want the records, they will cost $70. It appears that any service records over 62 years old are transferred to the Nat’l Archives and their fees are $70 for–if I recall correctly– six or more photocopies. Nice.
Well, I see someone didn’t read all of the articles I wrote about filing FOIAs . . . in particular, this one (smile):
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=39457
As 2/17 Air Cav states: if the record is over 62 years old, it’s considered an archival public record. You have to pay to get it (my recollection of the fee was $75, but it’s been a while since I last checked).
However, since it’s now an unrestricted public record, you get the whole file.
For what it’s worth: technically, the National Archives has the records at NPRC before they’re 62 years old also. NPRC is part of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Addendum to previous: however, it may take months. I’d have to check, but I think it took well over 6 months to get the one record I requested from archival storage – I just got it recently, and I had mentally written it off as lost by the USPS or due to bureaucratic SNAFU.
22 months? This guy had 11 times the time in service as John Giduck with his 58 days…11x the service? Of course, he is a General.
Coast Guard? Air Force? John Giduck likely could have made it through basic training of those either. It’s easier to believe this guy’s a general than John Giduck did anything but play dress up with some spetsnaz dudes.
This “general” wipes his Phildo and ends up with a portrait of John Giduck on the paper. At least the military posers have generals to lead them these days.
Honestly, I have lost a little faith in the AF. When I requested my records and they went “Who?” Good thing I put my 214 on file at the county. Still trying to sort that one out. Maybe I am a secret squirrel and don’t know it!!
When I worked in the G2 in Germany, I had a sign on my desk that read “My job is so secret, even I don’t know what I’m doing!”
Maybe he’s one of those “Odd Fellow” dudes. Remember that old fart the other day? It seems that all of those guys are Generals – ha.
USAF_Pride – I feel your pain. Just for giggles, a while back I requested my records. Keep in mind that while I had a rather unremarkable career, I did spend over 24 years on active, drilling reserve and inactive reserve duty, so I should have a little bit of junk in the files. I got back four of my reenlistment documents, one set of ETS orders, orders for my second and fourth good conduct medal and for one AAM and one ARCOM. My personal file at the house is 3 inches thick. Makes me wonder where the rest of my “official” paperwork is. We must have secret squirreled together…..
Fer Chrissakes, I was a swim coach and training life guards at 17 years old……of course, I was only a Col. then….
In the Navy, when a person reenlisted, his old service record was closed and a new one open. Certain pages/paperwork were placed in the new, carbons of the right side were sent to off with the old.
Anything on the left hand side (copies of orders, correspondence, etc.) were supposed to be given to the individual. As most of this was just personal, some sailors would probably throw it away, send it home to mother, or lose it during a transfer.
I know as a Yeoman, I kept most of my stuff, except for my first tour when I was a Gunners Mate Guns Striker, and did not know the importance of keeping a lot of that paperwork. Also, I can’t remember if the Personnelmen even gave me the opportunity. BZ
Maybe he was a General in the Coast Guard?
Or maybe the Salvation Army?
Montana Militia?
Airsoft Commando Brigade?
So this guy actually got hired, right?
That’s depressing. That someone could claime to be a retired GO and not have anybody check just shows how divorced the military has become from the mainstream of American society.
Think back to the years following WWII. I hightly doubt it would have been easy for anybody to be a fake general with all those veterans around asking pointed questions about when he served and with whom.
Extra shitbag.
Disappointing and frustrating for me since I have friends and family in San Antonio. I dare this maroon to make an appearance to the northeast in the Pineywoods area.
Explain what A “maroon” is. Last I checked it was a color.
http://youtu.be/C_Kh7nLplWo
Hey guys! I bet you didn’t know I was a general. No really! My brother just said “you are a general pain in the ass!” Then he threw a can of soup at me. So I guess I was canned.
Thank you! I’ll be here all weekend, unless I’m not here.
Did you then take said soup, put it between two slices of bread, and make a soup sandwich?
🙂
How’d you know?
Nope.
You put said soup between two buns and make it an ass sandwich.