John Risteau; Phony Marine

| July 17, 2017

Someone sent us their work on this fellow, John Barton Risteau, from Bozeman, Montana. He’s a member of the local Marine Corps League (Post 1050), and the way I understand the Marine Corps League, you have to be a veteran of the Marine Corps to join;

Mr Risteau, is not a veteran of the Marine Corps, according to the National Personnel Records Center;

He does have a record that the NPRC doesn’t have, but they are criminal records;

Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures

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Jon The Mechanic

No vest, no dog, no do rag, no baseball cap claiming a Bronze or Silver Star?

Good Lord these people are slacking. Wait until the rest of the posers find out. They are going to be offended at this doucenozzle’s lack of commitment to the lie.

USMCMSgt(Ret)

Another dead giveaway is that stupid boot red jacket he’s wearing in the photo.

Everyone knows you’re supposed to sew on patches that identify all your previous duty stations.

Cocksucker.

Marine 0331

Snappy salute maybe, but I bet his thumb is not at the trouser seam. Fucking bag of shit. Can’t stand these fucktards.

CB Senior

He did sewn on all of his patches.
No Service, No Patches. Easy DAY, Miller time.

JimV

Today I go over to Lackland AFB to get my retired military ID renewed. I turn 65 next month and become eligible for Medicare. Will Tricare for Life issue me a pooch as well as a vest, do rag and baseball cap stating that I am a veteran? 😮

IDC SARC

“Proud Catholic” and a lying fuckgnard. Great combo.

Combat Historian

John Risteau, phony sack of shit, is soon gonna be in a world of hurt from his former buddies at the MCL; it’s not gonna be pretty…

IDC SARC

I may or may not have sent them a message. 🙂

AZtoVA

🙂

Mick

Boom.

CWORet

Ima betting on ‘have’.
Shack!

IDC SARC

I may have gotten a reply that is balking at the credibility of the site. I may have balked back.

IDC SARC

last communication: they are aware and are investigating….though they still seemed to wonder why I care. lol

EODJay

They wonder why you care? FFS. Isn’t honor one of the hallmarks of the US military? Something this D-Bag has none of. It amazes me how often veteran’s organizations react like this when a liar in their ranks is exposed. Oh wait, I forgot, but he’s a good guy.

USMC8151

😀

Claw

But wait, there’s more. He has pictures of a Space Shuttle Door Gunner patch posted on his FB page.

Is he implying that he’s one of those, too?

Phony Marine or not, cause if indeed he is a SSDG, you know he’s got to be legit./sarc

Dumbass.

Ex-PH2

Okay, if he don’t got the school certificate, he don’t qualify nohow.

Eden

OMG, he really DOES have a SSDG patch on his FB! We joke about that all the time, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen one. Still rockin’ the USMC lie, though.

IDC SARC

you can get one from USA Military Medals…and others apparently.

https://www.usamilitarymedals.com/products/space-shuttle-door-gunner-patch-acu

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Gee, wouldn’t a bullet float in space if it was shot out of the shuttle while in space unless it is a genuine Flash Gordan ray gun which you can send away for with 2 box top labels from a box of cheerios and twenty five cents to Honor house, Lynbrook LI NY. Saw the gun on the back of a comic book.

IDC SARC

In space, an object (like a bullet) would continue to travel on its trajectory until met by an equal and opposing force.

Chief

it wouldn’t fire at all. without oxygen, the primer would never ignite the powder inside the case. but yes, if the bullet were to somehow fire, it would keep going until something stops it. similarly, the weapon used to shoot the bullet would also have the inertial energy in the opposite direction of travel from the bullet.

Wilted Willy

This sack of shit isn’t even trying, he doesn’t even make a good poser, no Force Recon, no Purple Heart, my God man, he doesn’t even have the mandatory 1000 yard stare! Go back to poser school you lying sack of shit! You are a disgrace to posers everywhere!!!

1610desig

He has the five yard “I like the way your boy looks in those little school boy shorts” stare

Club Manager

I suspect what gave him away was been seen without two road guards and someone to count Cadence.

FatCircles0311

Lazy Marines not doing their job of vetting members. If some Army puke on a blog can do it then there is no excuse for Marines in a Marine organization not to do it. This is embarrassing.

Semper Pie.

Mick

Embarrassing indeed.

This kind of poser infiltrator bullshit is much more prevalent in the MCL than we as Marines would like to admit.

And there are also way too many ’embellishers’ that infest the MCL.

AZtoVA

When ‘we’ stood up the detachment in Kingman, AZ (1990’s), we tried to require 214’s be turned over and copies kept on file with each membership application, and met with a lot of resistance. We did end up requiring officers of the detachment to provide theirs.

1610desig

Poser chapter?

Poetrooper

“Some Army PUKE on a blog?”

You speak thusly of our beloved Jonn?

And, “Semper PIE?”

Oh my, whatever has happened to the inter-service camaraderie so usually on display here?

Caution Fats, lest some Army pukes and Jarheads have you circling the drain…

1610desig

I’m thinking nothing makes us band together more than posers and liberal bullshit…psychology 101

radar

For shame. My detachment requires a 214 to join. No 214, hit the bricks.

QM1

…and his Facebook page is gone.

Graybeard

As Gomber Pyle would say: “Surprize, Surprize, Surprize!”

1610desig

Exactly what he said when an LHA sailor showed him his bilge pump

Claw

I’m still seeing it. Maybe you’re just blocked.

QM1

I tried on the link above (not the group one, but his) and it said the page has been removed.

Eden

Still there.

Mick

Oh. Hell. No.

— sigh —

It’s the inevitable/perpetual presence of poser assclown infiltrators like this that heavily influenced my decision to bail out of the MCL several years ago.

TINS (that’s the Marine Air Wing acronym for ‘This Is No Shit’):

A few years back I encountered a poser turd at one of the local MCL detachments who was ‘holding court’ and describing how he went through Marine Corps recruit training at ‘Paradise Island’. After being momentarily stunned into speechlessness, several of us called him on it right then and there in front of the other MCL detachment Marines, but none of the MCL detachment leadership would ultimately ever do anything about him, and I believe that that lying poser shithead is still a MCL member to this day. I guess that they must need the membership dues. Or something.

So, no more MCL for me. And I won’t go back.

Forest Green

Was that the Chesapeake Chapter? I’m surprised they didn’t “blackball” him like they did with real Marine members. I suppose this guy does everything they tell him to do and never question the “elite” members.

Mick

Yup.

They wouldn’t ‘blackball’ the guy because, just as you described, he’s a useful idiot for them.

By the way, the Gunny and several of our other Marine buds were also there when this happened; I thought that their heads were going to explode.

Forest Green

Perhaps the National Level needs to be involved. If crap like that is going on they need to shut it down.

Mick

No need; that place is imploding/collapsing on its own.

The last that I heard, there may be only 3-4 active members left down there.

In fact, I don’t know if they are even still in operation anymore.

Good riddance.

Ex-PH2

Waiting for Dave Hardin to check in….

Graybeard

Dang. Good luck, Dave. Be sure to punch back potentially hard.

Graybeard

I just caught the autocorrupt error: “potentially” was supposed to be “exponentially”.

Graybeard Publishing & Broadcasting regrets the error.

Dave Hardin

He was all hell bent to come kill me yesterday, seems he got hung up during the 45 min drive to my house at some Buffet.

Now I am told he is putting off killing me until the 1st. Not sure why, someone else might be able to explain it.

If I suddenly disappear someone have local all you can eat Buffets searched for this pussy.

Ex-PH2

You told him about my gravy? You naughty boy!

AW1Ed

Worse. He told Laughing Boy there about the chocolate cheesecake.

Graybeard

He is an ugly SOB, isn’t he?

Might use this mugshot to keep the rats out of my hen house.

Ex-PH2

That mug shot would scare the hair off a goat!!

1610desig

I have goats…it worked!

Cornholio

Serious Frankenstein vibe. They must have removed the bolts in his neck.

26Limabeans

Needs some bolts sticking out of his head.

Poetrooper

Perfect!

RM3(SS)

Welfare checks come out on the 1st, so maybe he’s waiting for gas money.
Ever think about sending him bus fare so you can get the shenanigans started already? So many threats, so little time.

A Proud Infidel®™

He’s ugly enough to make SHIT scream and run away!

OldManchu

He looks like he likes mustard with his taters…

IDC SARC

Looks like he has acromegaly…or tertiary syphilis…kinda goes either way

1610desig

Shit…and I thought only I had made that exclusive club

HMCS(FMF) ret

Looks like he’s looking forward to the “All he will eat buffet” at the BTJT Deli (Home of the WORLD FAMOUS Cockmeat sammich)!

Dave Hardin

Insofar as Mr Risteau goes; Why do they always seem to drag poor Jesus into their bullshit? Hasn’t that poor guy suffered enough?

Being Atheist, I hardly ever comment about it when they pull Christ into their lies, it just makes me feel really bad for those who actually do take their faith seriously and try to walk through life as Christ would want them to.

Do they think Jesus does not have access to their DD214? God is unfamiliar with a FOIA? I realize the big guy is busy with World Peace and all but I doubt the Omnipotent One (not Jonn…the other one) probably knows they are full of shit.

Graybeard

Well, Dave, as a Christian who does try – sometimes semi-successfully – to not slander my Lord, this is my view:

1) It is evidence that Christianity is still viewed, at least in some circles, with respect that these posers wish to appropriate.
2) God is quite capable of dealing with them when He wants to.
3) Having messed up a number of time throughout my life, I’m not about to cast too many stones at them.
4) On the other hand, when asked WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) the option of whips and overturning tables is not out of the equation.

David

seems to me driving the folks out of temple occurred BEFORE telling folks to turn the other cheek. And He never said to turn the other cheek more than once.

SSG E

Well, there was the whole “seven times seventy times” thing…

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18%3A21-22&version=KJV

Hondo

As well as the “sell your cloak and buy a sword” thing.

http://biblehub.com/luke/22-36.htm

SSG E

Beware: he who lives by the cloak shall die by the cloak!

Veritas Omnia Vincit

Next thing you know they’ll be trying to tell us that Jesus can’t hit a curve ball…..fucking heathens.

Commissioner Wretched

Are you trying to tell me that Jesus can’t hit a curve ball?

Pinto Nag

…and why are you hating on Heathens?

Used to be still serving

As a fellow atheist, I ask myself this as well.

Graybeard

I can visualize that…

AW1Ed

Peas in our thyme?

A Proud Infidel®™

Right there in Paprika, it’s down by the river!

A Proud Infidel®™

I hope Ex-OS2 is alive and well somewhere, but in his absence I’ll say:

Cocksucker.

lily

I wonder why the MCL didn’t notice anything strange? Don’t they ask questions about his time in the Marine Corps? It seems the guy must have been convincing enough to fool them.

For some reason many people are surprised if they ask about my past and I mention I’m a veteran. I guess I changed so much and look a certain way as to not fulfill their expectations? I’m tall, skinny and nice so that must be it?

Guard Bum

I do not understand how the MCL lets these turds slip by either. It has always been obvious to me when someone claims to be a Marine and wasnt.

It makes me wonder if anyone in these organizations is legit or if they all have embellished so much over the years no one wants anyone to dig too deep.

Just An Old Dog

A few years back I had a friend I served with ask me about a dude he worked with.
He had hardly mentioned his “service” until after 9-11.
Then he started wearing USMC gear joined the MCL and did a lot of GOOD things for them. My friend remembered that he heard the guy had washed out of Boot Camp.
I was put in contact with the President of the MCL chapter and the individual.
He did have a DD214 … as an Entry Level Separation….
The President looked into the regs and just as I would have thought they stated to be a Marine you had to have earned the title.
They fucked up by letting him in as a member.
However there was a happy ending to it. He was able to join as an auxiliary and continue to work with the chapter.
He just couldn’t wear the emblem, vote, or hold office.
When I talked to him he actually said he felt relieved that it had been straightened out.
He had joined with good intentions and not tried to lie about his discharge. When he talked to Marines in the chapter he just felt awkward. When it came out he hadn’t graduated he was at odds on what to do.

Green Thumb

Word has it that that this turd was trying to hang around ROTC, etc. Word also has it that the MCL is following up on this.

As I said, that’s the word.

This maggot is getting the gravy no more.

People know……

DPF

Funny.. I was just doing some web creeping and Lo and Behold! When I was 16 yrs old in Northern MN I got into a brush with the law. (Vandalism or some dumb thing..) While in an outward bound program I met none other than John Risteau himself! Charming lad. Very persuasive. (I am literally cackling inside to now know 30 years later he grew up to be a con man!). Being a bit itchy for adventure and feeling brave, we decided to make a break for it and see how far we’d get. No one had ever successfully gotten more than about 5 miles. It’s the very northwoods of MN, surrounded by a swamp. Long story short, with the aide of John, by the next morning we were in my hometown 90 miles away sitting in my parents living room hanging out. My folks were in Seattle for a business trip at the time. A nosy neighbor called the cops and I got hauled into Juvie. John decided to stay and steal everything from my parents home, including a car, money, jewelry, booze, electronics.. Everything. I had alerted the cops that he was there but they didn’t care and didn’t do anything about it. a few days later, after he was apprehended, they brought him to the same juvenile center I was in and stuck him in the next room over. He had zero remorse. He only stared at me dead eyed like ‘So what?’ and sneered. He attempted to break out of there and was SO desperate that he worked so hard that he was literally scraping through concrete with his bare fingertips, bloodying them to the bone. He was further relocated where he ran off and (as far as I know) never heard from again. My point here, aside from compromising myself for making some really dumb choices as a teenager, is that this guy is a scary. He’s a true sociopath. Has been since he was a kid. Zero empathy for anyone and will do whatever it takes to serve his own needs with no regards… Read more »