Stafford Merckle; phony Vietnam Veteran
That launched him on his career as a Special Forces Sergeant First Class and off to Vietnam where his team excelled at doing the hokey-pokey, apparently;
He did serve in the Army for 14 years, but he didn’t enlist until four years after the fall of Saigon. There’s no Special Forces or jump school in his records. He did earn the Bullwinkle Badge, though, but that’s not Special Forces. And oh, after 14 years, he left as a Private (E-1), so I’m guessing that he wasn’t a stellar soldier;
Well, he is a fabricating engineer according to his Twitter account, he fabricated the shit out of his career;
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
He enlisted and went to boot camp the same year I did; I sure don’t remember any levee calls to go to the Viet of the Nam in 1979. It’s almost like…HE MADE THAT UP…
Funny how posers and shitbags think that SF is mostly made up of dregs and ex-cons, like in the “Devil’s Brigade” and “Dirty Dozen” movies, when in fact SF personnel are made up of some of the brightest and most intelligent and quick-thinking folks in the Army…
No shit; there I was after just knocking over that convenience store and wasting 6 people when this SF recruiter walks up to me and sayz “yo, muthaf**ka, yous gots da skillz! Why don’t ya join them there special forces an be a reel hero in da ‘Nam”.
But were you holding your pistol sideways?
Yeah, sure. Handguns always work best when you don’t use the sights
Opps, typed my name wrong!
Silly me 😖
Coffee spew!!!
“Yo mutha f……”
Just another fat lying sack of shit! Don’t even make a 1 on the poser meter!
“I want Tommy and his Mom and Dad to know that I did everything in my power to bring him back alive. I carried him on my shoulder for 25 miles even after being shot in leg so he could go home.”
So you shot Tommy in the leg so he could go home. What did you do, drop him at mile 26?
https://youtu.be/Jl5vi9ir49g
Hit report by mistake, sorry
Douchebag has a MACV-SOG CCC (Command and Control-Central) insignia posted on his facebook page. This turd is really going all the way with his Viet of the Nam SF lies…
He got in after me and somehow made it to Southeast Asia…son of a bitch must have met Dr. Emmett Brown to get to Vietnam…
I served with a shit ton of Vietnam vets and none of the stories they told involved the hokey pokey, but maybe they held that back to share with each other at the VFW…
Another sad sack whose best days never arrived, and sadly now feels he and his life were without meaning so he has to tell some lies to make up for wasting most of his time here on the blue marble.
Well, since one of those presidents (Nixon?) made it illegal to go to Vietnam after 1975, I want to know why this bozo wasn’t in jail?
Someone please tell me how in the blue-eyed world you can stay in the Army for 14 years and not get past E-1?
Gee whiz, even Beetle Bailey made it past that level. And so did Sad Sack – almost – remember him?
He probably got pounded down to E-1 in a Court Martial.
What I think.
Anything thing like a “court marshal”? I still like the one poser who was an expert in marital arts. He probably looked quite appealing in the dress with pearls and high heels.
It was part of his top secret high speed exit plan so that he could slip back into civilian life undetected and sit alone dealing with PTSD.
It was not possible to stay in the Army for 14 years and leave as an E-1 without a major reduction in rank. The only logical conclusion is court martial or several Art.15’s.
Could you Army types please help out a Marine here: Bullwinkle Badge?
Also, it looks like he’s wearing some sort of Army Aviation insignia on that snazzy Viet of the Nam Veteran ball cap in the photo posted above. Is he also claiming pilot/aircrew?
Army Air Assault Badge; it kind of looks like the cartoon character Bullwinkle when seen from a distance…
Copy; thanks!
Yes, some of us who are Army call it the “Bullwinkle Badge”, but not out of disrepect. It is an honor to wear that Badge since the Air Assault Course is very demanding and challenging, both physically and mentally.
One has to earn wearing the Air Assault Badge by attending and successfully completing the grueling course.
One is not entitled to wear the Badge even if they received an “Honorary” Air Assault Certificate (that is, if such a certificate exists) and never attended the course.
Grueling? Air assault?
Just must be joking.
If you can’t do an obstacle course, a 2 and a 4 mile run at 9, yeah you read that right, 9 minute miles, and a 6 and a 12 miles footmarchs at the standard infantry pace of 15 minute mile with a little 35 lbs load, then you have no business being in the military.
Aerosol school is just a basic course. There is nothing special about it.
as is also true of most Army “schools”. Very few of them are really that hard if you can handle running and push ups.
Never understood how folks thought stuff was so hard…although since many soldiers never went to such schools, maybe I do understand….
Ret_25X: Try going to RANGER School.
As stated, what may be easy for one Soldier may be difficult for another.
And that one Soldier who excels physically in the course? They may do well in that area, but fail academically and get washed out. Or have a difficult time because they refuse to operate as a team and think they can win the war all by themselves. Ever met any of those type in the Army Schools you have attended? 😉
Are you seriously going to compare Air assault to ranger?
What are you talking about, Yef? Show me where I compared Ranger School to Air Assault School.
Read Ret_25X response about Army Schools. And read my response carefully. I was indirectly making a comment that not all Army Schools are “easy”..and the Ranger Course is definitely more challenging and demanding than the Air Assault Course, just as it is more demanding than Airborne School.
A Soldier does not rappel out of a hovering helicopter in basic training.
Grueling? No, I am not joking. What may be easy for one Soldier may be difficult for another.
Air Assault School, as other Army Schools, have washout rates. If it was that “easy”, then everyone who attended would graduate and have the Bullwinkle Badge to wear.
The point I was trying to make using “demanding”, “challenging” and “grueling” is that one has to PHYSICALLY earn the honor of wearing that badge. Those individuals who never attended the course, but received a certificate in the mail in 1984 stating they were “Honorary Air Assault” has no right wearing that Badge, especially to Non-Military events in either civilian clothes, Scottish Kilts or Santa Claus Suits.
A soldier does not rappel out of an helicopter in Air Assault either.
You fast rope out of a UH60 in day 9, while rappelling happens out of the tower on day 6 or so.
The point is, you only fail Air Assault in day zero, when you do the 2 mile at 9 minute mile, the obstacle curse which is what get most people, and that’s pretty much it.
Oh well, some people do fail the 12 miler footmarch.
When did you attend Air Assault School?
In 2003 – when I attended – successful graduation required passing testing on both tower rapel…with and without ruck…and out of a helo. Fast roping was not instructed….and it would be surprising to learn if it is instructed now, given how dangerous it is…with a fairly high rate of serious injuried and deaths.
Passing the hands-on rigging test was by far the event that had the highest rate of failure. Ability to pass the Army PFT is a pre-requsite to attend. I do not recall any students failing it. The obstacle course is/was a challenge for some. Likewise the 12 mile road march…but these events did not see many failures.
Correction:
I attended Air Assault School in 1999, not 2003.
Also, for the record, I rappeled out of a UH60 during Air Assault School with a ruck.
He is wearing some sort of aircrew badge on his cap. It is not the Air Assault Badge being worn on his baseball cap.
He does claim to be a pilot on Twitter.
Probably another of Jimmy “Left Low Ball” Wall’s acolytes.
A 2 minute fast winding video of the Air Assault School for those who are not aware what the course entails:
https://youtu.be/9EgLPnDbjtc
A Soldier earns the honor of wearing the Bullwinkle Badge thru blood, sweat and tears and not from getting a certificate in the mail, since there is no such thing as an Honorary Air Assault Soldier (Yes, I admit, I am beating a dead horse, but the individual in question has yet to admit he is wrong in wearing the Badge…similiar to DB,FV,DW,JG not admitting they are wrong in claiming/wearing awards/medals/badges they did not earn).
I don’t think the individual in question WILL EVER admit he is/was wrong in the wearing the Badge. He will take it to his grave that he was not wrong in believing that a certificate (issued to him in 1984, eight years after he was discharged) that was intended for school aged children authorized him to wear it wherever/whenever he saw fit.
With him, it’s all about bright, shiny badges. That’s why he is such a strong advocate of having the Combat Action Badge made retroactive to Vietnam and even further back to cover WWII and Korea.
That way he would be able to get another badge(s) for all of his family’s Love Me Wall displays.
Claw, Jonn and others: I’m sorry I am hijacking this thread since it is about Merckle, but something has been bugging me and I don’t know where else to ask this. In the individual’s shadow box, he has the Armed Forces Reserve Medal (AFRM). I thought that Medal was only for those who served 10 or more years in the Army Reserves or the National Guard. I thought that individual was Regular Army…and if he got out in 1976, that means he only served 9 years. I don’t think he was AUS or AGR. I never “hear” him talk about joining a Reserve Unit or a National Guard unit after he was discharged…and if he was transferred to the USAR Control Group after discharge as an IRR, that does not qualify him to have the AFRM. Neither does one qualify for the AFRM for being in a State Militia since the Militias have their own medals and ribbons. Am I missing something..or is he claiming another medal that he did not earn? I guess he is the only one who can answer that question…but again, all I “hear” him talk about is Vietnam, the 101st and not much more. I am still confused about him wearing/displaying the Blue Cord of Doom, because I thought that was only given to Infantry Soldiers and not Signal Corps. I’m also confused about him claiming 4 GCM. I thought each one represents 3 years? If he only served 9 years, why does he have 4? He’s an advocate of the CAB being retroactive to Vietnam, Korea and WWII? What about the other conflicts the US Army has been involved before WWII? (Rhetorical question). I hope he reads this and answers my questions about the AFRM, the GCMs, the AAB and the Blue Cord of Doom and why he wears them if he is not entitled to them. He’s open about other things and shares on TAH his life, his time in the Army (in Vietnam), his faith, his health issues, his music, so hopefully he will provide some insight on my inquiries on his… Read more »
does his AFRM have an “M” on it? If you get mobilized you get the AFRM and M device no matter how many good years you have….
Nope, no “M” device.
He probably thinks he’s authorized to wear it for the time he spent in the Utah State Guard (Militia).
Here’s another question that someone we know needs to answer:
Why is he wearing the ribbons/medals for both the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Korean Defense Service Medal for the one and only tour he did in Korea the last year before he was discharged? I thought it was one or the other, but not both.
BTW, he did self admit that he was demoted from SP5 to SP4 for insubordination just prior to his discharge in 1976. I wonder if a bar to re-enlistment had anything to do with him not continuing to serve in the Army?
if no “M”, then no AFRM…as for AFEM vs KDSM, yes.
The AFEM was authorized from 1 Oct 66 to 30 Jun 74 and the KDSM for any service of 30 consecutive days at any time after the armistice.
So, yes on the AFEM and KDSM, but on the AFRM the individual would have to have 10 good years of reserve or guard duty to qualify…state militias are not part of the guard and reserve.
Well, the individual in question wasn’t in Korea yet when the eligibility period ended on 30 Jun 74.
He was still at Fort Hood in the First Cav and didn’t PCS to Korea until some time in 1975.
I prolly shouldn’t bring it up but I don’t think being a radio wrencher in the rear with the gear qualifies one for a combat action badge, retroactive or not.
You are right, rgr769. He would not qualify and I doubt his father or stepmother would as well if the CAB would become retroactive to Korea & WWII.
I suspect he is reading all of this, but does not want to admit in pubic he made mistakes for fear of humiliation. I have more respect for folks who admit they goofed, because none of us are perfect…we ALL make mistakes.
To be honest with you, I tried to have compassion for him because I thought he is lonely or has mental hiccups of the brain, but after reading his blog, I’m more scared and disturbed of his thought process. Was taken back when I read he believes in bombings of abortion clinics, his personal beliefs on returning to segregation and his posting on the internet pictures of his Ex-Wife house with her address and the name of her husband. Isn’t that cyberstalking?
Since he is being supported by our tax dollars with his VA benefits, motorized wheel chair, modification of his truck so he can get in and out, SSN and has lots of time on his hands, it would br wonderful to hear him share with us him doing volunteer work in his community to help those less fortunate than himself. God gave him a gift of being articulate-he could volunteer to read to those who cannot see..heck, he could volunteer to do anything if he chooses to do so.
Or he can stay in his hooch, stuck in a Vietnam timezone..it would be nice to hear other things he did in the Army in other locations. Just wishful thinking.
I have jury duty next month (again), I cant wait to see the Special forces recruiters near the jury box.
Just an FYI, he’s usually sitting next to the CIA recruiter (dude with the trench coat and dark Ray-Bans… answers to the name “Top Seekrit Agent Orange”).
The CIA recruiters all hang out at Jump School – see Bob King.
I had to look him up… WOW!
Reading the snippets of his “Ops”, had me on the edge of my chair, (wanting to get up and get the hell away from the comedy, I think.), These turds are a dime a dozen these days, expecting us to believe this shit. Like Merckle’s shooting a guy multiple times, and the judge letting him leave the courtroom with a recruiter. That really happens… Being sworn in, “still in handcuffs”. was a zinger, letting me know just how big a liar he really is.
Fort Knox, North Carolina?
Looks as if the Clerk at St Louis picked the wrong day to give up coffee…*Sigh*
Merkle: Making up the story to cover up as to why he was discharged from the Army as an E1 after 14 years or did the clerk type in the wrong year (1993).
Or was he at Knox in the PCF ( Personnel Control Facility)?
As dicked up as the entries seem to be on the FOIA, I’m betting the discharge year was 1983, not 1993.
Note the missing awards that should have occurred over that 14 year period from 79-93.
There should be at least a Army Service Ribbon and a Gulf War NDSM on the FOIA, but there’s not.
Yeah, I’m going with 1983 as a discharge year.
Hell, even if it was ’83 ( which I’m also inclined to believe) E1 after 4 years? I’m impressed….
That’s the think that jumped out at me as well.
Is it possible he was in confinement sometime before Aug 1990 and therefore ineligible for NDSM? Or does the clock stop once you get tossed in the slam?
Looking at his 201 file or whatever might give a clue.
Spew alert missed!!!
“Airplane.” Still one of my favorites-a classic within itself.
LOTS of great lines from that movie that I’m sure we can all quote from memory.
Same with “Young Frankenstein”, “Blazing Saddles”, “Animal House”, Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” and the latest: “Tropic Thunder.”
Did I miss any other classics?
Thank you for the clip!
👌😄
Caddyshack. All about Caddyshack.
Animal House!
I was Signal Corps but don’t recall it ever being called Commutations. I was in the 101st but it wasn’t 101st Air Borne Div then. And Paris was an option for Viet of the Nam R&R? Wow.
Commutations is the same part of the Army that allowed Manning to be released back into the wild. So you can draw your own conclusions as to this guy’s story about being a Commutations guy….he might have heard that word at the Fort Knox PCF as he was being escorted out the fucking door….
The more I read the more I think this guy took a hard blow to his unprotected brain pan at some point in his life. He definitely puts the I in Idiot…
The closest to Paris the Honalau R&R. Generally given to married senior NCOs and O types. Extend for 6 months get 30 days and tranport to anywhere in the Free World . Joe
Whoever it was at the manufacturing company he works for that was asking questions and publishing the newsletter need to work on their math skills.
This turd is only 61 years old, born in June,1956.
Army service starting in 1972 with a tour in Nam prior to March 1973?
Nope, don’t think so.
He’s gonna have to work on his story in order to rate a Chip’s Wall Of Insults.
I nominate him for the Wall of Insults….can we get a second?
SECOND!
Second!
Wow, talk about a hang fire with my second.
I throw in the Aye! instead.
OK Everyone, Good Morning, You guys certainly are on your game today. We have a request for the Wall of Insults®™ . We have multiple Seconds and an “AYE” vote, That more than meets the TAH Robert’s Rules, so we have more than enough to shove the Wall of Insults®™ dead up old “Stiffy” Stafford’s asshole, diagonally. Stafford you lying sack of shit worthless E-1 penile discharge, BITE THE FAN BELT MOTHERFUCKER!! Wall of Insults®™ (aka, “This Ain’t Hell” Thesaurus) FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!! TACTICAL NUCLEAR ROUND OUT!!!! DANGER CLOSE!!!! MOPP LEVEL 4!!! TAKE COVER!!!!! Stafford “Merkin” Merckle, NOT Special Forces, ALLEGEDLY, but not confirmed or proven, but in some people’s opinion, works balls, tickles taint and tongue punches hobo’s crusty fart boxes all, I Guess, while being a syphilitic, turd-sucking feces factory, Bitch-ass Fuckstick guzzler, pile infested, onion-eyed flapmouthed butt-bailiff, “Fowl” mouthed Chicken Fucking Chickenfucker, moral equivalent of pond scum, THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS A WALKING TURD, inflamed, “Towel boy” in a gay bath house, Ambulatory verbal dissembling anus, gaping ass fungus nugget, Cambodian cunt sauce, Poopy Headed ball working asshole, Soup Sandwich, Poster-child for abortion, Swallowing Spooge Sampler, Klootviool, should be ass raped and tea-bagged, at the same time, by a Rabid Rhinoceros, shit tonguing, munching wanktoaster, cock gobbling Pigfucker, lientery steatorrhea, sperm burping, Sloshing bucket of Hippo Diarrhea, tit, Sharmouta, sniveling, codpiece licking toilet seat sniffer, lying bucket of Chihuahua shit, taintpimple, Pillow bitin pickle smoocher, Bowl of ass soup, Festering fuckwart on a sewer rat’s ass, needle dick bug fucker, Drongo, Satan even said about you, “Boy is this guy a DICK!, Sparklepony, Toilet weasel, worthless, Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas, Blows winos behind bus stops for a nickel and gives change, jejeongsin-iya?, whore-hopping, Soppspiste Pitbulkukkforhud, stench-ridden, shiftless, monkey-buggerer, More worthless than rubber lips on a woodpecker or tits on a boar hog, moldy bowl of ratshit, would wear Richard Simmons’ used jockstrap as a facemask, useless bag of monkey fuck, dickbutt, rectum circling colon goblin, Asshole casserole, Vafanculo, People like you are the reason God doesn’t talk to us anymore, salad tosser, gonorrheatic urethral cliff… Read more »
Stafford Merckle; phony Vietnam Veteran, has a terrible case of greenberetitis.
If he was a superhero he would be “Super Sphincter Goblin”.
Aye!
And it looks like he went the full potato route with Bob Neener certificates for unearned medals.
But at least, according to the FOIA, he did earn, for real, something that someone we know can only dream about actually being officially awarded. So he does have that going for him.
Claw: Yep. You are right. Which makes me wonder if you know who is still wearing that badge (similiar to Forging Frank still wearing his unauthorized medals)…
So sad.
Hey, he coulda been a contender. If he wanted to volunteer to be a radio humper in the bush, I am sure there was a rifle company commander who would take him.
SF was taking 16 years old back in ’72? Totally believable ’cause the Marine Raiders took me when I was 11 years old after a recruiter saw me shoot up a couple of Al Capone’s boys and then carrying Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan hill under one arm while firing my M-60 with the other… hmmm, I’m getting the hang of this now. Where’s the nearest Legion?
‘…after a recruiter saw me shoot up a couple of Al Capone’s boys and then carrying Teddy Roosevelt up San Juan hill under one arm while firing my M-60 with the other…’
And with your Ka-Bar held between your teeth.
Could you imagine the book that could be written if you were to take all these stories that have appeared on this post and combined them into one character? There’s probably enough material for a series of books.
Comic books
Rambo movies.
You’re right. You can find all of this in movies, comics and books. Might get sued for plagiarism if a book was published.
Yes, there were fuzzy faced 16 year olds all over the place at Bragg in the Spring of 1972 when I was there at the officer’s SF course.
16 year olds in SF?
You mean you guys have never heard of Tod Holton, Super Green Beret?
http://www.ep.tc/tod-holton/
O.M.G.!!! That is sooooo cool!
Have never seen or read or even heard of the Tod Holt, Super Green Beret comics!!
You now have me hooked!
We should use that name for Wanna- B’s Green Berets…call them “Tods”..or say they are “pulling a Holton”..😉 because, you know, when they grow up, they want to be Tod Holton with their magic Green Beret.
Now someone is going to need to compose a song titled “The Ballad of Tod Holton”…🎵🎶🗣”Fighting Teenagers in the Skype”..🎵🎶
Thank You for sharing!
14 years and E-1??? Yeah, someone was naughty.
I’m speechless. He deserves a medal for that story. Carried Tommy 25 miles after shot in leg. Accompanied body home. R&R in Paris. And made it to E1 in only 14 years. I’d love to chat with him. Where’s he live?
New Matamoras Ohio
Merckle even has SF on his Twitter Account:
https://mobile.twitter.com/staff_merck
“Ben Landin”
Teh stoopid is strong in this one. In all fairness, his Twitter page does say he’s a fabricator. 🙂
Wow. So he was the source for the Stinger missles. I’ll bet he also delivered the spare parts to Iran in the Contra fiasco.
I’ll bet he knows Ollie.
Cocksucker
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Shack!
Who the fuck names their kid “Stafford” Merckle? That’s not a name destined for greatness…maybe Travis Bickle though…
It’s a misspelling – his real last name is Merkin
Jonn, any idea which company the Employee News item is from. I have this dirt bag living in a small Ohio town but want to share the info appropriately.
Thanks
CM, just Google up his name. He’s got a LinkedIn Profile posted on the Interwebz. It lists his current place of employment.
Of course, that profile also says he went to MIT for two years while the FOIA says he was in the Army at the same time, so which document you want to believe is up to you./s
Might be best to just tell him to shut up and stop lying. There are too many Vietnam in-country vets and VN-era vets here to put up with his crap without taking him out to the woodpile about it.
He works for a group of companies.
DIVISIONS
‒ Peoples Cartage
‒ Total Distribution ‒ Crown Warehousing & Logistics
‒ TWI-Terminal Warehouse Inc.
‒ Quick Delivery Services
‒ Central Warehouse Operations
Newsletter went out to 500-700 employees
He should have stuck to manufacturing ink pads and ink pad inks for ink stamps.
He shot a dude with “a hammerless revolver.”
Hammerless revolvers are a real thing. I have one in my gun safe. S&W Model 642.
Of course, it’s not truly “hammerless”, the hammer is concealed within the frame of the revolver but the term “hammerless” is commonly used.
In fact, S&W even used the term “Hammerless” to refer to some of their pre-WWII models. Some of them featured a grip safety and were commonly called “lemon squeezers.”
S&W Safety Hammerless Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Safety_Hammerless
From the wiki: “The revolver incorporated an internal hammer…”
I know what is meant by hammerless. It’s like saying “I’m a vegetarian but I eat meat.” It ain’t and you ain’t.
it was an advertising term of convenience. Just like there are more than three screws in a three-screw Blackhawk.
It does seem to be a weirdly specific detail to include in his story.
Hey at least it wasn’t a Webley – Fosbery Automatic Revolver. 😉
Roger. But anyway, didn’t mean to take away from the thread.
My next question is when did the 18 series MOS begin?
I believe it was 1985 when the SF branch was created but others might know the exact date. It sure as hell wasn’t when this choad was in the service.
I received an 18B job book when I joined 20th Group in 1984.
1984
I’m sorry, but the Hokey Pokey? He MUST have been fucking with the interviewer when he said that.
He’s got a sense of humor at least. That’s more than most of these clowns.
Turbo knob vacuum of a meat gazer.
That’s going on the wall.
😉
I prefer you used “Atomic knob vacuum of a meat gazer”, last time I looked at The official TAH Wall of Insults®™, about 30+ of the insults you used were ones I contributed, PLEASE FEEL FREE to keep on using them and I WILL continue to offer contributions! IMHO The Official TAH Wall of Insults®™ has gracefully grown to the point where maybe we could call it “The Official TAH Nine Pillars of Insults®™” and insult that sixth century satanic death cult whenever a call for it is issued? Just a friendly suggestion and I genuinely welcome further polling from The Community of TAH Regulars®™.
I may be wrong, but I believed Merckle wrote and published in April 2012 a children’s book titled: “Big Joe the Indian”:
https://www.fictiondb.com/author/stafford-d-merckle~big-joe-the-indian~428272~b.htm
“This story is based on some true facts and some fiction. It’s about a young man facing abuse by his step-father and bullies at school; he is a loner and he is befriended by a native American man who himself is a social outcast and feared by the whole town.”
Gee…he and Janis Spann need to get together and compare notes since both of their books are on Amazon.
Or better yet, David Meier, Janis Spann, Stafford Merckle and Mike Sleeper should all get together and swap war stories about their experiences in Viet of the Nam or their writing talents or their public offices they held (or wanted to hold) as well as their SF and RANGER adventures…(sarc).😎
You are correct about “Big Joe the Indian”.
SonOfAVet:
Do you personally know him?
If so, is he originally from Ohio or did he start his life in North Carolina?
Has anyone called him out on his tall tale…or does he have some kind of mental hiccup in his brain that he created his own alternate reality world? (Personality Disorder).
Or is he just a pathological liar, which is another Personality Disorder/Mental Illness Disease?
Does his wife believe him his story? Or better yet, does anyone believe him?
Yes I have heard his war stories 1st hand.
He is a pathological liar.
He has his wife and the owners of company that he works for convinced his bullshit is real,most of his coworkers don’t buy it but he is very aggressive so they don’t call him out on it.
As fantastic as the above story is he also has many others that are just as good.
He has told people he was saving an American POW and a VC soldier ran up and stabbed him in the back,since he had the POW over his shoulders all he could do was turn around and growl at the guy and it was enough to make him run away.
He has a Silver Star and multiple Purple Hearts
He has many other great stories he is fond of telling people. Worst part of it is the company has many veterans working in the organization and they all had to read the lies in the newsletter
SonOfAVet:
Is he that intimidating that folks are afraid to confront him? He sounds as if he is a Bully.
He physically has a Silver Star and Purple Hearts? Does he wear them? If he uses his story to gain any monetary value, he can be in trouble under the Stolen Valor Act.
What is more troubling is that there has to be ignorance with the owners of the company he works as well as his wife considering he was born in 1956 (unless he is lying about his age). We started pulling out troops from Vietnam around 1972/1973..and for folks to believe a 16 year old was there as Special Forces just blows my mind away.
Do you personally know what happened to him that he got out in either 1983 or 1994 as a Private, E1…and if so, do you feel comfortable sharing it?
His other story about robbing & shooting the owner of a store 5 times: I think that is BS as well. Especially if it took place in North Carolina. NC would had locked him in Juvie Jail/Prison in a heartbeat.
Nothing against your town, but I do question as to why some folks can’t do the math…or don’t have a clue about Vietnam. Please don’t tell me he marches in parades on Veterans Day or is a member of the local VFW or American Legion.
The other irony about the article is that he said he learned from the Army about telling the truth. So sad that most people knows he is a liar, yet his false story was published for all to read.
Wish someone would drop him or his employer or his wife a hint that his FOIA is on TAH for the world to see. Or even drop a hint to a local newspaper or TV Station.
Thank you for answering. I suspect the Indian Joe story may be about him…that he did come from an abusive family and possibly affected his mental capacities.
Queef.
BRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!
I have read a lot of books and articles about the Viet of The Nam, but I have never before seen anyone use the term FOB. Also, I’m going to start a GoFundMe account so this loser can buy an additional “R”. LRP just seems a bit inadequate.
In ’68 they were called Fire Bases. I too never heard FOB until the Gulf era.
During my time in the litterbox “FOB” meant Forward Operating Base and the Term “Fobbit” was used in reference to those who never left the wire instead of REMF.
Special Forces used the term FOB during Vietnam.
The acronym was not commonly used outside SF back then. I first encountered this acronym in SF school. For example, a Group or SF battalion operated out of an SFOB, Special Forces Operations Base.
Merckle replied to my facebook message to him. Had his dancing shoes shined up, and did his dance, not clearing anything up. I have screen capped all that he said, am forwarding to Jonn.
As expected from a pussy, he has now blocked me. That confirms, for me, that he is just another piece of shit poser.
Butt-lusting sphincter monkey.
Special Feces Sphincter Sniper…
Oh, Mr. Merkle!! Oy! Hello! You out there???
Okay. I’d like to know just how you managed to avoid being arrested by the Immigration after you got back from your alleged trip to Vietnam in 1979, because at the time you say you were there, you were violating a federal law barring US citizens from entering Vietnam.
So how were you not arrested when you came back here?
Oh, and I-D-I-O-T.
Ass Hamster 1st class.
FUCK bucket full of GonosyphaherpaclapAIDS…
I went in in 1976. I member them days in The Nam. Huntin’ Charlie. Sleepin’ in hootches, and steppin on punji sticks for mom and apple pie. Settin up night ambushes, and gettin’ trapped out alone ten klicks from my unit and havin’ t’crawl through swamp filled VC to get back in our perimeter in time for chow. I was a POW in a VNA camp for one hour once but killed the VC officer with a cross bow and managed to take fifty guys with me all the way from Saigon all the way to I Corps to excape.
“managed to take fifty guys with me all the way from Saigon all the way to I Corps to excape”
I know the route well.
You can overnight at LBJ if you bribe the guard.
Plenty of ships at Danang waiting for the excapees.
“FUCKIN’ time travel SF Sooperdooperseekiritskwirrel Mondo-mega Recon-Ranger-PJ-SEAL-SF-Scout-Sniper missions, ESPECIALLY WHEN we had to do them in the past via Time Travel, FUCKIN’-A, we went through D-Day Invasion and returned four days later, after a few hours sleep, GAW-DAMMIT, then it’s time travel to The Battle of San Juan Hill to make damn sure that Teddy Roosevelt made it da-fuck through alive so WE could keep the GawdamnrightwingBushChimpyHalliburtonCheney Conspiracy alive and well because ‘Murica, FUCK YEAH!!! Don’t even try to ask any more b’cuz I’ll a’hafta use my mem’ry r’aser doohickey thingymajiggy…”
Those JFK documents that Trump is holding back…..yep, the name Stafford is there sure as shit. “The Staff drove a Ford”.
It’s code man.
Another substandard discharge shitbag.
I don’t see where he earned 67N 67Y Huey or Cobra wings anywhere on his paperwork either. Or where he went to helicopter mechanic school. If he did not go to the school, it does not count.