James Richard Lyons; Seaman Apprentice Gunnery Sergeant
Scotty sends us a link to his work on James Richard Lyons, who used to drive “The Wall That Heals” across the country. He tells stories about his four tours of Vietnam where he lost part of his foot and part of his shoulder while he was a SEAL and Force Recon Marine. He tells of the time, as a Marine he charged up Hamburger Hill (he spells it hamberger and it was a 101st Airborne Division operation). He wears Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart and Gunnery Sergeant patches on his vest (that’s him without the pony tail in the photo above). He claims service in Vietnam from 1964 – 1968.
Well, it turns out that Lyons did a year and change in the Navy and left as a seaman apprentice (E-2);
Besides driving The Wall That Heals around the country, Lyons is currently a VFW Post Commander in Opp, Alabama. Even the fake veterans/humans at Veterans Today spotted Lyons as phony.
But, you should read the whole story at Scotty’s place.
Category: Phony soldiers
guess in this guys case as he never left the states VFW stands for Very Fake Warrior . Don’t they check shit when you join them? Some one needs to pas a law that makes it legal beat these shit birds
Jus waitin for you “CUPCAKE”richard
A force recon seal who attacked “hamberger hill”; I guess he forgot that he was in the “air commandoes” and provided CAS to all the other versions of himself on the ground…
After those combat tours in Miami and Key West he doesn’t even have an NDSM? POS poser! Pork Chop, Hamberger (sic) and Hot Dog…did ’em all in one day!
Anymore, when I see someone with patches sewn all over their clothes, I just shake my head and walk on by. Shitbirds like this are the reason why.
@4. My sentiments exactly. Whenever I see the ass clowns near the Viet Nam Memorial with their beards and pony tails, uniforms covered in patches and green berets covered with pins I immediately think Poser!
Here’s one of those ironies showing that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. The Veterans Today article Jonn cites above contains two different links to an earlier Veterans Today article about this tool.
Both of the links to that earlier article give the “404 not found” error when you click them.
I guess that means that according to Veterans Today, their own earlier article on the guy – which they cite themselves – doesn’t exist and never happened. I guess that’s par for the course for Duff and crew. (smile)
I’ll tell you where to look if ya’ll want the ultimate hive of Stolen Valor ridiculousness — and, frankly, lies of all types: dating websites. (Note: I learned about this through a fraud investigation; nevertheless, feel free to mock away.)
I won’t name the sites, but among those that allow for key word searchers (i.e., “Red Sox,” or, more to the point, “SEAL,” “Marine,” “Ranger,” etc.), it’s likely that the number of people claiming to be SEALs easily exceeds the total amount SEALs that have ever existed. It’d be funny if it weren’t connected to inveterate fraud. (In one case, it’s possible four different profiles photoshopped from the same original photo, given the identically impertinently arranged ribbons in each profile image.)
Kato 811 #1: I’m a life member of the VFW. I’d respectfully suggest that you frame your denigration a bit differently.
Folks can miss shit without being butt heads,
Zero how does one miss the fact that a person never left the states much less never served in a forigen war? Unless of coarse he was never checked. I merely asked a question if they checked no need to get pissed
Lighten up, Kato! Maybe you did not intend for it to, but your question did sound snarky.
Yes, they do check now. Or are supposed to. Not sure that every post does each and every time, but you know how that goes.
I’m thinking one thing … Forgery !!
And this clown is a very special kind of faker. Hope he enjoys the ridicule that is coming his way. (None too soon.)
Thanks OWB.
Wasent meant to be snarky just wondering how he could hold the position he has . pisses me off when shit like this happens hate fakers
Scotty: forgery is one possibility. Another is the proverbial “old boys network”.
I’ve spent a bit of time that part of Alabama. Folks there tend to be very trusting of those that grew up in the area – sometimes WAY too trusting for their own good. And they sometimes tend to cut people they grew up with a break.
‘Hamberger Hill”?
That was nothin’. You should have seen him over Macho Grande.
You know, there’s no shame in being a poor speller. It happens. But one thing I’ve noticed is that when you get to the point where you’re claiming E7 or higher status, the US military has by God taught you to spell and write correctly, because you’re writing performance reports, trip reports, accident investigation reports, and hundreds of other reports that have to be grammatically perfect when they get to Higher Authority, and the admin folks aren’t going to fix them for you. I see constant mistakes and misspellings like that, and I know these dudes have never seen the ranks and grades they’re claiming.
Mike
I have bad arthritis I have problems withmy hands. I try but sometimes it comesout less tha perfect. So Best Thing, KISS MY FCKN ASS
richard lyons…Take your arthritis and go play somewhere where you can fool people. Not going to happen here. Seen your records and you are a mess of a phony! So to borrow your phrase…KISS MY FCKN ASS. By the way, why after this thread about you was dead for so long did you choose to come out now? You just make it worse on yourself.
Should I wait my turn?
Word has it that there is a line in the truck stop.
But on a serious note, do you charge?
Green Thumb…I was wondering if the arthritis gets in the way of truck stop hand jobs? Seriously.
Arthritis doesn’t affect the brain, dipshit. You can’t spell because you’re a semi-literate waste of sperm, and not because of any alleged “arthritis” you might or might not have.
You were a shitbird on active duty, and you’re a shitbird now.
Mike,
Eye cood knot agrea mor. My hole carear waz nothin butt readin and righten all the time.
Look were it got me now!
A furllowed gummint emploree!
An I still work CUPCAKE. Don’t Live off The Gov’t
You are a shitbag.
LOL Well said GT.
richard lyons…Word.
That means, what Green Thumb said above.
richard lyons…By the way, if you run James Richard Lyons on the Google hit parade, you’re number 3!!! Cool eh! Links you right to here! What a world we live in huh? Keep posting and I’ll keep typing your name and it may run all the way up to…yep that’s right…Number 1.
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There, there’s ten more for ya! Ass clown.
Master Chief, drinking again? Better watch out, you’re gonna find yourself in drydock. 🙂
I just talked to him and he says that this is a 5 year old witch hunt, that he wears those patches to honor someone else. That he was in both the navy and the Marine Corps. Said that he didn’t say he was in the Hamberger(sp), Hill charge, and said that he, just the other day, showed his paperwork to his first vice chair and his Sgt at Arms. <H'mmmm, wonder why?
Anyway, his wife sounded more sober than he, and I gave told her to Gooooogle "This Ain't Hell" and she could find her way here. That phone number at the VFW link goes to his home phone.
Let's see what he has to say.
His wife just called me to ask again what the blog name is.
I have a question: How is he going to guard his rig and get that shower and grub at the truck stops?
Jus look for Pussys like You Scooter’ WAIT for the Chance!!!
richard lyons…Give it a rest already. Everyone here knows who you are and what you were NOT!!! I can’t believe the last post on here was in February and you just resurrected yourself to poser/phony glory all over again. Dumb ass!!
(sigh) when will all the Johnny-come-lately posers learn? If one really wants to get top seed in the poser’s tourney, one has to keep on working it!
Jimmy-boy, you can’t just come here, 9 months after you were outed, and expect top seed. Seriously, after Crash and Cheeze-boi, your game is just plain weak.
Mr. Blue…You are so right. I mean Rich, you are competing against phonies with thousands of posts on their thread. You’re really gonna have to type harder with those arthritic hands to get something going. My advice, just give it up, you are a poser/phony but on this blog you are small potatoes. Just like when you served in the military.
@19. Well, that’s kind of tough to maintain inasmuch as Scotty’s Place has what this guy’s own written comments. There is no misunderstanding. There is no confusion. There are lies and lots of them. A guty who pulled the stunt he did at Sturgis has to have had a few scrapes with John Law. He likes to display a ka-bar and drive interstate. That there is rather interesting in itself. And his rig isn’t exactly low key.
Let Me tell ya something I didn’t pull no stunt. John Devitt came after me in front of the store. There are witnesses an a Police report where “HE” was arresested an plead Guilty. Thas why all this Bullshit Started. Cause they had to cover him. If not people would not let him back. And he is a “PROFFITT” Organisation.. I.m lyin ? Check the Police Reports. Find out where the real BS Started
The BS started when you made a pass at him.
Green Thumb…LMAO at that. That’s what happens Rich when you try to screw guys and make dates in the truck stop men’s rooms! Ass hat!
richard lyons…We don’t need to check police reports. We already have your FOIA of your service records. So get off the high horse before your bad foot and arthritis make you fall harder than you already have. Dip shit.
By the way Rich. Keep rockin’ the bullshit here and your name just keeps climbing that Google list for the whole world to see. Clown!
This “bullshit started” because you’re a piece of shit liar.
He forgot his ‘Space Shuttle Door Gunner’ patch.
Where is his 1st Cav patch?
I’ll send him one of mine. And yea, I skied Mt. Sarabachi.
Sorry to any VFW guys here, but if this cocksucker was outed in 2009 and is still a prominent member your organization is more fucked up than Hogan’s goat.
It’s not 1975 when all you really had to go by was a DD 214 and someone’s word. It’s a well known fact that posers can easily forge documents and citations. Get your head out of your asses and update the way you admit people.
It’s 2013, get with the times.
25 was me.
Guys this is way old news. This guy got fired as the wall truck driver like three years ago
https://sites.google.com/site/combatvietnamveteransoftexas1/james-richard-lyons-2/james-richard-lyins-links
He is still a shit bag, just wanted you to know it’s not a current event
Again with the patches for other people! There are at least a bazillion ways to honor people without appearing to claim it as your own honor.
@13.
While I respect the VFW (although not my cup of tea, per se) and not to jump into the fray, but as a “Younger Veteran”, I thought she had a humorous and fair point.
Also I can’t find any listing for him as the current vfw post commander.
@30, He popped up a while ago but if you look at Post #19 Frankly Opinionated Just talked to him and his Wife TODAY, apparently he is still rocking the lie.
No one is digging up bones, the bastard never was buried properly.
I helped on doing some research on some other dude who claimed to be with 3d Recon Bn, which led into some research with 1st Recon Bn, and now I have extensive historical information and access to unit records.
If someone asks this guy where he served, specifically, with 1st Recon, can give a C.O. name and what their mission was, I will verify.
…obviously, though – we know he’s already a liar.
To be fair, Seaman Apprentice Gunnery Sergeant is a very difficult rank to attain. Such men are rarely seen. In fact, I suspect he may be the only man alive today to reach that particular rank.
John linked to an article at Scotty’s that is from 2009.
I was aware of this guy then, he was fired as the truck driver then. He was removed as post commander in 2009.
Don’t get me wrong, this guy was and is a shit bag, but he is a known shit bag. There is nothing new here
Grimmy–Bobo the Five Weak Muhreen Turd got a meritorious promotion to that rank while he was standing on the yellow footprints…right before he pissed on them.
Hondo – I grew up not far from Opp (Dothan) and you are very correct in thinking the “Good Ole Boys” network is in play here. He was showed to be a liar a few years ago but ranks were closed and he is still telling the tales.
When I read the article, I thought that this moron had already been outed, and the comments confirmed it.
Another Gunnery Sausage who has not learned the error of his ways.
An old, gnarly maggot.
Phildo should look into this type of gig upon his release from prison.
@37, Val, I guess we can now call him “The Turd Drop From Opp”?!
I like the appellation SAGS Lyons.
It generates the image of an old gasbag shooting off his mouth about all that woulda-coulda-shoulda.
Good reason to make up my own patches on my sewing machine. They’re for – you know – Photon Torpedoman 1st Class. Shit like that.
(Walks away giggling.)
Valkyrie, have you checked your e-mail lately? 😉
That stupid turdbucket ain’t got NOTHING on my Apollo Door Gunner Missions…. HAAAH!!!
@ NHSparky:
See what I mean? The dude is so studdish that even his piss earns promotions!!
This ass hole was exposed in 09 first. He was fired from The Traveling wall then. He was not kicked out of the VFW in 09, Hell I don’t even know if he was a member then. He has been re-exposed because it came to our attention that he had become the Post commander for VFW Post 6622 in Opp Alabama. And he is listed on the Veterans of Foreign Wars
ROSTER
STATE OF ALABAMA
2013 – 2014
http://www.alvfw.org/Dept-Roster-form-12-13.htm
And you can also tell from comment # 19 that Lyins is still living off the lies that got him exposed & fired in 09.
@16: Over Macho Grande?
I’ll never be over Macho Grande.
Kato 811
Some of these shitbirds get by the VA and collect benie’s. Don’t go too hard on the VFW. All VSO’s have been fooled more than once…
What a fucking waste of dna, and the VFW… how the hell do you keep letting these fakes have any role at all??
This story illuminates again why I don’t join veteran’s organizations.
I’ll cut the VFW some slack. Many posts don’t have any internet experience, within the whole of their membership. Note that Post 6622 is not listed as having a website, and that only Lyings himself is listed with an email address.
Lyings is not the first to have presented the VFW a 214 that was sufficient to fool Veterans. One should also note that three other officers of that post have phone numbers listed. It would be wholly appropriate for Scotty to pick up the phone and call those officers.
The VFW has procedures to deal with frauds which do obtain membership, and for those that embarrass the Fraternity of Veterans, after gaining membership.
Just like the military chain of command, other officers of the VFW can also be called: the District VII, State, and national Commanders, as well as officers at those levels. Many of those higher officers even have email addresses listed.