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Phony SEAL Coward

| January 10, 2022 | 162 Comments
Phony SEAL Coward

The folks at MilitaryPhony send us their work on Leslie Radford Coward.  Coward lives in Middleburg, Florida and is 72 years old at the time of this writing – January 2022.  Coward is originally from Ohio and may still have a residence there in addition to Florida. Most of Coward’s claims are implied by the […]

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Jose Carlos Montanez – YAPS, Blog of Shame |

| December 8, 2021 | 158 Comments
Jose Carlos Montanez – YAPS, Blog of Shame |

Our friends over at militaryphony.com send us “Yet Another Phony Seal” …  so it’s YAPS time again boys and girls. It seems Jose has been prancing around in such a way that some folks thought he was a Navy SEAL, or that maybe he had pulled out of something before he ever really inserted anything.  […]

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Fake SEAL, VA fraudster headed to prison

| September 9, 2021 | 22 Comments
Fake SEAL, VA fraudster headed to prison

It’s been a while since we originally covered Richard Meleski. Our original piece can be found here, and the update when some other nefarious activities of Meleski’s was brought to our attention. He claimed to be a US Navy SEAL and to have been a prisoner of war in Beirut. Everyone thought he was a […]

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Doug Reeves – Navy SEAL Diver & Persian Gulf War Participant Explained

| July 20, 2021 | 233 Comments
Doug Reeves – Navy SEAL Diver & Persian Gulf War Participant Explained

As a follow-up to a posted article yesterday about Douglas Reeves, we wanted to share an email that Reeves wrote to a genuine Navy SEAL when that SEAL questioned Reeves’ claim of being a Navy SEAL diver. This email was written before the article yesterday.  Click on it to see a larger version. The short […]

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Doug Reeves – Fake Navy SEAL Diver, Persian Gulf War Participant

| July 19, 2021 | 132 Comments
Doug Reeves – Fake Navy SEAL Diver, Persian Gulf War Participant

The folks at Military Phony send us a case on Douglas Robert Reeves.  Reeves lives in Hialeah, Florida which is in Miami-Dade county.  Although Reeves is 64 years old at the time of this writing – mid-July 2021 – he will be 65 years old in a few weeks. Reeves is a real estate agent […]

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David D’Anunzio – Fake Navy SEAL

| July 2, 2021 | 76 Comments
David D’Anunzio – Fake Navy SEAL

The folks at Military Phony send us their work on the David Alan D’Anunzio fella.  D’Anunzio comes to us from Brooksville, Florida but appears to have grown up in upper New York state.  His Facebook page claims he lives in Tampa, Florida which is just south of Brooksville.  D’Anunzio is 58 years old at the […]

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USS McFaul’s Skipper: No BUD/S? No Problem

| April 13, 2021 | 65 Comments
USS McFaul’s Skipper: No BUD/S? No Problem

The Commanding Officer of the USS McFaul (DDG-74) – CDR Bobby Rowden – is creating quite a controversy.  The USS McFaul, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was named for U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Donald L. McFaul. McFaul was killed in action during Operation Just Cause – the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama. It seems […]

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Carlo Dobrich -The American Legions Navy SEAL Sex Instructor

| March 30, 2021 | 74 Comments
Carlo Dobrich -The American Legions Navy SEAL Sex Instructor

The folks at Military Phony send us their work on Carlo Domenico Dobrich.    Dobrich often goes by the nickname “Hawk” and sometimes by “Smokejumper.”  His middle initials are sometimes listed as “M” and “C.” Dobrich has claimed to be a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving from 1989-1998. He repeated the claim of being […]

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