Valor Vultures
Guest post; Randy Voepel; update on phony combat sailor
Terence B. Hoey, a retired U.S. Navy Master Chief Petty Officer, recently penned an article entitled: STOLEN VALOR – The curious case of California Assemblyman Randy Voepel, his wild tales of military derring-do and a welcomed challenge by Command Master Chief (SEAL) Larry Wilske, USN (Ret.). This article first appeared on LinkedIn March 29, 2018 […]
Daniel Clay Cheatham in the news
Back in February, we busted Daniel Clay Cheatham with the work of our partners at Military Phonies. Cheatham had claimed to be an Army Ranger because somehow that made him a better yoga dude – he hadn’t even completed Basic Combat Training. Today, the Casey County News reports that veterans in his area are asking […]
John Martinka; phony SEAL
Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on John Paul Martinka III who claims to be a former Navy SEAL, that he was injured during Hell Week, so he was recycled three times; After contacting the UDT/SEAL archives, the Naval Special Warfare Center and checking the UDT/SEAL database we found that John Paul […]
Tim Ralston; phony PJ
Our friends in the Air Force Pararescue business asked us to check into this Tim Ralston fellow, one of those guys on National Geographic’s “Doomsday Preppers” series. He claims that he was an Air Force Pararescueman in numerous venues like The Blaze Coming from a military family, Ralston signed up for the Air Force’s Special […]
William Bowen Gantt; phony SEAL
Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on William Bowen Gantt (it looks like he shut down his Facebook page while I was typing this) who claims that he was a US Navy SEAL among other things; The Navy asks “Who?” The folks at MP could find no active duty for Gantt from 1984 […]
Donald Jerden Hunley; con artist, valor thief (records added)
According to the Citizen Tribune, Donald Jerden Hunley was convicted of ripping off his local American Legion Post of more than $10,000 while he was pretending to be a highly-decorated veteran; In a sentencing hearing before Judge Bob McGee, assistant district attorneys Willie Santana and William Bright explained to the Court that in December 2015, […]
Robert Lee Jones; phony SEAL
Our Partners at Military Phonies send us their work on Robert Jones who thinks that claiming he’s a Navy SEAL somehow makes him a better English teacher; According to the Navy, Bobbie was a Marine, an AWOL Marine; He went AWOL on March 23, 1982, Dropped From Rolls (declared a deserter) on April 23 and […]
Richard Allen Pence; phony SEAL
Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on the fellow, Richard Pence, who claims that he went through BUD/S training, but he got in an accident the next day, so he never went to the teams; However, the Navy doesn’t remember Richard going through BUD/S or his accident; During the time he claimed to […]
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