Valor Vultures
Staff Sergeant Joshua Stokes; active duty NCO alters records
The Army Times tells the story of Staff Sergeant Joshua Stokes who faked his way into the 82d Airborne Division despite the fact that he hadn’t attended the Basic Airborne Course. He even had performed parachute jumps. The director of the Defense Military Pay Office told investigators that Stokes had never received jump pay. Stokes […]
Abel Cáceres; phony wounded Marine
Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Abel Cáceres, who claims that he was “scared, wounded, wandering in the desert” at about 15:00 in this video in which he was addressing graduating students last Spring in Colorado. At about 20:50 he says that he was cut off from his unit in Kuwait, that he […]
Kyle Barwan update
Frank sends us the latest on Kyle Barwan, the most arrestable valor thief in the history of the free world. He’s a guest of the State of Florida for about a year. Notice the charge of “Misrepresent-Military Member, Veteran”. I suspect that “No Regrets” tattoo is outdated by now. Just to review, he was arrested […]
Ashley Zedner; phony Vietnam vet from Canada
Our partners at Stolen Valour-Canada send us their work on this fellow, Ashley Zedner, who claims that he was wounded in Vietnam while he was assigned to the US 92d Airborne Division as an Army Gunnery Sergeant. He claimed that he enlisted in the US Army in 1968. Here’s a picture of him in 1968. […]
Jonathan Lee Wheeler; phony EOD
Our partners at Military Phonies share their work with us on this Jonathan Lee Wheeler fellow. He claims that he was an EOD specialist in the Navy; He uses stock images to reinforce his experience like this one that he claims that he snapped; I found the exact same image at seaforces.org. And this one […]
Edward Clayton “Andy” Reeves; phony Marine
Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Edward Clayton Reeves who goes by the name Andy Reeves these days. He was in a conversation with a youngster who was headed to boot camp and told him how he had been a Marine and earned a Navy Cross for capturing Manuel Noriega; The Navy said […]
James Parker; phony UDT
Someone sent us their research on this James Parker fellow.He claims that the Navy trained him to be a UDT warrior and in amphibious assault. That he battled our nation’s enemies in South America and awards for “operations in Iran” on his “Martial Arts Academy” website; I can’t find any reference to his award that […]
Melvin Douglas; needless embellishment
Our partners at Military Phonies send us their work on this fellow Melvin Curry Douglas who claims to be 20-year-veteran of the US Marine Corps as well as a combat veteran of Beirut, Grenada, Honduras, Panama, Desert Storm and Kosovo. He also claims to have left the Corps as a Gunnery Sergeant (E-7). He was […]
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