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Valor Friday

| January 12, 2024 | 18 Comments
Valor Friday

Brendan O’Connor’s military service is a tad unorthodox. He started as an officer, but became an enlisted man. Reminds me a bit of Michael Novosel. Born in 1960, he came from a line of military men. His father was Mortimer O’Connor, a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point in, Class of 1953. […]

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Purple Heartbreak: Living the Lie

| December 5, 2023 | 215 Comments
Purple Heartbreak: Living the Lie

Stan Wineberg lived quite the life. Claims of Green Beret, Purple Heart, Vanity Plates, etc. Over six wives were left in financial ruin. PURPLE HEARTBREAK: Fake war hero scammed state — and many others along the way By Elias Weiss, Managing Editor – Dec 4, 2023 Wineberg fronted as a Sergeant First Class in the […]

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Tim or Bob Evans – Not a Green Beret, Not a Maker of Sausage

| June 14, 2023 | 283 Comments
Tim or Bob Evans – Not a Green Beret, Not a Maker of Sausage

The folks at Guardians of the Green Beret inform us of the work they did on Tim/Bob/Rob Evans. His full name is ‘Robert Tim Evans’ but more frequently goes by ‘Tim Evans’ – maybe to avoid ‘Bob Evans’ and being associated with making sausage. Bob Evans famous slogan: “Everybody is somebody at Bob Evans.” There […]

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Charges reinstated against corpsman in MARSOC homicide case

| August 17, 2022 | 19 Comments
Charges reinstated against corpsman in MARSOC homicide case

It seems we’ve never posted a picture of the deceased retired Green Beret, Master Sergeant Rich Rodriguez, who was allegedly pummeled to death in a bar fight with two Marine Raiders and a Navy Corpsman while a defense contractor in Iraq in 2019. I’m correcting that here, and I am intentionally not showing the face […]

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Monday FGS

| August 1, 2022 | 9 Comments
Monday FGS

Stoeger STR 9C Jacksonville police shoot, kill man officers say came at them armed with knives Saturday morning Teresa Stepzinski, Florida Times-Union Police shot and killed a man that officers said was brandishing two knives at them as he came out of the bathroom of a home during a standoff in a Northwest Jacksonville neighborhood. […]

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Military Times Foundation’s Soldier of the Year is a Stud

| July 14, 2022 | 9 Comments
Military Times Foundation’s Soldier of the Year is a Stud

Maj. Nicholas Dockery is one of only two U.S. officers to receive two Silver Star’s post in the  9/11 era (the other is  SEAL CDR Stone, since deceased). His resume is equally as distinguishe: two Purple Hearts, two other awards with ‘C’ devices indicating they were received for combat action, he’s led an Operational Detachment […]

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Ron Fernandez – The Green Beret that Wasn’t

| July 12, 2022 | 69 Comments
Ron Fernandez – The Green Beret that Wasn’t

Our friends at the Guardians of the Green Beret (GotGB) recently posted a case on this Ron Fernandez fella.  The GotGB did some extensive work with this case so we can only scratch the surface.  This includes some ongoing conversations with Fernandez who claims he will make it all right with the press. The Cliff […]

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Friday FGS

| July 8, 2022 | 11 Comments
Friday FGS

Carry Options Shocked in SW Ocala: Good Samaritan and woman, 74, thwart carjacker at SR 200/60th Ave. Austin L. Miller, Ocala Star-Banner A Good Samaritan and a 74-year-old woman thwarted an attempted carjacking on Tuesday at the Southwest 60th Avenue/State Road 200 traffic signal, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. The defendant, Normad Eliud […]

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