Our newest fake: SPC LAKE, JASPER
This guy has been in the POW.net radar since December of last year when he was making claims that he was a war hero in Iraq. But what makes this more interesting is that he claims that he need money to get Congress to petition Congress to approve the Medal of Honor that he claims he so rightly deserves.
Hello, My name is SPC. Jasper Lake and I am 26 years old. My clans are Manygoats born for the Bitterwater people. My maternal grandfathers are Towering House people and my paternal grandfathers are Walking Around people. I was born in Monument Valley, Utah Sept 20,1983. My parents are joe and alice lake. i have 2 brothers and 1 sister. i am the youngest of the family.
I did my Base traing in FT.Leonardwood,missouri. after completing my base training I was station out in Seattle, Washington.
Awards I well also be getting is Purple Heart,Good Conduct Medal, Bronze Star.
I feel that I deserves this award conspicuously for my gallantry and intrepidity. I SPC. JASPER LAKE distinguished myself by risking my own life above and beyond the call of duty for my platoon while engaged in action against an enemy of the United States.I believe that I have earned this prestigious achievement when I put my own life endanger to help my squad team return back to the Stryker. Me and my platoon were in a pit while under a line of fire. I volunteered to stay behind and protect my platoon from enemy cross fire. This mission took place in Mosul, Iraq.
The MEDAL OF HONOR is awarded to those individuals who have performed heroic duty. I have taken the opportunity to prove this to my platoon, leaders, and myself that I have the courage and assisted when I was needed.I am also asking for your help and support in donations this well help me with the expenses of my travel to get my awards.DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT ANY WELLS FARGO. Acct#9991208399 and Routing#122105278. thank you for your help. If you have any questions or need further documentation, I can be reached at my e-mail
Your donation well be very much appreciated.
gah_owl2010@yahoo.com
He is also trying to get others to do the same thing for him as well.
The Kayenta Veterans Organization Corporation, a new non-profit agency with a 501c3 status, has several goals in place that they feel will fall into place easily if Kayenta Monument Valley High School alumni and U.S. Army Veteran Jasper Lake receives his Medal of Honor from the U.S. Congress in the near future. “Right now, we are lobbying on behalf of Jasper Lake. Our next goal is to find the monies to lobby at the State and Federal levels,” says Rick Gray Wednesday night at the Kayenta Chapter meeting. Jasper Lake’s story is an odyssey, so much so that it is his own Platoon that nominated him for the Medal of Honor while he was in the Middle East.
The only problem is that the none seems to know who this person is. The 25th Infantry Division Association has no data on him at all. Nether does POW.net after three FOIA requests came back with nothing. Also considering what he claiming that he has done that there should be something about him and his actions.
In that spirit, Jasper Lake, one of my former students joined the United States Army. Not a distinguished student or great athlete, although his name is still listed on my weightroom record board for doing a clean and jerk of 115 kg (253 lb) at a bodyweight of about 190 lb. Jasper worked as a welder for a few years then enlisted. One day well on patrol in Iraq his unit was pinned down by enemy fire coming from all directions. Jasper, who was Striker (armored personnel carrier)driver and mechanic raced through the enemy fire dodging bullets, retook the vehicle and drove back in a rescued his unit taking some shrapnel from an explosive along the way. It was hard for me not to be emotional when he thanked me for the physical preparation he recieved and credited it for the physical toughness he had which allowed him to perform when it counted. He related that he had always maxed out on his PT (physical training) and he said it started here in our weight room.
Oh lets not forget that since there is no records of him at all means that the photo of him wearing the awards to include the Purple Heart, Bronze Star and Combat Action Badge are enough to be considered a violation of the Stolen Valor Act.
Oh and if anyone is wondering he claims that his unit is 73rd Engineer Company.
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Here is a closer look at his Flash. 
Category: Phony soldiers
It looks like the SOCCENT crest on his beret. Do you have any better shots?
It’s the 25th ID HHB crest. http://www.25thida.com/unitsinfantry.html
Someone hasn’t received the safety brief on firewater.
newly formed chief of the fullashit tribe.
Anyone who runs around claiming they deserve the Medal of Honor, doesn’t.
Fort Wainwright, eh? Shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to call BS on this.
ChuckZ
*That* needed a spew alert!
Ok first off 1st brigade left (From Ft Lewis) about the same time as we did (2nd Bde) to relieve a 2ID stryker brigade in Mosul, and actually redeployed to Germany before re flagging to 2nd ACR. To my knowledge the CAB wasn’t authorized (or rather a better description is that it really hadn’t started being awarded) till late ’05, about the time that the DCU was being phased out. By that time, he SHOULD have been wearing the 2 ACR patch on his DCUs.
Second off, does this idiot REALLY think that he could have done something to merit a MOH without a ton of people knowing about it. There are Navy and distinguished service crosses that people have been lobbying for years to get bumped up. pretty much every Silver Star and above is accounted for and reported (my former military types not the media) so it would be pretty hard for someone to do something mildly braver than pretty much everyone else without SOMEONE knowing about it and raising holy hell about it.
No Jasper Lake in AKO, just in case anyone was surprised. The other option is that he ETS’d after his heroics in Iraq, but then the records search should have come up with something.
@Bobo: Eventually you are removed from AKO after ETS’ing.
Apparently, just putting together a properly formed sentence is a feat worthy of a Medal of Honor in this guy’s mind.
@11
Except he can’t do that, either.
Me lik hes metals. Wat? Know Cav pach?
Honher end Coredge
I know what type of answer I will get, but for me if anything is not on my ERB I do not wear it. I waited until the last moment to add my first AAM. I have board mins where I wore my second star on my ICM based on advice right before my boards and someone made a comment “two stars?”. The first time I wore my CAB was in a SOM board when it was added to my ERB right before the board. I waited almost three years to get the green light to wear it.
So not even looking at the MOH here he is way out of line by wearing the awards above.
I have only found info on a soldier being killed by indirect fire in mosul in 2006 making that the suspected time that Lake would have been there. I will look here but I doubt that I will find anything since I am in Richardson not north.
If any Artic Wolves are reading this right now and have any info please contact us. Or if anyone was at FOB Warhorse during 08-09 let me know too.
You would think that such a squared-away Joe would be able to align his awards, regardless of them being worn on his fatigue uniform. I know, I’m dating myself by calling them fatigues, but I can’t keep up with all the Army uniform changes. Sigh.
V/R
The reason that they are put on they way they are is that he was “Awarded” them in a ceremony in Feb from many different people. The first link has more info on this story.
Sporkmaster,
I feel the same way. My ERB stays updated but I will not wear any awards that I cannot justify. The PUC we earned during the invasion was worn as I had verbal confirmation of it but I still ensured I got the orders for it. Our battalion and brigade S-1 didn’t have them so I ended up having to contact 3rd ID G-1. The same is true for the ICM and GWOT-E. We were awarded the GWOT-E and when the ICM came out many Soldiers threw it on as well. I searched HRC and found a FAQ that confirms that both are authorized for the same deployment so long as 30 days were spent in Kuwait prior to 19 March 2003. Most of the people that wear them both were not authorized to do so back then (though some doubtlessly have a couple more tours under their belt by now).
Awards do not make the Soldier, and everytime I put my uniform together I consider taking a few of my personal awards off. The permanent unit awards and CIB are all I’d wear if I could get away with doing so. Those mean more than everything else as it has been the Soldiers on my left and right that made me the NCO I am today. Wearing unauthorized awards is a slap in the face to those who legitimately earned them. If we could wear decorations based on hearsay or because we were told we “deserve” them I’d have a few more AAMs and an ARCOM w/V.
1AirCav69’s gone misfunctional. Some get the cattle prods on ‘im, stat!
Interestingly enough, I contacted Wells Fargo about this guy, since he listed his account info for donations. The folks I talked to weren’t interested in hearing about his name or account number, basically saying that they weren’t concerned, that “the authorities” would handle things like this, and just not to give the guy any money.
Sheesh. You would think that their own Fraud Investigators would be interested in someone using one of their accounts for potential fraud. Oh well.
V/R
My favorite is the driver and mechanic badge that he has tossed on there just because.
Wells Fargo IS fraud. Bunch of assclowns. I stopped dealing with them five years ago, thankfully.
His letter reads like one of those Nigerian scam letters. Bad wording and grammar. Should set off alarm bells to anyone with a lick of sense.
You might have better luck talking to the local authorities in Arizona since that is where he is claiming to live and the money would be going interstate to get the Feds interested.
Chief Sitting Bullshit
FM
You know the thing that I hold the highest right now is my combat patch of the 36th Engineer Brigade from my only deployment so far. Yes my CAB, ARCOM, AAM are important, but I get more comments and questions about my combat patch then anything else. I enjoy talking about it because it is not that common of a patch unless you are in a place like Fort Benning or Fort Hood.
Also because of it not being a unit patch that is more common that the odds of someone pretending to be hero would never use. I mean I got excited when they put Soldiers as the photo of the day on AKO with that patch.
Sporkmaster,
I had to look that up as I’ve never heard of the unit; Old Abe stays on my right sleeve. I am most proud of the unit awards as they remind me that we are a team. The PUC and MUC we earned in Iraq and the ASUA we earned for President Reagan’s funeral and the 55th Inauguration (was still 101st for the former but participated in the latter) remind me of my peers, leaders, and subordinates. Some are gone now, others civilians, and still others taking a different path (at least five guys from my company in TOG became pilots and two are at West Point), but we all shared some unique experiences and interesting times.
Guy ought to be begging for a grammar book, not the MoH…
Wasn’t he the one who killed Custer?
Not Custer… “Custard”. He was at an ice cream shop with Mathis and they got into it. Got into it a lot, from the looks of him. 🙂
I e-mailed the Gym coach, asking for his take on this post. Let’s see if he has anything to offer us.
I cannot abide a liar with no honor or integrity.
That being said, all those military acronyms are like Greek to me. 🙂
Thanks to all of you for your service.
It will be interesting to see if his tribe closes ranks around him.
Found this, so the tribe apparently believes him:
Proposed agenda for the special session of the 21st Navajo Nation Council, 7 Jan 2011:
“Legislation No. 0806-10: Relating to Human Services; Supporting the Recommendation of Awarding Specialist Jasper Lake the United States Congressional Medal of Honor for His Wartime Actions During Operation Enduring Freedom and in Defense of His Fellow Soldiers in the 73rd Engineer Company, 1st Brigade (SBCT), 25th Infantry Division (L) and the United States Army, the United States of America and the Navajo Nation.
Sponsor: Hon. Jonathan Nez, Council Delegate”
Yep, they have a screen shot of that over at POW.NET.
It’s pretty difficult for an E4 to be awarded a BSM.
#18 DaveO…Tanks!
#35 Jeff…HUH? Explain that.
On-Her and Porage (Jacobite will like that.)
I want to rip that Tropic Lightning patch off that asshole’s shoulder.
1-25 Stryker Bde replaced 3-2 Stryker Bde in Mosul in Nov 04. The Brigade remained headquartered in Mosul with 2-14 CAV at FOB Sykes in Tal Afar. 1-5 IN was detached shortly for the 2nd Battle of Fallujah. In July 05 2-14 CAV handed over Tal Afar to 3d ACR and went south to Rawah on the Euphrates River where it remained until RIP TOA in SEP 05. The BDE is authorized a VUA for the period of the National Elections in JAN/FEB 05. If you weren’t there during those 2 months the VUA is NOT authorized for permanent wear.
Immediately upon returning to Lewis, the BDE began planning its move to Vilseck and reflagging as 2nd CR. The DCU was only authorized for wear in the Brigade for about a month after redeployment… until we formally uncased the colors.
A lot of fine soldiers died over there in what was a period of seriously high OPTEMPO characterized by persistent efforts by the AQ and affiliated forces to hold open the line of communication running from Rabiyah/Sinjar to Tal Afar to Mosul.
The former Brigade Commander MG Bob Brown is now the Chief of the Maneuver Center at FT Benning. the 1-24 Commander Erik Kurilla is currently commanding the 75th Ranger Regt.
Hope that fills in some gaps.
What, no Cav patch…..what kinda bullshit fake is this guy?
Crazy Cat, needs hooked on phonetics, not the MOH.
So DOC…there should have been nobody wearing the 2CR patch on DCUs based on the timeline I described above. The CAB was instituted at some point during early 05. It was a nutroll because unlike the CIB (and this not a slam on the CIB), you had to have three sworn statements saying that you met the criteria of being under fire (direct or indirect)and essentially doing your job…i.e. not curling up in the fetal position behind your track. Let’s just say its amazing how many folks in our support battalion got CABs and never left the FOB.
As for individual awards, there were probably less than a dozen enlisted soldiers who received a BSM-V in the Brigade. It just was not that common, regardless of how much fighting that was going on.
The 73rd ENG Co was primarily engaged in route clearance of the MSRs in the Brigade sector. Don’t get me wrong, it was dangerous an thankless work, and they did a hell of a job. I just don’t understand why that isn’t enough.
LTC Tim–it seems worse than that…based on what the post says about responses to FOIAs and from the 25th ID Association, this guy doesn’t appear to have served AT ALL.
Great…so of all the units in the Army this loser picked mine.
Usaually it’s 1st CAV (Dad’s unit), the 101st (my unit) or the SF. You should feel honored!
I got a good contact number for the person who might know more about Jasper’s background if anyone wants to call. I suck at phone interviews.
No one wants to wear my old div. patch??? Oh, yeah, they were replaced by 3rd ID a while back……never mind 🙂
Sporkmaster, e-mail coming from me.
Why does no one ever pretend to serve in a Nasty Guard MI unit? We have a cool patch. Actually, I guess some senior NCOs in the BN are pretending to serve… Nevermind.
1AirCav69: #36:
It is very difficult for a junior enlisted member to be awarded a Bronze Star.
Jeff…things must have changed. Although I did NOT get a Bronze Star in Vietnam, I did get an ARCOM W/V. Almost everybody I served with and hang out with today got Bronze Stars in Vietnam and we were all E-5 and below. In WWII they awarded a Bronze Star to anyone who recieved a CIB..which would be a vast majority of junior enlisted. I think if you earn it…it doesn’t matter if you’re an E-1 or O-10.
Thanks for the come back.
Honor and Courage
#48 is right based on my very limited experience. We had a few guys earn the ARCOM w/”V”, which my squad leader later told us he’d have put us all in for but he was given a limit on award recommendations (hence my comment in #17).
When it comes to the BSM for meritorious service, that is all-too-common for platoon-level leadership and higher. Junior NCOs and lower enlisted usually receive an ARCOM at best (I’ve met a few who received an AAM or nothing at all) for making it through a deployment.
It takes outstanding leaders to recognize outstanding Soldiers. Unfortunately the actions of Soldiers (junior and senior alike) often goes unrecognized. I hope that there are not many, but there are some “leaders” out there that would refuse to put a subordinate in for an award or block an attempt by another to submit one.