Sensei Albert John aka Dick Munch
Look at all of those damn medals, would ya. Yeah, I spend a lot of my time painted up in camouflage and admiring my finery with an authentic “grader’s stick”.
Oh, he sent a letter to POW Network claiming that the first picture was a Halloween costume, that he wasn’t claiming to be an SF Ranger. Yeh, huh. Like in this narrative someone snagged from the internet;
Hi, I’m Sensei Albert John.
I teach from the privacy of my own home. I’m a self defense consultant whom until recently only catered to private martial art schools, the military and law enforcement. I’ve decided to teach my much sought after skills to civilians as well. If your serious about training then I’m the right instructor for you. Your current physical fitness level, age or previous training will not be a burden with this program. You will love every minute of it.
I’m a former US Army special operations soldier, a surgical technologist, internationally certified in sterile processing, hold black belts and/or high degrees in over half a dozen different martial arts to include but not limited to Ninjitsu, Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, Krav Maga and Lotar….
So what was he in the military? Well, he started out to be an infantryman, but after a couple of months, that proved to be a little difficult, he became an awards clerk;
He claims he’s being railroaded by a bunch of cliquish Rangers at LinkedIn that he tried to join. As an excuse for trying to join he claimed the Ward Reilly Syndrome – he was in some unit which called themselves “Rangers” so he is one, too.
He also claims he scored “expert” with the Claymore mine – that’s hard to do, too, seein’s how the thing is imprinted with the phrase “Front Towards Enemy”. He alo claims he was awarded the EIB, but there’s none in his records;
Gee, I wonder how an awards clerk got an MSM?
Anyway, Dick Munch, has supposedly hired a high-priced Los Angeles lawyer to go after POW Network, and I decided that I want to be in the room during discovery, so here’s hopin’ that I get a letter soon, too.
Category: Phony soldiers
Nothing says “Absolute Poserboy” like those those sunglasses.
Send me a letter too, if only because I want to hear the explanation of how E-5’s get MSM’s.
I know ONE enlisted guy who got one–and he was my first COB (Chief of the Boat.) He had been in the Navy for 42 years. He joined the navy in 1956, did his first COB tour in 1967, and retired in 1989. He received it as his retirement award. You do the math.
Attorneys in private practice take their civil case fees one of two ways: cash on the barrel head or contingency. There will not be an award so it’s money up front in this case. And by the looks of the digs, that ain’t going to happen. Plus, there’s this from Sweeney’s page: “He worked closely with federal law enforcement agencies, including although not limited to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, United States Secret Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the United States Postal Inspection Service.” In other words, he likely knows what’s what and will advise the guy with the $9.99 trophy collection to check the Yellow Pages.
I’ll hook a ride on that one too, Jonn….
I love how he lists his Infantry Correspondence Courses on his resume. I guess he never thought anyone who ever served would see what inflated bullshit he was trying to pass.
Called up for Desert Storm and rode it out in Colorado. Any of you doggies that can confirm or correct me in that assessment of his time?
And while I don’t want to ridicule his obvious need for mental health services, something tells me that he wasn’t exactly knee deep in the shit to warrant an MSM or CIB, or pretty much anything else while in patient status.
“Send me a letter too, if only because I want to hear the explanation of how E-5?s get MSM’s.”
Simple: he’s the awards clerk, he stuck his citation into the middle of a big pile of awards.
I was called up for Desert Storm, too, but didn’t get close to Colorado. We saw places like Gander on our way out of town. Didn’t see him there, either.
I’d like to point out that he wasn’t in 1st ID, which is where 16th Infantry the “rangers” are and have always been. Ward was correct on a technicality, This dude doesn’t even have that.
I’ve yet to see anything that is genuine here.
An E-5 with an MSM? Hell, I spent 5 years at Lackland as an MTI learning how to steal (from the best) and THEN became a personnel specialist in space command and still couldn’t have wiggled into an MSM. This fooker’s good.
Is there any documentation (other than his claims) for what he did Oct 86 to Oct 89? Saw at POWnetwork he claimed Benning, Riley and Europe/SOCOM.
This guy is too funny. The Uzi looks plastic (maybe an airsoft?) I used to train folks on the Claymore—there is no “Expert” badge for a friggen mine of any kind.
Anybody who was ever really a soldier for more than a few weeks should know to NOT wear any Tabs they didn’t earn. (I did wear a Tab that said INFIDAL, just to see if the Sgt Major would say something, but his eyse were failing and couldn’t read it.)
I really enjoy your stories where you “out” retards like this.
Is he visible, accessible anywhere on the ‘net? I want to try to reach him before he goes to cover.
Didn’t get anything out of his name on FB.
Well the first thing that gave his poser status away to me was the BDU sew-on badges on the ACU top. While sew-on stuff is allowed again, it has to be ACU. Then, there’s the mandarin collar flipped up. I only have worn ACU’s like that with body armor, but I’m weird like that. And finally, a master-rated E-5? With HALO as a foreign award? On ACU’s ? I mean what’s his excuse? He was at least in the Army, for God’s sake! And the only E-5 I’ve ever met that was a master-blaster, was a Black-Hat at Airborne School.
Now on the other hand, his gun is a nice airsoft special. I can see the glint of the plastic from here. And last I checked, if you have a triple canopy, you can get a much nicer gat-piece then an Uzi!
Another “rice paddy daddy”…with a freaking MSM (I retired with 26 years in the canoe club and couldn’t get one). And the assclown is “internationally certified in sterile processing”…my dog can do that!
Its funny how some pos trys to pretend he’s done these things and thinks he’s important. When you guys commenting on these things no he’s fake have done the real thing and deserve the respect and glory that comes with the job.
Guys like this just give all the self-respecting reserves and national gaurd members a bad name.
Let’s see, Awards clerk and you wonder how he got the MSM!! ha!! Just like John Kerry writing his own awards up in VN. It would be interesting to see his award write up and who signed it off. End of tour/ten years? Usually a retirement award over in the Corps if you are lucky.
In today’s Army, the MSM is more or less a PCS award for an E-7 or higher, though I did know of one who left TOG with an ARCOM (despite being Commander of the Relief at the Tomb and accomplishing a lot more than most other PSGs there). Seeing an E-6 or lower with the MSM is virtually unheard of–the only people I can name who earned them were those who won installation level and higher NCO of the Year boards.
Working in a staff position has its perks, though. On Rear D back in ’02 an E-4 who worked Schools managed to take one of the battalion’s Pathfinder slots. Goes to show that there will always be those who work the system for personal gain.
He had to hide the barrel so that you cannot see its toy dayglow orange color.
Crap. The blockhead was in my division.
I feel so dirty now
fm–Navy is a lot stingier with personal awards than the AF or Army, so any E-5 or below with a NAM is a pretty good deal. E-7 or below with a NCM is outstanding.
That being said, I did see ONE MS3 who got a NCM back when I was on the Holland. What did she do to deserve such an award? Escorted Bill Clinton around Pearl Harbor on his first presidential visit. Was a hell of a sight to see on the ship CCTV, getting her NCM pinned on by the CMC and the CO while she’s standing there half-slouched, chewing gum. Pretty much the entire command is yelling at the TV at the top of their lungs at that scene.
I wish I was kidding.
FWIW, an MSM for an Army E5 is rare but not impossible. I had a great SGT working with me at JM School, as the Rigger SME and holding an E7 slot. It took a couple of cover letters of endorsement, but the CG awarded him the MSM.
Sparky you don’t know the half of it.
I was an ordnance officer in the 4id. I was given an AAM by my battalion for designing the battalion’s web page.
It is the single most embarrassing thing on my record. I couldn’t believe then and now
True story. I can send the citation.
#23 & #21 Worked on the G-staff of a 4-star HQ, busted my ass for 2 years while taking night classes for a master’s degree, saved the command $3M on one effort alone. Recognized for that? No.
Ran on the Army 10-miler team: got a 3-star coin for it.
THAT’s when I figured out what was important to the Army.
We recently had an E-7 AGR Recruiter PCS after over ten years at the same recruiting station, not counting a couple of years spent in ops (battalion is in the same area). I pulled his production last year and he had some 130-something contract over his then seven years on production. He’d earned Recruiter of the Year and other honors early on and the network he created over the years has proven very valuable to everyone from the numerous battalion commanders down. His PCS award? ARCOM, the same as most detailed Recruiters. A high-speed detailed Recruiter spent a couple of months as acting 1SG and got picked up for E-8 while here. He left with an MSM. The awards system is rarely fair, but I feel as though we can all sleep well knowing what we’ve accomplished, regardless of whether or not our leadership formally acknowledges it.
The above should read “counting a couple of years spent in ops”. Anyway, the guy was here since before I joined the Army. Unbelievable!
WOW! He is an airborne medic (POW Network page)! What a ding-a-ling A-hole!
@21, I know of a SFC that got an ARCOM for organizing a BN Christmas party. My EOT award for Afghanistan, ARCOM. Let’s see…15 months in country=ARCOM. Organizing Christmas party=ARCOM. Makes me wonder…
Dixie–both my NAM’s were end of tour awards, neither was off either one of my boats (one off tender, one out of recruiting.)
As evidenced by the NCM for the young, shapely MS3 for escorting Billy Jeff, while I don’t KNOW what happened, an NCM for driving around Clinton? I guess the old saying IS true–it’s not who you know, but who you blow….
Back in my Navy days there was a year when there when one E-5 in the squadron was awarded a NAM for single handedly manually securing a flooding casualty in the fan room because of a head valve failure. I enlisted in the ARNG soon after my Navy ETS (no ETS award, BTW, the Navy didn’t do that for E-5s back then). At my first Christmas drill wearing the Class As, I spot a PFC with an AAM. I figured that that must be one hell of a story, given my Navy experience. So, I ask him for the story that must involve taking a bullet or saving a life, and his reply is that, as an intel analyst, he did a good job at the last annual training.
I was awarded a MSM as a parting gift in 1995. I retired then as a E-6, I got it in the mail after my retirement was final…. had to get my DD214 amended.
I guess my 1SG and CO thought I did some great and glorious things.
“Sensei” of what exactly? The BS kata? The Poser Academy of Lying A-Holes?
Amazing, the photo of him in his ACUs looks like he was in HHC USASOC CAG! The photo of him in the BDUs looks a 300F1 SF Aidman Course instructor from the 1980s. Obviously a lying sack of shit. Would love to meet him in a dark alley and pound the ever lovin’ shit out of him.
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This guy reminds me of what I flushed down the “john” this morning….
During my USN & USNR (mid 1970’s to mid 1980’s) service, enlisted men with personal decorations other than the Good Conduct Medal were a VERY rare sight – usually ex-Mekong PBR crewmen or guys who’d switched to the USN after a Vietnam tour in the Army or Marines. Other than these two subsets, about the only surface-fleet types I ever saw with a NAM or NCM were officers who’d gotten them during a tour of staff duty.
According to Wikipedia, the NAM’s criteria were changed in 2002, allowing Commander-level (O-5) CO’s to award it, vs. having to get further approval from a squadron commodore or flag HQ. I now live outside Seattle and often see uniformed USN personnel going to and from the Bremerton shipyard and Bangor submarine base; today, NAMs on even E-4 petty officers’ uniforms is not at all unusual to see.
There are many stories about how my awards got downgrade because how the command think about my rank instead of achievements. I guess, there are many among us. Thanks guys, it’s all over out there instead just my MOS. One of my outstanding Captain here at the office. She did her time (8 years), burst her rear to support the CG, he downgraded her MSM proposal to ARCOM. All I can do is shaking my head, I’ve seen PO got MSM for way less.
“Burst her rear”? Wow, hate to have to do the clean up after that.
Here’s a link to an E-4, ARNG (Millard) with three MSMs:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=5858
Being formerly S1 (proud of it don’t give a damn what others say) even looking at his records sounds fishy. if he was Army he’d be one of my people and “Awards Clerk” is not a title that’s put on an ERB or any job history. He’d be labeled as “Human Resources Sergeant” and if he was an “NCOIC” as it says there’s no way in hell he’d be an awards clerk. also yes an MSM as an E5….guess only way he’d have that is if he got demoted at some point…but what gets me is look.. “Good Conduct Medal 2” with if I’m reading this right, 10 years of service. red flags all around.
I e-mailed this tool and told him he made the “Unsweet Sixteen”. I mean, shit, I was pulling for him.
He got pissed. Of course he denied everything…
Par for the course.
Turd.
The tourney has me re-reading all these threads. I remember another basic training morning desperately trying to stay awake. It was during the “explanation” part of the day’s training at the mine range (or whatever the area was called. It was 30+ years ago). Too lazy to even talk to a bunch of recruits, the range cadre showed a couple flicks. I whispered to the guy next to me “PLEASE, if I drift off, nudge me.” At one point the narrator said “Take care of the claymore like a friend. Friend, it will take care of you.” For whatever reasons, that had me laughing out loud, which naturally pissed off one of the drills. I didn’t have to worry about falling asleep after that. OK, well…what can I say? I don’t post much 🙂 Don’t get me started on the late 1960s* internal Ranger school recruit flick. Designed to make a tired trainee snooze…
*They all had black and gold “Army” tape with white jump wings, so I am guessing
I am also brushing up on the past asshats who defame the real warriors.
However, I will say this, I always wear cool sunglasses to hide my real identity when assaulting a cornfield on a covert mission where someone just happens to have a camera along.
Give him a break,,, the black op he was pictured in was a complete success. When is the last time “Children of the Corn” were spotted?
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Hey, TSO/Alberich/JAGC/Susan – you’re our resident lawyers. Is conspiring with others in knowingly filing a frivolous lawsuit against the law?
Wow this guys a fuckin’ asshole. Hard to believe there’s a bunch more like him…
And up pops Dullass Whatdafuk, “One man Heavy Drop”, with his whinin’, lyin’ thievin’ ass.
Hey flying a$$clown, when did you become a lawyer? Everyone here knows you’re a coward but not a lawyer. If all the drivel you’ve just spouted is true, why hasn’t anyone on this site been arrested or served with a lawsuit? Calling a proven liar a liar isn’t against the law. You know, someone like you.
You know that there are places you can go for help for your mental problems.