Brent North: Penn State/SEAL/ATF phony
Mary tells me that sequestration is hitting the National Personnel Records Center pretty hard, so a lot of our FOIAs are tied up in the resulting work slow down. Luckily, we have enough friends who are doing the work that I can snag their product for us and pray that they don’t mind.
This one is from Guardian of Valor in a link sent to us by Enrique. This spooge rag, Brent North, lived his lies for years even impressing a a former lady friend with his daring-do, until she found out the truth, that he wasn’t a Penn State Quarterback, a Navy SEAL or an ATF agent. Apparently, the ATF wasn’t too pleased either because when the folks at Guardian of Valor told them about, the ATF raided his place. GoV has pictures of his ill-gotten booty – mostly certificates of his phony career. Even a forged cover of a Sports Illustrated magazine with his name and picture as a star of Penn State’s 1986 football team.
As GoV points, it’s the math that gets him. He has certificates for service while he says he was at Penn State, his rank goes up and down inconsistently with the dates and his tales. From Onward State;
Throughout his life, North had falsely claimed that he was a Navy SEAL, an ATF agent, and a star quarterback at Penn State in 1986. Although fibbing about being a Nittany Lion football player isn’t illegal, lying about being a federal agent is, and North was recently indicted for Impersonating a Federal Agent according to the website.
Anyway, he was a Marine;
Good bust, guys. I guess now he’s going to find out what it was really like to be on Sandusky’s football squad. What? Too soon?
Category: Phony soldiers
dammit, now I gotta clean the screen… thanks a lot, Jonn…
The brackets are already filling up before we can even finish the current tourny.
3+ years in the Corps and he was discharged as a Private??? I guess he was a shit ball from the start.
Old Trooper, I can assure you he was a shitbird 1st Class. You don’t go almost 4 in the Corps and come out a private unless you are a fucktard. He did not complete his enlistment, so I am assuming he was a continuous problem that was finally shitcanned.
monkey has a new roommate for club fed.
Old Trooper, MGySgtRet: you guys beat me to it.
Only ways I know how to serve 3+ years in the 1980s and leave as an E1 are (1) court-martial followed by punitive or admin discharge; (2) multiple NJPs for misconduct followed by some type of admin discharge, or (3) court-martial not involving punitive discharge followed by making up any “bad time” followed by discharge. However, (3) might not be possible – I forget when policy changed and people started simply losing credit for bad time vice having to serve extra to make it up at end of enlistment.
I don’t think there were too many 3-year enlistments in the USMC during that time frame. So since he served 3 yr 4 mo 10 da, I rather doubt he left with a normal ETS/EAD after making up any “bad time”.
I would love to see the full OMPF on this guy. I’m betting it’s an eyeful.
Is stolen valor the new idjit hobby? These posers seem to be coming out of the woodwork.
A shitbird Private, who obviously gave a crap about Honor, Courage and Commitment.
Leaving after 3+ years in any of the Armed Forces as an E-1 says “SHITBIRD!” to me. Bubba & Thor are gonna have a ball makin’ him SQUEEEEAAAL!
Maybe now he can really play with Jerry Sandusky, maybe not Quaterback though.
By the way, it is “CORPS”, not “CORP”. Close though.
His list of assignments appears to show he was a 5811/Military Police. Obviously, not a very good one.
Why would ANYONE want to pose as an ATF agent, anyway?
Dumbass.
Bedwetter
“Once a Marine always a Marine”
You guys need to add a clause to that for turd burglars like this
Manhole Inspector.
Well, I went to GoV and read the e-mail he sent to his girlfriend pretending to be a buddy from the service. He went on and on about what an awesome guy he was and how lucky she was to have him. I’m guessing she saw through that pretty quickly. What an assbasket.
Being raided and planted face down on a floor by an ATF agent is almost like being one…isn’t it?
(…wish I’d been there to watch. And cheer.)
An ex-Marine pretending to be a SEAL? Where’s his sense of service loyalty? You think he’d have posed as Force Recon.
@19 – Nah, it’s not like that.
He went to NAB Coronado at some point, and naturally, he became a SEAL.
@16 – I give the lady a lot of credit. His nonsense probably didn’t ring true, and if she saw his certificates/diplomas on the wall, she probably figured it out herself and called him on it.
Pivot One after 3 years!?! Hell, I made PFC at Infantry OSUT at lovely Ft. Puke!!!
LebbenB: I’m guessing folks who get booted out of the USMC as an E1 after serving 3+ years don’t exactly have much loyalty to the Corps. Plus, these days the public thinks SEALs are far “cooler” than Force Recon.
@20. So naturally since he’s from another branch of service, “they” kept his records hushed up. You know, on account of his blatant awesomeness.
Hondo, I suppose your right. The ability to balance a beach ball on one’s nose while simultaneously keeping a perfect coif IS impressive, I admit.
Hondo: In the public’s simple mind, the fighting U.S. military is made up of only two units, the “SEALs” and the “Green Berets”. In the public’s mind, nobody else exists…
Someone get on the phone and call his village….we found their idiot.
If time is supposed to mend all wounds, you figure someone would figure out that time doesn’t fix your DD-214 to read what you ‘really want’ it to.
@ss clown.
I think I’m going to go out and pose as a supply clerk with an AAM just to throw some variety into the next SV tournament.
I’m guessing it would have all worked out–and then he conjured up that PSU stuff. Penn State star quarterback? Running back? Okay. Linebacker? Definitely. Quaterback? Nah. I can name one–Kerry Collins. After that, ?
I like Kerry Collins. He helped the Colts get their new franchise quarterback.
@19. He tried for Force Recon, but he couldn’t spell it. So, it was SEAL, then on to the ATF.
What amazes me..is reading that letter from his “SEAL Team buddy” to his girl friend
That shit took some effort
I guess what gets me is that at some point in writing that BS a person doesn’t stop and go “man..I am really some kind of fucked up to be sitting here writing this bull shit”
Severe mental issues here with this one ladies and gents. Did anyone read that email? Real page turner. And the fake certificates …to go to this level …at a loss here.
I almost feel bad for the turd. Almost.
@28.
And I think the Redskins (my team) are still paying Lavar Arrington.
I just looked at the GOV site.
Quite the forger.
Fucking bag of dicks.
@30 you said it man.
That letter tells us he “deserves” this and that no fewer than 4 times. Talks about “honor” and “character” and says this ahole “doesn’t lie” or “cheat”. To concoct this story is damn near beyond belief. Who are these people? And how do we keep them from infecting the gene pool?
In this day and age; how do you even think you can get away with claiming to be the QB of a consensus national championship team?
Sorry for spamming, I’m pulling my hair out here thinking about this level of crazy. I take back my statement about almost feeling sorry for him. I hope terrible terrible things happen to him in federal prison.
Also @GT, LaVar actually paid the team in order to leave. If anyone is still paying him its the NY vagiants. Go skins.
He had some game with the forgeries (although there are problems with them like the infamous George W. Bush Texas ANG letter – let the other fakers figure it out by trial and error), but there are conceptual problems. As USMCE8 noted, who would pretend to be an ATF Agent? That’s like pretending to be a “TSA Agent,” and I offer that from experience.
Last one. He knew enough to realize that a QB wouldn’t have a number in the 80s so he photoshopped out the visible top half of the second digit of Jurevicius’ number (83 while he was at penn state). But he neglected to remove the bottom half of the number which is still visible. Not to mention this clownery left the 8 completely misaligned on the jersey.
Addendum: Why in the actual f*** go through the trouble to remove the two nike swooshes from “himself” but not the guy trying to tackle “him”. I’m going to lose my mind thinking about this fool.
@30 and 34: The man he really is was not enough, and boy oh boy is it ever evident in that two page pile of crap his imaginary friend wrote. That’s a real piece of work right there.
When I was at ft ord I went to naval gunfire school at Coronado i should claim to be a seal. I watched the buds class head out to train big difference when they came back
@2/17 Air Cav…
Chuck Fusina, Todd Blackledge, Michael Robinson. :0). But agreed PSU is better known for RB and LB’s.
As a PSU grad (’82) and a vet, I’m offended on 2 accounts by this jack off.
Hi guys! Embarrassing to say… I am the ex that turned this assclown in! It’s quite story and definitely not your Average poser. This guy tops them all… I honestly didn’t study everything on his wall until things started to just not make sense with this ATF career, his day Job with the security company, thing he said and did…. Long story short, with the help of my camera phone (taking pics of all the bullshit) saving all the emails and having some great and supportive friends that were able to verify that he was a complete fraud, I ended up calling the ATF last. Of course “there is no special agent Brent North” they works here…. I reported him! Now he faces federal prison time for 3 different felonies. I want to personally thank each and every person in our military. I have the highest regard for our military and law enforcement and will NOT allow anyone to steal Valor. No matter what happens, I will never regret turning his ass In!!! If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer, Chris
Welcome Chris. Drop by anytime.
I had lunch in Chinhae with a seal team in 1990, and got seriously drunk with a bunch of Chiefs that night. So now I can claim to be a CPO and a seal. Yes, I laid my bdu cap on the bar and the bell rang. Lesson learned.
@35.
“Ki-Jana” Carter.
Turd.
Thank you! Pretty sure that I will attend the upcoming arraignment, in the next week or two. I want to look that asshole in the eyes with a look of “Jig is up”. From what I’ve heard, they are not holding him until the arraignment so he’s still on the loose…for now.
@46: Chris, since the POS is still on the loose, make sure you protect yourself, and be sure to be situationally aware of your immediate surroundings and take the appropriate security steps as needed. Some of these posers are real LOONS.
@47.
Agreed.
People get odd when they figure out they are at the end of their rope.
Be safe.
Thank you for the advice. I do have secure locks but am considering an alarm system. He lives about 30 minutes from me in his mothers trailer park retirement community. His world has crashed down on him since all the lies caught up with him. I have friends in local law enforcement that watch my house regularly. Also, the ATF gave me some kind of federal witness protection card. Not sure how much good that will do me if something happens. I am always aware of my surroundings and very careful.
#49: Chris, I’m glad you have friends in local law enforcement; make sure to keep in close touch with them as the clock winds down to the loser’s arraignment. You can never be too careful these days…