Blaine Lechko; another Wedding phony Marine
I sent this fellow, Blaine Lechko, to Scotty several weeks ago. I guess you can tell why I thought he was a phony. No rank, the “Weeble” look, dicked up ribbon rack including the Purple Heart. Well, he spent 19 months and change in the Marines 40 years ago, and he still wants to get married in the uniform;
But, then there’s that “thousand yard stare” so common among combat veterans;
I really don’t want to hear about how I’m picking on a “mentally-challenged” person. He got in the Marine Corps initially, so he can’t be that challenged. I’m pretty sure that the woman he married has some problems, so please avoid comments about her if you find the wedding pictures, please. I intentionally edited her out of the photos I used here, for that reason.
Category: Phony soldiers
A Munchkin Marine WTF …
The damn things multiply like cockroaches, don’t they?
I wonder if his/its Momma and Daddy were still brother and sister after their divorce, he looks like he’s his own cousin!!
Loved the mug shot (fraud, MN) that Scotty had for the guy. Looks like just another low-life bastard “rockin’ the lie” and wearing a Purple Heart he never earned.
If he wants to be a damn hero, then send his azz to the Ukraine and let him tell the Russian troops there to go home.
So help me out here please. How long was I out on drugs in the hospital that I missed Blaine Lechko? I mean I have seen some messed up stuff but this guys is crossing into the weird, really strange, Twilight Zone realm. I looked closely at his right hand and there is one of those lacey, dainty things BRIDES wear, plus the nails and nails polish say hard core, combat Marine to me. I did a search but could not find a previous story on him.
Sparks, the lacy hand is the bride’s.
LOL Sparks, drugs does that to ya
Now I understand. Part of the photo is gone! My bad. Sorry.
Sparks, go to open thread
Gah! What is that… Thing?
It looks like if Gollum grew a few inches and then ate more fish than he ought to have..
Well, golly-gosh. When I got married I wore a rented tux, and I’ve got more time in the chow line than this asshat has in his entire career.
Pvt. with bloodstripes, three ribbons over two. Pathetic weasel.
Phildo’s mom.
Runs in the family.
LMAO, almost peed myself just now.
He pulled sea duty on the “Good Ship Lollypop”
Damn, I never knew Truman Capote had a half-brother that served in the USMC . . . .
He looks like he should be standing watch at the gates of the “Emerald City”.
Just sayin’.
Words escape me.
Really, what can you say about these poor excuses for a human being (except maybe human excrement)?
Someone above mentioned Truman Capote…Hondo…lol, right on the money!!
Believe it or not. But this clown is actually a Big Rig Truck driver.
As a truck driver, we don’t claim him either.
The new format of the blog is horrible. You have to click on every post to read it and scroll around more than the old format. Horrible and useless. Not that my opinion matters a whit, but I’ve been on the Internet 20 years and long ago quit wasting time on blogs that adopt the “click bait” tactic of teasing every goddamned post, whether they do it to boost page clicks and views or not. Guess I’ll have to find somewhere else to get my military news.
Try Commander Phil Monkress at All Points Logistics.
Yep, APL breaking news… LOL!
I like it and in no way find it challenging.
Well, BYE.
..It’s a little bit busier than the old layout, but it looks great to me.
Mike
..It’s a little bit busier than the old layout, but it looks great to me.
Mike
As long as we’re off topic – I do like the ability to reply under an individual post rather then having to use the old @___ to clearly indicate who’s comment you are responding. However, I may have found a little “bug”. If I initially select reply to an specific comment, and then cancel the reply. No matter what comment I attempt to reply to – it fills in top portion with the initial persons info as though I’m still trying to reply to their comment. Unless I leave the page and come back, this behavior continues. However, If I go back to the main page, re-select the article it stops trying to bring up the previous comment.
I should also mention the site is a bit slow moving between pages (home articles)…
No click bait. I just want to know what you’re reading. I don’t how I’d get paid by the number of clicks anyway. I’m not teasing anyone I just want to know what you want to read.
Gotcha. Pardon that remark, then. I’ll follow links that I find elsewhere back, but if you look at my IP addy, I’ve been coming here for a long time. I’ve read everything that was written by you and the co-bloggers over the years, but I won’t click on every post to read more. For those folks up-thread that only read a few blogs a day, that’s fine. I read dozens. If every blog had this format, I’d be able to read maybe 10.
I respect all of you and gained an affinity for TAH because I served in the first Gulf war and enjoyed the insight and banter, even if I didn’t participate often. But I’m out. Save your “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass!” bon mots. I won’t see them.
You should try and get out more.
10 blogs is tough.
Then there’s that whole wrong camo version for the background on the front page. It’s supposed to have little random EGA’s in it…
Yut!
Nice background, don’t miss the EGAs at all!!
EGA? Ain’t that some Federal agency involved in protecting the environment?
(Just kidding, my USMC brethren – just kidding!)
I like the ability to reply. I guess an extra click doesn’t really bother my finger that much but if that’s all it takes to get you to give up on a blog….f you like the banter how did you get to the comments without clicking on the article?
I like this format because I don’t have time to read all the articles and this gives me a little peek at them to see if it’s something I want to read further. The camo pattern is a bit distracting but I’ll get used to it….
that should say “….IF you like the banter….” not f-you 😉
Thanks for explaining the photo edit, Jonn. For a moment I was wondering, “this guy married a lamp post?”.
Damn, Uncle Fester has a brother!!!!!!!
Ok this is my first time seeing the new format…going to take some getting used to
That is a “he”? (you will kindly excuse my bad grammar…)
Gives me a pretty fair case of WTF…
Gotta say, I thought that it was a female from the headline picture on the main page.
Looks like he ATE the Marine.. . .
Oh, you’d be amazed at some of the Cat IV geniuses that managed to put the pencil in the right spot just enough times to get in.
Had a guy in my company who had an AFQT of 11. Yeah, you read that right, 11, which translates into an IQ of about 75 or so on the Stanford-Binet.
I’m thinking this guy got REAL lucky in that regard. In any event, he knows better. Light ’em up.
This one is too small to keep. Take him off the hook and throw him back. I get the sense that he wanted to look nice for his wedding and probably didn’t have any idea what the ribbons were. I just don’t see any malicious intent here.
He spent a year and a half in the Corps at the end of the Vietnam War.
Oh, trust me–he knows.
No way, he was a former Marine who damn well knows better.
Well, we knew someone was going to come in here and feel sorry for him. Not a surprise either. Jonn wrote a disclaimer for a reason. That means he is not taking it down.
I found his resume online and he’s looking for work, or was when it was posted. Worked at WalMart and driving a truck. No mention of military service. I am a notorious softy for certain types so. Others would categorize me as a sucker. I get it. So, yeah, I’m all ready done with this guy, absent more than a couple of pics in which he looks like a dumb shit.
Looks like the guy that used to be on the David Letterman show years ago, I think his name was Larry “Bud” Melman.
This is my explanation. The guy meets this woman. Tells her a few phony “war stories” to impress her and win her heart. She gets all romantically swoony at the thought of him and her getting married with him in a dress uniform. (You know it was all make believe anyway because she was wearing white!) He pieces together a few ill-fitting items gleaned from on-line and thrift stores.
Blech figures since it’s been so many years and he thinks he looks a bit spiffy in his mix and match uniform, he posts a picture or two figuring no one would notice or care. What the hell, it impressed his blushing bride, right?
I’m also gonna guess that Blech ain’t the brightest and shiniest thing connected to that uniform, he probably didn’t even know what those ribbons were. He probably didn’t much care about the belt or the stripes or even how the ribbons were placed. He might know, but I really doubt it.
Still, it was wrong and he needs to be told it was wrong, but unless he goes all Monkeyass, he really ain’t worth worrying about. Certainly not a top seed.
I only wish that, if they’re going to play dress-up in military gear, they’d rent costumes from a costume shop, go with the horse cavalry or Star Trek or something, or even the Civil War, and stop doing this.
It’s annoying.
I agree, I’ve been to a few Civil War weddings. They have all the flair and panache, and there is no possibility of “stolen Valor” there.
I can’t work up the energy to get pissed at this guy. I guess I’m getting “phonied out”; there’s just too many of them! 🙁
I just came across this site claiming that he is also an ordained minister, http://www.open-ministry.org/local_community_resources.php?currentpage=7
I have checked to see if this was another person with the same name.
Ordained minister? Of what religion? Did he marry himself?
It’s called “The Church Of What’s Happenin’ Now”. 😀
Funny.
Or in this dude’s case “The Church of What A’int Happenin’ Now”
This one is (IMHO), a non-starter. He isn’t really flaunting anything except himself dressing up like a doofus. Maybe the thrift stores and online mad the “mix ‘n’ match cheaper than renting a tux.
Semper Fi
Except that nice little purple heart is sporting there like it is a decoration. Most people are going to feel sorry for this fella because he looks sick.
He probably wouldn’t be up here if it wasnt for the purple heart posturing.
Sorry Gunny, but since he is wearing a Purple Heart and other ribbons he did not earn is what every one here is pissed about.
My Guard unit had 21 Purple Hearts when we redeployed from Iraq. Him and anyone else wearing the Purple Heart that did not earn it is just a slap in the face to those that have been through hell to earn theirs.
Now granted, he is an ex-Marine, and can wear the uniform, but if you had any of your subordinates show up dressed like that, what would you do?
I simply cannot feel sorry for this retard, but the thing is, he knows better than to do something like this.
OIF ’06-’07-’08
Combat Engineers
Route Clearance Operations
This is the problem I have with it too. I am not understanding some of these people who keep saying “He gets a pass”, you put on shit you didn’t earn, you get the business.
I’m with you on that. Roughly 1/3 of my unit came back with the PH. Thankfully I’m not one of them. People wearing the PH piss me off more than other posers.
I meant that in, “Did he perform his own wedding vows between hisself & his betrothed?”
Sheesh. I think that would come out wrong no matter how I put it.
Are they even trying at this point?
You sure that’s a “guy?” Looks like an old lady in a Marine costume to me…
I didn’t know that “Pat” from Saturday Night Live was in the Marines.
I’m giving this one a pass. It’s obvious there are other issues involved. It’s not like he super promoted himself (?) to where he might have been if he had stayed in the entire 40.
“If Dorothy, Tin Man, Lion, Scarecrow and Toto
Ever look on the Emerald City’s scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.”
Holy Tun Tavern, I’m literally speechless…
I this guy disturbs me to no end. I’ve read many books regarding the Marines island hopping the Paciific during WWII. I’m a Army guy. 11B, flew as a door gunner Vietnam.
My opinion is the Marines are the finest fighting troops in the world. This guy shows up for his wedding, wearing that fucked up uniform. So fat he can’t button the collar. Just disrespectful. If your a member of the Corps. How can he do it. I just don’t get it.
What.The.F@ck.Is.That????
I’m speechless.
He got married at the lake front, that’s my old stomping grounds. Just moved from that area.
I thought I commented on this before I went to bed but I’m not seeing it so who knows where I actually commented about this ended up. I had been awake 26 hours ( another catastrophic event happened here, must be Sunday) before I went to bed at noon today. I was a little loopy. Sorry about that.
Nope! Never mind. Guess I’m still loopy and I got my posers mixed up. Imagine that. There’s so many now I’m getting them confused. Hah!
He looks like something that fell off of Mr Toad’s Wild Ride “The Wind in the Willows” reference there guys
I give no one a pass who is willing to pretend to have earned a Purple Heart. have seen too many young men and woman who truly earned them in the past decade plus.
Another douche nozzle who has lived a lackluster life trying to “spiff it up” a whole hell of a lot by pretending to be a wounded War hero.
Holy hand job!!! It didn’t all run mama’s leg now did it?
I sent Jonn a photo because it wouldn’t load here. But you guys can search it for yourself. The guy seriously looks like the McDonald’s Hamburglar!
Hey, look!
Its Cody Stermer!
Cody Stermer the Turd Burgler
seems legit… not!
Is it illegal to throat punch trolls? If this POS was a Marine, he knows better than to do this shit. Fuck him.
It is not illegal, however most states require that you kneel down prior to conducting Punch in the Troat (PITT) in order to ensure one punch limit and to avoid missing the intended target.
How can you throat punch him? He has a throat?! I don’t even see a neck.
I wonder what this thing eats?
On his facebook page he says he used to work at Breakthrough Ministries and has them linked as a former workplace. I posted his info to them and they responded and said:
“He is not affiliated with our organization here Minneapolis, nor has he ever been.”
Seems he has a habit of being a lying little troglodyte.
Holy Dancing Ostriches in Pink TuTus!
He looks like those shrunken apple heads we use to make at Halloween…
He’s a POS and needs to return the PH to the nearest VFW.
No pass from me.
Turd midget muncher!
When did Benny Hill join the U.S. Marines ?
He looks more like a retarded Garden Gnome in a USMC Dress Uniform!! Is that a lamp post next to him? I wonder if he didn’t just steal a mannequin hand and forearm from a Women’s clothing store and lean against the light pole with it for the pic?
No shit.
I still think he/it looks like a SONOFABLAKE!!
Yeah, he needs to turn over the bling and uniform and make a public apology to those Veterans in attendance when he turns it in.
He doesn’t get a pass from me, either, however, if I were to see him playing dress up like that in person, I would be laughing at him too hard to be angry.