Geoff Millard; the latest IVAW phony soldier (Updated)
The anti-war movement loves the Iraq Veterans Against the War. In an interview, Head Hag of Code Pink bragged that IVAW gives the anti-war movement credibility;
“The vet groups are our street cred,” a California-based anti-war activist tells me at the group’s barbecue. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of feminist anti-war group Code Pink, says the veterans’ group appeals to the American glorification of the military, even within the anti-war movement. “People who have been part of a war that I consider immoral and illegal still have more legitimacy than people who were against the war from the very beginning and refused to fight in it,” she explains, sitting in the vets’ living room while her college-age cohorts chat with the veterans and eat hamburgers and sausages. “They command more of a sense of authority and more of a sense of understanding of what’s actually happening on the ground.”
Let’s take a look at the credibility that Medea values so much, shall we?
The president of the Washington, DC Chapter, Geoff Millard, for example, is a real gadfly on the Washington, DC Leftist scene. I saw him going into the William Ayers book signing last month. Here’s a picture of him sitting behind then-candidate Barack Obama at a speech leading up to the election in Pennsylvania;
This is his profile on the IVAW website;
In his profile, Millard brags “Along with a peace delegation Geoff became the first Iraq war veteran to meet with members of the Iraqi parliament about their 26-point peace plan. Also Geoff has traveled Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iran meeting with Iraqi refugees at every chance.”
But he’s being modest. He’s also addressed the Socialist World Forum in Venezuela and fawned over such luminaries as Hugo Chavez and Cindy Sheehan. Here’s a picture of him marching with Medea Benjamin and Cindy Sheehan a few years back exercising his “street cred” for the anti-war movement;
My buddy/alter ego Robin at Chickenhawk Express did some extensive research on Millard a few years back when he first started making the IVAW scene while he was AWOL. Robin includes his history as a malingerer complaining constantly about his bouts of pain from a old wrestling injury – he claimed an Iraqi doctor said he should go back to the States, but Army doctors disagreed.
After he finished his tour of Iraq and the Army wouldn’t give him a medical discharge, he became a conscientious objector and went AWOL for nine months. Familiar story, isn’t it? It’s always some sort malfeasance on the part of IVAW members that preceeded their “conscientious objectors” or “resisters” status.
Notice, like most of the other folks in IVAW, he lists himself as a Sergeant. In addition, he claims he served in Germany, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq. It sounds more like a flight path than a career path.
I got a hold of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on Geoffrey a few weeks back and it was a little light on information;
It said that he is a specialist and not a sergeant as he claimed, and his awards were only two medals and ribbon – quite a bit different than what he sports in public;
That’s a lot more than what’s in records, no? Need a closer look?
That’s three awards of the Meritorious Service Medal (MSM) on top – but none of them are in the FOIA.
Well, see, I’m a fair guy, so I decided before I posted anything, I wanted to give Geoffrey a chance to respond – actually, TSO and Uncle Jimbo advised me to proceed cautiously.
Thanks to some prodding from Army Sergeant, I’m sure, he responded the same day, and sent me one of his three DD214s – of course, he sent the best one of the three, the one that says he earned all of those medals and that he’s a sergeant. The only thing I’ve altered is his Social Security Number, his mother’s name and address and his home address;
Now that would seem to settle it, right? Well, not quite. I sent the DD214 to my new friends at POW Net and, eagle eyes that they are, they noticed right off that even though he has awards for foreign service in block 13, there’s no foreign service time in block 12f.
The folks at POW NET sent the FOIA request back through St Louis with the DD214 Millard sent me.
Guess what? The Army sent the same FOIA information back even though they had his DD214. His form 2-1 doesn’t mention any service in Iraq.
The folks at POW NET are forwarding the FOIA and the DD214 Millard sent me to the FBI for further investigation.
1stCAVRVN11B emailed this picture of Millard wearing a CIB, which also isn’t in the DD214 or the FOIA report;
He explained in his email to me;
[The DD214] will not show a CIB that is a longer story of my being pined [sic] in Iraq but not having it on paper back home because of Army FUBAR. I was unsure about wearing it and I admit I did once but never felt comfortable with it on.
Well, the real reason he should have felt uncomfortable about wearing a CIB is because he never earned one no matter who “pinned” him – it wasn’t an Army FUBAR. To earn a CIB, a soldier has to be a qualified infantryman in the 11 or 18 series MOS and be serving in an infantry unit lower than brigade level. Millard was a 12B combat engineer not an 11 or 18 series, and he worked for a general – there are no generals below brigade level. I told him all of that in an email, but he didn’t see fit to respond.
Millard wants the honors accorded an infantryman who served in combat without having to put up with the shit of actually being an infantryman. Stolen valor.
So let’s recap the “street cred” of the anti-war movement; Millard claims to be a sergeant, the Army says he’s a specialist. He claims to have a chest full of medals, the Army says he has two and a ribbon. Millard claims to have been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, even though he was never a combat infantryman and the Army disagrees with him. Millard claims to have served on the Mexican border, Germany, Qatar, Kuwait and in Iraq and the Army has no record of him ever leaving New York State except for basic training and advanced individual training.
Oh, and the FBI will be investigating him for falsifying his military records.
At least he’s got experience doing a perp walk – he may need that skill.
Now, I’ll admit that I have a hard-on for Millard since he tried to intimidate TSO and me at Winter Soldier by asking us for our blog URLs so they could monitor what we were writing about them from the inside. I’m pretty sure he didn’t ask any of the friendlier bloggers for that same consideration.
Later, he threatened to throw TSO, Rurik and me out of Winter Soldier because TSO talked to a Washington Post reporter. Oh, and he made one of his minions remove me from the Congressional hearing room for Winter Soldier after I filmed him playing general’s aide before the hearings checking mikes and shuffling paper.
So this post is my pay back – and that’s why it’s languished for three weeks in my draft folder waiting to get the facts just right. It’s been rewritten countless times and a number of people have contributed to it and they’re all credited.
I’ve got several other records requests being processed, so you may see a spate of “phony soldier” posts in the next few months. Ya’all phony soldiers had better adjust your narratives.
UPDATED: For all of you sharpshooters, someone sent me a clearer picture of his medals;
Category: Antiwar crowd, Code Pink, Hugo Chavez, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Liberals suck, Phony soldiers, Politics, Winter Soldier II Live blogging
Great research! Geoffry is so typical of most of the Section 8 types in IVAW. Most of them are sponsored by old VVAW wannabes and union thugs. I will give Millard some credit though, he at least turned over a DD-214 and John Kerry still won’t do it. Could Kerry be a bit less stupid? LMAO
It will sure be interesting to see what the FBI may discover. Falsifying official government documents is a crime. And as you’ve pointed out, there appears to be violations of the Stolen Valor Act.
You have to be very careful making assumptions based on a DD214. Apparently he has both active and reserve time due to what awards he has received and the information about his deployment. I’ve been an infantryman myself and have heard stories of 12Bs that have been attached to infantry companies and have received CIBs, even though they are not authorized to wear them. I used one of the online tools that allows a person to choose a military medal and the tool will build a medal rack. By the DD-214 he as actually authorized to wear more ribbons then he is currently wearing. I can’t tell which ribbons he is wearing but he is missing two on his uniform if you go by the numbers.
I know from first hand experience that military paperwork has a nasty tendency to be inaccurate, incomplete, or just just not updated. If you put the reserves into the mix the problems with paper work compound horribly.
Now don’t get me wrong, I whole-heartily agree that this guy is not fit to present himself as honorable in any way shape or form. I bet if you try hard enough you can get the names of some of the people he served with to discover more about his service history.
Nice catch. Speaking of IVAW, I just got home from some training and read the Army Times. “Army Sergeant” (at least I think it was her) decided to write a letter to the editor. Compelling stuff. I hope she enjoys her government funded vacation in Germany and representing her merry band of anti-military, anti-American douche bags.
I don’t know why you guys assume that anytime something decent happens in IVAW it must be me pulling mysterious strings. Number one, I really don’t have that much influence, and number two, IVAW members do decent things on their own. I’m confident there’s an Army screwup involved. Also, I have to say that I’m really uncomfortable with all of these FOIA requests coming and am curious what the reasons are. I appreciate that you blacked out Geoff’s parent’s home address, but the fact that the military is even giving out this stuff is definitely not giving me a warm fuzzy. What if you were a little less scrupulous about it? I know some veterans have received threats to their parents, on both sides of the aisle. The FOIA answer the Army sent back is lacking at least in the following areas: 1) GWOT. Where is the GWOT ribbon? National defense is listed but not GWOT which it is impossible to escape. I’ve also personally seen with my own eyes Geoff’s military gear, including his dress stuff. Has anyone ever seen him wear any of it to a protest? No. It’s not even the right size for him to wear right now. Do we really think that he would go to all the trouble of going to a military tailors just to get a dress uniform all done up for the sole purpose of convincing random people that try to get him to wear a dress uniform? According to that idea, he must be the sneakiest guy EVER. I’m still not sure what happened at WS, however, I had all the blog URLs for /all/ the bloggers. I’m sorry that I was busy and unable to handle the whole thing. That is my fault, and should not be blamed on Geoff, who was not responsible for the bloggers. I take full responsibility for that screwup. PDizzle: Yes, that was me. I am neither anti-military nor anti-American, and I wish I were back in the States. Jonn wrote: You miss my point – Millard was trying to intimidate us by asking… Read more »
Amazing…Army Sargeant, you are showing how gullible you are. Holy Cow!! Let’s post my DD214 so I can show everyone what a non-altered one looks like. And I can even post my 201 file doc that shows everything I ever did. The guy is clearly a liar.
When a person has to lie to make it fit his reality, he has dishonored everything about his service and duty, not to mention having no honor.
Keep it up, Jonn. I’ll take care of the liears claiming to be SEALs and you keep knocking out the other fakers.
Great work, Jonn. I remember seeing this guy at the Gen. Petraeus hearing this past April, when I was allowed inside the Senate Armed Forces Hearing. Security pointed to a seat next to him, telling me it was open. I asked if there was another seat, that I couldn’t sit next to that guy.
Can you clarify, as I think I read it somewhere, that it is a crime to wear decorations which were not earned? In that case, shouldn’t Millard be charged?
Jonn wrote: That’s why this research is being forwarded to the FBI by the folks at POW.net.
Thanks for shining the light of truth on these maggots. The media never checks out these guys for credibility but let John Fn Murtha say something derogatory about our troops and they repeat it like it is gospel. You, sir, are doing great work.
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Jonn,
It doesn’t make me feel better that other people’s family information is bandied all over the place-I mean, I’m glad that AD folks stuff isn’t listed, because good god, that’d be a nightmare of an OPSEC hole. But still in this political climate…I mean, remember a certain person who was, shall we say, a little less than fully marbled. If that individual could gain access to everyone’s personal information….that’s pretty damn scary right now. I’m not really sure how that stuff is even FOIA material-even people’s hometowns and stuff is a little creepy. It’s like a stalker’s wet dream.
Jonn wrote: Um, I can get IVAW member’s hometowns by scrolling through the public profiles on the IVAW website. You can find out my address, my phone number, my employer in about five minutes on the internet. And anytime any of you want to do a FOIA search on me, you can do that, too.
But ya’all don’t have to because I sent you my DD214 earlier this year.
“If that individual could gain access to everyone’s personal information…”
You mean like when he posted my home address, work address, home phone numbers etc on the internet and IVAW did nothing about it? You mean like that?
Before I thought the entire thing was an army screw up, but now I am thinking it is about 50%-50%. 3 MSMs for an E4 seems ridiculous, and the CIB thing REALLY pisses me off.
3 MSM’s Meritorious Service Medals and only one ARCOM, Army Commendation Medal to go along with looks like only 1 GCM, Good Conduct Medal for a guy who served in the reserves for 11 years?? WTF was I doing wrong since I retired as an E7, 11B and only managed to get one.
I hate Millard and all of the IVAW crowd and I take great delight in hearing anytime one of them is actually sent to jail.
Stolen Honor indeed!
Jonn and all who contributed,
Thanks for exposing this guy! The marxist anti-war types like to hold guys like Millard up as a poster child to justify their treasonous activities, just as Kerry, Hanoi Jane and the VVAW’s Winter Soldier 1 offered up false testimony of supposed attrocities committed by US soldiers, all of which never happened. That’s why I took the bus back and forth to DC last March 15, to be there in support of our present day warriors and to stand against the IVAW’s Winter Soldier 2.
Keep on digging and expose the poseurs who are maligning our brave warriors.
Good work, Jonn. Keep it up.
Millard did serve on the Mexican border with Pancho Via during a Tequila Interdiction Campaign.
1stCavRVN11B,
IVAW is the creation of the old VVAW.
A lot of the Winter Soldiers from the VVAW Philadelphia Chapter are the ones who started IVAW. Initially they hide under the Veterans For Peace rock because the cockroaches don’t like light. But as time went on, they showed up wearing their VVAW patches and shirts.
Everything about IVAW is a repeat of the VVAW. Heck, they even had JANE FONDA there in Boston at the VFP Convention when IVAW’s formation was announced.
Marooned in Marin,
18 U.S.C. § 704
Look up “Stolen Valor Act” too.
Jonn,
So I wonder what his does to Dougherty’s famous, “You don’t have to put IVAW under oath, we’ve vetted everything throughly” claim?
This isn’t just any IVAW member, but he’s the current President of the IVAW DC Chapter.
Army/Sergeant,
Let’s not speculate on whether others have all their marbles when you vacation at Scott Camil’s place, a guy who wanted to conduct a his own Mumbai attack on Capitol Hill. That you would do that and defend it makes you vulnerable to the same speculation.
New entry in the IVAW phony soldier Hall of Shame: Jessie MacLard
TSO: I could have my timelines wrong, but I thought the individual you’re referencing was kicked out of IVAW at the time he did that. But yes, that is actually exactly what I was referring to, and that kind of stuff is despicable no matter who does it.
I believe he was an E5, not an E4, and honestly, I’m not surprised he has a lot of high awards when he worked for a general. Maybe it’s my general mistrust of officers, but I’ve noticed that people who work directly for officers always wind up with five times the awards that everyone else does, because of their high-level face time.
Jonn: I’m the only person who ever saw your and the other vet’s DD214s. Those did not get passed on. As I recall, that was at request by somebody or other.
Raoul: I’m not sure where that stuff comes from about Scott Camil. I haven’t heard him say anything of the sort and he seems pretty peaceful and friendly. Definitely a lot more peaceful than some on your side seem to be…
Jonn wrote: I probably should have mentioned that Millard said I could post his DD214 as long as I hid any personal information. If he had asked me not to post it, I wouldn’t have done it.
ArmySergeant,
“I’m not sure where that stuff comes from about Scott Camil.”
Oh please…do a even the slightest Google of Scott Camil and assaination and you’ll find it.
Bottom line, you’re a liar.
Jonn wrote: According to an article in the Sun Times four years ago, Camil was known around the VVAW as “Scott the Assassin”. Sounds pretty peaceful to me.
I guess it comes down to what the definition of ‘peaceful’ is to the anti-war Veterans For Peace and their progeny, IVAW.
Jonn, I am in awe of your work.
Thanks Raoul & Jonn for the clarification.
Army Sergeant, maybe you can clarify for me, why does the violence and threats of violence always come from IVAW or Veterans for Peace? I don’t recall anyone from “our side” threatening violence against Winter Solder II or hoping to see some Leftie commentator “hog tied with electrical wire in an Iraqi ditch….” as your boy Evan Knappencrapper did. Just like I don’t recall any pro-troop supporters slapping female bloggers, as that Vets for Peace asshole did to Skye last March.
Raoul said:
Everything about IVAW is a repeat of the VVAW. Heck, they even had JANE FONDA there in Boston at the VFP Convention when IVAW’s formation was announced.
Click on the link to see how I feel about Hanoi Jane, photo courtesy of (Mr.) trooprally:
RV paying his “respects” to Hanoi Jane, the VVAW and their little brothers in the IVAW at Eagles Muster, Washington DC, 3/15/2008
I remember that RV! I think I even used it to pay my respects that day.
Marooned in Marin, were you at Eagles Muster as well? Be sure to make plans to come to Washington DC for the Victory In Iraq celebration on April 4, 2009. I’m looking forward to meeting with those who participate here on “This Ain’t Hell”, at the celebration on April 4, 2009!
Jonn – have I told you lately how much I love you (like a brother). You rock and this is top notch reporting. The fact that POW NET is involved lends even more credence to what you’ve posted. I look forward to many more posts and follow up on this. Bravo My Friend, Bravo!
Like the saying goes: “Hell hath no fury like a pacifist”.
I have never understood the leftist’s fetish with uniforms and military surplus stuff. You’d think a Che Tee shirt and a roach clip would be all the decorations they’d need.
Maybe it’s a beta-male thing, trying to pretend to be an alpha male and fool the stupid chicks.
Jonn, great job on Millard and hopefully the FBI will investigate. The first time I saw a picture of Millard on your site, the 3 MSMs looked suspicious for a sergeant even if he was a staff weenie working for a general. Those would have required some above and beyond powerpoints.
Marooned in Marin:
I was personally threatened by GoE guys about eight months ago. The fact that no one has slapped me yet (as I think I’m the only IVAW female blogger) I credit more for the fact that I’m generally out of the country and am somewhat of a scrapper myself. I don’t condone what happened to Skye, much as I usually disagree with her on anything and everything.
People were threatening to bring guns and other things to Winter Soldier II-from your side. It’s one reason there was such tight security and why police had posted snipers. I don’t condone hate from either side, but neither side can claim to be totally innocent. Also, while I will concede that it was not the general or expressed wish of GoE overall, the fact is that Gold Star father Carlos Arredondo was beaten up by individual GoE members for trying to take back the picture of his dead son that a GoE member stole. I was on the scene within five minutes of it and I saw the blood. He was pretty banged up.
ArmySergeant,
“Also, while I will concede that it was not the general or expressed wish of GoE overall, the fact is that Gold Star father Carlos Arredondo was beaten up by individual GoE members for trying to take back the picture of his dead son that a GoE member stole. I was on the scene within five minutes of it and I saw the blood. He was pretty banged up.”
Here we go with the bullsh*t. Carlos initiated the violence by tackling the guy from behind and there was more blood from the guy than Carlos.
If there was that much blood as you deescribed and he was that banged up, they there would have been an arrest.
Carlos has a history of violence. But I’m sure you’ll deny any knowledge of it and that all you’ve seen is a kind gentle soul.
The guy sholdn’t have taken the sign, but then again, the constant mockery of mourning the troops that the anti-war left puts on is very hard to take. I doubt he would have done it if he knew Carlos was a Gold Star parent.
And as long as you’re bringing up Gold Stars knowing our side respects them, when are you going to come out against your VFP mentors for screwing with the Gold Stars with their “Honor Every Parents Child” displays that use Gold Star flags and imagry? Ops, of course, you don’t know about that…
So many things you don’t know about your own organization and its leadership and assocites, such a lack of normal due dillegence, that I question your compentance and loyalty.
the fact is that Gold Star father Carlos Arredondo was beaten up by individual GoE members for trying to take back the picture of his dead son that a GoE member stole. I was on the scene within five minutes of it and I saw the blood. He was pretty banged up.M
BULLHOCKEY
You were not the only one there, AS.
Check out my video taken as Carlos is being
the fact is that Gold Star father Carlos Arredondo was beaten up by individual GoE members for trying to take back the picture of his dead son that a GoE member stole. I was on the scene within five minutes of it and I saw the blood. He was pretty banged up.M
BULLHOCKEY
You were not the only one there, AS.
Check out my video taken as Carlos is being questioned by Capitol police:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKN0oig0ANs&feature=channel_page
Apparently Carlos jumped on the back of the GOE participant and bloodied the guy as seen in this video. Carlos is in pristine condition calmly talking to the police and groupies.
Nice try, AS – take your shite elsewhere.
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I served for 22 years, retired in 1980. Have an MSM and BS + a shi* load of spagetti, served in combat. I have never worn any of my awards in public (other than the lapel pins) since I retired (I can on some occasions if I desire) and will never stick a service medal on a ragged fatigue shirt. VVAW members are all deserters/cowards/slime who should be shot on sight. That’s my thoughts and I’m sticking to them.
Retired E-8
As Raoul admits, the guy should not have taken Carlos’s son’s picture. I will concede the possibility that the guy didn’t know Carlos was a gold star father. However, I don’t believe that the mourning the troops is “mockery”. Who gets to decide what’s “real mourning”? I concede that both sides can mourn the dead, why can’t you?
I don’t take responsibility for VFP, it’s not my organization except peripherally for 501c3 status.
Skye, I’m watching the video, but I don’t see Carlos jumping on the guy’s back, I see the guy saying that Carlos jumped on his back and I definitely don’t see any “pristine condition” I see the guy claiming that Carlos somehow isn’t a gold star father, I’m not sure how he thinks he’s qualified to make that determination. I love how you make the statement “not a mark on him” while videotaping /the back of his head/. What I saw when I got to Carlos (after the police had left, admittedly, because we were busy with the IVAW contingent) was cuts on his legs and blood on his legs, which you don’t videotape anywhere near.
Hey A/S, if I may interdic here….
“People were threatening to bring guns and other things to Winter Soldier II-from your side. It’s one reason there was such tight security and why police had posted snipers.”
1- Nobody from EaglesUP whom headed up the event for our side nor GOE nor any other group that were on site at WS 2 carried any weapons.
I was very aware of ill feelings running between some of the GOE members and IVAW and very aware there had been some threats made towards you as well.
I’d like to think I checked everyone out pretty thorough.
In doing so, I found undercover officers from MCPD mingling in our group that were armed.
They weren’t too happy about me finding them out but, it all worked out.
2- Two knotheads from IVAW got things wound up and rolling in the first place. DeWald’s threats of physical harm to anyone from our group. Knappenberger’s bomb threats are what initiated SWAT presence there.
streetsweeper
You can hear the report being given to the capitol police, and see the bloody wounds on the GOE participant. Are you calling him a liar?
For someone banged up and bloodied, as you described, he makes no gestures to show the Police or his groupies his wounds. Makes one wonder if his wounds were self inflicted later on. In the video you clearly see him take off his grungy button down shirt and reveal a clean(ish) shirt underneath. What an amazing feat to have have a clean tshirt after being banged up and bloodied. He stood quite well with such bloody wounds on his legs. Tell me, did the GOE members restrict their assault to only his legs??
The video tears apart the lies you keep trying to shovel.
Rochester Veteran: Unfortunately, I’m going to be out of town that day, I wish I could be there.
‘I don’t take responsibility for VFP, it’s not my organization except peripherally for 501c3 status.”
The are your puppet masters, stocked with the VVAW who can’t go out under their own name because they are despised by other veterans. That will be the fate of the IVAW too.
The VFP set up the IVAW, saw that you got office space and phones, provided manpower and advisors.
Don’t come around here and lie.
ArmyLiar,
“As Raoul admits, the guy should not have taken Carlos’s son’s picture.”
Will you admit that Carlos should not have tackled the guy from behind? I’ll wait.
“However, I don’t believe that the mourning the troops is “mockery”.”
A don’t care what you believe, I know what I see. Your IVAW, VVAW, VFP, MFSO, CodePink, WIB buds only mourn the dead from wars they oppose. They turned their back on those killed at Khobar, the embassies, the USS Coles and here’s the money shot, they NEVER include the 55 military killed at the Pentagon.
“Who gets to decide what’s “real mourning”?”
I do until you can prove me wrong, so get used to it.
“I concede that both sides can mourn the dead, why can’t you?”
Let me know when they do so with clean hands and a pure heart. So far they haven’t.
Bottom line is this, I don’t play that game where I have to be respect someone who’s not telling me the truth, especially when they’re playing cute about it. You can’t be a member of the SS without being a Nazi. Sh*t or get off the IVAW pot.
Skye: The GoE participant had a skinned elbow. Also, you can see Carlos gesturing towards his legs. You were not in front of him with the videocamera, so were unable (or perhaps unwilling) to capture that.
Raoul: If in fact that happened. The way I heard it, Carlos was just grabbing for his son’s picture back, and the witness in Skye’s video admits that the other GoE guys “joined in” afterwards. Again, as I heard it, four GoE members were involved compared to one gold star father.
You are also dead wrong that people only mourn the dead from the wars they oppose. Just because you don’t see it or it doesn’t make the news doesn’t mean it’s not there. Also, yeah, I’ll be honest, most IVAW guys spend most of their time mourning their dead from the war they were actually involved in, because those are personal faces. Those are people they or their friends knew. It’s not just because they oppose it.
FYI…If anyone knows somebody’s name and the state they live in (and aside form using Military.com), you can get anyone’s address from another website called Zaba search. So all this stupid BS about someone using info that is not for public use is just whining because they have been found out to be liars.
Army Sargeant…again, you are so gullible. I have attended all GOE/EaglesUp events and we have our own security details to stop violence because our mission is not to fight the anti kooks, it is to support our troops, dead or alive. Your folk seem to miss that point and continue to antagaonize so thye can cry wolf at any sign of being called to the carpet for assanine behavior.
Geoff was in my unit. I saw him right after they got off the plane (in Oct 2005) with a bunch of other people in DCU’s who had just returned from Iraq. Maybe they were all just on vacation? That DD214 shows that exact time as his return from active, in box 12b. It also says he is an E5. (See DMNA promo list links below) If a person who was in the military really thinks the military and government don’t fuck up paperwork then you should be checking their service records. Maybe the VA shredded some…. Aren’t there other old posts about this where some guy who says he was in Iraq with Geoff also says he was complaining about being sick all the time? (Ironically when he did the same when he got home he was called a liar….) Also see Promotion list with different units: http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/gdtimes/gt_marapr04.pdf http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/gdtimes/gt_janfeb04.pdf Let us know what the FBI says when they get back to you. Jonn wrote: You know I will. Only the National Guard would publish a promotion list alphabetically by the first name – geesh. However, my post stands. He wasn’t a sergeant when when he was discharged, obviously. See, you guys in the IVAW all think you can just claim whatever rank you had before you got busted for your malfeasance. DeWald thinks because he was promotable he can claim the rank he never achieved. Kokesh still calls himself “Sergeant” even though he lost his rank when he smuggled an Iraqi pistol back to the States (something a real NCO would never do) and now Millard wants to claim his former rank even though he lost it after spending 9 months AWOL. Sorry it doesn’t work that way. He wasn’t authorized to wear a CIB, knew it and still wore it. And 3 MSMs with only 1 ARCOM sounds a little fishy. Sometimes the Army screws up, but POW Net is full of phonies who claim that the military screwed up their paperwork – it’s not a valid excuse. Millard claims he has over 500 pages of documentation –… Read more »
Hey y’all – just a quick note about EIB/CIB…
Having been a tanker for a number of years, I know quite a few armor officers who were mortar platoon leaders in tank battalions who went through the EIB training with their guys (mortars are technically infantrymen – 11C MOS) and ‘earned’ their EIB, even though they were not authorized to wear it b/c as armor officers they were 19-series MOS’s.
It used to be that they would sew their EIB in the ‘flap’ of their pocket on the old BDUs, where it could not be seen.
Once the wars started, I know a couple of armor officers in similar situations who would’ve earned CIBs with their mortar platoons (usually doing non-mortar work, like dismounted patrolling or convoy security). One of them tried to sew a CIB into the same ‘flap’ where they used to sew the EIBs, but it didn’t fit particularly well, and since the Army went to the new uniforms, there’s really nowhere to put them.
So yes, there were some armor officers who had completed the EIB testing with their 11-series soldiers (almost always mortar platoon leaders) and were not authorized to wear them only through the circumstance of having the wrong MOS series. These same types of guys, leading infantry.mortar platoons in combat, would’ve also been eligible for CIBs had thier MOS’s not been a few digits too high.
That doesn’t mean this dude earned *anything* and if he’s faking, I hope he gets prosecuted.
Jonn wrote: Yeah, this guy drove a Power Point presentation for a general.
A few other items from his DD214:
1. Army Reserve Achievement Medal (3rd), this ward is similar to the Army Good Conduct Medal, it has usually been awarded for 6 years of good time…
2. Armed Forces Reserve Medal (2nd Award), this one is awarded after 10 years of Reserve Service….
3. Military Education, AN/PRC 150 Harris System….Issued to USSOCOM and USMC unit only….
4. Items 8 and 9, Was the 42nd Infantry Division designated a major command? Not even the 82nd gets that distinction, 18th ABN Corps. Additionally, it is my understanding that when you are being released from active duty, you aren’t being transferred to another unit.
OOOppppssss I stand corrected, the Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal is awarded for 4 years service not 6.
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If you are in the National Guard and you get released from Active but still have NG time to fulfill where else are they supposed to put you? I think a lot of this is in pudding and the pudding is the difference between the National Guard and Active Duty procedures (and the fact that most people in the guard don’t know what the fuck they are doing when it comes to war; weekends, we have covered) From Wiki: The 42ID Headquarters and Division Troops (DISCOM, 250th Sig Bn), under the command of Major General Joseph Taluto, were the first National Guard division to be sent to an active combat area of operations under its own command since the Korean War. The “Rainbow Division” controlled the north-central Iraq area of operations, and was the first National Guard contingent to be in charge of an entire area of operation in the Middle East. —- The CIB thing I think was pretty dumb, if its not on your paperwork don’t wear it. That being said it would be a pretty invloved hoax for him to pretend he got sent to an 11B course prior to deployment, not to mention it can be given at brigade level. ( http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/army_combat_badges_080408w/ ). As far as I know more than a few guys who were deployed as Infantry aren’t getting CIB’s because of primary MOS issues. I am not sure if anyone can credibly say for sure that it is not even a possibility a field award of the CIB by some nincompoop officer who wanted to pad themselves did not happen. What we can be sure about is that it isn’t on any DD so it shouldn’t be worn. Also I haven’t seen anything where it says Millard got busted in rank. I was out of the unit by that time, but if he was it seems like it would be more for the fact that he was being placed on UA even when he was there. It seems as though you are basing it on the FIOA, which has proven itself to be unrelaible.… Read more »
There are some very peculiar things being said about the CIB here. For the record, I used to sit on the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records. We routinely reviewed requests for the CIB. Of the ones I reviewed, 100% were denied. Why? Because the Army Regulation has very stringent rules for who’s eligible. There is no such thing as a “technical” CIB. If you hold the Infantryman MOS (series 11 or 18) as a primary or secondary MOS, and was under fire according to the rules at the time, a set of orders was cut. AFTER said orders are published, the individuals so named may wear the CIB. From AR 600-8-22: Quote 8–6. Combat Infantryman Badge a. For award of the CIB a Soldier must meet the following three requirements: (1) Be an infantryman satisfactorily performing infantry duties. (2) Assigned to an infantry unit during such time as the unit is engaged in active ground combat. (3) Actively participate in such ground combat. Campaign or battle credit alone is not sufficient for award of the CIB. b. The specific eligibility criteria for the CIB require that (1) A Soldier must be an Army infantry or special forces officer (SSI 11 or 18) in the grade of colonel or below, or an Army enlisted Soldier or warrant officer with an infantry or Special Forces MOS, who subsequent to 6 December 1941 has satisfactorily performed duty while assigned or attached as a member of an infantry, ranger or special forces unit of brigade, regimental, or smaller size during any period such unit was engaged in active ground combat. Eligibility for Special Forces personnel in Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) 18B, 18E, 18F, and 18Z (less Special Forces medical sergeant) accrues from 20 December 1989. Retroactive awards of the CIB to Special Forces personnel are not authorized prior to 20 December 1989. (2) A recipient must be personally present and under hostile fire while serving in an assigned infantry or Special Forces primary duty, in a unit actively engaged in ground combat with the enemy. The unit in question can be… Read more »
I’m reading this and the other posts and I’m thinking, the Navy doesn’t do shit like this…least not that makes the news.
You pretend you’re a SEAL (which is about as good as you can get), and you get your ass kicked. Happened to a good friend of mine, before he went and became one.
So what’s the logic behind this? If you feel you have something to prove, shouldn’t you have proved it while you were in uniform, rather than lying?
Doesn’t make sense to me.