Gregory Charles Banks; the phony just passing through
So one of our readers is a Mason up in Connecticut and this dude passes through his lodge on the way back from his combat assignments. Sometimes he’s in ACUs, other times he’s wearing his blues, like in the picture above. Of course, he’s Special Forces (isn’t everyone, these days) and in addition to his duties as an Army officer, he’s also a counselor with two offices. The man is a freakin’ machine.
Well, he didn’t turn up in any of my databases, but, you know, he’s probably so secret squirrel that he wouldn’t, but CID can’t find him either. Nor can NPRC;
We’re told that his lodge just threw him a big celebration for his recent award of the Bronze Star Medal so obviously, he loves attention – so here is all of the attention you could ever want, Greg-baby. It looks to me like he stole a midget’s jacket.
Added; more pics;
I emailed these pictures to our counselor friend, Greg Charles Banks and asked if these are not him in the photos, and he hasn’t answered back. I guess he’s going with “identity theft” as an explanation.
OK, I just got an email from him and he admits that this is him in this picture taken at the lodge not wearing the uniform;
I don’t know, you judge.
Category: Phony soldiers
@ ArmyATC. You did not beat NH. I gave it to YOU!
@ 501. Don’t critize his appearance … He is mostly definately fixated on appearance, how he LOOKS and what people think of him.
We don’t what to offend his fragile sensitivities …
Ah … Never mind.
Fire at will!
@MCPO, You’re busting my bubble here.
Gregory Charles Banks!!!! You sorry excuse for a human being. I would love to see you when Bubba makes you his prison bitch.
BTW, I haven’t been vetted here yet. Do I send my DD-214 to the contact addy at the top of the page?
@504: is that something we have to do — send in our DD214? I haven’t done it either.
–ghp
I’m assuming so. Don’t know for sure though.
Hey, not even a sockpuppet hit lately, I wonder if the Masons force-fed him some serious humble pie? As for “Alex” I hope he got wise and “Popped smoke”!
Not sure about the vetted thing, but that will add a ton of work for Jonn trying to keep up with everyone. I had to be vetted on a Paratrooper forum page. Needed 214 and something that showed I was in an Airborne unit so I used an old NCOER. Might not be a bad idea for Jonn to vet the regulars.
@508: I have been vetted by Jonn, TSO, and Mr. Wolf, all at the same time, in person. I is who I says I is.
Vetting at TAH is quite simple.
Take a selfee (of yourself) standing naked in your shower, wearing your favorite combat boots, holding a can of SPAM and smoking a good cigar.
In absence of DD-214 or FOIA, that should do!
Morning to all. I see Gregory Charles Banks is still running strong…and fast. To borrow Master Chief’s post.
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
I’m Okay-You’re Okay, well I’m okay and you’re not so okay if you’re Gregory Charles Banks. Then again I may not be okay but that makes Gregory Charles Banks WAY not okay.
I read the book years ago. We could go round and round about who is and is not okay. I will settle on, Gregory Charles Banks is not okay and all you guys here are great!
By the way I love you guys here at TAH! Well “love you guys” is a Navy term I think.:D
Let’s just say I like all of you to the Nth degree. But I love the gals! You ladies are the best.
@500 ArmyATC you got up earlier than I did here in the liberal, leftist State of Washington. You beat me to 500 but that’s okay because I’m okay and ….
Morning to all. I see Gregory Charles Banks is still running strong…and fast. To borrow Master Chief’s post.
Daily Affirmation with Gregory Charles Banks:
I’m Okay-You’re Okay, well I’m okay and you’re not so okay if you’re Gregory Charles Banks. Then again I may not be okay but that makes Gregory Charles Banks WAY not okay.
I read the book years ago. We could go round and round about who is and is not okay. I will settle on, Gregory Charles Banks is not okay and all you guys here are great!
By the way I love you guys here at TAH! Well “love you guys” is a Navy term I think. 😀
Let’s just say I like all of you to the Nth degree. But I love the gals! You ladies are the best.
@500 ArmyATC you got up earlier than I did here in the liberal, leftist State of Washington. You beat me to 500 but that’s okay because I’m okay and ….
I don’t want top submit my DD 214. It’s too bereft of the stuff so many of you guys have. However, I will do it if required.
Yeah, if you dickweeds start sending me naked selfies, I swear, I’ll turn this car around and there won’t be no “Six Flags” for anyone!
@514 ROTFLMAO! Just as I was getting my laptop camera all set up for a “laptop” selfie.
MCPO: why would I want to send Jonn (or anyone else) a photo that might make him die from a fit of uncontrollable laughter? (smile)
@514: Yeah, there’s no need for anyone to jeopordize our trip to 6 Flags!!! Bastids!!! Naked selfies are for Facebook, not TAH! No Speedo shots, either!! There’s laws agin such things in these here parts!
@513: Ninja please. When Jonn saw my ginormous ribbon rack, he had to put his glasses on!
I sent in for a coffeee cup with my ribbon rack and they sent a note back saying “please complete the rack section”……..
I once had to buy more ribbons than I was awarded just so I could get the ones I earned, because they didn’t ship packages that small…………………………………..
My ribbon rack is so small that I thought about getting in contact with that former AF chick that ran for congress down in Indiana, just so I could find out where to get all those attaboy ribbons she used to fill out her ribbon rack………………….
My ribbon rack is so small that they weren’t even gonna bother filling out that section on my 214, because the clerk said it was a waste of his time……………………….
I’ve been in Jonn’s company once or twice, but if requested, I have no problems submitting a 214 and what few family-friendly photos I have of me “back in the day”, MSG.
I’m also sure that a number of my FB friends on the Buffalo and Pogy pages will also vouch for me, if required.
It’s simple, really–I did nothing spectacular, and don’t claim to have.
Oh, and semi-regular poster Jorge “rode the boat” with me on Buffalo back in 1988. That was an interesting underway, to say the least.
But Jonn… I just shaved my junk….
New Navy Saying… It isn’t gay if it’s underway…
I’m so lonely. I guess all I need is just me. That’s it, just me and my bathtub and this bottle of Scotch. 🙁
I once walked in on my brother admiring himself buck naked in the bathroom mirror. Turned around and walked out and sat on the stairs, giggling.
See, if we have to do naked selfies, I’m out. I think there are enough pictures of pregnant elephants in the world already.
@520 LMAO Never heard that Navy phrase before. 😀
@520: Ok, that’s just wrong. Not the shaving, but the telling us about it. Hopefully you weren’t anywhere near a window near a kitchen (H/T American Wedding)…………..
@520–Doc, that saying ain’t exactly new. And the whole saying is, “It ain’t gay underway, it’s only queer on the pier!”
@514: Now see what ya started, Jonn?? WTF did you have to go there? Now all these deviant bastards are gonna be posting their twisted stuff………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………I kinda like it. 🙂
@521 If I had to do a selfie, one phrase comes to mind. Colonel Kurtz whispering, “The Horror…The Horror”. So I would surely keep that to myself.
Who started this …geeze!
Yeah, I’m gonna wear my “grape smuggler” in -20 windchill.
C’mon, there’s bullshit, and then there’s, “Even your mother won’t believe you” bullshit.
@518. Ribbon rack? Yeah, well, I have the largest National Defense Service medal ever issued! The ribbon was so damn heavy, I leaned heavily to the left when I wore it.
Yall could do a calendar- hotties of TAH. 🙂
Gregory Banks, you are a douche.
Wow, that got a bit weird. :-0
How’s our little buddy doing? Any updates?
Looks like Banks’ lifestyle is rubbing off on some of our battle buddies haha…
Along with #532 – any updates at all?
No updates … I will be talking to an investigator today!
Good things take time.
Bad shit happens instantly!
@530: So, you walk in circles to the left when you wear it? Awesome!!
@510 MCPO, How did you know I just took that selfie? I swear it was really cold that day.
@511 Sparks, I’m okay that you’re okay because I’m okay also, except when I’m not okay…I need a hug….
@514 Jonn, You sure you don’t want me to send it? It might put you off your feed for a week or so. Consider it the Army ATC weight control program.
This article brought tears to my eyes, and I couldn’t help but think that this child, this little boy, had more courage and knew more about true valor than Gregory Charles Banks, that rotten, pathetic POS poser would ever have in his entire life. Sorry, not very eloquent. But this article made me both sad and very angry that there are people like Gregory Charles Banks who are so bereft of honor and self respect that they have to steal it from others, even from this child, who though he never served a single day in uniform had true honor and lived it to the end of his short life. May God rest his soul and may Gregory Charles Banks burn in the hell of his own making.
http://news.yahoo.com/8-year-old-boy-saves-six-in-blaze-before-dying-while-trying-to-save-another-221718265.html
The thing is…. Even if we put all our medals and badges in a bucket – shake it – and then reassemble then on a single uniform (no doubles) there will be still at least one sleezy POS out there to claim more. (We all remember soup sandwich…)
@534 – agreed! Let me know if you need anything. Always available via cell and email.
@537. Yeah, that’s a tough one. I read it earlier today and I thought of a few phonies who like to disparge those who live in a trailer. My guess is that many more heroes live in trailer parks than McMansions.
@537 – AMEN!
Correction. Disparage, not disparge.
@508; I had to be vetted on an Infantry site. All I had to do is email a redacted copy of my ERB. TSO would have no problem finding out if I am who I say I am since he knows my name.
Amen, ATC. Guys like SF Wannabe Gregory Charles Banks will never figure out that it’s not the uniform that makes the hero. Many of you have worn the uniform, and the training you went through to get the uniform and the bling helped make you do what you did. But it’s the man (or in the case the boy – Gods rest him) inside that makes the hero. SF Wannabe Gregory Charles Banks can wear whatever he wants and it’ll always be, in the end, an empty suit.
@537 Thank you ArmyATC for your post. Tyler Doohan is a hero in my book and always will be. God rest his soul.
Gregory Charles Banks…shame on you. Just, shame on you.
That small child went back into the blaze to save his grandfather, who was handicapped. He had the soul of the warrior, the one who runs to the fight.
And then, there is this useless piece of flesh gweggy banks, so far down in the sewer of life that he can’t even crawl out of it to throw roses in that child’s path.
And the roses would wilt if he touched them.
@537–amen. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. And ages.
Banks, I hope you read that story. And I hope you feel shame, but being the sociopath you are (JMO, I’m not a real psychiatrist, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once) you probably wouldn’t think twice about trying to “one-up” this brave little man who gave his life for his family.
Now go suck start a hand grenade already.
Young Tyler Doohan, at the tender age of 8, was more a man than Gregory Charles Banks is and ever will be. Burn in hell Banks!! You aren’t worth a single hair on that child’s head. You aren’t worthy to breathe the same are he did. Gregory Banks, you are lower than a maggot ridden bag of dog excrement.
I’m guessing the young man had quite a welcoming committee at the Pearly Gates, ArmyATC. I’m just wondering if Saint Peter dispatched Ed Freeman or Mike Novosel to bring him there.
Rest in peace, Tyler Doohan. We all can learn from your example.
Now I’m feeling REAL inadequate- I know there is a whole section dedicated to hating POGs, but SOMEBODy has to be a POG…can I still hang out with the cool kids?
@473, Ex-PH2- Lost Cellar is tasty, but have you tried Oyster Bay Sauv Blanc? Real nice notes of lemon grass and green bell pepper…mighty tasty!
Shit, I hope that doesn’t ruin it for me hanging with the cool kids…
Banks is like a bad case of the clap … no matter how many shots you get … it keeps dripping!