Does anyone know what the hell Teti is talking about?
UPDATE: Dude took the facebook post down. Probably a good move, since we clearly never said any of the things he was accusing us of saying.
One blog in particular called This Ain’t Hell has a …really colorful write up on me. They were even kind enough to post it on my FB page here. THANK YOU!!!! You are making my job very easy. Folks………I highly recommend you read it if you need a few good laughs and truly see jealousy at its finest. Especially the parts where they say I have committed FELONY acts, such as arson and theft, amongst a plethora of other humorous deeds.
I’ve been looking for where we said that, and I find nothing.* Certainly not in a post, and I didn’t see any comments that said it either. But I know Teti has a host of lawyers, so we must have said it somewhere because I am sure Joe wouldn’t just make untrue allegations for shits and giggles. Right?
[* It appears he’s referring to this comment. A comment which explicitely states “Here’s some info regarding Joe Teti from a forum called wilderness-survival.net” and then quotes it. Apparently quoting from somewhere else is tantamount to stating it? That’s a pretty odd policy to take. After all, he cites to us, which I guess makes him complicit in his own defamation. Or, as Joe calls it repeatedly “deformation”.]
Just a reminder of some of the horrid shit Jonn said about Teti:
- Most of that is true. He was indeed in the USMC’s Force Recon.
- He was also in Special Forces – National Guard Special Forces- for five years, ending on May 1st, 2000.
- I don’t disparage his service because he certainly accomplished more in his nine years than I did in my two decades, well, school-wise, anyway.
- There are rumors about him flying around the internet and I won’t engage in hearsay.
- I found him to be an affable fellow, even though he called me ‘sir’ more times than I was comfortable with. And he called me a “smart guy” several times – if only he knew.
Wait, what? What part was so colorful? Where he used your records to show you were telling the truth?
Again, his beef seems to be with commenters arguing whether service as a contractor makes him a “combat veteran.” About 1/2 believe it does, and 1/2 believe it doesn’t. And no one is crapping on contractors, least of all me, especially since I wear a Blackwater hat all the time.
Dude seems to need meds or something.
Everyone keeps saying we should have done it face to face. Which of us should have done that? We make no money on the blog, certainly not enough to fly anywhere when email and phones work. You’d have thought the numerous emails and phone calls would have been sufficient, especially since Jonn’s post just gives the dude a tonguebath, but apparently those of you who want to write bad things should write them in his presence or something.
Now, it goes without saying, YOU ARE NOT HELPING if you threaten him, call his house or anything else. Don’t pass on rumors of arson or anything else. I haven’t seen anyone do it, but in case you were thinking of it, do not. This whole fued is pretty much played out as far as we are concerned.
And to whoever the shitdick was calling his phone/internet provider claiming to be Jonn and alter his service, it didn’t work. If you think he’s an asshole now, you should deprive him of Megyn Kelly for a day or two and things will get real fricken interesting.
Category: Politics
Robot Wrangler, thank you for pointing out that, despite my occasional vitriol, I’m still a girlie girl.
I think Joey ‘the Butthurt’ Teti (boy, could I do things with that, but I won’t) may have been monitoring TAH in the shadows. If he removed his false claim that he was being vilified by TAH after I linked to another post with another commenter’s references to things in Joey’s past, with a backup for it, then he’s watching!
Play nice, Joey, because I had a personal hero in Dickey Chappelle, who was killed doing her job as a veteran combat photographer in Vietnam. She never claimed to be a combat veteran of WWII or Vietnam, because she was NOT a combat veteran, even though she was in the field with the troops and in serious danger while she was there.
Learn the difference. OK????
The only thing I find strange is this: Military operations are given names. If you’re not actively in the military, you’re not officially part of the operation… right?
Wouldn’t Joe be “acting in concert with the forces participating in” or “acting in support of” US involvement in OIF/OEF? As a civvie, a non-uniformed, non-military contractor, can he be considered an active participant in a military operation?
I mean, isn’t that the entire premise of the “enemy combatant” bullshit that we can hold the terrorists indefinitely on?
Hey Robot Wrangler, Camp Smelby, as we called it in ’05 when we were getting ready for A-stan? (53rd BCT) My condolences, that’s GOT to be THE most copperhead-infested part of God’s Green Earth I’ve ever seen!! I’m curious, how badly did Katrina tear that place up? I haven’t been back there since ’05!
Looks like he’s got a couple new posts up on his FB page.
@Nik, where has anyone here been bragging about their super secret non-existant stuff? do you really think Jonn and Hondo wouldnt bust out the posters here as fast as they do others they find? oh wait, just a couple weeks ago they did bust out a phony poster here. if you come here, you had better present yourself honestly or you too will become the new laughing stock.
i never was a fan of joe titty, but now i down right dont like the guy at all. his fans are even worse then him, reminds me of justin beiber fans actually.
That’s all we need, a younger version of the flying ass clown…
@54 – Dude seems to be losing his mind. Rapidly.
And not for a second am I buying the “Facebook took my post down.” It should be noted he took it down within 10 minutes of my sending an email to him regarding his “defamatory facebook post.”
He literally said we accused him of Arson, when there isn’t a single post or comment that says any such thing.
@55
Read number 43. I wasn’t making that sort of accusation at all.
I think he is doing it for some publicity thing or he is crazy…
TSO: sounds like you need a good laugh. Take 5 and read the “Blast from the Past” article I posted earlier today. (smile)
@60. I know dude. I just can’t believe that he would lie so brazenly, and then challenge my coblogger (who I might remind you is 100 percent from the VA) to a fist fight. And his people are just buying it wholesale.
Smitty: on one of the other Teti threads, one of Teti’s defenders was making some . . . interesting claims of “secret stuff”. IMO the claims smell like ass, but they’ll be difficult to disprove without more info.
TSO: yeah, Teti’s acting like an ass. And his naive little fanbois are lapping it up.
But we’ve seen a lot of that at TAH. There’s not much we can do about assholes acting like assholes except get them some appropriate public notice, put the facts out there – and thus educate the naive. If they’re so stupid or star-struck they can’t or won’t recognize the truth when it smacks them in the face, well, there’s not much else we can do.
But you’ve got me thinking. Hypothetically speaking, I wonder how a public figure’s employer might view it if they heard said public figure was making verbal or written threats/offers of physical violence against a 100% disabled vet?
It may just have started as a publicity seeker seeking publicity and nothing more. That didn’t work so well so the lunacy escalated. (Someone suggested as much up in the comments – too lazy to check exactly which one of you geniuses did that, but thanks.) And then whatever mental twist causes one to even seek publicity of any kind no matter how humiliating bumped up against that old devil fragile ego and the tantrums began.
Still don’t care anything about this loon, except that now he has made threats to some friends here. That is not cool. Act stupid in public? I don’t care. But then come here and try stuff that verges upon or actually is criminal activity? I do care about that.
No threats coming from here, but I would strongly suggest to Joe Whatever and his minions that this would be an excellent time to quit this nonsense. If you did not want to hear what a bunch of grumpy old farts have to say, why did you come here? What you are doing with this non-story is tantamount to taking a dump in your neighbor’s living room.
Are nominations being accepted for number one seeds on the next SV Tournament?
Since he’s reached celebrity status, I guess nobody is supposed to argue with him or question anything he does. It happens a lot in Hollyweird. I predict he and that Beeber kid’s 15 minutes of fame will run out at about the same time, if not earlier – and we won’t hear about him ever again, just like we don’t hear about Anna Nicole Smith anymore.
He’s posted a couple more items. Screen capped if needed.
I have them. He’s once again claiming things that don’t exist there. Presumably his people won’t bother to check it and will assume he’s just telling the truth.
Here’s a question for you…..if his problem is with Scotty’s post, why doesn’t he link to him? Because remember that he specifically gave out Jonn’s email, and used Jonn’s name. Second of all, he cites to a comment written WELL AFTER this started as proof of why he is upset. He claims Scotty says he was AWOL and a deserter. That’s not what Scotty said there.
Frankly, I disagree with Scotty’s assessment that he “quit” SF or abandoned his guys. His ETS date came up, and he moved on. I don’t have a problem with that. He did what he had to do for himself, and I frankly don’t really care. But he’s just in search of something to get uptight about. And Scotty can say what he wants, and if Teti has a problem with it, he should take it up with him. If we were to edit comments and such, then the “free marketplace of ideas” envisioned by the Supreme Court would cease to exist here. That would be our prerogative, but we chose not to go that way.
Remember when he said it would be his last post on the issue? Yeah, we’ve had two since he said that.
#66
Ann Nicholas Who?
#66
Ann Nicholas Who?
This Teti guy is an idiot and doesn’t represent the Special Forces community very well. I wonder how his brothers over at Quite Professionals feel about the way he’s handled this situation. They are fans of this site.
Is he really still going on about this nonsense?
It’s common knowledge that a lot of dimwitted mooncalf women will practically flatten themselves on the floor for a guy in uniform, or just slobber over him when he’s inflating his personal bio. Maybe Teti’s list of potential ‘dates’ was falling off and he was using the attention he got from TAH to upgrade it.
Either that, or he’s idiotic enough to think that a lame reality show is a step to Hollywood the Industry, which is completely not true.
Any LaLaLand agent worth his/her salt will tell someone that stupid “I’ve got talented, trained actors that I can hardly find small parts for, and you think your stupid reality show is going to get you into the movies? Yeah, dream on, pal.”
So he can put me on his list of people who pointed and laughed. I don’t care. I’m prettier than he is. So is everyone else here. 😉
#68…..really, now you’ve proven how ignorant this blog and its owners/monitors are….”if we were to edit comments and such, then the “free marketplace of ideas” envisioned by the Supreme Court would cease to exist here. We have proof you edit and allow what comments you want people to post on here, screen shots of posted comments and changes made….by the you guys to what was actually written……..hypocrites:-)
Joe Teti is not a combat veteran. I can’t believe his facebook page. He may of experienced combat as a contractor, but, that does not make him a “combat veteran”. I am sick of contractors here in Afghanistan. I don’t remember there being this many in Iraq. I am ashamed we’ve become so dependent on them.
Teti is as much of a Combat Veteran as the KBR truck drivers in Iraq.
@73…uh, your point? Is a blog owner compelled or required to allow defamatory or inflamatory trolls post all they wish? Bit of difference between free marketplace of ideas and showing and acting like a shit-flinging monkey.
Guess in which category you belong?
@73, oh do please send us your screen shots and evidence of altered and editted posts. The authors of this blog dont even delete their own mistakes. when they make one (it happens) they leave it up with a line through it and the correct info next to it. I have seen on occasion, they will delay posts by specific individuals that are getting offensive until they have been checked, but most of those still end up on here. ive never seen Jonn censor anyone for their ideas. we may mock them and question their intelligence/sanity, but never censor.
Titty is a worthless boob. i didnt know a boob could be worthless, figured ya could always have fun with them for a while, but Titty is worthless. this started as checking his claims because his predecessor was a lying sack of shit, and finding out he was pretty truthful in his service, even if over played. now he is just being a flailing retard craving attention and all his dim witted fans drooling over him. He isnt the most dangerous man alive (didnt we already mock one retard for that claim?), his military achievements are slightly above average at best, id say hes on par with any other national gaurd member that never went to Iraq or Afganistan. what he did as a contractor has nothing to do with military service, he wasnt a CIA operative deep under cover, he was a run of the mill contractor. if Titty just stuck with his military carreer as it was, then no one would care about him here, but in case ya havent noticed, we have A LOT of fun with people that like to exagerate their service and claim things they did not do. Jonn, the guy that Titty likes to attack, even said he had a cordial conversation with him and thought he was a decent guy. they disagreed on the combat veteran status, but that was it. Titty is the one that keeps this stupid shit going!
He is now openly stating that he can take posts on his Facebook page down. I guess I have been getting under his skin.
Twist: he’s gotta protect his naive little fanbois from hearing things they shouldn’t. Otherwise the blinders might fall off.
Let Teti take his non-combat dd-214’s to the local VFW & tell them that he is a combat Veteran of OIF & OEF. Then he can post what VFW post accepted him.
Veterans Day is November 11th. Anyone know when Contactors Day is?
I have a few burning question.
1. Since we already know that he is not OIF/OEF nor a Combat Vet., why did he get out of the SF when 9/11 happened when he could have fought for his country while other brave men left civilian life to do just that?
2.Why do his records state that he served 10 years, his resume says 15 years, and his twitter account said 20 years?
(of which he changed after you posted here about his years of service). Cuz if 20 years was true, why did he change it?
It’s as if he is trying to appear as a legit retired Vet.
These facts are very important and should be answered by Teti.
Hondo,
It just perturbed me that he attacked us for something we did not do.
My husband always says that if you are right; you don’t have to be an A$$.. This guy is an a$$.
Teti is one Thai ladyboy away from being Mike Yon’s clone.
If Joe Teti is a combat veteran, then I’m a SEAL. Just ask Shipley. He’ll prove it to you.
I did catch on his show (DS), Teti talking about getting shrapnel in his shin and how much the pain was (something to that effect). I assumed he was in SF at the time. I also assumed that he would have been awarded a Purple Heart as well. Now his background comes out and I see he is not what I assumed he was. I was misled!
With that being said…nope NOT a COMBAT Veteran. Period!
What pisses me off about this is that he is accusing people of cloak and dagger shit that doesn’t exist. Now he is getting the Combat Internet Stalking folks involved…sad indeed.
#68 TSO..You are exactly right. It was a poor choice of words that were used & I have since re-modified the post.
The State of California, U.S. Army National Guard Records print out clearly show the following to be true about Joseph Teti.
1) He was actually in a Special Forces National Guard unit when 9/11 happened.
2) Earlier that year (2001) he was promoted to Staff Sergeant.
3) He did conduct training using tax payers dollars through out the 2001 year.
4) He actually did an annual training overseas at the beginning of that year on the tax payers dime.
5) He was actually not DISCHARGED until DEC 2001 when stop-loss to retain high demand Special Forces was in effect.
Summary:
Joseph Teti showed horrible character and bad choices at a time we needed men to fight
C) Two news paper articles on line show that Joseph Teti was not serving his country but rather starting a business to make money and remain stateside.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2001/oct/19/columnist-jeff-german-better-to-be-aware-in-war-on/
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/18/news/cl-58490
Nothing from nothing, Scotty but thats one convoluted link you put up there, amigo. Just saying…..*giggle*
Aw shite! neva mind, Marine. My browser was *fubar*. Carry on.
streetsweeper: you’re not losing it, amigo. There was an error in Scotty’s original comment (2 URLs were run together). I fixed it.
Sometimes cut/paste does weird things.
#89 typical for most of you followers of this site, say and throw out any comments you want and not worry about the blowback…kinda like your summary that he “showed horrible character and bad character.” Really…..you moron…what is thiS, a sci-fi thriller where the last remnants of earths male population is fighting against an overwhelming invading force? Typical linear thinking for the usual suspects who comment on this blog. Since when is the free market economy a bad thing for our vets to embark on and do well?
Scotty–I don’t necessarily have a problem with the current system where members can and did separate, even in critical skill areas. Where I have a problem is that he COULD have, and chose not to reenlist, but still thinks he was entitled to the title he did not earn.
Then coming in here with trolls in tow in an almost Yon-like fashion? Yeah, not helping his case.
@93–find a dictionary. Look up the word “integrity.”
dirt donkey: aren’t you about to be late for your next show down in Ciudad Juarez? If you’re late, will your handler still “give you the carrot” after the show?
Why, just why!? Have we as a nation failed our children? Have we as parents and teachers to the next generation failed so miserably?
Why is it that every single person that has come here from his Facebook can not read nor comprehend what was written about this (I’ll think of something……Asshole?). I will plainly state what you morons have failed to understand. Jonn wrote a very nice and agreeable post about Joe. It was stating that he for the most part was and is what he said he was. The ONLY disagreement that was nicely debated was IF he could/should call himself a “Combat Veteran”. That is IT that’s all. Even in Jonn’s own words he was the first to say “and sometimes, they are who they say.” So all your “shit slinging” and name calling just makes you look like spoiled little assholes that has been failed by the public school systems. Before you come into someone else’s home and “shit in their living room” maybe you should wipe your feet at the door. IMHO!
Jonn’s own words:
So, I may be accused of being star-struck, but, without some real evidence to the contrary, I’m inclined to come down on Joe’s side. We thought that we had a real story here when we first started out, because the first set of records we got were of another Joseph Nicholas Teti who was a helicopter mechanic in the Army back in 1983, the same time Joe said he was in the USMC, but I got a little suspicious of that first set of records, which took us back for another shot at it, and sometimes, they are who they say.
@97 It’s pretty clear who the level headed ones are in this situation.
I don’t understand. This guy was USMC 0321…NGSF…Did ANY of you even attempt those kinds of accomplishments? Did you?! What have you accomplished that qualifies you to judge brave men? Fuck you. Unbelievable. Leave people alone.
I was airborne infantry, its a bit a step above recon marine. i have a Ranger tab and was on active duty, not a weekend warrior, but the big one, that sets me apart from titty? i am a combat veteran that spend ’04 in iraq. i didnt get some super huge paycheck for it, i got just over 2 grand a month as an e-4. i didnt have airconditioning in my suite like the contractors, i stayed on FOB Justice and had my building hit by mortars nearly every day. i didnt have a huge camp like liberty around me so nothing could hit me, we had 400 US soldiers. So Tuna fart, what does your precious little idol have on me? another difference between me and tity? i dont run around useing my military history as a claim to fame. i dont brag about it, and really dont think i did anything special. I did what i had to do, i joined in 02 as soon as i could and volunteered for infantry with airborne school in my contract. i have always wanted to be the best at anything i do, so i worked out as much as possible, and got a Ranger School slot. i felt it was my job to ensure i was the best i could be, not to get famous, but to be ready when i am called upon. Even now, i dont talk much about when i was in the military. maybe a funny story about some of the guys i knew here and there, but never about my deployment, training, or anything we did. it isnt that it is classified, it just isnt important or relevant. there are many people here that have done far more than i have, and well eclipse tity. i am convinced that Tity never did anything, because of how much he is a bragger. i listen to people all over the place try to make claims to fame and brag of their accomplishments, but nearly with out fail, they turn out to be full of crap. titty… Read more »