Michael Sleeper; Fake Ranger / Desert Storm veteran. (Updated)
Someone sent us Mike Sleeper. He has a cool man cave in his garage. Apparently he collects campaign memorabilia…including his own. We have reports of him claiming to have been deployed to Iraq during Desert Storm.
Mike also likes to tell people he was a Ranger with the 75th Ranger Regiment during conversations. He backs up those kind of claims with pictures on his FB profile.
It sounds like some actual Desert Storm veterans found discrepancies in his stories.
Evidently, he is on the School Board in Columbia County, GA and according to his twitter account he also likes to play trivia games.
We thought a little Trivia of our own would be nice, so we ordered his official records through a FOIA request.
That one page alone tells us all we need to know. Not a Ranger, No deployment to Desert Storm and he was discharged after a few years as a Private. He spent his time in Alaska as an 11B Grunt and he was not a Ranger with the 75th Ranger Regiment. His only award listed is the Army Service Ribbon. It appears the Army got tired of dealing with Pvt Sleeper and sent him back home early.
Private Sleeper should probably come clean with some people who are under a false impression that he is something that he is not. Particularly the kids in his school district.
UPDATE
Mike Sleeper called me. We had a frank conversation. He has an opportunity to come forward and set the record straight. Rarely do we post all the information we have on a case in order to give people an opportunity to man up. Mike is insistent that he served with the 75th for a period of time. That very well could be, but its not in his official records we were provided. What is a fact is Mike was never a Ranger.
As I stated in the blog, we have reports that he has made claims we know are not true.
Category: Phony soldiers, Politics, Valor Vultures
The Governor of Georgia is led to believe he was a Army Ranger, cuz Mike said so.
“Mike Sleeper, Columbia County Board of Education Sleeper was recently elected to his third term on the Columbia County Board of Education. He graduated from the Georgia public school system and enlisted in the Army serving with the 1/75th Airborne Ranger Regiment. He went on to do his undergraduate work in Computer Science at Augusta State University and graduate work in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia. He volunteers in many organizations including Chairing the Leadership Augusta Class of 2011 and serving on the Greater Augusta Arts Council. Sleep is a Computer Security Engineer at Savannah River Site. He and his wife Kelley, have one son. They reside in Evans, Georgia.”
https://gov.georgia.gov/press-releases/2011-02-25/deal-names-education-advisory-board
https://gov.georgia.gov/sites/gov.georgia.gov/files/imported/vgn/images/portal/cit_79369762/168561127Advisory%20board%20bios%202011.pdf
Oops… that’ll leave a mark.
All of this is so very “Phildoesque”.
Don’t see the AI work at University of GA either
not in alumni:
http://www.ai.uga.edu/content/ai-graduates-and-completed-theses
not in current students:
http://www.ai.uga.edu/content/people/current-students
Interesting….
I am sure the records are just “incomplete”.
I am sure Mike can identify himself in his graduation picture.
http://www.benning.army.mil/infantry/rtb/Graduates/images/8-86.jpg
I thought his Basic Airborne Class number was 8-86.
He’s never provided (although requested) a Ranger Class Number.
Meh, leave it to a squid to fuck it up.
Well, well, well. Mr. Rhodes, who despises people who use online monikers as ‘cowards’, even though we do this to let others know what we did, and possibly where and/or when — well, it seems that Mr. Rhodes neglected to mention something that HE was hiding: he lied on his USCG application about a pre-existing medical condition that was discovered in CG boot, and was sent home. Ain’t that somethin’? The silliness of his accusing US of being cowards and whatever else he said wears thin at this point. See, I use Ex-PH2 because it tells most sailors what I did when I was in the Navy before my rating was combined with other ratings. It also lets people know approximately WHEN I was on AD. There are so many Army and USMC MOSs available that I can’t keep track and even the Navy now is adding extra letters to the rating designations. But at least you get a vague idea of what people did or do, even if it’s modernized. Therefore, it’s ridiculous for someone like Mr. Rhodes to sockpuppet for a blatant liar like Mikey Sleeper, when he himself has admitted when pressed that he lied about a pre-existing medical condition on his USCG application. Why should any of us take anything he says with anything less than a huge chunk of salt? And frankly, Mr. Rhodes, since I’m sure you’re reading this, I don’t give a flying fart in space what you think of me for using a pen name. Pseudonyms or pen names have a long, honored history in many areas in the creative arts. I know men who write romance novels for women to read, using as many as FIVE pen names or pseudonyms. The ‘Flowers in the Attic’ series of Gothic novels are all written by different authors, ALL of them using the same pseudonym at the publisher’s request. J.K. Rowling is a pseudonym for Jo Rowling, created because her publisher thought her books wouldn’t appeal to boys if they thought the author was a ‘girl’. George Eliot’s real name was Mary Ann Evans.… Read more »
EX-PH2… I’ve been reading the Federalist Papers over the last few days. Many of the papers were written by Hamilton, Madison and Jay using pseudonyms, which was common in that era (Ben Franklin was another one).
Protest? I was called here by the lies of one of your posters. He was lying about me, and I came to answer that. I have not defended Mike Sleeper, other than offer him a forum to either refute, or admit, to what he has been accused of
Now, because I express opinions you don’t agree with, on the use of “internet masks” here on these pages, you turn your anger on me.
What “valor” was stolen because a recruiter mislead a 19 year old, 33 years ago?
Recruiters NEVER do that (LOL). Next to the VA, I have more complaints about the ethics of recruiters than just about any admin area of the armed forces. As a talk show host in the heart of one of the country’s largest populations of retired military members, I have heard it all.
You gentlemen and ladies continue to go after people who “steal valor”, that is a valiant effort that I support 100%.
I still don’t get the need for all the phony names, but hey, if it works for Wonder Woman, who am I to argue?
AR
A closed-minded spittle-head you are, Mr. Rhodes. I see YOU FAILED to take another TAH Regular’s advice and look up a character named “Daniel A. Bernath” to see just why a number of us use screen names. Better yet, Google that name and see what you get, but I’m sure you won’t because IMHO you’re afraid of what you’ll learn in fear of damaging your precious fragile ego! OH, and be careful of how you address Ex-PH2, she’ll sharpen her claws on you like the Lioness she is!
I looked him up…he is a nut. I have dealt with them my entire career.
Seems like you guys are going to an awful lot of trouble to hide from the likes of that schmuck, reminds me of people who won’t fly because they are afraid of crashing…but whatever floats your boat. Don’t ask, don’t tell, right?
Yes, because we just LOVE having to retain lawyers over and over to stop frivolous lawsuits that should never have been filed in the first place.
I’m going to guess that in your long illustrious career that it has been your employer who gets the lawyers and it hasn’t had to come out of your own pocket. Try it sometime when it is your money being spent.
Have these nuts you’ve “dealt with” tried to have you SWATed? Called protective services on you and accused you or a loved one of elderly abuse? No? Then fuck off because you haven’t dealt with half the shit that some of the people on this site have.
Go away Austin. If this is your version of finding out the truth then I personally can live without your assistance.
Actually I DID spend my own money…and won. I have had four individuals locked up for threatening me and my family over the years, one spent two years in Federal prison for it.
Most recently a teenage gang member who said he wanted to rape my wife, a high school teacher.
So I get called over here with lies by one of your members, and become your latest target because I don’t like anonymous muck-rakers. LOL
There is more speculation in this Sleeper thread than there is fact, but hey, when you don’t have to sign your name to it, why not?
…and as I pointed out earlier…you could be Audie Murphy or George Patton…OR…Timothy McVeigh or Lee Harvey Oswald. All served with distinction (if memory serves).
So yes…I have dealt with “more shit” from nuts than the vast majority of the general public ever will.
No, Rhodes, there IS no speculation. Sleeper did NOT attend Ranger school. He was not a Ranger. He fabricated a resume that doesn’t exist.
That’s it in a nutshell. You just can’t accept that.
“Hot urine test” etc etc etc…
Plenty of speculation in these comments.
(Yawn.)
You aren’t even trying. The squirrels on my front porch are smarter than you are.
Sorry bub…no desire to explain the obvious. Read back…it is there.
austin rhodes never had a career in his life.
And just WHO was lying about you, Mr. Rhodes? Who was it? Provide the link to that comment.
Your ego is weaker than a wet cardboard box in a flood. You can sneer all you like at people like me and those who show up here, but it does NOT make you a better person.
If you expect me or anyone else to believe that you were told by a recruiter to deliberately lie about a pre-existing condition that got you booted out of USCG boot, you’re barking up the wrong tree.
I couldn’t care less about what you think, Ex-PH2 (cool name…sounds like a Star Wars robot).
The link to the comment? Here is the quote:
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Al says:
January 28, 2017 at 8:08 am
pls phone-in to “the austin rhodes show” on local radio., WGAC AM columbia co., GA. rhodes is a wannabe limbaugh and a failed conservative. his pal mike sleeper does two week residencies as guest host. rhodes wont comment online about mikes bulls**t. ask him why.
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LIE # 1. Sleeper has never done “two week residencies” as a guest host, he has filled in less than 10 times over the last 25 years.
LIE # 2. “Rhodes won’t comment online”.
LOL Here I sit.
LIE # 3. “Limbaugh wannabe…failed conservative”
I suppose that can be an opinion, but as the top talk show host in Georgia’s second largest metro for a quarter of a century, I don’t see how anyone can deem that a “failure”…and since I have always had the unwavering support of Augusta’s active duty and veteran community, I again call BS on “AL”, whoever he/she/it happens to be.
Anything else?
Yeah.
Your a tool.
Who is Al? Who are you? And why are you taking a dump in our living room?
So what does your discharge say, Rhodes?
thats like being the best snowmobile salesman in florida. your entire county are white racist maggots, your act is plagarized from limbaugh, and you symplathize with v.v. putin. failed conservative. your relief pitcher was campaign mgr. for a convicted child rapist. failed again.
So you didn’t know what was a lie and what was the truth at 19 years old?
Bitch, please.
And as a former recruiter, I knew I didn’t need my chain of command breathing down my neck about little Johnny Butthurt calling his mommy who then gets a Congressional rolling. I told them the truth, even if it wasn’t necessarily what they wanted to hear. If I didn’t know, I gave them resources to find out.
That, dear man, is called INTEGRITY. It was and is an integral part of my life and my dealings with others.
It seems you and Mr. Sleeper never learned that little lesson. And integrity, once gone, almost never returns.
Recruiters never lie, sure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/us/army-recruiters-say-they-feel-pressure-to-bend-rules.html?_r=0
Austin Rhodes – I was an officer recruiter 20 years ago – I NEVER lied to any one of the 22 Naval Officers that I recruited during that time (I actually served with the first one I put in for a year over on Okinawa after my tour as a recruiter). The command that I was assigned to had a NO TOLERANCE policy towards lying to recruits and actively punished recruiters that were dishonest with prospects, school officials and parents. Don’t lump me or other good, hard working military recruiters with the liars out there – they are the MINORITY.
There are, and will be bad military recruiters, just like there are bad cops, politicians, lawyers and even radio talk show hosts.
I don’t have any idea who you are…how could I “lump you in?”
But thank you for admitting dishonest recruiters do exist. Good on you.
The same way you’re making generalizations about recruiters based on your experience with yours…that’s a pretty scant population to draw any significantly reliable measure of central tendency.
Austin Rhodes, by your own admission, you are a liar.
Lying to the Coast Guard and blaming the recruiter is classic.
Good on you.
Rhodes…..YOU drawing attention to the discredit of a very few recruiters…what a crock!!!!!
Not unlike Pee Wee Herman discussing perverts..
Dammit, I almost spewed my coffee…lol
Apparently you aren’t familiar with the UCMJ. Recruiters can and have been hammered under Article 84.
Look it up, dipshit.
Austin Rhodes lied, and the application was under oath. but the recruiter misled him!
If that were a valid reason, you woulda have to have been 16 years old. a child ..american 17 year olds have carried rifles or gone on boating trips , or taken other dangerous military occupations , without complaining like you , for centuries. many died.
you werent a child, as***le, you were 19.
glad you got ejected. USCG have work to do, and it aint changing adult diapers for you.
PS you were summoned here by messages i possess.( beep! your sh** sandwich is ready!)
youre a lying liar who lied,.RE your reason for being here.
and youve openly contradicted your lying self from one lie to the next.
have a nice day.
see you at trivia night! youre buying the beers as usual.
nobody gives a rats ass what the recruiter did, and nobody suggested they dont lie. a few do. they are your fellow liars.
you took an ASVAB test for reading comprehension, and were quizzed under penalty of perjury on your truthfulness by an investigator noncom other than
your recruiter, you crybaby.
you simply lied for personal advantage like your “special friend” did.
“….a recruiter mislead a 19 year old, 33 years ago?”
Austin, If I recall correctly, you lied to the Coast Guard not the recruiter.
“I still don’t get the need for all the phony names, but hey, if it works for Wonder Woman, who am I to argue?”
If you would have served than you could identify the screen names.
“If you would have served than you could identify the screen names.”
I tried to explain that five hours ago in a polite manner. He is not going to listen.
Austin Rhodes, would you furnish a copy of your DD 214 that says you received a medical discharge from Coast Guard boot camp as you are apparently claiming?
This is interesting. Mr. Rhodes has an ego that is so freakin’ weak, if he doesn’t get a massive attention whore’s fix out of responding to everything – every single thing – that everyone says, he’s not getting enough attention.
Go pick a fight on your own front lawn, Rhodes. If you don’t like your butt buddy’s phony CV being exposed to the light of day, that’s your problem. Take it up with him.
Is it really so difficult for you to accept that you’ve been conned?
Now you’re just boring.
Conned by WHO? I have never had a conversation with Sleeper about his military service, prior to all this coming up.
I have not defended him (what is there to defend?). Giving an elected official an opportunity to tell his side of a story is all that has even been alluded to in this matter.
My opinions about anonymous, internet based commentary is over a decade old, it was not derived as a result of this board, it pre-dates its existence.
Damn, never thought I’d be doing anything to defend AR. Anyone that attempted to serve deserves some friking respect. Having a med issue and still trying to make your way through Basic is honorable in my eyes. How many of you “never smoked a dube Sgt Recruiter. Good son, your in” As far as Sleeper goes; why don’t we wait until he has time to fix his shit. If he doesn’t, I’ll be the first to send it. And yeah, I served
that wasn’t the issue
“Damn, never thought I’d be doing anything to defend AR. Anyone that attempted to serve deserves some friking respect.”
Gotta show it to earn it.
“As far as Sleeper goes; why don’t we wait until he has time to fix his shit.”
Fix what shit?
“I use Ex-PH2 because it tells most sailors what I did when I was in the Navy before my rating was combined with other ratings. It also lets people know approximately WHEN I was on AD.”
That is a hallmark of this blog. I recognize the vast array of experience just by the screen names. That is why I use the name I do.
I actually did what name implies and can back it up with official records. No need to lie when you can walk the walk.
In summary:
There’s a guy on a schoolboard who is exaggerating his military service. There’s guy in the same community who has a radio talk show. The second guy has a beef with someone who posts occasional comments here and decides to “defend” himself by calling out the other posters of comments for their use of their names.
Not at all certain why any of us should care about this radio guy. He obviously has a personal problem with one of us and seems to be insisting that the rest of us decide whether to defend our own or get behind a guy almost none of us heard of until a day or two ago.
Here’s a clue: Most of us really aren’t involved and don’t want to be involved, but when one of us is attacked, the odds are not good that we will abandon one of our own to defend the stranger. Funny how that works in the real world.
Please get offended on your own time, Mr. Rhodes. Nobody here called you out. You getting offended over nothing puts you in a class with the baying moonbat special little snowflakes that Soros supports around the country.
See above re: “AL”
Soros? LOL
I get called here and then lambasted for showing up and not toeing your line.
For the record, I’m not the same Al as the one who called him out
Somebody is impersonating me. dave probably has his IP address. funny how it fails to save mike and his “special friend” from the inevitable.
therefore i dont object.
i called austin rhodes a fake conservative, citing mike sleeper’s radio residency ( mike was campaign mgr for a since- imprisoned child rapist.. thats why)
also certain anti- american positions in his giant river of crap
.. er.. content.
its not namecalling. its just true. hes a RINO type.
this was the first msg to him.
hes misrepresenting what happened .
So y’all are saying the this alleged call out was not even by a member of this community?
Just to clarify, “the poster” is Dave Hardin, whose name is clearly on the post above and has been since he posted it. I just don’t see him having called out anyone much less Mr. Rhodes. If I reread his OP (that acronym stands for original post) a hundred more times I will still not see it. Everything that follows are comments made by commenters. We who do not have posting privileges are commenters, sometimes called comment posters. But, we who comment are not blogging or posting – we are commenting. Dave Hardin was posting when he put up his comments on this blog.
Wanna play some more, Mr. Rhodes? I’ve got all day.
A. Rhodes….we all just KNOW you’ll have Mr. Sleeper on your show today so he can defend himself…right? You may think you know some recruiters, but after this episode, it’s pretty safe to say your name will be hot in the recruiter conversations today. You have NO EARTHLY IDEA how lame that was by not mentioning from the beginning of this thread how you had tried to pull a fast one on the Coast Guard. Regardless how many times you have supposedly mentioned that event on air, it would only have been a show of honesty and integrity to have addressed the issue before someone had to call you out on the matter. Blaming your effort to be accepted into the Coast Guard on a recruiter’s indifference is one toke over the line of decency, precisely what your friend Mr. Sleeper is attempting to do here. Worth mentioning in this continued drama is what you have NOT learned from successful talk show hosts such as Limbaugh and others. ANY of them would have admitted their errors and not have continued on and on with meaningless banter; continually setting today’s show up to take the direction YOU lead, rather than consider what has been presented. One thing your lack of having served clearly shows your complete misunderstanding towards the position of most TAH commentors. Misleading statements by wannabees are comparable to crapping on the graves of the many who made the ultimate sacrifice just so people like you have the opportunity to express yourself as you see fit, every day…..and in your case on air where a large audience of people presume you have done something worthwhile to earn that right. Finally, not that it is significant, but likewise your lack of military service totally and completely prevents you from understanding most of what is written on this site. Aside from that, your continued reference to Al begs for continued reference to your less than believable story about attempting to join the Coast Guard. Among men and women who have served their country with honor, that’s about the biggest crock of… Read more »
If I may: in addition to Jarhead’s observations, Austin Rhodes, you should understand that since NONE of the posts on This Ain’t Hell are taken down or redacted, every time someone googles your name, this column with your snide responses and the fact that you lied to a military recruiter will pop right up.
So, Austin Rhodes, while your contempt for people who HAVE served is obvious, what goes around comes around, Austin Rhodes.
In view of your snide remarks about my online ID, Ex- means ‘former’ and PH2 means Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class, which is E-5. I have two full-time active duty hitches, totaling 5 yrs, 6 mos, 28 days, which includes extensions of my original contracts. I enlisted in the spring of 1967 and made E-5/PH2 in June 1969, and yes, I CAN prove that. Like a lot of other people here, I went to work in the civilian world AFTER my Navy enlistment.
I have a 3rd career in retirement. I have stories to tell.
You, Austin Rhodes, have NOTHING.
God bless you buddy, and all hail C-3PO….or…whatever.
Austin Rhodes, I warned you about needling Ex-PH2. When you push her too far and she uses you for a scratching post like the Lioness she is, the only sympathy I will have for you can only be found in a dictionary somewhere between the words “shit” and “syphilis”. The TAH crowd is not one to poke around and mess with like you are right now, many other TAH regulars have been underestimated by people like you and the crap they threw got flung right back in their faces! Keep stirring the shitpot if it pleases you, just beware that if you keep doing so it’s only a matter of time until someone grabs you and makes you lick the spoon, Mr. Austin Rhodes. This is the second time I’ve tried to warn you, don’t be a Lars.
Austin Rhodes, when is the last time Mike Sleeper hosted your show? Was it less than 3 months ago? Before that when was the last time? It wasn’t that long ago as you try to represent. See the lies coming here with the Rhodes comment of less than a few times in 25 years, yada, yada.
Isn’t that cute? He’s dropping in that teeny-beat ‘Star Wars’ reference about C3PO, like we’re supposed to get all wigged out or something! Wow. Real grown-up there, Austin Rhodes.
Well, I repeat: Austin Rhodes, when people google YOUR name this entire column will come up first.
And people will realize that you’re addressing those of us who have REAL active duty service to their country, while you have N-O-N-E, NONE, because YOU LIED ON YOUR APPLICATION TO THE USCG.
Subsequently, the people who google your name and read your responses here will realize that your childish response – ‘all hail C-3PO’ – is just that: a childish, jealous response to people who did something you didn’t do because you lied on your application to the US Coast Guard.
We have everything, and you still have NOTHING.
I tried to advise Austin Rhodes NOT to be a Lars, I don’t think he’ll pay attention, I think he’s too addicted to stroking his own feeble ego. From here on all I’m gonna do is laugh when you REALLY sink your claws into his lower posterior!
Interestingly enough, Mr Michael seems to not have returned to defend himself.
Shocker.
Hmmmmm, HOW many times have we seen that before with other posers and embellishers? I wonder just how close Austin Rhodes and Michael Sleeper are with each other? Methinks this is gonna get better and more fun as time goes on, ChipNASA!
Austin Rhodes has always sucked up to Sleeper and his Father in law Ron Cross so they will talk on his show. We are all wasting keystrokes commenting on this unfit for duty, low life loud mouth whose major claim to fame is public urination. He failed in the CG and in college.
You mean Ron Cross, the County Commissioner along with his buddies who recently fucked the County taxpayers out of $13,000 living it up at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa after a frugal $3,500 dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steak House?
I can’t wait to see what pops up next!
Wait – what? Are you saying that money is being spent inappropriately by county officials?
Oh, now, where have I run into that before? OH, that’s right: the Dixon, IL, treasurer who embezzled $52 million from the city of Dixon and spent on a horse farm, purebred Quarter Horses (not a cheap item) and an expensive home. I believe she’s in jail now.
It always catches up to them, doesn’t it?
I guess the taxpayers are ok with it.
In 2015, Columbia County commissioners, county staff and their spouses spent more than $10,000 on a three-night trip to New York City for a bond rating meeting.
Here’s a little challenge for every TAH member. Call any recruiter from any branch of service and explain what is going on. Scroll back up to the stations’s call letters, location, time of show this afternoon, and number to contact while this afternoon’s show is being aired. MOST IMPORTANT…be certain to give them the link where they can listen via computer.
EVERYONE. please call the show. M-F 3-6. listen in online. WGAC-AM . express yourselves!
its fun, and it helps get the word out to local voters about mike sleeper.
Oh please.
We tried to tell you that your A-Game would be tested if you decided to take on this crowd verbally. You can be certain that some will now be quietly listening to your show in a bit to make sure that you do not violate any laws if you decide to tie your hurt feelings to us.
Still shaking my head over why you insist upon lambasting anyone here when it is your friend/associate/whatever who exaggerated his service. Who he is related to or may have as political enemies is of no importance to any of us. We just want him to stop lying about the nature of his military service.
You, Mr. Rhodes, are who brought his family and possible political enemies into this. We just don’t care about any of that.
Austin is on the air now… on a break, but heard his into to the Michael Sleeper story. Got to listen to it…
He stated that Sleeper is denying everything and that the records are “incomplete”… SV SOP.
He just said Sleeper never claimed to be a Ranger. What BS.
Sleeper refused to go on the radio show and discuss the matter.
Of course Sleeper refused to go on the show- that would take honor and integrity, and we KNOW he’s lacking in both
Rhodes said on that Augusta radio station that’s streaming that he has spondylolisthesis and had grown up with it wearing a brace part of the time. That’s one vertebra slipping forward on another. Said he lied and said he was okay, but they found it after he was inducted at CG boot. There is no way that it could be determined without a spine x-ray so I suspect he started whining about his back after training began. They don’t routinely do spine x-rays with physical exams.
I mentioned that to Rhodes yesterday.
Rhodes: “The recruiter was the only one who asked, and he said it was no big deal. They caught it in basic and disagreed with the recruiter’s assessment.
ex-OS2: Was your recruiter a M.D.?
Do you remember MEPS?
Recruiters don’t complete entrance physicals, so what did they catch in basic? You already had your physical prior to shipping off to boot camp which indicated no pre-existing back conditions in your service record.”
I imagine that Austin Rhodes could not handle the humidity in Cape May or push ups just weren’t his thing.
“The tab on the wall* is a companion to the one on my shoulder.” Mike Sleeper, Twitter 2017. (referring to a Ranger poster in his boy cave)
It can’t get much clearer than that, can it?
Austin Rhodes obviously doesn’t understand what Mike Sleeper’s Twitter statement means.
Hey Austin, It means that Mike Sleeper is claiming to be a tabbed Ranger.
Incomplete records? Gee, never heard that one before. One would imagine that a career politician would have his records in order.
Well, that was an hour of what’s left of my life that could of been used to take a nap.
I did however detect a slight lift of the mud flaps on the bus.
Did you hear any gurgling?
I do now after reading jarhead at 6:26 pm
For convenience to potential visitors:
How To Be A Good Phony Soldier
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=39711
Mike and Austin are two peas in a pod and are following the handbook to the t.
Austin should be ecstatic, he has earned his phony internet title of Sockpuppet.
Congratulations Austin, way to go!
I do not think he has read the FNG tab.
Well shit, forgot that one.
TAH FNG FAQ <<< Austin, they are acronyms.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?page_id=50600
Austin Rhodes, perhaps you could assist your buddy Mike Sleeper in getting his records in order. Seriously, a career politician with incomplete military records?
There are so many resources here at TAH, you should take advantage of them.
Military Records
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?page_id=39605
https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/standard-form-180.html
Recipes
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?page_id=32912
Stolen Valor
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?page_id=30655
Anonymity on the net is absolutely critical. Without it, every jerk in the world would be at your door, in your inbox, and on your voicemail. There are many good and varied reasons for not ID’ing oneself on Al Gore’s www. Is it cowardly? Hell no. It’s smart. Could I go into a workplace and say, for instance, that the guy who immediately preceded President Trump in office is a royal asshole? Sure, I could, but there would be hell to pay one way or another. What if I ID’ed myself here by name and said the same thing? It might take a tad longer, but there would be hell to pay. Or I could take another approach, use my legal name and self censor, never stating my true view of that guy. So, thanks, but I’ll just call ’em as I see ’em using my tag. The way it works is those who disagree with me are free to say so right here. I won’t bother them personally and they won’t bother me. It’s an agreement I like and one which works.
This fascination with “tell me who you are” reminds me of high school study class. The teacher would demand to know “who said that” at every behind the back comment.
The other thing that totally honked off at least one of us is his temerity as he insisted that his view on the use of names was the only legitimate one. No, it isn’t.
Let’s say we each use a name. How would he know if it was real or not? Maybe it would please him if from now on I call myself “Lois Lane.” Then we could all be happy. The Rhodes scholar can see a real name and I will remain anonymous. Folks who know my real name would find it amusing.
One day I can call myself Clark Kent and the next sign in as Lois Lane. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Break out the kak wheels for the daily setting.
Or, in other words:
Lars was another character posting here who made a big deal of us not posting with our real names and calling us cowards for not doing so. If Austin Rhodes wants to make a Lars of himself, oh well.
Lars soon regretted using his real name and asked others to cease its use. At the same time, he started using a screen name. He learned after it was too late. As for proper ID demanded by others, does anyone know whether , say, a caller to a radio show is vetted to ensure the caller who says, “I’m Pete Jones, a US Army Veteran” is Pete, Jones, or a Veteran?
Well, and then there’s that dismissive response to a valid statement that pseudonyms or pen names have a time-honored history that goes so far back into the past, it’s clearly ridiculous to say that it’s invalid.
So my guess is that Austin Rhodes was looking for some excuse to stalk people to make up for his inadequacies. But if he did that to me, well, I already have a file on one stalker at the local police station. I could just add Austin Rhodes to that file if he got nasty with me.
Essentially, he’s after something he’s not entitled to have, and that’s just tough bananas.
Some history on Austin Rhodes… from the local e-press in Augusta. There is a ton of stuff on him on the web; it seems that he’s in the eye of some sort of controversy:
http://metrospirit.com/love-hate-relationship-austin-rhodes/
http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/7089191.html
This says everything I need to know:
‘Austin Rhodes seems to be more adept at provoking people than he is at inspiring them.’
That’s his schtick. He’s rude as hell, too. If he thinks he’s on a roll, no one else can get a word in edgewise. It must be extremely frustrating to find a spot like TAH that doesn’t allow him to interrupt people.
It’s a common disorder of liberalism: they yap so much that not only can no one else say a word, but they also don’t listen to what anyone else says. Remember that bimbo in the Fox interview last week? Couldn’t shut her mouth for one second.
That way, no one else has a chance to speak or be heard.
Google “Austin Rhodes Augusta” – there is a ton of stuff about him online.
Some of his words and actions are very “Bernathian”, to say the least.
It appears to me that Austin Rhodes is a
A Proud Infidel®™Grade AAA Asshole!
If Michael Sleeper is truly the successful big-hitter he tries to convince people he is, then why is he the only member of that school board to use a freebie gmail email address?
Maybe he took lessons from a former Secretary of State about keeping e-mails from being archived and avoiding state/school board policy on electronic correspondence use in official duties?
hmcs / fmf continually uses this board for a partisan soapbox of disinformation. last R president destroyed not mislaid millions of emails and the last R nominee ( m.r.) stole and destroyed physical hard drives with hundreds of thousands. if you dont like factual debunking, try staying on purpose with TAH. or perhaps contributing something… anything. cheers
You’re more full of shit than all the geese and seagulls in this world put together.
youre a straight up sh**bag. i accurately called you out for using this board as a disinformation soapbox . you have no defense except running your mouth. in addition to which, you serve no function here except getting on the bandwagon for the efforts of others.
Hey Norm, go suck a fat one.
It is obvious you have been a couch potato in mom’s basement and never served.
It is HMCS(FMF), show some respect for the Senior Chief, he earned it.
shit for brains, having respect for that civilian doesnt extend to tolerating his disrespect for this board, nor being even slightly intimidated by him or his ” community” of internet trolls. having not seen your documents. it is clear that you never served. nor would i give a rat’s ass if you did. its impossible to “earn” the right to be a piece of crap.
you argue as if career AD vets are beyond reproach. plenty of them are doing time.
you are also clearly an expert in performing fellatio and prefer large “ones”. try milwaukee. or nigeria.
thanks for sharing.
Your sentence structure is horrifyingly wicked, revealing your level of education. I encourage you to enroll in a remedial grammar class to keep from looking like an imbecile.
You should look up the definition of internet troll, you have it reversed.
Have you ever heard of IP tracing Mike?
Hey “Norm” – there are many on this board that I respect. You’re not one of them… deal with is.
You must be new around here, Norm. You clearly have no concept of “staying on purpose with TAH”, nor, apparently, are you familiar with the respected regulars of the board.
I’m a “respected regular”????
Thanks for the complement, Eden!
Hey “Norm”… go Google IRS and Lois Lerner… Hillary Clinton and her “home-brewed” server Huma Abdin and her pervy hubby “Carlos Danger” and all of those wonderful e-mails tht were on the laptop (along with her hubby’s “special pics).
If Michael Sleeper is conducting school board business using another e-mail account, there’s probably something in GA state law concerning that and public records.
If Sleeper is dumb enough to do that (like he is about his Ranger claims) then he’s deserving of someone from the school board/State’s AG’s office asking questions about possibly violating public records laws.
And, if you have a problem with my opinions, FUCK YOU, ASS HAMSTER!
FUCK YOU, ASS HAMSTER!
(I am so stealing that.)
*spew alert*
http://s46.photobucket.com/user/magic_orlando1/media/Funnies/gere.gif.html
LOL!!!
your criticisms are false. that disinformation isnt the purpose of TAH., and
your brain doesnt contain enough information on the subject to form an opinion.
your’e spewing garbage.
and again, your service counts for absolutely nothing as an excuse for this crap. your tenure as an entrenched parasitic board troll .. less than nothing. your feeble attempts to enforce your posse’s will are a joke.
Mike, Ron, “Norm”, et al did you graduate from Head Start or did they hold you back?
He’s a triple recycle failure… waiting for the admin board to separate him.
you sound like a pedophile.
Do you run this blog, “Norm”? The shut the fuck up! Nobody (especially me) give a flying fuck what you think, ass hamster!
Now, be a good little bytch and go snarf down a bag of cream filled gummy dicks!
If I didn’t know any better Norm sure reminds me of Thomas Reister or uses Bing translator.
Educate yourself, ass hamster:
Georgia Open Records Act: http://law.ga.gov/sites/law.ga.gov/files/imported/vgn/images/portal/cit_1210/62/51/186385699r1.pdf
Georgia Open Meetings Act: http://law.ga.gov/sites/law.ga.gov/files/imported/vgn/images/portal/cit_1210/62/49/186393706OMA_M_2012_Act_correctly_formatted.pdf
Ladies and Gentlemen, This thread lost its initial purpose of holding one of our own accountable for the claim he purportedly made about his military service. I understand the solem reverence we hold for our veterans who served honorably and want to keep people honest about their service to our nation. However, this thread has strayed and degenerated into name calling and insulting one another. I would ask everyone to think before typing and stick with relevent facts and stop using words meant to denigrate and insult your opponents.
YeSun Wiltse, have you interviewed anyone yet for the article you are going to publish in the Augusta Chronicle addressing Mike Sleeper’s military service?
I will check back in the morning for your response.
YeSun Wiltse, have you interviewed Mike Sleeper for the article that you will be publishing in the Augusta Chronicle addressing his incomplete military records?
“Insult your opponents”, “Ladies and Gentlemen”…are you on some kind of medication? Sounds like you think you are on some game show; practicing to be the next Ringling Bros. Ringmaster.
Who are you to decide what the initial purpose of this thread is? Even Comrade Poodle Dik never professes to have all the answers you think you have. Apparently nobody told you SOME people NEED and WANT to be insulted. If you are on that list, let me know so I can line up behind Claw, A Proud Infidel, 2/17 Air Cav, Chip NASA, HMCS (FMF) ret,Ex-PH2, ex-OS2, S E A, I D C SARC, Dave Hardin and others unintentionally unlisted who are proven and EXPERIENCED insulters.
Thanks to you YeSun, I did stop and think before typing this…..and easily reached the simple conclusion that you are full of shit. Show me a POSER who does not deserve to be insulted, and I’ll show you a guy who humps pigeons and digs being urinated on by sheep. Now Please do NOT tell me that happens to fit your character!
Jarhead, if I may….
“The Government has not shown, and cannot show, why counterspeech, such as the ridicule respondent received online and in the press, would not suffice to achieve its interest.
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simpletruth.
Society has the right and civic duty to engage in open, dynamic, rational discourse.
The American people do not need the assistance of a government prosecution to express their high regard for the special place that military heroes hold in our tradition. Only a weak society needs government protection or intervention before it pursues its resolve to preserve the truth. Truth needs neither handcuffs nor a badge for its vindication.”
Justice Kennedy in US v. Alvarez.
Hey! You didn’t include me in your list! What am I? Chopped liver? As for this YeSun shitstick…got eat a bag of Dicks. This fucker deserves every bit of grief he gets here. Don’t come in our house and tell us how to behave.
“…let me know so I can line up behind Claw, A Proud Infidel, 2/17 Air Cav, Chip NASA, HMCS (FMF) ret,Ex-PH2, ex-OS2, S E A, I D C SARC, Dave Hardin and others unintentionally unlisted who are proven and EXPERIENCED insulters.”
As Elvis woulda said, “Thankyuhverymuch.”!
jarhead… I’m touched by your complement (but not in a ghey way, of course).
OKAY Ye Sun Wiltse, I took a breath and thought about what you said and the first part of my response is BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS! WTF is with the sudden saccharine sanctimonius candyassed pisspants holier-than-thou batch of moldy mouse shit where you’re talking down to us like we’re a bunch of over-sheltered snowflake prissy-ass preppies in some boarding school that have never seen the outside world, o pestiferous pile of parakeet shit? You sound like said boarding school grad in its first year of Harvard, Yale, or UC Berkeley. Save that shit for some other crowd, talking like that will get you eaten alive here!
That’s it, I’m piling on…..Allegedly, Michael Sleeper works balls, tickles taint and tongue punches hobo’s crusty fart boxes while YeSun Wiltse makes it rain for his own amusement, again, only allegedly.
Here’s MY additional $.02 worth, Michael Sleeper is a meat-gazing wino ballsack aficionado alongside Ye Sun Wiltse behind bus stops in the seedy parts of towns.
FYI – Ye Sun Wiltse is a woman… Google the name.
Ah, well then…..
I stand corrected.
IDC SARC would probably hit it.
I know one that he WOULDN’T hit – Lena Dunham.
I hope…
Good morning, YeSun Wiltse! Welcome to This Ain’t Hell, a neighborhood populated by a lot of opinionated people, many of whom have a gift for colorful invective (I’m rather envious of them). You’re new here so this may seem strange and unsettling to you, but if you’ll hang around we might just grow on you.
“The tab on the wall* is a companion to the one on my shoulder.” Mike Sleeper.(referring to a Ranger poster in his boy cave)
It can’t get much clearer than that, can it?
Austin Rhodes obviously doesn’t understand what Mike Sleeper’s Twitter statement means.
Hey Austin, It means that Mike Sleeper is claiming to be a tabbed Ranger.
Incomplete records? Gee, never heard that one before. One would imagine that a career politician would have his records in order.
Google hit.
Prepare to copy:
Austin Rhodes is not a Southern Gentleman.
Austin Rhodes defends liars.
Austin Rhodes is a liar himself.
Austin Rhodes is an egotistical boor.
Austin Rhodes engages in shady dealings.
Austin Rhodes has not clue what it would take to be a Ranger.
Austin Rhodes is not a solution to any problem.
Austin Rhodes has no clue.
Austin Rhodes is a slimeball jerk.
Austin Rhodes is incapable of a reasoned discussion.
Austin Rhodes has no integrity.
Austin Rhodes thinks Stolen Valor is a victimless crime.
Austin Rhodes facilitates fabricated resumes.
Austin Rhodes enables deceptive politicians.
Austin Rhodes is forthwith to be mocked at all times.
End of Transmission
And just in case Austin Rhodes did not get the earlier transmission:
Michael Sleeper is not Airborne.
Michael Sleeper is not a Ranger.
Michael Sleeper did not deploy anywhere.
Michael Sleeper is a disgrace to all 11Bs.
Michael Sleeper is unworthy of serving on a school board.
Michael Sleeper is a bad example to children everywhere.
Michael Sleeper is a pathetic loser.
Michael Sleeper needs his butt whupped by all the School Board and every coach in the district. 10 pops each.
Michael Sleeper did not get any medals.
Michael Sleeper is a untrustworthy liar who ought not be given any position of authority or responsibility – especially over schoolchildren.
End of rebroadcast.
Where is Mike Sleeper at nowadays? Hiding out in his boy cave? Making decisions for the children of Columbia County Georgia?
Seems he has been scrubbing Facebook and Twitter and locking them up nice and tight.
One would imagine that a career politician would have his records in order, especially military records.
Mike, here is a link to obtain your military records and request corrections.
https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/standard-form-180.html
After trivia night, invite Austin over for some ice tea and you guys can fill out your SF-180 together.
Or, you can hide and deny just like every other politician on both sides of the aisle do.
Man up, come clean or clear your name.
Your choice.
Chalk one up for TAH again. Yesterday one of the TAH commentors called and spoke with Austin Rhodes live on his show. Among other allegations was a newspaper story in May of 2014 reading Mike Sleeper claiming to have been an Army Ranger. Same story claimed Sleeper had injured a leg during some kind of military jump. Reference to that story was the gist of the caller speaking live again this afternoon. Lo and behold…between now and then, someone had sent Austin Rhodes a copy of that very newspaper story. Equally important, someone else had sent Rhodes a copy of a picture taken at Sleeper’s place of employment which CLEARLY claimed Sleeper had been a tabbed Ranger. Regardless as to what he personally did years ago, Rhodes appeared to take offense to the fact that evidence is now being received by him slowly building proof of what the TAH story was about in the first place. Rhodes again advised listeners that Sleeper was invited to appear on the show in person yesterday, but chose not to do so. To his credit, Rhodes essentially implied his attitude toward Sleeper was NOT what it was yesterday. He may well not care for the screen names posters on TAH use, certainly does NOT appreciate the attacks made against him (this, in spite of bringing much of it on himself with the Coast Guard attempted enlistment); but he does deserve the credit for reversing his full and total support for Sleeper. “Rambo” Sleeper may think this is over and he is free to move forward, but he will find out shortly the TAH crowd is NOT one to be deceived. There is a price to pay, including embarrassing public exposure and job security when it comes to lying about something we all understand is so important. Thanks to Austin Rhodes for showing he can take an unpopular stand even when some politician’s kin happens to be a judge. Knowing politicians as we do, we might as well expect Sleeper to deny the truth, right down to the day he resigns his position on the… Read more »
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I like that and it’s apparent that Michael Sleeper continues to underestimate TAH which will not help him at all.
jarhead – do you have a link to the broadcast for Tuesday? Monday he was all upset over TAH and use using pseudonyms. I’d love to hear him “evolve” on the Michael Sleeper issue.
HMCS(FMF) ret…..For the moment this is about the best I can do. Don’t know if the entire broadcast has to be dug for or whatever. Will look again tonight if you or someone else has not found it.
http://wgac.com/2017/01/31/austin-rhodes-commentary-13117/
S/F
It’s his comments on a local judicial situation in Augusta… there probably isn’t a full podcast of his show on the station’s site.
Thanks for looking…
Austin Rhodes – I salute you. Being able to face the facts and adjust to them is a good thing.
“The tab on the wall is a companion to the one on my shoulder.”
Mike Sleeper.
Liar.
400th comment.
All those words for a General Discharge Private and a liar to the CG that discovered during boot camp that “push-ups” were not an orange sherbet ice cream treat.
Sure am glad Jonn is back up to snuff.
Another typo I suppose….
“Sleeper, an Evans High School graduate, who served as an Army Ranger before earning degrees at Augusta State University and the University of Georgia, said he too is aware of the county’s changing demographics.”
http://newstimes.augusta.com/news/2014-05-18/sleeper-opponent-seeks-change
please contact the department of energy. send them a link to this blog and the FOIA.
ask them if mike told the truth on his security clearance application.
more complaints is better. squeaky wheel.
Also, contact the Savannah River Site directly. Google it. Let them know America is watching.
The radio station Austin Rhodes does his talk show on no doubt does not have archives available of previous shows. At least I could not find any, no matter how far I dug today. Sleeper is apparently thinking saying nothing means we will forget his lies. It’s about time for a sock puppet to join in and TRY to scare us. Working for DOE is a good place to start. Meanwhile the newspaper appears to be second in a long list of contacts who might be interested in a good story. Just for the heck of it
Contact Us
The Columbia County News-Times
604 Government Center Way
Evans, Ga., 30809
Main Number: (706) 868-1222
Fax Number: (706) 823-6062
Email: cnt@newstimesonline.com
Email
Publisher: Stephen Wade, 706-821-6602
Editor: Abbigail Lennon, 706-868-1222
It came up in the thread that there’s also no record of Sleeper graduating from the University of Georgia as was claimed in the newspaper article. I believe he went there and obtained IT training, but never graduated. Kind of funny of a BOE member to have inaccurate information about a degree. What does his federal contract job have on file from him?
Oopsie!!
please contact the DOE and also the contractor that operates the facility with your concerns. tell them to review his application and also security clearance application for accuracy.
“The tab on the wall is a companion to the one on my shoulder.”
Mike Sleeper.
Cocksucker.
That Sleeper comment is a killer right there.
The more we peel back the onion, the more we find, at the center, a syphilitic, pile infested, inflamed, gaping, ball working asshole, shit tonguing, cock gobbling, sperm burping thunder cunt.
Can I get an AMEN?
Amen.
Phone conversation with Columbia County News-Times Publisher Stephen Wade was hopefully productive. Give him credit, not having served, he was still interested in the story, even to the point of inquiring why someone not living in Georgia would have an interest in this story. To my surprise, he had not heard of the story until now. Another pleasant surprise was his interest as a publisher would not be diminished in spite of Sleeper’s kin being a judge.
Here’s where all the rest of you will hopefully take an interest. He was generous with his time in listening, and I hope I got every detail to him. PLEASE email the gentleman yourself (email address up above) and point out the specific details YOU find most offensive. If only say 100 of you would email him, seems to me this story would take wings through the local print media. In Jonn’s absence, I think that’s just about what he would ask of you.
i am not aware of who the judge is, but rambo nixon mike sleeper’s father-in-law is the chairman of the columbia county commission (GA).
You mean Ron Cross, the County Commissioner along with his buddies who recently fucked the County taxpayers out of $13,000 living it up at the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa after a frugal $3,500 dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steak House?
A GUY…..thanks for clarification. Somehow I thought I had read on one post where one of his kin was a judge. Still, I hope MANY email the newspaper publisher.
Sure would like to see on here tomorrow at least a few dozen, “I emailed the Publisher”. Or at least, “I sent a Letter To the Editor”. Otherwise, why would anyone think we care about liars and Stolen Valor?
I emailed the Publisher this evening.
Crickets….
Damage control Mike?
i sent US mail to the publisher.
Sent an e-mail asking that they follow up and investigate Sleeper and in general Stolen Valor as a human interest story
Email: cnt@newstimesonline.com
this isnt your house. the entire internet is mine to use as i wish. you cant annex any part of it, just reduce it to a sewer by spewing. this itsy bitsy corner of it is OPEN TO EVERYONE. the stated purpose of TAH is miles apart from your drivel. and as long as this comment is approved by the moderator, this is my picnic spot, not your house. deal with it today and forever,
that guy probably believed he was visiting a stolen valor blog, and he found a bunch of trolls attached to the blog’s balls. he politely commented on this.
one of you cited a senior PO’s rating.
you didnt cite any reason i would give a rat’s ass what rank an internet troll civilian used to have.
a buddy of mine was a marine e2. with two combat tours 26 mos in country about 1968. these verified facts are published on a regimental memorial site by an admin who served with him. i respect his rank as much as any e9. i dont. i respect his service and deprivations. by comparison, none of you resident trolls are provding full names, some due to fear of darth mary’s unstoppable power of FOIA.
seriously… austin rhodes is annoying, but his only offense was hiding a medical problem , trying to serve. you guys tried to make sport of it, and it was pathetic sport. the only two other cases like that i know of were both decorated in combat, including a ww2 sailor who was 12. those guys were better men than half of you.
outraged trolls: keep whimpering. its your only
skill.
youre twice as brittle and indignant as vegan feminist”transgendered” P.C. liberal academics, and 10% as intimidating.
this wasnt intended as a response to chipNASA, who is doing the right thing on this board. attached to wrong thread.
if you dont like comments about your off-topic agendas, ESPECIALLY blind obedience to the party of vladimir putin in washington, stay on purpose.
Every sock puppet is entitled to an opinion. Why did you wait so long? You say none of us are providing full names. Are you the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stranger?
Hey “Stranger”, one look at your rant tells me that your elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top, sphincter eyes.
API….Scroll back up to one comment above yours and one below by the same person. My guess is The Stranger and Norm are on the same elevator looking for the button that says, “Any floor between the basement and roof.”
Concur… I would hope that it isn’t his son.
You must be referring to Stranger Sleeper.
jonn talks as if this is a real vet’s spot due to offensive language. its a bunch of cowardly old men hiding behind anonymity. you d all be missing teeth if you moseyed over to hooters for a bud light. or else youd STFU.
Ohhhhh…..tough guy heh? Threatening people you don’t even know, claiming THEY hide behind anonymity. Now would Mr. and Mrs TRAP be happy with their little boy running his mouth like that? Who paid for your Bud light…Board of Education or County Commission? If you didn’t mind driving less than four hours I can PROMISE you there’s at least one old man wiling to meet you alone.
your time spent loitering at a daycare makes you an expert on anuses? is that what you learned at the DB leavenworth?
*YAWN*, you’re really beginning to bore the hell out of me.
You aren’t the first sock puppet to come here and talk trash, and you won’t be the last. YAWN!
Let me see if this all adds up. You’re pissed because a family member has been exposed as a FRAUD, lying his ass off about many things, including military background not as claimed, education not as claimed, combat experience not as claimed…..and that’s just for starters. So now you want to act like a bad ass and threaten people you don’t know, all because they were the messengers of a truth that when exposed to the general public might tarnish a silver tongue that had been getting by with lies for several years.
I don’t really know of anyone who comments on TAH that spends time loitering at a day care. However, there are many who can recognize an asshole in a minute.
It isn’t the offensive language that makes this a real (as you call it) vet’s spot. Rather it’s the fact that most commenters on this site are proven veterans that take the lies of POSERS serious. Contrary to what you likely believe, we don’t find pleasure exposing these liars like this. Seems like once we begin, there always seems to be a life history of lying to people that finds its way to the top of the stack. When a persons finds themselves able to dupe more and more gullible people with lies about military history and background, it morphs into a lifetime of more and more lies. Always wanting to be more and more every day that they were not.
Finally we find you running your mouth as if someone had lied about you or your life. You’re not fixin’ to try & blow smoke about your own fabricated military background are you? Sleeper brought this on himself; all we did was research and report.
How about doing all of us one small favor? Please explain why and how all this bothers you personally. We’ll look for an answer soon.
I don’t think we’ll hear anything other than junior high school-type shit talking from that moldy little mouse turd, jarhead, IMHO he’s little more than a trash-talking locker room meat gazer whose birth certificate is a letter of apology from a condom manufacturer!
API…..normally I’d agree with you. But this time methinks we are being played for a fool by a tool. The tiniest cursory forensics look at sentence structure and composition, punctuation, grammar, and terminology comparisons IMHO leans toward one definitive thought: Austin Rhodes, Norm, The Stranger and Austin Rhodent Trap are all one in the same. One point that pretty much seals the deal is a big red flag that shows a very similar contempt for anonymity.
Before it’s over Mr. Sock Puppet will jump in again as yet someone else.
Somebody is pissed because he ignored the truth. He’s gonna take up for his buddy, no matter where he ends up.
I have ZERO doubt that one little roach turd is using multiple sockpuppets to make him, her, or itself look more badass than it really is, I simply like stepping on them like the cockroaches they are!
If we have learned one thing so far, it is that the Sleeper sock-puppets and dutch rudder pals have extremely poor writing and spelling skills.
Have to agree with you. Could we agree Sock Puppetry 101 requires an I. Q. in the single digit range? You can change your name, change your underwear, or change your gender……but a sock puppet will ALWAYS show you there’s a hole in the big toe area where brain damage has occurred.
It would be real interesting to know the connection of the sock puppet to Sleeper. If we could expose that, it would be another major embarrassment.
Columbia News Times calling on Sleeper to address this situation at this Tuesday’s BOE Meeting at 5:30. This story is not going away and the longer Sleeper takes to admit his errors, the worse he will look. A school board member should be above this level of deceit. He usually takes great pride in being the official spokesperson for CCBOE…yet he has been in hiding since this came out. We are watching.
The fact that Mike Sleeper is in hiding should speak volumes about his character.
DITTO that, I wonder if he’s just hoping the heat will die down and he can go back to slithering around on his lies? HEY Michael Sleeper, THE INTERNET IS FOREVER!!!
If his fellow school board members don’t ask, the parents who send their children to schools in the district should start asking MICHAEL SLEEPER questions about his military service in the public comments section of the BOE meeting.
Bravo to the Columbia News Times for making this a subject in a recent OPED:
http://newstimes.augusta.com/opinion/our-opinion/2017-02-12/our-opinion-local-leaders-suffer-speculation-turnover
The Metro Spirit ran an article as well.
http://metrospirit.com/scandal-columbia-county/
Wow… a lot going on in Columbia County!
That’s no lie. It’s hard to see how they’ve had all that go on and no charges filed. Especially with the tax commissioner’s office. $160,000 in bribery money on tax contracts is a lot of money.
So let’s see, Michael Sleeper CLAIMED to have been a U.S. Army Ranger and NONE of his records back that up while the only Military Records found on Michael Sleeper have him being discharged as a PVT/E1 after two years. In the meantime Michael Sleeper has been amazingly quiet, ditto with his sockpuppet, it appears that he doesn’t know this IS NOT just going to fade away, Michael Sleeper ought to know by now that the internet is forever!
That about sums it up API.
” In the meantime Michael Sleeper has been amazingly quiet, ditto with his sockpuppet….”
I am curious if anyone has looked in his boy-cave?
I was wondering the same thing. Lately Michael Sleeper sure has been a QUIET little dingleberry, hasn’t he?
Sounds like someone is in political damage control mode…
From the Metro Spirit article:
“I recognize there are shortcomings in the military documentation of my military history and I’m attempting to have them corrected,” Sleeper said, adding that it may take several weeks for the documents to be corrected. “So I am not making any public statements now.”
Shortcomings? Corrected? Several weeks? Missing DD214?
White out and photocopy?
“There are shortcomings in…my military record..:”.
FIFY, Mike.
Bravo!!! Bravo!!! PROFESSIONAL grade buss shit artist. No wonder he is a politician. Damned fool ought to realize he’s been caught and exposed. Time to grow up, act like a MAN for ONCE in your pathetic life and face the music. NOBODY in TAH crowd will let you rest until you learn how to apologize and tell the truth. You’re a damned liar and beneath the office of dog catcher.
To my knowledge, not one of us is from the immediate Augusta area, but that isn’t the issue here. It’s about INTEGRITY, HONESTY, and CHARACTER…
which you seem to be short on in all departments. You’re a shit bird who has been caught in his own lies..all of which were created to make him a more appealing candidate. Bottom line is this…you should have explored another route for naive voters to recognize you as a man for the job. Maybe you should have told people you were the only one in Waco that got out alive. That’s the ticket…a good interesting (however untruthful) that will gain sympathy and votes. Sorry loser, you created the very lie about your military history that will eventually bring you down. And believe me, it WILL.
I started to peek, but IF if I remember correctly there were too many John Wayne Gacy pin ups on the walls. At that time he was running for County Lying Mofckr. May not have been him, my memory is often incorrect
Sleeper also refused a formal interview with the News Times about the matter. A question and answer session would have exposed him. I suspect he didn’t complete the Ranger course is the truth of the matter. Over time that important fact blurred in his mind. Why he got out early as an E-1 with a General Discharge as opposed to the usual Honorable Discharge is anybody’s guess.
you must have your own set of sleeper records. the real ones show he never attended the school, or the prerequisite jump school, or went to ft. benning
Note in the article he did not say he finished Ranger training. He only says he attended. A little late for that clarification.
Nice PowerPoint Mike.
You claim to be an Army Ranger but use your BCT picture in your “look at me” presentation?
No pictures from when you graduated Army Ranger School? Basic Airborne Course?
And the hits just keep on coming for MICHAEL SLEEPER….
You mean MICHAEL SLEEPER from the Columbia County GA School Board?
The Michael Sleeper who SAID he graduated US Army Ranger School?
The same Michael Sleeper whose FOIA info says he was discharged as a PV1 after a little over three years of service?
The same Michael Sleeper who has been awful quiet over this but has yet to offer up evidence to counter what has been presented?
Come to think of it Michael Sleeper doesn’t even have a sockpuppet yakking for him anymore!
The same MICHAEL SLEEPER that has a School Board meeting this evening… and, hopefully, a room full of parents wanting to play “Trivia with MICHAEL SLEEPER”.
Don’t know for certain, but I believe this latest article means tonight…unless they have another school board meeting scheduled for next week. This was sent to me by someone very interested in seeing that the TAH crowd knows the entire media story.
http://newstimes.augusta.com/opinion/our-opinion/2017-02-12/our-opinion-local-leaders-suffer-speculation-turnover
Oops…pardon the intrusion. Duh, I need to look back further. Did not know HMCS(FMF)ret had already printed the story.
MICHAEL SLEEPER = Turd.
Mike Sleeper maintains his innocence in this affair. Another poster referred an article that recently appeared in the Columbia County News Times (his hometown paper). Incidentally, the story of your investigation is buried inside an editorial entitled “Our Opinion: Local leaders suffer speculation, turnover”.
In the article, it states “…Sleeper replied in the email that he did attend the U.S. Army Airborne School, Ranger Indoctrination Program (RIP), and did serve with the 1st/75th Ranger Regiment. He also added he will provide the proper documentation once it is available.”
What I am having trouble with is the “records are wrong/incomplete” type explanation. I am not saying that its not possible, but I do remember, that when I served on active duty, having a copy of my personnel file in my hands every time I changed duty stations. At a minimum, I went to the personnel office at least twice at each stop (once for inprocessing and once for outprocessing). I also had the benefit of good NCO’s as my supervisors who encouraged me on a couple of occasions, to visit personnel and check out the accuracy/completeness of my personnel file. For instance, after completion of a school, to ensure that the record was updated to reflect attendance at that school. Finally, when ETS rolled around, we were taken in a room and briefed by a representative from the VA who preached something like this “Before you get out, look at your DD-214 and if it is not right get it fixed right now. Do not leave this post until it is. it will be 100% easier to correct any errors now.”
So is it just me or is this whole “records are wrong” thing kind of hokey sounding to some of you also?
Sleeper is following the poser handbook to the t.
The dog ate my records is in the handbook.
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=39711
If Sleeper served with the 75th Ranger Regiment at some point has nothing to do with our post. It is at best a diversion from the fact that he was never a Tabbed Ranger.
It also has nothing to do with him being kicked out of the Army.
Local political infighting is of no interest to us. There seems to be a lot of that going on. Claiming that records are incomplete or lost in a fire is common for who embellish.
It is my understanding that the local paper and several others have ordered his official records through a FOIA request. They will show he never completed Ranger training and he was terminated from the service as a result of disciplinary action.
What the local community decides to do with that information is entirely up to them. What Mr. Sleeper decides to do is entirely up to him. Keeping the focus on what unit he may or may not have been assigned to at some point has no relevance. Acting as if it does is only a diversion from the truth.
I certainly hope that you did not get the impression that I am defending this man.
My post is primarily about him using the tired old, “my records are wrong” song and dance, particularly with him having served in the late 1980s.
The other point I was making was about how local media are tiptoeing around this story. The Columbia County News Times buried it in an editorial along with other political news.
The Augusta, GA area is a community filled with thousands of veterans & active duty personnel and this issue is something that needed to be brought to light.
The Metro Spirit ran an article as well.
http://metrospirit.com/scandal-columbia-county/
No, I was only commenting on the situation in general. From what I can gather and his contact with us, he denies that he ever said he served in Iraq. That very well may be, all we posted was we got reports that he had. The biggest point is him claiming to have been assigned to the 75th at some point. What difference does that make? We clearly said he was never a Ranger with the 75th or any other unit for that matter. He was thrown out of the Army. He clearly gave some people the impression that he was a Ranger, all he needed to do was step up and clear it up. Instead all I am hearing is his insistence that he was with the 75th at some point. So are shitloads of people that are not Rangers. He failed at becoming a Tabbed Ranger and was thrown out of the Army for misconduct. Not much else to talk about, so I have no idea why he keeps going on about things.
MY suggestion is that one of you former Army members go into detail about how being a Ranger actually requires that one EARNS a TAB. Since I was in the Corps, I learn so much from this web site on a daily basis that I had no idea. From that I draw the obvious conclusion each branch of service had its own formalities and lingo. Dave Hardin is one of the few Devil Dogs that understands Army Speak.
Without fully explaining it as if being introduced to a bunch of people who had never served to begin with, there is little hope the public will wake up. As of this writing Sleeper is stonewalling and hoping most people will forget about it before he produces proof and documentation. Certainly NONE of the print media know enough to do a decent job explaining to the public in understandable terms. It’s up to ONE OF YOU to set the record straight.
For the time being, here is never-never land where Sleeper hopes the issue will rest and be forgotten. Even with Sleeper’s cocky and arrogant attitude, published just TODAY:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-02-15/columbia-county-school-board-member-says-he-will-provide-evidence-he-didn-t
You have to hand it to Sleeper, big balls to double down….
I think this interaction between Mr. Dekle and MICHAEL SLEEPER tells me quite a bit about someone’s character:
‘“I do see unrefuted evidence that raises serious questions and I see the passage of an inordinate amount of time without any answers,” Dekle read in his letter. “This is not good for our school district, and do ask for the good of the Columbia County School District, respectfully, that Mr. Sleeper provide a full explanation of military service without further delay.”
After Dekle concluded his statement, Sleeper asked him, “Finished grandstanding?”
Sleeper did not provide Dekle an explanation about his military record.
“Honestly, I just at the moment, pity you. That’s all I have to say,” Sleeper told Dekle.’
Sounds like there has been some friction between both individuals in the past. IF MICHAEL SLEEPER doesn’t come up with the “proper documentation” soon, he may find himself as a “empty seat” school board member until the next election… or he’s removed from office.
He went BALLS DEEP at the SB meeting… and pissed off the chairman in the process.
Sleeper is not going to “come up” with the documentation because he doesn’t have it. first, he wasn’t in the continental US long enough after his enlistment to have comleted Basic/AIT (12 weeks), jump school (3 weeks), assignment to the 1st battalion, scheduling and orders for RIP (3 weeks) and then assignment to one of the rifle companies in the battalion for some length of time. Also, if he had accomplished all that in his first five months on active duty, then why was he promptly sent to Alaska exactly five months after he entered active duty?
I’m with you on his “coming up” with the docs… he got his nuts caught in a pair of vice grips with his bullshit. He’s got some problems with at least one board member and quite possibly the public over his “embellishing”… and that may undo any plans he has for staying on the board or using it as a springboard for other political aspirations.
Thanks for posting the link to the story.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you see some comments that indicate that some in the community are waking up to this issue now. Hopefully he won’t see any rest on this issue until he comes clean. Also in the comments there is some back and forth about the question of “Who is a Ranger?”.
Looking around on some other websites where this sort of discussion has taken place, it seems that this “Who is a Ranger?” leads to oftentimes spirited debate.
On the one hand you could have a Military Intelligence officer, who got a slot to the Ranger school for no other reason than fluffing his military resume, and never served in the Ranger Regiment(1st, 2nd, or 3rd Battalions of the 75th Infantry Regiment). Is that man a Ranger? He wears the Ranger tab.
On the other hand, you could have a PFC who enlists as an infantryman and volunteers for assignment to the Ranger Regiment. He completes his infantry school, his airborne school, and the Ranger Assessment Selection Program(modern),or the Ranger Indoctrination Program (old school). Theoretically this young PFC I described could deploy and serve with his battalion in combat before ever getting a slot at “Ranger School”. Is this young man a Ranger? He has the 75th Regiment unit scroll on his right arm signifying combat deployment.
Bottom line is, however, as far as the evidence shows, this whole “Who is a Ranger?” argument is moot as it concerns Mike Sleeper. The records pulled by Dave Hardin show Sleeper with neither a Ranger tab, nor actual service as an infantryman in the 75th Infantry Regiment.
Thanks again for all of you on this website for exposing the posers and correcting the record on those who embellish.
Check out the comments section of the story… me thinks MICHAEL SLEEPER is not a popular public figure in his neck of the woods today.