Kenneth Crocheron of Draper, Utah; the Ronald MacDonald of Stolen Valor
JD Hinton from Professional Soldiers sends over some pictures for your entertainment on this slow news Saturday. The photos are of fake Colonel Kenneth Crocheron. Do we really need a FOIA?
Yes, your eyes aren’t deceiving you – those are bloused jungle boots with those greens.
Some folks have already done FOIAs on him, but do we really need one? Take your best shot.
ADDED: Here’s a bonus shot. It looks like it was taken in a mirror because the “US” is inverted;
ADDED Again: For those of you who think this is a one-time thing that Crocheron is sorry about, here’s a photo of him wearing his faker finery on his little motorcycle thingie;
Category: Phony soldiers
The more I look, the more I’m convinced that he’s a Mental Patient that hasn’t been taking his meds!
Sewing a hat patch onto a jacket…..haven’t seen that one since Ballduster McSoulpatch
Extra loser.
Love the beret….
@95, It would make very good television ratings for sure. They have all types of reality shows, so let’s go hunting after these low life turds, when they think they are having their ego’s stroked even more then when the outcome is not what they exepected, it will make great television. Kind of like the old candid camera in this case hunting and setting up scum. Ex Military doing counter ambush and setting up the scum ball fake, this would be awesome!
What? Looks right to me?
@105- To Catch a Poseur
Sir, would you have a seat please?
What are you doing visiting a seven year-old boy dressed like that?
Do you think this is appropriate?
@ 56 SpudWrench …
If he lives only two miles away.
I will give 200 bucks if you leave a steamer on his porch (if he has one attached to his double wide).
If you are bashfull … a steamer in a brown paper bag doused with MOGAS and set ablazed will do fine as well.
300 bucks for the steamer bag blaze … don’t forget to ring the door bell befiore you run!
Looks like this clown has easy access to kids.
Ticklemonster.
Fuck him.
Cold Steel Beatdown.
The fact he showed up at some sick childs hospital room spewing his bogus bullshit… angered beyond words.
Nothing else I can even type at the moment.
Ballduster McSoulpatch…MSGT Soup Sandwich…Colonel Cockmunch…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winnah.
NHSparky: I was thinking COL Crocherot, actually. But I guess either works.
Green Thumb: agree about the beret. Chef Boy-ar-dee would be proud. Ditto the Pillsbury Doughboy.
@97, 98, and most everyone else;
I love this blog and usually I’m in favor of saying screw these guys where the sun doesn’t shine until the sun starts shining, but I think in this case too much shit has been heaped upon a guy who was trying to do a good thing in a bad way.
The way I see it, he felt really bad about his neighbor being sick. Instead of dressing up like Santa or the Easter bunny, he dressed up like a soldier because he knew the kid liked soldiers. Sure, he should have called some real Green Berets from the local SF group, he dropped the coin and dressed himself up in the most impressive way he thought of. Maybe word got out and some neighbors asked him to go visit their nephews. There’s no evidence that anyone actually believes that he is SF, Delta, Black Ops whatever. Even that blog post doesn’t convince me any more than one that says “Santa visited school today” makes me believe anyone thought it was the real Santa.
There’s no evidence yet that he’s profiting or trying to sneak onto a military base to steal weapons, just a guy playing dress up to make a neighbor kid feel better. I think his only crime is that nobody acknowledged in writing that he was pretending, either on the family blog or the valley journal. I hope the SF guys who are undoubtedly going to visit him take this into consideration.
If I’m wrong, I’ll join in the dog pile, but I’m in favor of waiting to hear the whole story before crucifying him.
NotVerySpecial Forces: you did notice that the guy was sporting the ribbons for (1) the Distinguished Service Cross w/2 OLC, and (2) the Purple Heart w/2 OLC, right?
As I recall, a fair number of people have been awarded both of those decorations posthumously.
Man, I wish I still lived in Utard!
@112 – no fucking way. Dressing up like Santa or like the Easter Bunny to make a child feel better is one thing. But faking something like this – when so many sacrificed and died in that uniform – there’s no excuse for that. Period. He’s a disgusting, twisted fake. You don’t fake valor. You don’t fake honor. Not when there are real service members out there who have sacrificed so much.
Fuck this douchebag with a cactus.
You know, as much as I don’t know about the American military dress uniform (I am Canadian) … even I know you DON’T blouse dress greens …
@ 116:
Yes, in the United States Army, paratroopers do indeed wear bloused jump boots with the dress green and/or the dress blue uniform.
Kenneth Crocheron
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Draper, UT 84020-8630
801-XXX-XXXX
“H-minus”
edit: Do not post personal contact info.
wow…just wow!!! you think you’ve seen it all…then you see this. speechless…i’ve only been out of the military for a couple of years now and have seen many people try to pull off some pretty fucked up gettups to make them look like they’ve done more than they have, but they at least got the placements right.and the uniform in general correct (shoes, ribbons…) this guy…. i don’t know if i want to laugh, cry or throw a fit. maybe it’s the simple fact that i don’t go around and brag and show off pictures of my military time. could be my PTSD could be something else, whatever. i just know that it actually pisses me off that people will fake stuff like this when others are out actually fighting and serving. and no matter if u are a cook, or intel, infantry, a mechanic, whatever, u are serving or have served. so to my brothers and sisters in arms THANK YOU 🙂
My bad
and that thank you is to the ones serving and to the true veterans, not the posers. just so we have that clear 😉
@112 – The people I feel bad for are the boy and his family. Based on what I saw of the link, his mother actually believes this guy’s lie. The unfortunate thing is that the people who will be hurt by this is a family that already has enough to deal with. This is what people on this blog have been saying forever…..Stolen Valor is not a “victimless crime”. Believe me, there are victims here. Nobody wants to break this kids heart, but we are not the ones who showed a lack of integrity here. At this point, it looks like this clown will get a pass because nobody wants to inflict more pain and suffering on people who have seen enough in their lives. This is why I am still angry about this; what this guy did is beyond the typical asshattery and bragging that most of these fakes do. Trying to scam your way into a girls pants or getting benefits you haven’t earned is bad enough, but preying on the hopes and dreams of an innocent child is on a whole other level. I think I can say that most of us here do what we do in order to protect those among us who cannot protect themselves; we sacrifice in order to ensure that whose we love (and those who we don’t even know) can live their lives in the freedoms that this country was founded on. In addition, we contribute in other ways besides our service because the lessons of duty and honor are well-instilled. Guys like this are a special kind of scum because they think they can hold us hostage by our desire to not harm the innocent.
What an idiot…
^ Well said.
i called the phone number that was listed on the directory and it said it was disconnected or no longer in service. so what are the chances that he is no longer at that address either? good luck finding the guy to straighten him out. hey intel veteran, u still have your top secret security clearance connections?
this douche bag lives around 50 miles from me i know plenty of rangers in the draper area that would love to gt ahold of this guy!!
wow – a real major or colonel would at least know the order of precedence on awards and how to properly wear them – AND wearing a ballcap patch on a ‘dress’ uniform. Good thing he has not come around my neck of the woods – he might not survive the ass chewing I would give him for being such a shitbird – and deceiving little kids and their families – that should be a hanging offence
Almost makes me want to move to Draper just to be in the presence of such greatness…
@99, you need to look again. His tie looks like crap. If one of my Soldiers showed up for an inspection with a tie like that I’d teach him how to retie it before anyone else saw it. Your BN Cdr was right, every Soldier has a Sergeant, and this guy definitely has never been near one. I’ll not get into his other uniform violations. Luckily he’s 3/4 of the country away from me.
SFC (Ret) Speight
Very well said Mustang2LT. if that had been my 3yr old in that bed and i found out some fake was taking advantage of him to gain some glory time on the front page of a news paper, there would be hell to pay.the headlines would then read ” 26 year old mom rips out the throat of man posing as US Army Soldier visiting her sick child in the hospital”
There’s haze in the hospital picture suggesting that it’s a mirror pic as well as the insignia, the alleged Unit Citations and alleged ribbons are swapped, but something else doesn’t synch, I smell a photoshop!!
This is just sad. I’m surprised he can fool anyone with such disarray.
did not read all comments, but they blocked out the kid in the top picture, but with the zoom on the pic when its clicked on, you can clearly see the kid in the photo behind him. just a heads up if you are trying to protect the kid in some way. thank you for your time.
Hey y’all,
I am honestly not trying to take anything away from the little boy’s fight with a difficult disease, but you need to look at this…
http://prayformarky.blogspot.com/2010/01/green-beret-motto-de-oppressor-liber.html
Not sure what this Assclown is trying to pull, but I’d beat his ass on principle. I’ve been all over the world as a USAF photographer and seen more shit than I ever want to remember. But what the fuck is this dumbass doing wearing a DCU AFSOC patch on his ACUs? If the OD green badges were not enough of a give away…the DCU patch is like flashing neon.
I seriously hope a real GB takes his ass out to feed the mountain lions…I mean…there are plenty of places to get lost in the Wasatch mountains.
@ A Proud Infidel: photoshop my ass…… Gain some computer knowledge before commenting. Good lord.
Ugh! The comments on the link from #134 are all thanking the “Humble Hero” for his service to the US and for taking the time to visit the kid. This is a damn shame! As a mother I know I’d pull his tally whacker through his throat for a stunt like this.
It is all about the press for this piece of rot, that’s how it looks to me. So makes you wonder what his end game is,if he wants press for being a Military Hero and a Hometown one. Political dreams?
Is it me or did anyone else see a pair of hands under his arms holding his uniform tighter to his body in the pvc flagpole mcmansion photo?
I hate that he miss lead the sick child and his family!
I’m South African and even I can see that half the awards and uniform items this miscreant is wearing are just plain *wrong*! What is with the HUGE SFG flash on his beret…? What a dick!
Sick. Stolen valor is one screw up it lying to a sick kid deserves castration.i say if the kid is still alive (I hope so) we get some real Hero’s to visit him. Then rovers to track this scum down and do what is needed.
This idiot makes those of us who have done and will continue to do just shake our heads. I would like to see this moron in public, because I would’ve ripped him a new a$$hole. He gives true AD/RES/GD a bad name. Not to mention lying to a child, definitely needs a boot in his ass…
So, because I have too short an attention span to read all the comments, I’m gonna point this out, I don’t think his beret is even the right fucking color. I only work with the army, and do not know the regs, but I know fucked up when I see it. By Odin’s beard, is he a pile of hammered dog fuck or what? What a scum sucking sack of shit oxygen thief douche canoe waste of space.
@134 & @136
The hospital pics on the “Pray for Mikey” are all bass-ackwards mirror images. Left handed salutes along with all the other screw-ups on Dildo Faggins greens – DOH!
hey everyone. I have found out he works at a Harley dealership in Utah. I am working on getting his home address, I will be in Utah next week and will be making flyers and Handing them out in front of his workplace and to all his neighbors if I can find them. He will not get away with this. I am also contacting Utah vfws and the freedom riders, and see if I can make this thing huge. Email me if you want to join blindsie@gmail.com
I’m just left speechless
I love this guy, has the same spirit as Jim Carrie, Gedunk medal was awarded to us in 68 when i was in bootcamp, meant you showed up and manage to eat the slop served in every meal in bootcamp, He has this as his highest award, then the purple heart is down a few, he must have wont that one packing a burrito up his ass or maybe some scrambled eggs he wanted eat later. Yaaaaaaahhhhahahahahh what a fucking loser. Too bad he lied to the poor kid that was sick
Some people just beg you to pike em in the eye with a crew driver. He is no top of that list
What?
The?
Fuck?
WHy don’t these people just dress up lik Star Wars storm troopers or Han Solo or something? That’s less harmful than the fake GI Joe stuff they do.