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 Snake Eaters at professionalsoldiers.com found that the COL-MAJ was a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for much of the 80’s. One asked if he was lip synching.
@220 Yeah….I was half expecting him to be stealing Ripley at the bridge and running that as his.
NavyFlyer: I bet this POS dork couldn’t identify Quang Tri Provine on a map if his life depended on it…
@181..The Fake Colonel is, ONCE AGAIN, attempting to throw a smoke screen. Wants our family to FOCUS on the GOOD he has done for us. For years he HAS done good, wonderful things for people, our family included. But under the DISGUISE of a man of INTEGRITY and HONESTY. He is first to blame others in authority positions (members of his church esp) for their conduct and hypocrisy. Blames them for turning his son away from the church. HE IS THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRITE! Masquerading around as a Colonel, a rescuer. His poor son idolized him for his “service”. What kind of example did the FAKE Colonel set for this son and all of us!!! You better believe, Im pissed off! My boys and me hung on every word he said. I spent hours and hours listening to his stories. This guy liberated the students in the Libyan hostage crisis in the 70’s for cryin out loud! He even carried an orphan on his back for days in vietnam after her village was masacred by the “gooks”. Handed her off to another village to take care of her. He was sprayed with Napalm ( forgive spelling) and washed it off in a river floating with the stuff. He ate rats in the rice pattys…and on and on. I Defended his reputation to anyone who said anything negative about him..because he was such a GREAT help to our family. He was there for us, because he had a “new” forum to spin his “old” crap in. He told these stories at scout camps, at church meetings. All the while, knowing he had already exhausted his “tour” with his first wife and family of kids and grandkids. He turned on them when they questioned him about it. Told US that they were just angry at him for being a VietNam vet and didnt support the military! To his first family, I apologize for believing The Fake Colonel, and thinking ill of you. To my husband, I apologize for defending The Fake Colonel and not believing you when you said there was something “not… Read more »
To Markysmom: Ma’am, I know it’s not easy, but you and your family need to seal yourself off from this charlatan, and completely cut off all current and future communications with this individual, and try to move on, and let God do His healing.
Likewise, I hope now that the truth is out, that your neighborhood, church, town, and community will shun and ostracize this person for the fraud and lier that he was and is. May the Good Lord bless you and your family, and be rest assured that the real military and Special Forces veterans here will continue to expose the fake colonel’s fraud for the whole world to see. God Bless and take care…
Combat Historian
So much for SV being a harmless, victimless, pretend game.
@253 You know it!
@253 – Sprayed with napalm? When someone says something like that, you should always look it up. It’s an incendiary device similar to jellied gasoline. It burns whatever it touches. If he had been sprayed with napalm he would not be alive today.
@ 256.
Hit the nail on the head.
Ex-Ph2: You’re absolutely correct; you can’t “wash off” napalm on you in a stream; you scream and burn in agony as you die. Since we don’t use napalm on the current battlefield anymore (as far as I know), most civvie folks today have no memory or knowledge of what it was or what it did, so col kendude gets away with using that in his fake war stories…sad…
CH, isn’t something like napalm the fuel for ventless fireplaces?
Ex-Ph2: Not sure about the fuel used in ventless fireplaces, since I don’t own a ventless fireplace 🙂 But plenty of military technology and munitions/ordnance have been adopted for civilian use, so I wouldn’t be surprised…
I think napalm was first used in WWII on the islands in the South Pacific, against the entrenched Japanese army. Those flamethrowers in the old films are what come to my mind.
#261
I think the fuel used in ventless fireplaces is a “gel’d alcohol”
@264 – That sounds right. Thanks!
Flamethrowers were first developed for use by the French in the WWI trenches. If I remember correctly, flamethrowers used a somewhat different combination of fuel and thickners than the classic napalm we are familiar with today. The flamethrower weapons were extremely dangerous for the operator as well as for their intended victims, and if not operated exactly as intended, will tend to soak the flamethrower operator with fuel and cause him to burn up as well as the enemy. Being a flamethrower operator was an extremely dangerous and difficult job. The classic air-dropped napalm was developed late in the war, and was first used in late 1944 in the Pacific; I think it was on Peleliu…a very very nasty weapon…
@254, Markysmom: Forgive yourself. I say that from my own past experiences. I’m a vet, and I’ve been conned in the past, I know how it burns one’s inner self and soul when that happens. There’s nothing wrong with you, it’s happened to many others, scam artists like this fake Colonel have no feelings, regret, or remorse, they’ll just do it again to get the instant gratification they seek, and this twit has been busted, he’s going to pay for what he did to you and your family as well as others! I’ve had to do it myself after getting conned in the past, I’ve had to forgive myself in order to let the mental healing begin.
Holy crap …. I just popped the stitches in my urethra reading this string. Now I am pissing blood mad!
MCPO: the visual of what you described has shut down this thread and required me to go to Class VI.
Actually, I’m just bumping this (I hope) so we can find out what is happening with COL-MAJ.
There are a LOT of Vets in the
*BLEEEP* *BLEEP*, *BLEEP!*. *BLEEEP*ing touch screen phone!! I meant to backtrack and think more about my post, and hit the wrong part of my screen. There are a LOT of Vets out there among the Harley Riders out there, this clown’s been outed, so I think it’s just a matter of time until some Real Vet turns him into a doormat. Like folks say, THINK POSITIVE!!
You guys haven’t been doing your part making this guy famous yet. He still has a job. So share with your Facebook and Twitter friends. Yes, this is a shameless plea for more traffic.
What does he do at South Valley Harley Davidson? I could not find him in the directory on their website.
Jonn: The problem is that this gets pushed off the main screen (because of all of the other ass hattery) and new surfers don’t know about it. The thread has been dormant until I recoiled at the image of MCPO’s post and, effectively, bumped it. COL-MAJ Ken needs to be a sticky until he is totally outed and shrivels in shame, IMHO. I thought you had some stuff going on behind the Green Door that would soon be revealed so I was waiting silently.
This thread must reach 300.
Actually, there is some stuff going on. I could tell you stories. Some more stuff is coming. On a couple of our SV guys.
My ex-wife’s uncle was a Marine and was a flame thrower in the island hopping campaign during WWII. He only mentioned it to me once that he was a Marine. Nothing else was ever said. I discovered through my aunt that he had reoccurring dreams all his years. Before PSTD was even diagnosed. The screaming of burning Japanese never left his mind. He was a big man at 6’3 and he died of cancer 20 some years ago. Truly a hero in my mind.
Where does he work?
@276 GT- The rumor is here: http://www.utahharley.com/southvalley.htm
And a few comments have been posted here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Intermountain-Harley-Davidson/137731568034
@ kp32 “What does he do at South Valley Harley Davidson? I could not find him in the directory on their website.”
He probably washes bikes.
Don’t think for a minute they are unaware of some of his issues.
If he is employed there … there is a reason!
@279 couldn’t happen to a nicer group of 4ssclowns…
Crocheron’s not joining anyone’s linkedin networks at this time, it appears he was VP for a division of nCoat in Draper a few years back that went belly up…there was an older linkedin entry for him and he listed nCoat…it was a company that managed to acquire a debt load of 914 million against less than 2 million in assets….it was liquidated less than a year ago…he was VP of business development, interesting that it developed a debt that 450% of its’ assets. I understand some was penalty markup for promissory notes unpaid….and it’s not clear what if any function he had that helped aid or avoid bankruptcy….
It’s just interesting that his life is currently nose diving like the company where he was an executive a year ago.
This is his Facebook page . . .
http://www.facebook.com/ken.crocheton?fref=ts
Note, he did not graduate from the University of Utah. Also, note that he is listed as Ken Crocheton
Page is private, but his friends are listed if anyone is interested in letting them know.
Markysmom, any update? Hope you and your family are hanging in there.
Looks like this is his wife’s Facebook page. It is also private, but lists friends and family members. Wonder what they know?
http://www.facebook.com/vickie.beesleycrocheron/friends
I’m not surebthat’s the right Facebook page. That Harley its in Salt Lake. South Valley Harley is in a differenf city, Sandy. I’m tempted to drive down there tomorrow with this information and pass it on to his boss!
I guess they are sister shops. Would still be interesting to go down there. Only about a 15 minute drive.
A big “thank you” to the posters from Utah here who are personally passing on the word about col cockeroach to the communities in that area. This POS needs to be outed and shunned in his local community and region for the liar fraud that he is…
He is even “posing” his name at Facebook. While there are many Crocheron friends, even a post about a Crocheron, he has to further his pack of lies by using a false name.
I would love to see a photo of him laying in the fecal position, crying like the sissy that he is.
#279 Jonn: You gonna Obama us with a Fri afternoon news dump? 🙂
Anxiously awaiting.
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Thanks for all the support and encouragement. My older son (scottland the brave)is gathering much needed support from your comments on this thread. He will come through this just fine. Its my little Marky that worries me. Time will help.
@267, Thank you for the wise counsel. That is a good place to start, sir.
He works as a “fill-in” employee when someone needs a day off at these two shops. Not regularly sheduled on any shift.
Has a new burnt orange super glide thingy…he’s probably trying to sell it now so no one recognizes him.
@Markysmom, hope your sone Markey’s condition has improved. So sorry you all had this scumbag inject himself into your lives like this.
I have been fooled along with many others by a phoney veteran years ago on a web forum. Guy had us all convinced he was a real deal Marine Gunny, til he let slip one night in chat while in a drunken stupor about his “Navy Cross”…
Turns out the guy was never even a Marine at all. There are sconvincing liars out there…
Don’t beat yourself up over it
First, does he deliver pizza on the side wearing that hat?
Second, he must be high speed, low drag because he skipped from O-4 right over O-5 to O-6 in the space of a few pictures! That’s bad ass!
@FMR PAO, maybe he skipped a rank due to his *SHHHH!* secretly training Space Shuttle Door Gunners on dealing with rogue Zygorpian raiders? Just a spur-of-the-moment thought!
@294 and@295: Don’t you know the good colonel must constantly switch ranks to properly advise his numerous ARVN counterparts in between his top-secret missions to observe the Ho Chi Minh Trail while hanging from trees?
He doesn’t tuck his laces in his boots and can’t get the beret on straight. Something even a basic trainee knows how to do. I’m betting he hasn’t servad a day.
@296, maybe, JUST MAYBE he went from MAJ to COL because of his *SSHHHHH!!* seeecret missions in Paprika?
@296 and 298, two words: time travel. But you don’t have the need to know.
@Markysmom…thanks for running this in your blog:
http://prayformarky.blogspot.com/2013/04/mark-and-family-is-devastated.html?m=1
We all hope this hasn’t, in any way, slowed Mark’ys recovery
It is the information age…..at least this imposter could have done some damn research if he was going to attempt to BS everyone.