Leroy Bartlett-King; fraud
According to The Florida Times-Union, this fellow, Leroy Bartlett-King, told the civvies a spine-tingling tale about the time he stepped on a mine in Iraq and stayed on the explosive device long enough for his squad mates to clear the area and then took the full force of the blast. Surprisingly, he still had all of his limbs and protuberances, but the blast left him a mumbling piece of crap – the VA had only rated him at 10%, though.
So the civvies got him some benefits to help him through his period of homelessness from the Hope Fund. He told the social workers that the Army had tossed him aside because he couldn’t be an infantryman any longer. When he talked, with a Tim Poe stutter, spittle formed at the corners of his mouth and he could hardly stand
Then the Times-Union did an article on the poor unfortunate fellow, and it is funny, but no one in his unit can remember the whole mine incident;
Then the email came.
A man who served with Bartlett-King in Charlie Co. 1st Battalion 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Infantry Division wrote the Times-Union expressing doubts about his story.
After Times-Union staff began digging, the lie was uncovered. There was no landmine, and there were no injuries from one.
Bartlett-King was kicked out of the Army with an other-than-honorable discharge due to drug abuse, according to a copy of his records obtained by the Times-Union.
His official discharge papers, or DD 214, also show that he never served in Afghanistan, like he told Brangenberg for the original story.
Not only did Bartlett-King not step on a landmine, his unit suffered no casualties due to enemy contact during the whole deployment, one of the unit’s officers told the Times-Union. Three other members of his company confirmed the officer’s casualty count.
Of course, being a sociopath, Leroy clings to the lie;
When confronted with these facts by a Times-Union reporter, Bartlett-King sank down in his chair, crossed his arms and grimaced.
“I did get injured in Iraq,” he said, sticking to his story. “I did step on a landmine.
“I did.”
So, when you go to get help from one of these well-meaning organizations and you have to give them a DNA sample, fingerprints and a hair sample, this dick is the reason why;
“In 20 years, we’ve only had something like this happen once before,” Horvath said. “We do background checks on every recipient of Hope Fund money, and his came back clean.”
However, Horvath said they did not ask for military records from Bartlett-King.
I tend to think that this happens a lot more than anyone is willing to admit – it only happens to the ones who end up in the media and get called out by their mates. Thanks, Leroy, all of the legitimate homeless vets send their best. I’m sure twenty years from now, he’ll be on this blog as a Recon Green Beret Ranger Delta SEAL and someone will make a movie about him.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
He stole that story from Boys from Company C, 1978, R Lee Ermeys first film appearance. Not a bad movie
Thanks propsguy, I remembered the scene but couldn’t remember the movie.
Leroy, GFY, a lot. DIPSHIT
Stole his story from Boys from Company C, eh? Yo, Leroy Bartlett-King:
Now you little white face disloyal f**k, are you checking your package? Or do you even have a package? (smile)
I was told that when they showed that at Bad Tolz where one of the SF groups was based, near the end when the SF major is hiding behind a little kid that some of the Group members in the audience literally destroyed part of the theater.
That movie left no cliché unturned… but it was the first time I ever saw Ermey and Stan Shaw, one of the most underrated actors of his generation.
R Lee was in Apocalypse Now 1979 also. Never took him for Air Cav but be did a great rotor Head impression.
CHECK YOUR PACKAGE!!!
He’s a frikkin’ dick with ears is what he is.
Another lying poser.
WHAT! This spineless asswipe came from my beloved 25th Dimension(Schofield Barracks, 88-92)?!
String him up by his short-and-curlys. That is, if you can find any on “him”.
Yup, I saw “Behind Enemy Lines” too.
Remember the part where Colonel Bazda steps on a mine, and Sasha blue falcons him? What a “perfect” opportunity to use as the basis for their phony claims. He wouldn’t be the first phony to base his phony stories on a novel or movie. 🙄
Speaking of which, the time and location “backdrop” to that Bosnia War story plot was the former Yugoslavia theater my ship was in when we deployed there in ’95 to ’96.
It is my understanding that bouncing betties like the one in ‘Behind Enemy Lines’ don’t work that way. Once you step on them the fuse is lit and it will detonate in a few seconds no matter what you do. It does not activate once you step off. Stepping off will cause it to spring up, though.
I’m reaching through the recesses of my 12B training from 20 years ago for that. I might be wrong. The enemy model might work that way.
It’s going to spring up no matter what. The propelling charge in a PROM-1 bounding mine (the mine depicted in the movie) is hefty. It’s coming up and it’s bringing you with it.
Bottom line: If you step on a mine and it goes click and not boom, clean your pants and go buy a lottery ticket.
Facts that phonies/embellishers don’t realize, facts that end up getting them and sinking their claims.
Of all the mines I’ve had the pleasure to work on, I have yet to find one of these fantastic step on it and it don’t go boom land mines. Curious.
That was a common misconception which appears to have originated with incorrect info regarding the German S-mine of World War II. The S-mine was fused to detonate roughly 4 to 4.5 seconds after being stepped on. This was to allow the target to move out of the way and allow the mine to function as designed. As designed, the mine was propelled about 3 feet into the air by a small charge, then exploded (hence it’s nickname, the “bouncing Betty”). It was lethal (steel ball/rod/other shrapnel) out to 20m, and could cause generally nonlethal casualties farther away than that.
However, once tripped it would activate (and detonate) whether or not the person who stepped on it remained in place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-mine
I was being a smartass. I’m very familiar with the inner workings of land mines of all flavors. Hence the EOD, in EODJay. Smile.
Understand, EODJay. Was just giving the history of that particular misconception for the benefit of those who didn’t know it. (smile)
I’ve run across a couple of citations for mines that supposedly were designed to work that way – but one was an IED vice a military mine, and the other citation wasn’t what I’d consider terribly reliable. I’m reasonably convinced that the misconception is due to confusion with some anti-tamper devices used on various AT mines plus the World War II bad info about the S-mine. I don’t think there ever have been mass-produced military mines that worked the way Hollywood claims (e.g., remaining standing on it prevents detonation).
Hollywood loves that false meme, though.
Hondo,
Thanks for the education. I didn’t know.
May be coincidence, but this FB profile picture looks like him. I wonder how his military friends would feel about this (if it is him, that is?): https://www.facebook.com/leroy.bartlettking
Dude, way to bring shame on the Wolfhounds. Ya fuckin’ idiot! But then your actions show you don’t give a shit about your damn self anyway.
Go hide back under a bridge and cuddle up with your OTH to keep you warm.
He should have said he tripped a booby trap like one in a scene of “The Big Red One” and that would cover for him having NO BALLS, the lying-assed flesh pickle-sniffing skin flute aficionado of a Sparkle Pony!! Hopefully this will reach the desk of some Prosecutor that wants to do his or her job correctly, and the little skin flute-licking snotweasel can spend some time being the “property” of Bubba & Thor!!
Gonna call you on a technical foul, Infidel. You used “skin flute’ twice in your rant.
I would have gone with “sausage licking snotweasel” or “scrotum licking”
How about cock-gobbling or chode-snarfing? I swing more towards the latter for pure vulgarity, to be honest.
Love the chode-snarfing, that’s a new one on me.
*AAAAWWWW, SHIT!!* Look what I get for posting without proofreading, mea culpa!!
He says his story is true, but he says he’s gonna give the money back.
Low-life, scum-sucking, turd-eating worthless dirtbag.
“he says he’s gonna give the money back”
When he told the lie, then recieved the money, did he not commit a felony?
I guess restitution before arrest would look good to the Judge.
What I don’t understand is why he didn’t go with something more along the lines of “Lethal Weapon” scenario, either the “Bomb behind the Toilet” in Lethal Weapon 1 or the Bomb in the parking garage like in Lethal Weapon 2. These guys are so friggin pathetic. Society needs to be a little less sympathetic to these assholes when they commit violations of moral character and instead of being more concerned aboout why these guys do what they do, hammer the dogshit out of them when they get caught. 1-2 years confinement in a correctional facility for the offense of stolen valor is in my opinion too fuckin weak, give them a minimum of 10 years and and they will at least think twice before they do that shit again!
Each service has it’s own culture and “warrior mythos” and ethic.
Likewise, general society has it’s own version of a mythos of what veterans should be like.
When we refuse to be part of their narrative, they find the liars and posers willing to step up and fill that false narrative.
They should stop going to bums on the street and just hire out of work actors to fulfill these rolls for them. At the very least, the actor doing the posing won’t have to endure that much shame, because their excuse?
” Dude I got paid scale to play a part. It’s in my IMDB”
Maybe Val Kilmer is available?
We’re peddling as fast as we can. Unfortunately, the flower-sniffers on the Supreme Court have ruled that posers are protected, except in cases of claiming combat badges or Bronze Stars or higher, by “Frre Sppech. So, we’ve decided that we have decided that we’re also protected AND HAMMER THEIR ASSES RIGHT BACK.
From a quick check of his facebook page it looks like he has been sucking up the benevolence from Divers 4 Heroes. Sent them a link to this blog…along with every military guy or diver onhis friends list. Have fun, dick!
I would have thought if he was going to use an Ermey movie as inspiration he would use the more spectacular if implausible mine scene from The Siege of Firebase Gloria…
“Three other members of his company confirmed the officer’s casualty count.”
I don’t know why but that made me chuckle a bit. Apparently even the press doesn’t trust what comes from the mouths of Officers.
As a former “Wolfhound” warrior myself…I feel a sense of disgust at this POS for not only tarnishing a Unit with a tremendous and distinguished lineage, but for shitting on those men and women that actually served with integrity……Leroy, GFY with a pineapple and choke on a bag of concrete dicks.
Doc! Good to hear from you again….back in the States? Drop me a line on my email when you get a chance.
Hey Sir!
yes indeed…I made it back to the states a few days before Christmas…awesome timing.
I’ll fire off an e-mail to you pretty quick…hope you had a nice Holiday season.
Asshat
What would 1st Sgt. Moerk think? I bet she’d run his name up to DoD and get that dipshi+ an ArCom and a Purple Heart.
Awe c’mon folks,
Take it easy on him. Maybe like Tim Poe, this is simply “the truth as he remembers it.”
Referred by WWP.
Enough said.
Guitar guy, he does drugs…
http://s.quickmeme.com/img/fa/fa0a7bf1178be547b57f20671f6046c66501a91871cff172e91f657960ec13fd.jpg
The article said he was there (Iraq).
And his unit is an Infantry Battalion, and part of 2nd Brigade, if things have not changed.
Where is his CIB?
The last deployment he was on there was only one platoon in his company that made contact with enemy personnel. He was not I that platoon nor did he ever make contact. It was the closing of Iraq and no one was fighting in our area.
That “spittle” that formed at the corners of his mouth is just slobber because he was one stupid sob. He did that all the time as he talked