John James Lavoie updated
First Coast News went back to John James Lavoie after the Florida Times-Union called BS on his forged DD215 and JJ is sticking to his claims;
“I did not forge no damn documents,” said Lavoie.
The medals are not listed with his awards in his official personnel records from the National Archives, but two weeks ago Lavoie presented his DD214, his discharge papers, and his DD215, the form that shows correction to the DD 214.
When asked where his documents were produced, Lavoie clammed up.
“I ain’t telling,” said Lavoie.
You can watch the video of the interview at the link above. JJ is pretty pissed. The article says that lying about awards isn’t illegal if JJ doesn’t use the false medals for a profit – but, you see, if he forged government documents, all Stolen Valor Act bets are off – then it becomes falsifying government documents which is illegal.
Lavoie is disgraced and embarrassed; he has removed his Marine Corps flags from around his home.
“I don’t care about clearing my name,” said Lavoie. “They didn’t give a damn about screwing me.”
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Lavoie said he is finished talking about his medals and whether he earned them or not.
Yeah, well, he should have taken that route before he produced false documents.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
This loser has popped up again?!?
This clown is becoming very similar to that turd that just will not go away in your toilet ball. For all of the flushing, it still hangs around.
I just watched the video.
Tough Guy!
What a piece of shit.
I love how he has a temper tantrum and throws his shit on the floor.
What a huge baby. He also has a squeaky pussy voice like a little 12 year old girl.
Bitch.
I just watched the video myself, JEEZ, what a whiny-assed adolescent-like BITCH!!!
JJ Lavoie, the gift that keeps on giving.
JJ must be part cling-on… as in clinging on to his BS lies and faked 215.
Using the sentence “I did not forge no damn documents” indicates the same level of intelligence as someone who misspells his name on the forged documents.
Then again, it is a double negative, so maybe he is just slyly admitting that he did forge the documents.
He forgot to begin his sentence with the magic phrase “To my knowledge, …”
How long before this clown ends up in court with all his false finery while praying that he can plea down to a lesser charge?
In court for what? Forgery?
I’m picturing a US attorney saying “Yeah, I’ve got drug dealers, terrorists and rip off artists to prosecute but I’m going to assign an investigator and use my office’s resources to bust a pathetic loser who forged documents so he could brag to his buddies at the VFW. NOT!”
True, he will never see the inside of a courtroom for his asshattery. He has gotten a large dose of truth poured all over his ass in a very public and humiliating way.
It’s a fucking shame that you lower yourself to the point that you have to takje down your Marine Corps flags and scurry off to your house like a fucking rodent.
Has he been douched out of his Veteran’s Organization yet?
Ummmm…is that a strawberry on the front of his hat?
Orange.
It’s a Florida thing.
“Orange” you going to tell me that you have a Silver Star?
Better yet, “Orange” you employed at All-Points Logistics?
Nah, bro… it’s his rectal sphincter, so he can show everyone that he’s a red ass.
Rockin the lie till the day they die.
You wanted to be famous. You’re famous.
You wanted recognition? You got recognition.
I don’t see the problem here.
Oh, wait, you didn’t want news reporters at your door questioning your military service and phony awards??
Don’t Lie, BITCH.
I must admit that I did thoroughly enjoy the drama in the video of him setting the record straight by ripping the sign off his front door and throwing it in a style reminiscent of s school girl temper tandrum.
Does this make me a bad person?
Die with the lie, JJ. Never let them see you sweat. There’s no crying in baseball or stolen valor.
Clearly he has anger issues that no doubt trace to combat experiences in Vietnam and undiagnosed PTSD. Why else would a man tear whatever it is he tore from the front door of his house? So, yeah, he must be legit, despite the “evidence” he submitted and the fact that it looks like it was produced by a kindergartner right before nappy time.
I always thought getting to E-8 was quite an accomplishment. I retired as an SFC so never quite acheived that level, but am damn proud to have still been a Senior NCO. I’ll bet this guy was a real prize when he was in, too. I don’t think these guys turn stupid overnight. Just curious what kind of NCO’s they were and would love to hear from anyone who served with these bozos.
One of the follow-on stories did interview a SNCO he served with. It seems Lavioe was a solid SNCO, and caught the stoopids later..
Master Sgt. Tony Evans served with Lavoie in the early 1990s at Lavoie’s last duty station at Camp Pendleton’s 1st Maintenance Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group.
“We were in the same battalion and we had a good relationship,” Evans said. “We were on a first-name basis.
“I called him J.J. and he called me Tony or Big Guy because I was a body builder out in California.”
Evans said when he served with him, Lavoie made no grand claims of service in Vietnam, going to Marine Recon school or earning the nation’s third-highest award for valor.
“I know he did not have all the Recon, the Silver Star, the Vietnam stuff,” Evans said. “He didn’t have all that.
“He was just a typical master sergeant.”
Like many veterans, Evans said the whole charade angers him.
“I wish I could get ahold of him and confront him myself with this, because I’ll call you out on it,” Evans said. “I just hate hearing that somebody who didn’t earn what they have and then they’re wearing it for publicity or notoriety, because he was just an average master sergeant.”
A truly sorry excuse for what is supposed to be a Marine Senior Staff NCO.
He should go see Denny C to get a chunk of cheese big enough to go along with that stupendously enormous whine.
I hear a sigh of relief from Forgin’ Frank Visconi. I hear that he was worried that JJ was going to give Frank some competition in the fake military personnel document biz.
I was looking for the telltale signs of spray paint on his face but didn’t see any. So, I am eliminating that as an explanation. Still, when I heard him speak…
We should be able to amend the current stolen valor law to allow a “small” group of legit veterans to throw a blanket party for each of these fake fuckers.
Tube socks and bars of ivory soap for everyone!!
Evans said when he served with him, Lavoie made no grand claims of service in Vietnam, going to Marine Recon school or earning the nation’s third-highest award for valor. “I know he did not have all the Recon, the Silver Star, the Vietnam stuff,” Evans said. “He didn’t have all that. “He was just a typical master sergeant.” You know, this hits on a point I’ve made before but I think it’s worth making again: I think one of the reasons behind this kind of “puffing up” of military records is related to the fact that a smaller and smaller percentage of our citizens are serving in the armed forces. As military service has receded from the common experience of our people (and it has), the only exposure people have to the military is via pop culture: movies, television shows, video games, etc. And obviously, those types of media are going to focus on the sexiest, most glamorous, most exciting parts of the military: Navy SEALs, Marine snipers, Special Forces, Rangers, Fighter pilots, etc. If you were to look at pop culture, in fact, you would get the idea that this is pretty much what the military is. Nobody’s going to make a movie about a Marine Telecommunications Repair Technician, a TV show about a Navy file clerk, or a video game about a USAF air traffic controller or an Army AH-64 weapons system maintenance crew chief, even though all of those jobs are vital to the mission. So some of these guys who have honorable, if not Tom-Clancy-novel-worthy service, “puff up” their records because otherwise they feel like people won’t “respect” their service. Compounding this is the “arms race” of puffery. What do you want to bet some of Lavoie’s buddies down at the VFW or AL or wherever he goes with his goofy looking “uniform” are also “puffing up” THEIR service. Heck, you can’t be “just a Motor Sergeant” when everyone around you is a SEAL, Green Beret or PJ, right? And when you get fakers like this together, it would seem there’s probably an unspoken “gentleman’s agreement:”… Read more »
Regarding the above (didn’t finish my thought) understand that I don’t think this phenomenon excuses guys like Lavoie who take their honorable service and screw it up with a bunch of fake claims. Not at all.
But I think it goes a long way towards explaining, one of the reasons behind it.
I also think this kind of fakery is probably much more common in the various VSOs than it is among the veterans population as a whole, because people who obsess/dwell on their military time are more likely to be involved in these kinds of VSOs, precisely because it gives them the kind of attention that they crave.
And therein, Jumper, lies the real damage that these posers inflict on legitimate veterans; they make our own service questionable to those who don’t know us and make all of us suspicious of others we don’t know. They create a subtle but very real atmosphere of distrust within the veterans’ community that is not healthy.
I’m a member of the VFW and American Legion just as a way to support the organizations, but I never attend meetings or take part in any of the social activities. I confess to being suspicious of just about every vet I meet nowadays and find myself asking questions to satisfy myself they are legit.
And that is a damned shame.
“I didn’t forge no damn document.”
That may be technically true. He probably doesn’t know how.
Of course, that doesn’t exclude the possibility that he had someone do that on his behalf – someone who managed to screw up his name on the resulting forgery.
Enjoy your new found infamy, Lavoie. With your false claims about your service, you’ve certainly earned it.
lol @ tough guy phony on camera
Can we start a kickstarter to send a Marine squad to kickstart his ass?
I might have offered him some solace, AW HELL NO, my Give-a-Fuck Machine®™ is flat-out fuckin’ BROKEN DOWN after reading his saga, FUCK THAT candyassed cream puff of a unicorn taint-lusting shit-for-brained inbred buck-toothed Swamp Donkey!
Any chance that he lives within commuting distance of All Points Logistics corporate headquarters? Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I will have to check with Green Thumb to see if this guy qualifies as All Points Logistics material.
ROBERT ADELHEM…wrote a wonderful explanation for the civilian population who don’t understand STOLEN VALOR and why it pisses off all those who did serve in the Military. It’s under the video of THE PISSED OFF LAVOIE.
Let’s see:
1. Forged Docs – CHECK
2. Questioned about his awards – CHECK
3. Temper tantrum to the press – CHECK
4. “Buddies” sticking up for him – CHECK
5. “Don’t know/don’t want to tell” where his documents came from – CHECK
6. Public humiliation – DOUBLE CHECK
Fuck you JJ and your “buddies” – you’re a liar and guilty of STOLEN VALOR. Deal with it you sniveling little bytch!
That video was kinda funny.
Best sound byte:
“I dont give shit about clearing my name! They dont give a damn about screwing me!”
Best part was the opening:
Throwing his welcome thingy on the ground and acting pissed.
What a classic meltdown.