Jon Mark Beilue; Dumbass Journalist of the Week
AverageNCO found this article in the Amarillo Globe News written by Jon Mark Beilue about this guy claiming to be a Navy SEAL – not just any Navy SEAL – the FIRST Navy SEAL.
William is not his real name. He said the Veterans Administration asked him not to use his name prior to this interview.
Because the VA is the repository of all of the classified stuff in the world, right? But, I’m getting ahead of myself here. William (not his real name) was called into his commander’s office to receive a letter from President Kennedy directing him to report for SEAL Training – the first class. Because SEALs are personally selected by the President, I’m guessing. By the mid-eighties, SEALs were doing their recruiting at the local video arcade, though.
The article just goes on from there. Here’s screen shot of the first few paragraphs, but you should read the whole article.
Don Shipley has called BS on William (not his real name) without looking up William (not his real name) in his database. Shipley also called Jon Mark Beilue the “Dumbass Journalist of the Week”.
I’ve saved a .pdf of the story in case Beilue comes to his senses and takes the story down.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Yeah, but in 1968, they were still being called frogmen or UDT guys. No one really said much of anything about the SEALs until Stephen Seagal told everyone he also cooked.
This is such a downer. 🙁
So I guess the love we had for Earl Littman, the secret naked combat warrior must end.
BMC Red Foreman just called the reporter a Dumbass, so I’ll leave it at that.
Is Dumbass Journalist of the week going to become a recurring thing, or would we need a second Claymore to sift through the stupid to find the “winners?”
It’s a shame that people have so little going on with their lives, they have to make shit up.
Wake up, people! This is the only life you have. Stop dreaming and get busy!!
Well, we have this months Gullible Phuk winner. I can’t wait to read his correction that he will publish to set the record straight.
Then, I will wait with anticipation when he publishes the follow up article exposing this idiots nonsense.
It’s been fun watching this one today. When I first saw it this morning, I sent it to Don Shipley and two other SEAL contacts. Don had already seen it yesterday and left his opinion on the reporter’s voicemail. My second contact is a O6 SEAL who served in Vietnam, he also felt it was a pile of crap and tried to contact the reporter. My third contact posted it on a “SEAL’s ONLY” social media page and the team guy’s weren’t fans of the article. Apparently the reporter is now returning e-mails to angry SEALS. We’ll see how long the story stays up.
This is my favorite part:
“William is not his real name. He said the Veterans Administration asked him not to use his name prior to this interview.”
Translation= “Oh crap! I’ve been telling the BS for years and now someone wants to put in the paper. Well if I don’t give my real name there is no way that Don Shipley guy can blow me up on the internet.”
What is it with Amarillo? Isn’t this the 4th or 5th whackadoodle from out that way? Is the helium getting into their brains?
I’m just trying to figure out if he’s a Weddell, a crab-eater, a leopard, or a harbor seal. Or is he really the Walrus?
It’s important to know this things, you know.
Koo Koo Katchoo….
I could be the Walrus. It still wouldn’t change the fact that I don’t have a car….
I believe Chuck Norris or was it Walker Texas ranger was in Delta forces first class. This guy must have taught him all the trade secrets.
That reminds me of the time I got promoted from Delta Forces First Class all the way to Sergeant Colonel in one Swoop Circle.
I got that promo because I was the top of my class at Secret Special Forces Academy and also because I won the Challenge Coin Contest at the base club on grad night with the Galactic Emperor coin.
Apparently, these days anyone can go to the GB club on Bragg and be SF.
That’s what happens when the powers that be make it a serious offense to beat the crap out of a dumbass.
Nothing encourages dumbasses to do their dumbassery like a lack of on the spot and exceedingly painful beatings at time and point of offense.
The time and point of offense beating is essential due to the fact that the ability to relate cause to effect over time is one of the dysfunctions of the chronic dumbass.
PS. My rank was supposed to be written as Sergeant Colonel of the Swoop Circle. The Swoop Circle, as everyone knows, was the super secret deployment point for special ops personnel at Camp Lejeune.
(I did that right click spell checky thing on Lejeune to make sure I got it right and it came up with Legend as an option. Too true, that.)
Well, yes, they were personally selected by the President but not by a letter. How stupid would that be for the president to send a letter? (rolls eyes)
What would actually happen is that Jack Kennedy would personally drive his PT boat “Marilyn” right up to the dock, point to the guy and say “Hey, You There, uh, Sailor! You’re in the, uh, SEALs now. Get on the, uh, Boat.” (<—-you'll have to imagine the "Mayor Quimby" voice yourself.)
Martinjmpr:
If I’m not mistaken, the reporter wrote that it was a “congressional” letter from President Kennedy.
That boy ain’t too swift…
Jon Mark Beilue got fooled by a phony. Jon Mark Beilue failed to fact-check his story. Jon Mark Beilue needs to wise up.
Jon Mark Beilue sounds like the typical reporter these days.
The story posted beside the pictures explains the level of (in)competence of the author. “He left his
Home town of CANADIAN”…Canadian where? No Canadian, Alabama; no Canadian, Iowa: no Canadian Oregon. So where is Canadian?
Something else makes me wonder if this dude writes maybe children’s books. If he had been in the NAVY and did not know what a SEAL was, could he have known what a ship was? How about an anchor? Better yet, did he know the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground? Does anybody who served him remember him wiping a hole in the ground with toilet tissue? Anyone remember him trying to fill in his asshole with dirt? And did anyone ever remember seeing him placing a suppository in the ground? Finally, if he had by any chance been gay, does anyone remember him sticking his Johnson in a hole he had dug and covered with Vaseline? Inquiring minds want to know.
Canadian, TX. Out west and way up in the panhandle. There’s a Canadian River that runs through Texas too.
So, is there a town somewhere in Canada named Texas?
Wouldn’t such a town be called, “Texican”?
Canadian is a little town in Texas close to the Oklahoma border, about 2.5 hours NE of Amarillo. Everyone in the Panhandle knows where Canadian is. Locally famous for being about the only place in Texas where you can see real fall color on the trees.
Jon Mark Beilue is locally noted for stepping in it from time to time.
He sure did.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XJAkJn3rHRY
From time to time?
As flat and bare as it is out there, you’d think once was enough. Twice, and you have a bit of an issue.
didn’t the old ‘you been drafted’ letters start with “Greetings from the President of the United States”?
Figured I’d join before I got drafted.
Son, there ain’t no draft no more.
There was one?
another journalist using his or thier FOUR POINT OF CONTACT for thinking no big surprise here…
When I get down and feel unloved, I go to my little buddy for some motivation:
WARNING: This type of motivation might not be for all people. Some people might find this offensive…you might want to just keep on scrolling.
I’m stealing this lmao !!!!!
My dad served with UDT 12 during Korea and this guy can go fuck himself.
I would personally like to bury my flight deck boot up his ass for being such a bag of suck and fail.
The Korean era UDT frogman were all hard core and funny as shit.
They had welcome signs set up for the Marines when they landed … in additions to intel on where all the beer was …
Just remember. Behind every Pulitzer Prize winner there’s a great editor.
Beilue apparently has a pattern of doing this which includes another vet story where he describes a land mine being connected to an “extension cord.” So, I’m imagining a scene down in the bar of the local VFW where a couple of Nam vets are deep in the shank of an evening:
“Let’s call up the paper and goof on that Beilue kid again.”
“Should we tell him the one about the time you rescued Bob Hope, or the time I saved Kerry on the river patrol?”
“Let’s go with the river one, but use the part about the mamasan calling you a baby killer, and not the part about being a POW. Beilue will get all sobby with the baby thing. It’ll be a hoot.”
Oh come on. Vets would NEVER do that to a poor innocent reporter….
He had me at: ‘Read this congressional letter, he was told. It was from President John F. Kennedy.’
Because congressional letters always come from the President. Another dumbass reporter who won’t let the truth get in the way of ‘any’ story.
that’s because William (not his name) knew how much heat he’d be receiving from his AL & VFW buddies. And others of course…
“William battled PTSD and severe flashbacks for years. A return to Canadian had him imagining he was back in Vietnam, believing he could kill everyone in town. Treatment long ago helped him manage his past”.
I lived in the Panhandle for a few years and had no idea that Canadian, Tx resembled Vietnam in any way, shape or form. So that’d lead me to ask if he thinks that little sliver of water called the Canadian River is the Mekong Delta. Wonder if the odor from the feedlots reminds him of anything too…Heh.
Over 1/2 of my career was spent in or supporting NSW.
Never heard of this POS.
Like the rest of them, seroius character flaw and or mental illness.
Next …
There may be some truth to his claim. I was recruited into the Navy by the then CNO. He was passing through my hometown and was impressed with the way I loaded bags of lime and manure into car trunks where I was working. I believe one of the bags of manure had this guy’s name on it. True story. Trust me, I’m a retired Corpsman. Just change your socks and you’ll be OK. If that doesn’t help, I’ll give you a z-PAK. /SARC
I’ve mentioned this before but I don’t think my stock comment about “this kind of thing might have been explainable 50-60 years ago” wioll work. Even cub reporter Jimmy Olsen wouldn’t write something this stupid even if he got a frontal lobotomy from Lex Luthor.
What is this putz trying to do? Suck up all the stupid before the Texas primary to help Hillary and Jeb win the primaries there? In the name of all that’s Holy please actually read and parse the logic of what you write before sending it to the editor, and editor DO YOUR DAMN JOB!!! This should never have gotten in print!
Beilue must have attended one of those J-schools that don’t believe in checking sources…
I just sent young Jon an email. That story was so bad I felt bad for him. It was almost as bad as watching someone pick on a kid with down’s syndrome.
I emailed him Friday and received a reply Saturday. It’s probably not an individual response, that would be very time consuming. I will say he admitted he screwed up and took it in the shorts like a man. He claimed complete ownership for the story. I suggested next time stuff like this comes his way, he run the particulars up the flagpole at VFW/DAV/Etc.
Surprised this clown is not interviewing Phony Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics); the first Navy SEAL “Commander” to run a shady contracting and logistics company.
The Hair got a hold of the reporter. The reporter got schooled and is now highly pissed. Looks like secret squirrel “William” is going to get the full treatment.
I’m talking about he’s going to get paid a visit by the reporter and two other folks. One of the other Folks is known for his Hair and the other has the strongest mustache I’ve ever seen.
Gonna be good
Can’t wait to see the follow-up on this one.
Here you go: http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2016-02-06/william-navy-seal-was-fraud
HUGE kudos to Jon Mark Beilue for setting the story straight without one shred of excuse or self-justification.
“William, with nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, would return to the U.S. to train the first Delta Force team in 1964. Of 2,282 trainees, 29 made the cut.”
Laughed out loud at this sentence. I’m a civilian with no military knowledge other than what I’ve read and learned from my friends and clients that are former and current military and at sites like TAH. I’d have been able to call bullshit on this fella in a few minutes. I suppose there are a very few out there that might be able to display 9 Purple Hearts, but I bet it is a pretty small number if not zero. Not teaching too many research skills in j-school these days.
If they got 9 Purple Hearts they probably have dead, getting pass 2 is amazing.
Delta…in 1964? Delta wasn’t established until 1977 +/-.
Has anyone cotacted the reporter to inquire as to why the story is still up? I eould have thought they’d at least post an update correcting the falsehoods. Ecspecially since the reporter admitted he’d been had.
I’m thinking there is a reason he isn’t pulling it. Perhaps he don’t want to startle the guy before he does a follow up.
I got a response from the news agency that ran the article. They said they have no evidence that he is a fake and until they do they won’t apologize or pull the story. They specifically said 2 military special operations groups that verify military stories could not discount his seal claims. I gave them Don Shipley’s email and forwarded their response to Don myself. I have a feeling Ill get a bettet response from the paper soon.
The link isn’t working and the story no longer appears on their facebook feed so I guess they took it down, still I hope they respond with who and what special operations group verified everything but the seal claims.
Yeah, I’m curious what special operations group would verify the first Delta class being trained in 1964?
Still no response, NCO, I’m calling the editor every say until I get one.
Don Shipley busted him. Him and CMCPO Davis went to Amarillo and talked to the reporter. They Showed him the guys real navy records.
Billy Don Wheeler is his name he did 20 years in the Navy and retired as an SK2.
They got the guy in his driveway and let him spin his bullshit. Then they dropped the hammer on him.
The SOB still clung to his lies. A bit later They went back with the reporter who told him he was going to have to write a rebuttal to the report.
Since he didnt mention his name the 1st Time I seriously doubt if they will name and shame him now.
The old bastard is taking his lie to the grave