William Blake; Beirut & Grenada Phony
About three-and-a-half years ago, we first wrote about Bill Blake who claimed to be a Beirut and a Grenada Marine Corps veteran. At the time, we posted an National Personnel Records Center “no service” letter. In that time since then, we and our partners have gone back to the NPRC four more times and finally Military Phony finds out that that Blake had indeed served in the Marine Corps, but, still, he didn’t serve in Grenada or in Beirut. His last fifteen days in the Marine Corps was spent in the brig and he left the Marine Corps just three weeks before the Beirut bombing and the invasion of Grenada;
I think he was happier when we couldn’t find a record of his service than discover the fact that he was discharged as an E-1 straight from the brig.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Oooh, less than three years and he left as an E1, a high drag dickstepper? Chin up Blake, and I mean BOTH OF THEM!!!
He signed up for the Accelerated Enlistment Program. He and I were at “Champ Pendleton” during the same time frame. I wonder if he hung out at the Playgirl Teen Club off of Hill Street and Mission Avenue with all of the other dirtbags?
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/04/local/me-nude4
The times, they are a-changing. One of our brig rats married a dancer from there on Saturday, and on Monday he had his last court martial with a 30 day honeymoon in the brig and a BCD. On the bright side, the Wally Johnson Motor Lodge is still standing, but not sure if it has the same name. They have a great slogan, “If you find a dead hooker under your bed, your next stay is free.”
Oh man, that, making Tijuana off limits, closing Big Daddy’s outside Cherry Point and the Driftwood in Jacksonville means the end to all Marine “Dives”.
The Bad ole days.
The Driftwood is closed? I knew that the Brown Bagger was gone, but now The Driftwood, too?
I have one old Marine buddy in particular who is going to be absolutely inconsolable at this devastating news.
I was down there in November. Tony’s Brown Bagger is gone, and I believe The Bayou is gone also, with The Dirtwood still holding down the fort. I’ll need to confirm that, though. Lejeune sure has changed, for the better over the last 30 years.
Hmm. Brig time, then immediate discharge. Sounds to me like the boy may well have received an expedited admin discharge for misconduct with a General/OTH, or possibly was offered (and accepted) discharge in lieu of court-martial from pretrial confinement.
Either way, good to see that the LSoS finally got formally busted. We all already knew he was a fake – but now, everyone can see documentary proof of that fact.
Negative on the brig time. SU 42 is not the brig
This pig eyed piece of shit can kiss my ass. Of course he didn’t want anyone to find his records.
Pvt Pig Eyed here was pitched out of the Corps for something while he was in Oki. Sent back to the states to be processed out.
Then he cries like a little bitch to the VA and gets his card to wave around. He can shove his VA card up his fat ass. Back in those days you got discharged for taking things up the ass, who knows maybe…
I know some Combat Engineers that served in Beirut. Not a week goes by that we don’t talk.
Pvt Pig Eyed…Phuk Ewe.
Dave, are you trying to tell us you don’t like the guy? (smile)
Was he with 3rd Combat Engineers or 9th Engineer Bn? Hack was with 3d Combat Engineers 1991-1992. Small world.
9th Fumble Stumble Stagger and reGroup.
Better dead than 3rd Med…
Ah, yes. 3RD Med Bn. Great memories and some not so good.
When were you at 3rd Med… I was there in ’01-’02 at Schwab. Good group of kids at Schwab, rest of the unit was AFU.
CO saw a shitbird – held a formation after 9/11 telling everyone that we were at war and all of the morbid stuff associated with it. Pissed a lot of the Marines and CPO’s off to no end. Spent two days trying to reassure people that the CO’s message was wrong. Sent a few kids to Pakistan for a earthquake and down to the PI for an exercise during that time, nobody went over right away to Afghanistan. Assclown was later relieved for pissing the Hospital CO off over some BS turf war (he had a little more pull at BUMED).
HMCS(FMF): Thanks for asking. I was at Hansen very early 1970 to Spring of 1971. I worked at the 3rd Med Bn dispensary. Worked psychiatry/EKG/PE/ER. I LOVED working the tiny little ER, especially at night, when the cuts came in. I got to really love suturing. Saw the usual stuff in the ER: heat exhaustion, broken thisnthat, sick call, etc. For several months I was the brig Corpsman. The brig was, oh, about 1000 feet away, to the right when facing the dispensary. Those guys in confinement had it down to a science claiming problems that were impossible to rule out on the spot: LBP, dental pain, sprained thisnthat. I’d give them ASA but I knew eventually they would complain enough that they would get a trip to the dispensary where they hoped to get some heavy duty narcotic painkillers. Dental complaints I consulted to dental on the first day of complaint. Anyone who ever had dental pain will understand. I got farmed out some to backfill when a Corpsman from another unit was out of action. Spent FAAAR too much time in Kin Ville, partaking of Orion (? sp)Beer and tailor made suits. There was a ‘Kobe’ steak restaurant right outside the Hansen gate, on the right. It wasn’t until years later I figured out it wasn’t really Kobe steak. LOL But, it sure tasted great to a goober from the South. Prior to Okinawa I went through the last class of FMS in 1969. Veterans who had enough TIS to have had several duty stations will know what I mean by the following. My favorite tour of duty was as a Corpsman with the Marines. But my favorite duty station was NH Millington (Memphis), TN. Best tour of duty and best duty station. There is a difference. Oh, in 1981-1984 I was stationed on Guam. The wife and I hopped a MAC flight to Okinawa so I could show her the island, Hansen, the tailor shops and the ‘Kobe’ steak house. We actually had ‘Kobe’ steak. It didn’t taste quite as good as it did in 1970 since… Read more »
The attitude of the Okinawans toward US servicemen is directly related to the Economy. Back in the 70’s the locals loved Bill… Dollar Bill that is.
Now because of the power of the Yen has made US Servicemen no more than poor squatters taking up valuable space. Okinawans know that Hotel resorts and Casininos are a lot more profitable than US bases.
If a US serviceman so much as farts when walking down the street its all over the news. There are rapes committed by Okinawans all the time. Only US Servicemen make the news.
My first time there was in ’94, right after the Okinawan schoolgirl was raped by the Marines and Corpsman – got the incoming brief from the 3rd MARDIV CG and he scared our asses straight(“I WILL HAMMER THE DOGSHIT OUT OF YOU” was the theme of his brief). Kin and the small town outside of Schwab (Honcho?) were ghost towns after working hours and on weekends – only one diner/bar open in the Schwab area and they were very cool to us visiting. Things were no better in ’01-’02 when I went back. You were better off staying on the Camps for drinking and entertainment (the Marines had built a beautiful combined club on Hansen and were building one on Schwab before I left in ’02.
It was “strongly encouraged” that you go on liberty in pairs and stay out of the bars, no matter where you went on the island. Seemed like someone was betting beat up just about every weekend.
I was there at Schwab from (95-96 and 97-98) for 2 six month UDPs.
I think I maybe went out to town ONCE.
They didnt call that place “Hand Job Schwab” for nothing.
So, Zippy the Pinhead was a shitbird? Color me surprised.
Bill Blake, shitbird and a liar!
I don’t know what he showed the VA in order to receive VA benefits. Especially knowing now that he was kicked out of the Corps.
All The OIG would tell me is that he did serve.
That statement begs the question, “Served what?” Sounds like he didn’t even serve himself particularly well, and he most definitely did not serve this country well enough to receive any benefits – he cost us money to train him and ultimately process him for discharge.
Unfortunately, the VA is liberal as hell regarding awarding benefits these days. Even a General/OTH or BCD is not an absolute bar to receiving VA benefits for service-connected conditions – or to other bennies if the service secretary deems the individual to have been “insane” at the time he committed the deeds resulting in his discharge. Only a DD (or commission of certain specified offenses) results in an absolute bar to receipt of VA benefits.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/38/5303
If he originally received a General/OTH discharge, it’s also possible he applied to the appropriate discharge review board, whined and cried, and got his discharge upgraded to General Under Honorable Conditions. Those boards recently also appear to have become stricken with the “it’s not his fault/give it to him” BS way of thinking – particularly for claims that the bad behavior causing an OTH discharge was due to PTSD or alcohol/drug abuse.
Absolutely correct. VBA actually just publicized this fact via their Facebook page the other day.
I saw that also, the door is now open
door has been open all along, and the process is not all that simple for someone to get benefits.
There are statutory bans for benefits that cannot be overcome though, even on appeal. Without an upgrade of the character of discharge, there is not a lot of chance to get full benefits, if any at all.
The VA is supposed to look at the reasons for your OTH/Dishonorable to determine if you can get limited benefits (typically medical).
Disability Compensation is pretty much not happening unless you had two periods of service, with one being under Honorable conditions. You may only receive compensation for disabilities incurred during that Honorable Service though.
General Discharge = Shitbag.
It’s possible he got an Honorable.
I wonder why these people think they won’t be deflated.
Please tell me they don’t let this man around little children.
Word.
Dude looks like a meatgazing ticklemonster.
BHWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
PH2: I think most/all sweat the load every day, waiting for the phone to ring or a knock on the door, from someone who has their scam figured out. Or at a function someone asks questions that only a veteran would know. And then it’s the old, ‘my records were burned up’ or ‘I’m a super secret squirrel’ or whatever. Then their world crashes and they probably ask themselves WTF did I do this? Too late, Skippy. Own the lie and douchebaggery that is now your world.
Typical worthless failure phony fuck now sucking the VA tit…
Everyone knows that everyone that even thought about joining the USMC between the years of 1960 and 2000 were at the Marine Barracks when they were bombed. So clearly he is legit. /sarc
Another great job on your part. Thank you for all you do. I can attest to the fact that if someone is a phony, these guys will find out and the whole world will know. If the person is an honorably discharged veteran, they will find that out too, and they will treat you with the utmost respect. I speak from experience.
Again, thank you for what you do. I know this is a volunteer effort, and often you only get the satisfaction of a job well done. Your efforts, particularly in my case, are greatly appreciated. I enjoy reading your work, and I share it with the veterans on my boards so they don’t get mixed up with people like this.
Hopefully my comments will serve as a warning to those who pose and maybe some will stop it.
You farce! Utmost respect? You talk to vets like they are trash! Shame on YOU!
Uhhhhhhh, what the fuck are you talking about?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Who are you? I don’t even know you. How can you say what I do or don’t do? Do you always going around attacking other veterans?
JINGER,
NO WORRIES… I DO UNDERSTAND what your saying..all of us have in one way or another have dealt with Posuer Bernath and Dallassclown. I think some are exhausted and spoke without thinking?
And he is still a pile of Shit….
IMHO that’s like saying that fire is still hot, water is still wet, and shit still stinks! Whoever told William Blake to be himself couldn’t have given him worse advice, he’s more worthless than rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Word ^^^^****
As worthless as a fuel gauge on an aircraft piloted by Daniel Bernath.
And Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL dead……
And Daniel Bernath is still not an Honorary Chief Petty Officer.
I did get the early SNL reference.
According to the CA Bar, he’s still “not eligible to practice law”, too.
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/116636
Taking them long enough, ain’t it?
Of course, I don’t see the email in boxes of TSO, Jonn, or Senior Chief Shipley, but seems the DRG has been mighty dormant of late.
One can only joke they’ve FINALLY learned the concept of STFU.
Oh, who am I kidding?
What a fuck stick! I never figured guys like him. If you don’t want to serve don’t enlist. But if you enlist, do you duty and stay out of the brig, correctional custody, motivation platoon or whatever else they call it now. A jail can be found in every town in the U.S. So why enlist just to go to one and get a Big Chicken Dinner to boot. Shit stain!!!
So lemme guess, he left his laptop out while he was trying to suck someone’s toes, and whoever got hold of it hacked into NMPC and left an entire phony service record online to be discovered.
Is that about right, Billy boi?
Shitbag.
I will check in on him again. It has been a while.
Probably the same death threats, family insults, your the the poser, etc. But hey, who knows?
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Looking at Billie-boi’s record of assignments above, the entries for 10 Feb 1983 and after caught my eye.
First, he was assigned TAD to 3rd Spt Bn on 10 Feb 1983. Later that same day, the TAD was apparently cancelled. Seven months and 3 days later, he was transferred to CC MCB Camp Pendleton (I assume CC is correctional custody, or the brig). About 2 weeks later, he was discharged.
I’m wondering what caused that TAD to be cancelled. I’m thinking it might be connected to his brig stay and early discharge.
Maybe he was held on Okinawa for investigation and CM, sentenced and transferred to Camp Pendleton to serve his 30 in the brig and get processed out?
I don’t remember seeing an investigation for referral to Captain’s Mast or Office Hours taking that long.
I seem to remember some real felonious shit always going down on Okinawa the two times I was there (the last one involved a group of Dental Techs that were involved in a murder).
I was there 1984 to 1986 and the biggest things we saw were guys getting busted for pot. one got caught at the Pax Terminal when a dog alerted on him and he asked the SPs….”Well, you caught me, can I keep it anyway?
ALso, F-15 maintenance guys got busted buying in the PI during Cope Thunder and the stowing it on the airframe and then pulling it out when the aircraft returned to Okinawa.
The other thing that was very often caught was folks selling stuff on the black market.
A bottle of Crown that cost us like $10-15 at the Package Store would go for $85 downtown.
We bought a case of beer for one of the LNs birthday and convinced him to come back to the dorm to celebrate. He would drink with us and we finally convinced him to take a six pack but he wouldn’t take the whole case, afraid he’d get busted.
Good times, good times.
Did getting caught selling to the Black Market in Japan get people Court Martialed there? I remember reading the Court Martial verdicts and sentences when I was in Korea, getting caught doing it there was a real career killer, the lightest sentence I saw was an AF CPT getting two years confinement and dismissal.
I was over in the PI in the mid 80’s when they issued ration cards – it seemed to depend on the value of the object/merchandise involved. I remember a lot of spouses getting sent home because they were dealing big time.
I remember a buddy getting sent to Mast for giving his Filipino girlfriend an orange from the Commissary – didn’t lose money or a stripe, but was sent a “message” from the Old Man that he wasn’t going to put up with it.
Yeah, those Dental Techs killing that kid was some fucked up shit. They had a shoplifting ring going on at the PX’s, the kid killed was going to testify, so they jumped, stabbed him to death, then dumped his body in a sewer pipe.
My first time on the island, two Marines raped, robbed and murdered a female Marine, dumped her and the car out in town and lit it on fire. Then they used her ATM card. It didn’t take Columbo to solve this one. The kicker was that, allegedly unknown to the Marine Corps, one of the rig guards was her brother. He fucked them up real good before anyone intervened.
Were you there when the Marine assigned to Camp Guard duty at Hansen was killed by another Marine? They were “fooling” around with a weapon when someone had a booger hook on a trigger and the weapon went off.
It seemed like some crazy shit was always happening at Hansen the last time I was there (I seemed to get assigned to Schwab when I went to Okinawa).
I was Camp Schwab May 1984 – 1986, with six months of that at Fuji, then Hansen Oct 91 – 92, then my last time was Jan 97 until Jone 2000. I worked at Hansen then, but lived on McT.
You may know a Facebook friend of mine. He was the senior Corpsman on the island, assigned to Camp Lester. That would have been late 1990’s. Hit me up o Facebook or drop me an email.
Not CC its CG Commanding General.. pretty much standard wording in SRBs of that time
Looked at his records of assignments expanded, and you’re correct – it’s CG vice CC. I blame that on aging eyes.
“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” (smile)
As far as that TAD to 3rd Support Bn for all of one day. It looks like his unit tried to FAP him out to base.
He was probably a problem child and 3rd Supt Bn told his unit “Nice try, we aren’t taking this shitbird” and made them replace him.
FAP (Fleet Assistance Program) was a great get away for Marines. The problem was some units tried to use it as a dumping ground.
I’m not sure if he did time in the Brig. His Chrono records don’t show that.
At the time he enlisted they offered 3 year Contracts. He Enlisted Nov 30, 1980 and was Discharged Dec 30, 1983.
This leads me to believe he did a one month extension on his contract so he could go to Okinawa.
It looks like he had a shitload of leave on the books. That would explain his Final Dicharge being on 30 Dec 83.
As a rule ( at least back then) Marines had to be stateside top be discharged. SU 42, I believe is a “Casual Unit” where Marines would get processed for discharge. SU-1 is where they put deserters at.
If he was in the brig it would plainly state “Correctional Facilty” on his record, and the entries are “to confinement” and “From Confinement”
He’s still a sack of shit
Scotty Priest is another “graduate” from SU #2 at Camp Pendleton – left as a high drag, low speed E-1 just like Billie-boi
They probably have both of their photos on the quarterdeck.
SU#2 is a transit unit,,, casual or holding. I know I went “through” it when reporting to 1st MarDiv in 1984, but was never assigned to it.
Navy calls them TPU (Transient Personnel Units) – not a good place for s good/impressionable Sailor to be at – commands usually sent the shitbags to TPU as their final stop on separation, and the new Sailors may pass through one on their way to a ship that may be out at sea.
If you had less than 90 days left on your contract at the end of your Oki tour, they would sen you to Separations at Camp Pendleton to outscores you. No sense in going to the time and effort PCSing someone that would only be around long enough to get his first batch of mail forwarded. I believe the code was W-95 for Separations.
OK, JAOD, I’ll bite: where are you seeing a discharge date of 30 Dec 83? His record of assignments clearly appears to show release from active duty on 30 Sep 83, and that matches the active duty end date on the NPRC form (NA 13164) summarizing his service.
Terminal leave is counted as active duty service. The date of discharge is the last day of terminal leave, not the date it starts. Best I can tell, the record extracts above appear to indicate he was discharged on 30 Sep, not some later date.
I suppose it’s possible that the USMC at the time had a policy allowing early discharge under these circumstances (return from OCONUS with <90 days left on an enlistment), and that that's why his discharge date is 60 days earlier than his separation date. Alternatively, he could have gotten some type of admin discharge that didn't allow him to take terminal leave. Leaving active duty as an E1 with nearly 3 years total service is consistent with that latter possibility.
Hondo,
Mea Culpa, Eyes were playing tricks on me… I need to make sure I enlarge the screen better I was reading Nov-1980 to Dec 83.
Its clearly Nov 80- Sept 83, a month Short of even a 3 year Enlistment.
Another fly in the ointment is his last tour on Okinawa was only 10 months.
He left early, as a Pvt. That two Months shoots down any possibilty of him doing a full enlistment. There is still no viable entry for him serving brig time, but that doesn’t mean he did get a few NJPs or even a summary or special court and an Admin or punative seperation.
I seem to remember at that time it didn’t take much to boot you our of the Navy or Marine Corps in the early 80’s (I was at Camp Pendleton from 82-84).
I’ll take a shot… Zippy was a problem child in Okinawa (Bad Marine, pissy Pro/Con marks, drunk, slacker, etc…). Got his ass chewed on by everyone up and down the chain, company level Office Hours x2… was told to straighten up or be ADSEP out of the Corps. Zippy steps on dick for final time, goes to Office Hours for the third time, Unit drops the hammer and sends him home early for being a shitbird… do not pass go, do not collect $200.
So in the Marine Corps is that Sea Service Ribbon just for him being on a ship?
No, a tour on Oki rates a sea service ribbon too. 2 of my 10 SSDRs were for Oki and mainland Japan
Addendum: deploying on a ship gets you a SSDR, but flying into an AO (like most USMC units did in Desert storm, Iraq, Afghanistan etc)also gets you an SSDR. The overseas service ribbon is only given for overseas billets that are not FMF units. I never got an OSSR.
Roger thanks makes more sense now so it’s basically the Army Overseas ribbon
Ditto Guam. Although the shore duty pukes on Site III could get either an Overseas Service Ribbon or SSDR, but not both.
This John Cox sucker who originally posted on 30 Apr 2013, followed by another post on 02 Dec 2014..both defending this other sucker….did they ever get hitched? Only a mama could love a loser/poser so much to defend him like that! OldManchu wants someone to tell him they won’t let this freak around children. I want someone to tell me they won’t even let the POS around midgets. Next time I go to another midget rasslin’ show, I’m gonna keep my eye out for him!
He still is involved with the same woman. Not married. He is claiming USMC retired on his facebook.