Bob Brooks admits to falsifying records
Last June, Bob Brooks was quoted in the Quad-City Times as saying “I did not falsify my DD214,” [Robert Brooks] said Wednesday. “I’ve never had control of my 214. I’m going on what I was told I was awarded.” Well, that changed yesterday when Brooks testified to a Federal judge, also reported in the Quad-City Times. Brooks told the story of how his false awards showed up on his DD214;
According to the plea agreement, Mr. Brooks served from 1962 to 1966 in the U.S. Navy and from 1967 to 1970 in the Army, during which time he was deployed to Vietnam and served as a helicopter pilot.
While serving in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1974, “Brooks engaged in a conversation with others and as a result compiled a list of Awards and Decorations he thought he deserved, but had not validly been awarded,” according to the plea agreement.
Mr. Brooks “knowingly provided this list to another” and it was “falsely” added to his military file, the agreement said.
He returned to the Navy in 1974, after which Navy officials obtained a copy of Army records which stated the false additions to the list of honors Mr. Brooks had received, records said.
“The Navy relied on this form as legitimate and believed Brooks was entitled to the incorrectly listed Awards & Decorations,” the plea agreement said.
After Mr. Brooks’s discharge from the Navy in 1986, the false information was included with his DD-214, which provides information about a veteran’s military service and is used to verify such things as benefits and membership in veterans’ organizations.
Here’s what his FOIA used to include, in case you forgot;
It was a Congressman’s office that blew the whistle on Brooks six years ago and it took this long to get the story straight. This should serve as a lesson to the phonies out there – stop being a liar right now, or at least come clean when you’re busted so you’re not forced to face a judge and admit to it.
The crime carries a possible punishment of probation or up to one year in federal prison. Mr. Brooks was allowed to remain out of custody pending the Aug. 19 sentencing.
It seems easier to me to just stop lying than to go through all of that – but, you know, to each their own.
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Well, when standing before the bench, you get a change of heart when you realize you’re about to be buttfucked, huh??
I have seen similar stuff like this in the past. Especially when people switched services when all records were only on paper. It was not difficult to alter records and probably most were never detected. This idiots mistake was wearing all this crap in public and claiming to be a “superhero”. At some point he ran into to someone who knew his story was BS but these guys can never keep their mouth shut. They start to believe their own BS.
Yep, the whole facing a judge thing changes a lot of liars by then of course it’s often too late…
Some of these liars should take the advice offered by the Who….
Why don’t you all f-fade away
Because,VOV, they don’t realize that a the combination of FOIA + Internet + large group of knowledgeable vets makes it possible to see for miles and miles – and right through the BS.
I see what you did there!
Mutual. (smile)
Talkin’ ’bout my generation? No one knows what it’s like…
Sounds like it’s time you were going mobile. (smile)
In a Magic Bus.
Heading for a Soho doorway, perhaps?
It’s an eminence front. It’s a put on.
We won’t get fooled again.
“I ain’t been home since Friday night and now my wife is comin’ after me.”
“All I did was have a bit too much to drink and I picked the wrong cliche.
Got picked up by the law and now I ain’t got time to think.”
Who are you?
Headed to All-Points Logistics. The defense contractor run by the one and only False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress; based in Merritt Island, Florida, if am not mistaken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1pvUG_aAc
In that case, I will come clean. I’m part blob fish! I think I may have found wife number 10!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd1pvUG_aAc
Cheese,
Dennis (Denny) Howard Chevalier
He looks like a 99 cent store version of Dabney Coleman in the movie “Cloak and Dagger”
He does look like Dabney Coleman, It figgers that a comedian would be the thing that he picks to resemble… He truly is a clown…
Perfectly good record, Chopper Pilot in Vietnam and he wants more???
So sad…
The Civil Air Patrol aviation ratings on the DD-214 are a nice touch. I guess this means I should submit a request to have my Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard Auxiliary awards added to my service record. What a f*cking clown.
Cocksucker, liar to boot.
Usually, in such a case I’d say it was sad to see someone p!ss all over perfectly honorable service. However, in this case I’ll make an exception.
This guy was discharged as a commissioned officer with a bit over 18 years of active service, receiving an OTH discharge with narrative reason “MISCONDUCT – COMMISSION OF A SERIOUS OFFENSE”. I’m guessing that was in lieu of court-martial. And I’m also guessing that his status as a “highly decorated hero from Vietnam” probably was a large factor in his favor when authorities were making the decision to offer him the option to accept an administrative discharge in lieu of court martial.
So in this case . . . no, it’s not “sad”. It simply appears to be him acting perfectly consistent with his inherent p!ss-poor character.
Brooks, you deserve this. And more.
Question: it has been stated many times that officers don’t get OTH or DD discharges… doesn’t his being discharged indicate he was court-martialed? Or did that change over the years?
Negative. Commissioned officers cannot receive a bad-conduct or dishonorable discharge. Those are punitive discharges that can only be imposed by a court-martial on enlisted personnel (the latter can also be imposed on warrant officers who do not have a commission – I think there are still a few out there). The OTH discharge is an administrative discharge – technically a general discharge with characterization of service as “Other than Honorable”. It is not a punitive discharge imposed as part of a court-martial sentence. Officers can receive those, though it’s rather rare. For enlisted personnel, a court-martial panel can impose one of two different punitive discharges: a bad-conduct discharge (BCD), and a dishonorable discharge (DD). However, commissioned officers cannot receive either of those. The only punitive discharge for a commissioned officer is dismissal – which is legally equivalent to a DD. Only a court-martial sentence can impose that. And if I recall correctly, it can be imposed on an officer for literally any court-martial conviction. I’d have to research it in detail, but I believe an officer who resigns for the good of the service” in lieu of court martial typically receives an OTH. I believe it’s also possible that an OTH discharge can result from an officer being “show caused” for misconduct or substandard performance if the administrative board considering his/her case determines their career, considered as a whole, was such that it cannot be characterized as “honorable service”. (One of our JAG regulars, please confirm or refute.) In this particular case, the narrative reason for separation “MISCONDUCT – COMMISSION OF A SERIOUS OFFENSE” suggests to me that the individual either (1) resigned “for the good of the service” in lieu of court-martial, or (2) was convicted in civilian court of a serious offense and the Navy then sh!tcanned him for cause. I suppose it’s also possible he was convicted by court-martial but not dismissed – then was required to appear before a “show cause” board, and his court martial conviction was of such a nature that the admin board considering his retention recommended an OTH discharge. He did have… Read more »
cool, thanks for the clarification
Quotes from Bobbo Brooks:
“I did not falsify my DD214,”
“I’ve never had control of my 214. I’m going on what I was told I was awarded.”
What he probably said yesterday was something like this, “Please Judge, don’t hammer the dog shit out of me”.
I would like to see him get a year in jail… he can rock his lies and snarf down on all of the tubesteak and cockmeat sammiches he can while getting dorked in the squeakhole by Thor, Bubba, Julio and Mr. “Tiny”.
Fuck you, Bob Brooks. You shit all over your service by rocking your lies… FUCK. YOU.
I agree, I hope he serves the maximum. Bobby will soon be making rounds in the Ghetto Penthouse showing off his cock-sucking skills and telling his super-hero war story lies. GFY Bob, liar.
Maybe Bob should go buy some bananas or kielbasa and do some practice…I heard Tiny and Thor HATE getting tooth scraped while being serviced.
He’s also got to lose that gag reflex… oops, since he’s been lying for sooooo long to so many people, he may have lost it some time ago.
Bubba, Thor, Tiny, et al will ensure that Bob will not have any teeth to worry about on day one. As for the gag reflex, let’s just say, he will get a lot of OJT….put that ribbon on your rack Bob and GFY.
Well I Guess you could say he stole damn near every thing he could
holy crap
I should have made more of an effort to take shit out of my record.
A truly “Phildoesque” dude, indeed.
Hope to hell he gets the year, but I doubt he will.
Sounds like he should have got it from the Military and lucked out there with just an Other than Honorable.
As I said above, rb325th: I’d be willing to bet that his status as a “highly decorated Vietnam hero” (multiple Silver Stars and PHs) had one helluva lot to do with his having that option. I’m guessing he requested to, and was allowed to, resign “for the good of the service” in lieu of court-martial. As I recall, such a request is not automatically approved; the CMCA has to accept it and thus prevent the trial.
In other words: I’d be willing to bet his stolen valor (through arranging falsification of his records to add decorations for valor) has already kept his sorry ass out of jail. Accordingly, in this case he deserves the freaking max.
When my enlistment was approaching its end and I was performing my check-outs, one of the things I had to do was sit down with a Personnelman and have my DD-214 typed up. Part of that included dictating to her what awards I had earned during my 10 years of active duty. There were only a few awards actually included in my record (for instance, I had earned a third Good Conduct I wasn’t even aware I had earned), for the most part she went on what I told her I had. While it had never occurred to me at the time, I could have told her all sorts of ribbons and medals I had been awarded (as long as I stayed away from the really big ones or that only the officers would get) and I honestly believe she would not have questioned me. It was all typed into the Word program on the computer. My DD-214 only lists what I legitimately earned. I don’t think I could live with myself if I had done otherwise.
Pete – the PNc who was handling my 214 went off my service records and verified everything that went on the 214 with me line by line and gave me a “working copy” of the document (got the final when I retired). He even went to the Navy awards website to verify anything that was on it, just to make sure. I had no problems signing the completed 214 when I retired, it was legit and everything I was awarded was on it.
I’m like you, I couldn’t have lived with myself if I had lied on the 214.
Yes, this is exactly how it is possible to get un-earned awards on a “legitimate” DD-214. I was mobilized 3 times out of the RC and as a result I have multiple DD-214’s. Every time I demobilized, the drill was pretty much as Peter described: You sit down at a desk with a lower enlisted (or in at least one case for me, civilian) clerk and they have you verify your awards (most of the other stuff, including MOS’s, schools and service time, is filled in automatically from other records.)
When we went through this we were told to take any award orders with us to that meeting (which was typically one of the last things we did before being mustered out) because they would only put awards on there that were either on a previous DD-214, or that you had orders for.
But it doesn’t take much imagination to envision a bored E-4 or GS-3 clerk, tired at the end of a long day, saying “I don’t see the orders for that 3rd GCM or Bronze Star” and the soldier saying “c’mon, man, I just did 12 months in the sandbox, I don’t carry my 201 file around with me, just hook a brother up!” and the clerk thinking “yeah, whatever, I just need to get this done so I can lock up and go home.”
And even if the clerk is sticking to the rules, even a half-assed faker can dummy up a set of “orders” that will pass muster with SPC It’s-Almost-1700-and-I-want-to-get-out-of-here.
In theory, they probably have to verify that the orders are legit but in all three of those mobilizations, I never, EVER saw anyone attempt to do that. If you handed the clerk a set of orders for your 12th MoH or your Civil War Victory Medal, they’d shrug, type it into the computer program and you were done.
And of course, once it’s on THAT DD-214 it will be on any subsequent DD-214’s without any questions being asked.
The Civil War Victory Medal? Oh, hell, you’ve just given the posers an idea they had not previously considered. Look for it in upcoming busts of bogus 214s.
Never let the crap on your uniform become who you are. When you do, you will never live up to your own expectations.
Everyone here who saw the DD-214 chain knew exactly what happened. F him.
No Space Shuttle Door Gunner for YOU!!!!!!!!
The ASScot is a nice touch though.
My Baloney has a first name it is B O B
My Boloney has a second name it is B R O O K S
Space Shuttle Door Gunner?
We are a *VERY* Elite group.
And only a few of us are still alive to tell about it.
Well, on this universal plane or timeline, that we can confirm.
http://i.imgur.com/9XjYz9j.jpg
Would you mind if I downloaded your certificate and just put my name on it? I mean, I know that I did not earn it or anything but….
When I retire again, and I have to take calls from a bunch of citizens that say,
“Hey I know that this dude I know is saying he was a Space Shuttle Door Gunner”, and I have the class roster of *EVERY* person who ever attended ASSDOG training, so I know what I’m talking about.
I know I know you’re saying, but ChipNASA, it’s no big deal. I’ll tell you what, from my training and experience, some day I’ll find myself having to verify 20-30 Fraudulent ASSDOG claims each and every single day and often more. When NASA/JSCCF ASSDOGs execute another daring raid like the MARS Base underground search and rescue ops or the Uranian spacecraft storage and maintenance facility raid, the requests to verify go through the roof and I struggle to get through the email, Facebook, YouTube, and phone calls that easily goes over 50 ASSDOG verifications.
THERE ARE NO CLASSIFIED NASA/JSCCF ASSDOGs. There are records kept of every man who has ever earned the title NASA/JSCCF ASSDOG. I can verify any NASA/JSCCF ASSDOG claim quickly and accurately.
There are NO NASA/JSCCF ASSDOGs needing money sent to planetary or intestellar posts to bring them home. (Probably Venusian Scam)
I hate to have to be the one that calls out the future fakers and make them famous but it’s what’s right and what will need to be done to protect the integrity and sacrifice that the brothers and sisters and few cyborgian teammates deserve.
SMSgt Chip NASA, Class 18-1001-33/69
Ret. NASA/JSCCF ASSDOG
“You didn’t earn it, DON’T LET US FUCKING CATCH YOU WEARING IT!!!”
http://i.imgur.com/bvXn29a.jpg
/the penalty is that we get to slingshot you into the SUN.
No Shit Story.
Understood…off to reenlist and earn it.
Shhhhhhhhh. I have the class rosters anyway.
You want a bigger .pdf?
Slightly different image. I don’t have the original.
Someone here at TAH sent it to me.
http://i.imgur.com/mlGRilq.jpg
Have at it.
🙂
I take that as a big “NO”? I promise that I will never display it in public or add it to my DD214, I just think it looks cool….
*wink*
Well, you *are* from TAH so.
😀
(Hat tip to SCPO Don Shipley)
The AS*cot looks like a thong IMO. Just sayin’
The phrase that pays on this assclown is “Awards he thought he deserved”. Unbelievable and pathetic.What, no MOH? Anybody with that much time in the service certainly knows better. Lying, and modifying an official document, evidently more than once.
Hello Judge, The extreme pucker factor starts right there. Probably didn’t go to the bathroom for 3 days..
I hope he gets sent to jail wearing that asshat jacket and everyone takes a turn on him. All that bling and glee club stuff that means NOTHING on his chest should get him far in there. Maybe he’ll get a veteran for a CO who really makes his life fun…
It’s like he said “I’ll have one of all, plus 58 Airmen Medals”.
58?? I mean, I do not know what you do to get one – but even for an airman that has served for 29 years in the Air Force would have received two of these a year. Every year.
Ok, in the actual investigation it is made into Air Medal, not Airmen Medal.
Snot,
Hondo explained this in previous Bitch Bob threads….
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” Quite do-able in the 18 mo he spent in Vietnam, actually.
Monthly limit for flight was 100hrs. 24 “high intensity” hours were required for 1 AM in Vietnam, and each combat mission counted as 1 “high intensity” hour. He’d only need credit for 1,368 such flight hours – or 76 per month – for that number of AMs. That’s barely 3/4 of the limit.
If he flew 24 days a month, flew all high intensity missions, and flew 3 missions daily that would qualify him for 54 AMs. He’d only have to fly 1 additional combat mission per week to qualify for the remaining 3 AMs.
Some rotary-wing pilots in Vietnam were awarded over 100 AMs. Those guys flew a helluva lot.”
Thanks, Chip. My earlier comment wasn’t exactly technically correct regarding terminology. But it shows the approximate calculations used – and how obtaining a huge number of AMs was indeed possible under USARVN policy for the AM.
The Army Reg has changed and now uses different criteria for the AM – since about 2005 or 2006, as I recall.
Thanks,
Still must be a typo, in regards to the Airmen Medal. As it states above, because that medal is like the Soldiers Medal.
But were in the clear.