Triston Marquell Chase, that Fort Bragg squatter

| April 27, 2016

Triston

We wrote a bit about this fellow, Triston Chase, when he was found living in the barracks at Fort Bragg last December, since then, the Army has conducted an investigation of the fellow and it looks like he stole or bought someone’s ID card that granted him a free pass to Fort Bragg facilities. From the Military.com;

Chase allegedly used the ID card of another soldier, which he found or stole, to get on base. He then got a key to the barracks from someone other than the barracks manager. To get out of physical training and other formations, he told people that he was an explosive ordnance disposal technician attending a top secret school. Once in the barracks, he set up a cozy life for himself.

He invited women, who would often bring food, into the third-floor room. Other soldiers reported that he conducted room inspections and signed rooms out to new soldiers. So, this squatter successfully gained the ability to run the building he was illegally staying in.

He also borrowed vehicles from soldiers in the barracks and filled his Snapchat account with photos from around the building.

There were reports of him leading formations around the Army post, too.

Then, he got busted for DUI by the local police which unraveled the whole scheme.

Well, according to a link sent to us by Bobo, he missed a court appearance yesterday;

Chase, 20, was scheduled to appear in Superior Court on charges of financial card theft, identify theft, larceny of a firearm, breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering and possession of stolen goods. His lawyer, Allen Lytch, did not return a request for comment Tuesday morning.

The Harnett County Clerk of Court’s Office was unable to determine late Tuesday if a warrant had been issued for his arrest.

[…]

The civilian – and Chase, according to state court records – has six felony charges from 2014, including identity theft and larceny of a firearm, pending in Harnett County.

In the Harnett County case, Chase is accused of stealing a Citibank credit card, Sig Sauer P-225 handgun and Mossberg 500A shotgun, a large survival knife and electronics from a home on the 100 block of New Castle Lane in Spring Lake, according to court records. He allegedly ordered a pizza with the stolen credit card.

Well, who would have seen that coming? Maybe Stevie Wonder from space.

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GI JANE

A fitting solution: March his ass down to the recruiting station and make him enlist. Then the the douche will get a taste of being accountable for what he does as an authentic service member.

usafvet509

Or let the soldiers that got duped take him behind the barracks. ..

ChipNASA

Just let actual service members educate him about the term, “blanket party”.
Not safe for delicate constitutions.


CWORet

Not with that list of felony charges. Kinda ironic though. This must be the very first time we’ve seen a phony soldier – actually performing duties of a soldier. On post no less. Funny on one hand, but unbelievably unsat from a security aspect, especially given all his weapons charges.

PFM

Hate to be the commander right now.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

The bigger issue to me is of the apparent ease at which he was able to do this. In today’s world of terrorists and such, we’re lucky that he was a mere bum…

usafvet509

I remember when dad was stationed there in ’92-’95, we had a soldier killed on ba see in an apparent gang initiation. Bragg has never been all that secure

usafvet509

Oops, base

C2Show

No kidding,

Huge base with 6 different gates. At night time some of the gates are closed. During the daytime, the gate guards are pretty complacent. They let someone I work with back on base despite not having his ID card. They told him to pretend to be an officer and salute. I left a month before this dude was caught, luck enough I was working on Pope Field.

B Woodman

If this isn’t an out-and-out case of Stolen Valor for personal gain. . . . .
He doesn’t need to be thrown IN the jail, he needs to be thrown UNDER the jail, with daylight piped in on alternate Thursdays.

Combat Historian

So this fuckhead jumped bail and is now on the lam ??? How predictable. May be he’ll try this stunt next at Camp Lejeune…

AskaMarine

Well, someone made a determination that he was not a “flight risk.”

Or the Cumberland County jail was too full to hold him until his Court Date.

And his lawyer (court appointed?)? He joined PV9’s Cricket Brigade.

CCO

Harnett County; the other side of town.

D

This is what has resulted since the evolution from leadership being all up in soldier business to becoming more “hands off” and treating the barracks like a college dorm. Millennials like their free and alone time, room inspections and accountability get discussed negatively at sensing sessions, leadership at company level and below are from a similar or the same generation, and they leave the soldiers alone. IMO, we can trace any increases in barracks misbehavior to this mentality.

SFC (R) Blizz

I’ll argue, however, that its pretty unfair that a married Soldier can live in Government housing and never get their home inspected. But because a Soldier is single and lives in government housing, he should have an NCO un in his shit everyday? Its an old argument, but its still valid.

Martinjmpr

Oh, dude, don’t get me started on that…that was my biggest issue with being single in the military.

In 1996 I was unmarried, had never been married, and no dependents, but was an E-6 which made me a statistical anomaly (pretty much everybody I knew who had reached E-6 had been married, some of them multiple times, and/or had acquired dependents.)

I tried multiple times to get authorized to live off-post and draw BAQ but was denied every time because our barracks utilization was below 90% or some such nonsense.

When I ETS’d after 10 years of active duty, the Battalion Commander actually asked me, “is there anything we could have done to keep you in?” and I told him that as a 33 year old E-6, I was a little bit tired of being required to live in the barracks like an 18 year old private when there were 20 year old E-4’s with spouses who were automatically authorized to live off-post.

D

Well, that’s sort of changed. At Fort Hood, for example, there are Community Life NCOs whose sole purpose is to drive around post housing and inspect everything to grass length to what’s in the backyard. They knock on doors if they need to. No interior inspections yet because of issues with probable cause, etc.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

We had SGMs doing that back at Ft. Carson in the mid-eighties.

CCO

I’ve heard civilians have that sometimes; they are known under various terms/ forms the worst is said to be “Homeowner Associations,” but “City (county) Zoning Code Enforcement” can be almost as bad; there are some weird variations called “Mrs. Krawvitz.”

SFC (R) Blizz

In Germany, from 92-97 I had maybe 10 room inspections. We could have “guests” overnight, drink, whatever. We policies ourselves and when someone did do something stupid, they were held individually responsible. I PCS’d back to Fort Drum as a new SGT i was getting my room inspected everyday. I couldn’t even have a “guest” in my room past 2300 on the weekend. Had to sign her in and out with the CQ. I hated living in the barracks with a passion once I returned to the states. You want guys to stay in, treat the barracks like apartments. I’m fine with some restrictions on the young guys to a point, but once you make SGT, hands off, that’s their home. If a guy is caught doing something stupid, hold him accountable, not the whole barracks.

JimV

One less Hillary voter?

The Other Whitey

Oh, I’m sure he’ll still cast multiple votes for the bitch, if previous elections are anything to go by.

HMCS(FMF) ret.

He ran off to get himself a new Obamaphone?

JBUSMC

I can kinda see how this happened. I am in no way knocking the Army, but when I was in the Marines, if you lived in the barracks it was akin to being on duty 24/7. It was a tightly controlled atmosphere. Weekly room inspections, platoons living on the same wing, everyone knew each other, etc. When I was in the Army, it was very much like a college dorm. At FTCKY, no room inspections, hell no one even came in your room period. I can kinda see how this happened. But I can’t at the same time.

Sapper3307

BOSS program.
Better
Opportunities
for
Single
Squatter’s

JimV

Speaking of barracks (or dorms like the Air Force calls them), when I was stationed at Kelly AFB, Texas, I put a tower and a 3-element yagi on the roof of my barracks. I am a Ham Radio Operator and had a complete HF/VHF/UHF radio station in my room.

Later I installed satellite antennas that I used to communicate with the Oscar 7 satellite. I also played around with packet radio and SSTV. Talk about being a nerd soldier. ?

I’m surprised that my CO let me get away with that. I was however a Signal soldier.

JimV
nbcguy54ACTUAL

If you really wanted to impress the CO, a plastic spoon, a good long length of WD-1 commo wire and a PRC-77 radio talking to Ft. Hood from Kelly would’ve done the trick… 🙂

JimV

I think we need something a little bit stronger. One of the first RATT Rigs that I worked with.

http://www.rattrig.com/AN-GRC-26/26.htm

B Woodman

I worked with the later version, with the GRC-106 HF radio, the MD-522 modem, the TT76 and TT98, and the KY7 for en/de-cryption.

ANd I call fake! Since when did a RATT Rig, or any other piece of military gear, ever look so neat and clean??

Hondo

Since when did a RATT Rig, or any other piece of military gear, ever look so neat and clean??

Initial inventory after (1) receipt from the manufacturer, or (2) return from depot rebuild. Otherwise, not so much.

JimV

That would be called a GRC-142. The GRC-122 would be the version that can run split frequency. (two RT’s)

ex-OS2

Cocksucker, period.

Blaster

Maybe that was one of the skills he used to keep charade rolling along.?

thebesig

If Obama had a son, this would be a perfect profile. One BSed his way into the White House, the other BSed his way into the barracks, both empty suits. Perfect “like father like son” arrangement. :mrgreen:

Skippy

What a damn mess

Hack Stone

He would have gotten away with it, if only he signed that attendance sheet for the SHARP training.

NECCSEABEECPO

Ok he had an ID but, I know Navy Policy (at least we still did in the Seabees on our basses)Show ID and Check in with orders and they photo copy and the purpose for this was to ensure that if a guy got kicked out and may have had another ID did not come back in and check into the Q.

The other problem is we use to have duty personnel from units that had watches in the Q’s and also had Military staff checking personnel in, but now it is all boss contract. So the units don’t own the Q’s like they use to. We do have unit Q’s that we put all the troops in and try to do it by company and Platoon and if they can by SQD and down to fire team. When I left 2013 we were doing Company Inspections non Thursdays with XO taking one company every Thursday. The companies also had to do one spot inspection per week. We had names on the doors but Force Protection said we had to remove the name tags on outside so we placed them on inside.

DevilChief

Hah! I was a Marine winger in the 80’s. I shared my room with 4 people. A good guy, a cook and a serial masturbator.

I was much more well off than my grunt friends that had a squadbay full of people to deal with.

2/17 Air Cav

A good guy, a cook and a serial masturbator. That’s disgusting. He masturbated in his serial. Wait. Oh. Damn homophones.

FatCircles0311

US Army not have duty NCO and A duty at the barracks? I just don’t see how any of this is possible if anyone in the chain is actually doing their job what so ever.

Has anyone told the US Army they are part of the military recently?

radar

That was my reaction too. My last year in a barracks was at Futenma in 03-04. We were housed by unit – Stinger had first deck, MACS-4 had second through fourth decks. There was a barracks NCO who ran all the room assignments, and in MACS-4 each deck was run by a deck NCO. There was always a DNCO/A duty at the desk on the quarterdeck and the SDO and GDO each would drop in at least once or twice a night. Field day every Thursday night and room inspection every Friday morning.

Something like this just couldn’t happen in that barracks. Strangers would have been noticed immediately, everyone had door placards, no one but the barracks NCO had access to the keys.

MrBill

Give him an AAM for excellence in urban foraging.

Martinjmpr

Awesome, I lived in that barracks from 93 to 96 when I left active duty. 3rd floor, too – could have been my old room?

For those wondering how this could have happened, in the 2+ years that I lived there we had exactly one room inspection. SF units are not big on inspecting the barracks. For that matter, there was no CQ when I was there and we commonly entered and left the building via the fire exits, which were permanently opened and unlocked.

Bottom line, the only thing that surprises me about this is that it hasn’t happened more.

Ncat

That’s odd MJ, at Devens in 10th at roughly the same time, we were inspected monthly unless something big was going on, and we always had a CQ.
I didn’t serve at Carson after the unit moved, but buddies who did complained of constant inspections as command wanted to keep the newly built barracks pristine.

In a side note, as a good former Russian linguist, I still read the Russian press from time to time- and they’ve been having a good time reporting on this very story! We can thank this particular phony a-hole for making us look bad on the international stage.

JimV

No CQ on duty? Really.

502nd ASA Group
Augsburg, Germany

Mid 1970’s

https://flic.kr/p/Sn7vg

CQ desk next to the coke machine that dispensed beers. ?

Sapper3307

In 1989 we still hade Budweiser and Blue Bull malt liquor in our vending machine.

Martinjmpr

When I was stationed in Korea from 1991-92 we had one in our barracks, too. $0.25 Budweisers – I kept a jar of quarters in my room.

Also no CQ. We were part of HHC 2ID at Camp Casey but the rest of the Company was all the way on the other side of the camp from us.

David

yep, a quarter for Coke and $.50 for beer.
Also on Flak, late ’70s, 326th ASA. Once the duty day ended the only open entrance was by the CQ desk.

Robert Beatty

We always had fire guards for each building in addition to cq and runner.

Jarhead

Black phony imposters’ lives matter

To whom, or why, I do not know and don’t give a shit.

CCO

Good security is a pain; I predict more pain for Fort Bragg. From the Fayetteville Observer online article linked in the followup: “After the discovery of the civilian, locks for 26 rooms in the barracks had to be changed because officials couldn’t find the keys, according to the investigation.

The Special Operations Command Public Affairs Office said leadership continues to address security shortfalls identified in the investigation.”

So where did the guy get his ID card from? Apparently everything followed from that. You would think if it were stolen in the modern, computerized system it could be canceled.

Sapper3307

Troops of the dirt bag category have been known to sell their I.D cards to civilian’s. That way the imposter can buy gas, cigarettes and class 6 goods tax free. My COC went the 82nds MP station one time to sign out one of our troops and it wasn’t him. The imposter had his I.D and new our unit number and other basic info.

Just An Old Dog

I’m actually not mad. I’m Impressed.