Richard Lee Carr phony POW in the news
A few weeks a go we wrote about Richard Lee Carr, a fellow whose mind was working pretty good when he told a reporter about his time in Vietnam which, according to him, included some time with the Viet Cong when, as a mechanic, he was shot down and captured.
He was able to escape, and eventually walked into a friendly military encampment. Carr said he was unsure exactly how far he traveled.
“You lay in by day and travel by night,” he said. “You’re scared to death of booby traps, so you travel by inches instead of miles.”
Of course, that turned out to not be true at all. He’d been busted by the old POW Network and since they took down their archives, he thought he could tell his tales again. Well, his local news media found out about his lies from our own AverageNCO and now, Carr claims that his mind hasn’t been right since his stroke;
When contacted last week, Carr claimed he had “never talked to anybody” at the POW Network.
“I don’t know what is going on,” he said, adding he had “forgot a lot of stuff since I had my stroke.”
Schantag confirmed that nobody from the group would have confronted Carr, but that they deal with official records and rely on public exposure of cases of stolen valor. She said Carr has apparently been embellishing his war record for some time, notably in the Branson, Missouri, area around 2007-2008.
He told the story to the media while he was going on an “honor flight”. He would have qualified for the trip just because of his actual honorable service in Vietnam, but I guess he thought that he needed to fluff his story up for the media.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Love the picture the tool is holding up above while he talks about his “arduous military career”.
That’s a member of the OXCART family – either an A-12 or a SR-71 (would have to see the tail number to know which, but it’s not the sole remaining YF-12). I hope he’s not telling people he had a damn thing to do with those while he served – the closest those ever same to South Vietnam were overflights of North Vietnam and Okinawa. And I’m pretty sure no Army mechanics worked on them.
Pretty sure it’s an SR-71. If memory serves, the A-12s had a pair of “dimples” in the chine just aft of the nose cone. The -71 didn’t.
Dude still looks like he had himself some Cream of Sum Yung Guy soup made for him by Lon Duc Dong.
Fucking assclown…
Flying Assclown….
Non-Flying Assclown.
63B Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic who got a machine gun and two cans of ammo issued to him while still in the Bien Hoa Replacement Depot.
Then was told to go jump on that helicopter outside and fly away.
Swam down the river from Hanoi, after spending seven months in a bamboo tiger cage, with only a few rats and FU lizards in his pocket for chow.
Then came back to the states on his regular return date, which just happened to coincide with the start date of Tet68, so I’m sure he has been telling stories about having Charlie chasing after his Freedom bird as it was making it’s takeoff taxi to the runway.
Non-Flying Assclown.
I wonder if he had time to grab a cheeseburger along the way?
All of that cholesterol could have caused that “stroke”.
Talking shit about bogus military service in Branson MO? That takes some balls, since isn’t that where Mary lives?
Isn’t that the SR-71 on display at the Smithsonian? Other than this ass hat keeps fucking up his prior honorable service in RVN…
I still think this shitbag looks like the old dude from Krull.
or Uncle Jesse Duke…..
Wow. That’s an old and obscure movie….
But way cool….
Not as cool as Hawk The Slayer….
Nice.
Masters of the Universe.
Nah. . . Theoden, while he was still under the control of Wormtongue.
What a hell of a sad way to live in your golden years…
Or in his case, the moldy years.
He’s watched Bat*21 too many times. Wants some of Danny Glover’s crank I guess.
Cocksucker.
Wait, what? Is he claiming his stroke caused him to forget that he hadn’t been a POW so he assumed, naturally, that he had been one?
Makes good sense. F-tard.
Yeh, I remember this shit head. We had gone to Branson to see Donnie and Marie. They were hotter than the Jonas Brothers, a must see for any rockers. Low and behold we walked by this building with the name “Carr’s Commie Museum, A History of Viet Nam”. Standing right beside him was this Lars fellow telling people, “Come on in, it’s only Commies, you’re foolish for being afraid”. So we paid our fifty cents and went in just to see the place. There he was in all his military finery, entertaining all of us suckers with two hours of war stories and a long-winded tale about having been captured by his Commie friends and eventually escaped. On the wall were pictures of what I believed to be former RVN prostitutes, but Carr claimed they were all double agents who reported on NVA and Viet Cong. He spent most of the time telling in great detail of his escape and the horrors of his adventure. Even went so far as to tell us he was confronted by enemy troops during his return to friendly ground, but he dissuaded them with a tale about his being Santa Clause and was looking for a place to land his reindeer-led sleigh. We decided it was time to leave when he told the crowd that he had a sister named Rice Patty, and that she was in contact with him during his trip through the jungle, via his sekrit invisible decoder ring which came in a box of cereal. He also told us he barely missed being recaptured a couple of times when running into some V C troops, but that he had out smarted them with the old “fish heads and rice pie-in-the-face trick”. As he said, dumbass V C fall for it every time. Can’t say we got our fifty cents worth, nor was his story believable. As we were leaving, I asked him if he had any regrets about serving in RVN. He said, “Yes, I do. I regret that when I swam across the river at the DMZ, I didn’t… Read more »
ROFL!!
Fucking awesome!