Jacob & Deb Bush; phony dog handlers
Our partners at Military Phonies share with us their work on this married couple, Jacob and Deborah Bush, the owners of Argos K9 where they train service dogs “to provide families in need with a K9 who will bestow a greater quality of life” according to their mission statement.
You can see that Jacob claims to have ten years of service as a dog handler in the Marine Corps and they include this picture to reinforce that claim in their video;
The problem with the picture is that it’s not a Marine. The soldier in the picture is wearing the camouflage pattern known as Multicam. A Marine would be wearing Marpat. In fact, the soldier in the picture is SSG John Mariana, a military working dog handler, and his K-9, Bronco assigned to the 148th Military Police Detachment, 759th Military Police Battalion, from Fort Carson, Colorado. The photo was hijacked from DVIDS.
They had to use a stock photo because Jacob was never a Marine, according to the Navy;
Oh, he has records, but not military;
Jacob’s lack of military service doesn’t preclude him from wearing a nice Marine Corps hat to give the impression that he was a Marine;
Deborah Bush was indeed in the Army, so it’s difficult to believe she isn’t complicit in Jacob’s false claims. She has enlisted and officer time and a deployment to Iraq;
As always there’s much more at the Military Phonies link, but I don’t want to hijack their hard work.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
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These too are the Sparkle Pony and Swamp Donkey Poster Children.
Assholes.
Military dependent,probably picked up a history at the snack bar and bowling alley.
I say, give them a pass if she shows us her tats.(sic)
Naw, don’t want to see them.
But, based on first looks, I guessing Bradley Manning has bigger tats than she does.
I really did mean tattoos
http://tinyurl.com/m9drbdx
Yeah, no..don’t wanna see that AT ALL! lol…She shat on her career and he shat…well…he just shat and she was happy to hitch her wagon to his…I stand by my post…Sparkle Pony and Swamp Donkey… I’ll leave it to gang to decide who is who lol…Hope they didn’t breed…then we’d have Glittering Sponkeys. 👿
Those two glittery gargoyle gonad gazers breeding? The offspring could be fucked up enough to end human evolution!
Oh. Hell. No.
Nope.
This is not a good way to start the weekend.
I wonder how much time he spent in the tender embraces of Bubba, Thor and company before he got out and suckered her into that con game?
Looks like he did two stretches (one in MN, the other on CO) dining at the BTJT Deli (Home of the World-Famous Cockmeat Sammich and Ghey Whey Shake). Last stretch was from ’09-’13.
He stole horses in Colorado, felon in possession, a stolen horse trailer.
OK, I just went over to the Military Phonies website and took a look at what they have over there on these two.
In my estimation, she’s either:
1) a knowing/willing participant in all of this crap
or
2) she’s genuinely dumber than a stump
I’ll take #1 for $1000, Alex.
Oh, both is an option, too.
to be fair, she was a chaplain’s assistant…so #2 may be on the table…
awww…yeah…she’s a bad gurl. Thin boned, but I’d hit it.
Pity the poor pooches that get brought into this mess.
It really sucks that she’s wearing Civil Affairs garb in that faux DA photo. She was probably transferred to the unit to fill personnel shortages for the deployment and at that point they really took anyone. Even for a JTF-HOA mission. (Probably tried to stick with it since CA Officers get promoted just for having a pulse.)
I don’t get why she’d hook up with this dumbfuck, but whatever. Even being an officer, she’s still not dumb enough to not know what’s going on with his bullshit. Though her commenting on “his” picture and not knowing multi-cam from marpat is pretty dumb.
I generally don’t like to put down any particular MOS but CA officers tend to be the drudges of the lot.
Its like they dump the ones no one wants there.
My wife’s cousin retired as an 0-4. Reservist CA.
I remember a very unpleasant holiday when he was bad-mouthing the way the Marines handled the Haitian refugees that rioted at GITMO.
Pretty much told him he was pussy to his face and it was weak ass bitches like him that ruined the reputation the Army had as fighters.
Civil Affairs spend too much time worrying about what the fuck civilians think rather then instructing civilians in ” Hey you fucks this is how its going to be, stay the fuck out of our way and you wont get hurt”
Wow, crazy. Husband and wife stolen valor phony team? Is that a first?
Hey, give the girl a break, willya? She’s gettin’ some from him. That should count for something, shouldn’t it?
I’m thinking that Jacob would have a hard time finding work being that he was in prison. I would say ex-con but he still seems like a con.
So, he hooks up with Deb and she gives him a break to work (and I’ll give him this) at something he loves and allows him to mask his prison record.
So, what I’m saying is that the relationship is symbionic, or biology’s term for term for allowing the interdependence of different species to coexist. She also needed something. Perhaps a man that would be at her beck and call and never leave her? Who knows?
The short version: he’s her bitch – she owns him.
If not for her, he’s out flipping burgers (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
She probably put up the bank to fund the operation. Jacob agreed to do the bulk of the work.
It’s like that time I was standing in the supermarket checkout line and saw the tabloid headline “Elvis Comes Back from the Dead and Kills Nicole Simpson”. I exclaimed “It’s all so clear to me now.”
They’re all over social media– scary.
Why shoul herpes and hep C count for anything?
“Oh, he has records, but not military;” Damn, I hate when Jonn gets the jump on me. Perfect line.
Maybe little Jacob got some dog handling training while he was locked up. I hear they offer that kind of thing in prison these days.
I guess its easier to tell people you gone off to fight the war as a Marine than it is to tell them your ass was breaking wind at the bars.
I should start a Puppies for Pussies Parade. The person that actually has a legit FOIA gets a grand prize.
I would like to thank him for serving… his prison sentence.
LMAO…thats twice today I have been scooped on the perfect line.
Bumper sticker: “I want to be the man that my dog thinks I am”
I don’t think she is complicit. I think she was conned by him.
I don’t know. If she was conned it was because she saw what she wanted to see which falls into should’ve known culpability.
People tend to dismiss red flags when falling for someone. Then later it is hard to accept the possibility something was wrong. I know a family member that was married to a guy that lied about the nature of his service. It took ten years to realize it.
I agree. I’d be more willing to give her a pass on it if her unwillingness to see what was in front of her hadn’t of resulted in deceptive business practices aimed at a vulnerable group of veterans. The photo they used of what was supposed to be her husband is the deciding factor for me. I just don’t buy she didn’t recognize that as not being her husband both in facial recognition and the wrong uniform.
Women often believe they can fix the faults in a guy. Rarely is this true from what I have seen. No, lady, if he’s trouble now, he will probably be trouble forever and you won’t get two children, a puppy, a ranch in the burbs with a picket fence and an SUV/Minivan. Nope, nada, ain’t gonna happen. You can’t fix him and you probably won’t live happily ever after.
She is either complicit or ignorant. An officer in the Army who gets involved with a man that claims to be a veteran and then actively supports his efforts in uniform should have done some due diligence.
In the best light…she is the Queen of Gullible Island.
She needs to move on from this loser.
Jacob Bush may be good at training dogs. Such a waste of a good skill since he felt the need to embellish.
He just needs to drop the false claims. If he doesn’t have any credentials, build your business through word of mouth and reputation. Not by scamming veterans with PTS and TBI.
I can’t get past the fraud that is pervasive in this case. There are people that got scammed. Maybe they have bonded with the animals they now have, but the fact remains they have been scammed out of money.
Fideldy dee, fideldy doo.
Oh, Hell no……these two are in my backyard??
And she is a Red Bull?
When Bradley Manning is prettier than you are…… You might be Deborah Bush!
Trust Vets – Review: http://www.trustvets.com/united-states/taylors-falls/specialty-repair-services/deborah-jacob-fideldy-bush
Site is down.
I encouraged them to consider removing the entry for Argos K9. Looks like they did.
Navy/Marine Corps. culture is vastly different from Big Army.
I do not find it unbelievable that she assumed he was a Marine and lacked the cross-branch experience to spot any lingo or other slip-ups on his part.
I’d say the most important factor is how she responds to the revelation.
“Navy/Marine Corps. culture is vastly different from Big Army.”
QUITE true, but i wonder if she wasn’t SO desperate for Romany that she overlooked some neon-bright red flags? I did so when I married the now ex-monster after my first ME tour. I wonder if Jacob Bush didn’t con Deb into a relationship while he was living in a van down by the river? Conmen nearly always have a silver tongue and talent in conning gullible lonely Women.
All I was thinking was ‘Would an Army CA O know anything about or be able to relate to a USMC Wardog Handler’?
I kind of figured probably not.
Not saying she didn’t want him to be authentic, etc.
Another thing that struck me as odd about the 10 year USMC K9 handler claim – even if it were true, I don’t think they train dogs in the USMC to deal with PTS and TBI.
More like bomb sniffing and combat-related tactics. The health related stuff would be best left for someone else.
So, where did either of them get the experience? Did it all magically come out of thin air?
RE: “I wonder if Jacob Bush didn’t con Deb into a relationship while he was living in a van down by the river?”
Loved the “living in a van down by the river” reference. She probably had a large property and the money to get the business started, which wasn’t a lot of capital in the first place.
She was only lacking in one area – some dick. Well, she certainly got a dick with Bush. (Did I just say that out loud?)
It’s possible. I know a guy who tricked his prior service (Navy) wife for years making her believe that he was going to Army Reserve Drills once a month. Of course he was carousing and doing stupid stuff on his “weekend off from marriage” every month.
It all came out in the divorce.
Guess the ball is in her court to see what integrity she displays next.
You know, you see a ‘man’ who never served a day rocking a USMC cap.
And then you think back to what things looked like for the MDs, RNs, Medics, and HMs during and after Fallujah 1 & 2 and –
Fvck this guy.
Argos K9 charges $12,000-$12,500 per trained dog. I’ve seen both references with clients of theirs trying to raise money on GoFundMe and other venues.
$9,000 – https://www.gofundme.com/nicholasandcooper
$12,000 – https://www.gofundme.com/m91brw
$12,000 – https://www.gofundme.com/lk29y8
$12,500 – https://www.youcaring.com/therapy-clients-community-members-local-organizations-603657
The go fund me page you are referring to for the $12,000 was for my son Dominic. This whole entire blog is beyond puzzling for me. Jacob has grown to be apart of our family. I think the man above said it perfectly we have grown to love our dog. And the fact is….she has met every single one of our expectations and beyond any limits I could have ever dreamed of. The question here for me is not about his criminal past, or even if he served in the military…..it was the training of our service dog for my autistic son. There is without a doubt that my dog is highly trained and without question exceeding my expectations. That’s what matters to me! I know that is different for every other family and person but I am very very happy with the outcome that I received from Jacob. I see the comments posted and it breaks my heart to hear what is being said. I love him and regardless of what is going on he is a person. When I began this process the big companies wouldn’t even give my son a chance. They wanted to charge me application fees that I couldn’t afford because my son had just suffered 2 seizures for the first time and I was over $10,000 in debt from hospital bills. My son is 9, completely non verbal, has severe behavioral issues and has seizures. I knew I needed someone by his side and that I too needed a companion. So in the beginning we started with one service dog. And now have 2 that we received through Jacob. Harley and Jax. Harley is my sons dog and Jax is my emotional support dog. There is not a day that goes by that I question my decision. Even if everything in this blog is true. My dogs do their job and are complimented on a daily basis and I could not be happier. I agree with the man above……maybe he should have just started his business and not said anything else. I don’t know… Read more »
Feel free to go on my fb account to see Jax or Harley
Gia Pizzoferrato
Lady…you are nuts!! Clearly fell for a fool. Waaaay to many innuendos in that message. Pretty sure you must have had a thing for this fake based on your ridiculous post. Plus, I looked into your FB and boy…you are just as bat shit crazy as he is. Kinda funny that most of your FB things have been deleted these days. What happened?? Husband find out about your affair and needed to retrace your steps and cover shit up. I love how people think they are so fly these days but really couldn’t be more stupid. An “emotional support dog” for yourself?!?!?! Ha…like I said, bat shit crazy bitch here. Nothing of what you say is true….just trying to look like you are some stand up great mom but really these dogs have nothing to do with your son. It’s all about you and what seems 100% evident…your affair with this fraud. Can’t believe you took all that money from people to get a service dog for yourself.
You said: “If what he did offends anyone I understand that, but I don’t believe any of it is true.”
Gia, if it were not true, it would not be here. Jonn researches things VERY thoroughly and doesn’t post what he can’t back up. In fact, all of the proof is in the images at the top of this page. You are barking up the wrong tree by defending this wannabe.
The only reason why this woman wrote this post is because she was having an affair with him. Hence the reference, “I love him.” When this so called trainer tried to break off the affair she outed him to his wife. She is completely obsessed with him, hence the long post. Don’t be fooled by this man. He CANNOT be trusted. The dog that this woman is referring to is the most poorly trained dog which I have seen first hand. She used the money from the GoFund me account, got the dog, hired Jacob, started an affair with him, and kept the dog for herself. That dog doesn’t even service her son and could never service her son because it is so nervous around everyone. She then bought another dog and hired Jacob a second time for that dog and again, does not service her son. Don’t trust this woman or Argosk9. Both Gia and Jacob are complete lunatics with mental issues. They make a perfect pair but the dogs were not the perfect pair for her autistic son. Quite the opposite.
The go fund me page you are referring to for the $12,000 was for my son Dominic. This whole entire blog is beyond puzzling for me. Jacob has grown to be apart of our family. I think the man above said it perfectly we have grown to love our dog. And the fact is….she has met every single one of our expectations and beyond any limits I could have ever dreamed of. The question here for me is not about his criminal past, or even if he served in the military…..it was the training of our service dog for my autistic son. There is without a doubt that my dog is highly trained and without question exceeding my expectations. That’s what matters to me! I know that is different for every other family and person but I am very very happy with the outcome that I received from Jacob. I see the comments posted and it breaks my heart to hear what is being said. I love him and regardless of what is going on he is a person. When I began this process the big companies wouldn’t even give my son a chance. They wanted to charge me application fees that I couldn’t afford because my son had just suffered 2 seizures for the first time and I was over $10,000 in debt from hospital bills. My son is 9, completely non verbal, has severe behavioral issues and has seizures. I knew I needed someone by his side and that I too needed a companion. So in the beginning we started with one service dog. And now have 2 that we received through Jacob. Harley and Jax. Harley is my sons dog and Jax is my emotional support dog. There is not a day that goes by that I question my decision. Even if everything in this blog is true. My dogs do their job and are complimented on a daily basis and I could not be happier. I agree with the man above……maybe he should have just started his business and not said anything else. I don’t know… Read more »
You said.
“The question here for me is not about his criminal past, or even if he served in the military…..it was the training of our service dog for my autistic son.”
1st I am glad that life is working out for you and your son.
But;
The question here for me is not about his criminal past, or the training of your service dogs, it is about his lying about being a Veteran.
Interesting. Every FB page and website associated with these two and Argos K9 seems to have vanished.
GEE WHIZ, doo-doo happens, ya know!! I wonder if they’ve A) Split up B)They’re laying low hoping the heat will die down C) Shutting up and wondering how to keep their scam going.
The pages are still up
The pages are still up
I had my dog trained by these 2 and the results were horrible. We raised money (over $10,000) and he barely trained the dog. When I asked him to help me fix it he turned into an asshole. I asked for some of the money back being I felt ashamed so many people helped raise the funds and he refused. The dog had to ultimately be trained by me while Jacob and Deb posted pictures of new 4 wheelers and vacation pictures after they got donation money from us. In the end myself and people who donated to the cause got duped and nothing was done. I’m glad someone saw past the phoney!
It says that they’re both vets right on the website, http://www.argosk9.org/services/
He stole horses in Colorado, felon in possession, a stolen horse trailer.