Joseph Girvan; phony Army Ranger
Someone sent us a link to an article in AZ Central written by Joseph Girvan, an Army veteran. In the article he makes the claim several times that he was a Ranger while he was in the Army;
I served in the U.S. Army as a Ranger for 11 years, stationed in Fort Lewis and deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and South Korea. During that time, I learned a lot about the importance of teamwork and the key principles of leadership, mission and integrity.
Ranger missions vary and may range from capturing enemy combatants or materials to rescuing prisoners of war and civilians. Because Rangers function as their own military entity, being a Ranger means you can be part of many different teams: reactionary force, security force, fire team, community relations and public relations.
Joseph Girvan is an IT project manager for Banner Health with 12 years of experience as an Army Special Forces Ranger team leader.
A bio from another article on the same subject;
Joseph Girvan served in the United States Army from 1998 to 2010, as a member of the US Army Rangers Special Forces, 2nd Battalion out of Fort Lewis, WA. Girvan participated in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes Program during the summer of 2016, and earned a position as IT Project Manager with Banner Health.
Someone who knew him in the Army became suspicious, so we went looking for his records. Yes, he was in the Army, yes, he was an NCO, yes, he deployed from Fort Lewis to Afghanistan, I see service in Korea, but I don’t see a deployment to Iraq. He’s also not a Ranger. He was an administrative clerk;
It looks like he was a good admin clerk. He had a good, important message in the article, but then he let his ego screw it all up by being something that he’s not. We hear that he claims Purple Hearts and multiple deployments, but there’s nothing about any of that in his records.
Get back on message, Joe.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Once again, I don’t get it. I was written up for the Navy/Marine version of the same award for a very similar thing.
Loved my desk and I cried when they took it away from me. I was grateful to be in the rear with the gear, no formations, no deployments, time with my family, no sand in my ass, no enemy combatants for thousands of miles in any direction.
Drawer Gunners kick…back. Loved it. Those were good times. The only people I ever gave a shit about that thought I was a hero were my kids. You just don’t get a medal of any kind for the things that are most important in life.
What a shit stain.
Nobody’s going anywhere, getting anything done, without the Skilcraft pilots.
I flew an LGD-6 all of my time in federal service. No shame there!
I’m an ID-10-T, so I have to ask, What’s an LGD-6?
Large Green Desk-6 Drawers?
Yep! 🙂
Gray, actually.
LOL…excellent.
Grey model, metal, 5 drawer, two slide out shelves, one chair, 4 wheeled, black 4 line push button phone, 1 box No 2 pencils, 1 box black pens, grey stapler, 1 box paper clips, 1 Selectric II IBM typewriter with additional OCR ball.
The Copy Machine was at Division HQ, it was about 8 feet long which was much shorter than the line of people waiting to use it.
Going to the “field” was called “Colors Detail” I even got bit by a mosquito once, dust on my shoes, in July and Aug its a brutal 85 degrees by 0800.
People do not realize the horror of it all…the horror.
“This is my desk. There are many like it, but this one is mine…”
HAHAHAHAHAHA…exactly
That sounds like a gunny we had at APG back in the mid 70s. He would periodically rotate among the tank automotive branches and each time he moved he would have a detail of Marines move his personal desk and refrigerator to his next branch.
I’m driving an old Steelcase I got out of Portsmouth Naval shipyard.
Where are my BA-1100-N vouchers?
/former disbo clerk
Ahhh…the Nazi’s of the Admin world. Loved by none…feared by all.
Likely stored next to the chem light batteries, blinker fluid and boxes of ground guides and grid squares!
I remember in “The Longest Day” one of the stranded German pilots told a general, “You were a lousy pilot in Russia. Now you fly a desk and you’re still a lousy pilot.”
nothing happens without administration and logistical support
+100
That’s bullshit.
Hand written roster and get going.
hand written roster and get going…to do what for how long?
Not much for not long.
I’m not that smart, but I know that much.
Mk1 MOD O D-Bag
Don’t nobody listen to Dave Hardin. I sent him a bucket of gravy and some biscuits and he still hasn’t said whether or not he liked it.
This Girvan guy needs a good thump up-side the head.
You will always be my gravy baby, I will always be your biscuit. I don’t sop up my gravy and tell about it.
I just don’t ride any wave that comes along…its all in the timing.
Haha, I see what you did there!
I guess I’ll just have to try harder. Perhaps a more eloquent ingredient, something to inflate the biscuits? Thicken the gravy?
Stop being naughty or I will give you the spatula treatment…again.
Promises, promises….
Inflate your biscuits? Is this some of that Web Sex I’ve read about?
No, sorry, Poetrooper, it’s the kind that go with sausage gravy. The lighter and poofier, the better.
I swear Dave, when you walk down the street, women must toss their vaginas at you, you silver-tongued rascal…..sploosh, sploosh, sploosh. 😉
(shamelessly borrowed from one of Sr. Chief Shippley’s YouTube videos)
Well, its seems Joseph Girvan here could walk out into a storm raining pussy and get hit in the head by a dick.
Some guys are just that way.
Just sprayed chili on my monitor after reading that….thanks ass!
I bet when they throw their panties at you, they just stick, don’t they?
Joseph Girvan could jump into an Olympic size swimming pool full of pussy and come up with a mouthful of cock and balls.
Well, Ex, you have never sent me any gravy yet? I think my wife makes the best gravy in the world! You can’t beat a good southern girls gravy! Now that is finger licking good!
I do love your menus Ex, you always make everything sound so GOOD! Take care my dear, I will be offline for a couple of weeks while we move from Avon Park to Sebring. It is only about 10 miles, but still have to move everything you ever owned to the new abode! See you in a couple of weeks!
Take care Ex,
Willy
What??? Made Buck Sergeant without an NCOPD Ribbon?
Pffft. Pac Clerks get all the breaks.
New Army, you can get E-5 stripes without going to PLDC/WLC but yo make E-6 you have to go to school.
A few years ago you had 12 months to complete WLC to keep your 5
Have no idea how it is now but if what you are saying is so that would
Explain a lot of what is wrong with the army nowadays
Op tempo baby. I deployed without WLC/PLDC and got stripes overseas during the 18 mo surge. They were doing a version at the big FOB, but no way they were going to get a line soldier out of the Patrol Base to do that.
Then I got out and ETS. Year+ as NCO without any skooling to teach me how to lead like a warrior.
That used to be true – I did it – but not anymore. You can pass the E5 board with SSD1, but can’t pin until BLC; same for E6 – you can make the PPRL with just SSD2 (or ALC-CC), but can’t pin until ALC.
I actually made SSG without ALC, but only because I made it a few weeks before that rule changed…
Damn. Someone from the AG community should know better than to pull this crap. No one ever seems to pretend to be AG. They always want to be something they weren’t or could’ve never been. I’ll ensure this guy is never able to join the AGCRA (hey, it’s the least I can do).
You’d think a good clerk would plan ahead and add RangerSniperSpaceShuttleDoorGunner quals to his records before he got out.
At least his ARCOM has the word “exceptionally” in the citation.
So there’s that.
It was the proto-definition of “Bigly” back in the day.
Yeah it’s mid week and I haven’t deployed the WoI yet. I’m just not feeling it here.
This guy is a dickhead and an asshole but I’m not certain he rates.
What say you guys?
Pass, for now.
He’s just being stupid. Maybe he’ll get back on message and recant his claims.
Yeah, that’s what I was feeling. He only made two claims but he’s going to be definitely be punished on the GOOGLE HALL OF FAME.
Enjoy it Joey. You fucked up, now OWN it.
In light of his 12 years of AD, I’d just ask him why he thought he had to do this in the first place?
After my bo bo… my trip to Germany from the sand-box
Was a trip, at Bethesda it was a place of honor then
I Was sent to lost in the desert and some of the war story’s
Were off the wall, Ft Lewis almost got me UCMJ’d
For calling out turds for being full of shit
This is only the tip of the iceberg
Ex, I don’t see 12 years of AD there, only about five years and one month total.
Maybe six years and a month at most if the time in the Illinois National Guard was counted as active duty in any way.
That’s why there’s only one good cookie awarded for his AD time.
And his time in A-Stan must have been less than six months cause there’s no Overseas Service Bar awarded.
As a 71L Personnel Admin Clerk with access to his own records, I’m pretty sure all that would have been included if he was eligible./smile
Okay, thanks, Claw.
My second Bar was awarded with only five months and change due to an early out from Viet of the Nam.
Maybe the second consecutive one gets wiggle room? Or did?
The second one is allowed a little wriggle room all because of that returning to CONUS on the same day we left Vietnam international date line thingy./smile
I’d hold back on the Wall of Insults®™, IMHO he’s small change right now. BUT if he decides to come here and talk shit I’d say YES!
I’d I just read the comments at the (current) bottom of the thread with Jonn replying.
Looks like shitbag cam here to sockpuppet. IT’S GAME ON BITCHES!!!!
Wall Of Insults being prepped.
Another moron in the permanent annals of moronism from the halls of TAH…
Why do they do these things ???
Perfectly honorable service but he had to screw it up…
I pushed a desk for 20 years in the Corps and i’m pushing a desk now. No shame in that. To serve is exceptional enough. Of course, Marine desks are tougher than Army desks…..
Asshole.
“Marine desks are tougher than Army desks…..”
More likely they’re Army surplus…
True story
Sounds like Mr Joseph Girvan had a great big bowl of sugar frosted stupid flakes for breakfast.
Maybe THAT’S what gave him the energy to sport that Meat-Gazer’s Grin!
But he does have that high and tight going for him.
I’ve been saying this on here for a while this is only the tip of the iceberg
My eight years of service has taught me that the number of Ranger/SF-
-Delta/Space Door Gunners is way higher then anybody thinks
We will be seeing a lot of these the next few years
So hold on it’s going to get interesting
Why, oh why? I’m a private sector admin, and without us nothing works. We don’t mind being backstage either. Just keep the coffee going, and the printers full of toner and paper… 🙂
Finally a ranger poser amongst a gulf of SEAL and SF fakers. that STUPID FARTHEAD didn’t need to embellish a damned thing but here he done got himself a bucket of Google®™ famefor it!
Human Resources sergeant.
I can’t even.
Izzat really a thing?
Human Resources RANGER! Admin’s baddest asses.
And likely an EXPERT rubber band and paper clip Sniper!
No need to lie and embellish about your qualifications and deployments; own up and come clean, Girvan…
Pretty soon, there will be a larger number of fake Rangers than all the real Rangers that have ever served, starting from WWII to the present. Hell, even if we to add in the several hundred Rogers’ Rangers from the Rev War, we’ll still likely be outnumbered by the present day POSers.
I wonder if he got PTSD? You know that bubble wrap can be pretty scary when stepped on.
This really doesn’t surprise me coming from the AZ Republic. Home of “Duke” Tully the publisher of the AZ Republic about 30 years ago who was a world class poser.
Must be nice getting two ARCOMs for two separate five month duration periods at two different posts.
Oh, wait, he was a personnel admin clerk with access to awards certificates and his own file.
Never mind.
Yep… seen them clerks get awards damn near weekly or by weekly.
All you had to do was quietly hold your head high…
What a great statement of Truth.
“I wanna be a Phony Ranger,
I can invent a life of danger…..”
Joseph Girvan actually meant that he was an Army Stranger, as in “stranger to reality”, the “st” being silent. 🙄
Ranger? Maybe he’s one of those road rangers you see helping broken down cars on I-95
I served with this guy in Afghanistan. He was on my Infantry squad. Think he switched over to 11B, cannot remember how he got out of S1 shop. But we needed NCO’s bad. He got pretty messed up and got handed a bad deal by a awful Command. Haven’t heard from him in years and will ask him what’s up. He helped me get my disability and others I know.
Funny, because that IP address resolves to Banner Health where Girvan works, he’s probably just down the hall from you. You can go catch up with him there, Mr Sockpuppet.
*POW!*, right in the kisser!
I know, it’s like he thought this was my first day.
Now hear this:
All hands on Team TAH face outboard and stand by to repel Sockpuppets.
It isn’t your first time? Oh… well, no wonder they can’t outsmart you.
BUT Jonn, He’s an IT GURU, you KNOW he knows more about Internet and computer stuff than all of us.
Hmmm, did he have his Ranger tattoo back then?
And from Mr Sockpuppet’s post to come here and try some foolish shit and thing we’re a bunch of idiots that just fell off the turnip truck last night,
This motherfucker has just earned a recommendation for the Wall of Insults®™
“I move that little Joey Girvan; phony Army Ranger has earned the Wall of Insults®™. ”
Second?
I hereby second the motion.
We have a “Second”….all in Favor say “AYE”
Aye.
Bring it.
We have an “AYE” vote… By TAH Robert’s Rules, only one vote required, the “AYE”s have it. ALERT, ALERT, ALERT, *KLAXON* *KLAXON* *KLAXON* *KLAXON* *KLAXON* Wall of Insults®™ FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!! TACTICAL NUCLEAR ROUND OUT!!!! DANGER CLOSE!!!! MOPP LEVEL 4!!! TAKE COVER!!!!! Joseph Girvan; phony Army Ranger, ALLEGEDLY, but not confirmed, but in some people’s opinion, works balls, tickles taint and tongue punches hobo’s crusty fart boxes all, I Guess, while being a syphilitic, turd-sucking feces factory, Bitch-ass Fuckstick guzzler, pile infested, onion-eyed flapmouthed butt-bailiff, “Fowl” mouthed Chicken fucker, moral equivalent of pond scum, inflamed, “Towel boy” in a gay bath house, Ambulatory verbal dissembling anus, gaping ass fungus nugget, Cambodian cunt sauce, ball working asshole, Poster-child for abortion, Swallowing Spoo Sampler, shit tonguing, munching wanktoaster, cock gobbling, lientery steatorrhea, sperm burping, tit, sniveling, codpiece licking toilet seat sniffer, lying, taintpimple, Pillow bitin pickle smoocher, Bowl of ass soup, Festering fuckwart on a sewer rat’s ass, Satan even said about you, “Boy is this guy a DICK!, Sparklepony, worthless, Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas, moldy bowl of ratshit, would wear Richard Simmons’ used jockstrap as a facemask, useless bag of monkey fuck, rancid floor buffer wax spreader, both of your Grandmothers should have had an abortion, just in case, Mayor Grundle of Scrotumburg and Anusville, waste of oxygen, prickwrinkler, anal sphincter canyon yodeling phallic squeezer, numbnuts, snowball, giggling beerflecked canker blossom , maybe a “buggerer of little boys”, rottencrotched, rump wrangling, colostomy bag curator, culo de chongo, booger eating fuckbucket, Lemon Party-lusting fruitcake, putrid, rotting, Santorum Stained Molting Muscrat, whoreson whale’s carcass, overzealous polyp burglar, bed wetting, follows in Victorious Felder’s bovine excrement -filled boots, toadstool slime-inhaling dickdrizzling sludge, as fucked up as an opossum eating shit out of a hairbrush, Champion Jailhouse Baloney Pony Rider, moron, Prevaricating Sphincter, Cock Bagel and Dick Doughnut, baby unit, one eyed snake charmer, you’ll never be the man your mother is, Odious Twonk, terminal crotch infection, asshat, dick pickle, wanker, herpes-ridden dung beetle target, first volunteer for being part of a jailhouse human centipede, should eat a nice steaming pile of… Read more »
“More worthless than rubber lips on a woodpecker or tits on a boar hog”
I motioned for The Wall of Insults®™ on two other threads, one mentions a meat-gazing US Senator!
I didn’t see that. I’ll see if these fit and aren’t duplicates.
Aim me to the other threads and I’ll take a peek.
The Blunenthal thread for one, how about “shit lizard” and “dead opossum wanker ” for additional ammo?
Aye, but I want ice cream as a reward.
Not sure they’ll share but I’ll get you your own.
I just sent this…..
I am considering signing up with your company for health insurance should I move to AZ for employment. But I have deep reservations about the safety and integrity of my private and personal medical information being accessible to one of your employees.
I am referring specifically to one of your IT specialists, MR. Joseph Girvan.
I read an article published in the AZ central website,
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-contributor/2016/11/08/my-turn-hiring-our-heroes-puts-veterans-work/93501920/
In which Mr. Grivan states that he is an former Army Ranger. This is demonstrably not true.
An article posted at “This Aint Hell”, a website dedicated to outing militray phonies, has an expose’ on him posted here:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=73468
That brings into question for me , the safety and security of my medical information with your company.
At one point within the comments section of the second link, a pewrson purportedly to be a friend of Mr. Girvan, posts and rebuttal to these allegations, but the site administrator, responded with proof that the originating IP address came from with your own company.
So either your It specialist, who has access to private information is lying g in response to this allegation, or another employee is using your network to defend him on company time, either scenario give me a less than comfortable feeling as regards the safety of my medical information.
If you could look into this matter, and assure me that my private informatrion will be secure, i would appreciate it.
Thank you for your time…
(Your Creepy Uncle)
Banner Health also ran a story on him. Looks like he claimed to be a retired E-6 in this one…
https://www.bannerhealth.com/news/2016/11/banner-health-helping-veterans-through-hiring-our-heroes-program
“Staff Sgt. (ret.) Joseph Girvan of Goodyear, a former Army Ranger, were matched with Banner Health, the largest non-profit employer in Arizona…”
He ain’t gonna wiggle out of this. Don’t a number of Employers consider falsification of employment information a terminable offense? I can see this giving his employer some rotten egg on its collective face.
What a tool.
He obviously hasn’t taken the hint. He’s even got a Match.com acct: Heretoseebr He claims he’s been shot 12 times in combat, yet only has an ARCOM listed as his highest award. According to him, he’s been to Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the 2nd Ranger Bn so much so that he has a 2nd Ranger Bn Combat scroll tattooed on his shoulder. Former Special Forces too according to his Match.com profile. Such a highly decorated combat vet that never left the “FOB” while he did his ONE short tour in Afghanistan as a 71L. Did his Basic Training at Fort Sill yet claims to be an 11B. This dude is all kinds of screwed up. Needs to do some research if he’s going to steal some valor and get away with it.
This man is a pathological liar. He now claims he is the VP of IT at banner health, played football for Northwestern in Illinois, still states he was a Ranger, however, I can confirm he has never been shot as I have seen his body naked. He has no gun wounds, check his LinkedIn account, it states he was HR. One thing about this ass hat, he is full of it on every aspect of who he is. IDK if he has a mental disorder, which after spending some time with him, I do believe it true. Nothing about him is true, except that he is full of himself, drives a nice expensive car but lives in a crappy apartment in Avondale,AZ. Hardly what you would expect from the VP of IT for a large company like Banner Health. You want to call this man out to his face, go to Lake Pleasant on the weekends, he will be there on his boat telling his lies, being fake to score ladies. This boy is a ball of wack job with some flakes added for fun, straight up tool!!