Terry O’Neill; phony SEAL

Someone sent us their work on this Terrance O’Neill fellow. Folks tell us how he can’t go two minutes without bragging about his time in Vietnam when he was a Navy SEAL. For example, there’s this article from a few years ago when Francis “Frank” Lamantia Spivey, a friend of Terry’s was shot by Las Vegas police when he carelessly discharged a weapon a number of times during a standoff with police.

Terry O’Neil, a U.S Navy veteran, said he wasn’t afraid because he had three combat tours of duty during his 22 years of service.

Terry did an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and they took pictures of him wearing an Army Combat Action Badge cap and a SEAL T-shirt;

He tried to get Clint Eastwood to make a movie about his book (that I couldn’t find on the internet)

It looks like O’Neill was aboard the USS Kirk, a frigate, FF-1087, in April, 1975 when it participated in Operation Eagle Pull, the evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam.

He was an SH3 an E-4 Ship’s serviceman. Ship’s servicemen manage barber shops, tailor shops, ships’ uniform stores, laundries, dry cleaning plants and cobbler shops. They serve as clerks in exchanges, gas stations, warehouses, and commissary stores. Some ship’s servicemen function as Navy club managers. You know, just like a Navy SEAL. Somehow, a Combat Action Ribbon appeared in his records. Certainly not an Army Combat Action Badge.

No SEAL training, no SEAL assignments. I hear he now sports a dyed black mustache and a soul patch these days.

Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures