Brett Tutor; TLC’s phony PJ
Someone sent us their work on this Brett Tutor fellow. He’s a carpenter on The Learning Channel’s Trading Spaces. He also claims that he spent a year in the Air Force and trained as a pararescueman, known in military circles as a PJ. From his bio;
Brett enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at age 21 and was put in charge of a 60-man basic training squad on his first day of training. He was accepted into the Pararescue Special Operations program but was unable to complete his training or be deployed after tearing his Achilles tendon during his first year with the elite team.
After his medical discharge, he returned to Austin and completed carpentry school and EMT school simultaneously while working as a carpenter.
Brett isn’t being completely honest about his service. He spent four months and 14 days in the Air Force from February 2007 – July 2007 after six months on the Delayed Entry Program. Six weeks he spent in Air Force Basic Military Training, the other few weeks was time Tutor spent training to to be a PJ, but then suddenly, he was discharged;
You’ll notice down there in block 25, it says that the separation authority is AFI 36-3208 – an entry level discharge for conduct or performance;
There’s no mention of medical reasons – only a discharge for the good of the Air Force for conduct or performance.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Well, this is awkward.
Looks like TLC didn’t learn shit from hiring Joe “I drink Whizzorade” Teti…
Yep, another “celebrity” taking the Joe Teti challenge.
https://youtu.be/MmC1T8hge7I
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmC1T8hge7I&w=560&h=315%5D
He got mad because he thought PJ referred to being a pajama boy?
No, he wanted to be one and they told him he had to leave to realize his dream !!!
Clown…
Austin, figgers…
It’s always easier to lie and claim you were injured in training than to admit you were a shitbag who didn’t measure up to standards.
This distinguishes the men of true and good character from lowly lying weasels.
Brett Tutor is of the latter category…
Ironically, most of us, while in, are shitbags. Its just most of decide not to step on our crank at a moments notice.
Further, Most of decide after we are out, to not step on crank about embellishment of rather ordinary careers.
Lastly, most of us can accept being a shitbag and subsequently having a regular ass career without having to puff our chest to increase our personality level (Charisma +1!)
Not everyone can be heroes, para’s, [insert random badass], and that’s ok! Why cant folks see this?
Cheers,
MrFace
P.S. Not railing at you, just felt this was pertinent to add from my shitbag POV. 😀
See, he really wanted to be a ski instructor like me, but he just couldn’t make the cut !!!!!
We all have three lives. No exceptions.
Public life where we deal with issues outside our home.
Private life where we deal with issues inside our home.
Secret life where we deal with issues inside our head.
No exceptions.
Yeah, we all have been a shitbag at least once in our three lives.
Thanks for the reminder MrFace.
Got a nice scar across my right foot from tendon surgery. I had a Med waiver for one PRT cycle due to the cast and that’s about it.
His medical excuse doesn’t smell right anyway. Unless his Achilles tendon tear was something catastrophic and unrepairable, the AF doesn’t separate you for it. I managed to tear both of mine during my career (once playing over-40 basketball and the other one while playing crud at the club). Both tendons had to be surgically reattached but there was never any conversation about medical separation/retirement.
His main and his reserve failed on his first jump.
So when he landed he tore his Achilles tendon. Yep, that’s what happened.
Because a PJs first jump is always the dreaded C-5 Nose Ramp Night Combat Equipment HANO jump. *shudder*
…in blackout mask
…with a boner
At the apex of a loop.
wooo…..style points
…and leaving a phallic vapor trail…
Most certainly does not. Seen dudes with ruptured tendons, stay in after surgeries and rehab.
It’s not uncommon to have someone hobbling around here at the schoolhouse wearing an achilles boot. We don’t toss students out just for injuries.
Got a nice scar across my right foot from tendon surgery. I had a Med waiver for one PRT cycle due to the cast and that’s about it.
This guy is a career bullshitter. It’s so vast and so deep, it’s hard to know where the bullshit began. Was it a world-ranked golfer at 12? How about moving to Hawaii, training in mixed martial arts and going on a humanitarian trip to Africa, returning to Texas where he enlisted, all in two months? Five will get you ten there is a real carpenter behind the camera of the show coaching him on which end of a claw hammer is used to drive a nail.
As for the EMT training, if I were bleeding out and he showed up, I’d have four words to speak to him: “Do not touch me.”
Sounds like the biography of a modern day Johnny Quest…..🤔
He’s trying for that Race Bannon look but is even less intimidating than Hadji.
What we have here is another Stephen Cio “Ranger” Burrell!
I wonder if this was the individual he wrote about in “My Weekend with Rick”?
Well, well… looks like BRETT TUTOR is another “celebrity” that has gone and DORKED the SQUEAKHOLE with his claims. His “medical” problem must have been (1) his umbilical cord didn’t stretch long enough from his Mommy, or (2) he has a severe case of sandinhismanginitis.
COCKSUCKER
I’m pretty sure that ‘failure to adapt’ as a rationale for discharge also includes such things as chronic bedwetting.
Hey. Maybe he can get together with Joe Titty and open an eatery. They could call it Piss and Bullshit.
You know, you could have posted a spew warning, 2/17 AirCav.
At least my morning tea was all gone when I read that.
What a turd.
In charge of 60 clowns in basic training. He must have been standing in the front of the formation and gotten picked.
Substandard discharge = Shitbag.
This loser also could be part of a Wham! cover band.
He has that George Micheal “Fuck me in the ass” look about him.
He’s a real deal “two-hole” warrior… at Brucie’s Bath House (Entrance in the Rear).
He can open for the Vice President of the proud but humble woman owned business that Hack works for. Paul of The Ballsack is the lead of the 1980’s cover band Spandex Ballet.
Sounds like this dude was the guide-on bearer for his squadron.
Or a Profile King!
What we called a “Profile Ranger” in the Army!
Yeah he probably spent time in the fucked up Squadron full of profile phonies who couldn’t cut in the Air Force. Forgot the number of the squadron. Think it was the 319th. They had a nice little nickname too.
Training Day 1, the Drill Instructors assigned a less than marginal recruit to be the Guide On Bearer, who promptly was assigned the nickname Moses for the way that he held the guide on. He was unable to part the waters of the swamp behind the 1st Battalion Barracks.
exactly! as a few others mention here, dang near everyone rotates through that position the first few days of basic.
heck, they hire ya, fire ya, replace ya, just to get you used to being broken, gettin’ built back up and rising to the standards.
it’s like saying he bought the first loaf of bread for the day- meaningless! 🙂
Yeah, I love how his CV includes being picked as a student platoon leader. I, too, was picked as a squad leader on my first day of basic.
Was it because the drill sergeants recognized my born leadership potential?
Oh, wait, no it was because we were standing in alphabetical order and my last name happens to start with “A”. So I got picked to be squad leader. I think I kept that gig for about 3 hours before I got “fired.”
As I recall just about everybody rotated through that position in the first couple days of basic. Not exactly something most people would put on their professional resume. It’s right up there with Vice President of the Bumpkin County Dungeons and Dragons Club.
Awesomesauce!
I was never my FLIGHTS(AF called them flights, not platoons) guide-on bearer, I avoided that responsibility because I hated marching and didn’t want any unnecessary attention from my DI. you know the out of sight , out of mind philosophy
Well, when you don’t have a lot to work with, you have to be creative with your resume. Hack Stone was able highlight his being awarded the highly coveted and rarely awarded Precious Metals Recovery Expert Badge for his outstanding achievement of picking up brass on the rifle range. That, and his ability to shovel horse shit at the 29 Palms stable while waiting for his electronics school to start were instrumental in securing a senior executive position at a proud but humble woman owned business. What can I say, Elaine Ricci, May she Rest In Peace, knew talent when she saw it.
Either that, or because at 21 he was the oldest enlistee, that he got picked as “platoon guide” (whatever the AF calls it) that first day.
Does a barracks fire guard duty shift on his first day of training count as a leadership position?
Didn’t think so.
I don’t know how they run basic in the Air Force, but in every military basic I ever heard about, the guy in charge of 60+ recruits is usually a drill sgt. or a company 1SG, not a know nothing recruit. Now if he claimed he was a section or squad leader, one could believe that, even if somewhat unlikely given his washout shortly thereafter.
As I recall, my Basic was a Company of about 100 with two 40 man Platoons plus the cadre. Each Platoon has some guy that was the DI’s lacky. Usually an RA with ROTC from High School. AKA one ass kissin strac troop. Buffer boss.
This guy likely wasn’t even close to that.
You can get kicked out of the Zoomies for “poor conduct or performance”? Who knew? 😉
(Ducks for cover).
Yup! When you start eating crayons and leave your desk for more than 15, you get the shitcan.
😛
PJ in a year….oh come the fukk on
nah bro, totally legit. don’t be a hater.
I remember the PJs in my SOCM class…they did the whole 6 month course in a week…they’re just that good.
There’s a party of the yellow sheet above which is a part of the reg that says that failure to maintain fitness standards is a reason for this type of discharge. Could it be he got injured and couldn’t keep up? Or maybe it means couldn’t pass a.PT test. I dunno. And no , I’m not being a sock puppet. I just ask to see if maybe there are things which might be considered. As far as him being a shitbag. I dunno about that either. People fail at things. God knows I have. I washed out of basic training due to injury. Had a great DI tell me not to let it get me down that if I really wanted to I could get back on the horse and try again . Which I did years later passed and did 8 years of honorable service. To include some deployment time in Iraq. So forgive me if I don’t join the dogpile. The only wrong I see is that he prob should have not mentioned the AF. At all certainly had nothing to do with his carpentry skills. I’ll say right now. That I could be wrong about why he might have been let go.
One thing he didn’t fail at was bullshittery. He’s a package deal and one element is that PJ claim. Another is that business about being in charge of 60 men before he learned how to spit shine his shoes. And do you think he really did all that the account said he did in a couple of months? How about a world-class golfer at 12? Give me a break.
Yep.
I think there is some merit to what you are saying. , in the fact that I think he is playing with words to make it seem like he did more than he actually did. Kinda like beefing up a resume. In charge of 60 men first day ? Ok platoon guide. Winning a golf tourney does not a world ranked golfer make. It’s the whole I’m a custodial engineer ! Oh your a janitor thing
wildman, i have learned the hard way, the folks who bullshit, just bullshit. when you start to view them as you would yourself, it is a major mistake. liars are liars and honest folks can never fathom who they think, or understand it. your first exposures, you try to justify, and after a while you learn, they are just liars.
read my long ass comment below, it lays it out, WAY TOO MANY things for any of them to be true. but hey, go one and try to make him out to be a simple nice guy if it makes you feel better. peace
I’ve read your comment below , and i must say you make a lot of valid points. I try and look at stuff with an open mind and go off the facts. In light of his records there is little to go on. But being open minded allows me to see others valid agruments when set before me and not to be so cemented in my own notions and opinions that I can’t see others viewpoint. I must say that your post while long, sheds more light on what may have really been going on with this dude. Thanks for that
righton, all good. and i gotta say the folks on here have a damned great sense of humor, laughin’ my ass off!
Are you mykel hawke?
“Put in charge of 60 men on first day…”
Translation: Probably a taller/older guy than the rest and the TI points at him and says “You’re the Dorm Chief, asshole.”
Not a merit based thing, just in the wrong place at the wrong time, tbh.
Yup. On Parris Island, the first platoon guide almost invariably is the biggest guy in the platoon, then that guy gets fired because he’s a fuck-up and someone else gets a turn. Rinse and repeat until they come across an actual leader.
THIS x 100.
As I recall, most of the day 1 squad leaders were the high school self declared jocks, but were on profile wearing soft shoes by the time the first PT test came around.
Fort Benning – 1989
Yes, yes, and yes,
NAILED IT.
The guy who was our Team Leader/Dorm Chief was a 200+ lb 6’4″ big black guy.
First few days after we were no longer Rainbows, he pointed to Airman Snuffy (I forget his name) and said You’re Team Leader.
The one thing I remember about Basic was Our one Jr TI (SrA which was weird to me), I forget his name but he looked and smiled and laughed like Eddie Murphy. Said Dorm Chief, during Mail Call, got a letter from home from his girlfriend. Our TI was handing out envelopes, stared intently at one of them, and howled out “WHO THE FUCK HERE IS “PEACHES”?!?!?
Our 200+ lb 6’4″ dorm chief sheepishly raised his hand and said “Here Sir” (he also had an unusually deep voice, like a radio announcer. The TI Screamed out, HOLY FUCK, AIRMAN PEACHES, and that stuck with him for the rest of training. I can’t think of any time not only the TI, but the entire flight almost pissed themselves laughing.
I think he was the Flights “house mouse” or brown nose specialist or maybe during that week of KP duty everyone does in AF basic, at least back in the 70’s, he was assigned to PBJ sandwich making , and decide to drop the “B” so he was a PJ according to him.
He was ranked head and shoulders among his peers. Literally.
A phony who can’t even get creative with some derring-do in a sandbox? No claim of an AFC or eight purple hearts? I think he got booted for a lack of imagination.
Why? And on TV to boot? Did he think the trendy beard would do it? Or the non-functional but trendy cool motorcycle would seal the deal?
In charge of a 60 man squad….. pfft!
I got put in charge of a 2000 watt buffer in basic training. Take that you pole smoking faker!
Why? Well, he’s sort of photogenic, and his pants are tight enough to attract attention from lonely women, who might watch the show and then haunt a hardware store looking for him. And it’s that pseudo-sultry look he gives the camera… sort of a ‘come and get… whatever’ look.
He is actually kind of cute. In a Bradley Manning wants to ride tandem on his motorcycle with him kind of way.
He flaunts that “come hither” look in stall three of the Flying J men’s room…truckers come a runnin!
And, he spends nights trolling the stalls in the male bathroom at the Blue Oyster Bar.
Ex-PH2, I heard a rumor that he is going to be visiting Ace Hardware stores in Illinois where he will be on static display in the large appliance area, kitchen stove aisle giving away autographed 9″ cast iron skillets. Shhhhh.
(grin)
Well, I’ll just ask him if he knows how to replace a toilet in 15 minutes or less.
That should shut him up.
I can tell you it doesn’t take a whole lot of smarts to pass the certification tests to be a basic EMT, you’d be shocked at the number of dimbulbs who make it through and are on a truck. Pray that they are paired with a decent partner. It’s when you progress to the Paramedic level you require intelligence. For injuries like a ruptured Achilles tendon they usually don’t even consider a PEB until you’re into your second six months of limited duty without much improvement in your condition: he would have ended up in a medical hold status for up to a year (loads of “fun” when you’re a Doc and it happens to you BTW – I had to help process my own PEB paperwork, at least I knew it was done right from the start). My shoulder was so wrecked I lost most of the use of my left arm and they still gave me the full year of LIMDU to try to recover (I got a fair amount of function back thankfully but not enough for the Navy). Another “reality” show personality with a FAKE military record, color me shocked!
disagree brother, EMT-B has to have some smarts and skills these days, it’s come a long way, i did my Paramedic in 1994 after 18D, was easy but tricky, different way of thinking, but i re-certified in 2016 and was impressed with how much they upped the standards. but that’s a side bar-
the fact he claimed he completed training, when i can find no past certification on him as EMT-B…
add SWAT, K9, UW, labs, room clearing, and again, I can find no such records to prove his claims,
and add the survival expert, wildlife expert, master carpenter, humanitarian and oh, oh, rock star- no shit…
naw, that’s 100% BS scammer boy status- imho.
just for reference, he 100% claims he was swat medic certified
QUOTE-
“But Brett’s experience goes far beyond the military:
he is a former certified tactical SWAT Medic,
a wildlife expert, a mixed martial artist…”
SOURCE-
https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/treasure-quest-snake-island/bios/brett-tutor
Guess it depends on your frame of reference, I found EMT-B a snooze fest. But I stand by my observation on the dim bulbs who made it through because it wasn’t hard enough, I precepted quite a few of them. Paramedic required me to actually study because math is my Kryptonite. Brett is just a whole lot of wannabe; I’d have loved to have precepted him, my psycho partner and I would have made him cry from day 1.
fair enough, it certainly isn’t in the mensa category, haha! i just wanted to give some cred to the proper emt-b’s who hustle and work… but yeah, i have seen some veggies working that gig, too, but they never last. anyway, trackin’ and agree. peace!
I guess he thinks that saying the he and the Air Force weren’t right for each other was a bad option. Can’t have any respect for a liar.
Well, he does have that sort of ‘come and get it’ look there. But the way he sits on that bike, he’s got the handlebars hiding the important stuff, so you can’t tell whether he’s left or right or tucked in.
I’m sure he rides without a helmet, too. Danger Dan – that sort of thing. Badass Brett.
Moving on….
Thank you, Jonn, for NOT posting the photo of him in a shower stall for an Old Spice Commercial. Someone asked him on Instagram what was in his right hand in the photo. Also per Instagram, the guy in the photo with him is his friend:
https://people.com/home/what-to-know-about-trading-spaces-new-carpenter-brett-tutor/
That’s not gay at all. Nope. No way. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Also FUCK YOU Airman FAIL.
SMSgt Says EAT A GIANT BOWL OF DICKS
┌∩┐(ಠ_ಠ)┌∩┐
Wow, a Triumph with a useless mini-mirror.
Babe magnet right there. 50 years ago.
Hey, now! I ride a Triumph!
And it’s funny that you mention “babe magnet.”
I’ve told friends this, but a classic Triumph is actually more of an “old guy magnet.”
Seems like every time I stop for gas, I get some old bearded geezer coming up to me and saying the same three things:
1. What year is that? (It’s a 2002)
2. I thought Triumph went out of business? (They went into receivership in the 1980’s and were then bought by another company which resurrected the brand from scratch in 1990)
3. I had a Triumph/Dad had a Triumph/Mom dated a guy who had a Triumph back in nineteen sixty-something….(followed by some fond reminiscence.)
Seriously, I’m on my 3rd Triumph and it still happens to me. 😀
Put a golf ball in your back pocket.
Take a gal for a ride.
Something about the way they shake..
I was a BSA man myself. 441 Victor Special aka “the thumper”
Martinjmpr,
I want a Triumph! 🙂 I like that old looking eurotrash iron.
I have a sidecar rig, and the same thing happens…as you describe in 1 thru 3 above. However, there are some young ladies out there who just want to be able say that they have gone for ride in a sidecar…with Mrs. Dino’s permission of course.
Why couldn’t this dude have been on a UJM?
Why? Do these clowns, especially those with some level of celebrity, really think that nobody will ever see through their lies? Apparently so.
What I find interesting, is that this Tudor decided to LIE to get on TV. He claimed he was a SURVIAL & SECURITY Expert to get on DISCOVERY Channel’s TREASURE QUEST. But goes on to say CERTIFIED EMT & SWAT…? I’m a currently certified Paramedic and can find no records of him. I have checked with my Cop friends in Dallas, Houston & Austin, where he’s from, and again, no records I tend to agree with some other’s assessments here- a bit of an expert in too many areas and for his age, almost impossible to have attained such a level in anything. It speaks to the fact that this man is likely nothing more than a charlatan on all levels and in all things. However, the fact that Discovery Channel still has that info up, leads me to believe, he told them that, and that makes me ask- Did DISCOVERY EVER CHECK his records? With all the Canterbury, Teti and other special dramas on their Network, How could they fail, yet again, to simply check their facts? Especially, when they sell themselves as the Worlds # 1 NON-Fiction network… As a Multi-Billion Dollar network with some 50+ full time lawyers on staff, I know they can figure out how to verify military records, right? https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/treasure-quest-snake-island/bios/brett-tutor But back to our ZERO, Tudor. He is now on TLC, also owned by Discovery. They don’t have a Bio on him there yet, but it will come soon. For now, it suffices to look at his own Bio- “He was accepted into the Pararescue Special Operations program but was unable to complete his training or be deployed after tearing his Achilles tendon during his first year with the elite team.” https://www.bretttutor.com/bio How does 4.5 months get turned into 1 year? How does passing a 6 wk Basic turn into being on an Elite Team? How does an injury get turned into unable to complete training- When he never got started? And how can he say anything about deployments- When he never made it past the first rung or first 6 months? It caught… Read more »
Here’s more on the standard AF Med Reg’s-
NOTICE- This is NOT the regulation used
as the source on Tudor’s Discharge.
If it was a medical discharge as Tudor claimed, then a medical source would have been cited on the DD-214.
It may be as simple as it says here, a pre-existing issue was exacerbated and so it was considered a faulty enlistment, hence the non-medical regulation for discharge reference.
HOWEVER- If it was medical, most of the time, there is a review board for potential DISABILITY status. Yet another factor that points to something other than a medical discharge.
Given what I know about TREASURE QUEST
and DISCOVERY Channel and add to this, all the other lies on Tudor’s Bio’s- The evidence strongly suggest, that this too, may be a false claim, and one worthy of public pursuit, for the safety of the general public, IMHO.
EXCERPT:
“Many medical conditions which appear in the first few months of active service are presumed to be preexisting (this co-exists with a legal presumption that members were in good health upon entry).
Such early medical problems are sometimes referred to a medical evaluation board, but may then result in administrative discharge for erroneous enlistment or in medical discharge without full proceedings to determine disability status.
Pre-existing conditions that are aggravated by military service should not fall into this category but rather treated as a medical condition that warrants evaluation for possible medical discharge.”
SOURCE LINK:
http://nlgmltf.org/military-law-library/publications/memos/military-medical-policies/
SF CPT MH,
Well thought ought and reasoned questions regarding this guys so called “Bio”.
However, you that unnamed disease that real people have, you confuse the issue with the facts. 🙂 Here at work, we get reminded of our own case of that malady constantly, especially when dealing with the Dept of Energy…
I have been in the radiation protection field for over 22 years, and still have a ton to learn.
Wish I could be like this Tutor guy and just know everything ’cause I say I do. NOT.
I liked your dissection of this article, kind of like Hondo, 2/17 Air Cav, Ex-PH2, or many other good people here taking some dumbass to the cleaners for their BS.
righton, i don’t speak air force or p.j, admittedly, so there’s stuff i don’t know and open to learn. totally up to own a mistake or a misspeak. for me, the issue is the lies are being told to the public as if true. this ain’t no actor- he’s stealing valor for personal gain and profit. and he ain’t no politician, they at least try to pretend to do some good for their constituents. this is flat lying along the lines of swindlers, scammers, con-artists and other frauds and fakes out to dupe people to get money. no one should stand for ot tolerate that, especially at the expense of men who died for the claims he’s lying about. peace
Damn Hawke, you were being so good lately. I almost thought you had completely Civilianized.
Try being kinder, more gentle, more understanding.
Ever since you took LCpl Titties in off the streets you have become bitter.
I still love ya bro…
hahaha! naw my man, i ain’t mad at all.
i just learned from that scumbag lying coward and fraud, teti, to make my case properly laid out, so if tutor decides, he wants to sue the entire p.j. community, we have all the facts laid out before he gets a dumb ass lawyer stupid enough to think tutor is the only honest p.j. out there like teti’s lawyer thought about teti, haha!
my issue is well beyond tutor, it’s the network. i have seen how dirty they roll in the court case, they are everything every hollywood film ever said about big corporations… so, make no mistake, i’ll fiercely defend truth and country from scumbags small and great, but i still am havin’ some fun- the guys on here have me crackin’ up! 🙂
great to hear from ya’ been a spell!
hope all’s well in your world!
🙂
SF CPT MH, that “god or a fraud” comment?
Best laugh I’ve had all day!
That being said, I’m thinking the latter…
hooyah! my humor can’t touch these other fellas, but glad ya got a chuckle! i got make sure not to be drinkin’ my coffee reading this stuff, haha!
be well!
Usually in the lower right block of the 214, they enter a code, 1A, 4J, etc. None of this is entered. This was nothing more than an entry level separation – it happens prior to a recruit being in the AF 6 months. As for his injury, we will never know, but I sure as hell would not go by what he says. My guess is failure to adapt. When somebody fails out of PJ/CCT or other ops tempo, they are “usually” offered another regular AFSC in the AF — this guy was not. This dude’s whole life reeks of BS.
Land Nav is important training!
How else are you going to be able to navigate from the parking lot to the doughnut shop and back without getting lost.
Follow the trail of beer cans….
Brett Tutor spent a whopping FOUR MONTHS and 14 days in the USAF which IMHO says he was likely something along the lines of perpetual dickstepper, no-load, can’t-hack-it, PT Failure, bedwetter, I-want-my-Mommy or any combo thereof as well as maybe an Article 15 Special.
Roommate at tech school shot himself in the leg while home on leave. He was also bucking to get kicked out, but claimed the two were not related. This was his second tech school BTW, after academic failure at the first. As I recall he was academically recycled a couple times in my school.
They didn’t boot him. So this Tutor had to be an epic fail.
Also had a kid in our school who had started on the PJ (or CCT, I can’t remember now) and tore his ACL. He didn’t get the boot, just a “needs of the service” transfer to a different school.
In the Navy, if you fail A-school, you go to the Fleet undesignated.
Seaman…Chip Paint
Fireman…Clean bilges
Airman…most likely a Blue Shirt on USS Neverdock
Constructionman…No idea, if they have undesignated, might get kicked out of the Bees all together.
Oh look, it’s Tudor Turtle bullshitting brother!
Most BS that you can fit on a half shell!
Gee Mr. Wizard.
Twizzle twazzle twozzle twome, time for this one to come home.
https://youtu.be/_xYY5Lt71ME?t=548
Always, always I tells you: Be just what you is, not what you is not. Folks what do this has the happiest lot.
Question for the group (I know there are S1 types here:) Aren’t discharges at <180 days of service treated differently than those of 180 days or greater?
I had thought that the sort of generic "for the good of the service" or Entry Level Separation (ELS) discharges could be for minor medical issues as well as failure to adapt, discipline, general unsuitability for military service, etc.
What I'm saying here is that Tutor's claim of a "medical" discharge could be arguably correct if he received an ELS for some medical reason. It wouldn't be CHARACTERIZED as a Medical Discharge, but if it was an ELS for medical reasons, he could certainly have believed it to be a medical discharge (and I don't know that it's reasonable for non-military people to really understand the subtleties of the different types of discharges.)
Of course, the rest of it is pure BS, the little remark about being on a "team" implies that he was a qualified member of some organization. Even if he WAS in the PJ pipeline, he was not "on a team" he was "in a CLASS" and that is very much a different thing.
It would be like someone who washed out of BUD/S referring to his BUD/S classmates as "guys I was on a TEAM with." Misleading, deceptive, and utter bullshit.
Problem with that is he was only in for 4 months and 14 days, under 180 day mark. Pretty sure the 6 month Delayed Entry does not count towards your time in service.
If one flunks out of that school they are discharged, not retrained. As a full-time reservist I hired such a person. He was not allowed to stay on active duty. I don’t know why that is but them’s the rules.
I thought they discharged them on a case by case basis. Especially now, Most career fields like 1C3X1, Gunner, Loadmaster, etc are undermanned and hit hard. I heard some PJs crossing over to those jobs along with ATC specialties.
I take it you were an ART?
Greetings CJ, the guy I hired did become a loadmaster and turned out to be a great hire. I was stunned when he told me they wouldn’t let him retrain and then discharged him.
And yes, I was an ART for 16 years. Before that I active for 10 and then full-time Technician with the Air Guard for another 10 before going Reserves.
Make that “Greetings C2”
That’s what I am surprised about that. In the early 2000s, they were sending a lot of folks to ATC. Then by 2010s, they started sending folks to Loadmaster or Gunner. I met a guy who flunked out of 1C5, sent him to 3 tech schools in 3 years nearly. He went ATC, Gunner and MX. Crazy times for Mountain Home, Idaho.
Speaking of C2, were you Command Post/Ops?
Yes sir, I was C2, now work for the Army. Currently at Fort Polk but heading out to Germany. Tried to change career fields, but good ole air force told me to become a flight attendant, left after 10 years. Did contracting then became an ART for 4 years before I got discharged medically.
I worked with Ops folks quite a bit in the Reserves. I was in a TALCE unit and we had Ops, Loadmasters, Comm, airfield managers, and AGE folks. Our deployment tempo was very high for a Reserve unit. We had folks that were strictly Reserve bums without other jobs and instead worked one set of orders to the next.
Funny, I worked in Northeast for a base. We had few guys who working for orders. Some trying to get on as an ART. Some were pretty lazy though. The ATOC guys were pretty bad, most of the ART ATOCs failed drug test or failed PT test. Running real low. We had a TALCE too, very active. Almost wanted to join but stayed as an ART.
Back that way I would think it was either Westover or McGuire; though McGuire has since been BRAC’d. There may be one more but I can’t recall who it was.
You said you were medical retired. I was heading that way too but went out on my own terms. A GS-11 position opened up at my base so I took it; though I do get VA disability as well. All those years beats you up after awhile and I really started noticing it once I hit 50.
Like you, I went out on my own terms. They medically retired me after I took a position in Camp Zama, Japan.
I am now a GS-11, ended up going from Japan to VA in Washington DC to Fort Polk. Now leaving for Europe. My case, still little young in mid 30s. I held GS12 but took downgrade to be here.
In your 30’s you are young enough to be promoted to a GS-12 or even a 13. For me, I’m punching smoke in 18 months. I also teach college course online so between all incomes I’ll be fine.
Japan, ey? My mother spent time there after WWII. Her father was Army Air Corp. I’ve yet to get there as I’ve been to 30 countries but I do have plans on staying at the Navy (I think it’s Navy) location for U.S. military.
Yeah most of guys I work with already got their first retirement. I don’t blame you guys. I kinda wish I finished up my time. Now I gotta work 30 plus years I am sure. I really want GS13 and that’s it. 14 might be nice but too much work.
Has anyone compiled an updated list of names for our stolen valor “celebrities?” If so, please list them for shits and giggles!
They could all be on a show called Dual fakers.
Don’t have a “complete” list, but off the top of my head, here are a few:
Actors Brian Dennehy, Tom Mix (from the Silent Screen Era!) Shia LeBeouf, Ice-T.
News Anchors Dan Rather & Brian Williams.
Politicians HRC, “Silver Star” LBJ, that Dude from CT and many others..
Reality Show participants Joe Teti and Tim Poe. There was also a guy featured on Food Network that embellished his service (forgot the name).
Civil War “Celebrity” Walter Williams…(will check that name again).
😎
It WAS Walter Williams, who never served in the Civil War, but became a celebrity:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-war-stories-exposed/
Ironically, the article is a CBS News article. Not only is Dan Rather mentioned in the article, but others I forgot, e.g. KKK David Duke.
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whoops, didn’t see that at the end.
I was truncated!
These two wanna be military bad asses/ Hollywood actors you never heard of!
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=72428
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=72751
Travis Aaron Wade and his boyfriend Scott Levy!
This dude is an Actor. Nothing more, nothing less. Actors lie for a living.
The way I learned is that politicians tell their own lies but actors tell the lies of others.
His military claims come across to me as more puffery – i.e., making the unremarkable sound remarkable – than fakery. Probably applies to the rest of his bio as well. YMMV, of course.
I can’t agree with that.
In life as in law, “intent” matters. The same act can have different consequences depending on the intent behind it.
Whether his statements are factually accurate or inaccurate, it seems pretty clear that they were intended to create the impression that Tutor was some kind of military badass, and a member of an elite unit (most especially through the use of the phrase “…his first year with the elite team.”) which he absolutely was NOT.
And even if Tutor were to claim that the above was written by some 3rd party without his knowledge, Tutor can be presumed to know what his own employer is telling the world about him. Actors live and die by their publicity, it would defy imagination to think that Tutor does not know what his employers are putting in his official bio.
To me, at least, there’s no difference between someone making an inaccurate statement about himself and someone knowingly allowing another person to make an inaccurate statement about him without correcting it.
If Tutor’s schtick is that he’s some kind of “expert” in carpentry, then his unnecessary embellishment about his military service only undermines his credibility in other areas.
For all I know, Tutor may be the best carpenter or house rebuilder in the world, but the fact that he lied about his military time makes me doubt his credentials in other areas of his life, too. And that’s just stupid.
i’m with you, fella! 🙂
Puffery is exaggerating a little, or at least allowing some slight misinterpretation to continue. What this guy did was flat out lie about his military service from beginning to end. He claims things that just didn’t happen. His lies don’t even make sense.
Nothing remotely honorable about what he did after being seperated from service. And whether he even served honorably is doubtful. He would have been much better off to simply ignore having ever enlisted. The truth would have been something like, “I tried but couldn’t hack it.”
He also claimed he was the king of England from 1509 to 1547, started the English reformation so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn and was the father to Queen Elizabeth!
…Oh wait.
That’s HENRY TUDOR.
Please disregard…:D
His beard is a diversion.
He’s got a huuuge lot of stuff on his bio/resume, which kind of raises some questions over here. He was in carpentry school and EMT school at the same time. Okay, anything’s possible, right? But he was also working as a carpenter while he was in these two schools. Was he working full-time, or just doing part-time work as a handyman?
Am I the only one who sees some kind of ‘huh, what?’ in that?
This is in addition to all the other things he claims he’s done, and unless he’s able to split himself into several clones, it seems to me that he’s either tried and failed at several things until he found carpentry, or he’s just making stuff up.
And now, he runs a house inspection service, and has employees, or so he says, so my question is why is he making up stories about his episode in the USAF (failed)? And if he’s doing that, what else is he concocting? Can you really trust him to do a proper job of house inspection if you are looking at buying a house or need someone to clear and/or replace the plumbing lines because they’ve failed and you have seepage?
There is a limit to my patience with people who puff themselves off as pros and turn out to be amateurs.
Maybe he took some classes at a junior college.
EMT-B is a non credit course, a certification. There are no “Classes”, only periods of instruction over as little as 2 weeks per DOT standards.
It’s basically an advanced first aid course with O2 delivery devices and auto extrication.
“carpentry school and EMT school at the same time.”
You could easily work two jobs, sleep 12 hours a day and still simultaneously become certified as an EMT-B. 🙂
Okay, thanks. I was just curious about that.
folks, let me say this again for the peeps who seem to wanna defend the man- i don’t care if he was an EMT-B, kudos if he was. i am a nationally registered paramedic and registered in my state of FL, too. i can check my records back to 1994 and see where i was first certified. i checked the data base and found ZERO records on tutor as being an emt- b. he says he was certified, so, i ask, where? i see no proof.
now, let’s slide on forward for a minute and again, i ask- where the heck did he get the SWAT training? K9? Labs? UW? Room Clearing? no police entity i checked in 3 major cities of TX where he’s from, show any such records..
now let’s slide on some more-
WHERE DID HE GET HIS SURVIVAL EXPERTISE?
HIS SECURITY EXPERT EXPERTIENCE?
HIS WILD LIFE EXPERTISE?
HIS HUMANITARIAN EXPERTISE?
all while being a master carpernter,
a musician with a new album
and being a SEPTIC TANK INSTALLER?
folks, i never mind good debate and discourse
but i do get sad when folks don’t apply their common sense
the bottom line, if the man lied like he did about PJ
chances are, with such an unbelievable background,
it too, is mostly fabricated lies…
but hey, y’all believe whathca want, haha!
peace
I’m a currently certified EMPT-P as well. I didn’t check the database cuz …You already did and he’s an asshat, so I don’t care. 🙂
Hey, I’m not defending him one teensy little bit!
I got ripped off by a jerk who puffed himself off as a contractor but didn’t want to do the work he agreed to do and went somewhere else. Unfortunately for him, his wife called me and I told her he’d walked off the job and left my front door unlocked, so I guess she lit into him, too.
That’s the reason I questioned Tutor’s claims of education/training, and whether or not he’s really qualified to do some of the things he says he does. It just doesn’t add up for me.