Joshua Linney; phony Desert Storm veteran for mayor
AnotherPat sends us a link to the story of Joshua Linney, a candidate for mayor of Holmes Beach, Florida. Linney claimed that he was a veteran of the 1st Gulf War – even though he was only 15 years old at the time the war was fought;
“I’m a Gulf War veteran whose worked to overcome war, trauma, alcoholism, chemical dependence and PTSD, while living with disabilities, and I conquered them all,” Linney, 42, wrote in a biography submitted to the Manatee County supervisor of elections office and posted on the agency’s website.
According to the article, Linney joined the Army in 1993 and went to Kuwait, earning the Southwest Asia Service Medal, but well after hostilities.
Linney still claims to be a Gulf War veteran and that he has been diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome, a multi-symptom medical condition that has affected many veterans of the war.
“The reason I say Iraq to people, I’m not saying it to be misleading,” Linney said. “Saying I flew into Saudi Arabia doesn’t explain what they are asking so it’s easier to say Iraq. It’s not a misrepresentation.”
In his biography, Linney states that while he was in the Army, he turned down an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., to attend airborne and Army Ranger training. He also said he graduated from Advanced Infantry Training.
However, there is no such thing as Advance Infantry Training in the Army. Every soldier who goes through basic training regardless of job description undergoes Advanced Individual Training for their particular assignment. In Linney’s case, he was a cook and not an infantryman.
“I misspoke there,” Linney said. “I wasn’t trying to misrepresent myself as infantry. I know what AIT is and I wrote it down wrong.”
Linney did complete jump school, but there is no indication he attended the Ranger Indoctrination Program, or RIP, a three-week course that must be completed before being eligible to attend Ranger School. Linney claims he was attending RIP when he was injured on a jump and was reassigned.
Yeah, not much chance there was a Ranger School slot for a spoon.
Dude is a hot mess. He’s been arrested for DUI, and several drug charges. His Facebook page says that he’s Chief Technology Officer at Veterans For Cannabis.
In 2012, Linney was charged with petit theft and battery, but the charges were dropped. In 2013, he was charged with petit theft for shoplifting at the Cortez Road Walmart, and paid restitution and court costs. He was charged again in 2016 for misdemeanor theft for shoplifting at the Walmart in Palmetto for which he again paid restitution and court costs.
Linney had trouble remembering most of his run-ins with law enforcement, but he said most of the drug arrests were dropped, including one arrest for possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell and another arrest for possession of cocaine.
“I never had any problems with coke,” he said. “It doesn’t work for me and it’s something I never enjoyed..”
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Fuck, even his mother wouldn’t vote for him with that record.
And I’d love to hear the recollections of those with whom he served. Less than flattering, I’m sure.
I bet when he fills out job apps online, under present occupation, he types in “PROFESSIONAL LIAR”.
Fucking assclown..
Mayor? I wouldn’t let this freaking clown clean out dog shyt from the dog pound!
No slot for a spoon in Ranger School? But who was serving the starving troops when they came in off the field? All that wet, cold, soggy, mosquito-bitten, starving-for-hot-food mass of humanity must have needed his services. Surely there was room for a spoon there?
I like this particular statement from him:
“I never had any problems with coke,” he said. “It doesn’t work for me and it’s something I never enjoyed.”
Well, I have a long, long historical relationship with Coke and I can say that yes, it can be addictive because the flavor is formulated just so, to ddraw you back to it. And Diet Coke is even worse – no calories, but somehow, you still get fatter than Aunt Martha’s Poland China hogs, because aspartame enhances the flavor of that stuff so much that you simply can’t put it down or ignore it. You just have to keep going back to it, over and over and over…. until you realize that you’ve gained 70 pounds and it wasn’t from eating junk food. Then once you dump it, because of the expense, the pounds begin to melt away….
What? Oh, sorry, I didn’t realize that this slimy, sleazy snake was talking about cocaine… except that, originally, Coca-cola did contain cocaine… which is why it’s called ‘Coke’.
Oh, he should definitely have the job as Mayor of Holmes Beach. He’s a crook, the perfect political candidate. Vote him into office and let the tax money vanish like snow in the noonday sun.
Wouldn’t he make a truly great member of Congress?
Perfect politician. Personally I prefer rum with my Coke.
I’m new to this and accidentally clicked on report comment when should have replied. My comment is that this guy if Democrat then lying is a skill he learned at an early age.
For a long time now studies have popped up indicating that “diet” sodas are worse for you than the regular versions.
Why? Because of all the fake shit in them to create that flavor of the real. Which seems rather apropos for this schmuck.
I’ve met a handful of cooks in the Army. They often referred to themselves as “Food and Nutritional Specialists” because they don’t just cook. Though I recall while I was at Ft Lewis, cooks were often the ones acting like they were actual Ranger badasses just because they were assigned to the Ranger Bn there. That was first pointed out to me by a Ranger who was often laughing at the cooks for doing that.
Casey Ryback also cooked. (snrrt!!)
Just a cook. Just a lowly, lowly cook.
I had the opportunity the other day to talk to a 94-year-old WWII veteran. He flew over the beach taking pictures from a little observation plane on D-Day. Found out later that he is very wealthy. Seems like after the war he got a degree in chemistry, worked for Monsanto for a while, and made a whole pile of money with a bunch of patents for creating aspartame.
Just thought you might like to know the aspartame/veteran connection.
This guy was a cook I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. , cooks are some of the hardest working ppl in support. Plus they work some crazy hours to boot. This guy also deployed , though not in combat and that’s ok too. The problem is the embellishment. I’ve held Combe and support mos slots. They all come with different challenges. I worked with SF in a support role during OIF 1. I have to say that that was some of the most demanding work I’ve ever done. I don’t sell myself short because I wasn’t a door kicker. It’s this crazy idea these SF Ranger and infantry that if your support you ain’t shit. Let me tell you what a personal mentor and hero of mine SMA William H Wooldrige said during a talk he gave. “ it doesn’t matter what job you hold in the Army. Every one has his duty no one job is more important than another in the Army team. Whatever you do you do for the good of the Army”. Words I wish these support guys who want to pretend would heed
Precisely. If I had been a 42A I would have been the most kickass HR Specalist I could have been.
Mad props to all my POG Brothers and Sisters that do the HARD work I couldn’t/wouldn’t do!
^^This^^
Seconded!
Sunday mornings on the OKIE 3 were eggs to order, so one of the mess deck cooks asks how do you want your eggs Mike but I don’t want to bust his chops and I say any way you want to make them and next thing you know, he cracks two eggs over my tray. Lots of laughs over that one.
10-15 years he’ll be a congressman running for President. D’OH!
“I never had any problems with coke,” he said. “It doesn’t work for me and it’s something I never enjoyed..”
So you just like the smell? Wasting money? Hanging out in bathrooms with a greasy guy in a leather jacket, in July, at a Rolling Stones concert?
Joshua Holmes of Beach, Florida is a lair.
Joshua Holmes of Beach, Florida is not a Ranger.
Joshua Holmes of Beach, Florida Is not an Infantryman.
Joshua Holmes of Beach, Florida did not see combat during the Gulf War.
Joshua Holmes of Beach, Florida Should not be elected into office.
His name is Joshua Linney OF Holmes Beach. Drink some more coffee, you’re not awake yet. lol
Sorry. That should read:
Joshua Linney of Holmes Beach, Florida is a lair.
Joshua Linney of Holmes Beach, Florida is not a Ranger.
Joshua Linney of Holmes Beach, Florida is not an Infantryman.
Joshua Linney of Holmes Beach, Florida did not see combat during the Gulf War.
Joshua Linney of Holmes Beach, Florida should not be elected into office.
It’s Leonard from Big Bang.
Spoon.
Dude can sure cook up some bullshit.
Turd.
You know you’re a fucking loser when your rap sheet says “shoplifting at Walmart” multiple times.
Like Jonn said, this dude is a hot fucking mess. But it’s Florida, so who knows how this will turn out in November…
More information about Joshua Linney and his Web of Lies:
https://www.islander.org/2018/07/holmes-beach-mayoral-candidate-fuzzy-on-bio-details/
Am chuckking because he claimed he was contacted by West Point directly as opposed to receiving a nomination to attend West Point…and that he had “personal connections with an Admiral at West Point.”
He also claimed Second in his class at “Advanced Infantry Training” even though he later admitted he mispoke and “wrote the wrong information down” and in reality, was an Army Cook.
Cocaine does wonder for the brain. Course, Joshua David Linney said “I never had any problems with coke”…
Hell no, he didn’t have problems, he snorted, got fucked up and stayed that way.
Perfect career politician. He will go far, but will never get my vote. Personally I prefer rum with my Coke.
Florida again??? OH NOOOOO. I’m supprised that he didn’t claim to be a Navy undercover Seal working in the shadows. No that wouldn’t work because he isn’t wearing the coveted leather vest with some geedunck adornments pinned on it.
Joshua? Linney? Florida? Nah. He’s all Guido from Joisey.
His lies (yes, that’s what they are, JOSHUA LINNEY) are simply disgusting. No need for them at all. Beyond any justification. Crazy.
He apparently either is too stupid to understand simple definitions of words or thinks himself so superior to the rest of us that he can bamboozle us with his redefining English words. Maybe both.
Must be a Bill Clinton acolyte. “I didn’t inhale”. “I did not have sex with that woman”. “It depends on what the definition of the word “is” is”.
He’s just lazy. Being arrested numerous times at Walmart confirms it.
Dude looks like an over-inflated Morrisey, but gayer
Colonel Sherman T Potter lied about his age to serve in WWI, so I can see where this fellow served in Desert Storm at 15.
Had big thighs for a boy his age…
Even Fucking Ice Water through the nose at 11:30 in the morning STILL HURTS.
Bitch.
Just for that, you’re getting the Unofficial Wall of Colonel Potterisms
– “horse hockey!”
– “mule fritters!”
– “monkey muffins!”
– “buffalo bagels!”
– “buffalo chips!”
– “pigeon pellets!”
– “pony pucks!”
– “beaver biscuits!”
– “cow cookies!”
– “bull cookies!”
– “pig feathers!”
– “road apples!”
– “hot sausage!”
– “hot mustard!”
– “jumpin’ jodphurs!”
– “sufferin’ saddlesoap!”
– “sufferin’ sheepdip!”
– “shiverin’ shinbones!”
– “holy hemostat!”
– “busload of bushwah!”
– “sweet limburger…”
– “sweet Nefertiti…”
– “Geeze Louise!”
– “Great Gatsby!”
– “Great Caesar’s Ghost…”
– “Great Mother McCree…”
– “What in Hanna’s Hell…”
– “Where in the name of Carrie’s Corset…”
– “What in the name of Sweet Fanny Adams…”
– “What in the name of Marco ‘BLESSED’ Polo…”
– “What in the name of Samuel Hill…”
– “What in the name of Great Caesar’s Salad…”
– “What in the name of George Armstrong Custer…”
Outstanding! Took a while, glad someone got the reference.
Great day to you and yours.
When explaining his “Gulf War service”, he says it’s easier to tell people he’s been to Iraq instead of flying into Saudi Arabia (in order not to confuse them, and he’s not misrepresenting anything)…
Except Iraq and Saudi Arabia are two different fucking countries, and the Gulf War was 27 years ago.
The guy is a moron, and a criminal.
Joshua Linney sure sounds like a dumb ass.
When he was 18, Linney enlisted in the Army in September 1993 and was medically discharged in August 1996, after he fell off a building and suffered a traumatic brain injury for which he receives disability benefits, according to his discharge papers.
Which may explain a great deal about his not remembering, making stuff up, and statements that defy facts and logic such as:
“I just want voters to know that I would never intentionally misrepresent myself,” he said. “I don’t want anything hidden. If something is misconstrued, I want to clarify it. I was arrested a ton of times where I was accused, but I never had any criminal intent or malice. I was never trying to be a devious person.”
(Yeah, because those items in WalMart just happened to jump into his pockets.)
Holmes Beach is a small town of less that 4000 people.
Given his lies, his criminal past, his inability to remember, and his rationalization of every wrong act in his life, he’d be a perfect mayor.
One newspaper article stated he fell off a building.
The other stated
“..he sustained an injury from a fall off a transport truck while unloading its contents. He said he suffered a traumatic brain injury, and he is petitioning the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for compensation. He was redeployed after the fall and later discharged for chronic pain and a kidney disease.
He received disability severance pay at discharge and later qualified for Social Security disability pay for PTSD…”
Scrotum-sniffing Sphincter weasel.
Scrotum-sniffing Sphincter weasel.
API, I would call him a Scrotum-sucking Sphincter weasel! There, I fixed that for you!
As well as a Rusty Trombone Virtuoso!
His Public Facebook Account:
https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaDavidLinney
His Go Fund Me pages:
https://www.gofundme.com/5r4vqag
https://www.gofundme.com/JoshforHBMayor
Interesting article about his Go Fund Me pages and his Facebook:
https://www.islander.org/2018/07/and-pushes-envelope-on-advertising-regs/
His Facebook Account:
https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaDavidLinney
His two Go Fund Me Campaigns:
https://www.gofundme.com/JoshforHBMayor
https://www.gofundme.com/5r4vqag
Interesting article about his Go Fund Me campaigns and his Facebook:
https://www.islander.org/2018/07/and-pushes-envelope-on-advertising-regs/
Poor guy, married to a woman who “Studied Feminist Theory and Social Order at Hollins University”
If he wasn’t insane then, he most assuredly would be by now.
Not excusing this lying member of the spoon platoon, but…
The Ranger Regiment does have (few) low density MOS’s assigned. I remember the mess Sergeant of one of the Airborne Infantry Battalions in 2nd Brigade 82d when I was in was Ranger qualified from his time as a cook in either 1st or 2nd Batt. My Ranger Buddy was a NBC NCO in 1st Batt. Other guy I know was a Forward Observer in 3rd Batt.
Just sayin’.
The Ranger Regiment in that time period did in fact send its Cooks to Ranger School. Our E-7 Mess Sergeant recruited straight from their AIT. He legitimately had Halo Wings, Path Finder, and Master Parachutist, when he asked to go to Scuba School they finally said no. We called him Hollywood Jones (before Heartbreak Ridge came out) because he was an extra in Glory, and ended up with a speaking part. You can see him in those USAA adds where he was half in uniform half business suit.
So perfectly possible this kids story is legit, but then he fell off the wagon. You did not need a very high GT score to be a cook!
From his FaceBook page: “The struggle is real. Major life dilemma, Mayor or Commisioner of Holmes Beach, which to run for in November?”
I guess dog catcher and sanitation engineer was already filled (no disrespect to either position)…
I think he should contact Phil Monkyass… All Points probably has a spot for him…
Would have been nice if he’d given just as much thought to the importance of telling the truth about his military service.
When I was in DS we were scared shitless of those killer 15 yearolds.
It’s Dewey Crowe from Justified!
Gulf war syndrome?
Was this poser serving depleted uranium omelets to the Saudis?
What the actual fuck, over.
He never claims to be a Desert Storm Veteran. As far as claiming to be an infantryman that’s all I ever heard was you’re an infantryman first and then your MOS second. He was airborne and said he was injured trying to qualify to get his Rangers tab. Sure he embellished but I’m sure all of you have to some person you were trying to get with in your life. And yes I am a Pogue but I slept in the same dirt serving with the Cav Infantry and armor. I also did Desert Shield storm and operation provide comfort. For those of you that don’t know the Gulf War is ongoing according to the VA website.
Seriously, David? You can get Gulf War Syndrome but not have served in DS? How does that work in your world??
And since this is not really a day to screw with the crew and the rest of us around here, JUST WHO DO YOU THNK YOU ARE? No, every one of us has most definitely NOT embellished our military service, to some person we were trying to get with or otherwise. Honorable people don’t do that. Most of the folks here are honorable people.
How can this clown claim to be a Gulf War Vet when he clearly is GW era vet? How did this douche contact Gulf War syndrome when all the burning oil fields/burnpits were non existing? Just another full of shit politician wannabe. What a disgrace to the Army.
“I never had any problems with coke,” he said. “It doesn’t work for me and it’s something I never enjoyed..”
Linney is running against long-time Holmes Beach Commissioner and mayoral candidate Judy Titsworth, who was not immediately available for comment..
Duh… she knows the old saying… “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”