Jessica Marie Fambrough; Combat Camera
Our friends over at militaryphony send us their case on Jessica Fambrough. It seems she likes to engage in discussions about her Combat Jumps while a member of a very elite group known as “Combat Camera”.
Combat Camera is an elite unit of highly talented photographers and videographers from each of the services. They are usually out on the front lines of any war, conflict or humanitarian relief effort.
You can read more about this highly regarded unit of specialists at the Joint Combat Camera Center
MP did a Freedom of Information Act request for her actual service records:
According to the Navy she didn’t manage to squeeze any Airborne training into her actual 3 weeks of military service. As is often the case, she does have some other records available to the public you can see over at MP.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Why do all the fake females also have fake fibromyalgia?
because its like whiplash, you can’t disprove it so you get free $$. its the same as the motor pool guy in Kuwait who had gotten the PTSD from hearing about a guy that got blown up in Iraq…. they should just be glad that i’m not their Doc !
It’s a go-to medical problem that is difficult to disprove. If one does enough research, and knows how to present to the examining doctor, they have a decent chance for being approved for a disability. I don’t know what the going rate is for fibro. It of course depends on the degree of disability. Fibro is accepted by most of the medical community as a valid disorder and some are actually greatly disabled b/c of it. It’s like migraines, back pain and other maladies which are not easily disproven. Once the patient gets a disability rating from the VA, that kinda opens the door for additional money from social security. I’ve seen it work many times, for fibro and other issues. It doesn’t work as easily the other direction, from my experience. Getting a disability from the Social Security Administration does not necessarily grease the skids for getting a disability from the VA. Of those I have spoken with, they are told that the documents supporting an application for fibro, migraines, LBP, just about anything, must generate from a VA or military provider. There are always exceptions. That’s why those leaving the military are strongly encouraged to document any issues while on active duty. There is a need to establish a nexus from active duty to application with the VA. As mentioned above, whiplash is a disability lawer’s (sp) golden goose. Just prove I don’t have whiplash. Get yourself a C Collar on Amazon (at the same time you get a vest for your service mutt) and wear it constantly. It is of course helpful if the collar is prescribed by a physician. Watch the money roll in. Seen it many times. There are web sites that discuss gaming the system. If there is a buck to be made, there is someone willing to discuss ways of doing it.
Sgt Fon: One of the most outrageous examples of a bogus claim for the PTSD was the retired guy whose job was to handle super sensitive message traffic. He said reading such sensitive and depressing traffic for those many years caused him depression and the PTSD. That was his job for 20 years or so, reading traffic, directing it, generating traffic. He got squat. Might have worked differently if he had sought help from the psychiatry department while on active duty. That, however, might have interfered with his ability to hold security clearances. That was the reason he gave to me for not doing seeking help.
i spent 3 years in the WTB at FT Benning. when i got there it was mostly combat injured/wounded. guys missing eyes, a leg and one guy who i actually helped pee out of the plane on the way back from landstuhl germany after having my gut operated on( got to love morphine when it is RX for good cause) was blown out of a guard tower in Afghanistan. by the time i left it was chicks who got thrown off a horse or didn’t use a 3 points of contact getting out of armor in the FT Benning Motor pool or claims of the PTSD from the horrors of saudi arabia or Dubai
once i decided that i was going to stop fighting and take the medical discharge, i asked a question about the whole process, i had a female reserve SFC promptly tell me everything i needed to say to the shrink/doctors/nurses in the clinic to get 100% rating with the Army. she was there because this was the 3d time she was able to get out of a deployment with her unit by telling them she had PTSD even though she had never deployed. i wanted to punch her so hard in the teeth, i mean i really don’t ever remember being that mad even at the Iraquies that were trying their damndest to kill me. i guess there was something about how i looked at her because she asked me if i was all right and then told my plt sgt she was scared of me LOL! i never said a word to her after asking my question. if there is a way to play the system the weak and lazy will always find a way to do so at the detriment of others. it’s also why communism will never work 🙂
I use to say, now I’ve heard it all. Not anymore. I truly believe I will never hear it all in my lifetime.
The fakers are just ‘chock full o’ stupid’ aren’t they?
This has got to be a first – a Phony Combat Camera… Has there been any others?
Don’t know but they better jump in while it is hot. The Navy is getting rid of their Combat Camera. The Army might too after last year’s fiasco with the mortars.
So no more combat camera? With all the kids carrying phones, selfie sticks, and GoPros on all their gear they think they don’t need them?
All future war documentaries will look like the Blair Witch Project then.
Don’t forget about the guy on Phony Navy Seal of the Week. Claimed he snuck in to Cuba during the missile crisis and took pictures of missiles while dangling from a cliff and then personally delivered the photos to JFK.. That was a good one. His name is Ron something
Yeah, Hack remembers that guy. If I recall correctly, they pulled him from Navy basic training to do those photo ops. He would have had the pictures delivered to President Kennedy a day earlier, but he didn’t want to burden US tax payers with paying for express development at the Foto-Mat kiosk.
That’s him. The ninja dickhead.. Ron White
Still a High School Senior during Cuban Crisis in 62 and graduated in 1963. Went aboard the OKIE 3 in Dec. of 1963 and most of the guys had the added extension to their enlistment.
i think there was some guy called bernath… i think he might have had a fib or two about his camera MOS in the Navy….
Well, he actually did make PH2, but he also cribbed the work of other people and claimed it was his, including his LPO on the ship, who retired as a CPO and worked for NASA.
His thefts of other people’s work knew no boundaries.
First in my recollection.
There is still no fake US Army, 9’Th Infantry Division Ski Instructors !!!
We were a mean group, killers all of us and I caught the PTSD from trying to teach Marines how to ski !!!
That is enough to give anyone a severe case of PTSD !!!
Went to ski training with the 10th SFG(A) in Rumford, Maine with a crew from the East Coast SEAL team. They weren’t at home on a pair of Whitestar WWII skis, but they sure could drink after we got down the mountain.
As a Marine who went through ski training, I might well be sympathetic to you Thunderstixx. Our group looked like monkeys trying to fuck footballs. Half of us got banged up pretty good by landing on rocks and hitting trees.
I acidentally reported you’re comment…
Hilarious!
Two combat jumps, golf clap.
Boot washout, nice. I expect Ex-PH2 will be along shortly to opine about Jessica’s photog creds.
See below.
You never disappoint, Ex.
*grin*
25 days? Close, but no cigar, Navy.
Ron Etzig (Army) is still the king of the bedwetters with 16 days total service.
Maybe Fambrough got delayed by a holiday weekend or something. Sixteen days is going to be hard to beat. You almost have to piss hot or piss the bed on day one.
Go Army!! Beat Navy!!
I found this sentence interesting: As is often the case, she does have some other records available to the pubic you can see over at MP. Pubic? Not enough coffee this morning, Marine? (snrrttt!) Okay, stoke up and I’m awed by this twig’s ability to do things in which she had no training. The Navy supplied ComCam PHs to the Marines and SEAL teams and the Army had its own units, which has changed over time. In all seriousness, it’s not just some walk in the woods or trek across a plowed field of opium poppies with a camera. Also, I’m quite sure that this slapdash offshoot of an obscure mating between a rotifer and a tardigrade doesn’t know an f-stop from an ISO and couldn’t tell you the difference between depth of field and hyperfocal distance. And here’s another clue: while the development of digital photography began with Steve Sasson’s efforts in 1975 at Eastman Kodak, the seminal market for digital photography consisted of cameras that had to be attached to floppy disc drives to download their rather grainy images. The cost of those primitive examples was generally $1,200 to $1,500, not including lenses or floppies or disc drives or computers. Digital photography was originally developed for NASA and the space/satellite surveillance industry, not for public use. Try to imagine downloading your 3″ floppy disc to your Mac or Lisa or having your IBM “B” drive read it. Just try. That noise you hear is me laughing while I fall off my chair. The current digital cameras were not available until late in the 1990s, were prohibitively expensive, did not have remotely the capacity of a Mamiya RB67 Pro S with a 220 roll film back. I could spend hours in the field with that old workhorse and go home with hundreds of images, whereas this mistake-on-her-parents’-part probably would whine loudly about the weight of that lovely camera, never mind enormous confusion on how to load and work a Speed Graphic filmback. Combat camera, my Fat Aunt Harriet! I’d say the closest she’s gotten to a camera is the… Read more »
“Should I go drop some shit on her sorry gluteus maximus over at MilPhony?”
Please do, Ex-PH2.
You are cleared hot. Expend all on your first pass.
Bring it.
O.o
I dunno what you just said, but it sounded crazy scientific.
That’s hawt. 😉
My favorite question is always defining the difference between depth of field and hyperfocal distance.
Kids today….
As a side note, the earliest combat photographers were not Brady and others of the US Civil War. The earliest combat photographer I could find was an American who shot Daguerreotypes in Mexico in the mid-18040s. An example is here:
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/06/12/how-early-photographers-captured-historys-first-images-of-war/
There were also Brit photographers in India during the conflicts there in the 1850s.
Matthew Brady came later, during the US Civil Ware, and hired other photographers to get over 10,000 images, although none of them were allowed to actually shoot the battles while they were underway.
On a side note, in going through a bunch of stuff my late mother left behind, I found a photograph of my great-uncle, GEN George C. Rogers, in his uniform. I’m going to see if I can get any information about him from the local historical society and maybe the National Archives, too. I wish I had known about it last year.
The best book ever written on photography was written by Herbert Keppler and is titled “The Pentax Way” and it didn’t matter if you had a Pentax or not. The book deals with everything to do with photography from ISO to hyperfocus.
I have had the experience of having at least 7 of them stolen from me by friends.
They borrow it then when I ask for it back they never give it to me…
One of my daughters stole that and my darkroom from me years ago…
She now has her own photography company and is no doubt a creative genius.
Here’s her website. She won the biggest photography contest in Madison WI on her first entry in a contest…
She is also a 100% disabled Veteran and I am so proud of this kid.
Take a look and see for yourself why I am so proud of her.
She’s booked all the way through 2018 and 2019 her schedule for Weddings is almost full…
http://lampstandphotography.com/
Nice work. You should be extremely proud of her.
I always check what is available in the pubic domain, especially when I’m watching a football game.
Excellent background, Ex-PH2.
A big emphasis nowadays is with a DVIDS system, which is a satellite uplink that allows for the transfer of digital imagery and real-time interviews.
The DVIDS hub works closely with the military and often offers some cutting-edge imagery almost instantaneously.
https://www.dvidshub.net/
I think that’s the reason from dropping Combat Camera as a specialty next year (or so I’ve been told).
Everybody can transmit to a satellite uplink via WiFi.
I can do that with two of my cameras, also do videos with all of them if I want to go to that kind of trouble, and upload it all to Adobe’s Cloud if I’m in the field.
The Navy is doing away with two NECC Combat Camera units to save Money, it will be easier and cheaper to use fleet pubic affairs assets. The expeditionary units will and have been of late just using the CC assets from the other branches as that is who they deploy with. NECC found that having to train them in training they hardly use would save money. Why send a Navy CC to jump and yes in some cases MOUT school when the Marines and Army already have that capability. I always though it was a waist of Money to have them, just attach to units like we always have and have units give them training. This was just some way for a Senior PAO Officer Captain type to have a command, BS because they are not line or command officers period. Sorry EX, just have a bad taste for the CC units, it was dumb.
I think that, originally, it was a hand-down from WWII and Korea, in which the civilian photojournalists went along with the landing parties to get the war photos. I think it grew out of that. In the 1960s, a ComCam -designated PH was assigned to accompany UDT or SEAL teams from a land base like the Philippines, but the ship-based PHs weren’t officially part of that, as far as I know.
I guess it changed a lot after I left in 1974. And yes, it is wasteful of funding to duplicate what already exists just because one branch of the service has it and the other doesn’t.
Sure, pick on the Jarhead.
Check your Jessica thread, Marine. If it doesn’t show up, please advise. Thanks.
Not all things need to be made pubic.
Hey! Post a spew alert! (gigglsnort)
One of the medium format cameras I always lusted after was the Hasselblad 500 EL/M that NASA used on the lunar missions. Apollo crews brought back the 70mm film magazines for them but left the camera bodies on the surface to save weight. There are apparently 15 of them still sitting on the moon.
One of the strangest Army cameras I ever saw, also 70mm, was one made by Bell & Howell. In appearance, it was similar to a rangefinder Leica M2 only roughly twice the size and painted OD green. It also had a crude motor drive you could charge by cranking up a coiled spring.
The Army camera sounds like a medium format field camera (120 or 220 roll film film). You might be able to find one in a museum or collection of odd antiques. The Navy contracted with a camera seller to produce a battery-powered motor-driven Nikon F-1 on a pistol grip, which could be handheld by fighter pilots to do recon photography while hunting for Soviet subs in the South China Sea.
Unfortunately, these cameras frequently broke down or the battery packs ran out of charge (no rechargers back then) and the cameras were tossed into the drink because the wait to get them back from the contractor was longer than the time it took to just get a new camera. Think about that financial waste for a minute. Occasionally, one of these “special” F-1s will turn up online, but without the battery pack to drive the motor, they’re kind of useless critters now. Mostly curiosities from another time and place. The rest are at the bottom of the South China Sea.
They also had cheap lenses instead of good stuff, mostly because they were considered throwaways and could be easily replaced.
There is one on display at the ASOM in Fayetteville NC
Ex-PH2:
Just saw the “bomb” that you dropped on ol’ Jessica here over at the Military Phonies website.
KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Shack!
(phony Combat Camera gear goes flying everywhere)
Thank you, Mick. I kept wanting to ask her directly, ‘where’s the link to your portfolio?’ and then wait until she coughed up a link to some online civilian photojournalist, or maybe linked to some of the stuff from Vietnam. She really is that uninformed and lame.
3 weeks. Which tells me she copped to something stupid at MOT and spent the rest of distinguished career at 15th Division waiting for her paperwork kicking her to the curb.
She was one of those folks you see wandering about O’Hare in Navy PT gear. Kids who actually graduated boot camp going to A school or permanent duty stations would be in dress blues with a nice thick package of their service records sealed inside.
This girl is a minute particle of flotsam adrift upon a sea of humanity. Or in other words the end result of a bum fuck.
More like a “car accident” that happened in the back seat of an AMC Pacer on dollar night at a run down drive in movie theater!
I am a combat photographer and I approve this busting !
3+++!
I think you’ll appreciate this link to an article about Roger Fenton’s battlefield photography. He was sent to Crimea by the Victorian government to document the conflict.
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/10/31/roger-fenton-the-father-of-war-photography/
👍👍👍
Well, she did get one picture in, so she’s got that going for her…
Red hair, green eyes and an inch short of six feet. Kinda good looking, too. Where is IDC SARC when his opinion is needed?
It’s likely all SHE is good for, too. She has a curious habit of doing things that are very inappropriate.
I call dibs!
Or sloppy shares. I are Grunt, me no cares.
Is she also an Honorary CPO as a previous photog who has assumed room temperature?
No. She probably doesn’t even know what it means, either.
What she meant to say was, “Combat Meth Head”.
Couldn’t quite make it out of Great Lakes, huh? Real high speed, low drag lady.
Didn’t even get the much coveted and most honorable NDSM!
She got the boot before 9/11, but even still.
I mean yeah, it got warm at RTC in June and July, but can you imagine how much she would have suffered in January shoveling snow?
She’d have no doubt put in a PTSD claim.
Less than half the time John Giduck “served”!
Another 25 day washout
BHWHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Alright, alright. I volunteer to give this bad girl a spanking.
Baby oil and Mr. Switch are standing by to stand by!
You guys can expect this one to pop up over here. She is already claiming she has a 214 in a safety deposit box she is getting to prove her service. I’m guessing she will defend till the great Bernath day falls upon her.
I can’t wait.
Thanks for the heads up, Sandman. I will have a standard quiz ready for her to answer. I will show no mercy.
LHer now ex friends say she’s a nutcase and has been telling their siblings or children WAR STORIES.
The witch couldn’t afford a safety deposit box if it’s free. Loony toon
I looked at her FB page. She is past Loonie Tunes and has completed full shower mold state.
wow..
The Whiz Wheel™® sends out a Hat Tip to you for a new multiplier of nine acronym:
FLTPSM (Full Loonie Tune Past Shower Mold)
“So let it be written, so let it be done”
Screw the 214. I wanna see some of her “recent” photo shoots.
Me, too. Anything besides selfies and a police mug shot would be interesting.
Did she attend sandwich making school…???
Clownette.
Very interesting. Not sure if this is still the case, but the army has one active duty COMCAM Company {55th Sig Comp) and one Reserve and they do have a few Airborne billets. Don’t know if any of them (in recent years) have any combat jumps. Didn’t know the Navy was cutting back on theirs. The Air Force actually has more COMCAM personnel than all of the other services combined. All of the services farm out there still and video troops to forward operating locations with the exception of the Marines because theirs are embedded with their units. A lot has changed since I retired.
Her supporter have supposedly given her till 5pm today to produce proof of her claims. I’m pretty sure at 5:01pm, they will give her more time.
One does not simply produce a DD214 from a safety deposit box…there is cut and paste, scanning, printing, and all kinds of things that must be done.
I would like to officially repel this twatwaffle bull goose looney from the gates of the COMCAMGRUs, on behalf of the few real Combat Cameramen I knew some time ago.
Her utter ignorance of the entire field of MCS is as obvious as the dye job she does to her hair.
It appears our special guest has reneged on her vow to “show you I’m real”.
No surprise there.
However, should she show up some day, we will NOT have forgotten her misguided attempts to bloviate and inflate her almost three (count ’em) weeks of active duty.
On the other hand, if she doesn’t show up ever at all, that will not be a surprise.
Bye-bye, Tootsie.
Let’s just say what I have been given that was posted to prove her service is not worthy of someone who understands photography. I just think its a really bad idea to photoshop your picture onto a Federal ID. Developing…
“I just think its a really bad idea to photoshop your picture onto a Federal ID.”
Oh. My. Dog. Oh, no. She didn’t. Tell me she didn’t really… do THAT.
Holy crap. Gobsmacked, I am. Holy crap.
Still no sign of Jessie??? Or is it Jaz?? A turd by any other name would still stink.
Seems that she changes her name with the way the wind blows.
Oh, Jessica!! Wherefore art thou??
Come, bird! Come!
Shall I conjure her?
How does that line go…? Oh, yeah!
When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,
I, all alone, beweep my false front state
And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse that I’m late….
Come on, Jessie! Be a sport! Show y’self!
Well, gee whiz, it’s Thursday already, and Jessica still has not shown up to show us up or relate her expertise to us.
(Heavy sigh.) Well, I guess that was to be expected, since she changes her name with the weather report.
And I was SO looking forward to the challenge she thought she could present.
I’m sure it comes as no surprise to learn that her Facebook page seems to have gone “poof” sometime since the posts went up here and at Military Phonies
I’ve been waiting for an update due to Dave’s comment above from the 31st (But with the unfortunate death of dear Jonn, I was being patient because I’m sure he and the others have more than enough to get done otherwise). The way I read it is she had posted what seemed to be a forged 214 or some other Federal document…I may be wrong but that’s how I read it. The “developing” comment at the end compelled me to believe that we’d have some sort of update coming shortly. I’d love to see wherever she may have posted something to try and back up her bs claims. BTW Ex-PH2…I always love your comments and insight. You’re a pitbull and I’d hate to have you on my ass. lol.
From what I understand, she may have gone to ground or run off into the hinterlands of NOT the internet.
I don’t know how far she took this fraud story of hers, but if she’s gone into hiding, we still have to keep a watchful eye on her antics.
Remember, Wilted Willy’s POS brother has been scamming the VA out of disability compensation at what is now a spectacular level, and I’m sure this cow would love to do the same thing if she thought she could get away with it.
I don’t know how Willy holds it together with his brother…What more does one have to do to prove that someone is a lying thief?? Hopefully one day we’ll get the great news that his brother is in bracelets and facing charge after charge, one can pray!
Re: This dumb beotch…She just has the look of pos! Can’t wait to see how this all plays out, I’m sure the hounds are barking at her daily to fess up and come clean, hopefully she will.
love it when one of my comment doesn’t get in here…lol