Gerry Conway Bogus wings and splattered with urine? – Stolen Valour Canada
Mr Gerry Conway is another dude who likes to enthral gullible audiences into believing his military fairytales. Conway has spent the past few years telling Guelph, Ontario school kids of his exploits and then being splattered with piss outside of a US Marine Base in San Diego, California.
His obvious and frankly ridiculous uniform embellishments prompted us to contact our US counterparts in order to initiate a Freedom Of Information Act request to secure Conway’s military career file including the DD Form 214. The DD 214 is the capstone military service document, as it represents the complete, verified record of a service member’s time in the military (Active and Reserve), awards and medals, and other pertinent service information, such as highest rank/rate and pay grade held on active duty, total military combat service and/or overseas service.
The results will determine if, in fact, he was a member of the US Army, served in Vietnam with the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Valour and the Purple Heart which recognizes an individual wounded in action.
Additionally, the documents will prove his entitlement to lawfully wear the RANGER tab, US parachute wings, Air Assault wings (established in 1974 without retroactivity), Canadian Parachutist Wings and, what he likely believes to be British Parachutists Wings (however, he’s wearing the hat badge of the UK Parachute Regiment, as he likely doesn’t know the difference)
Mr Conway and his claim of being a US Army soldier leaving a US Marine Base to face 1000 protesters is nothing but a fabrication meant to deceive his gullible audience in a sick sympathy play!
Veterans take mental health issues seriously and many fight the stigma of PTSD on a daily basis yet, Mr Conway perpetuates lies and mistruths that lead to the view that all returning service members are damaged goods…
Please follow the link below for the rest of their case on this clown. Another fine job by our brothers north of the border.
Source: Bogus wings and splattered with urine? Dude! – Stolen Valour Canada
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
If I saw him in public in that outfit, I’d probably hose him down, too.
Make him play goalie. No helmet. No pads. No stick. Slap shot! Whomp. Forehead. Slap shot! Crunch. Teeth. Slap shot! Slap shot! Slap shot! Thud. Thud. Thud.
THAT sounds like a nice start!
Does he have a coveted Comrade Kerry medal with a Fonda device?
Winner!
BZ!
In Canadia, I believe that if one were to call this piece of shit a puss-filled sperm receptacle, such would constitute a crime. It’s good to live in the USA.
Nah, That’s not a crime here yet. Some idiots are tryin to criminalize words but they haven’t got there yet. Canadian Veterans are roasting him too.
Canadian veteran here.
You are wrong! We’re currently currently calling him worse names 😉
Well, it’s like this Canadese. I believe that by calling him a sperm receptacle, I have offended an entire class of personns, to wit, those who are light in the loafers or, if you prefer, gays, queers or fags. As I understand the Criminal Code of Canadia, particularly Section 319(2), were I in hockeyland and wrote that, the local constable might pay me a visit and I might be in the pokey (Is that a slur, too?) for as long as two years. Of course, in private conversation, I have no concern for that sort of stuff–yet. However, on the the internet, it’s another story. Hey, have you checked the latest list of books, mags, and other sources of the printed word that are banned by the gov’t? Hell, sound like I know more about your laws than you do.
2/17;
Margaret Dumont was the Marx brothers perfect foil. At the end of Duck Soup, when Zeppo’s head was was caught in the double dutch doors, the brothers started to throw fruit at Zeppo and Margaret started to sing Hail Freedonia, they started to throw the fruit at her. Great ending.
You also might remind this Canadian of the what happened to Mark Steyn because of an article he wrote that was published up North. He said something about “radical” Islamists (now there is a redundancy) that some Canadian Muslim group found unflattering. I think his administrative prosecution only cost him about $700+K in legal fees. Although, he prevailed in the end.
Canadian too.
Conman should be this POS last name. GRIFTER TURD MUNCHER YOUR FULL OF SHIT.
I’d throw a turd at him willingly.
Oh, look! He has the obligatory 1st Cavalry pin on his breast pocket. Every poser has to have at least that!
And dual 82nd ABN patches.
I had that in VN. I was in the 3/82nd (left sleeve) and authorized it on my right too because I was in Dominican Republic (Opn Power Pack).
Doubt this clown ever heard of either one.
sj;
Didn’t know that you were in the 1965 Dominican Republic ordeal. I was on the USS Okinawa LPH 3 and we left on a Friday right after the 8in. gun heavy cruiser USS Newport News left Norfolk NOB. We sailed and picked up the Marine BLT from Moorehead city where we didn’t stop but had them flown onboard by those H34 Sikorskies. Onboard Marines were ready to fly into the DR but at the last moment, it was called off and all the munitions were piled on the fantail and dumped overboard. A surgical team was flown in from the hospital where the wounded were treat and the reefers were used as a temporary morgue where the deceased were kept. The Marines had only one Huey on board which was used for recon and it was hit by ground fire. They landed in a friendly area and the Co pilot was treated onboard and the next day, a purple heart was painted on the side of the helo. I sent the pic of the helo which was on our news letter which I saved and sent a copy to TAH which was put in my comment box. This was during a discussion on helocopters awhile ago. That’s how we came about receiving the AFEM. I saw a youtube video on the DR along with operations in VN. Was the Jeep that was ambushed from your outfit.?
We were rigged to jump. On the way something changed and we were diverted to PR and spent the night sleeping under the planes on the runway. Next day it was back on and we again thought we were going to jump but at the last minute they decided the field was secure so we landed. I was in the Signal Bn so didn’t get far from the airfield or, later, a school which was the Div CP.
Like Mondo I was only a pawn in the game of life and didn’t know much of what was going on beyond my area of responsibility. The Cav Squadron did a lot of the initial work and I think I remember one of them getting shot up. The first thing they liberated was the DR liquor stores so the 130’s shuttling to Bragg were loaded with booze…until customs caught on.
Was a great experience being part of a no notice combat movement of an entire Division. Learned a lot.
Now you know why we used RF-101 to “import” the rum.
And what the hell is he doing wearing the Ranger tab on the right sleeve?
Somehow he missed the Leadership tabs for the epaulets.
Shh, don’t mention that. If he reads your comment that will tip him to promote himself to buck sgt and put them on his fake uni.
He is a jacked up Canuckian POSer clown. There are about a dozen things wrong with what he has displayed on his fake uniform.
Clicked the link and I disagree with the Times article posted below his case. A lot of our Vietnam Veterans were treated like crap when they returned home.
Didn’t help that we had so many liars like John Kerry propagating false claims, that would lead to the awful lies and smears directed at Service Members, such as the whole “Baby Killer” bit. There was a concerted effort by a lot of awful people to try to paint our actions in Vietnam as “evil” or “wrong,” and they often lumped in the service members fighting this war, as well.
And again the mention of we lost the War, last I knew when I left was that we had recovered all the territory that was over ran during TET, in fact we actually got more back and were winning but then the wimps in congress and the protesters started ruling the USA and the likes of Clinton’s and Obuttwipes took over and are still in congress and the Military did not lose anything as to a war, they lost the ability do battle as the wimpy american citizens took control. Much like Korea, WWI, we signed a truce or armistice and those all worked out great. Now the wimps want to run away again. I for one am sorry that I ever served here and Vietnam for what I thought was our countries freedom and there are 58,000 plus who, if they could speak, would probably also feel the same way. I am no longer going to wear anything that identifies me as a VNV in public as unlike you I was feet on the ground and I don’t need your fake bullshit.
The NYT opinion piece was credited to: “Jerry Lembcke, an associate professor emeritus at College of the Holy Cross, is the author of ‘The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam and Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal.’ In 1969 he was a chaplain’s assistant assigned to the 41st Artillery Group in Vietnam.”
Lembcke is apparently pitching revisionist history because he wants to sell his books. It’s probably also not a coincidence that his fawning over Hanoi Jane would fit with an effort to be au courant with the current women’s empowerment movement. Too, Lembcke’s books would appeal to males of a certain age who now realize years later that their anti-war efforts had more to do with being afraid to fight than actual moral grounds.
If you spent any time in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late ’60s, the anti-war movement’s extension to being anti-military personnel was very real. Those of us in uniform at the time were routinely treated like a bunch of dogs. I know this both from hearing anecdotal evidence, and from personal experience.
Personally, I no longer have much in the way of hard feelings towards those in the anti-war movement who were apparently caught up in the goofy idea that the war was the fault of those in uniform. It was a strange era, and it’s a wonder we managed to get through it with as little damage as we did. Still, people like Lembcke should not be trying to change the historical record to fit a personal agenda. Santayana had a point: if we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.
Perry, I have to take issue with your closing paragraph. It was those in the anti-war movement who burrowed into academia and began the takeover of our educational system by the radical left. It was those same same leftists who took over our journalism schools and spawned an almost exclusively left-wing media. It is their offspring who now hold almost all positions of power in the educational system and most of the media, who have brought this country to the perilous division it now faces.
This old soldier harbors very hard feelings against these people and their socialist dreams of a disarmed, compliant, global populace.
One same too many–“Same, same, GI?”
Poe, as a matter of clarification, it’s my own view that if you spend 50 years being perpetually pissed off about what some anti-war nitwit did back in ’68, it means in a certain sense that they’ve won. I’d prefer not to give them the satisfaction. There are probably folks in the South still annoyed by what happened at Shiloh, but such a thing, at least to me, has always seemed counter-productive. You take your hits and you move on.
Which, if you think about it, is something our current crop of Progressives is unable to do because Hillary lost. And what seems to not factor into their equation is how much harm their disruption and recalcitrance can cause the republic.
I’d also venture that academia and the news media present two separate issues. The political bias of academia pre-dates the war in RVN, but it’s only been fairly recently that academia has gained more credence because of the news media’s tech-fetish. The news media’s bigger problem, unlike academia’s which mostly doesn’t have to work for a living, is financial. There is simply too much news media chasing too little money. And instead of weathering the current business model crisis by maintaining a professional ethic, the news media has, like one of the girls down on the corner, opted to sell its objectivity for a handful of silver.
YMMV, GI…
The anti-war bit was only a part of what the leftist movement was about back then. Opposition to the war was just one tool to delegitimize capitalism and the US gov’t. and society, and hopefully overthrow them. The work did not stop with the end of the war.
“The work did not stop with the end of the war”
It moved into the public schools
Many of us were subjected to name calling, but I never heard of any incident where mobs were waiting outside a base to harass us and throw urine. He is just embellishing an urban legend.
A. The majority of the protests at airports happened in California. B. Wasn’t anyone in the group of protesters had a clue as to any VNV being anywhere else other than at an Airport. C. Kinda shows what pot and LSD can do to a bunch of already brain dead hippies that lived there.
I hope this asswipe will one day be devoured by a polar bear…
Why would you want to give some poor polar bear a bad case of indigestion?
What’s is it about fakes and eye candy
Dats a lotta bling for a Spec 4.
Yeah, what’s up with that? He He couldn’t find the insignia for Command Specialist Major?
🙂
He may be a SPEC 8. Appears to have sewn on SP4 sleeve insignia and a brass SP4 collar insignia where the US and unit/MOS would go. Two SP4’s rank insignia equals to a SP8, doesn’t it?
Gerry Conway, lying, posing, valor thief that gives turds a tongue bath; enjoy your new found Google fame….Whole of an Ass.
Noticed that, too. No need to see a DD 214 after that stupidity.
Another NDSM w/ star embellisher. Removes all the honor and glory that come with that medal.
LOL
For some reason or other, I don’t remember much about returning home from RVN. On Oct. 8, 1970, I remember landing in the state of Washington, possibly Ft. Lewis? We got the obligatory meal, getting spruced up and having any awards & patches put onto our dress greens and then sent to, I believe, Seattle airport for the flight home. I can honestly say, that I was never subjected to being called a baby killer or other names and was never spit on. I do sort of remember having a number of people looking at me with a disgusted look, but nothing more. I just wanted to go home. The one thing that does stick in mind was a young pretty woman at the ticket counter. When I told her my destination, she replied that the flight was full and that I would have to wait quite awhile for the next flight. I sat down in the seating area, depressed that I would have to stay there for what seemed would be a long time before being able to board a flight home. I just wanted to go home. I probably had been there for about 15 minutes or so, when that same young lady came over to me, handed me a ticket for the flight that was full, smiled at me and said “there was a seat that just opened up”. She told me to have a safe trip home, smiled again and then went back to the counter. I often have wondered if she bumped someone off that flight so that I could go home. That is what has stayed with me for these past 48 years. Thru the years gone by, I have heard what has seemed too many stories from RVN vets and how they were subjected to being called names & spitted on. I’m not saying that it never happened, but sometimes I wonder how much has been embellished. And as for that pretty young ticket agent? Wherever you are, whether you still are with us, please know how much this lowly grunt thinks of… Read more »
Now where is that LIKE button when you need it. Thanks for sharing.
Thumbs up SkyJumper
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Welcome home, Skyjumper.
We flew into and out of Sea-Tac as was 4 of us from Luke sent at the same time to the same place. Was kind of an interesting place and on return a little excitement provided by an Army enlisted person and other contributing factors as we were there for the night on our way back, Started out as one of those sober oh poor me soldier, and a couple of hours ended as a well inebriated oh poor me soldier leaving the airport with wrist hand cuffed to his ankle escorted out of the Airport by 3 MP’s.
That wasn’t me, by the way. I managed to make it as far as Cheyenne, Wyoming.
I’ believe you providing you don’t have lumps on your head that were not there before you got to the airport and that you do not have a sore fist. Bar, they had a bar, the only bar(s) that we were heard of were on the third floor and no drinks were served there.
“I just wanted to go home”
Yeah, I know. Glad you made it.
Thank you, brothers.
And Welcome Home & Thank You for your service to all of the vets here at TAH.
A stewardess on my flight on remembrance day gave me a free slice of banana bread.
She would’ve spotted me pretty easily: 5.11 bag, g-shock etc
It’s the small gestures.
Thanks for sharing bud. Welcome home.
Skyjumper, you landed at McChord AFB, which is right next to Ft. Lewis. The only time I ever experienced a derisive comment in uniform occurred on the street in Cambridge, Mass., in 1972. I was in Greens and had just flown back from England where I was trained to be a deadly pistol shooter by the 22nd SAS. Some stank-ass Hahvhd hippie called me a war criminal or “baby killer” or something. My girlfriend, who had just picked me up from Logan Airport, wanted to slug him, but I wouldn’t let my Army nurse go to jail for assault. Besides, I wanted to eat some good American food in peace after three weeks of British Army food.
I think it was McChord AFB. I don’t remember much about leaving from Seattle airport. I decided to wait for my flight in the bar, and people kept buying me drinks. The bartender (I think) was kind enough to reschedule me for a later flight so I could drink some more. Poor decision making on both our parts.
From McChord, one would take a taxi or a shuttle bus to Sea-Tac Airport which is North of Tacoma, but South of Seattle, to catch a regular commercial flight to where ever stateside. I didn’t have time for a drink at Sea-Tac, but I ended up slightly pissed at the airport bar in Phoenix, waiting for my parents to pick me up at the airport. I neglected to tell them when I would arrive and no one was home the first three hours after I landed.
Took a DC-8 from Sea-Tac to Portland Oregon. Never did level off.
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Cool story.
So what Army Corps did you serve in Gerry?
“Specialist Corps, see it’s right here on my lapel.”
At first glance, Conway has a steely eyed look but then I realized it was the reflection from his steel framed spectacles.
Does the Specialist rank on his lapels indicate Conway is an E-4 Mafia lifetime member?
The E4 Mafia is like Fight Club.
The first rule of the E4 Mafia is You Don’t Talk About the E4 Mafia.
Yeah.
The second rule is to keep an eye out for CID.
Steely-eyed meatgazer.
Someone give GERRY CONWAY a dish of his favorite Pan-Asian delicacy – Cream of Sum Yung Guy Soup!
Stolen Valor Assclown…
To quote Green Thumb, just a gnarly old due with delusions of what he never did, and wouldn’t have done, anyway.
I’m not sure, but does the term ‘lickspittle’ apply to him? Or would mendacious buttsniffing drain clogger be better?
I doubt even a warthog would want to spend time in his company.
Word.
Thanks for the shout out!
What a pud…sometimes it really saddens me that corrective beat downs are considered assault.
Like Skyjumper I never experienced the spitting thing. I did have a run-in with student demonstrators but, oddly enough, it took place almost nine months before I left for Vietnam. I was on a six month TDY from the 101st to a small detachment of the U.S. Army Exhibit Unit. We had a commemorative Civil War exhibit set up on the campus of Arizona State. The other two TDY Airborne sergeants and I were manning the exhibit in our pressed TW’s and spit-shined jump boots, under the charge of a leg E-6. We were happily flirting with the pretty coeds, when some stank-ass hippies showed up to protest our presence on campus.
Things went downhill very quickly and we three trooper NCO’s were ready to kick some ass but our leg boss ordered us to back off. We held them at bay until the campus police showed up to break up their demonstration. No one was spitting and that was good because it would not have been without violent response. I remember telling more than one of the protesters that if they hit me with their waving sign it was going up their ass.
There were protesters outside Oakland Army Terminal in December ’65, but they didn’t affect me as I went in and out on a bus. My return was uneventful as well–flew into Travis, AF bus to San Francisco International, late-night flight to LAX, rented a Mustang convertible, bought a cold six-pack and slowly drove through Santa Monica and Malibu under the stars, up the coast to my folk’s place in Ventura so very, very thankful that I had made it back.
You should write about that drive. I can only imagine how amazing that must have felt. Probably surreal too. 🙂
Come to think of it that jacket does look to be velour. Maybe he stole it.
Jeff?
26Lima;
No, I never owned a velour dress jacket or jungle fatigues although when I was up in Camp Drum for the two week camp out when I was in the ARNG, those jungle fatigues were being given out to anyone who wanted them. There was a group out of Brooklyn NY that was called the Velours whose big hit was “Can I come over Tonight” 1957 on Onyx. Saw the lead singer in Schutzen Park, NJ a number of years ago during a UGHA show (United in Group Harmony)
Here ya go:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+velours&qpvt=the+velours&view=detail&mid=1392058BCE512C7CABCF1392058BCE512C7CABCF&&FORM=VRDGAR
Great music, Limabeans. Noticed also Kenny Vance and one of my favorite doo wop, Looking For An Echo.
Da Fuk
The E-4 Mafia does NOT APPROVE
This scumbag is so phony I’m certain he has never even heard of the E-4 Mafia…
The only thing splattered here was some dudes load in this loser’s face several years past (and maybe ongoing – who knows?)
Is this a case of Stolen Valor or Stolen Velour?
Quite similar to the distinction: Is this loser a Poser or a Poesuer?
Cocksucker?
or
Cocksuckeur?
HEY Gerry Conway, TAKE OFF, HOSER!!!
Hey Conway, don’t be Twitty.
Raincoats? How stupid must he have been to think up that line of bullshit?
It is original….
Where is his Harley and service dog? He isn’t even trying. A thousand yard stare would also be helpful. A dedicated poser would not have overlooked those things.
The Canadians should take that jacked up costume, put it out in a field like a scarecrow and light it on fire.
Then give it a Stolen Veleur burial with no military honor whatsoever.
I notice that there are no Canadians posering and pretending to be American draft-dodgers and deserters who refused to go to Vietnam. Wonder why…