Tag: Vietnam

Robert Hayes – Phony Vietnam Vet, Fake Purple Heart

| June 17, 2019 | 191 Comments
Robert Hayes – Phony Vietnam Vet, Fake Purple Heart

The folks at Military Phony send us their work on Robert Gene Hayes, who claims to have served in Vietnam, was in both the US Marine Corps and US Army Special Forces, worked in a “Black Ops” unit and was wounded in combat. Bob posts a lot of Vietnam-themed photos to his page but doesn’t […]

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Straightening the Record

| May 21, 2019 | 149 Comments
Straightening the Record

This is an interesting story and it was a challenge for how to present it, so I’ll preface it by explaining what happened. Military Phony had been asked to look into a news article published by The Mountaineer.  The story involved a man by the name of Billy Messer who claimed he survived alone in […]

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Michael E. Stone – Phony SEAL

| September 27, 2018 | 52 Comments
Michael E. Stone – Phony SEAL

Military Phony sent us their work on this Michael Edward Stone fella, who claims that he was a Navy SEAL with SEAL Team 3 in Vietnam. He seems to love to wear the SEAL Trident on his ball caps. His official military records tell a different story, however… Michael Stone retired from the US Navy as […]

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