All,

Many of you know about this posted in team here where a military poser was able to make into my sisters and 12 year old nieces life, then kill himself in front of my sister and my niece by shooting him self in the head with a .45ACP. So this military poser stuff moved past something I read about to something that I had to help my sister and niece try to make sense of.

I had asked that the orig thread from a few days ago be trashed because there was some things going on in the outing as far as FOIA is concerned and I didn't want any undue attention until it was officially posted.

There is one heck of a good Marine name Lt. Col. Mitch "Taco" Bell. I served under him in the KC-130 community, he was an aircraft commander when I was in, amongst his other duties at the squadron. I remember him being a positive force in my journey. He was AD until 1998, he works special projects now with the USMCR. He is also employed by American Airlines as a pilot. Good, true, solid man. He runs an awesome site called The Sand Gram as well.

Mitch was taking part at an event in on October 23rd in Texas called "Sky Ball" As detailed here as :



Mitch was at this event that night, he was proudly escorting the The 12th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sgt Maj Overstreet. There were 2,500 people attending this event that night, 500 of them were in uniform. One of those was "Gunnery Sergeant Perry James" who had accepted to be an escort for the Navajo Code Talkers and was, as Mitch puts it, was "adulating in the spot light and boosting how you were a POW in Vietnam". "Gunny" PJ, as he called himself, had accepted "free airline tickets/transportation/hotel rooms and Ball tickets you have accepted in the Veterans Parade in NYC and DC over the years" based on his service and status as a POW.

Sgt. Maj. Overstreet, after looking at "Gunny PJ's" fruit salad had made mention to Mitch on how he wanted to rip the medals and ribbons off his chest right then and there, but decided there is another time and place for that.

Mitch spent Sunday steaming and brewing about the 'inflated" Marine whom they had come in contact with and got by on the kindness and money of others.

The following Monday, Mitch had some emails go back and forth between a man named Doug Sterner from Home of Hero's and Mary and Chuck Shantag at POW Network. By Tuesday, Mitch writes:



Sergeant Grimaldi broke down the "Gunny PJ's" medals and ribbons here in a PDF file.



Here is the breakdown:



You can view "Gunny PJ's" profile on the POW Network site Here

The Washington Times has given him credit here on slide #8

Here he is at an honoring event by the Navajo code talkers

How could someone even have the balls to TRY this at an event attended by hundreds of people who could make him for a poser?

14 years and out as an E-4?



http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies1017.htm

It would be so much easier to get away with it if they only put a few good medals on their chest vise 18lbs of them.  They always go big.

It's hard to be proud of who you are when you're chickenshit.

These guys are so into their own bullshit that they actually believe it themselves!



I was (briefly) acquainted with a guy (Navy SEAL of course) who actually had Vietnam flashbacks and had to be taken off to someplace quiet and "Talked down"



The problem was, that the picture of the last marine stepping off the embassy roof was taken two weeks after this guys 15th birthday!

The kid makes that depressing.

What is even more disgusting to me is that most of the posers have served.

Damn that sucks for his grandson.

Sadly this is just the 'flesh and blood' manifestation of the type of 'resume inflation' you see all over the net (arfcom included).

Nobody seems to be happy with their own life and actual accomplishments so they have to inflate it for some reason.

I'll take a real Timex over a fake Rolex any day.

I'm on a job up in Utah right now and everyone is 82nd Airborne, 101st, Green Beret...

I ask them simple questions about land nav, mil history, weapons...

Nobody has a clue.

Posers, they're everywhere.



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Please inform Sergeant Grimaldi the unidentified medal worn last in precedences (shown in the .pdf as "U")  is a Navajo Nation Veterans Medal. I strongly doubt it is authorized for wear in uniform.



A medal given to Harrison Lapahie during Navajo Veterans Week, October 18-22, 1982. This was the first medal commissioned by the Navajo Nation to be issued to Navajo Veterans during Navajo Veterans Week of 1982. The medal was designed by Theresa Potter, the official artist of the Navajo Code Talkers Association.

The ribbon drape of red, gold, and turquoise depicts the rainbow colors of the Navajo Flag. Below the ribbon drape stands the outstretched wings of the Navajo Eagle, the symbol of courage and strength. The Great Seal of the Navajo Nation lies in the center of the medal surrounded by the six points representing the six Sacred Mountains (Mount Blanca, Mount Taylor, San Francisco Peaks, Mount Hesperus, El Huerfano Mountain, and Gobernador Knob).

The arrows that surround the great seal of the Navajo Nation represent the major battles fought by gallant Navajo warriors.
On the right side of the medal, by recommendation of Nephi Cody, Navajo Medicineman, is the designed image of the Horned Toad, for the protection of the bearer. On the left center side of the medallion, the Navajo Bow, a deadly, accurate, and dreaded weapon of the 1800's.
         
Special bars have been designed for the combat serviceman that served overseas and for those that saw combat action. These will be attached to the ribbon where appropriate.
Navajo men and women who served in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Guard, or Reserves or who were active personnel in Armed Services, were entitled to received this medal in 1982.


http://www.lapahie.com/Navajo_Veterans_Medal.cfm

Bad stuff

Fucking people who can't be proud of their service.  Who cares if you were a pogue or didn't see combat.  Serving is enough to be proud of.  Jeez

I gave Mitch the link here, thank you very much.

How pathetic.  Disgusting and pathetic all at the same time.  Words are not enough.

So why do these guys do this? I mean so he got free airfare to be in parades. Is that really the motivation free airfare ticket? I don't get it.



Off topic: The Cold War Victory ribbon is that available to all service members who served during the Cold War?

I'd believe the 82nd or 101st. Nothing special about that, unless they're WWII vets. Hell, even I made it in the 82nd!

The "Cold War" medal is bogus as well.  There was a cold war certificate you could apply to the VA for years ago and some commercial company came up with the medal.

He wants attention, and is asking for it.

Great job in giving him what he so badly wants!

Any way we can inform writers who have praised him in the past about his poser status?

yup

I was thinking of that, like sending an email to washington times and the other google.com results...I'll ask Mitch about that, maybe waiting on the FOIA info.

Neither do I. This shit is getting out of hand and I can not for the life of me fathom how screwed up you must be to perpetrate such a lie just to gain attention.



 

Wiki says that the Congress passed and the President signed an act that gave DOD the authority to authorize wear of a medal for Cold War service, but DOD still hasn't done so.



Would be nice if I could get my dad another medal. He was in Naval Intelligence and didn't get a ton of medals, but did his fair share and then some. He doesn't ever complain, but it would be nice to get him an extra medal for his service especially now that he has health problems.



My Dad is a vet and will not even use, seek, or look into VA benefits.  Navy was his life though.

The medal appears to have some legit behind, but he is still a poser




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_Victory_Medal





 

I just don't see the motivation to say you were a Space Shuttle Doorgunner when you actually served.



Every vet has his own interesting stories and experiences even if they didn't run and gun in a black op.



No real vet cares much about the "Fruit Salad" of ribbons for themselves. How many guys right now should have probably received a bronze star, but didn't and you've got some guys that maybe shouldn't have and did.



Then these pretenders don't just go a little overboard they go way off the grid into the freakin deep end with enough ribbons to make it appear as though they won WWII single handed. My favorites are the young ones that claim to have completed so much they must have got out of basic after pre-school. These people have to know they'll get caught at some point.



Hell, remember Admiral Boorda? The guy killed himself probably over being called out for wearing the ribbons he wasn't authorized to wear. Why? I don't get it. I'll never get it.

You know what pisses me off most about these guys?



They're wearing ribbons they never earned and that some service members probably did and were never awarded.  It's like stealing from the dead.

Ridiculous. I've never had to urge to bullshit anyone about it unless it was a stripper at 230 and I was running low on options (and that don't count).

I was in long enough and met/worked with/deployed with enough people from all branches and communities I couldn't get away with it for more than 20 minutes anyway lmfao. Someone would spot my face and I'd be outed as the tatt'd up shitter guy that used to hang out the left window before the ink dried on the article .


The fucking embarrassment though, that will last these fucks a lot longer than their 15 minutes of fame........

Huh.  I didn't know about the follow on Act.  After the 1998 Act, there were unofficial medals flying around.  AF specifically had to address them.



How would the POS wearing it be legit?  Was he in the LA ANG too?





 

Hell, it would be a lot cheaper also.

Sgt Major Overstreet was my Bn Sgt Major at MCRD and at 12th Marines. I'm surprised he didn't rip this guys head off and shit down his neck given his hard coreness.

This POS does not in any way deserve to be near Code Talkers let alone escorting them. Slap nut MFer.

mother of God

This guy probably has mental problems but i would still like to beat him with a bat

As soon as I saw his picture in uniform I knew the guy was full of shit.

nobody ever claims to be a truck driver huh ?

My old man is proud to say that he was 'just a company clerk' when he was in 'Nam.

FIrst thing my dad would do is rip them shades off his fucking face. My dad was a real Army Drill and VN Vet.

Certainly agree with you on everything else, but Admiral Boorda never wore anything he wasn't authorized to wear.

He looks like a bag of shit in uniform wearing a DI cover, fucking prick. I cannot stand these filthy ass fucks pretending to be heroes and getting all the perks, freebies, free plane tickets.

would pay damn good money to see that.

Funny, I have a buddy who is proud to be a PLS driver



 

Disagree.  He wants POSITIVE attention.  The negative attention should help put him in his place.  Oh yeah.  Fuck liars.

Since when is a Campaign cover ever authorized for wear with Blues?

I agree it looks like canned ass.

MCO P1020.34F
MARINE CORPS UNIFORM REGULATIONS

7003. CAMPAIGN (SERVICE) HAT
1. The campaign hat may be worn with the duty uniform by Marines listed below, and is not authorized for leave, liberty, or in formation with troops, except as required for drill instructors. It will not be worn with the Blue Dress "A"/"B" uniforms. Service cap branch of service insignia will be worn in the center front ventilation eyelet. Hats, brims, chinstraps, and hat cords will be kept in a neat and serviceable condition. No deviation from the original shape and design of the hat is authorized.

DIs use to wear them when the Marines graduated in dress blues.

LOL what a dork.



you know, I was given a mini Expert Infantry Badge once. I told the gift giver that I can't wear that, I didn't pass 100%. The guy told me "who cares your Infantry". I said "ok thanks" and I put the little pin in the drawer and never wore it.

These douche bags make me sick.

I rcv'd an message from Mitch via facebook, he is thankful for the ID'ing of the medal. He would like to keep his word and send out either some Afghan currency or a coin from this years Sky Ball to Miles_Urbanus.

IM Sent.

Thanks for helping out guys, all involved appreciate it.

Yeah, but he isn't a poser. He isn't thumping his chest and benefiting from being something he isn't.

I'd like to punch that fucker right in his cum guzzler.