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Sheridan, AR
Hot Springs Nationals Park AR
Riverton, UT
Tooele, UT
Cave Springs, GA
Salt Lake City, UT
06/2008
09/2008
Former Mayor of Leola ARKANSAS,
Former VFW Post Commander Sheridan, AR
Those that know him say he never went to Nam.
Claims ex-Special Forces guy who was captured in Vietnam and spent 90 days in a bamboo cage with 8 other US servicemen before being liberated and repatriated. He is newly elected as Senior Vice Commander of Utah's Disabled American Veterans. Claims that there were no records of his being captured and imprisoned.
NOT SF
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He always talked up his alleged Vietnam service and time spent as a POW. However, many believed it was just a story made up to explain his often outrageous behavior. He often told the story that he had had to watch some of his comrades as they were skinned alive. At any rate, Jim Randazzo was *never* mayor of Leola. It's probably just another of his tall tales.
Rasmussen, Robert, USA RET
Multiple Sources
Still repeating tales in 2000 and 2001
11/2006
Public historical references do not list Rasmussen as a DSC recipient nor POW.
11/2006
<< SgtReam@aircav.com>>
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEA
D03021106.htm
[click on the above link or email us for the entire article.]
Agency director resigns amid questions
DAYTONA BEACH -- The new director of an agency serving the disabled resigned Friday after questions were raised about his claims of being a military fighter pilot and a pro-football coach.
John Redigan, 59, head of the Association for Retarded Citizens of Volusia, resigned after meeting Friday with executive board members.
The board met with Redigan after a Daytona Beach News-Journal article Friday raised doubts about the validity of him being a Thunderbird pilot, a commander of a fighter wing, a prisoner of war and a Jacksonville Jaguars coach.
Redigan, who served on the ARC board for five years, made the comments in an interview earlier this week, as well as to civic groups and people in the community.
But U.S. Air Force officials stated he was not a commander or Thunderbird pilot. A Jaguars spokeswoman said he was not a volunteer coach. And POW sites did not list his name.
........... When confronted with the discrepancies late Thursday, Redigan continued to insist he had been a Thunderbird, a POW and volunteer running-back coach for the Jaguars. He later said his resume should not have stated he was commander over a tactical fighter wing of 22 F-15s, but instead a chief in the inspection unit......
aka BGen Richard Deane Reed Jr USA Ret
04/02
aka Eugene Reed
Records have been requested
| Daniel B. Remington Sr. | ||
| Daniel B. Remington Sr., 64 METHUEN, Mass. -- Daniel B. Remington Sr., 64, died Monday at the Sunbridge Colonial Heights Rehabilitation Center. He was born and educated in Rumford, the son of the late Paul Hale and Cecilia (Campbell). For many years he was a Truck Driver for PAC Moore and Air Transportation. A highly decorated Vietnam war veteran Daniel served his country in the U.S. Army, and was a former POW. He received two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star with the 1st Cavalry Division, and was General Westmorlands flight Engineer during the Vietnam War, prior to being honorably discharged. He was a member of the Order of the Purple Heart. Daniel was a Bow Hunter, Safety Instructor for fish and game of Portland, Maine. Daniel owned a helicopter that he used to fly sick children from Maine to Boston's Logan International Airport in order to get them on a plane to visit Disney World in Florida. (He called it the Angel Run). It had been used in the past to transfer Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to and from Washington, Marthas Vineyard, and Portsmouth Naval Base. Daniel was survived by his wife, Diane E. Perrett-Pellegrino Remington. He is survived by his children, Daniel B. Remington and his wife Rodalynn, Russell E. Remington and his wife Jenny and Holly McMahann, Tricia Benner and her husband Charles; three brothers Billy Remington, Douglas and his wife Beverly Remington, and Shawn Remington, two sisters, Terry and Kelly; 15 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Dan was predeceased by his step-father Francis E. Remington; and his brother Francis Jr. Friends may call on Thursday from 4-8 p.m. at the Kenneth H. Pollard Funeral Home, 233 Lawrence St., in Methuen, Mass. Funeral services will take place on Friday morning at 10 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will follow in the Elmwood Cemetery. For directions and to send online condolences please visit pollardfuneralhome.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to: Caritas Holy Family Hospital Birthing Center 70 East St. Methuen, Massachusetts 01844 Daniel B. Remington Sr. | ||
Discharged an E5 after 8 yrs service.
MOS 95B/67N
67N Utility Helicopter Repairer
10/2009
11/2006
again
11/2006
yet again 09/2007
"Read the Frank Reyes story, "The Ambush" on military.com. ... there were no rice paddies or villages on that road. John Zager was hit once while taking cover under the jeep. He was hit with a single round to the head with a 51cal."
Being a fomer p.o.w. in Vietnam for a few years gives me the right to say that these three young men have earned the right to be labeled Heroes.Look to the future when they return home to what is a well desevered welcome home party.From,Sgt Frank Reyes 14th A detach.5th. Special Forces
ladailynews/main.dci%3Fpage%3Dlayug41+Rebromeo+%40aol.com&hl=en&
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09/2007
I
have spent countless hours reading the ”phonies” that were exposed
as frauds on your website—it is an awesome site and a great source.
I looked up Frank Reyes’ information AOL and this is the information
he provides under his profile for his screen name, “Rebromeo.”
You check for yourself by entering the screen name I provided in the
AOL “Get Member Profile” section under the “Community” option
on the toolbar.
Name
Frank
R. Reyes SSG. Ret.
Location
SO.
Gender
Male
Marital
Status Married
Hobbies
& Interests Wood
working,Reading.Traveling,
Favorite
Gadgets Pac.
Occupation
Retired, Military 10 Years, 75th Rangers , 5th & 10th Special
Forces
After
all you guys have done to expose this idiot, he is still lying about his
service.
Note:
I am a retired police sergeant from the State of
name with held
Records, photo and MORE
12/2003
In the November 03 issue of a news letter called the Dolphin which is for the Shelter Bay Yacht Club in LaConner Washington Rheinhardt now states that he is a retired Law Enforcement Officer and Air Force Pilot. He retired as a Correctional Lt. They are not Law Enforcement. See next column re: pilot!
Never left Washington State. A1C. Served in Guard from 08/10/66 till 02/23/73. Medals - Small Arms expert ribbon and Armed Forces Reserve Medal. END OF RECORD.
aka Nash,
John (Jack)
aka John F. Nash
aka JackSlim42
aka CWO40873
real name:
Mckean, Lionel Tucker
Greenwood, Campbell County, VA
Lancaster PA
click here for the REST OF THE STORY on
LIONEL TUCKER
MCKEAN
aka Sisson, Roger E.F.
aka O'Shanahan, Patrick
Casper STAR TRIBUNE, letters to the Editor, March 19, 2003
aka J.M. Alberti
He's the CDR of the DAV.
Roderick D. Riggs
WM SPARKS #10 Meetings Are Held on the 2ND Wednesday of each month Time: 6:30 PM
Meeting Location: 3200 Lansing Avenue Jackson, MI 49202 Phone: 517-784-8806 View Map Commander Roderick D. Riggs Adjutant Kenneth V McGaugh Treasurer Kenneth V McGaugh Senior Vice Commander David W. Nelson First Junior Vice Commander Legislative Chairman Roderick D. Riggs Service Officer Roderick D. Riggs Membership Chairman Roderick D. Riggs Officer Authorized to Receive Mail Kenneth V McGaugh
Claims he graduated BUD/S. Claims POW, Navy Cross, Silver Star and more.
Had a visit from the FBI. All his ribbons/medals were taken.
So far, no charges have been made public, if filed.
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The Canton Repository
December 12, 2008
www.cantonrep.com
Darrell "Rip" Rippey
Darrell Rippey (Rip)
Darrell Rippey age 60, our beloved brother, husband, father departed this life on December 8, 2008 after a brief illness. Darrell graduated from McKinley High School where he excelled in track and football. Darrell talent captured a football scholarship landing him at Youngstown State. After two years at Youngstown State Darrell decided to come home, within weeks he was drafted into the Vietnam war. During his duty in Vietnam Darrell became a Prisoner of War and managed to escape the bombing of his communication shelter. Darrell received a honorable discharge and returned to Canton only to be embraced by family and friends. He was employed by LTV until he retired. He is preceded in death by his father, Arzie Shipman; Mother Nelda Rippey-Jackson; sisters, Patsy Compton (Shipman), Carolyn Shipman and Kimberly Shipman. Survived by Wife, Linda; .... Darrell's smile, laughter and Zeal for life will be truly missed by all. Memorial Service will be held at the Deliverance Church Activity Center. 2130 31st St. NW from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, December 13, 2008.
aka Terry Redcloud
Terry Curtis Payer
Terry Curits Lewis
Terry Curtis Lewis
Steve Yellowlark
Ottumwa, IA area ( Des Moines, Polk City)
“I am teaching them some of the things that I learned growing up,” said Rising Sun, an Eagle Scout and a friend ....... (Ottumwa Courier)
aka Roberts Charles Noward
TN
04/02
POW license tags MI 14A77
Commerce City, Colorado
Bronaugh MO
http://laramieboomerang.com/news/archivemore.asp?StoryID=103626
News Story Published On 7/7/2005
Bringing the carnival to town
By Micah Sturr
Boomerang Staff Writer
Most men bring their razor from home when they
travel for business. Ray Rodarmel leaves his razor, and brings his home.
Rodarmel, a Vietnam veteran, Purple Heart winner and former
prisoner of war, works for Brown’s Amusement and is in
Laramie setting up and working the Jubilee Days carnival near the
Laramie Railroad Depot. He is part of a changing generation of carnival
workers.
Brown’s Amusement general manager Chuck Myrick has been in the
carnival business for 30 years......
Rodarmel was unshaven on Tuesday during set
up. Employees must be shaven and have neatly cropped hair by policy. The
retired United States Marine, father of six, grandfather of
16 and great-grandfather of five, doesn’t have a beef with the policy;
he just didn’t have his home. The bunks and Rodarmel’s home still
hadn’t arrived from Riverton....
07/24/2005
Proud to be a veteran
By Micah Sturr
Boomerang Staff Writer
People lie. People are even willing to tell unconscionable lies for little reason.
Lying about being a Vietnam veteran, or even uglier, about being a prisoner of war, is uncomfortably common. There are significantly more men who are actively lying about being POWs than there were men who actually were POWs in North Vietnam.
There were 661 military POWs who returned home from the Vietnam War, according to former POW Capt. Mike McGrath (Ret.), and the federal government. One such man lied to the Boomerang, and this reporter specifically, about his service several weeks ago.
Lying about service is an easy way to add prestige to an otherwise mediocre existence, and relatively easy to get away with in a barroom or with someone who hasn’t served in the military.
“I’m more disappointed. I’m not hurt. I understand that there are people out there who have such low self esteems that we call them wannabes, because they want to be SEALs, they want to be special forces, they want to be POWs, they want to be doctors or senators or congressmen,” McGrath, who was held in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” for five years after his Navy A4C was shot down, said.
Several Laramie veterans shared McGrath’s disappointment. They also showed pity, anger, contempt and resignation about the sad proliferation of phonies.
“I used to get really angry; it used to really upset me, but now I’m getting inured to it, and I just think, ‘here’s another one,’” Veterans Representative for the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services Ron Franck said.
Franck earned his Purple Hearts over multiple tours as a Marine in Vietnam, just as Jay Larsen served as a clerk and driver for the Army in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971. It was Larsen who spotted the false claim made by Ray Rodarmel in the Boomerang and immediately put the wheels in motion to expose Rodarmel as a fraud.
“Frauds have no business taking something away from these guys. These guys had to deal with so much crap, and to have somebody take that away from them like that,” Larsen said as he snapped his fingers, “it’s not right.”
Phony POWs are easy to ferret out thanks to the Internet. Web sites like www.pownetwork.org have complied lists of authentic POWs as well as pretenders. With as little as a full name and address, service records can be researched with freedom of information act requests, and true military service revealed.
“It’s all very easy because the government has a complete list of everybody who was missing in action. It’s very easy to confirm or deny, and not one person of the over 1,200 (listed on www.pownetwork.org’s list of frauds) has found that list to be in error,” McGrath said.
Larsen said that he smelled something fishy with Rodarmel’s boasts and ran his name through several databases before he even finished reading the story.
“I don’t think that these guys who are doing this are aware of how much information is on the computer and in these databases,” Larsen said.... (clipped)
aka Kiser, Russell Linn
06/2003
.... said Kiser was serving in the Navy as a radio technician on the USS Navaro in 1965. During a trip into Vietnam, Buchanan said Kiser was approached by an unidentified Marine captain who recruited him to go on a covert government mission into the depths of Vietnam and Cambodia. Kiser was captured and imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge at a Cambodian labor camp, where Captain Kai mercilessly tortured Kiser and his colleagues, Buchanan said. Captain Kai would stick his finger into the bullet wound of another soldier and twist it around, repeatedly saying "You want to kill me Yankee, don't you?" he said. "At that time in his mind, that is when the horror begins," Buchanan said of his client. Buchanan said Kiser escaped and finished his tour of duty. During the next three decades Kiser repeatedly applied for disability from the U.S. government because of his torture but was rejected. It wasn't until after Kiser shot Feeley, Buchanan said, that a psychologist with the Department of Veterans Affairs determined that Kiser suffers from the stress disorder, making him eligible for disability. .... Pesci said Kiser and his attorney could not produce a document known as a DD214, which details a military man's service record. "There is no documentation of this at all," Pesci said.
Claims he does not use the VA because he doesn't want to use the system and get pity. Flies the POW flag and brags about it to everyone. He the hats and shirts. He speaks at area schools and teaches kids about the POW experience and shows everyone "wounds" from his captors. Claims to have been shot in both knees and beaten and starved as well. Claims he has plastic knees and rods in his legs from the injuries he got, and that he lost all his teeth.
Additionally, he is a deacon in training and tells everyone about his ordeals.
2nd report 04/2002
aka "Buzz"
09/2004
07/2005
09/2009
Claims he was captured - crew chief injured. The crew chief begged for mercy not to be a POW - so Runyon shot him in the head. All else on board dead.
Runyon captured and tortured by women and children. Held in cage. Found a nail, escaped - but only after killing "all" the women and children.