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06/2008

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

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Public historical references do not list Rasmussen as a DSC recipient nor POW.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

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."

After all you guys have done to expose this idiot, he is still lying about his service.

Records, photo and MORE

Yet MORE:   http://want2be.info/listingview.php?listingID=33

12/2003

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

Lancaster PA

click here for the REST OF THE STORY on
  LIONEL TUCKER  MCKEAN

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.

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....

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)

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. 

• Claims Helicopter Pilot (true)
• Sarajevo "stuff"
• POW - held "only a short period of time"
• Claims National Guard!
• Had to eat grass in captivity  - now very overweight from fear of "starving"
• 101st Airborne