Snyder,  Jeffrey Alan 

• Claims membership in the Navy SEALS Team One. 
• Has also claimed membership on Team 2 
• Claims he "transferred" to the US Navy as a youth (late teens, early twenties) after having served in the Marines for a short time, and that he was urged to enter BUDS training by a superior officer. 
• Allegedly graduated in Class 129.  
• Claims training in Coronado, as well as his SEAL missions, which as he tells it, spanned from Latin America to Afghanistan.  Reportedly participated in Grenada ("guarded the governor's mansion").
• Claims to have been wounded with other team members on Padilla Airfield in Panama. 
• Claims he participated in Desert Storm and counter-terrorism efforts in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks. 
• Claims that he was nearly court-martialed over an incident in which he killed members of a Nicaraguan village to avenge an assault on a little girl.  
• Claims that he had one of the highest kill rates in the SEAL program- over 300, allegedly. 
• Owns a a "SEAL Team One" baseball cap  and a Navy uniform.
• Claims 3 Purple Hearts.
• Claims his  DD-214 or other documentation  was all destroyed by his second wife, who urged him to give up his active duty career.
• Claims a  lawsuit forced him to "give up" his military affiliation because he couldn't afford to have the Nicaraguan incident emerge in court.  "I could be in jail for murder," he often claimed.  
• Claims he  contacted his former admiral, who assisted in having his entire military background expunged/deleted/erased from government databases.  
      
  
  
  
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.... As I noted in our conversation, if the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL Database (end of WWII to the Present Day) for anyone named JEFFREY A. SNYDER. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations without finding any that might be applicable. While there are men listed in the SEAL Database with the last name “SNYDER”, none of those men has the first/middle names “JEFFREY A.” Additionally, none of those men are graduates of class 129.

Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be court documentation) since his claimed attendance at BUD/S training, and based upon the information you have provided, I can state conclusively that JEFFREY A. SNYDER has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL or a Navy UDT “Frogman”.

When members of the Naval Special Warfare community meet others who claim similar service, but whom they do not recognize, there is a conversational exchange of information that establishes the bona fides of each to the other. There is no set formula for this exchange, nor for the information that is exchanged, but it ALWAYS takes place, and the REAL Naval Special Warfare members can ALWAYS spot a phony as a result of this exchange. If you have an opportunity to speak with the man at some point in the future, I might suggest that you to ask Mr. SNYDER “WHAT NAME DID YOU USE during SEAL training… since there is no record of your participation using the name SNYDER”

I have no doubt that you’ve been told that much of the information about Mr. SNYDER’s “SEAL activities” is either classified or sensitive and cannot be provided… including specifics about his claimed attendance at BUD/S. I can assure you that he was NOT a BUD/S graduate and he was NEVER A US NAVY SEAL. No one gets to the SEAL Teams without first completing BUD/S Training. There are records of every man who has qualified for the title of “SEAL”; there have been and will continue to be secret missions, but there are NO secret SEALs… we know them all.

Mr. SNYDER’s claims of being involved in the combat actions in GRENADA are typical of many SEAL imposters… since the actions of the Navy SEALs involved in that conflict have been widely dramatized on TV and the information is available to everyone… particularly the specific details regarding actions at the Governor’s residence. In actuality, BUD/S Class 129 did not graduate until late in 1984, and the actions in Grenada took place in 1983. Mr. SNYDER’s claimed BUD/S class had not even CONVENED when the combat actions in Grenada occurred.

You have reported Mr. SNYDER as having claimed that he cannot risk testifying in court because of his “involvement in Nicaragua”… and the potential for him to be “charged with murder”. This statement is absolute bunk. Military duty, military assignments, and actions carried out at the behest of lawful military superiors in the Navy’s SEAL Teams are not criminal acts. That particular line of “BS” works in the Hollywood movies, but in real life is has absolutely no foundation. As Mr. SNYDER is using his false claims to avoid involvement in legal actions, it is appropriate that you obtain formal/official confirmation of the FALSE NATURE of his claims from the US Navy. ...

Thank you again for your concern in this matter, and for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams. Based upon you provided in describing his actions and claims, Mr. SNYDER appears likely to have crossed the line from braggadocio and would now be prosecutable under the STOLEN VALOR ACT of 2005. As noted in my opening paragraph, I am a private individual and am in no way affiliated with the US Department of Defense or the US government. Despite any reports you may make/send to me regarding Mr. SNYDER’s false SEAL claims, any such information which I might pass along to the federal authorities (FBI, DCIS) in this matter would be classified as “hearsay” and therefore inadmissible in a court of law. The responsibility for reporting the individual named in your inquiry to the federal authorities as a military imposter rests with you and with anyone else who may have personally heard or received these claims from the individual himself. Whether or not you decide to report him to the federal authorities is entirely up to you, but at least you now know the truth regarding his bogus claims. ...

Respectfully,