As with many of these guys, they get put to the side when other more pressing cases come in and then they slip through the cracks. He was NEVER ASSOCIATED WITH, ASSIGNED TO, in SUPPORT OF, or attended ANY TRAINING that would qualify his claim of being an 18D. I took screen shots. i never knew that, Ol' "Sarge" here talking all kinds of crap and stuff after he was exposedLOL. Joey Galindo claims Purple Heart and Bronze Star w/ a V device. Guardians of The Green Beret (Rally Point) We assume he was in the National Guard and he confirmed that over the phone. Never. We are former and current SF dedicated to exposing those who claim to be Green Berets falsely. I feel sorry for his family. In Pic #85, you'll see an email from someone stating Ron Fernandez the fake Green Beret had asked him to create a fake CAC (Common Access Card) so "he could test the guys at the gate". While we waited on official records from HRC and NPRC, we collected his SF footprint on the web. Steve Balm | July 12, 2022 Our friends at the Guardians of the Green Beret (GotGB) recently posted a case on this Ron Fernandez fella. I was introduced to Ron by my predecessor XXXXXXXXXXXXas a "friend of the program" who tagged along on FTXs to assist as alternate cadre. This is an older article we transferred over from our Facebook forum. I remembered the 1st Army unit patch and called the 1st Army G1 no record of a LTC Ron Fernandez, SF, assigned to them at any point in past 10yrs. 10) Ron Fernandez the fake Green Beret pretends he knows what he's looking at after Land Nav. We had Greg Buck a while back and he slipped through the cracks. I just looked at his personal website, and it still has a picture autographed by General Yarborough, and a statement that says he served as Yarboroughs Aide. And it just amazes me the lengths that people will go through to embellish military service. False, Records do NOT support this claim. I had no idea this problem was so widespread. Mike Mika has twice, along with Rudi Gresham the fake Green Beret claimed that Rudi spent 12 years in the S.C. National Guard and that's where he attained the rank of LTC. Their website has a "hall of heroes" dedicated to decorated Special Forces veterans and a "hall of zeroes" for the imposters. It seems that Sturgeon has been busy raising money while leading with the "Green Beret" persona. Jack Proulx, the fake Green Beret, doubled down on his lies when the Times-Chronicle did a follow-up article. "Goat school". COL Bob Howardserved five tours in Vietnam and is the only soldier in our nation's history to be nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor three times for three separate actionswithin a thirteen month period. People probably don't realize what it would be like for me to ever actually meet a phony Green Beret. 6th pic is our April 2016 commissioning, Ron is far left next to MAJ XXXXX; our new SEL MSG XXXXX XXXXXis far right and I'm buried in the middle (easy to find me). Mike Mika has twice, along with Rudi Gresham the fake Green Beret claimed that Rudi spent 12 years in the S.C. National Guard and that's where he attained the rank of LTC. Ron was introduced as a member of the Ohio National Guard at that time. Here is a link to where he is profiled as a sponsor of the Red Tail TuskegeeAirman:Removed Richard served in the Vietnam War as an Army Combat Medic and earned the Purple Heart. #AnthonyTravis, #AnthonyTravisNielsen, #AnthonyRaids, #TravisAnthony #LiveFastCollective, #LiveFastBrand. After Bud hadley was busted, he tried to buy our silence with a $1500/quarter donation to the Green Beret Foundation. The Guardians of the Green Beret is a team of active duty and retired Green Berets who expose Special Forces imposters and posers. He just didn't think it was worth it. I've retracted everything," he (Campbell) said. But all of a sudden Ron had a home emergency and his wife drove down from Dayton late Sat to grab him and he disappeared. Fri faktura 1-2 dagar leverans 100 dagar ppet kp Designa din egen keps & mssa The Guardians of the Green Beret is a team of active duty and retired Green Berets who expose Special Forces imposters and posers. I reached out to XXXXX'spredecessor COL(R) XXXX XXXXXX (GS15 w/ USACE in Cincy, XXXXand I came to be friends during my tenure), and XXXXmentioned he remembered Ron as a MAJ at an event he (XXXX) was invited to by XXXXX. He should have kept quiet We were sent Ramn Montijo by some that knew him as a 1SG yet saw him wearing the rank of a Captain. !, lifelong criminal and con man. We continued to gather information and told him we would move forward with the article. When will this clown give it up? This guy is to me obviously mentally ill. This includes some ongoing conversations with Fernandez who claims he will make it all right with the press. He said he'd send an apology email, which was also a lie as he still has yet to send the article. The former Green Beret reveals that because of pressure and the idea that those in his network will be fired from their positions or lose job benefits over speaking out against the woke political agenda, it forces them to remain silent, even if that means having to go against their own values and beliefs. The only thing I remember that was skewed was I had to wake him up one morning when he was supposed to be the range RSO and he failed to show up on time. If you want what we have, just join the military. At the time I never really registered the difference in RC components (ARNG vs. USAR), and Ron passed it off as having "just changed command" in Morgantown, WV, and just getting settled in at Cp Atterbury (but this wasn't his drill weekend). I'm sure he could have joined the military. I made the officer cadre wear their mess dress as a rule-of-thumb, I realize now Ron would always mimic us, whomever was in charge in particular. Captain Humbert Roque Rocky Versace (July 2, 1937 September 26, 1965) was a United States Army officer of Puerto Rican-Italian descent who was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decorationthe Medal of Honorfor his heroic actions while a prisoner of war(POW) during the Vietnam War. Anthony Travis the fake Green Beret. I deleted the pics after we discovered Ron was a fraud. NOT!! These phonies do a great disservice to all us real Green Berets. Richard "Dick" Couty, aka Cooty Bug, pretended to be a Green Beret for over 40 years. He and I were BEST FRIENDS during the time he CLAIMS 7th GP 18D (MY MOS and MY Duty assignment - ODA 755/754, O&I, SWC G Co SFAS, 1st Bn S3). The third nomination was downgraded to a 2nd Distinguished Service Cross but later upgraded to the Medal of Honor. Boomer's Sunday. I did not answer. Last one is the FTX at Atterbury (I took it) when we did an "off-site" dinner; MAJ XXXXX, XXXXX XXXX, MSG XXXXXare in the pic along w/ our interim supply tech (can't remember his name). Don Albares seems to like shiny awards he didn't earn as he wore many. Nathan Ball was sent to us by multiple neighbors with emails of him claiming to be a Big Bad Green Beret. I'm a suspicious mofo. Below might be one of the few legit pictures of him while he was in the Army. 5th is our 2015 dining out; I'm far left, Ron is hiding behind then-SFC (XXXXX) XXXXX XXXX, and the other tall guy is then-MSG XXXX XXXXX(now MSG(R) and the recruiting opns officer at UC Army ROTC). It must have felt good. 4th is at a function w/ my predecessor XXXX XXXXXXXXX(far right), Ron is 2nd from left; others in the pic are my former XO MAJ XXXX XXXXXand SEL MSG XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX. It's really pathetic that people try to get away with this type of stuff. #RonFernandez, #RonnieFernandez, #RonRFernandez, #RonnieRFernandez. Thats it. There'snot really a need to wait on records as we see no additional training whatsoever after AIT in our backchannel search of his records. I feel sorry for his family. I called MSG(R) XXXXX and shared the same. Secondly, it is my hope that Mr Prouix owns up to his lies. Well done. He's alsobeen evicted for nonpayment of rent too many times to count, declared bankruptcy twice, and lied in writing on a city of Fayetteville-provided job application when he applied to be on the HRC. This is the point at which I smelled bullshit. Ron told me he was thinking of harming himself and I told him to seek help, but that I wouldn't pursue anything else. Medal of Honor recipient for his valorous actions on September 17, 1969, while commanding the Third Company, Third Battalion of the IV Mobile Strike Force near Chi Lang, Vietnam. FRANCO K WEBB is a LYING POSER. Ron had reached out to each of them (Former students in the UC ROTC program) and asked them each to write a memorandumfor him. #RonFernandez, #RonnieFernandez, #RonRFernandez, #RonnieRFernandez. This guy is to me obviously mentally ill. We knew immediately he was a fraud. Along with MAV-SOG in Vietnam. These chips can also be displayed in coin collections and be given as gifts to Gold Star Family Members and others, simply letting the our community know we do say their names daily and honor their commitment and sacrifice. Anthony Travis Nielsen was still claiming we had the wrong last name but also wonder why would have his address? I feel sorry for his family. Fast forward to when he ran for mayor a second time. Army of the United States. Good job Guardians of the Green Beret. Of course SFA National refused and nothing came of his idle threat. It APPEARS that he has taken some of MY SF TRAINING, HISTORY and BACKGROUND, claimed it as his own, and further EMBELLISHED those stories for his own video game centered bravado. "I did apologize to the Guardians of the Green Beret. After that I called 4th RTB at Benning. You can click this link to hear him in his own words. #RonFernandez, #RonnieFernandez, #RonRFernandez, #RonnieRFernandez. Claims to have done 54 combat jumps in Vietnam. The calls with them can be heard here: Call with 1st student that wrote the memorandum. Some other speaking engagements his bio is listed as:Tonight our featured speaker is Richard Calvert, who has earned five purple hearts. Others reached out again so we reached out tothe SF schoolhouse and they saw no record of him having attempted Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) much less the Special Forces Qualification Course (SFQC). Of course SFA National refused and nothing came of his idle threat. Late on the Saturday we got a call from our BDE asking us to go on post to combine w/ Xavier for an event the next morning. I didn't have any reason not to, so we did. We found several places where he had claimed Special Forces including his own Linkedin account. "I love my right-wing friends who talk about the tree of liberty is water of the blood of patriots," he said. He was a CAR STEREO SALESMAN and INSTALLER on Yadkin Road the ENTIRE TIME I KNEW HIM. As we approached spring commissioning in 2017, one of the cadets asked Ron to give them their Oath of Office. He and Mike Mika (President of SFA Ch 34) threatened to sue the SFA National if they didn't rescind the letter they sent us, give Rudi a formal apology, and re-instate him as a member in good standing. Records say different Stephen "Grizz" Dukeman claimed to be a LTC with 2 Silver Stars, a CIB with a star, and 2 Purple Hearts Not so fast. He said he was in the Utah National Guard. 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