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18C4V said:
Crip,
What's the story on this? I don't think I heard this one. At first, I thought it was the 2/19th zulu from OIF in 2006, I'm assuming that this story is a 20th SFG one.
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20th Group one for sure.

Dave Kellerman was serving in 3/20th SFG(A) as a team sergeant and was returning from Astan in 2006 when he was found to be carrying a crap load of weapons he shouldnt have. After that his houseboat was raided and authorities seized plenty more weapons, ammo, and demo. During the investigations it came out that there was no official records of Kellerman ever having attended the SFQC.

He is serving a 27 year sentence right now...
 
Freefalling said:
Before ATRRS I wouldn't say it was common, but I'd say it happened more than people want to think about. I know of one or two "Jumpmasters" who were anything but.
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Did the various schoolhouses keep paper records or some other sort of database of actual graduates? I realize it's not practical for a command to call and verify every claim by an each individual soldier, but for something like the SFQC, Ranger school, or Jumpmaster I would think things would have been checked out more thoroughly.
 
surgicalcric said:
Kellerman was slick that is for sure. I never met the guy but know other team guys who had known him for years and they had no clue. The documents he provided were immaculate and since he supposedly attended the SFQC prior to ATRRS coming on line there was no digital records to give him away. It happens...

Crip
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So was he in SF serving in other capacities under these falsified records, or did he just show up as a TS one day?
 
CDG said:
Did the various schoolhouses keep paper records or some other sort of database of actual graduates? I realize it's not practical for a command to call and verify every claim by an each individual soldier, but for something like the SFQC, Ranger school, or Jumpmaster I would think things would have been checked out more thoroughly.
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If you showed up and your paperwork was in order I doubt a unit would call the schoolhouse. Even in this day and age, how many of us have DD-214's that are messed up or an LES with wrong information? Imagine records from 30 years ago...

In the last 15 years I know of one SF CSM who wore a Ranger tab he didn't rate and one CW4 on the support side who had an 82nd FWTS-SSI and Sapper tab who no one gave any thought to until a routine records review or innocuous question that didn't have a good answer (I forget exactly how he was outed).

The CSM quietly retired when he was discovered and JAG was looking into the CW4 the last I'd heard (this was several years ago).

Posers abound, it is like playing Wack-a-Mole.
 
18C4V said:
Was this the FAM? If it was, I heard that story but didn't know that he was a 18Z.
Freefalling said:
He was. He's also mentioned in Imperial Grunts, including him being a FAM.
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Missed this post B.

FF is absolutely correct. He was an acting Team Sergeant (E7) for a while then finally got picked up for E8. He had been a FAM for a while to, on and off of course - and was always considered a "shady guy" according to other FAMs who worked with him from SOF units.
 

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