Veterans' Thread

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:38 pm

I know both Clayton and Roth, and are both men of high integrity deserving of our respect and appreciation for their service.

I wish I had served as well as they.

As for this Roy Scott fellow . . .

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:54 am

zepboy wrote:I know both Clayton and Roth, and are both men of high integrity deserving of our respect and appreciation for their service.

I wish I had served as well as they.

As for this Roy Scott fellow . . .

I thank both Mr. Clayton and Mr. Roth for their sevice to our country,
AND for getting to the bottom of this impersonation issue.

Yep. Scott is a BCD recipient, so there's some dubious integrity there to
begin with. IMHO, he shoulda been jailed.

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awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:30 pm

No place I want to live, so I guess I will just keep home educating.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:13 pm

awip2062 wrote:No place I want to live, so I guess I will just keep home educating.

I could go for that Denver gig, but I'm happy here.

and yes t, you have a career right where you're at.

Don't change a thing!

**gives t that "don't-you-ever-park-in-my-space-again" look**

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:29 pm

CygnusX1 wrote:
awip2062 wrote:No place I want to live, so I guess I will just keep home educating.
I could go for that Denver gig, but I'm happy here.

and yes t, you have a career right where you're at.

Don't change a thing!

**gives t that "don't-you-ever-park-in-my-space-again" look**

Denver is closer to us.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:20 pm

Yeah, Denver for Siggs!

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:24 pm

Can he transport live chicken over the state lines???

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:27 pm

Can or will?

Walkinghairball · Post by **Walkinghairball** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:29 pm

awip2062 wrote:Can or will?

Canorduh?

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:10 am

que?

you guys need a check-up-from-the-neck-up....

LOL

Mr. Potatoe Head · Post by **Mr. Potatoe Head** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:00 pm

All our vets deserve better even if we don't favor any wars at least they go and put their necks on the line for us all.

I was pissed at work because there was a job opening and it should of gone to a vet but they minipulated the system to get one of their friends in.
It just wasn't right!

zepboy · Post by **zepboy** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:21 pm

awip2062 wrote:Justice?

Marine imposter sentenced to four months of home confinement

Peninsula Daily News

A Joyce man who had falsely claimed to be a wounded Marine veteran with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star was sentenced to four months of home confinement on Friday.

Roy J. Scott, 71, was sentenced in federal court in Seattle.

"We hoping for something more severe," said Terry Roth, one of the veterans who had called for an investigation into Scott's past.

"House arrest and two year's probation is pretty light," the Port Angeles veteran said.

Before his sentencing on Friday, Scott broke down in tears before Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler and asked that she allow him to continue his job on an oil platform off the coast of Africa.

The judge, however, stuck to the recommendations of prosecutors by ordering the home confinement and two years' probation.

Scott admitted that he had posed as a Marine major.

He claimed to have been wounded in combat in Korea, telling other veterans he had been awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star, said Dan Abbott of Diamond Point, the local commandant of the Marine Corps League.

A telephone call to Scott's listed number asking for comment was returned with the message that no one by that name lived there.

Scott pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Tacoma in August to using an altered military discharge certificate to obtain Veterans Administration compensation and medical benefits and to unlawfully wearing military medals.

He paid back the VA $21,960 for medical benefits he did not deserve, writing a check for the amount after he made his plea, according to KING-TV.

Eight members of the Mt. Olympus Detachment of the Marine Corps League from Joyce, Port Angeles and Sequim traveled to Seattle in a borrowed van to attend Scott's sentencing on Friday, Roth said.

"We found this," Roth said. "We brought the charges. We wanted to see it through."

"Ray's an embarrassment and a fraud," he added.

"He said in court that he had apologized to all of the members of the military he had defrauded.

"He hasn't spoken to any of us - not one."

Roth, who served in the Marines from 1959 to 1961, was one of the local members of the Marine Corps League who suspected that Scott's stories about fighting in the Korean War were false.

"His remembrance of Korea was a little strange in what he was reciting," Roth said in September.

"A quick check showed he would have been 14 [during the war]."

The Rev. Chip Wright of the Olympic Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, of which Scott was a member, said on Saturday, "My personal opinion is he is taking care of what he needs to care of and nobody's perfect. He hasn't sinned, I see people daily doing horrible, horrible things and it seems those don't do anything as bad get caught up in the system."

Roth and two other Port Angeles Korean War veterans - Don Clayton and Robert Mingram - told Abbott about their suspicions in June 2006.

Abbott, who is also the judge advocate general of the state branch of the Marine Corps League, called FBI Agent Tom Cottone, who began an investigation.

After simultaneous investigations by the state Marine Corps League and the FBI, Scott's membership in the Marine Corps League was revoked and he was charged on Aug. 24 in federal court.

Scott's military records show that he enlisted in the Marines on Oct. 29, 1953, three months and two days after the cease-fire was signed.

He was given a bad conduct discharge in 1959, according to the records acquired by Abbott.

Abbott did not know why Scott received a bad-conduct discharge.
How in the H@#$ can his minister say he didn't sin?!?!?!? I guess in his church they have the Ten Suggestions.

Oh and btw...Clayton fought in Desert Storm, too. And I think Roth was in 'Nam.

An update . . . I just found out that this Scott fellow had a quadruple bypass two weeks after his arrest. Seems the stress was getting to him.

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:47 pm

Well, no matter what he has done I hope is is healing well.

He put himself under a ton of stress with what he did. No reason to doubt it would ged to him.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:55 am

what bothers me most about the whole issue is....

there's a REAL, decorated combat vet out there...homeless...

sleeping on a steam grate...

that should have gotten the benefits and recognition that this imposter got...

...for lying.