AP Uses Fake SEAL to Back Kerry, Slam Bush

Allegations of suspect conduct during the Vietnam war also have been leveled at John Kerry, who won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star in Vietnam.

A group sponsoring television ads challenging his wartime record contends Kerry's own gunfire caused the wound that brought his first Purple Heart. Navy records and other veterans do not support the charge.

Ahmad Majied of Albany (GA) says the latest allegations about Bush's military record are more troubling to him than allegations about service honors leveled at Democratic challenger Kerry.

Majied, a Democrat from Albany who served 30 years in the Navy, including five years as a SEAL in Vietnam, said the memos support his belief that Bush was a "playboy" during his service years.

"He had enough money to get what he wanted," Majied said. "I think his main concern was not to go to Southeast Asia. I bet he never dreamed it would come back to haunt him."

Thanks for checking with us - we greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. If the name you provided was "spelled accurately", we do NOT have a listing for anyone named "Majied" in our entire database of slightly more than 10,000 names. Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a full legal name change since his claimed service with the SEAL Teams, I can state conclusively that the man NEVER completed SEAL training, and thus he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL. While there are other training steps that must be completed on the path to becoming a SEAL, BUD/S training is the first and most vital, and that training course is totally unclassified. Without having first completed BUD/S training, a man cannot go on to become a SEAL. There are definitely secret SEAL missions, but despite anything the man might have said, there are NO secret SEALs. If you choose to confront the man regarding his fraudulent SEAL claims, please show him this email message and invite him to contact me - a real SEAL - directly by email with information that will support his claims. I'd enjoy hearing his stories first hand, but I've extended this offer to literally thousands of individuals over the last three years, and in all that time I've received only a scant handful of replies, so I don't really expect to hear from him either.

Again, please visit our web page www.authentiseal.org/realitycheck.htm for some very specific information related to the realities of SEAL training, SEAL duties, and the claims most often made by SEAL imposters.

Thank you again for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams.

You are right post-message-469.
You are wrong pre-message-469.

I am assuming that 469 is the post where Grampa Dave posted John S.'s report of Majied's confession.

I disagree with you that that was a turning point. Let me explain. To some of us it was crystal clear from Majied's statements in the first Elliot Minor story that Majied was, shall we say, embellishing the truth. (It jumped out at me, and it was probably even clearer to Travis than to me). There's embellishing (i.e. anything written by Marcinko) and embellishing (complete fabricated bullshit). Majied was in Category #2 for anyone familiar even broadly with SEALs and their Vietnam operations. He could have been no living SEAL because the only SEALs that cam close to five years in Vietnam are very well known individuals -- in a small circle.

Let me give you an example. You meet me in the corner bar. If I were to claim that I played for the Detroit Tigers, say, in the 1980s, and had a .366 batting average, some folks might be impressed. But anyone familiar with baseball statistics or the Tigers would know I was lying. Indeed, that claim is farfetched enough that anyone tuned into baseball would immediately get suspicious and check it out. If I said, "my name is now swami Brahmaputra cause I joined the Hare Krishnas, and I won't tell you what my old name was," while I may not have proved I was a phony to a criminal court standard, I am certainly at the preponderance-of-evidence point of civil jurisprudence, and way over the line of common sense.

That is analogous to the situation here. Majied's claims were outlandish.

I have run into wannabees everywhere -- seen people with bogus MIT doctorates in business, caught guys in the military wearing extra badges (a career-ending screwup, that), met more "fighter pilots" and "astronauts" in aviation than there ever were. The worst kind is when somebody dies and the family tries to authenticate these kind of claims that the guy's kids grew up believing. I don't know why people do this: my best guess is too much TV and a feeling of inadequacy about their achievements, in extreme cases, and in a mild case like Majied, well, he was just trying to lend some authority to his statement, I suppose. Some guys can't resist, in retirement, making a good career better.

Why did he do that? The guy is a Navy vet and that's good enough for me, but he had to make that statement, a statement that was as obviously false to some of us as if he had said he was Pope, and then we had a duty to respond.

I do agree that John S. of LeanWrite handled it well. Majied has claimed that he has gotten abuse by phone, and anybody who did that handled it all wrong. He is still a human being and deserves respect for what he has done, as long as he retracts claims of things he has not done. I don't believe anyone has overturned (or even tried to) his claim of retiring from the Navy as an E-9 Master Chief, quite an achievement in itself.

Lesson to the rest of us: resist the craving for an "improved" resume. There are people out there who know.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

I sent this email to the USS CURRITUCK ASSN:

"I think you may be interested in knowing that your newsletter is involved in a controversy on a major forum.

What happened is a man, named Ahamd Majied, was pretending to be a Seal and slammed Bush. Someone tracked him down on the internet as serving on your ship, through your newsletter, but the Seals said he is not a Seal.

Supposedly Majied has back down on being a seal, but now we want to know if he was really on your ship."

I received this reply tonight:

"If memory serves me correctly, when he contacted me regarding membership, he claimed a name change. While I could not find his name in the list of crew members I extracted from the ship's personnel diary from the National Archives on microfilm, there was a possibility because some of the documents were illegible. He joined the association in Sept 2003, but he might have duped us/me as well. Would be interesting to know how many other organizations he has applied for membership in.

Ron Curtis, Sec USS CURRITUCK ASSN"

Any Freepers out there know how to check whether Mr. Ahmad Majied was in the service.?

>>I asked him if he was a US Navy SEAL. He said no, but that he worked with SEALs. I was floored, and asked him to repeat what he said. He said it again....he was not a SEAL, but worked with them. I asked him if he had ever completed BUD/S. He said no; he was not trained as a SEAL. When I asked in what capacity he worked with the SEALs, he told me that he served as part of an amphibious ready group.<<

http://www.leanwrite.com/politics/040913sealtrackers.html

From what I've seen, I have doubts the guy said he was a SEAL, but that the original journalist may have been the one who made the error in presuming that he was one. Who knows the truth, will we ever find out? I don't know.

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