Another Hall Of Famer: Remarkable Claims

**slamdunc** · Posted On: 3/04/2012 3:09pm

Originally Posted by JohnKenner

Anyone against me hitting this guy up on facebook and asking which BUDs class he was in?

I'm all for that; let the wiggling begin.

**Chili Pepper** · Posted On: 3/04/2012 3:15pm

No response from Anderson as yet - probable we won't get anything from him

**Gweilo** · Posted On: 3/04/2012 3:20pm

There is NO SEAL team 3 ...............there is a team 1 and team 2 during the Nam era
So right there he fucking lying ....BTW dont know any SEAL that cant spell either

**slamdunc** · Posted On: 9/26/2012 12:28pm

I never heard from VeriSeal, so I decided to contact Don Shipley. Don is the real-deal, here is his web site.
http://www.extremesealexperience.com/
He provided the following response:

Sir,
I greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. Before answering your questions I must make clear that I am a private individual, not affiliated with the US Dept. of Defense or any other government organization.
My efforts to expose SEAL imposters are performed as a service to the public, and in honor of my fallen SEAL Teammates… men who truly earned the right to the
title “US NAVY SEAL” but who are no longer able to stand forward in defense of their honor, their reputations, and their TEAMs.

If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL Database (SEAL Teams and predecessor units from 1943 to the Present Day) for anyone named EMILE WRIGHT. I have also examined possible alternate spellings, and names with similar pronunciations without finding any that appear to be applicable.

Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a legal name change (an action for which there would be evidence in the form of court documentation) since his claimed participation in SEAL training, and based upon the information you have provided, I can state conclusively that EMILE WRIGHT has NEVER COMPLETED SEAL training, and he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL, a Navy UDT “Frogman”, a member of any Naval Combat Demolition Unit (NCDU) or a member of the Naval Amphibious Scouts & Raiders (S&R).

Many SEAL imposters when confronted with the information I have provided will resort to claiming that their records are sealed, burned or their SEAL Operations were Classified and that there are no official records of them.
Before any classified operations may be undertaken as a SEAL Operator, a man must first successfully complete the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training program and then the follow-on secondary training
program. The names of all those who successfully graduate from that training program sequence are compiled in the SEAL database. Later participation in classified operations has "no impact" on whether or not a person is listed as a graduate of the training program.

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.

Once again I must stress that although I am a USN veteran, and a former SEAL, I am a civilian performing in an entirely unofficial role. For additional US NAVY confirmation of my findings regarding Mr. EMILE WRIGHT’s lack of SEAL credentials you may contact the Public Affairs Office at the NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COMMAND in Coronado, California by telephoning (619) 537-1133. You may also contact the UDT-SEAL Association via email at info@udtseal.org, or by telephone at (757) 318-3764; while they are not formal/official representatives of the US Navy, they have been granted access to the SEAL Database in order to verify credentials of potential members. You may also consider contacting the Naval Special Warfare Archives by email at archives@frii.com; that organization is
responsible for creating the original SEAL Database and their extensive collection of documentation exceeds even that held by 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. If I can be of any further assistance to you in this matter, please contact me at your convenience.

Respectfully, Don Shipley BUD/S 131, SEAL Team ONE, SEAL Team TWO.

**Chili Pepper** · Posted On: 9/26/2012 12:44pm

Originally Posted by JohnKenner

Anyone against me hitting this guy up on facebook and asking which BUDs class he was in?

Seems to me it's time for that. Maybe invite him in to this discussion too?

**Charles Brown** · Posted On: 9/28/2012 10:37am

I guess that I'm getting into this thread late, but I just wanted to point something out. This guy was being shadey in the way that he cited his "service with SEAL Team 3." He didn't claim to have been a SEAL. He said that he served with them. There are crypto people, Radiomen, Intel people, etc. who can work with a SEAL team, while not being SEALS themselves. They shouldn't try to insinuate that they are SEALs, but that's probably what this guy's deal was.

**slamdunc** · Posted On: 9/28/2012 12:41pm

Originally Posted by Charles Brown

This guy was being shadey in the way that he cited his "service with SEAL Team 3."

There appears to be a lot of shadiness in his claims. He signed his own eighth dan certificate under the instructor block; this is the thing that piqued my curiosity in the first place.

**Mr. Machette** · Posted On: 9/28/2012 1:34pm

Originally Posted by Charles Brown

I guess that I'm getting into this thread late, but I just wanted to point something out. This guy was being shadey in the way that he cited his "service with SEAL Team 3." He didn't claim to have been a SEAL. He said that he served with them. There are crypto people, Radiomen, Intel people, etc. who can work with a SEAL team, while not being SEALS themselves. They shouldn't try to insinuate that they are SEALs, but that's probably what this guy's deal was.

So basically he could have passed breakfast burritos to SEAL team members in the chow hall or scrubbed the head in their baracks and still made that claim?

"Yeah, I worked with the Navy SEALs. I was 92s for years!"

**Charles Brown** · Posted On: 9/28/2012 9:15pm

Originally Posted by Mr. Machette

So basically he could have passed breakfast burritos to SEAL team members in the chow hall or scrubbed the head in their baracks and still made that claim?

"Yeah, I worked with the Navy SEALs. I was 92s for years!"

I don't know what the **** a 92s is. But, as I said, there are people attached to SEAL teams who aren't SEALs. My boat used to take SEAL teams around. When they deployed from the boat, members of the team stayed behind. They were mostly Crypto people. They weren't SEALs, but they were members of the SEAL team. They can claim to have "served on a SEAL team" without actually lying. Sure, it's shadey, but it isn't an all and out lie.