http://www.hipointfirearmsforums.com/Forum/index.php/topic,26686.0.html
Doing a cursory search revealed this guy is from Temple, TEXAS. I hate frauds.
drjavelina. 55 years old Temple, TX. Lonely Doctor (PhD). "Retired Navy SEAL…Now employed as Federal Auditor and part time professor. …
Looks like he likes to con lonely women
http://www.spock.com/Sammy-Ragsdale-IJLfD1MA
You would have thought that the High Point firearms forum member status would tip most off… I am amazed that High Point has a forum. I wonder if Jensens has a posse too!!!
I love when a fake is exposed. My Son loves busting fake Marines and others that lie about their military experience. I was amazed at how easy those that actually walked the walk could take apart a poser. He ask about five or six seeming boring questions and depending on the answers he either tells me to but them a drink or tells them they had best peddle their BS elsewhere.
did you notice where someone crossposted the info to the bersa forum also ?
and then called the barf.com crowd a bunch of spoiled, opinionated rich boys :D:D
Very sad and disgusting. Normally when I hear these falsified claims, I always wish the particular individual were to be actually put into those situations he claims he was in…Sort of like be careful what you wish for.
On a separate note, here is ANOTHER phony seal claim THIS TIME WITH AMAZING PHOTOSHOP SKILLS
Jim Sharp : NOT A Navy SEAL…
A buddy Shaun sent his exchange with Jim Sharp on Facebook who was claiming to be a SEAL.
All sorts of neat BUD/S and SEAL type pictures; you know… the ones where they ain’t clear, distinguishable or recognizable and the phony claims “That’s ME right there in the middle!”
All except one picture… BUSTED…
Apparently… Sharp was a Corpsman, but we’re not sure. Either way, it wasn’t enough to be proud of and he drops the “S” Bomb… SEAL
Wounded several times and blown up with an IED, he claims he medically retired from Team ONE but was also… You guessed it… A DEVGRU Operator…
If I would have known how easy it was to be a SEAL, just by claiming to be one, I could have saved myself a lot of punishment in BUD/S and a couple decades of misery is SEAL Team…
I feel kinda stupid now for enduring so much pain and having my family suffer from endless deployments without Daddy, when all I had to do was buy a Trident and claim I was a SEAL… Damn I’m Dumb…
I’m not alone… There are three SEALs even dumber than I am who are being Court Martialed for allegedly swelling the lip of a ruthless, murdering savage they captured in Iraq.
Lucky beyond words that they weren’t all KILLED snatching “Terrorist Boy” from his bed one night, all these dumbass SEALs had to do was blow off BUD/S, “Claim to be SEALs” and they could have saved themselves a lot of trouble…
Below is a letter from Steve confirming that no Jim Sharp was ever a SEAL…
Below that.. are a few messages where Jim Sharp explains his exploits in SEAL Team…
[i]Jim Sharp March 17, 2009 at 9:15am Report
Hey Pal! Jim here! I really don’t know many guys from the old days except Marcinko,Ventura,Patches Watson, Harry humphries, you know Rudy of course. But that’s about all. I only spent 7 years in the teams and Yes I have seen your mother’s drawing and your dad’s memoirs! At the museum! And I have to say It’s damn good to know you bud! Your father was the stump to my sprouting career in the teams and I really appreciate all of those guys who did thier time,and chewed the same sand and mud I did!LOL
As far as my Dive company. It’s not big its only ran by all former Navy Frogman,and Salvage Divers! So it’s small and it’s based in California. And the Name is Frogmen Unlimited. And the Salvage stuff I specialize in is done freelance. So I am delighted to take a job here and there. But since I am disabled from a couple gunshot’s and IED explosion, I don’t get around like I used to!
But I tell you what pal since your father and grandfather were my founding father’s for my career.I consider you a brother! You explained the old amphib base to the T! And I am happy to have you aboard as a bro!
So here’s the DEAL! Anytime you want to go trout fishing,Lake Diving in Branson,Missouri I will accomadate you! MY family is there! And also if your in Miami and want to go off shore billfishing Ill make it happen. I am a USCG licensed captain unlimited. And run charters all the time out of South Beach. Where I live. And We dive there too! It’s beautiful!
I want to meet you bud! And I am not going to muster this year because of surgery I am having done. But the muster after this or if we play things by ear. We will have to group up! Sound good? Great! I can tell your a good guy. And we have serious ties together! LOL And never new it! LOL So let’s keep in touch and we will get wet together sometime!
Alright Hospital Corpsman 2nd class Hm2 Sharp(SEAL)(FMF) OVER AND OUT BLUE DIVER! LOL[/i]
***************************************************************************** If the name you provided is spelled correctly, I do NOT find a listing in the SEAL Database (SEAL Teams and predecessor units from1942 to the Present Day) for anyone named JAMES “JIM” SHARP. 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 attendance at BUD/S training, and based upon the information you have provided, I can state conclusively that JAMES “JIM” SHARP 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). In point of fact there are THREE (3) men with the last name “SHARP” and TWO (2) men with the similar last name “SHARPE”
During the Vietnam War, BUMED (USN Bureau of Medicine) stipulated that US Navy Hospital Corpsmen were trained/tasked/required to render medical aid, assistance, and comfort to the injured, and further stipulated that US Navy Hospital Corpsmen were NOT permitted to participate in the UDT/SEAL training which was intended/designed to result in their tasking as aggressors in combat. As a result medical personnel were taken from the graduates of the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) training – Navy Hospital Corpsmen who were destined to serve with the USMC – and they were assigned to various UDT/SEAL Teams where their duties DID include going in harm’s way with SEALs in combat. Those medical men ARE LISTED in the SEAL Database and specifically annotated with the word “CORPSMAN”, and they are generally counted as “SEALs” by the SEAL OPERATORS who serve with them.
Shortly after the end of the Vietnam War, BUMED’s official position on this matter began to change. It was decided that US Navy Hospital Corpsmen who were to be assigned to the UDT/SEAL Teams must attend and successfully complete at least a portion of the BUD/S Training course. Thus the first group of FMF Hospital Corpsmen to also complete the 3rd (last) Phase of BUD/S training graduated in April 1976. Within FIVE (5) calendar years, however, ALL CORPSMEN being assigned to the UDT/SEAL Teams were required to be legitimate graduates of the full BUD/S Training course. From that point onward (i.e. roughly 1981) any Navy Hospital Corpsman who was tasked/trained for duties as a SEAL Operator (Combatant Swimmer, SEAL) was a full/complete graduate of BUD/S Training and carried the Secondary NEC of 5326.
Since that time there has been a regular need for additional medical personnel in support of the various medical departments of the various SEAL Teams, just as there was/is a need for additional personnel to support the administrative offices, the armory, the air loft, etc. of those Teams. To fill this need for “on-base” medical personnel without reducing the number of deployable SEALs who are trained as medical personnel, there have been (and will continue to be) duty assignments of NON-SEAL medical personnel to the Teams.
Anyone who shows a PRIMARY NEC of 8404 but who does NOT show a SECONDARY NEC of 5326 listed on his DD-214 was not a Navy SEAL (i.e. did not hold SEAL status/credentials). Such individuals only have status/credentials as a member of the support medical staff assigned to non-combat duty tasking with a SEAL Team. In October 2006 the Special Warfare Operator (SO) rating was created, and since that time all credentialed SEALs have a primary NEC related to their NSW tasking.
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Note: I have just received the most recent update to my copy of the SEAL Database. Not only does it have all the latest classes in it, but it also contains the names of all WWII S&R, NCDU, UDT, and even the OSS Maritime Unit… so there is absolutely NO CHANCE that Mr. SHARP’s name has somehow been omitted in error. I might note that I have never encountered any Hospital Corpsmen who have ever used the abbreviation “HM(SEAL)(FMF)”. It’s absolutely clear to me that Mr. SHARP wants people to believe that he not only served WITH a SEAL Team, but that he is/was fully credentialed as a SEAL OPERATOR. He is NOT!
I would also point out that if he claims to know Marcinko, Patches Watson, Harry Humphries, and Rudy Boesch, and he claims to have served “7 years” with the Teams, then he would have served LONG before the term “IED” was ever used by the military. That abbreviation/acronym/nickname is a new one. Back in the day we called them by the long-name descriptives “kitchen demolitions” or “improvised explosives” or “booby traps”… never by the 3-letter acronym/term “IEDs”. I’m not sure how all those EAST COAST SEALS are his buddies if he just retired from ST-1 on the West Coast??!!
What a clown. You SEAL guys ought to get together and put a foot in his ass.
Someone on here had a great idea a month or two ago.
Anyone who falsely claims to be in the service and have citations, should have to go out and earn everything they claim they had. Rank, Medals, everything.
You know, I’m not one that promotes violence. I actually try to avoid confrontations…but I think these guys need to be taught a lesson. There were a few guys that claimed to be members of Omega Psi Phi. It got back to a chapter a few campuses over and well…let’s just say they stopped claiming the affiliation. Maybe something similar needs to happen!! JUST PUT IN THE WORK!!! DAMN!!!
The Stolen Valor Act makes this illegal also so there are grounds for criminal prosecution and they have been going after these douche bags.
I was going to ask, but it looks as if you kind of gave me the reply already… My question was: Is this not impersonating a federal employee, and would it not be treated as some sort of federal crime where the person has decieved the public with false claim to be federal figuire? I would suspect at minimum there would be fines involved, of not more. Sounds like a pretty underhanded thing to do. I wonder if he somehow falsified documents and attempted to take advantage of any aid/discounts/support due to our actual military persons?
My suggestion (if I were king of The United States of Larry Land!) would be to treat him in a similar fashion as those that impersonate a LEO are treated. I don’t see it as being greatly different.
I’m an outsider here (never served in the military) but it seems like there are a lot of folks from across all generations who served in some capacity, often honorably and even in combat, but feel the need to exaggerate in this way. It just seems like many of the people I’ve run across, from an old brit who did serve in the RAF during WWII but couldn’t have been “shot down multiple times during the Battle of Britain” based on his dates of service, to the guys who served honorably in support roles more recently but claim SEAL, SOCOM, whatever service, were in the armed forces but lie about their roles.
What’s even worse is that, to a man, every service member I know that has talked about this sort of thing would respect them just the same for what they really did - if they hadn’t lied.
Am I wrong, or is this common?
Holy shit, did that dude actually p-shop that as “proof” he was a SEAL?! That’s a pretty sad attempt if he did. Man, I’m a civy but, seeing shit like this fucking pisses me off.
I want to be a seal, but why claim something you never earned. its more than just saying your something its the accomplishment you feel from doing it and the proud comes from that. I find it strange these people are ok with people just thinking they are seals. for those that put themselves through hell and have the necessary skills to accomplish what they did im sorry we have scumbags like them
[b]Since you know absolutely nothing about me, we have never met, PLUS you have never spoken to me…what FACTUAL EVIDENCE, not hearsay from someone on a blog that you read, do you have that PROVES beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was not a Navy SEAL? Your thread on this site is based on junior high school rumors and slander.
You are so damn gullible to believe any piece of shit garbage you read on some forum. Before spreading false information and total bullshit, talk to the person.
I can provide you all the information necessary to validate my credentials like the year I got my Budwiser Pin. At a minimum, I have 4 DD-214’s from my 21 yr Navy career that proves my assertions. If you are ex-military, you know the information on a DD-214. The inbred moron administrators at HiPoint Forum never gave me a chance to prove myself.
Take some time to think and perform a lot of in depth due diligence before you start slandering someone with false allegations. At least communicate with the individual and review their documentary evidence over total rumors. This is another case of a “Sea Lawyer” with a bad attitude and the gullible believing the crap they read.[/b]
<grabs popcorn>
Alrighty then…this one took a turn. It’s locked for now.
DRJavelina: Check your IM’s ASAP, please.
So we did due dilligence and checked this SEAL claim out.
Bogus.
Note: Those caught lying about their background WILL be banned. Permanently.
Despicable.
A seal is a cute little furry marine mammal. A SEAL is a United States Naval warrior. 
One of our moderators used his contacts to verify the information we were provided directly from this person. It did not check out. Due diligence complete.