Special Report: Is he really a SEAL?
It’s been a year since our local heroes from SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden.
But sadly, others are still stealing SEALs’ honor, making up stories that they, too, are decorated Navy commandos.
This is Brian Leonard Creekmur. If you look at his Navy SEAL T-Shirts and tattoos, you’d bet he is just who he says he is, a retired Navy commando who faced terrorists in combat.
The memorabilia at his house in Middlesex County, his frequent Tweets to CNN reporters, his Facebook photos, and military discharge papers, all show a man who fought for the country as part of SEAL Team 2 – and later SEAL Team 6. They show a man who has never run from a confrontation. Until now.
It’s not really a question. I’ve spent a month digging into his claims, and I know it’s him behind the wheel of this pickup truck, no matter how quickly he rolled up the windows. He’s had a lot to say on the Internet about his career as a Navy SEAL sniper, but not much to say about it to me.
Maybe that’s because there no military records – none at all – that support his story. No documents or evidence that Brian Leonard Creekmur of Twiggs Ferry Road in Middlesex County was ever a SEAL.
This house in Middlesex belongs to Creekmur. It is filled with military medals, patriotic plaques and impressive Navy SEAL uniforms amassed, allegedly, from two decades as a Navy Special Operator. He’s posted pictures of it all on Facebook. And on a real-estate web site offering his house for sale, you see the same collection. Notice the life-size trident against the wall.
Creekmur’s tall tales of Navy SEAL service unraveled when he was wooing a woman through the Internet. He was telling her he loved her and sending her real estate listings for houses they could share. But when she couldn’t verify any of his stories, she started searching the Internet for information on fake SEALs.
A guy can get away with that for a long time. But eventually he will trip up. He`ll say something to the wrong person, male or female, just doesn`t make sense, and hell hath no fury. He said it to the wrong woman, and she contacted me.
Chesapeake’s Don Shipley is a retired SEAL, a real one. He has a database listing every single man who ever completed SEAL training.
Brian Creekmur. Is he a SEAL?
“No.”
more and video of this poser:
Special Report: Is he really a SEAL? | WTKR.com
It’s been a year since our local heroes from SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden.
But sadly, others are still stealing SEALs’ honor, making up stories that they, too, are decorated Navy commandos.
This is Brian Leonard Creekmur. If you look at his Navy SEAL T-Shirts and tattoos, you’d bet he is just who he says he is, a retired Navy commando who faced terrorists in combat.
The memorabilia at his house in Middlesex County, his frequent Tweets to CNN reporters, his Facebook photos, and military discharge papers, all show a man who fought for the country as part of SEAL Team 2 – and later SEAL Team 6. They show a man who has never run from a confrontation. Until now.
It’s not really a question. I’ve spent a month digging into his claims, and I know it’s him behind the wheel of this pickup truck, no matter how quickly he rolled up the windows. He’s had a lot to say on the Internet about his career as a Navy SEAL sniper, but not much to say about it to me.
Maybe that’s because there no military records – none at all – that support his story. No documents or evidence that Brian Leonard Creekmur of Twiggs Ferry Road in Middlesex County was ever a SEAL.
This house in Middlesex belongs to Creekmur. It is filled with military medals, patriotic plaques and impressive Navy SEAL uniforms amassed, allegedly, from two decades as a Navy Special Operator. He’s posted pictures of it all on Facebook. And on a real-estate web site offering his house for sale, you see the same collection. Notice the life-size trident against the wall.
Creekmur’s tall tales of Navy SEAL service unraveled when he was wooing a woman through the Internet. He was telling her he loved her and sending her real estate listings for houses they could share. But when she couldn’t verify any of his stories, she started searching the Internet for information on fake SEALs.
A guy can get away with that for a long time. But eventually he will trip up. He`ll say something to the wrong person, male or female, just doesn`t make sense, and hell hath no fury. He said it to the wrong woman, and she contacted me.
Chesapeake’s Don Shipley is a retired SEAL, a real one. He has a database listing every single man who ever completed SEAL training.
Brian Creekmur. Is he a SEAL?
“No.”
more and video of this poser:
Special Report: Is he really a SEAL? | WTKR.com
