William James Burley; inmate SEAL
The folks at Fake Warrior send us a link to their research on William James Burley, pictured above. I’m guessing it’s in his Mom’s backyard, since there are probably very few privacy fences in Afghanistan that are such good shape. According to his DD214, he last assignment was CONAVBRIG at Miramar in San Diego, and if Google is to be believed, it is what it sounds like – the Brig.
Almost 4 years of service and no awards. Nice career you’ve got there, buddy.
It seems he has a habit of pretending to be stuff that he’s not. Him and his uncle (a disgraced state trooper) took it upon themselves to stake out a bike bar, and he pretended to be a state trooper when the Rhode Island state troopers arrived. That kind of stupid goes straight to the bone and it’s incurable.
ADDED Dec 7, 2012:
I wasn’t aware there was a video until this douche’s lawyer wrote asking me to remove it. So here’s Don Shipley’s confrontation with the jailbird;
October 14th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
He’s the real deal. Because SEALs always go into combat exposing as much skin as possible to incindiary rounds, tree trunks, cinder block, etc.
October 14th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
I know when I was in Iraq we always rolled out in just our boxer shorts and a light coat of clp since we where just that bad ass.
October 14th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
I love it when Don Shipley gives these wanna be bad asses a phone call. http://www.fakewarriors.org/horv/horv_939.htm
October 14th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
And I truly thought you couldn’t fake stupidity.
I was wrong. I stand corrected.
October 14th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Doesn’t everything he has been charged with make him a fellon? How is it he has access to all the firearms he is posing for dumbass pictures with?
October 14th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
I thought they stopped making paintball guns that looked like real weapons. I got rid of my lasertag gun because it looked too much like the real thing.
October 14th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
It could be an Airsoft gun.
October 14th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Could be, Twist. Still – those photos might well get him a visit from local LE if someone forwards them to LE.
And Ex-PH2, I don’t think that’s fake stupidity. With this numbnuts, I’d guess the stupidity is 100% real.
October 14th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Is it just me or does his head look too small for his body? It’s bugging me, especially as a fan of doing art.
October 14th, 2012 at 5:29 pm
@9 — Good call. Zoom in for a closer look. The neck is way too long.
I am thinking poor Photoshop work. Others with more Phototshop experience should take a look.
Real pic, phony pic, doesn’t matter. The guy is still a faker.
October 14th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Egads – this crap just never stops. Should I claim being a C-5 pilot just because I’ve riden on several? And can spell it??
Naw, because it isn’t true. Wouldn’t even make a good story, and was almost impossible to even write as a joke!
October 14th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
If there is no brain, then there is no need for the brain housing to be very large. I’ve seen many pinheads who, since they were retards, had very small heads.
October 14th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
It does almost look like someone Photoshopped that head and body together. The shadows and highlights look a little odd, but I can usually find a seam somewhere in something like that and don’t see one here.
October 14th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
That’s gotta be shopped.
Also love noting that he came on AD in April of 99, and last effective date of rate was October of 99, meaning he made E-2, MAYBE E-3 if (big IF) he came in as E-2.
Bottom line, 10 lbs. of shit in a 5 lb. bag.
October 14th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
I’m think this isn’t a photoshop, but more of how his dime store tac gear, body position & mum’s fence is making his torso & neck look all out of proportion.
I never knew that SEALs used Tasco scopes BTW…
October 14th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Hey, 2004 called, they want their BDU pants back.
October 15th, 2012 at 5:20 am
@2 Loved it!
No shirt? I bet he isn’t wearing shoes either. That way he can do the jungle trails all sneaky like.
October 15th, 2012 at 10:11 am
BTW. He is clearly the real deal.
# 1. His head is sized to the body correctly … ROIDS.
# 2. For increased SPEC OPS accuracy – long barrell used on assault rifle.
# 3. BDU purchased in the early 2000′s (part of undercover plan).
# 4. Photo taken at triple secret location in the Stan’s where lumber and green foliage is abundant.
# 5. No shirt to scare the enemy who is trained to blow you up from 1000 yards or cut your head off.
Yeah, real deal!
October 15th, 2012 at 11:21 am
I didn’t serve but I didn’t think SEALs were so pale…
I have said once, twice, and will say it again. why do this in an age where you can be checked instantly. Old saying — you can’t fix stupid.
October 15th, 2012 at 11:49 am
This guy’s either part giraffe, or he’s spent so much time with his head up his ass, he’s stretched his neck out.
October 15th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Turd.
October 16th, 2012 at 6:04 am
check out Buds131 on youtube to see Senior Chief Shipley bust this cocksucker! Its not the best quality in terms of hearing what the other guy is saying, but its obvious that he is full of shit, Don picked him apart =]
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:54 pm
What a jackass. Where do these morons come from. I was a SEAL and so was my son. Class 57 and Class 174 respectively. We have encountered these douchebags numerous times. I met my first phony back in 1977 four years after I left the teams. He said he knew every one of the SEALs I mentioned including the names I made up. He gave me a BUD/S Class but there was no way to check that I knew of at the time. I think he something about the teams but he was no SEAL. Probably a DOR or a tech who worked at BUD/S or SEAL TEAM ONE.
December 7th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Guess who is the latest buffoon to send their lawyer after us. So I’ve added Don Shipley’s video of the phone conversation with him – because the lawyer asked me to remove the video and I hadn’t posted it. So if she wants to accuse me of something, I might as well be guilty.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
The attorney might have an issue if the controlling state law requires consent to record a private conversation. But I am certain you guys have that covered. Was it a bald request w/o threat of legal action or a legal basis for the request?
December 7th, 2012 at 9:22 pm
This piece work is in my neck of the wood. I’ll more enjoy the public clown
December 7th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
@ #24- May as well join ya, Lilyea…I can’t believe this asshat has surfaced again. Oh, Good Lord. Save me, here I go.
Dear Ms. Lawyer. Sometimes, you simply just have to withdraw. Rack it up to experience and walk away without getting any egg on your face. I am certain there are real deal veterans that are in need of someone of your caliber.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:41 pm
First, if that guy is a SEAL then I am a freakin’ Jedi Master.
Second, to all those above who think the photo has been altered, good eye. I opened it in Photoshop and zoomed in really close. I don’t have an FBI lab here but have been using Photoshop for 15 years. There is an abrupt color change on the neck where it appears to have been joined and some poor attempts at blending. The sides of the neck, especially the left side are really straight and unnatural. Same thing all around the hat. What kind of SEAL would have an earphone in his left ear with a cord routed about 4 inches from his neck so it will snag on anything?
This dirtbag is not only NOT a SEAL, he borrowed a photo from someone who also lives in his mother’s basement.
Or WTF, maybe that’s really him in Afghanistan and for OPSEC he took out the backgound and Photoshopped in the fence.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
That neck of his in that photo is a mile long if anything. Dawg meat…Argh! I’m thinking Korean delicacies again. Hate it when that happens.
December 7th, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Speaking of Star Wars, he could be JarJar’s stunt double.
December 7th, 2012 at 11:08 pm
@28, the head-to-body proportion is off by about 10%. The image of the head is too small for it to sit properly on th neck. It makes him look like a pinhead. You can see the proper proportion of head-neck in the photo to the right of Don Shipley.
Also, the coloring is just slightly off. Whoever the body belongs to doesn’t have Burley’s olive-toned skin.
December 8th, 2012 at 1:03 am
Chicks dig a pinhead faux SEAL living next to a meth lab. Specially the ones in Junior High.
December 8th, 2012 at 2:42 am
The guys as full of shit as a Christmas Turkey.I wonder if he hired the same “lawer” on Gunny Driveway’s payroll.
December 8th, 2012 at 6:14 am
You know I wouldnt be surprised if he went and stole a photo from ol “Snake Eyes” collection thinking it was cool and pasted his head on it.
Granted I dont remember Snake Eyes being that buff from the hilarious pics of him posted here.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:46 am
Wow…is this the first actual “lawer” to make contact with TAH on behalf of a phony?
December 8th, 2012 at 9:05 am
A logo and webpage of “Sparrow One Operations Group” is featured in Shipley’s video. I’m guessing that’s where this tool Burley is now claiming to work.
Sparrow One Operations Group company appears to operate out of Kansas. Kansas appears to be a one-party consent state for the recording of phone conversations; ditto for Virginia. If all participants in the conversation were in Virginia and Kansas, Don’s 100% in the clear.
If one of the participants was physically located in one of the 12 two-party consent states for recording phone conversations (CA, CT, IL, FL, MD, MA, MI, MT, NH, NV, PA, WA), Don’s still in the clear if he informed the participants he was recording the conversation and no one objected. If not, he could have a problem.
December 8th, 2012 at 9:55 am
You have to give this guy credit for stupidity totally unrelated to the SEAL thing. The article linked near the bottom says he was arrested for posing as a state trooper while stalking an Outlaw MC clubhouse. The police did him a favor there
December 8th, 2012 at 10:11 am
RE: the “photoshop” thing:
Or, he could merely have a “farmer’s tan” with long sleeve shirts.
Which reduces him to not even having photoshop skills.
See how simple that was – and he is?
December 8th, 2012 at 11:13 am
B Woodman@38, or two other possabilities. One was that he was decapitated by an IED, but thanks to surgical skills of one Captain Benjamin Hawkeye” Pierce, it was succuessfull reattached. The other option is that he is a pinhead.
December 8th, 2012 at 11:25 am
Jeebus! This clown has too much time on his hands. He should concentrate on finding a real job and taking care of his family.
December 8th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
I’m not the smartest man and I’m no where near as tough as a Navy SEAL. I do recall however having to wear my MOLLE vest over a tshirt in Iraq a few times due to expected IDF and overprotective commanders and I’m pretty sure wearing that vest without a shirt is a foolproof way to sand your nipples off.
December 8th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
While enjoying the privilege of staring this Photoshop abortion I realized two things; 1) I think that’s an Xbox video game headset 2) He has a El Cheapo BSA red dot scope mounted to that rifle, for comparison I looked at the one I have on the shelf here in the shop. Fucktard
December 8th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!,keep on these loosers,new zealand and australia have the same problem heres the site,
http://www.anzmi.net/
December 8th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
I always had a great deal respect for the SEALS until I started meeting ex-SEALs in every bar and tavern I went into. Young ones, old ones, skinny ones, fat ones. They were either loud braggarts or quiet clandestine Top Secret ones. All of them were highly decorated. MOH on down. They were, to my eye, not the type of men I knew. None of them were even close to the caliber of men I knew as ELITE. All I could figure was that the Navy had really lowered their standards, a lot.
SARC/OFF
December 10th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
The uncle was sentenced to 10 years for sexual assault
December 10th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
I think the photo alone qualifies him for the next “tourney”!?! I had the privilege of working with SEALs a couple of times and this in-bred, half-wit, SFB is NOWHERE NEAR the caliber of men that are SEALs. I say shoot him in face with a bazooka and let’s go have some beers!
December 10th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I wonder if he gets cold at night in the high elevation(s)?
December 13th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
Twist,,, how the hell did you get boxers all we had was the clp and our kevlars
December 17th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Someone actually said a good comment about the picture being fake. Ive done a lot of photoshop work, taking things out and putting things into images. If you look at the dudes neck like the guys stated it is to long for the body, aswell if you look close the neck is a totally different skin tone than any other part of the body.
December 17th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
that dude is one big phony what a shit head
December 22nd, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Don is not in the clear,he actually lives in California due to a background check…..
December 23rd, 2012 at 1:26 am
Turd.
A gay one at that…
Odd, huh?
December 24th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
I served with James in SEAL team six in action in a recent op, in a Middle Eastern country. This Shipley guy is the fake if anyone is. James, or ‘Trigger Man’ as the guys call him in the SEAL community call him, has notched up the highest number of kills, gotten the longest recorded shot ever, and has three, take a note, three medals of honour! Take that to the bank.
Sharnell Ludgrow, Former Military Operations Specialist, Retired.
December 24th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Sharn:
You’re a phony: you spelled honor wrong
December 24th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
sean: Yeah, you think someone who actually served in SEAL Team 6 – which, as I recall, requires US citizenship due to security clearance requirements – would use the US spelling of “honor” vice the British.
And I’m guessing he also probably wouldn’t be commenting here from an IP address in Japan, either – one that’s nowhere near any US military installation.
December 24th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Sharn is a turd.
December 24th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
3 medals of honour, or honor, or honer…. Bullflippinshit. Without going to the registry, I believe that we would know about anyone surviving that was a 3 MOH holder. In fact, we would be fighting eachother to get to the front of the line to buy him an evening of drinking, hoping to shake his hand.
Sharnell who? SEAL Team six member? How about a BUDS class, bitch?
December 25th, 2012 at 11:16 am
There are many ways to spell honor, any you guys don’t have a clue!
The Trigger Man himself took down a President in a Russian state from two and a half miles away. How do I know? Because I was his spotter!
And the reason my IP address is listed as Japan? I do ops all over the world, often with the Trigger Man, an I can bounce a signal off of any satelite, so don’t be fooled.
And finally, my BUDS class is a matter of record, as is James’, or as he’s better known within the teams, Bugle Blower Bob.
How’s them apples?!
Sharnell Ludgrow, over and ouut biatch!
December 25th, 2012 at 11:27 am
Go away troll.
December 25th, 2012 at 11:37 am
@58. Yes, and a Merry Christmas to you too!
December 25th, 2012 at 11:42 am
The only spotting you’ve done is into a MaxiPad. Poof–begone.
December 25th, 2012 at 11:52 am
Soooooo – what would that BUDS class number be, “Sharnell Ludgrow”? Since it’s a matter of record, obviously you won’t mind telling us.
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Sheesh, I think this one just broke my BS-meter. The needle seems to be bent now, and it doesn’t want to return to the “zero” reading any more . . . .
December 25th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Hi dudes, yes, you guessed it, this was just a merry jape, and yes, I’m English. I’ve watched a lot of Don Shipley’s broadcasts, and the dude is as rabid about the whole issue as Mike Anderson was before some wankshaft took over his domain after he passed on, and called him a child molester.
I served in the Royal Air Force for a tad over six years as an aircraft mechanic, and in truth fellas, you will never meet a fake aircraft mechanic in your life.
Someone wrote,:”Eight hundred SEALs went to Vietnam. Eight thousand came back.”
It’s Christmas dudes, so with that thought in mind, let us one and all think of the Trigger Man with a red hot poker up his arse.
Cheers to you all, I just got a bit bored here in Japan after seventeen years.
Fuck the phonys, in particular, Bugle Blowing Bob!
Jason.
February 17th, 2013 at 10:35 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLoWtjZhGYU
February 17th, 2013 at 10:52 pm
I like his cheap nylon leg holster and the X-box head gear. This kid is a fucking loser.
February 17th, 2013 at 11:21 pm
The above link is a video from his “MMA debut” in case anyone wants to see him get his ass handed to him.
March 10th, 2013 at 11:03 pm
Bad news, and good guys…James got hit with a fifty cal round in the shoulder during an op we did in a region of the Middle East which I can’t name for security reasons.
Good news is, the trigger man is gonna pull through!
I know all your prayers are with him, and you’re all gonna raise a glass to him for the job he did taking out an evil dictator from three miles away, yes, you heard that right, three miles away, with a modified Remington 700.
Here’s to the legend!
Sharnell Ludgrow. (Sharpshooter/ spotter retired)
(Smiley face)
March 23rd, 2013 at 1:24 pm
I went to school with Bill Burley. He’s a faker in everything he does, he’s a fake MMA fighter, he’s a fake state trooper and he hell sure fire is a fake Navy Seal. I can name 5 people that enlisted in the military from our school and Bill Burley is NOT one of them. Normally I’d just chalk this up as Bill being Bill but he’s gone to far now. He never got a real job and this is the outcome. The photo you see is not a faked photoshop head on a body, it is actually him. he did get that big, however the clothes he is wearing is probably some paintball gear he had from high school. He also graduated high school in 1998 making it impossible for him to become a Navy Seal graduate in 2000 or 2001 or whatever he claims as he never enlisted. Sorry Bill, was fun growing up with you but you’re actually an idiot now and I actually see that you haven’t actually grown up at all. If you care so much to impersonate all this military stuff, why not just enlist and climb the ranks like you’re supposed to. Shit by now you could have actually been a Navy Seal and wouldn’t have had to fake it, but considering you’ve been faking it so long and perhaps passing it by clueless East Greenwich residents for so long then why enlist right? Wrong tool, eventually someones gonna call you out and expose you for the idiot you are. Just glad it was someone with credibility this time and not someone from East Greenwich, although people from East Greenwich actually know better and don’t have to prove you’re an idiot. Your daughter will be so proud knowing her dad’s an idiot when she grows up, I feel awful for her.
March 23rd, 2013 at 3:54 pm
Ass clown.
March 31st, 2013 at 2:56 am
Hey guys, word on the street is that the trigger man has a book out this summer, ‘Black Op Down’.
Chocked full of info on the guys he took out all over the world by unconventional means, like poison darts fired from pen guns, using the famous death touch on a recently deceased North Korean President, and using the first super .999 cal Branninski sniper rifle to take out a certain Russian premiere who he says in his book (though the sneaky Russians deny it) was replaced by a lookalike.
You can order your copy online.
Sharnell Ludgrow.
April 17th, 2013 at 1:26 am
Picked up some chatter on the barbecue if you know what I mean in military speak? The trigger man has now been bumped up to officer status! Captain no less! Cheap ass Govt made him pay for his own uniform to be tailored!
Can we say hero?!
Sharnell Ludgrow
April 22nd, 2013 at 12:02 pm
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April 22nd, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Pistol holster that no one would ever use in a theater of war….check.
No shirt….check.
Optics near the muzzle….check.
Plantronics telemarketing headset….check.
Perfect background location for cool-guy pic that will make the other guys on the team jealous…..check.
I don’t know what you posters are talking about. This guy is a Seal if I’ve ever seen one.
April 23rd, 2013 at 1:44 am
Dude is so high-speed low drag he actually doesn’t take cover he “pistol dances” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCAfhzPiqo
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