Robert Earl Wilson Jr. has claimed of serving in the United States Marine Corps, retiring as a Master Sergeant (E-8) after a 22-year career. He is a Small Unit Tactical Training instructor in Georgia who often makes training videos.
Wilson often displays the following photo as testament to his younger days as a Marine.
Wilson claims to have been a 0321 Recon Marine as well as a 8541 Scout Sniper, as evidenced by the tattoo he proudly displays.
“SNIPER – EGA – BEIRUT” tattoo visible in one of Wilson’s instructional videos...
Wilson claimed that he trained with British SAS in 1981. The assumption is that it’s him in the photo by nature of the caption that accompanies the post.
Wilson claims he was attached with Fox 2/8 while in Beirut, Lebanon in 1982, and with 22nd MAU while in Grenada.
Served from 1979-2001 and participated in Operation Desert Storm with 1st Battalion / 9th Marines.
Four (4) Freedom of Information Act requests were filed on Wilson. Upon return of the first one, it seemed quite unbelievable that they could not locate any record on Wilson. After all, he seemed to walk the walk and talk the talk. He even had a convincing photo of someone that appears to be him in his younger days. The second FOIA request came back from the USMC saying they have no record of him.
There was an additional FOIA for any Army service that also could not find any records on Wilson. We are still waiting for US Navy FOIA results as he may have been a SeaBee or Corpsman, but already his claim of being in the USMC is why you are reading about him here and now. Wilson’s official records do not support such a claim, let alone Recon, Scout Sniper, Beirut, Grenada and being wounded.
But there are records of him. Dekalb County Georgia has record of him:
4817–IMPERSONATING AN OFFICER1990-02-17M306552—-5202–CARRY CONCEALED WEAPON1990-
Wouldn’t having a weapon while training others be in violation of something?
Then there is this....
Wilson was vetted before on SOCNET: http://www.socnet.com/archive/index.php/t-102188.html
Robert Earl Wilson Jr. was not listed the STA 2/8 rosters, even as cross assigned to Fox Company 2/8. He was also not on a list of Grenada casualties.
Wilson was called out by a Beirut veteran: https://www.youtube.com/user/desean1972
In the famous words used on Wheel of Fortune: “I don’t need to buy a vowel, I’d like to solve the puzzle now.”
