William R. Mayor Jr. – US Navy SEAL, Combat Veteran, Blog of Shame

10 years ago

“I’m a Veteran, having served where I did fucked with me pretty bad. It’s not something I talk about much. It’s a part of the reason I airsoft too. It’s therapy… Fireworks though, they fuck with me BAD!” – William R. Mayor Jr.

BACKGROUND

William R. Mayor Jr., who has sometimes used the name “William R. Hanzo”, is a veteran fixture around Malvern, Ohio. Displaying a sign, he lets everyone know that he is a combat veteran that has PTSD and is troubled by fireworks.

Mayor implies he was a Navy SEAL evidenced by the trident on his uniform.

He even showed his commitment with a SEAL Bone Frog tattoo…

He hinted at PTSD and implied serving in Columbia with a reference to the “Land of Coffee and Drugs”. He spoke about brown water Navy, SBU’s (Special Boat Units) and SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen).

CHARITY WORK FOR PTSD

Mayor was involved with some charity work and hosted a charity event in June 2013. Mayor had said that donated money would be split between “Wags 4 Warriors” and “Ghost Rider Foundation“. Some people checked with these organizations and Wags 4 Warriors said they did not attend the event and did not get donations from Mayor but suggested that donations could have come in under a different name.

Then…

Ghost Rider Foundation was consulted and they said that they were not familiar with this event.

Although the results were inconclusive about Mayor’s charity work, suspicions were raised. People in the community as well as some Ex-Army Special Forces, ex-Army Rangers and ex-SO gathered info on Mayor.

William Mayor’s official military records were ordered.

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FOIA RESULTS

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BUD/S-SEAL DATABASE

In addition, Mayor’s name was not found in the BUD/S-SEAL database. Although he has used the last name ‘Hanzo’, he served in the military under ‘Mayor’.

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FOIA RESULTS – COMPLETE

USMC Reserve

USN Active Duty – Dates

USN Active Duty – All

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DISCUSSION and SUMMARY

Mayor only spent six (6) months on active duty. Besides his official military records listing no training or qualification that would indicate that he was a SEAL, he had no service listed that would indicate combat.

He spent a few months on the USS Portland (LSD-37) but was discharged early for some reason. He was discharged as a Seaman Recruit (SR) at the rank of E-1. He had passed the six month point of his Navy career and should have picked up E-2 automatically, so there may have been issues that precluded him from making rank and staying in the Navy. There is always a possibility of a hardship discharge related to family issues back home and no fault of his own, but that is not consistent with the lack of promotion to E-2.

MilitaryPhony can’t comment much on Mayor’s PTSD or his charity work with PSTD. However, there was a very small window during Mayor’s enlistment for something to even happen to him, so perhaps his PTSD is not service related? We can’t really say for sure but the Combat Veteran sign that Mayor displays indicates that his PTSD has some relation to explosions or loud noises.

The bottom line is that Mayor’s military service records do not support his claims of being a combat veteran, a Navy SEAL, or service with SBU or SWCC.

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