BACKGROUND

John Brandon Casselman comes to us from Avon, IN.  He is 32 y/o as of December 2018.

Before Casselman scuttled his Facebook page yesterday, we were able to obtain a copy of it to show his display of Navy SEAL pride.

Casselman claims he was a SEAL on the Zoosk dating site…

On dating sites, he tries to meet up with women and lays out his story about him being a Navy Seal.

• One of only two men to finish in his BUD/S class
• Eleven years active duty
• SEAL Team Six member
• Master Chief Petty Officer (E-9)  [Can E-9 even be made in 11 years?]
  

Verification was performed to tie the phone number to the individual…

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Then, to top it off – Casselman recounted a story where he claims he was on the Osama Bin Laden raid as a part of SEAL Team Six.

When Don Shipley was mentioned in the following conversation, Casselman seemed to back off a little bit.  Not because of Don Shipley, but because he claimed that the lack of trust was a deterrent for Casselman in a potential relationship.

Click on the graphic below if you would like to read the entire conversation that mentions Don Shipley.

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ACTIONS CONDUCTED BY MILITARY PHONIES

After contacting the UDT/SEAL archives, the Naval Special Warfare Center and checking the UDT/SEAL database we found that there is NO record of John Brandon Casselman ever completing BUD/S Training or being assigned to a SEAL Team.

John Casselman’s military records were requested through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

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FOIA RESULTS

DoD MANPOWER DATABASE

NOTE: The above null result was repeated for each year from 2002 when he would have been 16 to the present day.  We presented the result from 2010 since this would represent a “sweet spot” since he claimed he served for eleven (11) years.  Therefore, it should have shown active duty service.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY (DoN)

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NOTE: Since Casselman claimed that he served for eleven years – based on his age, the soonest he could have gone in the Navy was 2004 at 18 years old.  In spite of the standard language in the FOIA result above, the Department of the Navy would be the organization that would hold his records for service during the 2000s.  This is why NPRC records were not requested.

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ARREST RECORDS

However, records did exist for John Casselman…

Source: https://indiana.arrests.org/Arrests/John_Casselman_34497680/

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DISCUSSION and SUMMARY

If John Casselman had served in the military as he had claimed, there should have been some record of it.  Although it is conceivable that he served in the Reserve,  there should also have been a trace of that as well.  Attending BUD/S would have to have been active duty.

The DoD Manpower database was searched for dates that he claimed he was in the Navy, so there were multiple negative results over multiple years searched, but we included the year 2010 as one that was indicative of negative results.

So, the Department of the Navy records that we obtained indicated that they could find no record of service for John Casselman in the U.S. Navy.

Unless John Casselman has records that prove that he served in the U.S. Navy as a SEAL, his story is highly skeptical.  His story may be good enough for a dating profile, but there are too many holes in it to pass the scrutiny of veterans that have served.

This may be a case of stolen valor since Casselman is getting something of value from leveraging these stories, especially the one about him participating in the Bin Laden raid.

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PHOTOS and SOCIAL MEDIA

FACEBOOK#1:  https://www.facebook.com/john.casselman.90  (deleted) (pic)

FACEBOOK#2:  https://www.facebook.com/john.casselman.39

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