BACKGROUND

Wesley Wade Washoe comes to us from Medford, Oregon, and previously from Carson City, Nevada. Washoe is 54 years old at the time of this writing – August 2025.

Wes Washoe

Please take note of the American Indian reference in the above article; we will come back to that soon.

Washoe has made many military claims. Here is a list of them:

MILITARY:

• U.S. Navy helicopter door gunner, serving in Somalia and the Gulf War

• Was “hit” and injured, perhaps implying wounded

• He claimed he had a Navy contract to go through SEAL training

(NOTE: All of the following videos were obtained from police body cam videos available and requested through public access forms.)

Here are police videos of Washoe claiming much of the above:

“Bling” on what is reported to be his vehicle underscores a few of these claims.

Then, there is the ball cap signifying a U.S. Navy combat veteran…

There is a photo of him wearing the Combat Action Ribbon, which is protected by the Stolen Valor Act of 2013.

Then, there is a claim in a PM…

More bling allegedly attributed to Washoe…

Then, Washoe’s name is in a museum’s listing on the page of Iraq Native American Combat Veterans at the Museum in Pyramid Lake, where he was reported to have had himself listed.

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ACTIONS CONDUCTED BY MILITARY PHONIES

We checked the BUD/S-SEAL database.

After contacting the UDT/SEAL archives and checking the UDT/SEAL database, we found that there is NO record of “Wesley Wade Washoe” or any other variation of his name ever attempting BUD/S training, nor ever being assigned to any SEAL teams. This was done for the sake of completeness, but as he states in the police video – he was “hit” and suffered injuries that kept him from reporting to BUD/S.

Wesley Wade Washoe’s military records were ordered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

We filed with the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), which maintains records from earlier than the mid-1990s, as well as the Department of the Navy (DoN), which holds records from later than the mid-1990s.

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FOIA RESULTS

NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER (NPRC)

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY (DoN)

DoN Results for Wesley Wade Washoe – Pg 1 of 2

DoN Results for Wesley Wade Washoe – Pg 2 of 2

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MANPOWER DATA CENTER (SCRA)

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DISCUSSION and SUMMARY

MILITARY SERVICE

Our investigation found no record of military service prior to August 1993 for Wesley Wade Washoe. This absence of service records before Aug 1993 invalidates several key claims, including his purported participation in the Gulf War (1990-1991), as well as placing doubt on a claim of fighting in Somalia (Oct 1993). Navy boot camp lasted 12 weeks in 1993, plus two weeks extra to “class up” or wait for enough people to come on board to make a complete class. Washoe’s records show he detached from boot camp on November 9, 1993, and reported to the USS Abraham Lincoln for his next duty station.

Although the USS Abraham Lincoln was in Somalia in October 1993, and flew air patrols over Somalia for 4 weeks, the USS Abraham Lincoln departed the coast of Somalia in November 1993. Washoe did not report on board until December 16, 1993, and may have been on leave from boot camp before that. Therefore, it makes it nearly impossible to be a U.S. Navy door gunner and/or in Somalia in 1993.

Since he claims he had been “hit” and injuries kept him from participating fully on active duty, it seems unlikely that he would have participated in combat after this – therefore, his claim in the video of “It’s all I knew, man… was how to go to combat” to the law enforcement officer appears deceptive if not altogether untrue.

SUMMARY

Should Wesley Washoe have leveraged any of these unsubstantiated military claims for personal gain or benefit, such actions could potentially constitute violations under the Stolen Valor Act.

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