Ft. Howard Complaint To VA Inspector General & Info Provided To Tens of Thousands

A copy of the formal complaint I sent to the VA Inspector General - about the previous lease holder and fake property developer of Ft. Howard - is in this post. I have provided in depth information about the Ft Howard fiasco many times to multiple media outlets, elected politicians, VA officials, even my VA doctors & nurses - who may say something somewhere where it'll do good, plus private citizens. I have informed many people about the deeply entrenched fiasco that is the - failed - VA proposed development of a veterans focused community on the Fort Howard, Maryland, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center property. The VA OIG office never replied. I registered the complaint during the time John Infantino had the lease, but it somewhat applies to the current lease holder and fake property developer Tim Munshell.

I have - employing my writings, photography; Internet publishing work - I have shared the facts of Ft. Howard with tens of thousands of people. I rarely hear back from any of them, nor rarely know of any actions they've taken on behalf of Ft. Howard.

I contacted companies John David Infantino falsely uses as businesses references, two embassies whose countries Infantino had scammed in, and the F.B.I.. I contacted postal inspectors - because Infantino had vets mail paper checks, to a P.O. Box, as deposits for future living quarters Infantino had no intention, nor ability, to build. The postal inspectors, then the I.R.S., each refused to do investigations without exact info on the mailings and on the amounts of monies Infantino did not pay taxes on. A former employee of Infantino's posted online that if the I.R.S. checked his company files and did an audit they'd have charged John with tax evasion. Unfortunately, Infantino does not maintain any office space for very long and those files are most likely long gone to the dump.

Sadly, only a minuscule percentage of people who see these works give a positive, supportive response. Others had already been organized & holding public meetings, contacting VA and other government offices, informing media, working & fighting hard, and they continue to fight on.

Do to being ignored or deemed incorrect, us citizens in the fight are not getting anything good done towards having the property development begin.

I am limited in my investigative work, because I can't afford to travel far and I am saddled with degenerative back disease and depression, which the VA provides treatment for. I survive on a combined VA pension and Social Security award of around a thousand dollars a month, plus I live in an apartment house built for low income senior citizens.

I need to gather more detailed information from court case files about Ft. Howard, John D Infantino and Timothy S Munshell.

On top of that, I want an investigative reporter or free lance writer to travel around the world gathering information on the approximate 30 places John D. Infantino ran his scams. I have read and kept details of news articles from more than 20 places around the world where Infantino had promised to bring billions of dollars worth of capital funding to all those projects he said would create wonderful communities in those areas.

For a writer with what it takes, a fully researched and written article or book could make their career. John David Infantino International Supper Scammer may very well be the most prolific and successful one in history. Except for wars, Infantino has surely done more damage than anyone.

My Complaint To The VA OIG:

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First Name: David

Last Name: Crews

Title:

Address: (I removed it for this post)

City: Dundalk

State: MD

Zip: 21222

Telephone: (I removed it for this post)

Email: ursusdave at yahoo.com

VA facility or office involved:
Ft Howard, Maryland and several others

Names of wrongdoers:
John Infantino

Names of victims:
Multiples of veterans and the VA itself.

Alleged legal or policy violation(s) or other misconduct:
Fraudulently saying he would build better VAMC properties but never doing it. He tied up progress on projects, and he has never completed any project. He claims to be asset and/or property manager for VA hospitals.

Effect of the wrongdoing, such as dollars lost, delay produced, etc.:
Veterans and others lives messed up.

Date(s) when the event(s) occurred:
Years ago to today

Names of witnesses:
Too many to name.

Has this allegation been previously reviewed?: No

If yes, please provide the dates and who did the review:


Have you contacted the VA OIG about this issue before?: No

If yes, please provide date contact was made and to whom:


Additional Comments:
John Infantino's LLCs are complete scams. Simply do a web search for Federal Development and John Infantino, and you will easily see. He has been scamming and hurting people all around the world. You will not find one news article about his projects being completed. All media about him tells of what he says he is going to do, and maybe about a ground breaking ceremony. He has never completed anything his web sites say he will or has.

I have been working on this off and on for years, and Infantino must be stopped. He is messing up lives all over the world. He is an international fraud. Yet he puts forth the idea that he and various partners are doing well together on numerous projects.

On Infantino's numerous web pages, he declares to be the asset and/or property manager for many commercial, residential and government properties - including Department of Veterans Affairs Hospitals and veterans nursing homes. I am hoping people, companies, governments, towns, cities, counties, etc. who are falsely referenced as being satisfied in their (non-existant) working partnerships with Infantino will force him to stop using their names as a good reference.

He got us here in Maryland by promising to rebuild our local Ft. Howard VAMC, but he did little more than take veterans' monies for deposits on future homes and some of those vets had their lives messed up in the process. Some got their deposits back - not all - and some sold their long-time homes to be able to move to Ft. Howard. Infantino Federal Development, LLC, held a lease that was terminated in 2009 after a protracted lack of progress on the project. Now, four years later, he still maintains a website for it - Bayside at Ft. Howard ( http://www.baysidefthoward.com/ ), which has a page for sending in deposits for housing applications ( http://www.baysidefthoward.com/application/application.htm ). That causes me to suspect that he is still taking deposits from American Military Veterans and others.

On Infantino's websites, he consistently declares that he got his start in a family business named First Public Trust - FPT - a "real estate management firm which incorporates a 60-year history of developing over twenty master-planned communities on the East Coast and the Midwest." BUT! For several years, I have periodically web searched for info on FPT; there is not one bit of FPT info on the Internet - anywhere!

I am a writer and photographer (US Army trained photographer) in Baltimore, Maryland doing investigative writing on John Infantino & Federal Development LLC - Federal Asset Management ( http://fedassetmgmt.com/ ) and his use of a supposed projects world wide. Websites, which Infantino maintains, put forth the idea that he is a successful partner in various international property development projects. Infantino is using numerous projects around the world as examples of why his company should be hired, but not one project has been completed by him. Some, he had nothing to do with and/or were never begun by anyone.

I wish to see international news media outlets publish fully investigated stories on what he is doing.

John Infantino is in a lawsuit with Del Rey Oaks, California ( http://www.montereyherald.com/localnews/ci_24673079/del-rey-oaks-still-trying-get-legal-fight ) and yet he maintains websites saying his Del Rey Oaks project is going great.

John Infantino must be stepped on and squashed. I am asking anyone and everyone to help end his internationally fraudulent activities and World Wide Web Con Games.

Thank you,

Photography and Writings by

David Robert Crews {a.k.a.ursusdave}

( http://davidrobertcrews.blogspot.com/ )
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Feb. 9, 2017 Trial Info Tim Munshell Sued Again & My Right To Write About It

Three plaintiffs have a tort case against Ft. Howard VAMC 'developer' Tim Munshell and six other defendants. Trial is scheduled for 02/09/2017 at 10:30AM (details listed below). "A tort is a civil wrong that unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm." Thirteen of the the photographs in this post were taken six years ago. Three of the burned houses photos are from 2015, and the last one is a satellite image showing three piles of black rumble, where homes once were. You can imagine how much worse condition the buildings are in today. Timothy S Munshell is legally bound by his lease to rebuild those arson burned houses, exactly as they were. Tim owes over $40,000 in fines to Baltimore County for not having legally mandated 24hr fire watch on the property, and for not having all fire hydrants working. Make that (according to court records of a lawsuit he lost in 2014) NO FUNDS HELD Timothy S. Munshell.

Front Entrance To The Ft. Howard VAMC Hospital Building

Arson Damage To Main Lobby Of Hospital Building 

A Lot of Medical Equipment Was Left Behind 

When The Hospital Closed In 2002

For a decade and a half, ever since the Ft. Howard VA Hospital was shut down, the many historic buildings on the grounds have been allowed to deteriorate, be vandalized, be stripped of metals for recycling cash, hospital furnishings & medical equipment was hauled out, it is the victim of 6 or 7 arson fires, and is a powerful attraction to people from near and far. Some go there who enjoy exploring abandoned properties, because it falsely appears to be abandoned and left to rot with the VA having no intentions of using it again. Many go in there to party, play, ghost hunt, I once saw some 17 to 19-yr-olds walking in and out of buildings with one guy leading them like a tour guide. He had obviously been there numerous times.

I was there waiting for a ride to come get me, after a medical appointment in the small VAMC Clinic that was still in operation. A VA Police Officer was on duty, I located and informed him, and he went after the teenagers to make them leave. That clinic has been shut down, but while it was still operational, during off hours when no VA employees or security were there, copper wiring was stripped out for recycling cash - on several separate dates. The clinic was clearly still in use for veterans health care, but the unused structures are a mess.

Most people who went there to explore or hang out are essentially innocent, due to not knowing the VA has plans to redevelop the property. It was only a small percentage of the people going there who did the damages. Some vandals and metal thieves probably went there numerous times.

Flat White Building Back Left
Is The VA Clinic with The Chesapeake Bay In View

 Line Between the VA and Park Is Where The Woods Are 

The Old Army Theater

I've told many people that young people from all over were going onto the VA property to do what they will, not just the local kids. The three plaintiffs are from Parkville, which is at the northern top of the Baltimore Beltway and the east side bottom of the beltway goes into Edgemere/Ft. Howard. I actually always used Parkville as an example, "They come from Parkville, all over even from other counties." Carloads of kids drive to the VA property, others ride bikes, skateboards, scooters or walk. Most did not engage in any destructive activities. Some went on the grounds to enjoy playing acoustic instruments and singing together on the stage of the old army theater. It was constructed in the World War One Era, back before electric amplifiers were invented. The stage is designed to have an acoustically perfect sound that gives anyone on stage the ability to speak in a normal volume and be heard clearly at the back of the audience. It shapes the sound of music most wonderfully.

Tim Munshell is legally responsible for providing fire watch and security on the VA grounds, but he wasn't. The VA Police had been pulled out of there. A VA Cop told me that after the third arson fire, the VA Police were brought back on 24hr duty, and they, "Did over 50 lockups, mostly young men in their early 20's coming from all over."

In The Hospital Building 

A Major Draw Is The Spook Factor 
(is that one down the hall!?!)

The old, thrashed out, hospital building is said to be haunted. If anyplace is haunted, that place is. Because many horribly suffering wounded warriors, some living there till they died, some committing suicide, were inpatients. A few young people I know, who are good church going people, told me they were appalled to see 666 the evil number painted on the wall of the hospital morgue. Their fears being that it indicates that actual devil worshiping may have been going on. Considering the place's world wide wide expanding reputation, from WWW traffic about the place, it is vulnerable to many forms of evil. A VA medical clinic nurse, taking my blood pressure one time, taking into consideration the five story hospital building suffering vandalized busted out doors and windows for easy access by anyone, said she fears most that a body might be found in there some day.

Heavy Screening In Hospital Building Prevents Suicidal Patients

 From Jumping Down The 5 Story Stairwell

For more than a dozen years, I have given well over a thousand hard working hours to investigating, World Wide Web researching, writing, photographing, sending & receiving emails, making phone calls and talking face to face with people then posting all over the web about the disheartening fiasco that is the proposed new veterans focused community redevelopment project at Fort Howard, Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center property.

5th Floor Hospital Lobby

The Kiniseotherapy Room Entrance
 Where Physical Therapists Gave

Excellent Treatment Of My Back Injuries

In the 1980's, I was a spinal injury inpatient receiving some of the excellent physical therapy at the Ft. Howard VA Hospital. I am an Army vet who worked as a photographer in a missile unit's Public Information Office. My paternal grandparents met on Fort Howard, during WW1 - Granddad Crews was a soldier and Grandmom Crews was a Welsh Nanny for an Army captain's children. Ever since the 1950's, family of mine have been living in some of the connecting communities to Ft. Howard, and I have often been to their homes for holiday celebrations and just to visit.

1900 era Houses For Army Officer Families

1940 - 2002 VA Doctors' Family Homes

My Grandparents May Have Met There

On That Front Porch During WW1

Adjacent to the VAMC is a county park that had been half of the army fort, when it was built for 1900 era coastal defenses of Baltimore. Some of my family and friends and I are known for our volunteer work at the Haunted Dungeons at Halloween time and the War of 1812 reenactment Defenders' Day events. I've taken many day hikes in the park and been to picnics and birthday parties there. I have an extensive photography portfolio on all of Ft. Howard. I know, pursue and share histories of the area. My roots run deep into Fort Howard, Maryland.


I earn the right to investigate and report on anything that happens concerning the VAMC property or adjacent county parkland.


Thoericht vs Ft Howard Development L L C
Circuit Court for Baltimore County - Civil System
Case Number: 03C15009165
Event Date: 02/09/2017   Event Time:10:30 AM
Case Type: Other Tort

Civil Non-Jury Trial Notice Date: 02/09/2017
Event Date: 04/07/2017 Event Time: 09:30 AM

Plaintiff Party No.:1
Name: Thoericht, Marc
Address: 3011 1/2 Edgewood Avenue
City: Parkville State:MD Zip Code:21234

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Plaintiff Party No.:2

Name: Thoericht, Niki

Address: 3011 1/2 Edgewood Avenue

City: Parkville State:MD Zip Code:21234

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Plaintiff Party No.:3

Name: Thoericht, Brandon

Address: 3011 1/2 Edgewood Avenue

City: Parkvill State:MD Zip Code:21234

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Defendant Party No.:1

Business or Organization Name: Ft Howard Development L L C

Address: 18901 New Hampshire Avenue

City: Brinklow State:MD Zip Code:20862

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Defendant Party No.:2

Name: Stangle, Earl W

Address: 1118 E Biddle St

City: Baltimore State:MD Zip Code:21205

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Defendant Party No.:3

Name: Tingle, Joshua E

Address: 919 Quantril Way

City: Baltimore State:MD Zip Code:21205

Address: Baltimore County Detention Center

City: Towson State:MD Zip Code:21204

Address: Maryland Reception Diagnostic/Class Cent

City: Baltimore State:MD Zip Code:21202

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DefendantParty No.:4

Business or Organization Name: Trinity Protection Services Inc

Address: 6222 Gothic Lane

City: Bowie State:MD Zip Code:20720

Address: One Church Street

City: Rockville State:MD Zip Code:20850

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Defendant Party No.:5

Business or Organization Name: Client Services L L C

Address: 3205 Lynch Road

City: Baltimore State:MD Zip Code:21219

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Defendant Party No.:6

Business or Organization Name: Ft Howard Management Services L L C

Address: 10721 Wayfarer Road

City: Germantown State:MD Zip Code:20876

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Defendant Party No.:7

Business or Organization Name: J & J Hauling & Odd Jobs L L C

Address: 1128 Evans Way

City: Baltimore State:MD Zip Code:21205

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Two of The Grand Old Houses That Were Burned Down 

Photographed Thanksgiving Day 2015 From A Boat

One of The Grand Old Houses That Were Burned Down 

Photographed Thanksgiving Day 2015 From A Boat

One of The Grand Old Houses That Were Burned Down 

Photographed Thanksgiving Day 2015 From A Boat

Back of A Grand Old House - A Duplex 
A Few Years Before It Was Burned Down 

Front of A Grand Old House - A Duplex
A Few Years Before It Was Burned Down

Side of A Grand Old House - A Duplex  
A Few Years Before It Was Burned Down

Front of The Neighboring Grand Old House 

A Few Years Before It Was Burned Down

Satellite Image With Three
Burned Down Grand Old Houses At The Top Left

Tim Munshell Court Case Last Week

I am waiting to see what the outcome is on this lawsuit from last week.

Title: Client Services L L C vs Ft Howard Development L L C

Court System: Circuit Court for Baltimore County - Civil System

Case Number: 03C15005904

01/18/2017 Entered Date:01/18/2017 

Decision: ---------------------(I am waiting for more info)

Open Court Proceeding

January 18, 2017. Hon. Judith C. Ensor. Agreement place on the record. Order to be filed.


http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us
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Tim Munshell Currently Being Sued For A Measly $400

Here is court date info for this lawsuit: 
TRIAL SET FOR: 01/25/2017; TIME: 01:00PM;  LOC:01;ROOM:611 
Case No.:060100153912016 
DISTRICT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY

In this post are screen captures of a court record where Tim Munshell is currently being sued by First Colonies Anesthesia Associates for a measly $400.00. Timothy S. Munshell is a conman who passes himself off as an experienced property developer who possesses access to millions of dollars for major development projects.

About five years ago, Timothy Stewart Munshell signed a 75-year lease to the Fort Howard Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center property in Ft. Howard, Baltimore County, Maryland. A beautiful area on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The VAMC property buildings & infrastructure is rotting away. The deal is for him to redevelop the property into a vibrant community geared towards American Military Veterans, with new housing constructed and existing buildings rehabbed for community needs. He agreed to bring tens of millions of dollars into the development process. He does not now, has never, and never will be able to live up to his deal. He has never done anything like that project. He has never been able to secure any funding, and has no funds of his own. He is a fraud.

The scam is to hold the lease, use it as a reference to convince investors, banks, businesses and anyone else they can con, to loan him cash he will never pay back, and/or use it to convince an actual property developer to do the work and pay Munshell for the privilege. He has already scammed several businesses who did work on the planning and the presentation of plans. They are each, separately suing him.

I cannot link straight to the case records, so in order for you to verify there what I have posted on here, you must sign in on their disclaimer page:

http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

On December 24, 2014, in other court records, Timothy Munshell legally declared he does not possess funds or property. At the bottom of the document it says "NO FUNDS HELD.

That is in the blog posted before and below this post.
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Tim Munshell Legally Declared He Has No Funds or Property on 12/24/2014

In this post are screen captures of a court record where Tim Munshell is sued by his public accountant. The judgement went against Munshell. Property garnishment rights were granted to the plaintiff. Who should have known Munshell had neither property nor money to satisfy the $3,725.00 legal debt. 

About five years ago, Timothy Stewart Munshell signed a 75-year lease to the Fort Howard Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center property in Ft. Howard, Baltimore County, Maryland. A beautiful area on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The VAMC property buildings & infrastructure is rotting away. The deal is for him to redevelop the property into a vibrant community geared towards American Military Veterans, with new housing constructed and existing buildings rehabbed for community needs. He agreed to bring tens of millions of dollars into the development process. He does not now, has never, and never will be able to live up to his deal. He has never done anything like that project. He has never been able to secure any funding, and has no funds of his own. He is a fraud.

The scam is to hold the lease, use it as a reference to convince investors/banks/businesses to loan him cash he will never pay back, and/or use it to convince an actual property developer to do the work and pay Munshell for the privilege. He has already scammed several businesses who did work on the planning and the presentation of plans to the public. And they are each, separately suing him.

Timothy S. Munshell legally declared he does not possess funds or property, in court records, on December 24, 2014. Screen captures of the document must come in parts, and I have overlapped them all to prove continuity. At the bottom is a video of it, with the mouse pointer pointing out important parts of the court document. At the bottom of the document it says "NO FUNDS HELD."

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

I cannot link straight to the case records, so in order for you to verify there what I have posted on here, you must sign in on their disclaimer page:

http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/

This video is difficult to see, even when enlarged to full screen, but it helps establish that I did not manipulate any text in the still photo screen captures sequence.

Munshell is still broke, which I will prove in the next blog post on this site. That post will appear over top this one.
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Names & Addresses of Terrific Tim Munshell in Maryland Court Case Records

Construction on the planned redevelopment at the Fort Howard, Maryland, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center property into a vibrant home community for hundreds of American Military Veterans, and their loved ones, should have begun years ago. I, along with hundreds of other vets and their family, had expected to move into new housing on Ft. Howard over a decade ago. Around 5-years-ago, Tim Munshell signed a 75-year lease to Ft. Howard, but has not done much of anything with it. The information in this post, carefully culled and vetted, clearly reveals that Timothy S. Munshell is too very much an unstable, unworthy person who never earned the right to lease the VA property; which lies rotting on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Munshell has never had more than one or a few employees, no construction equipment or supplies, nor work yard and storage buildings, never kept an office anywhere for long, but the VA gave him Ft Howard regardless. Unbeknownst to the VA, Munshell's never done much of anything good anywhere, and is only in it to be a lazy-ass, good for nothing, money grubbing middle man between the VA and an actual developer who has what it takes to get the work done and will pay Munshell for the privilege of doing it. The VA should have done a simple web search on that lousy S.O.B. Timothy Stewart Munshell, and they'd have seen he don't have what it takes.  

Like in the screen capture above, a few of the names listed below came from business info websites, and most of the names and addresses come from the Maryland Judiciary Case Search. In most cases, Timothy Munshell is the defendant in over a million dollars worth of law suits, he mostly lost, but can't pay. Ft. Howard, Md. VAMC property lessee and 'developer' Tim has used a number of variations on his names, at various times, for his-phony-self and his phony businesses. Timothy S Munchel might be his birth name, because it is probably pronounced the same as Munshell - and he may have changed his name to that because it is easier for people to pronounce & spell correctly. In divorce court records for his 3rd wife back, she is named as Munchel and he as Munshell. In the image above, the Cynthia listed is his current wife and Shauna was his wife before her. Cynthia is a highly accomplished, esteemed and hard working psychologist, but there is no such info online about the two ex-wives.

We all have preferences, or rock solid insistence, that our names are each pronounced and spelled in a certain way. You may have one version of your name for business and another for loved ones. Ringo Starr to us is called Richie by his family & friends and on legal documents most likely signed as Richard Starkey. Back when General then President Ulysses S. Grant was alive it was unwise to call him Ulysses Grant. Jennifer? Jenny? Jenn? We are specific about our names where we want to make sure other people can know it is I. Especially in business - it is our brand on our niche in society and our output into the world we share. Tim knows that, so he uses variations of his name to make it more difficult for people, businesses, government, law enforcement, the legal system, and media to pin everything he does wrong on him. 

One Tim name comes up that I cannot find a court record of in Maryland, or more than one hit on the Internet - Timothy S Muncheo. I searched the entire Internet, especially Maryland court records, for every variation of Munshell's names and Fort Howard - Ft Howard - Ft. Howard. On the Maryland Judiciary Case Search site, name and address variations allow him to hide various case records from various people. I cannot link straight to the case records, so in order for you to verify there what I have written on here, you must sign in on their disclaimer page:

http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/

There may be other court records, names and business names used in other states by Tim Turd ('scuse me should't say that). I'm too worn out from many days/hours doing the Maryland searches & information gathering & organizing for me to go into any research on other states' websites. I copied everything in the list below off of websites.

I seem to recall a Munshell website for Ft. Howard, that he did not keep up very long. Other than that, I doubt he has ever published any websites for his businesses. And he sure enough stays off social media. He hides out a lot, and is extremely difficult to contact. Many who care about the area, the proposed development project, and/or are volunteers at Ft. Howard Baltimore County Park events have tried, with only a few getting through.

The most listed address below is 18901 New Hampshire Avenue, which is a $700,000 house that is in Tim's wife's name only. He may have a room there set up as a tax deductible office space, but sure ain't gonna have any property developer business activities like having construction equipment, supplies, vehicles and crew there in that residential area of luxury homes. No evidence of that is seen in the latest Google satellite images of the residence, and me being an internationally known and respected photographer, with a keen eye for details in photographs, I can tell you for certain there are no construction crew boss's work-yard activities there.  

Terrific (I facetiously say) Tim Munshell's names and addresses:

1991 --
MUNCHEL, TIMOTHY S
8421 ARBUTUS RD
RIVIERA BEACH, MD 21122

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY S
1307 CREEKLAND STREET:
BALTIMORE State:MD Zip Code:21226

1995 --
MUNSHELL & ASSOCIATES
S/O SHAUNA BRENNAN MUNSHELL
1307 CREEKLAND CT
BALTO State:MD Zip Code:21226

1996 --
Munshell And Associates
34 Market Place
Baltimore State:MDZip Code:21202

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY STEWARD
ALIAS: MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY STEWART
477 CARDIFF CT
SERVERNA PARK State:MD Zip Code:21114 - 6000

1997 --
MUNSHELL & ASSOC
700 NORTH PULASKI ST
BALTIMORE State:MD Zip Code:21202

1999 --
MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY S
MUNSHELL AND ASSOCIATES LTD
4996 BRAMPTON PKWY
ELLICOTT CITY State:MD Zip Code:21043

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY S
M & A DEVOLPMENT
4996 BRAMPTON PKWY
ELLICOTT CITY State:MD Zip Code:21043

2000 --
MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY S
8619 TEA ROSE DR
GAITHERSBURG State:MD Zip Code:20879

Munshell, Timothy S

Munshell And Associates Ltd

Ellicott City State:MD Zip Code:21043

2001 --

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY S

17708 CRYSTAL SPRING TERR

ASHTON MD 20861

2007 --

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY

18901 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE.

BRINKLOW State:MD Zip Code:20862

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY STEWART

P.O. BOX 549

ASHTON MD 20861

Arundel National Contractors, LLC

18901 New Hampshire Ave

Brinklow, MD 20862

2012 --

FT. HOWARD DEVELOPMENT LLC   this is the only time Ft with a period is used

18901 NEW HAMSHIRE AVE

BRINKLOW State:MD Zip Code:20862

TIMOTHY S. MUNSELL

P.O. BOX 549

ASHTON State:MD Zip Code:20861-0549

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY

MANNA ENERGY CORPORATION

18901 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE

BRINKLOW State:MD Zip Code:20862

FT HOWARD MANAGEMENT SERVICES LLC

18901 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE

BRINKLOW MD 20862

Ft Howard Management Services L L C

10721 Wayfarer Road

Germantown State:MD Zip Code:20876

MUNSHELL, TIM ESQ 

2013 -- 

ALLIED PATRIOT GROUP INC 

18901 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE

BRINKLOW State:MD Zip Code:20862-970

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY S -- RESIDENT AGENT

Arundel National Contractors, LLC

18901 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE

Allied Wind, LLC

Timothy S. Munshell

18901 New Hampshire Ave.

2014 --

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY STEWART

18901 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE

BRINKLOW State:MD Zip Code:20862

2015 --

Ft Howard Development L L C

18901 New Hampshire Avenue

Brinklow State:MD Zip Code:20862

Allied Patriot Group Inc

8901 New Hampshire Avenue

Munshell, Timothy

8901 New Hampshire Avenue

Ft Howard Management Services L L C

10721 Wayfarer Road

Germantown State:MD Zip Code:20876

There are 4 names for Tim's LLC's in 2015, with 2 LLC addresses being his lawyer's house, which may contain an in-home office, and 2 at his house 18901 New Hampshire Avenue. The lawyer's 10721 Wayfarer Rd. address is a $400,000 upper middle class home down off in a residential neighborhood on the edge a rural area, where any noticeable business activities likely would not be tolerated.   Ft Howard Development L L C
Address: 18901 New Hampshire Avenue
City: Brinklow State:MD Zip Code:20862
Attorney(s) for the Defendant/Respondent
Name: Woody, David L
Appearance Date 08/04/2015
Practice Name:
Address: 10721 Wayfarer Road
City: Germantown State:MD Zip Code:20876

Business or Organization Name: Allied Patriot L L C

Address: 18901 New Hampshire Avenue
City: Brinklow State:MD Zip Code:20862
Attorney(s) for the Defendant/Respondent
Name: Woody, David L
Appearance Date: 08/04/2015
Practice Name:
Address: 10721 Wayfarer Road
City: GermantownState:MDZip Code:20876
Party Type: DefendantParty No.:3
Business or Organization Name:
A M C A L Fort Howard Land L L C
Address: 10721 Wayfarer Road
City: Germantown State:MD Zip Code:20876
Attorney(s) for the Defendant/Respondent
Name: Woody, David L
Appearance Date: 07/20/2015
Practice Name:
Address: 10721 Wayfarer Road
City: Germantown State:MD Zip Code:20876

2016 --

MUNSHELL, TIMOTHY 

18901 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE

Low and behold, I was just quintuple checking facts and found an online article about Ft. Howard that says Munshell is the Fort Howard Development Group president. So there's another name he's used.

The screen capture below - from a business info website - appears to have Munshell telling them he doesn't want his information listed. And I am 99.99% certain he never has a website for his businesses. In the 21st Century today, that means he is hiding a lot.

That image was harvested many months ago, and I apologize for not having the link to the website it came off of. The image at the top has it's originating link and site info on it.
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Department of Veterans Affairs Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) Component

Here are links to web pages with info on the Department of Veterans Affairs - VA - Enhanced Use Lease - EUL - component, it's property redevelopment projects, which includes my beloved Fort Howard in Baltimore County, Maryland :

Here is a 2016 VA news letter about the VA's Enhanced Use Program that includes Ft. Howard: 
http://www.va.gov/assetmanagement/docs/newsletterEulProgram201606.pdf

Here are VA videos about their EUL - Enhanced Use Lease - component: 
http://www.va.gov/assetmanagement/videos.asp#top

Here is a long list of VAMC properties being redeveloped, including Fort Howard. Most have less than 100 living units, but hundreds to over a thousand are proposed for Ft. Howard: 

http://www.va.gov/assetmanagement/awards.asp

The VA's efforts to get work started on Ft. Howard began in 2002. It is an utter failure. The VA allowed itself to be conned by the first 'developer' they signed a lease with - John Infantino International Super Scammer, and the second one Tim Munshell - who is only in it to be in between the VA and a real developer who will pay Munshell something because 'Terrific' Tim holds the lease. Neither individual has ever actually done such a redevelopment project. Nor do they have funds required to do one. Nor do either have the abilities, employees, office/warehouse/equipment/supplies to even begin a development project.

John David Infantino and Timothy Stewart Munshell are horrendous bums.

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Millions in U.S.A. Were At Risk - An Open Letter from One Former Army Photographer to Another

To:

Jim Whitcomb
Studio Houston Digital Photography
5401 Mitchelldale Suite B2
Houston, Texas 77092

or 152 Rainbow Dr
Livingston, TX 77399-1052

or 568 Savannah Park
Conroe, TX 77302

Phone 713 682 0067
Email sales@studiohouston.com
http://www.studiohouston.com/Pages/contact.html

A decade or so ago, I found an Internet published article that said you are a former official photographer for the 30th Artillery Brigade missile unit on Okinawa. I was searching the Internet for info about other former soldiers - like us - who had been stationed at the 30th Arty Bgde. There is a web site for the 30th Arty, and also personal 30th Arty history sites by veterans of the brigade. On those site's guest books, I posted entries asking if anyone remembers the 30th Arty photo lab that we each had worked in - during our separate tours of duty there. I need witnesses to the facts that the 30th was not authorized a photographer, we photographers were not issued any Army camera gear, could not order photo equipment and supplies through normal channels, and the photo lab was set up in a nuclear fallout emergency decontamination chamber for an underground communications bunker called, "The Mole Hole."

Military records can be used to prove what I say. I obtained a list for jobs of all personnel legally assigned to the 30th Artillery Brigade, and no photography MOS is listed. I also tried to obtain copies of Morning Reports and Unit Rosters from the National Personnel Records Center St. Louis, but I cannot afford the search fees. These efforts were made about a decade ago, and as per suggested somewhere online, I tried to get a university student of history to do the search for free. A student in a school near the records center. I emailed every address I could find for history professors, and others at those schools, but never received any replies. 

Morning Reports and Unit Rosters contain record of dates personnel arrived at the 30th, their MOS's/job titles, when soldiers left, etc.. With certain time period copies of the records, people can see some of how the brigade photographers were listed for the Army to see. Did they list my MOS as 84G20 Photo Lab Tech or still photographer? Was I put in as a mail clerk or some other cover? Were you earlier photographers written in every daily record as working in your original MOS or as a photographer MOS? 

I say that there is info in various Army records to prove the 30th had no right to have personal photographers. 

I watch a lot of history on TV and read about history. It is amazing what can be dug up from military records. No records from my time on Okinawa can show me having been legally assigned to the 30th, or issued photo gear, or regularly ordering and receiving photo supplies.  

To me, being the first Army photo school trained photographer assigned to the 30th Arty Bgde, it was like certain soldiers in the brigade had broken the book of Army Rules & Regulations right over my head - and those soldiers destroying rules and regulations in it. 

There I was at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., with an Army Photographic Laboratory Technician School issued 4x5 Graflex large film camera & full kit in a carry case, on my first day at photography school. Great gear to learn photography on, but impractical compared to 35MM cameras that were the professional photographers' popular choice in those times. Those Graflex kits stayed at the school, and I never saw any in use anywhere after that.   

When I first found your web site, and saw that you have been working with digital photography for years, I had been active in film photography and custom hand printing photos in a darkroom, and was just switching over to digital. The info on you revealed that you are - like me - an outdoorsman who likes to hunt and fish (I was a Maine Guide). The idea came to me that - after you would give a written statement to the Veterans Administration about that 30th Arty Bgde photographer situation - you could coach me some on digital; when I would go to Texas to pay for most of a hunting and/or fishing, plus photography, day or two we could go on in your part of the world. I only needed basic info on how digital differs from shooting film. I planned that to be after you helped me set my VA records straight as to the facts of the 30th Artillery Brigade Okinawa 'Official' Photographer & photo lab not being authorized.

That time I called you on the phone, we talked about our 30th Arty photographer experiences for over an hour. You recalled how we 30th Arty photographers were never issued camera gear, we could not order most of the supplies needed, and we could never normally advance in rank - due to there not being a slot for a photographer at the 30th.

Since then, I have emailed you, but you never replied.

On Okinawa, you maneuvered your way into a photographer position at the 30th Arty. I was sent there after enlisting for the Photo Lab Tech School course and graduating at the top of my class. Which earned me an advance in rank to Specialist 4th Class. Prior to basic training, I had 3 months inactive duty, so I could finish basic training when there was a Photo Lab Tech School slot open, then 7 months active duty in basic & school. 10 months and I'm an E 4 - that is quick advancement in rank. Only an excellent soldier could do that.

I sure was happy to receive orders to Okinawa. None of us in my basic training or photo school units wanted to be sent to Vietnam. Just underneath that, my greatest fear was to be stationed on the east coast, where I had lived my entire life up till going to Okinawa. I wanted to travel, live, work & serve my country about halfway around the world from East Coast U.S.A., which is right about where Okinawa is.

I was the first 30th Arty Bgde photographer who was trained by the Army. You previous ones were guys who came from other 30th Arty Bgde jobs, you wanted to be photographers, you willingly used the camera gear you purchased inexpensively on Okinawa, and you others were probably listed as working in your original MOS's job's in the brigade. This was explained to me by the 'photographer' whom I replaced. When I reached the 30th, there were two guys working as photographers - Swiggert and Medley. They were lousy and lazy at it, not much talent, and rarely showed up for work or printed what they had shot on their 30th Arty assignments. Years before you entered the service, your American Soldier father had gotten you that first decent camera, and you got into it with a lot of natural talent. You were a young world traveler destined to be the excellent photographer you are.

You told me you set up the 30th Arty's photo lab, and did good work there. The recent work on your website is absolutely superb. You're photography career is outstanding.

In a number of places on the Internet, I have posted written pieces about not being issued photo equipment or legally given photo supplies at the 30th Arty. Other military veterans have left comments saying I was supposed to "improvise & adapt" to do my 30th Arty photography job. At Photo Lab Tech School, we were taught to improvise & adapt. Ask the cooks for serving pans to use as print developer trays, dip negatives in helmet steel pots full of developer, stop bath, & fixer, and how to adjust photo chemical mixes to using swamp water, etc.. That, I was ready, willing and able to do. But a camera is a camera and nothing can replace it, film is film, photo paper is photo paper (can't use typing paper scrounged from clerks), chemicals for developing are what they are - these cannot be improvised & adapted from anything else.

From movies and TV shows about the military, I knew about military scrounging, supply sergeant finagling, and midnight requisitioning (swipe it from another Army unit). You grew up with your dad in the Army, and you were an enlisted man who was good friends with, regularly shot pool with, some of the highest ranking officers on Okinawa. Indicating to me your father was a popular officer in the Army. You knew how to get what you needed outside normal channels. Especially when the 30th wouldn't give you an advance in rank and that general, whom you shot pool with, forced the 30th to advance you and before the orders even came through the general even pinned the new higher rank on your uniform for you.

I had no experience there. I knew no one who could get me photo supplies outside normal channels, and the supply sergeant could only requisition out of date film, paper and chemicals other unit photographers would not, rightfully, use. No camera gear was issued me at all. I used my personal, Okinawa purchased, professional grade camera - a 35MM Pentax Spotmatic - with out of date film that sometimes produced unusable negatives from Army assignments. I then had to inform my superiors the work was ruined by out of date film. My dedicated shooting done well, which I wanted to give my comrades nice prints of, but had been screwed up by no fought of my own. Several times there was no film, so I used my money to buy some at the PX.

The worst part for me is the location of our photo lab in a nuclear fallout emergency  decontamination chamber in the underground communications bunker/fallout shelter known as "The Mole Hole." Remember how perfect it was for a photo lab? With its door to the outside that was always padlocked on both sides. Soldiers assigned to man the communications equipment, and who had lived through a nuclear blast, but had nuclear snow on them, were to step into the first tiny room, take off their clothing, step into a one person sized shower, then step out the other side of it into a small room/good sized janitor's closet, be handed fresh uniform clothing and then be allowed into the main part of the bunker. 

The photo lab adaptation had black drapes hung down like shower curtains for into one side and out the other side of the shower. That way, we could part the drapes on one side, step into the shower space, close the drapes behind us, then open the other drapes and into the other room - so as to not allow light into the darkroom.

Our tall, heavy, work table for the photo enlarger and developing trays blocked the padlocked outside access door to the chamber, with us always entering the Mole Hole through the main door - a heavy vaulted door - then down the entrance hall a little to the left was the inside access door to the lab. Had there been nuclear attack on the Island of Okinawa, the double padlocked door had to be unlocked and opened, the enlarger table, the refrigerator in there where we stored film, paper and chemicals, would have had to be moved out to allow assigned personnel into the decontamination showers for the bunker. Photographers were not part of the communications and command crew, so we would have had to leave and die of radiation poisoning out there.

All while other unassigned GIs out there were trying to force their way in, a few most likely trying to hand their children in to the guys guarding that enlarger room door. Denying entry to unauthorized, panicking personnel mobbed up outside the doorway. GIs would have been brutally fighting each other for a chance to get inside the bunker, where crates of supplies, uniforms, etc. were always kept in case a nuclear attack forced assigned personnel to stay in there for two weeks. In there, they were to communicate with all branches of the U.S. Military about defensive and offensive moves against an enemy attacking the U.S.A. from China. Okinawa is extremely well located for that task - being centered hundreds of miles off the coast of China. 

But having the decontamination chamber compromised, such as it was, personnel inside were likely to be contaminated with nuclear snow coming in with other personnel, and everyone may have gotten sick and died. In that probable scenario, the communications crew would not be able to warn other U.S Military of subsequent attacking aircraft or missiles passing over the Okinawa area heading for the United States. Which could very well have lead to millions of Americans at home being wiped out. I have never fully recovered from the trauma of learning what the photo lab meant to our nation's chain of defense and the guilt of being part of weakening an important link in that chain of defense.

The guilt and shame I am saddled with - to this day - holds me far down below what I am capable of accomplishing. Guilt and shame that the United States Army - my beloved country's military - would commit such crimes. Guilt and shame that I did not do more than reach a point where I refused to be a part
of their illegal & immoral use of United States Government properties. All members of the military are government properties, so that includes me back then, along with the Mole Hole decontamination chamber and all the photo lab's photography equipment and supplies.

Had I contacted the media, that would have led to America's enemies knowing about a weak link in our chain of defense. Such a story being told would be good for enemy morale and bad for ours.  

Had I informed the Department of the Army or my senator or congressman, whether anything was done to end the 30th Arty's use of a photo lab and photographers, I faced certain retaliation from certain personnel of the 30th Arty. Anything from making my pay records disappear - so I could not be paid - to transferring me to the most miserable, out there in the loneliest nowhere good to be duty station the Army had or to Vietnam as a marked man who would be sent into hell holes from where few return alive. In the military, all around the world forever & always, retaliation against whistleblowers can be deadly to the person bringing dark hearted facts into the light.

I was 20-years-old. What 20-year-old can go up against such military power?  

On Okinawa in 1970, on assignment with my - personally purchased - 35MM Pentax Spotmatic, during change of command ceremonies. That was in front of Gunners' Gym, which was part of and across the street from the 30th Arty Bgde Headquarters Battery office building (not seen), and that's our three story barracks in the background. All of the brigade's highest officers, and most of their family on Okinawa, were there waiting for the rest of the 30th Bgde soldiers to come marching past in review.

There was never any training of assigned personnel for using the decontamination chamber. This indicates that the higher ups figured it would never be used for what it was designed to do. The 30th Arty Bgde changed brigade commanders, while I was there. I rode with the new commander, a full bird colonel, to his command inspections of all 13 missile sites, and the ordinance unit. He inspected headquarters and the Mole Hole last. When the new colonel inspected the photo lab, he greeted me with the warm smile he usually gave everyone, he looked in, then I expected him to be briefed on the decontamination chamber by the head of the section.

I was certain, really certain, that the colonel's decontamination chamber briefing was to be my ticket out to another unit - where I could get my job done with all Army issued gear, equipment and supplies. But no one said anything about him as brigade commander coming in through the decontamination chamber to stay in the fallout shelter for two weeks - after a nuclear attack. The colonel was a damned good man, whom I had been pleased to be developing a good working relationship with. The Army had trained me to be a soldier, then trained me to be a photographer, and as soldiers I'd have stepped in front of incoming rounds to protect my commanding officer. Tragically for me, though, the colonel - whom I still hold the utmost regard for - politely turned and left without any Mole Hole personnel telling him about decontamination. My very soul shattered. Fucking shattered.

It hasn't ever healed back completely together again. Never will.

This was before I knew it was all bullshit about the 30th Arty actually doing an important job in the Free World's chain of defense.

Previously, I had applied for a transfer out to another unit on the island, because I sure did love the adventure of being there in the Orient, wild times with my GI buddies, a good & welcomed half way 'round the world from the East Coast of America - where I had lived my life before Okinawa. The inter-island transfer was denied. A clerk in the headquarters unit CO's office said, "You can't get the inter-island transfer, because you're too valuable. But! If you want a transfer to Vietnam, we can get you there within two weeks."

What that clerk meant by me being too valuable was, the hole in the system they had pulled me the trained photographer through had closed. It was a matter of paperwork kept from being seen by certain personnel along the line who'd know the 30th was not authorized a photographer and stamp the request denied.

That 30th Arty CO Office clerk was an E 6 Staff Sergeant who had nearly 10 years of service in, but had not himself been to Vietnam. That type of lifer knew how to avoid Vietnam. Most of the 30th Arty lifers were like that. I didn't understand how they could be in the military for a 20 to 30 year hitch, during 5 years already of war, and not at least want to go there and, as flashed through my mind, "See what the action is."

And his Vietnam transfer offer inferred I should shut up and keep producing photos of the cadre and officers, at work and play, for them to have copies of, or they'd make me take my chances in the war zone. If they could finagle me into their Army unit, they could finagle me out to Nam without me asking for a transfer to Vietnam.

The situation with lack of proper photography equipment & supplies was unbearable. A few weeks after I was not given the inter-island transfer, I decided to apply for the transfer to Vietnam. That evening, I had a friend drive to the PX for two cases of cold beer. We came back to the barracks, I gathered up everyone around who felt like drinking some beer, handed each guy a cold one, opened mine, took a sip, then told them this was my going away party, because I was putting in for a transfer to Vietnam in the morning, and then as soon as it would come through, in a week or two, I had to pack up and head out. They instantly became darkly morose and looked away from me. Most of the 8 or 9 GIs there, several were good friends the others I did not know well or at all, most would not even look at or speak to me.

Unbeknownst to me, three of them had recently completed tours of Vietnam. One Nam Vet began to speak harshly at me, one would only utter agreements with the other on spoken points and sternly (combat survival stern) glance over at me, the other Nam Vet neither made a sound nor would look at me, intensely holding his face away from me against the wall. Combat vets in Vietnam did not want to know FNGs - Fukin New Guys - so the vets would not be affected badly by the inexperienced FNG getting killed. I have the brutal details of what was said written out and published elsewhere, I will not bring it up here, but I am lucky to have had them 8 or 9 guys all together convince me to not put in for that transfer to Nam. I let them know they had convinced me not to volunteer, and it became a pleasant evening of beer drinking and friendship solidifying story swapping.

The most terrifying experience in my life happened at a missile firing practice event, when a launched Hawk Missile nearly fell back down. There was a viewing area set up, with bleachers for spectators. One young GI came in with his young wife and their newborn baby, plus an other soldier's wife and small child. That was a heart warming scene to see, and I took a photo of them. They sat on the bleachers with the other people there. Behind them were Army trailers where 30th Arty missile men were working. The top ranks were over to the left of that in a plywood hut that was partly dug into the side of a hill, where they could get the best view of the day, while one was on a loudspeaker announcing for the day's activities. The hut had a little deck on the front, where I was sitting and shooting film, when the errant missile went up.

The Hawk shot up about 100 ft., began to sputter & stall, leaned a tad bit backwards towards us spectators, and we were terrified that the engine was going to kick back in as the bird went backwards at an angle towards the bleachers. I can never forget the collective, horrified, gasp that came up from us all together. I did not waste a split second taking a photo, as my entire self zeroed in on the wobbling missile, because if it did shoot down into the spectators, I instantly planned to dive over to the side of that hut and hill, where I'd be protected from potential shrapnel from the Hawk possibly exploding in the bleachers.

My instincts clearly defined the next necessary action as, "As soon as it explodes, jump back up and run over to give the 1st first aid to the baby, and by that horrific moment later, other survivors will be running in from every direction to also give first aid to anyone injured and still alive."

Then the Hawk's engine kicked in full power, the bird actually sort of shuffled in place for a long second, as it regained a lock on the target drone being towed past out over the sea, and the missile flew away from our direction. Collectively, we were never more relieved in our lives.

On Okinawa, in the 30th Arty Headquarters' barracks, where we lived, my buddies could see I had eventually become upset and depressed. One evening, when I talked about the whole situation with a group of them I was hanging out with, one guy said, "You worry too much about it. You don't know that our missiles are obsolete. The newest enemy aircraft are fast enough to fly into Okinawan air space and drop bombs quicker than our missiles can be fired. If there is a nuclear attack, we're all gonna die. Fukit, man, don't mean nuthin."

On another day, while on photo assignment at a missile site, I asked a section leader sergeant buddy of mine if it was true that the missiles were obsolete. His, moral devastating, reply was,"You saw what happened at the missile firing practice. Remember the announcer giving two countdowns then announcing hold on folks they have to fix a problem. It took us three tries to get the one Hawk up. Then that other Hawk nearly fell back down on us. Not only are they obsolete, I can take you down into my section and show you that a third of my birds can't even fly. The missiles need parts that I ordered, but the Army won't send them to me."

"Besides that, before we can be authorized to shoot a plane down, we have to have visual conformation from an Air Force pilot that the unidentified blip on our radar is an enemy flight. (the sergeant shifts his weight in the chair uncomfortably, obviously sickened by the 30th Arty facts walking around in his head) One time, we had an unidentified blip coming our way across the ocean. I called Kadena (Air Force Base) to have a fighter jet go up to check the blip, and they said their fighter jets were all either on missions over Vietnam or way out on practice runs. So - 15 minutes later - the Air Force finally gets an unarmed cargo plane & crew up. They fly out and see that the blip is a small prop plane with two guys in it. It turned out that the pilot was a missionary from the Philippines with a friend he was taking along on a trip to Japan, and their radio had conked out. FIFTEEN MINUTES! If it had been an enemy jet, somebody here on Okinawa would have been bombed that day."

"Crews, man, don't let this crap get to you. It ain't worth it. We can't do anything about it. I'm just puttin' in my time, then I'm going home to Texas and forget about it and go on with my life. You do the same, brother, you'll be alright."

He had something going for him that I didn't: he was legally assigned there, could at least order equipment and supplies, and advance in rank if doing a good job. And he did not fear being in the small rooms of the photo lab/decontamination chamber when nukes hit but might not kill everyone at once, and I would have had to hustle my photo lab out of the way as GIs were fighting each other to get in to the decontamination showers to be safe in the well stocked fallout shelter while the radiation outside subsided. Me being not authorized to stay in there after any attack, I had pictured myself walking out with other GIs' M16s or 45Cals pointed at my back as I fended off other unauthorized GIs who might be going insane while possibly begging the armed guys behind me to at least take some GIs' babies inside.

Later, a double punch to my gut thoroughly devastated me. One: I was on photo assignment up at the officers' club for a brigade officers' wives' fashion show. One young wife leaned into another and gleefully said, "You know, of coarse, that the missiles are obsolete."

Those gleefully smiling wives did not care about the missiles being obsolete, because their husbands being assigned to the 30th Arty Bgde meant those men did not have to serve in Vietnam.

Two: In emails I sent you, I told you I had also located a former lieutenant of mine, and he had once gotten me ten crates of Marine Corp photo paper (he claims not to remember). Paper I could not use due to it not being compatible with the lab's safelight. Then I had so many Marine Corp marked crates of paper that I had no place to hide them from being seen by someone who might get me busted for it.

So there I was - angry as can be at the 30th Arty and their wives, and me with no paper to print photos on. That was the end of my time as 30th Arty photographer.

The 30th Arty photo lab, to me, was a weak link in America's chain of defense. Until GI buddies informed me otherwise. Then I began living with the knowledge that -  nuclear defensively speaking - the entire 30th Artillery Brigade on Okinawa was worthless.

Written scientific articles from the 1960s, republished on the Internet, confirm that the Nike Hercules Missiles (some with nuclear warheads) we had were obsolete - due to Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles becoming the best delivery system for nuclear war heads. Hercs were for shooting down enemy planes. Eventually, Hercs worldwide were taken offline. We had the Hawk Missiles too, and they were deployed for years afterwards, but had been upgraded and still suffered performance problems.

Do a web search for Nike and Hawk missiles, the info is on a respectable number of web sites.

I had grown up knowing I'd eventually serve in the American Military. Always willing to defend my country & the Free World. The same as 99.99% of us who served. Then I was made official photographer for the 30th Artillery Brigade - a unit where no soldier was actually doing anything for that defense.

Now, how-in-the-flyin-fuk could I come out of that overwhelming shit with 'all systems intact'? 

I didn't. No caring person could. It nearly destroyed me. It caused my life many problems and much pain. Still does.

Along the way, comments have been made to me that I should just be grateful I wasn't sent to Vietnam and to forget the whole 30th Arty thing. That is saying I should either consider it extortion I had to pay or a bribe willingly paid by me to the 30th Artillery Brigade for me staying out of Vietnam. I am neither type of person. I would not allow them to take it all from me, nor would I willingly pay it - the costs of camera equipment plus film & photo paper & other photo equipment & supplies needed to continue working as the 30th Arty photographer.

After I ran out of photo paper, I refused to go buy photo supplies anymore, and was transferred over to Gunners' Gym - to hand out basketballs and tennis shoes to GIs playing games there. A waste of my military training and photographic accomplishments - I had made a lot of brigade soldiers happy to have photo prints of them and their comrades to keep and send home. The end of which sent me sinking further down into the depression that began the third day I was in the 30th Arty, when Swiggert told me he was officially a clerk, not a photographer, there was no slot for a photographer - we could not advance in rank, and he had explained the facts of how the decontamination chamber was converted to use as our photo lab.

Above is the most recent Google Earth image of where the former 30th Artillery Brigade Headquarters area on Okinawa was. Where the U.S. Army Post at Sukiran once was. The 30th Arty Bgde headquarters office building is marked HHQ. The driveway in the front of the building goes to the parking lot where soldiers working in the offices parked. 

The driveway to the south of the building goes to a south side door of the office building, where the brigade commander's driver parked, and opposite that is where the entrance to the underground communications bunker - called the Mole Hole - is. Where the 30th Arty photo lab was. 

Across the street to the left are the large parking lots for the old Gunners' Gym, PX retail shops, and special services buildings (personal music practice, crafts with rocks and gems, leather, etc). The gym was where the grass area is that has the wide white cement gym entrance walk that was under an overhanging front roof on the gym - marked GG. South across that street, catty cornered to the old office building, is the old 30th Arty Headquarters Company barracks - marked B. 

That is all Marine Corp now, has always been military, so Google Street View is not available nor is good 3D of it. Therefore, I cannot confirm that the underground bunker is still in that hillside. But it was originally designed to be undetectable by low flying enemy pilots, and the way that grass is mowed makes me think it is still a hill with an underground bunker. 

About a decade ago, I phoned Gunners' Gym, and spoke with a Marine on duty there. He told me that the Mole Hole was still there and had metal bars welded across the entrance so no one could go in. If that underground bunker is still there, it would not take much for someone to legally enter and verify that it is set up like I say. That tall, heavy table, which held the photo enlarger and developer trays, may still be there, but I doubt the place has much of anything in it. The only important fact to verify is that the nuclear fallout decontamination shower is there where we used it as a light safe entry to the tiny enlarger room.

I work as hard as I can, today, web publishing over ten thousand - internationally appreciated - photos and videos, plus hundreds of written pieces, and creating a bunch of free blogs/poor man's web sites. Simply web search my screen name ursusdave to find it all. My Flickr photo sharing account enjoys the most Internet traffic, with 10,000+ photos & videos receiving more than 2,749,794 combined hits. This after decades of struggling, stumbling, rarely producing any photography, always and still withdrawn from society to some degree, dogged by debilitating depression, seeking and receiving mental health care that sometimes got me somewhere. A decade and a half ago, I took photography and writing classes at a community college, and that has brought me to the somewhere I am today. Barely surviving on a meager non-service connected disability pension from the VA. The VA acknowledges my depression, but not its actual root cause from being illegally assigned as a photographer to the 30th Artillery Brigade working in an unauthorized photo lab that created a weak link in out country's chain of defense - endangering the lives of millions of Americans.

Ever since the early 1970's, I have told various amounts of these 30th Arty facts to various VA employees - doctors and councilors and such. They either do not believe me or don't care.

What I have published on the World Wide Web proves that I love photography work, and do it well. Including becoming a master craftsman at publishing my photography and writings on the web. Unfortunately, I do not make money at it. I now only have one inexpensive digital camera. I sorely miss the creative control and photo quality afforded by using professional camera equipment.

It has all been rough on me, my family, friends, women I shared love with, some bosses, some co-workers, also some acquaintances, plus others along the way.

Years ago, two younger cousins of mine once said their dad told them I had "come out of the Army sort of shell shocked." My uncle knew I had not been in combat, but "shell shocked" was a close explanation of what happened.

What it is, is, I came out 'shit shocked'.

The VA says I have "adjustment disorder", which is a lie. Something to keep me from receiving service connected disability benefits. According to the VA definition of adjustment disorder it begins when a person cannot adjust to new surroundings, and usually lasts for several months of the person not doing well in their new place in life. But my Army records clearly show that I had no problems until I was at the 30th Arty for several months. Upon arriving I easily began plenty of good friendships, and I loved being on an Asian island. Not only that, I was a suburban/urban kid from Baltimore who had moved to the woods of Maine at 18 and fit right in, and that was two very different life styles that I did well in. As an adult, I have lived in various places always fitting right in. Adjustment disorder I do not now have or have ever had.

I did have a nervous breakdown of some sort. On October 20, 1970, in my barracks room at Headquarters Battery 30th Artillery Brigade, I had grown so frustrated and angry at the illegality and immorality of being assigned as brigade photographer that I put my fist through a window. I cut a tendon in my right arm and was given an Article 15 punishment for damaging Army property. The company commander said it wasn't because I broke the Army's window, it was because I injured myself and I was Army property. His facial expression & body language revealed sincere empathy for me, and he was only punishing me because he had to.

Those are my conduct and efficiency ratings, with the casual conduct of May-June 70 when I was on leave between Photographic Laboratory Technician School and Okinawa. It all turned bad when I had had enough of the 30th Arty neither equipping nor supplying my photo work, and the photo lab negating the intended use of the nuclear fallout emergency decontamination chamber. When I began refusing to use my own funds to purchase film and photo paper for 30th Arty assignments. Using personal funds to complete Army assignments is against the law.

I was a verified excellent soldier, until after I was - illegally - assigned to the 30th Arty Bgde as a photographer.

Jim, I need you to write me a statement of the facts and send it to me. I need that for the VA. Just stick to what we talked about on the phone, what you know it was to have the photo lab set up and not being able to order equipment or supplies through normal channels. No slot for a photographer. The lab was in the Mole Hole decontamination chamber.

When I called you on the phone, about a decade ago, I could have recorded the call. Two things stopped me. One is it is illegal. But I doubt a judge would have punished me much at all for that - considering what my intent was and how unlikely it is to hurt you for you to tell the truth. I'm not concerned you'd sue me, because I barley survive down below the poverty line and own nothing of any considerable resale value. Two is that I did not care to offend you by clandestinely recording you.

One or two hundred times a year, since that call, I swore and swore and swore and swore to myself that I was going to ask for your help by you simply writing a short statement on my behalf. But the emotional wounds and trauma - brought on by 30th Arty's illegal actions against me - is like a rusting old bayonet stuck into a forever festering wound in my back. It hurts like hell, especially when I try to do something about it.

In 2014, a news story came out about U.S. Air Force missile launch officers cheating on tests. Learning about that made me feel ill. Because my 30th Arty experiences taught me that such nuclear nonsense does indeed happen, and I know it can never all be known all the wrong that is done by members of our military which weakens our defense systems. Our nation's enemies plan, train and probe for ways to take advantage of our weak spots. 

How could any person ever get all the way over knowing they were partly responsible for maintaining a weak link in our country's chain of defense? Which could have allowed our enemies to kill millions of our citizens. I was a 20-year-old, healthy, patriotic, hard working, talented, skilled, young American man, deeply troubled to learn of the 30th Arty photo lab being a serious hindrance to using the decontamination chamber.

I figure that you knew the missiles were nothing much - or outright worthless - in the necessary defense of the Free World, and that the 30th Arty photo lab in a decontamination chamber wasn't going to cause any defense problems. By the time I found that out, there had been months of reasonable anxiety, depression, sleep disorder, anger, too much of which has never left me.

Every few months, I check your web site to see if you are still alive. You are, and I need your help. I will find a way to properly thank you.

All I need from you is a short written statement of facts that the 30th Artillery Brigade on Okinawa was not authorized a photographer, the brigade photographer was not issued photographic equipment, could not order supplies required to do the assignments - they had to be scrounged/finagled, there was no slot for a photographer thereby there was no regular advancing in rank for 30th Arty photographers, and our photo lab was set up in the nuclear fallout emergency decontamination chamber of an underground communications bunker.

It is my right to establish the truth about my military history. Every order given me at the 30th Arty was illegal. This may not convince the VA to award me the earned - service connected - disability benefits. It may clear my name for my family and friends to know what I experienced at the 30th Arty Bgde was completely against U.S. Army Rules and Regulations.

What is found by web searching my screen name - ursusdave - reveals that I am good at photography, writing and web publishing and I work hard at it.

You are a well established, excellent photographer and successful businessman. Your honest words will carry some weight, and help me move up out of an adult lifetime lived below the poverty level. 

A sincere thank you from,

Photography and Writings by
David Robert Crews
{a.k.a. ursusdave}