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Marine Sgt. Maj. J.C. Ortiz has spent at least the last 15 years living a lie. Through text, audio and photographs, The Monitor takes a look at why. |
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Running from the past or seeking gain, military impostors are hard to pin down
Authentic war heroes are rare, but their ranks are swollen by impostors. Earlier this week, J.C. Ortiz of Mission admitted he had fooled hundreds in the Rio Grande Valley into believing he had earned the hero’s image he had so carefully crafted and...
Uniform, stories brought respect to Ortiz’s tragic life
MISSION — J.C. Ortiz has spent his whole life searching for an identity. Before the phony war hero now known as Ortiz, there was the boy Gerrald Jerome Bowman, of Anderson, South Carolina. A life he wanted to forget. Ortiz began to share...
Local veterans speak out on imposter
McALLEN — A combat veteran always knows when there is another one in the same room. That’s what many Rio Grande Valley veterans have said since J.C. Ortiz, the Mission man who claimed to be a decorated combat veteran, admitted his supposedly illustrious...
A Legacy Bought -- Fake medals and stripes were easy to acquire for J.C. Ortiz
J.C. Ortiz, the man who was a regular at veterans’ and military functions for more than a decade in the Rio Grande Valley, now admits the fabric of his hero’s tale was woven from the lives of others — and catalog purchases. The veneer of Ortiz’s...
Lies catch up with false sergeant major
MISSION — Marine Sgt. Maj. J.C. Ortiz has spent at least the last 15 years living a lie. The story he has told his friends and family countless times about his decorated war record is not true. Sgt. Maj. J.C. Ortiz never existed. There...
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