Geoff McGibbon's actual
overseas service and decorations are shown below:
Army Service Period: 1962 - 1967
Corps: RAEME, as an electrician
Overseas service: June 1963 - June 1964 - Papua New
Guinea,
June 1965 to December 1965, Sabah and Singapore, and
January 1966 to October 1967 he was back in New
Guinea.
Active
Service: Sabah from June 1965 to November 1965 [5
months]
SAS
Service: Nil
Viet Nam Service: Nil
Decorations and Awards: General Service Medal
1962 with clasp Borneo,
Australian Active Service Medal with clasp Malaysia
Australian Service Medal with clasp PNG
In the near future he may be entitled to apply for the about to
be released, Malaysian Government medal for service in Malaya
during the Malayan emergency and Indonesian confrontation
period.
All of the above information less the
new Malaysian medal, would have
been listed on his GENUINE Discharge Certificate or
available from the Central Army Records Office.
There will be more on McGibbon shown
here on the site as soon as we wade through the
mountain of paperwork forwarded to us on him. In
the meantime go to the link below and you will see what the media have
disclosed on this man after investigating his past,
when awarded the Order of Australia medal in this
years Honour list. CPMH supplied the photos and
information on his military service and his medals to
the media and there are major errors in reporting
the story. The reporter has cropped the photo
and stated that McGibbon said "he had never worn
false medals". Now after reading this story
right through you will be taken to the media section
of the site and see the uncropped photo showing these
medals on his chest. By our reckoning he is
falsely representing himself to be a returned
serviceperson [Viet Nam] and wearing awards which have
not been bestowed upon him. Both are offences
against the Defence Act carrying maximum penalties of
6 months in prison and/or $3300 in fines. He is
entitled to medals for his service in Malaya and Sabah
as a RAEME Electrician. Will
the Federal Police again refuse our request to have
this person prosecuted in accordance with the Defence
Act for wearing the Viet Nam Medals?
The story of Geoff McGibbon, SAS Viet
Nam Veteran unfolded on 6 Feb 2005 in the Australian
media, both in newspapers and on television Australia
wide. CPMH has been aware of McGibbon's
false Viet Nam service for a long time and was
preparing a site entry to be released once all
information had been confirmed as accurate. It
was coincidental that at the same time a newspaper
reporter, who shall at this stage remain nameless, had
seen McGibbon's name in this years Honours list and
has made a feeble effort to search into his background. He
realised that it was possible that McGibbon was a
bogus Veteran and emailed CPMH to see what we knew
about him. CPMH responded to his request
and forwarded to him the information we had
confirmed as being correct, thinking that the
reporter would publish the truth. Accompanying
this was a photograph showing McGibbon wearing Vietnam
medals and a SAS beret. This photo was
cropped by the reporter to suit his lies printed and
televised across Australia. His credibility as a
news reporter on Veteran matters, as far as we are
concerned is now shot, and anything he may print or
relay to Television news in the future on Veteran
matters will not be
considered as true facts, but a distorting of facts to
suit his own agenda. Just what is the agenda
in this case, well read on and see if you agree with
us.
The following is the true story of
Geoff McGibbon that should have been relayed to both
the written and electronic media by this reporter.
These are the facts we provided. We will
distinguish clearly what was provided and what was
reported and you, the readers, make up your mind about
everything shown below.
Geoff McGibbon is a genuine Veteran of
Malaya and Sabah.
Geoff McGibbon is not an SAS or Viet Nam Veteran and
has no entitlement to wear either the SAS beret or
Viet Nam service medals.
Geoff McGibbon was awarded the Order of Australia
[OAM] for his services to the RLSS for his dedication
to the society and there was no mention of his
Military service in the application for him to receive
this award.
Above are the facts. We will now
expand on these facts for our Veteran readers to fully
understand what we see happening here and then you
decide if you wish to follow the 'lead' of this
reporter in his quest to attempt the removal of the
OAM.
The reporter approached CPMH for
information on McGibbon. These facts and a photo
were forwarded to the reporter. He failed to
respond to the information provided either to thank us
for the information or to question it against what he
was preparing to make public. Instead he went
off on his own tangent and as a consequence
published and broadcast lies to the Australian
population. After reading all these facts follow
the link into the media section and you will see
exactly how he reported this story to the newspapers.
The story that hit the television news
had it that McGibbon is not a returned Veteran at all.
Another lie, as the information above on his overseas
service was passed to this reporter and he changed it
to suit his story, the same as he cropped the
photograph supplied to again confirm with his
distorted lies that McGibbon had never worn false
medals. These can be seen on his chest in
the uncropped photograph also in our "Media Wall of
Shame", that you will be directed to shortly. To
top off the story he relayed to the television
audiences, he made the inference that because McGibbon
was not a Veteran and that he was exposed for being a
bogus Viet Nam SAS Veteran, that the Veteran community
should rally and petition the government to have the
OAM bestowed upon him rescinded.
Having seen this story on TV, CPMH
received many emails from an outraged Veteran
community saying they were going to petition the
Government to have this award removed. We
emailed them back with the following and we ask that
all of you reading these pages also consider this
before you entertain the request of this reporter to
email the Government asking for the OAM to be
rescinded.
First let me reiterate the facts, the
truth that has been omitted from this reporters story:
Geoff McGibbon is an SAS Vietnam
Veteran fraud. He has worn Viet Nam medals and
claimed to have been in the SAS in Vietnam. He
had been approached by SAS personnel about this in the
late 1980's however he continued to wear the medals up
to 2003 that we can confirm at this stage.
Geoff McGibbon is a genuine Veteran in
his own right. Even though he has been found to
wear medals he has no entitlement to, CPMH must stress
the fact that he has service of which he should be
proud of and satisfied with. If he had claimed
only this service then he would not have appeared on
these pages. However in his defence of the lies
published in both newspapers and the television news
reports, CPMH will back him on his genuine service.
CPMH also does not endorse the reporter
in his quest to have the OAM rescinded because of
McGibbon's bogus Viet Nam service. The awarding
of the OAM was done through the RLSS and has nothing
to do with his Military Service either real or bogus.
We have it on good authority that the RLSS nominated
him for this award for his outstanding service to this
organisation of which he became an Executive Director
and therefore the Veteran community should not support
the rescinding of the OAM requested by the reporter
based on his bogus Viet Nam service alone. It is
out of our ball park because he has never been charged
or convicted of this. However as a concerned
citizen you could request its rescinding and also that
he be charged with the bogus veteran offences.
This email below was sent to the reporter to
see if we could find out exactly what his agenda was.
He failed to respond to our request so the email was
forwarded a second time. Again he failed to
respond to us. That email is reproduced below in
full. To date, 11 Feb 2005, there still has not
been a response to this email.
This is the delivery receipt. We
know this reporter got our email.
<<RE: WHAT'S THE STORY>> Your message
To: XXXXXXX@newsltd.com.au
Subject: RE: WHAT'S THE STORY
Sent: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:48:17 +1100
was delivered to the following recipient(s):
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX on Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:48:46
+1100
MSEXCH:MSExchangeMTA:MAT:MATSYDEXCHMB2
__________________________________________________________
I am forwarding this email to you
again as the previous may have been lost in cyberspace. If
there is no reply to this by tonight I will consider that you
are ignoring us for some reason as you were quick off the mark
to request the initial information on the McGibbon story and
our site will be amended to reflect the facts as they really
are.
The site is viewed by thousands of
serving and ex serving Military members, politicians,
police etc. who need to know the truth as it really is. Im
sure that once they all read it, it will be passed amongst the
community at large and they can all then make the decision on
whether they should support the rescinding of the OAM as a
concern of Veterans or not.
Its a pity you have severed
communications after distorting the facts on this story as we
could have supplied you with information on some very
prominent people who are masquerading as Veterans that we are
going to make public in the near future.
Cheers
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXX,
you contacted us for information on McGibbon and we forwarded
off a lot of info for you to use. You didn't have the
courtesy to respond to any of the emails. This story has now
hit the airwaves right across the country and I would like
answers to the following as soon as possible please.
We provided you with photographs
clearly depicting Viet Nam medals on the chest of McGibbon.
You cropped this photo for the newspapers and then proceeded
to add that "McGibbon said that he had never worn false
medals". Lies. You had the photo but you printed this
without referring to, or cropping the photo to show that he
infact did have them on as well as the SAS beret.
On the nightly news service the
report, and I can only assume that you must have had a hand in
this as you are the reporter that got all the information from
us, they stated that McGibbon has no Military Service at all.
Again a pack of lies as we forwarded to you his service record
clearly showing he was in RAEME as an electrician and had
served in Malaya and Borneo. Again lies in the media as this
man is a Veteran in his own right. He just isn't a Viet nam
Veteran.
Further to this you have
manipulated the "Bogus Hero" story via the newspapers and the
TV to aid you in a quest to have the OAM awarded to McGibbon
rescinded and all the reports have asked that the Veteran
community get behind this and lobby the government for its
removal. Why? This OAM was sought by the Royal Life Saving
Society, [RLSS], for deeds he has performed while being in
this organisation. I have it on very good authority that the
RLSS made no mention of his Military service when requesting
this award so why are you asking the Veteran community to
support your quest to have this award removed when it was not
initiated by them nor has it anything to do with them? The
organisation you should be lobbying is the RLSS.
We as CPMH have for years
contacted the Federal Police to obtain convictions against the
Defence Act for those who falsely represent service people and
wear medals they are not legally entitled to wear. We will
again approach them on McGibbon. If this had been done prior
to your 'breaking story' and McGibbon had been charged and
found guilty of this offence then he may well have had a
conviction that could have stopped him getting the award of
the OAM. This still could not be supported by the Veteran
community as a whole as the award is from the RLSS, but it
might have shown a conviction that the Governor General, also
a former SAS member could/may have used to reject the
award. As the Federal Police fail to support Veteran request
to have these charges laid and convictions recorded,
the McGibbon file on our books has laid dormant for over 4
years, waiting for the time that the FEDPOL actually start
supporting us and doing their job of charging them and then we
will load them up with almost all the people that appear on
our pages.
Since your story broke and
Veterans have seen the lies about McGibbon's service in the
papers and on TV, saying he is not a Veteran at all, we have
received a huge amount of email. Some of these stating that
he is going to be removed from his RSL club. Why? He is a
Veteran in his own right for Malaya and Borneo as we told
you. This man is going to suffer huge embarrassment for
falsely claiming to be a Viet Nam Veteran, but do not strip
him of what he has rightly earned. That is only the work of
an irresponsible reporter and I dont think you fit this
mould. Prove to us that you are good and retract all the lies
and print the truth and give this man back a little of his
honour that he deserves. He is now down and there is no need
to kick him in the guts on false and misleading information.
So in conclusion what was your
real agenda with this
story? Was it to expose McGibbon as a bogus SAS Vietnam
Veteran? Was it to discredit him of the real service that we
advised you about? Was it to attempt support from the
general Veteran community to assist you in removing an OAM
that appears to have been genuinely awarded by the RLSS?? Do
you have a grudge against the RLSS?
You have not replied to any other
emails. I would appreciate a reply to this one so we know
what's going on.
So above you
see the email forwarded to this reporter asking him to explain
himself and what his intentions really were with this story.
During the period of time we waited for his reply we contacted
a few people in Canberra where he resides and asked about his
reporting of incidents that may be of interest to the
Australian public, especially those to do with anything
Military or on Veterans. The response was nearly
unanimous and basically says "Why let the truth get in the
way of a good story". To date, 11 Feb 2005, this
reporter still has not answered our emails. In
response to this and all you have seen above you are now
directed through the link below to the "Media Wall of Shame"
area of the site. Scroll down until you see the picture
we supplied and the crop job done on this along with the lies
that were printed in the media contrary to the correct
information being supplied. This story was obviously
followed through to the television media by this reporter as
he and he alone had all the information and projected his lies
to them. This false information was subsequently aired
on every television news on 6 Feb 2005. McGibbon
may have masqueraded as a bogus Viet Nam Veteran and he has
been exposed for this, however, he has genuine service to his
credit and has been awarded an OAM by the RLSS for services to
that organisation and the Veteran community, in our opinion,
should not be manipulated by this reporter to try and remove
an award that has nothing to do with his Military service,
bogus or genuine. If you wish to object to it do so as a
concerned citizen but be careful with the use of bogus veteran
as he has never been charged with the offences. This
needs to be rectified but the Federal Police will not listen
to complaints about bogus veterans claiming service and
medals. This video footage is a distortion of the truth
as presented to the television media. Irrespective of
what is said in this clip McGibbon is a Veteran. See the
video news coverage
here
Now please
use this link to see the media story. It is up to you to
determine who is supplying the truth here and whether the
Veteran community should object to the awarding of the OAM by
the RLSS.
media\mediaexposures.html
The basic bottom line of
this story is Geoff McGibbon has been masquerading as a SAS Viet Nam Veteran since the 1980's. He has
been exposed here on the site for this, however the lies
depicted in the media need to be exposed as well. Geoff
McGibbon has genuine Veteran service and is therefore entitled
to be a member of the ex service organisations and have the
truth told about what was reported in the media. It is
our aim and intention to shown bogus activity to the
Australian and New Zealand Veteran communities, but we will
also protect genuine service, even if the member has
overstepped the mark in the past.
We have tried in vain in
the past to have all these bogus people charges with the
relevant offences. All requests have been refused
by the Federal Police. Maybe its time all Veterans
reading these pages contact the Minister for Federal Police
and ask the question, why? If McGibbon had been charged
and convicted it would add weight to the rescinding of this
OAM.
Jan 2006
McGibbon Geoff
