Doug,
This guy is a fraud. He is not on any database in the Army. Neither is his alter ego, 1LT Marc Owen. Nothing even close.
And if he was a true SOCOM guy, a) he would never divulge his name in a public forum like this and b) there would still be ways we could verify he was in, i.e., he would be in some databases but without any unit identifier (as some non-special operations folks also have).
Can I ask you a seriously dumb question?? Is it possible that this officer and his 1LT DO exist but that they've used aliases for the very reasons you've stated - that a true SOCOM officer would not put his name, rank, etc, out there - and that this micht be the reason you can't locate them on AKO?? I'm not challenging you - just wondering out loud. I want to know the ending to this story, too.