Richard A Howell III – Boy Scout Sniper

| October 5, 2013

Howell's Merry-Go-Round

I watched Scotty tracking this idiot yesterday on Facebook. His name is Richard A Howell and he claims to be a Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant with 33 years of service and, of course, he was Force Recon and a Scout Sniper. Scotty has sent for his records, but the fact that at least part of his story is false coalesced for me with this screen shot of the Marine Scout Sniper Oath, according to Howell;

Howell's Scout Sniper Oath

I’m sure most of you recognize it as the Boy Scout Oath, not a sniper’s oath. I just thought it was funny shit. But you should go check out the rest of what Scotty has collected from his online presence building his story. He probably was in the Marines, or that other damp service, but not like he says if he can’t tell the difference between the Boy Scouts and the Marines.

Category: Phony soldiers

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Club Manager

Obviously this dickweed is a Blue Collar Comedy fan as in “here’s your sign” in the form of the white tee shirt. A clean one at that.

Green Thumb

The only thing worse that a clown is a fool.

MCPO NYC USN (Ret.)

So the red guy standing behind him could only be his CO?

Green Thumb

@3.

Awesome!!

Grimmy

Yeh might wanna be a leetle bit careful on this.

I recall, from way back in the day (early ’80s), a school trained, certified to know his shit, moto 0331 (Machine gunner) who was so horribly certain that the M60 was called the M60 because it fired .60 cal bullets.

I shit you not.

He was so sure of that fact that he’d throw down for a brawl with anyone who claimed otherwise.

The quality control on entry reqs was way way diff back then for all the services. Numbnuts were *everywhere*.

Grimmy

@1,Club Manager:

The tee shirt is another non starter as finding fault goes. Back in the day, when the particular guy under discussion would be learnin’ his culture and customs, plain white tees were the rule in the Corps. Garrison or field, training or playing spades, it was done in white skivvies and white tees underneath the cammies.

According to Gen PX Kelly, it was to show that we were the good guys.

Flagwaver

This guy is special. Not just short bus special, but needing a helmet special. This guy wouldn’t know the honor of being a Boy Scout or Marine. As an Eagle Scout, Trustworthy (part of the Scout Law) is about being honest.

Mud

“Damp Service”??? seriously?

Besides you should know all Marines are special forces, e.g. all Marines are “special.”

Semepr Fi

Just An Old Dog

He’s wearing a post 2000 cammie top with a skivvie shirt that was not allowed with cammies since the mid 80s. Unless he is long retired and mix-matching, which is unlikely he is full of shit,

Mud

WTF…. A flag on his shoulder too?

Just An Old Dog

He is claiming a BA degree( liberal arts) from USC in 83 also.

OlafTheTanker

Rifle and Shotgun Merit Badge..

Scout Sniper Qualified..

Same difference, right?

Just An Old Dog

https://www.facebook.com/frankbernard.hansberry/ theres this gem on his friend’s list too.

Jack

I can see into his brain! Hello….hello…hello…

OEF_Veteran

(Doc F) Igor who’s brain did you use?
(Igor) Abby something…Abby Normal I think

Sort of fits these clowns

Hondo

Just an Old Dog: damn, that’s a snazzy set of Marine Dress Whites he’s wearing at that Facebook link. But when did the USMC adopt Navy shoulderboards for rank insignia? (smile)

A Proud Infidel

A turd and a ‘tard at the same time. I assume that pic was taken on some “Top Secret Urban/Jungle Mission” as well, thus the critter behind him, or is that one of his camouflaged teammates?

NavCWORet

Hondo, that is a Navy only uniform. He’s wearing Navy Surface Warfare Officer insignia, and his ribbon bar is wrong for USMC.

NavCWORet

Also, that’s not Howell wearing that uniform, it’s apparently a friend of his, Frank Hansberry. Not saying he is or was never Navy, but odd that he’s only got the one picture of him in uniform. Most of us have several. But that’s just me.

Flagwaver

Old Dog, that link you posted… for the love of Bob, I wish those guys would at least take basic photoshopping classes. Either that or the man has hands the size of King Kong with that minnow he’s holding.

thebesig

More like Private Ate-Up Potato Bag.

Hondo

NavyCWORet: my bad – missed the fact that it was a photo of Howell’s “friend” and thought it was the Boy Scout Sniper here playing fast and loose with uniforms again.

NavCWORet

Honda, certainly easy enough to get confused, you know, with your dementia and all. SQUIRREL !!

USMCE8Ret

Shitbag poser.

Combat Historian

Probably just another boot camp washout or a private E-2 with a BCD trying to pretend to be what he never really was but wanted to be…sad and pathetic…

ExHack

The brackets are filling up fast. And for once, one that didn’t come from Senior Chief Shipley, Mrs. Shipley and Shipley’s Hair.

Roger in Republic

Gun Ho, Gun Ho. This ass hat is no more a marine than I am. At least I know it’s Gung Ho. I know this because I saw it in a John Wayne movie. It’s too bad we can’t jail these jerks.

ByrdMan

It always amazes me how stupid these posers are. 5 minutes on any search engine would tell you proper wear of the uniform and its accouterments.

Shitbird Master Gunnery Sausage; thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.

retired SOF and proud

Yawn… Uh, What are you vicadin-crazed, (or drunken), retired and bored wierdos talking about? What the hell is your focus? Stale childish threats, off-topic BS, and innuendoes or exposing the posers who benefit from their lies of stolen valor?

Honest vets who went through the training and earned their SOF credentials demand that we expose posers like Monkress with facts instead of pussy-footing around on blogs.

Damn, get on point guys or shut up!

repeat from the last

Yawn… (deleted). What the hell is your focus? Stale childish threats, off-topic BS, and innuendoes or exposing the posers who benefit from their lies of stolen valor?

DAMN! Honest vets who went through the training and earned their SOF credentials demand that we expose posers like Monkress with facts instead of pussy-footing around on blogs.

ExHack

Hmmmm … Sounds like Dullass Whipitnflogit striking again, while sober for once (no teenybopper capitalizations here).

Hondo

ExHack: dunno about that. WitLessOne doesn’t generally post comments through an out-of-state corporate proxy server.

Ex SOF

@29 and @30 agree. Cmon 32 we know you screen anyone that doesn’t tote this blogs party line, your losing focus, and us vets who really went through the training and ultimately used those skills in combat say stay on point, this other superfluous stuff like FB links and pointless blather is counter productive

MCPO NYC USN (Ret.)

@ Hondo and EXHack. Not Wigetfield … sentence structure is about 9th grade. Far too advanced for Dullass’s limited intelligence.

OWB

Yeah, sure. Gonna get right on that taking online instructions from complete strangers. Uh-huh. The line of those likewise volunteering forms over there. Or maybe there. No, no, it’s out there – waaaaaay out there.

LebbenB

SOF – “Soldier of Fiction”

Man…Next year’s selection committee is gonna have some tough decisions to make.

O-4E

I like the part about the Scout Sniper Oath and Boy Scout Oath being the same. Awesome.

LebbenB

@37. Well…Yeah. I mean I thought EVERYBODY knew the two oaths were one and the same.

O-4E

This is Thurston Howell III’s love child with the maid