Steve Haynes; SEAL pretender in Plano, TX
C.D. sends us a link to WFAA in Texas with a story about how they busted Steve Haynes, a contractor for the city of Plano, and director of risk management of Southern Specialized Risk Options who claimed that he was a Navy SEAL. He claims that he didn’t finish the SEAL training because the Navy needed him for some special mission, that only he could do as a half-trained SEAL. Sounds totally legit, doesn’t it? He was also awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his participation in Desert One, you know the failed Iran hostage rescue mission in 1980. Again, totally legit, right?
Here is a screen shot from the video of the DD214 he showed the reporter;
The Bronze Star and Purple Heart look totally legit on that DD214, don’t they?
News 8 obtained his DD214, a paper trail of his military career, from the POW Foundation, which obtained it from the Navy. It includes neither a Purple Heart nor a Bronze Star.
The document indicates Haynes served aboard the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy — not the Nimitz.
Haynes said he was transferred to the Nimitz as a part of a secret mission, during which he was wounded. That led to his medals. He said he got the medals after he left the service, which is why they’re not on records supplied by the Navy.
Yeah, but they happen to appear on the DD214 that he has, but don’t pop-up in a FOIA. The report goes on that he has a degree from a diploma mill, that his career as a law enforcement officer was limited to an auxillary stint that he embellished. The news report starts at about 1:50 in the video;
Category: Phony soldiers
SEAL, hell. If he had claimed to be a walrus, that I would have believed.
Secret missions with secret medals. Yeah…NO. FAIL!
SEAL? – NO!
WALRUS? – NO.
Another BLOBFISH? – YEAH!!!
‘Nuff said!!
Actually, he does bear a striking resemblance to a shar pei.
AAAAANDDDD…
My water came shooting out of my nose!
Blobfish — yes.
Sharpei — no.
Actually, somethig closer to an Asian carp.
Ex-PH2;
Up here in MN we can’t say Asian carp anymore. The Senate changed it to “invasive” carp.
I really wish I was kidding……
OC
Bloated bedwetter….
He looks like he ATE the SEAL. . . and the seal trainer too.
Dallas area, phony, auxiliary law enforcement…..Sounds like someone’s long – lost brother.
😉
No mention if he has an addiction to cheese, though.
But he DOES have a degree from a diploma mill so there is that……
All he needs is a Purple Heart Citation in Edwardian Script Font and a quivering bush. This guy is obviously making a late run at the tournament for a win. That SEAL training really paid off… he’s been quietly observing and plotting.
I really liked the “degree from a diploma mill” touch, too.
Somebody could do a PhD thesis in Pysch (from an accredited university) with the poser playbook.
Diploma Mills with the posers sure are gaining popularity.
The amount of time and money they spend generating their false history evidence is mind boggling, deliberate and pathological.
I hear DC flew him off the Nimitz for his secret missions in a rare use of a C-130 on an Air Craft Carrier.
They called it Operation Gouda
And just in case someone thinks rb325th is smoking rope regarding C-130s and CVs:
I knew it had been done before, I just wonder how many guys have claimed to be the pilots…
I knew Navy pilots were crazy, but man, that’s just nuts.
Reminds me of this guy:
Lt Gen. James Doolittle
You would have thought a 130’s wingspread would be too wide but the takeoff shows it clearing the island by a good margin. Apparently they equipped the bird with a tail-hook to achieve that ultra-short landing. Amazing
Poetrooper: that would be a negative, amigo. Mods for carrier testing are detailed here – and they didn’t include the addition of a tailhook.
http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130_forrestal.asp
Shortest stop during testing – remember, w/o using a tailhook – was in less than 270′ after touchdown. I think they also reversed the engines to do that, but I’m not positive.
Cojones muy grandes, indeed.
rb325th…I had your six buddy. I knew the C-130 was adapted for carrier landings by the Navy. They only changed the nose wheel well and a couple other things but…no tail hook! By the way, if you were smokin rope, it’s cool, just…don’t Bogart that joint…pass it over to me.
nahh don’t smoke anything…
I was surprised thoug hthat they did not use the JATO to take off. Think I have that term correct, Jet Assisted Take Off? Saw it done a few times at the Naval Air Station down the street from where I grew up.
rb325th: the C130 can take off pretty quickly when it needs to, even w/o JATO. Here’s a quote from the article I linked above:
Lockheed’s Ted Limmer, who checked out fighter pilot Flatley in the C-130, stayed on for some of the initial touch-and-go and full-stop landings. “The last landing I participated in, we touched down about 150 feet from the end, stopped in 270 feet more and launched from that position, using what was left of the deck. We still had a couple hundred feet left when we lifted off. Admiral Brown was flabbergasted.”
The pilot, James H. Flatley III, went on to become a rear admiral. His father was one of the premier US Navy WWII fighter tactics developers and also an admiral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Flatley_III
Kudos to News 8 for busting this walrus looking fool. I’m pretty sure that he’ll no longer be on the Plano city payroll for much longer… hee-hee.
The WFAA article says the guy is driving around with PH license plates on his pickup truck. Perhaps the TX DMV needs to get a copy of this story.
Anyone got an appropriate e-mail addresss at TX DMV for reporting waste/fraud/abuse?
Hondo, TX DMV links to the TX State Auditors Office to report that.
https://sao.fraud.state.tx.us/hotline.aspx
Ordsoldier: that link appears to be for reporting fraud relating to misuse of appropriated funds vice tax avoidance fraud (like getting reduced-tax PH plates via fraud). However, TX DMV does have a contact page:
https://www.txdmv.gov/contact-us
That link has an e-mail contact page, as well as the following address for “snail mail” contacts:
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV)
4000 Jackson Avenue
Austin, Texas 78731
I’ve already dropped them an e-mail contact. If a number of people do the same, maybe – just maybe – they’ll look into the matter.
friend of mine has the Purple Heart tags, a bunch of freebies comes with – free parking at the big stadium lots, I believe free tolls, etc. Considering how many people they bust for blowing through tool booths for thousands of dollars in missed tolls, this should easily qualifies as felony fraud.
He used his fake military background to get all kinds of contracts dealing with school security and grants in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Google “Southern Specialized Risk.” This is only the tip of the iceberg.
http://djournal.com/news/audit-gives-tpsd-security-high-marks/#leaveacomment
The Tupelo School District Board of Trustees has been provided the link to the WFAA article.
I just sent a heads-up to the reporter who wrote the article about the TPSD audit. He’ll probably be giving the school district a call which should keep them from trying to cover up the fact they’ve been had as bureaucrats are apt to do.
Just got back a thanks email from the reporter in Tupelo.
I also am sending an email with a link to the WFAA piece to the conference sponsors where Haynes is supposed to speak next week.
Given the two pictures (above) of the guy, I have to ask…. does he ever open his eyes? Does he have a VA disability claim for blindness or something?
Perhaps he is Mr. Magoo’s secret love child.
http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/2uz3I77MB-c/hqdefault.jpg
Military Magoo
“Segeant, I want that quota filled today!…”
You can see his false bio here:
https://www.urmia.org/regionals/2008/southeast_bio.cfm#SH
Check out his article on page 6 of this pdf. “Locks or Lunches: The School Security Dilemma.”
http://tinyurl.com/p8k6aja
Interesting. The guy’s bio said he was still in the USNR in 2008. Wonder if he still is – and is still “rockin’ the lie” there as well?
Anyone out there got access to NMCI and/or other Navy systems that could find out if the tool is still in the USNR?
Guy’s claiming SCPO, UDT, SEAL. I wonder if Don Shipley is busy today fixing faucets or washing machines? I am ready for another awesome video….
He’s also claiming to be a master parachutist. They must have rigged him for heavy drops.
No so much a parachutist as a semi-steerable door bundle.
” No so much a parachutist as a semi-steerable dirigible
No way, Chip. Dirigibles float.
This guy float? As Yakov Smirnoff would have put it, “Eye . . . doan tink zo.” (smile)
Haynes is more like a giant kinetic energy weapon. Drop him out the back of a C-130 and watch the crater he makes when he hits the ground. people 50 miles away would feel the shock.
No Steve, Steven, or Stephan Haynes listed in the NMCI Global Address List. There is, however. a Stephanie, though. 😉
AW1Ed: much appreciated. I did the math after posting that and figured out the guy probably had hit 30 and decided to bail. Thanks for checking.
I suspect the only thing this turd merchant hit 30 on was the Richter scale.
Glad to help, any time. I’m happy to check the NMCI data base for “persons of interest”.
I thought maybe he was this guy’s brother….
Meh, they may LOOK somewhat alike, but “The Old man” in Pawn Stars has earned what he has legitimately and he’s never embellished his time in the Navy.
This is what I get for doing work. I log off and when I am able to come back here, all the good replies have been taken!! I just find it so hard to believe that fakers STILL think they can get away with this. This guy needs to be fired from what ever “job” he has now, be forced to give his PH plates back and then run out of town on a rail (maybe in this case after looking at the pictures I should say “Whale”).
Looks like he has pulled down his web site. Keeo getting “forbidden IP” errors when trying to go to it from the link above, and from google get “site under construction”
http://specializedrisk.com/ is DOWN. Wonder what’s up with that?
At the bio linked above by G. Carter, Haynes is claiming rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer.
Anyone know where a copy of his DD214 might be posted?
Are there a lot of Naval ports that need protecting in the Plano area?
Don’t forget this part!
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“His qualifications include Navy and Marine Corps Master Parachutist, Open and Closed Circuit Diver, Federal Firearms Instructor, Advanced Marksman/SEAL Sniper Instructor, and Explosive Ordinance Disposal Technician. Steve is a veteran of the Iranian Hostage Rescue and the Persian Gulf War where he led a team that conducted boarding of hostile Iraqi and foreign shipping. His personal decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Southeast Asia Service Medal, Kuwaiti Liberation Medal and he is a designated Navy Master Training Specialist.”
What is a “Navy Master Training Specialist?”
Can a few of you old (just kidding) MCPO’s or Navy folks help me out?
It’s the Navy version of a “master instructor.” It’s like a badge for the instructors, like the new instructor badges they’ve introduced to the Army side of the house. For the Navy, it’s kind of like the instructor version of the warfare badges, and it’s a special disk that’s put on the name tag, on the other side of the unit disk. It’s abbreviation is the “MTS” badge.
I qualified for mine in ’97 when I was on instructor duty. 😀
The name tag is usually “gold” as opposed to the standard name tag background.
Did he stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night as well?
“Steve is a veteran of the Iranian Hostage Rescue and the Persian Gulf War”
Meh. John Giduck is a survivor of eight conflicts. They do both share that whole “Body by Budweiser” look though.
I was ttrained in entry techniques by a former Delta Operator that worked for MPRI in Kuwait…..
Does that mean I get to claim that I am former Delta too???
Nevermind. I have too much to keep up with now minding my own average service.
Wow. News 8 was fed some very good information by someone and did excellent follow-up. Put a bow on his ass. He’s history.
More like “Stick some cloves in him and put him in the oven”!
Hahahahaha ho lee fuk hahahah,look at this jumbo,I hope he loses his 200k a yr contract wtf,PH tags good job DMV,I sure wish I could scam my HR dept into that kind of money.This one would be a great vid for Senior Chief Shipley.
$204,000 a year!!! Really!!! Nice work if you can get it! But then again, I’m not a SEAL with BSM and PHM. His company, having no employees, sounds a lot like All-Points Logistics. All show and no go. TURD!
Looks like he ate a seal. And he was allergic.
That, or the last rattlesnake he ate bit him in the face before he chowed down!!
What. Is. Wrong. With. His. FACE?!?
He looks like Patient Zero in one of those epidemic disaster films!
Contractor? Fake SEAL? False or embellished LEO?
I will stop while I am ahead.
looks like he followed the All Points Logistics business model.
He is scheduled to teach a class in a few days at the 2014 Texas Municipal Human Resources Association Conference. Location: Galveston, TX. Maybe someone should let them know about his recent problems in Plano.
http://2014tmhraconference.org/wednesday-may-7th/
Seems someone already did. His name doesn’t appear to be on that site anymore…
Hopefully a few other references to him will disappear, too – namely, the various contracts he obtained with various schools, governments, etc . . . , using his military “credentials”.
Two entities with which he has a business relationship now know about his “truthfulness” – or lack of same. I wonder how many more contracts he’s obtained using those same “credentials”?
“Navy Master Training Specialist”? As I understand it, the Navy has several types and levels of training specialists. He was a survival trainer who taught techniques for identifying, acquiring, and using various types of animate and inanimate items to lure and catch fish. Therefore, his actual job title was “Navy Master Baiter Training Specialist.”
He’s a wal pei (a walrus / shar pei mix breed)…
For some reason, this comes to mind (smile):
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob
Don’t miss the human centipede in the video – and this one’s safe for work! (smile)
I was talking to a truckdriver a few weeks ago that had a military hat on and he claimed he was one of the chopper pilots in “Desert One”. He didn’t really tell me tales of his daring do but he had some very harsh things to say about Jimmy Carter.
It’s a clear cut case of Stolen Valor to get a contract for monetary gain. Alas it wont be prosecuted. The best you can hope for is the city to cancel his contract. He knows damn well he was caught. His only hope for redemption is to man-up, say he was bullshitting and redo his resume.
The pig face fuck looks like he has been bullshitting people a long time.
Dog, think about that for a minute. This is, as you say, a clear-cut case of Stolen Valor as defined by the 2013 Act. This is probably the first time an SV case has involved such high-dollar amounts. We could be talking millions in contracts obtained through false means.
But the biggest issue is that one of this guy’s specialties is school security. He advises school districts on how to develop and administer programs to protect the kids. That is a very hot button issue with parents, perhaps the hottest one and driven by two very strong emotions, parental love and parental fear.
It’s difficult for veterans to get civilians to accept that these SV frauds actually inflict any harm. This is a case that could get some of those ho-hum civilians to pay attention for a change.
Steven Haynes may very well turn out to be a landmark legal precedent for the cause of Stolen Valor.
Poetrooper,
I would love to see that happen. I’m just being a pessimist. Monkress got a shitload more contracts than this asshole did, and much more money.
From the interview, the city official seemed to really not give a shit about his background, he was happy with the job he was doing.
I think the best case scenario is that the guy is shit-canned and never gets a contract again.
he looks like this sea hags twin brother
Go to 1:40
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qx1ai4/stand-up-jim-gaffigan–manatees
Steve Haynes reminds me of this: 😀
Except Cotton Hill was a bona fide war veteran and earned a purple heart ( both his shins were blown off by a Jap-manned Machine gun) He woke up in a feild hospital and they were sewing his feet to his knees.
This reminds me of one of those bootleg Haji movies.
Just waiting for someone to get up and get popcorn.
Can this thing even open its eyes??
It is his Cheech imitation from “Up In Smoke”.
Someone please explain to me how anyone on God’s green Earth could or would think that someone like this could have ever been a SEAL?! I know people’s bodies change later in life (trust me this I get!) But if they are still sorta “in the biz” they would not allow themselves to get so out of shape and expect to be taken seriously.
Ugh! I can’t seem to wake up fully today. Maybe that’s it! Maybe all these fools lying about who or what they are is all a bad dream. Tell me it’s all a bad dream!
I agree. I can’t believe people can be so gullible. The imposters I have encountered have been so obviously fakes. Maybe I have fine tuned b.s. antennae.
SEAL my ass. Walrus is more like it. The fat fuck can’t even open his eyes all the way. The Hair needs to tie a knot in this turds ass.
Well by god….looks like they don’t want me visiting the web site.
http://specializedrisk.com/
You are not authorized to view this page
The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.
It’s happening to me, too. My guess is that it’s looking at our history and blocking anyone who’s visited this article on TAH.
Nah, he’s just using the standard IIS configuration that allows you to list what IPs can reach the website. It’s likely he has blacklisted the entire IPv4 IP space. The page you get back is a very standard builtin IIS error page.
He probably has no idea how to do a referrer check, given he’s running IIS 6 which came out with Windows Server 2003.
Don’t know if this has been posted. This is the current status of his bogus company via Texas Department of Public Safety.
Insurance & Company Status
Company Status: Expired
Company Expiration Date: 8/31/2011
https://www.txdps.state.tx.us/rsd/psb/company/company_details.aspx?id=A13385
Audit gives TPSD security high marks
http://djournal.com/news/audit-gives-tpsd-security-high-marks/
Scary.
Very scary.
Could this be “Victimless Crime?”
See above. School board and reporter who wrote that article have been notified that this guy’s resume is at least partly bogus.
wtf?
I would say this guy has a face like the surface of an Idaho potatoe, but, at least a potatoe has “eyes”.
I read through all your comments and you have missed one important item: he looks distinctly like a female barfly who used to hang out on the front steps of the building across the street from the first place I worked at in Chicago.
There’s something decidedly effeminate about this guy’s visage, and a strong resemblance to that old wino.
That drunken old she-goat was a nuisance to everyone, because it was the front steps of a church she squatted on, not an office building. She hit on everyone who went in there, to get money for more cheap hootch over at the Erie St. Tavern, which is now gone. Every now and then, the cops would show up and haul her sodden self away.
I never did wonder what happened to her after I left that job, but she was the one and only real female street bum I ever ran into. And, no, she did not have any colorful stories.
Distinct resemblance to this one. Thought maybe she’d sobered up and moved, but then I read the story. Might be her offspring. Creepy, in some way.
There’s some other stuff going on behind the scenes, as always, that we can’t talk abut yet. But think “biggest gun” of the Stolen Valor community who just so happens to live in Plano.
Hmmmm. If that comes to fruition, well, that will certainly make what he’s gotten here seem like a pat on the back.
I like it. (smile)
BG Jonn…I mean B.Z. Jonn…B.Z.
😀
Isn’t it about time for Dan Lavi (who has stared death in the face) to show up here and denounce this WFAA reporter for this cruel hatchet job on such a fine honorable veteran who has dedicated his life to protecting our children and keeping them safe?
Navy EOD Retired (1972-1998). I will contact Naval School, Explosive Ordnance Disposal to verify. The guy looks close to my age and during my time in EOD we never got over about 700-750 people, so you knew almost everyone or you’d heard their name. Usually the one word gives them away if you have them spell it – ordinance vice ORDNANCE.
Check out link (if not done already):
https://www.urmia.org/regionals/2008/southeast_bio.cfm#SH
Apparently been going on for quite some time.
Donny
Looks like the City of Plano has a new risk program manager. Haynes was listed as the interim manager at the time the story broke.
http://www.plano.gov/216/Risk-Management
Steven Haynes Military Career
http://stevenehaynes.blogspot.com/2014/09/steven-haynes-completed-20-year-career.html
Hmmmm. . .
http://specializedrisk.com/press/specialized-risk-announces-release-details-regarding-adverse-media-report/
Good catch, Eden.
Hey, all you Navy types: take a look at this. It’s a link to a detailed document about the investigation supposedly done by an attorney. It has a scan of what is apparently a performance evaluation on Haynes. Legit?
http://specializedrisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Corporate-Announcement-SR-Release-of-Details-Concerning-Adverse-Media-Report-02-01-2015-Website.pdf
Legit or not, they don’t seem to have much to do with his claims of BSM, PH, or being a SEAL.
The press release to me smacks of little more than an attempt at spin in the wake of a prosecutor’s decision not to prosecute because they didn’t think it was worth their time and effort. Under the current SVA, proving actual fraud might have been difficult – especially if the guy had some legit actual experience in the field but had no BSM, PH, and wasn’t a SEAL.
Even if it were legit, who cares? It does nothing to support his claims of being a SEAL and having received awards he did not earn. (THAT was the original issue.)
At best he’s a blow hard. At worst, much worse. Notice that the company brags about the exhaustive investigation, but doesn’t address the false claims, nor that his claims were proven to be factual. All they complain about is the manner of reporting, not the substance of the reporting.
Great damage control? Not so much.
Exactly what I was thinking, the performance eval doesn’t address the period(s) for which he was claiming those awards. They only cover the period October 89 to September 92, with a break from March 91 to October 91.
My thought: if he claimed awards he didn’t receive, what else has is he bullshitting about, and are those evals legit?
And if he was so shit-hot (identified as WO/LDO material and #1 among his peers), what motivated him to inflate his reputation with unearned awards?