Vinnie at the Daytona Flea Market today
One of our fans sent us this video he took today of Vinnie. Vinnie was General Swartzkopf’s body guard during Desert Storm. He was also wearing the 3rd award of the Combat Infantryman Badge. Our fan tries to explain to him that there have only been 324 of those awarded. They were only awarded to veterans of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. Vinnie says, “Oh, now, maybe!” hinting that back in his day, it wasn’t awarded like that. You know, being Swartzkopf’s bodyguard, he probably got a special dispensation. He also has three Purple Hearts. His store is Night Fire Tactical, but there’s no internet listing for him, otherwise, I’d find those three Purple Hearts for him.
As I’m fond of explaining; If you had served as an infantryman in Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm and Somalia, you would have only one award of the CIB. If you had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, you’d have only one award.
If you had served in Desert Storm, the second Iraq War and Afghanistan, you’d get a 2d award (one star).
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
It’s nice to finally see someone with the facts, hit someone with no clue. TOo many times, “Stolen Valor” is tossed out without a solid knowledge base to throw from.
Good job on the call out. Hit this puke hard.
Is it stolen valor wearing a patch on a civilian leather jacket and not falsely claiming any benefits?
Uh..what? Your question is unclear. Please elaborate.
Ever heard of “intangible, non-financial benefits” – like undeserved respect and prestige?
Yes, IMO wearing military badges and scrolls/tabs/patches falsely implying membership in an elite military unit/community or the performance of arduous training/duty counts as Stolen Valor in the eyes of vets.
Yes. Kinda like you don’t need to claim to be a dickhead to be one.
He was obviously trying to make sales based on his military claims. If he sold one stick of gum to someone because they thought that they were helping a veteran owned small business, I’d call that a tangible benefit.
How much would you like to bet that this guy has worn that BS patch-adorned jacket to one of the restaurants that open their doors to veterans on Veterans Day and claimed his free meal?
Stolen Valor all the way.
What was the reasoning in making Viet Nam to Somalia one period for the CIB?
No freaking clue as to the “why” there – it makes no sense to me, either. But the Vietnam CIB Era began on 2 March 1961 and ended on 10 March 1995 – a period of just over
XX34 years.Perhaps one of our readers knows someone on the ARSTAFF or the Army’s CMH who might know that answer.
Pure speculation, but it sounds like someone didn’t want someone else to have more CIB awards than they had.
*34 🙂
Yep. Sometimes simple math gets more difficult later at night due to mental fatigue. (smile)
“mental fatigue” = “beer” for the rest of us…
Yo, Vinnie, you’re a dick head. Pass it on. Someone with minimum smarts would have capitalized on that gig with something better than a Flea Market. Just confirms the world is full of dip shits.
“I was Swartzkoff’s body guard,,, we were sitting around, doing nothing”
What a bag o’ douche.
I kind of laughed when I heard that, too. From what I’ve heard about Schwarzkopf, if you worked for him, you didn’t dare “sit around and do nothing.” If you did, after you got your ass handed to you, he found something for you to do.
He did have a few SF dudes doing the PSDish thing. Poor bastards. And by all accounts, they were bored to tears.
This also happened in Florida in the same county:
DELTONA — A military father told Volusia County deputies he was in tears after finding a hateful note on his car.
The Deltona man has a sticker on his car that reads “My son is a Marine.” When he came out of Walmart after shopping on Friday he found a note that read: “F*** you and your son I hope he dies,” according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.
Read the whole disgusting mess here: http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2016/04/09/delta-florida-man-military-father-hateful-note-car-marine-corps/82836966/
Wait. . . what? I didn’t think that the Westboro Baptists cancer had metastasized?
I also hope that the son is more of a man than the father. Really? Crying because of a note left on his car? An anonymous note that the “hater” was to chickenshit and cowardly to put his name on?
to => too.
Too early in the am, not enough infused caffeine.
I’d bet at least 2 to 1 odds that the “military father” faked this BS for attention or some other reason.
These kinds of random “hate crimes” (swastikas painted on Jewish homes, N-word painted on black homes or apartment doors, anti-gay slurs painted or otherwise marked on people known to be gay, etc) are almost always fake actions that were actually created by the purported “victim” in order to gain sympathy or attention.
Well let’s guess they have about 60 of them left at fort hachuca clothing and sales so I wonder if he got them from there because I’ve never saw them on Lewis, lirwin, Campbell, Jackson, or Bethesda all be it the last one was a hospital.. I won’t even talk about Germany because no one had them there either
Crap I forgot about Knox and Sill also
Ebay item. Easy for Vinnie to pick one up there.
$9.89. Free shipping.
31 sold, four still available.
Location of seller: Seminole, Florida.
Did you check Miller’s?
Damn 3rd star on the CIB and 3 PH’s… dude must know Rice Paddy Daddy and the Kuwait Kid!
Bet you that the toofless fucknugget doesn’t have a business license… all of his business is “word of mouth”, IYKWIMAITYD!
You’re famous Vinnie of Night Fire Tactical! Shitbag Stolen Valor famous!
I got a new puppy this weekend and she just dropped a big steaming pile of Vinnie!! What a lying sack of dog shit!!
Another flea market wonder-wompus sooperdoopertrooper, I wonder if he’ll also claim to be a Top Secret Echo Forcr time traveler as well?
I think that I will ask him what Ranger School Class he attended on his way to fame, and his Ranger Scroll. His Master Blaster Jump Wings just don’t seem to look right on him, either. Piece of shit is heading to world wide fame and he probably doesn’t even have an agent yet.
Fucking loser half wit….maybe that shit buys him some respect in a shithole bar somewhere but I hope it earns him a lot more scorn and disgust as he becomes famous online for being a lying sack of shit.
It looks like Vinnie wasn’t AT the flea market, it looks like he FELL THROUGH the flea market. Look what stuck to him!!
Just a refresher for those who may be curious:
AR 600-8-22, June 2015:
To date, a separate award of the CIB has been authorized for qualified Soldiers in the following qualifying periods:
(1) World War II (7 December 1941 to 3 September 1945).
(2) Korean War (27 June 1950 to 27 July 1953).
(3) Republic of Vietnam Conflict. Service in the Republic of Vietnam Conflict (2 March 1961 to 28 March 1973) combined with qualifying service in Laos; Dominican Republic; Korea on the DMZ; El Salvador; Grenada; Joint
Security Area, Panmunjom, Korea; Panama; SWA Conflict; and Somalia; regardless of whether a Soldier has served one or multiple tours in any or all of these areas. The Republic of Vietnam Conflict Era officially terminated on 10 March 1995.
(4) Global War on Terrorism (18 September 2001 to a date to be determined) (Afghanistan, OEF and OFS; Iraq, OIF and OND; OIR).
I wiki’d it too and there is a distinction because I was all about “What about Desert Shi9eld/Desert Storm etc…(But I’m an AF guy so what the hell do I know…?” The initial award of the CIB is authorized for award for the following qualifying wars, conflicts, and operations: World War II: 7 December 1941 – 3 September 1945 Korean War: 27 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 Republic of Vietnam Conflict: 2 March 1961 – 28 March 1973 (Republic of Vietnam Conflict Era: 2 March 1961 – 10 March 1995) combined with qualifying service in: Laos (19 April 1961 to 6 October 1962); Dominican Republic (28 April 1965 to 1 September 1966); Korea on the DMZ (4 January 1969 to 31 March 1994); El Salvador (1 January 1981 to 1 February 1992); Grenada (23 October to 21 November 1983); Joint Security Area; Panmunjom, Korea (23 November 1984); Panama (20 December 1989 to 31 January 1990); Southwest Asia Conflict (17 January to 11 April 1991); Somalia: (5 June 1992 to 31 March 1994); Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom : 5 December 2001 to 32 December 2014 – Operation Freedom’s Sentinel : 1 January 2015 to a date to be determined); Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom : 19 March 2003 to 31 August 2010 – Operation New Dawn : 1 September 2010 to 31 December 2011); Syria and Iraq : Operation Inherent Resolve (15 June 2014 to a date to be determined).[6] Subsequent awards of the CIB may be awarded provided the Soldier had met eligibility criteria in two or more of the following four periods: World War II: 7 December 1941 – 3 September 1945 Korean Conflict: 27 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 The Republic of Vietnam Conflict: Service in the Republic of Vietnam Conflict (2 March 1961 to 28 March 1973) combined with qualifying service in Laos; Dominican Republic; Korea on the DMZ; El Salvador; Grenada; Joint Security Area, Panmunjom, Korea; Panama; Southwest Asia Conflict; and Somalia, regardless of whether a Soldier has served one or multiple tours in any or all of these areas. The Republic of Vietnam Conflict… Read more »
Someone please play the music from “Deliverance”.
Bodyguard. Yep, you betcha.
Vinny, Boy, you sure have a perty mouth.
Anybody else getting the feeling that Vinnie may be his own cousin?
It has been widely rumored that he trolls the kiddie table at family reunions looking for a “date.”
By the looks of this knucklehead milquetoast, the General would have had to bodyguard him.
So he was Delta too then, because that is who was working as Schwartzkopfs personal security detail during the DS/DS. One of whom I believe was later KIA’d in Somalia.