Steve Hardee; phony Ranger, phony Vietnam vet, phony paratrooper

| February 8, 2018

Wilbur Steve Hardee comes to us from a fellow who moderates a Facebook page for Grenada veterans. Steve tried to join, hoping they wouldn’t ask him any questions;

He claims he was in 3rd Battalion, 75th Rangers in Vietnam and Grenada. There was no 3rd Battalion Rangers in Vietnam and they were reactivated October 4th, 1984 – a year after Grenada.

Hardee has a couple of Facebook pages and the two I’ve seen say that he was a sergeant in 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade;

The National Personnel Records Center says that he spent five months at Relaxin’ Jackson and the Army kicked him to the curb. No Rangers, no Vietnam, no Grenada, no jump school;

Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures

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Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

Another phony Viet Vet/Ranger/paratrooper. What happened to the phony Seals today at the TAH starting gate.

SSG Kane

Is it just me, or do all these Vietnam Vet fakers look way to young to have actually been there?

26Limabeans

Not just you. And they seem to be getting younger.

akpual

Hey, I look young. Not

AZtoVA

Anyone who was 15 when they were on the last helo out in 1973 would only be 60 now.

Graybeard

I just turned 66, and am just barely old enough to have possibly served in ‘Nam.

This is getting ridiculous.

rgr769

I don’t know how stringently it was enforced, but when I was in the RVN in 1970, we were told it was Army policy not to send anyone under 20 years old to Vietnam because KIA teenagers was bad PR in this already unpopular war. The troops I commanded were all in their 20’s, or older in the case of the senior NCO’s. Men younger than 63 who claim service in a ground combat unit in the RVN are lying, unless they successfully committed enlistment fraud re their age.

Gordon Hamel

The last helo out of RVN was April 29, 1975.

Dennis - not chevy

A cop once asked me if Veterans have it as bad as tales say. I said I could only speak for myself and I didn’t have too many complaints. I asked why he asked. He told me he was about to run three ne’er-do-wells in for public intoxication, disturbing the peace, and whatever else would stick when they begged for mercy. He added, they told him they were just venting all of the smoke and trauma they accumulated from service in Vietnam. The cop let them off to about their ways. I asked the cop if he was younger than I; he said he was. I asked the cop if the malcontents were younger than he; he said they were. I wish I had taken a picture of the cop’s face when I told him I was too young to be a Vietnam War vet; he was not a happy constable. This is what happens when students are not taught history.

RM3(SS)

When I worked patrol and would run across those fellas that claimed PTSD or had the cardboard sign “Vietnam vet” I’d give them the quiz, how old are you, followed by what was your MOS/NEC, where’d you go to boot camp etc. In 22 years of patrol I met maybe 4-5 that seemed to be legit. All the others got no mercy. For a while I was taking their cardboard signs and putting them up in our report room, but the administration told me that the signs were considered personal property and I was supposed to book them as evidence.

UpNorth

Usually, the “vet” would get a funny look on their face and walk/drive away when I asked them what their MOS was. The posers hated to run into a cop who was a veteran.

Carlton G. Long

Reminds me of the beginning of Trading Places

E4 Mafia For Life.

That is a timeless comedy goldmine.
”I was in Sang Bang, Dang Gong — I was all over that place…. I was Agent Orange.”

rgr769

As I have said before, in 20 years we will still have POSers in their 50’s claiming to be Viet of the Nam veterans.

NHSparky

Exactly. The absolute youngest Vietnam-ERA vets are in their 60’s now (assuming DOB 1958 or prior.)

Actual combat vets of Vietnam? Retirement age and up.

Cris

I turned 18 in 79, and I’ve seen many younger than me try to claim Vietnam. Somewhere I read that the official end date for the Vietnam conflict was Apr 75. So, if you’re not at least 4 years older than me, then you and your Vietnam stories can go pound sand.

2/17 Air Cav

Really, as I see it, anyone who claims to have been on the ground in VN after 1973, is full of shit. And if they claim to have been a combat troop, that’s stretching it.

Hondo

Well, there were those involved on the ground in combat situations in FREQUENT WIND, EAGLE PULL, and the Mayaguez Incident. All of those operations occurred in 1975. But all three of those are rather small groups.

Les

We popped him early January. That thread had hundreds of comments. I was messaging him until 9JAN. He said that was actually in 2/75 in RVN. Asswipe extrodinaire.

rgr769

What is so laughable is that he (and many others) don’t know that none of three Ranger Battalions in the 75th Infantry Regiment ever served in RVN. What we had over there were independent Ranger Companies attached to divisions, separate brigades and Corps HQ’s. The 1st Battalion/75th Inf. was not formed until about 1975, two years after the last combat troops left RVN. There was no such thing as a US Ranger battalion in RVN, ever.

Jay

How the hell did he stay at Jackson and get kicked at Ft. Sill?

Hondo

That’s one possibility. However, I seem to remember that the Army also had a Confinement Facility at Fort Sill. And he was REFRAD as a Private, so . . . .

Claw

Gunga Dan – 111 days

Steve (Hurricane) Hardee – 156 days

Totally Legit!!/s

Claw

Further confirmation of legitimacy:

Wilbur Steve Hardee is a member of “Left Low Ball” Jimmy Walls’ UH-1 Huey Helicopter Face Book page.

Over 26,000 members will vouch for him./s

jedipsycho (Certified Space Shuttle Door Gunner)

What, no sniper claims?? Color me shocked.

2/17 Air Cav

Been in the Army for 50 years. Says so right there on his FB page: “Sergeant · February 4, 1968 to present”

Judson Smith Sgt.

Hey,Dude, when where in 2/17th. I was with Btrp 69-70 maybe we served togeather.

2/17 Air Cav

No. I was at the Birdcage in ’73. HHT.

2/17 Air Cav

Guaranteed that we knew some of the same people, though. Mike Garganus? Marlock?

He looks so well-preserved, doesn’t he?

I once met this short guy who told me he was in Vietnam. This was a while back, around the time of Desert Storm.

I asked him when he was over there in Vietnam and he said “1978”. So I asked him how come he wasn’t in jail, because either Nixon or Ford had made it illegal for Americans to go to or enter Vietnam. I do not remember when it was dumped.

Anyway, that shut him up and he left quickly.

A Proud Infidel®™

Atomic Cocksucker.

annabelle

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Atkron

Steve Hardee is now Google Famous for being a phony.

Steve Hardee couldn’t even last a year in the Army.

Steve Hardee is a ‘Nothingburger’.

ChipNASA

At least Hardee’s (Corporation) has decent food and good burgers.
I have to disagree with you Aktron on one minor point, Steve Hardee here is a SHIT BURGER.

AND Steve Hardee is now GOOGLE Famous and no Steve, you don’t have to prove anything, but understand, go ahead and tell the Internet to kiss your ass because this is out there for EVERYONE to see.

Eat it BITCH.
So to review:

Steve Hardee is now Google Famous for being a phony.
Steve Hardee couldn’t even last a year in the Army.

Steve Hardee; phony Ranger, phony Vietnam vet, phony paratrooper

Steve Hardee is a phony Ranger.

Steve Hardee is a phony Vietnam Veteran.

Steve Hardee is a phony paratrooper

Steve Hardee was NEVER in Grenada

Steve Hardee was NEVER in Combat

Steve Hardee was an Army Basic Training and AIT washout and the Army tossed his pussy ass out and
showed everyone how much of a little BITCH he really is, not able to stand ion a REAL Man’s boot, like many of us and not even worthy of kissing the backside’s of the Ladies of TAH who served proudly.

Steve Hardee sucks

Steve Hardee is dickless

Steve Hardee was so stupid he didn’t realize that real veterans played him like an out of tune piano

Steve Hardee is a mental midget

Steve Hardee is about to wish he NEVER, EVER should have embellished is brief and unsuccessful military career

Girl Scouts could kick Steve Hardee’s ass and not break a sweat.

Steve Hardee is a loser extrodinare’

Graybeard

ChipNASA, I copy
Steve Hardee is now Google Famous for being a phony.
Steve Hardee couldn’t even last a year in the Army.

Steve Hardee; phony Ranger, phony Vietnam vet, phony paratrooper

Steve Hardee is a phony Ranger.

Steve Hardee is a phony Vietnam Veteran.

Steve Hardee is a phony paratrooper

Steve Hardee was NEVER in Grenada

Steve Hardee was NEVER in Combat

Steve Hardee was an Army Basic Training and AIT washout and the Army tossed his pussy ass out and showed everyone how much of a little BITCH he really is, not able to stand in a REAL Man’s boot, like many of us and not even worthy of kissing the backside’s of the Ladies of TAH who served proudly.

Steve Hardee sucks

Steve Hardee is dickless

Steve Hardee was so stupid he didn’t realize that real veterans played him like an out of tune piano

Steve Hardee is a mental midget

Steve Hardee is about to wish he NEVER, EVER should have embellished is brief and unsuccessful military career

Girl Scouts could kick Steve Hardee’s ass and not break a sweat.

Steve Hardee is a loser extrodinare’

(((OVER)))

UpNorth

Are you guys talking about Wilber Steve Hardee, the phony Ranger?
The soon-to-be infamous Wilbur Steve Hardee who was never near Grenada, never a paratrooper, never made 365 days in the Army? That Wilbur Steve Hardee?

Skyjumper

Awwwww, c’mon now ChipNASA, he was standing there in front of a mirror with his camera in hand when one of his buddies said “here, hold my beer and hat”….and old Steve-o thought, “Oh what the hell, I’ll just take a selfie with this here “The Herd” hat on and if anyone says anything I could always say I was holding it for a friend”. /sarc

Per his Facebook page:

Pronounces name STEE-vee HAR-dee

Well, STEE-vee Har-dee….HAR-DEE-HAR-HAR!!

Your azz has been busted!

A Proud Infidel®™

ROGER ChipNASA I copy:

AND Steve Hardee is now GOOGLE Famous and no Steve, you don’t have to prove anything, but understand, go ahead and tell the Internet to kiss your ass because this is out there for EVERYONE to see.

Eat it BITCH.
So to review:

Steve Hardee is now Google Famous for being a phony.
Steve Hardee couldn’t even last a year in the Army.

Steve Hardee; phony Ranger, phony Vietnam vet, phony paratrooper

Steve Hardee is a phony Ranger.

Steve Hardee is a phony Vietnam Veteran.

Steve Hardee is a phony paratrooper

Steve Hardee was NEVER in Grenada

Steve Hardee was NEVER in Combat

Steve Hardee was an Army Basic Training and AIT washout and the Army tossed his pussy ass out and
showed everyone how much of a little BITCH he really is, not able to stand ion a REAL Man’s boot, like many of us and not even worthy of kissing the backside’s of the Ladies of TAH who served proudly.

Steve Hardee sucks

Steve Hardee is dickless

Steve Hardee was so stupid he didn’t realize that real veterans played him like an out of tune piano

Steve Hardee is a mental midget

Steve Hardee is about to wish he NEVER, EVER should have embellished is brief and unsuccessful military career

Girl Scouts could kick Steve Hardee’s ass and not break a sweat.

Steve Hardee is a loser extrodinare’

Copy five by five,

((((OVER))))

Wilted Willy

Fuck this assclown, send him to the sandbox and let him prove his badassery!

26Limabeans

Send him to his beloved Viet of the Nam.
At the triple border point with Laos and Cambodia. It will take a while to sort it all out.

Martinjmpr

He’d probably qualify for the Human Mine Detector Platoon.

1610desig

Wilbur? I almost feel pity

2/17 Air Cav

We had a Myron or Byron in the 2/17. Farm boy. Good guy. Threatened to kick the ass of anyone who called him by his first name. No one did. Damn if I can recall what name he went by but I can see him clearly in my mind’s eye. Maybe about 2 a.m. I’ll remember.

2/17 Air Cav

Not that it matters to anyone but me, but I just recalled that name, first and last.

OldManchu

Take that you phony SEALS! A Grenada Ranger poser in yo’ face! Go Army!

2/17 Air Cav

Told this before. Tellin’ it again. When the GOARMY bumper stickers first came out, I kept wondering when I saw just what in the hell “GOAR MY” meant. No joke.

11B-Mailclerk

Is that anything like

Pope yes Chicken

?

2/17 Air Cav

Zactly.

Some Guy

I’ll take Anal bum cover for 7000
https://youtu.be/8Zq3KCBed5Q?t=4m7s

2/17 Air Cav

Too funny, SG.

NHSparky

Or the In N’ Out Burger bumper stickers where the B and R were cut off.

Still a few of those around.

Herbert J Messkit

Then there’s that rousing church hymn about the big furry animal with the funny name and a vision problem. “Gladly the cross-eyed bear”.

2/17 Air Cav

Another guy who shit all over an otherwise shitty record.

Perry Gaskill

I’m thinking Hardee got being in The Herd confused with that time he was caught in a sale stampede at WalMart…

Ex-PH2

Maybe he was in the 5th Herd. You know: that’s the one that is ALWAYS last to know anything or go anywhere, and ALWAYS whines about being left out.

A Proud Infidel®™

Or maybe the rumble of trying to be first into Golden Corral on Veterans Day, OH THE HORROR!!!

Dan Johnson

This guy has over 2400 friends. Of which:
– Roy Swick- photo’s wearing SF flash. https://www.facebook.com/IronHandStudios?fref=ufi

– Ray Morris- 100% disabled vet showing picts of SF/ Ranger/ AB. https://www.facebook.com/ray.morris.355?fref=ufi

Dustoff

Grenada? What, no war stories on how he rescued Gunny Highway and Stich Jones?

Tony180A

He still can’t talk about it because he couldn’t save Profile.

NHSparky

But he likes taking warm showers till the wee hours of the morning.

charles w

So that means he was a Force Recon Marine Army Ranger?

Atkron

I bet the Swede would’ve tore that ass up!

CW2 Club Manager, USA ret.

Mgr./ Sales at BP and Sergeant at U.S. Army
.

Studied Personal management at bp school of mgt

Past: Henderson High School
.

Lives in Durham, North Carolina

From Henderson, North Carolina · Lived in 1106E 171st Cleveland Ohio
.

His employer is BP and his Facebook page has lots of other good info. Let’s see what BP thinks about having a phony Ranger as one of their sales managers.
RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!!

Ex-PH2

BP may not know what this walking bean can does outside of work. Tread lightly.

If he’s a lousy employee with all the other stuff, it’s BP’s problem.

akpual

Beans are good for the heart.

Ex-PH2

True, but they usually fill the consumer full of noxious, flammable gases.

CW2 Club Manager, USA ret.

What I routinely do is advise the phony’s employer. In the case of a very large company like BP, and there was another one just the other day, I notify their media people the prick is giving their company a bad name. That usually is enough to get their attention because its all about corporate image. Plus, its a great way to start my day.

A Proud Infidel®™

“Mgr./ Sales at BP and Sergeant at U.S. Army
.

Studied Personal management at bp school of mgt”

What’s that in English, Night Clerk/Assistant Manager at a BP Gas Station?

Dan Johnson

Continuing to snoop through his friends, I ran across this guy- Byron Mccalman. Looking through his photos )https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1296628783698224&set=a.149333168427797.25809.100000533430843&type=3&theater) he infers that the inset (guy in OD’s w/ 101st patch) is him (comments on photo).
Then, this photo (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1260955030598933&set=ecnf.100000533430843&type=3&theater) he comments that he took this when in Iraq, for 2 1/2 years?
Seems to me that he may be a bit old, but I know a guy that was in both (Vietnam 68-69 and Iraq 04-05).

The Chief

I agree with you. I think we can find more stolen valor off of this guy’s huge list of Facebook friends. How the hell did he get that many friends? He’s doesn’t seem friendly at all!!

Claw

“How the hell did he get that many friends?”

Real easy. When you look at the almost 30 different military oriented Facebook groups he is a member of, which probably total over 200,000 fakers just like him, and you sit there in the back bedroom of your single wide under a bare 40 watt bulb sending out Friend requests to each and every one of them, with a success rate of roughly 10% accepting the Friend request, you end up with the 2400 and some “Friends” that he is so proud of.

It’s all a numbers game./smile

Claw

Well, Damnit, something has been gnawing at me all day and I just now figured it out.

It should read “roughly 1% accepting”, NOT “10% accepting”

My bad. I blame it on insufficient caffeine input.

E4 Mafia For Life.

Our CSM in the Gulf War was in Tiger Force Recon (1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, ) in Vietnam.
Tiger Force Recon was created by Col. David Hackworth.
Our CSM was an E4 in 1967.

Graybeard

I got a break and re-tallied our contestants in the 2018 TAH Phony Race, adding columns for various items such as having real service, being over/underweight, and various criminal offenses.
The newly re-scored 2018 TAH Phony Race stands thusly:
SEALs: 8
Green Beret/SF: 5 (1 female)
Rangers: 5
Marines: 5
Vietnam: 3
Navy UTD: 1
Navy EOD: 1
AF Pilot: 1 (1 female)
Army Officer: 1
Misc. unearned awards: 2

Wilted Willy

Graybeard, I didn’t know that could stack shit that high??

Graybeard

Practice with dry cow patties first.

When you get real good at that, then you can run for political office in Texas.

AZDesertRat

Aw man AF needs to step it up, we’re off to an embarrassing start. We need a blockbuster pilot or PJ movie, stat.

The Old Maj

Where the hell is the Coast Guard on this? We need more Coastie movies that show all the awesome stuff they do.

26Limabeans

I love the video of them taking out the engine of a cigarette boat with a .50 Barrett.
Must be thousands of guys and a few gals claiming to be that shooter.

Frankie Cee

Checking his page, I see one of my friends there, a REAL DEAL Ranger, former Ranger Instructor at Mountain Phase, and have alerted him. I also sent Steve Hardee a message:
“Hello Steve. I have been asked to help you verify your Ranger status. Could you tell me what Ranger Class you went through? You claim 3/75 during Vietnam and Grenada? That is interesting.
I check several people each week. Those that are legit let me know their class number as that is one thing that every Ranger is very proud of. Knowing that, I can move on, and get things squared away. Some, those who are not legit, and are too coward to have a conversation about it, about unfucking themselves, usually show what they are not by blocking me, thinking that will let them off the hook. Hit me back and we can get to the bottom of this. Ranger Steve Hawk will help in verification, as he is a former Ranger Instructor, and also has access to Ft. Benning records. Thanks, and waiting for your reply.”

RM3(SS)

He has the look of a Category IV waiver. they were taking some around then too. Tard boy.

NHSparky

I was company yeoman in boot, meaning I saw everyone’s “hard cards.” We had a guy with an ASVAB of…(drum roll)…11. Shit you not. Two others under 18.

None of them graduated with us.

Green Thumb

Another substandard discharge.

Substandard discharge = Shitbag.

Hondo

(music playing, female voice singing)

Hurry and see Steve Hardee, baby
‘Cause that poser’s now charco-broiled

rgr1480

I’m old enough to know the tune to “Hurry On Down to Hardees”.

(^____^)

SFC D

Didn’t Cass Elliot sing it?

Hondo

She did indeed. (smile)

Combat Historian

Total fucking lying posering shitbag…

Thunderstixx

Stupid fuck couldn’t even do the 180 days he needed to get VA bennies…
He deserves every nasty thing that happens to him from here on out…
Ass gasket…

RGR 4-78

Steve Hardee lying sack of shite.

FatCircles0311

How does one get kicked out of the Army? Seriously wow. That is probably more work than if you were to just stay in and be a massive shitbag.

E4 Mafia For Life.

Klinger tried for like 12 years to get out and dressed in drag.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Wilber Steve Hardee likes it in his SQUEAKHOLE…

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

ROG that Private Hardee Sir!

I will get right on it and start believing you straight away!

Ah, never mind.

You are a hillbilly looser!

MCPO

John D

NDSM and Sharpshooter?

Perfectly honorable, and he had to crap all over it.

🙂

rgr769

Yeah. Four whole months of “honorable” AD and in that last month he apparently stepped on his crank and was kicked to the curb as an E-1 at the five month mark. Impressive.