Mary sends us a link to her new website (POW Network has divided up the valor thieves and phony POWs to two separate websites) and this Danny Russell Crane dude. Apparently, he has quite an arrest record; He’s been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in jail since 2000 for things such as harassment, fraud, ID theft and more.
His most heinous crime might be the fact that he “stole” the story of the Marine who stood guard outside the hospital room of the dying young cancer patient, Cody Green, that we discussed a few months back. Of course, he inserted himself into the story, though he pretends to be a soldier.
But here’s Crane’s FOIA;
Yeah, a little over two months of service in the 90s. but here’s the DD214 he’s rockin’;
So, if you don’t hate him yet, zip over to Mary’s new house and read the rest.
Category: Phony soldiers
What a nut job.
Christ what’s with the Short Sleeve shirt and tie….guy looks like friggin Andy Sippowitz, except the guy who played him actually has more time in the Army than this turd burglar.
Ok; this fucker is getting 100% disabled VA benefits? I think there needs to be a call put into the VAOIG right fucking now!
@2, unfortunately, that may be the only thing that’s correct in the photo. That’s the unfortunate new shirt that goes with the ASU, Army Service Uniform……really need to go back to the uniform WWII.
Activated in support of OIF, July 2002? Really?
His DD 214 should be the final exam for the 42A, Personnel Specialist course.
“You have 45 minutes to find all the inaccuracies in this document. You must find 25 of 30 inaccuracies to get a “GO” at this station. If there are no questions, I have 1300. the exam concludes at 1345″
Looking at the DD214 one mistake catches my eye right off….I retired in November 2010 and everything is signed by CAC card, well at least at Fort Bliss it is. Getting so sick of these jackasses.
Well this is a first, a poser wearing the Shield of Shame (i.e. Recruiter Badge). He has an ‘Expert’ Combat Medic Badge, whatever that is. No mention of the Recruiting Gold badge on his DD214, no mention of the SF Tab, BUT he is school qualified 18D… with NO AIRBORNE WINGS!
To top it all off, he looks like he may have a Blue Tooth wireless headset on in the pic, which is only authorized when DRIVING! This Oxygen Thieving in-flight missile repairman needs to get an a^& beating from some paratroopers. I wouldn’t even bother to Get the USJFKSWCS guys involved. PLEASE tell me he is in North Carolina.
“H-Minus, All the way!”
PLEASE, PLEAAAASE find this assclown’s Facebook!
The entire new site, fakewarriors.org will be live shortly. Crane needed neon lights, so we passed that link on early.
Bear with us – doing this as reports increase steadily with the attention you all generate on these cases, and the Supremes recent ruling. We succeed where media and LEO fail.
Thanks for all your continued support.
Turd. I love the biker picture. Guys, thius could be a high seed in next years tounament.
@6, that is what I saw too.
As opposed to the “Mundane Combat Medic Badge”.
Hey TSO; I think a call should be put in to his Legion Post and ALR chapter, too.
Why not just round up these maroons in one spot, give them some food and water, send them to a hotspot like Afghanistan and drop them off without an escort? And give each of them a gun of some kind with some real bullets.
This will be shared in facebook. I have been a medic all my career, one of the many things I have done as an addition to all the other BS, is to serve as a flight medic. As it stands now, F3 is the new ASI not F6. There is a Expert Field Medical Badge( EFMB) a Combat Medical Badge (CMB) but I have never seen a Expert Combat Medic Badge, guess you rate one for doing the EFMB while deployed? (its SARCASM people…)
Now this one I would like to have a personal close conversation with, now that I think of it, Texarkana is not too far.
He has been posted on the Stolen Valor site on Facebook, as well as the other notable pages there, as for his page, he shut it down as soon as he started being investigated. according to sources he has went into hiding, the last time he made an appearance was at a VFW in FL, where he was told to leave. The American legion post he was last at, has posted BOLO’s at every VFW and AL lodge in the country that they could reach, please folks pass his info along to your posts also, he likes to hang at VFW’s as well as American Legion posts, his BS has to be stopped, and I won’t be satisfied with this one till he is in jail!!!!
sheesh. He’ll surface somewhere.
What a trash bag. Posting this to The DuffelBlog FB group.
I’m familiar with the way the Air Force does things, but would the Army sign a 16 year old on delayed entry and then place them on active duty a week or two after their 17th birthday?
If my DD214 had any typoes, especially the number in this fake, I would have had the personnel shop redo it.
CIB and CFMB are of equal value in my book as are the EIB and EFMB.
Medics walk with you.
Good men.
Hey Green Thumb, Black Sheep baby!
@19.
TOG. Roger that.
Prime and Load, bitches.
@19.
TOG. Roger that.
Prime and Load.
Where is a government card when you need a beer?
From what I’ve read, the Marine that stood guard at Cody Green’s door specifically wanted Cody’s final hours and memory to be about the brave struggle of a little boy, not about the Marines. Total opposite of this douche. Its too bad the Marines from Cody’s honorary unit can’t find this asshat and take away for a little “chat.”
I remember that photo and story. One of the moving and touching things I have read or seen in a long time. What a tool. Screwing with the memory of a young boy like that. I echo what @22 said above.
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I bet you those Marines can, but then they would be infringing on his 1st amendment rights to be a fucking shitbag.
He should be in “inminent” danger of a severe 4ss beating and prosecution for fraud. I thought altering federal documents for the purpose of claiming benefits was still fraud?
Lying for drinks and sex apparently is a 1st amendment right, but lying to take money from a program designed for actual disabled vets still seems like a criminal act to me.
Well free speech and all… however, his bevvy of falsified/forged federal documents an FBI investigation. His 100% card is from Florida Dept of Veterans Affairs?? It sure as hell aint VA ID card, 100% P&T rates a Retired Military ID. Either way his info should be passed onto the VAIG
He is being investigated by the VA IG, as well as the FBI, I personally contacted Macdill AFB (a place he likes to go) and sent them every piece of evidence there is to Investigator Clifton Kirk, although I don’t know how seriously they took it ( I use to switch my ID for my 14 year old sons at FT Campbell and you would be surprised at how many times I got through). If there is any member of the Armed Forces who would care to touch base with this INSP Kirk I would be very beholding to you…
You still hanging, Doc V?
No “Payne”, no gain.
Or the helmeted, one bar, no PT test passing turd.
@22 Yeah, this jackass does need a trip to the treeline. Poor Chesty is probably doing about 8000 rpm in his grave right now tryin to get out after this shithead.
This dude is a two-hole Ranger.
@#5, You are correct about the CAC card signature. I retired in August 2009 and my DD214 is dated Feb 2000 version. I think 1988 is a little outdated for someone who got out in August 2010 as that piece of shit’s states….
Ok this ass hat.. wow so glad to finally see somehting new on him thought he was getting lost in the shuffle of the rest of the ASSHATS. my cousins wife brought this guy out andwe sent him to stolen valor.. THANKS FRED. but what i dont get even if Stolen valor was shot down as it was writen. whats up with the LAWS OF THIS LAND??? he defrauded the legion or VFW when they paied for him to go to HAWAII.. he is recieving medical benifits from teh VA. that is fraud Plain and simple. we dont need more laws these fuckers need to inforce the laws we have on the fkin books! then the wear of his uniform Again already a law for that. BACK to teh VA disability. i was @50% SC for my back. granted i hurt it in training. Never saw a day of combat but I trianed everyday as if i would! the VA came back and did a c&P exam and i was having a good day. they reduced me to 20% in a matter of a few weeks. and a few months later i neede to have a 2 level fusion. and it ahs taken me nearly 4 years to get it back up to 30% and they cant revoke this FKs disability!? WTF is goin on here. why oh why. Id gladdy give my 30% up for the soldiers that are coming home missing limbs. and this fker is getting 100% for being a fkin asshat. SAD FKIN DAY IN AMERICA! WAKE UP !!! Fred still working on that think you and i talked about to bust these fkers! slow moving the guy is workin on set!
Are my eyes deceiving me or is he wearing a recruiter’s badge (on the wrong pocket)? I didn’t see anything in his bogus DD214 that says anything about recruiting duty. And I don’t remember my husband’s pockets EVER hanging that low on his chest. Also suspicious to me that he was in for 11 years and only earned ONE GCM, ONE AAM, ONE ARCOM. My husband was in for 20 years and he earned 2 GCM, 6 AAM, and 5 ARCOMs and he was a maintenance guy. So how come this Audie Murphy wannabe here is out hanging from helicopters saving people’s lives, and he only got one each? I’d also like to know how he made SFC in just 11 years. Most guys retire with 20 years and only make E8, a few make E9, but this dude made E7 in just 11 years? From his real DD214 it appears he washed out of basic training.
I live in Texarkana and if I could possibly have access to the address that was marked out I would LOVE to go have a talk with this fine gentleman… 😀 I spent my time in the Marines, and I have a buddy I went to boot camp with that would love to accompany me on my visit to this asshat…. I’ll send pictures of our little talk if someone could please help me out with his address.. 😀 Please??? I’m just so sick of these stolen valor morons. If one of them gets their ass handed to them it would be a great thing.
I wonder who took the picture?
My favorite is the tie from the Big and Tall Store.
This guy needs to have a lesson taught to him. The Stolen Valor Act may have been repealed by the SC but not in my heart. My son was KIA in Iraq in 2007 and he was a proud Army Medic! He learned his job and did it well. I get so disgusted with people like this a*&hole who never earned a thing in his life but still wants the honor that my son died for…..
Ahhhhhhhhh shit son! I’ve got a soldier I know from Texarkana!
What’s up wit that address!
i know this ass bag he is not in riverview florida now, he has rode with our group. he is known to carry a pair of 40 cals. he is crazy and on drugs.
Hmmmmm…felon carrying concealed. Ride on, a call to your friendly neighborhood LEO agencies might go far.
NH Sparky, he swears he is still at his home in riverview,
and the feds are not looking for him, i even had him look at this site,
Simply Amaging!!! He got this far and for this long with this BIG lie!!! What a disappointment!
Idiot. Sep date of 12/25/2010….no one is working on sep docs on Christmas Day. I looked up more images of this disgusting liar, and he has more than one uniform from more than one branch of service decked out to the nines with ribbons and medals. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE this piece of garbage.
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/video?clipId=7585265&topVideoCatNo=236673&autoStart=true
Hay everyone i was just informed Danny is still in riverview florida and made the mistake of showing up at the beer shed in riverview, i was told he got the crap kicked out of him, they said he ran out of there crying like a little girl, if he was able to run, then he still has not gotten what he deserves
Good news travels fast.
[…] Russell Crane update August 14th, 2012 Mary at POW Network writes to tell us that Danny Crane has been arrested. I couldn’t find anything about the arrest, but I did find this news report […]
I count the Marine who stood guard on Cody as a personal friend. Those final hours were not about him or any other Marine, but Cody. For this blivet to claim that it was him and to make it about him, well, let’s hope that he finds lots of new friends in the days ahead…
It’s insane that the Stolen Valor Act got repealed. It’s okay, we will just continue to bend over and take it from an ungrateful nation while these idiots make a mockery of the sacrifice of real men and women. Sheep one and all. Thank God you are protected from the wolves prowling at the gate…
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” John Stuart Mill
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