Doug Russell; Fort Dix trained sniper
Scotty sends us his latest Special Forces Sniper, Doug Russell who trained for sniper school at Fort Dix – yeah, any of those other sniper schools are bogus. If you didn’t graduate at Dix, you weren’t put through the paces. What convinced me, though is in the picture above, he has the curved flashlight – the only authorized flashlight for Special Forces snipers.
That’s why I was completely shocked when I saw the FOIA, because Doug fits the image of the Special Forces sniper;
No military service? But he so looks the part.
Category: Phony soldiers
What really sets him apart is the Tab on his RIGHT shoulder. No wartime SSI needed for him, his Ranger Tab says it all.
And y’all never heard of the Dix sniper school? For shame! The students used to do KD on the strip at McGuire.
Name tag over left pocket of whatever that jacket is? I thought it was a mirror shot…but if it is, then he is saluting with his left arm. Is that a metal canteen? We had plastic ones in VN.
Bless his heart.
Just a couple of typos, that’s all. He meant swiper school at Fort Dicks.
I trained at Ft. Dix in 1960, at Infantry AIT. Don’t recall seeing any sniper school stuff then.
Metal canteen was SOP in my day= 1960-1964.
Reading his post about his “sniper service time”, wouldn’t he have had some sort of camo pattern on his fatiques? My era had OG-107s, with “bright” patches, but changed about the time Vietnam cranked up.
why do all these douche bags want to claim to be a sniper? “i sat 500 yards away and shot at people that couldnt even see me or knew i was there” doesnt make for a good war story. there are way cooler things ya can claim, even just straight leg infantry. go tell people ya were on the ground kickin in doors and blasting some mother F while looking him in the eyes at 5 feet away. now thats how ya get some credit. why would anyone want to claim to be a sniper?
P.S. no disrespect to actual snipers, ive had my tail saved on a few occasions by them, but their job is boring
Just because people repeatedly take you snipe hunting and make fun of you, doesn’t make you a “sniper”.
Amen #6 cato.
Snipe hunting is NOT for those afraid of being in the woods after dark, alone. Took several cousins, friends, etc. “Snipe Hunting”, back in the day.
Just want to kick this idiot in the nuts for that left hip thrust thing he’s doing while pretending to salute something.
Frankly Opinionated: saw a few metal canteens myself growing up near a military installation. I think they’d all washed out of the supply system by the time I served, though. There might have still been a few around in the “system” here and there, but if so they were rare as hell.
If this guy had served 1985-1995 as he claims, he’d have been wearing BDUs – not that OD-whatever he’s wearing. BDUs used black/brown/green subdued patches. And they damn sure didn’t use ACU nametapes like this tool appears to be wearing over his pocket. He’d also have been sporting a kevlar helmet vice a steel pot most or all of that time.
I’m guessing this is just some wannabe who found a surplus store. Scotty’s documentation says the same.
@8. That’s funny! (Yes, he does seem to be listing but that remedy of yours should work.)
@9. “OD-whatever” is right. I don’t recognize that shade of OD. And that helmet liner looks like it was issued by the Italian Army.
That’s so cute, he’s playing dress up. How adorable! Quick, Ma, take a photo for the facespace page!
What a douche-bag!
Is this shit for real? If not for his lying facebook messaging/email claims of being an “army sniper”, I would’ve said his photo was dress-up for a halloween party. These posers are just f-king unbelievable…
Forget being in the military, of any nation, the helmet reminds me of the East Germans. That get up is so bad he would be laughed off a paint ball course.
@#3…LMAO!
aww…he looks like my 5 y/o nephew playing soldier
Damn…who posted my DA photo on this website?
Damn. Just, damn!
Damn. Just, damn!
I’m rendered speechless.
That’s not a flashlight, it’s a sniper periscope for shooting around corners and over walls. It even comes with a red lens for night stealth shooting.
He misspelled snipper and worked on the grass cutting detail. Ranger tab on right sleeve is the secret squirrel signal to other snippers that they are under cover.
Holy hand grenades, Batman!
What is with the olive drab jumpsuit? And the Batman utility belt?
Them there hits jes’ keep on comin’, don’t they?
Looks like he missed Holoween by a couple of weeks.
Looks like next years tournament is getting off to a rousing start…
Can you say…
KNOB !!!!!
He can’t even salute right. My DS would have me doing push ups till he puked if I saluted like that… What a knob !!!
This guy is so messed up. Looks like he is wearing his dad’s WWII or Korean uniform.
Weak.
@Sparks, I thought so, too, but it looks kind of like a jumpsuit, too, not shirt and pants.
Im digging the salute, the plastic helmet and the pickle suit with ACU name…slightly before my time, but Im pretty sure BDUs came around in 80-82.
The flashlight on the belt speaks volumes to this tool’s credibility.
@28 The salute is really what gets me. One of the first thing they taught us in Basic, after…shut the fuck up unless you are spoken to…was how to stand at attention and salute. This guy is just an ass clown playing secret squirrel sniper. Another one? What are the odds?
@30 All snipers carry a flashlight in case they need to read a map at night or open and MRE. Also it helps when you get road guard duty.
I just blew up the photo and he is wearing his name tag on the wrong side. Don’t these ass clowns know you can Google the regs for Army uniforms? I guess not. I think from the close up of his face that he has some mental problems. Still, mental ass clowns count too.
Sparks,the flashlight isn’t for MREs.
It’s for finding their way to the 24-hour window at McDonald’s and opening their crispy bacon ranch premium wrap in the parking lot behind a bush. And counting the fries that came with it.
It looks to me like he’s wearing the Army’s earlier Nomex flight uniform. For awhile, the Army had a two-piece uniform for flight crew made out of Nomex that sort of matched the OD fatigue stuff prior to the BDU’s. IIRC, some tankers tried them out as well.
But man, that’s guy’s messed up 6 ways from Friday. He looks like a kid headed out to play Army with his friends, wearing all the stuff he cobbled together from a couple trips to the surplus store and/or Ebay.
@35. Nope. No NOMEX on that body. They were brownish. THE ODs were actually green. His costume is neither.
@34 I just snorted coffee out my nose. Thank you for the laugh, my belly is still shaking.
@Sparks, my pleasure.
In honor of Father’s Day 2013, here’s a clip that’s perfect for TAH. After Doctor Evil struggles to understand just what Goldmember is saying, Austin Power’s dad, Nigel, is confronted by three armed guys in hysterical uniform. It’s a scream—unless you happen to be Dutch. Enjoy!
http://www.anyclip.com/movies/austin-powers-in-goldmember/austin-powers-fassia/#!quotes/
Just found his Facebook page. It is special. He walks parades in that getup.
https://www.facebook.com/doug.russell.14
I bet he’s the pride of his Trailer Park!! Definitely a member of his local “Trailer Park Special Farces” in between welfare checks. The only thing he’s missing is his Airsoft Expert Marksmanship Badge!!
P.S. I tried to train him as a Door Gunner for NASA, but I had to wash him out of the program. If I’m lying, may a wasp sting me in the ass right no-*OOOOWWWWW!! *.
This guy’s a champ! Is there anything “right” in that picture? I don’t think so.
Isn’t that the Ghostbusters jumpsuit?
I sent the following message to his church, hoping to be able to converse with him and learn how to wear a uniform as well as he does:
“Hi there, could you please have Doug Russell, (a sexton at your church), contact me in reference to:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=36254 “
I must be getting soft in my old age. After seeing the other photo’s on the FB page that Sparks cited in 40, I kinda feel sorry for this guy.
@44.
That was funny.
He is the “Turdkeeper”.
@46 I understand what you are saying. The guy looks as pathetic as he is messed up with the uniform get up. His Facebook photos show he must be involved with the Boy Scouts. If he is, there is a uniform for them. Even on field outings. But…the guy is claiming “sniper school at FT. Dix” and parading in town as such it seems. Regrettably for him it makes him fair game as a poser on this blog. Considering his occupation he really needs to get some therapy.
Hey all – please note that on the right shoulder of that very odd-colored uniform blouse/jacket, there is a bright red/gold tab that doesn’t look ‘right’ for a US uniform. I’m thinking the fatigues are foreign milsurp.
@42: Last weekend at the gun show a vendor of morale patches actually had Space Shuttle Door Gunner patches for sale. For $7 I had to buy one, I couldn’t help myself.
He sorta looks like one of those men in the old WWII posters you see in museums.