Daniel Beckham aka Daniel Rodas begs to be made famous, won’t you help?
I may be the only guy in America happy when a turd falls into his lap. Daniel Beckham is just such a peanut-encrusted turd.
Spoke with a concerned party in Los Cerritos, California this morning. Which is fun to say. Los Cerritos. Anyway, it seems that the above pictured chap has been into some shady shit. Let’s start with the account from HIS side.
Members of the Cerritos College Police Department took former US Marine Daniel E. Beckham, a former student and part time employee at Cerritos College, into custody on Thursday morning and is being held on a $25,000 bond.
Beckham has been transferred to Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail where he is being held on eight felony counts on destruction of government property.
[Added on edit] Beckham survived two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and was actually wounded in Iraq and is a “Wounded Warrior.”
Basically he went into the school’s computer system and played Monkey Throws Poop with various grades. He got caught. But we must excuse him because he is a combat veteran. We know that from the Change.org petition to let America’s Latest Hero walk:
Daniel is an honorable, decorated Marine Corps veteran who diligently attended school at Cerritos College as a pre-med student and in the Disabled Students Programs and Services Department.
Just how heroic? That’s unclear, but we do get this:
Beckham is also a decorated war veteran who served in the US Marines in both Iraq and Afghanastan [sic] from 2007 to 2010.
OK, everyone get your shocked face ready.
Medals he is entitled to per fleet marine reserve: Marine Select Reserve Medal. National Defense Service Medal. /fullstop.
Actual Discharge: OTH
So let’s just start with a round of, “who can identify the ribbons” and we’ll go from there. He has some pretty awesome Eric Estrada hair, but you can’t just be making stuff up there super troop.
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Bend him (over) like Beckham. *snerk*.
Yeah.
He looks like he knows his way around a set of balls.
I got out as a Lance Coolie. That doesn’t appear to be the rank he’s wearing here does it?
Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal
Combat Action Ribbon
Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal
national Defense Service Medal
Afghanistan
Iraq
Not sure, Global War expeditionary?
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Humanitarian Service Medal
Yup, bottom left looks like GWOT-E
Sure is. Now, I have to ask this idiot some questions.
Where’s your battle stars for the ICM and ACM?
When did you serve to earn the GWOTEM?
When you can answer those questions, let me know.
I can’t say for the ACM, but the star is only authorized for particular years of OIF. I was there from ’07-’08, and we didn’t rate a star.
Drew
The stars are not years. They indicate campaign stages, or time periods, of both the ICM and the ACM. If you were there for 30 days, you get either and at least one star to boot. I was there twice. 2004 and 2008-09. I was in four different periods of the Iraqi Campaign. I was awarded four campaign stars to my ICM and I have my DD-214 to back me up. You were there when? Check out the info on the ICM and you have qualified for at least one if not two.
Agree with all except maybe the HSM. The HSM has lightish-blue stripes next to the dark center stripe, and the one he’s wearing seems to have a different light-colored stripe there. Could be false-color on the photo, though – and I don’t have a better idea.
I believe what you think is the HSM is actually the NATO ISAF. But, I also agree with an earlier comment. Where is the star on the ICM and ACM? Turd and a half!
Yep. GWOTEM and GWOTSM. Going by his rack, he is claiming to have been deployed three times. He has the Afghan and Iraq campaign medals. The GWOTEM couldn’t be given for the same period of service.
Thanks Thomas Gerle. Except for the NDSM all the others are way after my time, plus not being Navy or Marine myself. I would have had to Google all the images. Thanks again.
He’s also missing the NATO medal that would have been awarded with the Afghanistan Service Medal. I’d think that, given his at least three deployments based on his medals (1x Iraq, 1x Afghanistan, and 1x somewhere in the AOR for the GWOT Expeditionary) he’d have an OSR in there, also.
Bobo: don’t think the USMC does the OSR – believe that’s Army only.
Side note- California has it’s own Stolen Valor Act which reads:
532b. (a) Any person who falsely represents himself or herself as a
veteran or ex-serviceman of any war in which the United States was
engaged, in connection with the soliciting of aid or the sale or
attempted sale of any property, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
You think getting folks to start up a change.org petition qualifies? That would be an interesting court case I would think. Maybe I will get a trip to Los Cerritos out of this.
If he got into the school based on his accounts of being a disabled veteran, would that count?
Seems like a tangible benefit to me, but who knows, legally.
I know that CA has a program that lets the spouse/children of disabled veterans attend any public college (including CSU/UC system schools) tuition-free, even if it’s just a 0-percent disability rating.
I would imagine that a similar situation exists for the veteran themselves…so yeah, getting a break for that could very well fit under SV.
Lying POS. Honorable my ass. It looks like he is only wearing the NDSM but not his reserve medal. Everything else on his chest is a lie. Keel haul him.
Just shared the information and link in the comments section of that article.
It would be nearly impossible to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine and not qualify for the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, and it is literally impossible to be awarded the Iraq or Afghanistan Campaign Medals without at least one campaign star on each of them. Although this guy IS wearing the ribbons in the correct order of precedence and he even got the Combat Action Ribbon on the correct direction, but it seems that fakers never fully do their homework.
No way he could NOT get a SSDR during a deployment unless he was short-toured or wounded. SSDR is given after 90 days deployed.
And actually, the stories claim “combat wounded” but he’s not rocking the Purple Heart, so either they’re jacked up or he’s just smart enough to realize he’d get his junk hammered if he threw that on his ribbon rack.
I noticed that, too. All of that chest bling and no PH despite the wounded claim?
No Purple Heart may mean he just doesn’t know what it means, OR he may be walking wide of that.
Not true I did not get a campaign star on either of my campaign ribbons. You have to be there during specific periods of time during the campaign, which I was only there during one phase for each deployment. I was also wounded in the first month in my OEF deployment and MEDVAC’d and still go my sea service deployment ribbon for that deployment, along with the campaign ribbon, NATO, ect.
http://www.army.mil/article/60925/
“Servicemembers who have qualified for the Iraq Campaign Medal and Afghanistan Campaign Medal may display a bronze campaign star on their medal for each campaign phase in which they participated. A silver campaign star is issued in lieu of five bronze stars.”
So, every ICM or ACM should have at least one bronze star attached.
And from the USMC:
http://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/MessagesDisplay/tabid/13286/Article/113311/campaign-stars-for-the-afghanistan-and-iraq-campaign-medals.aspx
“THEREFORE, THE ACM AND THE ICM WILL ALWAYS BE AWARDED WITH AT LEAST ONE BRONZE CAMPAIGN STAR (SIMILAR TO THE
SOUTHWEST ASIA SERVICE MEDAL (SWASM), VIETNAM SERVICE MEDAL (VSM),AND KOREAN SERVICE MEDAL (KSM)).”
If you rate the medal, it comes with a star now. At first, it did not. My ICM had no stars at one point and now I have 4 on it. I think it happened after 2007 time-frame.
But… but… he’s got all those pretty medals he wears. And he’s got such nice hair. You’re so MEAN to him.
You’re just jealous. Yeah, that’s it.
(sarc off)
Meh. To be jealous of his hair, I’d first need to have some … 😉
Amen to that, brother.
Naw. This guy has nothing on “The Hair.” Now Don Shipley’s is something to be jealous of.
This POS hair is insignificant compared to the wonder and glory that is “The Hair”. All hail “The Hair”!
Don’t let Don’s hair hear that!!!
This dude is a straight up flesh peddler.
Hate to bust your bubble, TSO, but Cerritos College is actually in Norwalk–not the worst area in SoCal, but not the best, either. Go west on Alondra about 10 minutes and you’ll be smack-dab in the middle of Compton, if that tells you anything.
And pre-med at CC? Yeah, no. Not from a community college, considering that most folks there get an AA/certificate, and that’s it. There are a lot of courses that won’t even transfer into the UC/CSU system, if that tells you anything.
Then again, their colors are blue and white–and their mascot? The Falcon.
Couldn’t make that one up if I tried.
I wonder if this is the school shirt?
http://www.rangerup.com/mysteryshirt.html
I wish they did MMA shorts with it, I would wear them to the tournaments fo’ sho’ …
“Los Cerritos” is the name of the old Spanish rancho that later became the various cities in the southeast of LA County. Cerritos is probably the closest city with that name now, but ironically it doesn’t lie within the old Los Cerritos rancho (Cerritos was formerly “Dairy Valley” and actually took the name from the already established Cerritos College..)
Compton is a lot more than “10 minutes away” from Norwalk these days, which I can personally attest to since my commute takes me along the same route.
Heading south from Norwalk TSO can find another funny name: Los Alamitos. I wonder if any of you have passed through the base there in your careers. My kids go to school nearby.
Yeah, been to Los Alamitos more than once. And no, Compton is not that far away.
Especially if you take the 91 Freeway–10 miles, maybe.
Taking Alondra, it’ll take about 15 minutes TOPS to get from the 605 to the 710 (goes into Paramount, then Compton.) Then again, it IS LA traffic, so yeah, call it an hour.
Sincerely,
Guy who used to work for SCE in that area.
@NHSparky: Bless you for your service for my electricity.
Sincerely,
Current SCE customer with a crappy commute
Guess that he is dreading the thought of staying in “County” for a long stretch of “anal dilation therapy” with the Bohica Brothers (Thor, Julio, Bubba and “Tiny”).
I could think of a lot of places I wouldn’t want to be.
Twin Towers (LA County Men’s Central Jail) would be very, very high on that list.
Knew a guy years ago that had an overnight stay at “County” when he was young… the one thing that he said about it:
“There are some really bad people in jail”
That was his “come to Jesus moment” in his life…
…long stretch of “anal dilation therapy….”
OUCH! You said “stretch” in the same sentence.
–ghp
Just sent a heads-up to the editor of that Hews Media Group carrying the story and advised them they should dig deeper into their mistreated hero. This jerk is definitely trying to gain advantage, possibly financial, through his Stolen Valor, so maybe the DA can add some charges.
Phildo’s son.
Maybe he’s a Sonofablake?
He apparently has a court date on Wednesday as well.
The reporter following the case is named Randy Economy. His e-mail is Randy@Cerritosnews.net. It might be worth sending the information to him.
I love how the story has some sockpuppet LtCol claiming how squared away this guy was and that he was his CO for both Iraq and Afghanistan. And get this–the sockpuppet claims the kid served in Fallujah.
Oh, they just don’t know when to stop stomping on their own dicks.
The only Marine officer I could find with the name Habel is this gentleman: http://www.marforres.marines.mil/MarineForcesReserveLeaders/ExecutiveDirector.aspx
And by his bio, he never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan… Sooooo… I smell some more bs. Someone apparently ripped off the good name of this officer.
That is what I found as well ET1.
TSO, do you know when/where this piece of slag went to boot? Mr Habel was CO of RTC MCRD SD starting in 2007. Could be how buttnugget found the name for his sockpuppet.
That is my theory right now of where he got it.
This one will have updates as we go on, but likely not today.
Yeah, like the CO of MCRD is going to remember ONE boot.
I look at it this way–if a CO of MCRD (or RTC, etc.) knew you by name, about 99.9 percent of the time, that was a VERY BAD THING.
According to his bio, the real Habel retired as a Colonel. So, if the commenter was not a sockpuppet, he would not sign as an O-5. Very likely he was still an O-5 when Beckham knew of him, though.
I looked up LtCol Habel (Beckhams supposed CO for both of his deployments) on MOL. The only Habel, LtCol listed was a retired F/18 driver. Unless Beckham was putting air in the tires of jet aircraft in Fallujah, this does not compute. I think Beckham may be lying……
And while I won’t speak for the Corps, if their rotations are anything like the Navy, it’s HIGHLY unlikely any O-5 would be in command of a battalion for that long (I would think like a Navy CO tour, 30-36 months is typical.)
That would also be about right for most Army O5-level commands outside Korea, NHSparky. Some Korean O5-level command tours used to be much shorter than that, but things might have changed.
You are correct NHSparky. A battalion commander usually does one deployment as C.O. in the Corps. And a jet driver would NEVER command an infantry battalion.
I agree with what has been stated earlier, the shit weasel Beckham pulled that name out of his past and used it as a sock puppet.
Military fakery, always the tip of the iceberg.
That is the gheyest photo EVER!
Bubba already sez “He got purdy hair, purdy eyes, anna real purdy mouf!! Bet he gots a really purdy BUTT, too!”.
With his luck, he’ll end up with “Bubba” Ben Dover as a cellmate! OH, ain’t that petition a heartbreaker? Yeah, he got out as a Lcpl, and on an OTH, gee, where’s his credibility, did he leave it in the closet when he got evicted or something?
Just another fucking lying sleazebag with an OTH discharge; hope he brought his Anusol with him to the county lockup…
Hey, did anyone pass on the name of a licenses CA lawer that has visited this site in the past to Danni-Boi… you know the one… “Cambridge trained”… real whiz in court… you know… Danny-Boi Bernasty!!!
Oily Taint, like Buttblast Bernath, is also a “distinguished” graduate of Western Law School.
I hear she’s got some time on her hands.
He also at the age of 18 passed his driver’s license test on his first try.
Oh yes …. One of resume bullet points.
If you think Los Cerritos is fun to say, TSO, throw down a few of these:
Aliso Viejo
La Canada Flintridge
La Puente
Laguna Niguel
Rancho Santa Margarita
Jurupa Valley
Adelanto
Yucaipa
Chula Vista
Escondido
Paso Robles
Hey, they ain’t Leominster, Billerica, or Worcester, but it’s a start.
You shit talk Billerica once and I will end you!
(Actually, I prefer Woburn.)
Billerica? Ain’t that Bill Blake’s sister? Or maybe some dude named William in drag? (smile)
But twice is okay, right?
In the western part of the state TSO we sort out the locals by how they pronounce Huntington….
If it’s Hun-ting — ton…well stranger we got ya…
Yeah, it’s “hunning-dun” isn’t it?
That’s where Surfer Joe attended the “Annual Surfers’ Convention Meet”, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJLAyrTN5Fc&feature=kp
–ghp
One of my favorite games that we play when I get my Mississippi born and raised wife into eastern Massachusetts is “pronounce the town name on that sign.” It’s always good for a laugh.
Especially when you’re driving into Athol.
I passed by “Blair Atholl” castle on my way from Skye to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne once … I called it “At-toll” and she corrected me in the Scottish pronunciation. She said, “It’s like saying “ass hole” with a lisp.”
That’s how I’ll always remember it.
–ghp
Reminds me of the old Joke:
What’s Barney Frank’s favorite road sign on the way to Provincetown?
“Entering Dennis”
That’s right up there with “What’s your name? Dick Hertz from Holden.”
I thought is was “entering Woods Hole” or Yarmouth
I live in Escondido. Its translation is “The Hidden Place” It actually refers to the Valley the town is built in. More than a few schools and businesses use “Hidden Valley in their name.
They sound like some nice names for cigars
Perhaps we really do need to get the truth about this jackass to the prosecutor pronto. From the first linked article above:
“Judge Fournier dropped five felony counts against Beckham that he committed felony burglary charges on the Norwalk campus to commit the alleged grade and transcript changes.”
Methinks the guy is already profiting from his BS.
Maybe, maybe not. From my recruiting days there, LA-area prosecutors love piling on the charges, maybe a bit too thick, that way when the case is pleaded down to something more reasonable, it looks good on their records.
Problem is, as you know, for a lot of these kids, it’s what they get CHARGED with, not what they got CONVICTED of, that is what has to be reported when they try to enlist.
Perhaps. But this was a pre-trial order by the judge, not a plea-bargain. Sounds more to me like the judge was “cutting a combat vet a break” by dropping some more serious charges (burglary).
Somehow I don’t think the judge would have been quite as likely to do that for someone he knew had been thrown out of the USMC for cause.
I think I actually disagree on this one Hondo. It sounded from what I read as if he was legally entitled to be where he was. Burglery actually requires illegal entry, and if he was an employee, he wouldn’t have to break and enter. Sounds like an overcharge to me, although you may be right.
TSO: depends on the details of his employment and the specifics of the situation.
If he forced his way into various professors’/other offices w/o their permission to get access to their records/computers and make grade changes, I don’t think it matters much that he was an employee and was allowed to be in the building’s hallways.
California law doesn’t require any kind of breaking and entering. It is “enter with the intent” to commit a crime. When I worked the streets I got successful convictions on shoplifters who admitted that they entered the store to steal stuff.
Interesting RM3. I was looking for the statute earlier, and then got distracted. My guess is still that he was doing it from his own computer or something of that nature. I’ll try to track down more later. If anyone is in the area though, the case is Wednesday at the City of Norwalk Superior Courthouse.
From one of the petitions:
Daniel Beckham was escorted out of his office, detained and searched. The police rummaged through his bag, without consent or probable cause, completely neglecting Daniel’s 4th amendment right. They confiscated his belongings, including his personal laptop and have yet to give it back, deeming it “evidence”. Daniel’s crime? He allegedly hacked into Cerritos College school system and changed student’s grades. All this from the Cerritos College library at 1am.
Assuming that petition is accurate, then maybe the burglary charges were a reach.
Of course, I’d also recommend taking anything on that petition with a rather large grain of salt. Like maybe one weighing 100g or so. (smile)
I went in and read a few of the articles these two guys who call themselves Hews Media Group wrote.
Oh, my brain. The stupid, it burns…
I could have smacked myself in the head with a hammer and it wouldn’t have been as painful.
Don’t. Just don’t. But if you do, don’t say you weren’t warned.
Lot of sockpuppeting going on in the comments at the Article, as well as my comment mysteriously going bye bye…
Yours went bye-bye too, huh?
Amazing, that.
Sounds like some folks are covering for our boy Elroy here. Guess they’re finding out that combat vets (or just regular old vets) don’t like it when some shitbag 10-percenter makes claims he’s not supposed to.
But remember kids, Stolen Valor is “victimless”!
I just read the “Exclusive” story penned by Randy Economy and Brian Hews and I was aghast at the poor quality of the piece. It’s just a mess. Only then did I realize that the writers’ names must be pseudonyms because if you arrange the letters in their names, you get this: “We suck at writing but, luck for us, most people suck at reading so we get away with it.” Amazing, isn’t it? Of course, you have to use a letter more than once and add a few missing letters but, otherwise, there it is!
I especially like their crime blotter summaries that are “published weekly”, but if you look at the dates on them, they’re lucky to knock one out every other month.
Commander Phil Monkress and the Case of the Tickled Taint.
Sockpuppet (P)sul and the Subject of the Stretched Out, Sweaty, Smegma Stained, Shrunken Scrote Shlurping, Spandex Stretched, Stout Sissy Boys.
The Monkress Chronicles: Manpoles and Manholes.
2/17 Air Cav Did you do any time in S2 as a cryptographer? You’re good man.
The other story they had on this was basically just a big cut and paste job from the equally poorly written petition.
Seems to me that these guys are some gadflys or have some axe to grind with their “enemies” at Cerritos College and saw Danni as a convenient vehicle for their campaign.
That explains why these “journalists” are scrubbing the comments from you guys and leaving in clear sockpuppets.
Yeah, I can help make this twinkie-eating swamp sipper famous. He just won’t like the way I do it.
I haven’t read a whiny-assed piece of bad reporting like that in I do not know when.
https://www.facebook.com/daniel.e.beckham
Tried doing some research on the person who mangled the language on that Change.org petition, but came up empty.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. But I am pretty sure that a suicide attempt is not admissable as evidence of innocence in most courts of law. The funniest parts are the baseless accusations without proof that she levels against the cops for… (wait for it…)
…baseless accusations without proof.
On his Facebook page, he lists his speaking languages as:
English, Spanish, Italian, American Sign Language, Japanese and French.
Mighty fluent fellow isn’t he? Anyone else throw the BS flag on that one?
Considering the gal on his Facebook page, a real looker, his girlfriend really leaves a lot to be desired. Just MHO. Wonder what she thinks of all this and why he has a real babe on his Facebook page instead of her. Just saying, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and this beholder says…meh.
American Sign Language?
Is that like saying, “Chineeze Irish Step Dancing?”
Tiffany Finch is one dumb cunt. She must want the D or is getting the D to be that retarded.
John, please list this guy’s MOS. We need to know whether he’s a water dog or a public affairs hadji killing machine like our resident shitbag Adam Kokesh.
Note: The lady running the Change.org profile just edited out the picture so it no longer shows the medals. I wonder why that would be? Anyone have any thoughts?
Nothing comes to mind, maybe to make it more visually pleasing for her request?
It couldn’t be because she believes a rat bastard and is trying to protect him could it?
Ummmm, she just took a quick look at TAH and found out she just might be wrong, maybe?
Or someone phoned/e-mailed her and told her he’s a phony, maybe?
Ex-PH2: nope. The conversation went something like this:
“Hey, Tiffany – do me a favor, huh? My shirt was dirty, so I borrowed a buddy’s shirt for that photo you have up on the petition web site. Well, my buddy’s ribbons were on it, and people will complain about that. It’s no big deal, but well, how about cropping it so the ribbons don’t show – m’kay?”
“Okay. Whatever you say, Danni-boi.”
I know why–because he had on too many pieces of flair.
You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear…
(Forgive me, I have a case of the Mondays. I’ll kick my own ass for saying that later.)
Whatever you do, don’t take away my red stapler.
Ms. Change.org Petition Writer?
https://www.facebook.com/search/web/?q=Tiffany+Finch+Cerritos+College&form=FBDRCT&sid=0&source=quickselect#!/tiffany.finch.79/about
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/532/482/760/unjust-and-unconstitutional/
This petition garnered a whole 13 signatures before it closed.
And 7 of those folks are not Americans.
Is this guy’s name Beckham or Rodas? One is his, the other is a pseudonym. Which is which? What’s going on there?
Is he using Beckham to seem to be more Anglo?
I believe he changed his name at some point.
I was a bit confused, as well. There is a Daniel Rodas in the San Fran area claiming to have been in USMC from 2003-2008 and did computer geek shiz while in. Then we have Beckham. Same person? Don’t look much alike.
The one linked above also closed, abeit with 181 supporters.
I keep trying to find a connection between Finch and Beckham, but am not succeeding.
Oh well… last one for today. Beckham’s LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-beckham/53/b33/b06
Not justification or exoneration, just an observation: He claims to be a photographer, and judging by the work on his FB page, his fave subject seems to be himself. I wonder if the pic in uniform wasn’t a photo shoot? Saw that two ribbons didn’t look cool enough so he wandered down to the nearest surplus store and picked up a few more?
Well his Linkedin language skills do not agree with his professions on his Facebook page. Go figure.
It also looks like he’s killed his LinkedIn. Shocked.
THAT IS VERY INTERESTING. Because this is an email I sent 43 minutes ago to the author of the stories above:
Even his linked in profile goes against the military record he claims.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-beckham/53/b33/b06
(Was he a barista in Iraq and Afghanistan perhaps?)
Apparently he is on to this blog. Since he is cleaning up his profiles and deleting them.
Funny, I was a frequent visitor at the Green Beans on Victory and never saw him there.
Crap… should have screen shotted the LinkedIn.
Is shotted a word?
American Sign Language?
Is that like saying, “Chineeze Irish Step Dancing?”
No, but I took an Irish Yoga class at a bar once.
Or twenty times. I don’t remember.
Is that what we are calling “falling off the stool” now?
Closer to this:
http://funnypicturesutopia.com/grumpycatmemes/pics/2/Irish-Yoga.jpg
I took that same yoga class!
Daniel “Ferris Bueller” Rodas.
The size of his head seems somewhat out of proportion with his body.
Arrogance and a huge ego tend to swell one’s head.
Nah, this guy’s a real marine. He’s also the heir apparent to the throne of Nigeria.
Gotta be a two man operation. phony signatures and they got tired of posting these signatures. Let’s face, who wants to sit there and create 100k signatures?
Tiffany Finch, probably a fake name of his girlfriend (or boyfriend)…Since people have been commenting and pulling information on Daniel Bend it like Beckham. Anyone noticed that linkedin profiles disappeared, things are being cleaned up. Someone is on to the blog…
“Tiffany” is even cleaning up the petitions as if that is going to change anything. Only a matter of time before “Tiffany” shows up here to “second the record straight” with a little “lawsuit” talk.
Tiffany character probably has access to all his accounts including facebook. So that will be scrubbed soon enough.
As usual I’m late to the party. All the links posted in the comments have been scrubbed. Did anyone ger screen grab?
Guy is really reaching.
Fake Marine Combat vet,, Check
Fake Iraq vet… Check
Fake Afghanistan… Check
Fake Combat Wounded…. Check
Other pity party claims
homeless
helps disabled
tutors others
20 hours week volunteered
Suicide attempt
conspired against and bullied by”real criminals”
rights violated by conspiring cops
Guy is certainly one unlucky cocksucker aint he?
Heres my take. He’s a shitbird who did time in the reserves and worked an angle to get into community college. He has highly overestimated his intelligence and underestimated the savvy of Law Enforcement and college officials. He hangs around with other shitbags who are trying to get him off. Really, who the fuck cant pass a course at a community college, If you dont pass it you are better of taking that bribe money and getting a pair of shoes suitable for working in a fast food resturant.
I’d say, from those nastygrams in the article, he pissed off Arturo, et al., somehow, but good.
I’d really like to dig into their side of the story.
Ex-PH2,
Im betting the whole thing is a fabrication made up by shithead for more attention/sympathy.
Can’t wait for “Cancer”…..(or some other terminal disease…(Stupid is terminal but usually not fatal :-D)
OldDog, that idea occurred to me, also.
It’s a great psych move – get people to feel sorry for you by making up unseen enemies. Then they magically disappear when someone tries to track them down.
A potential candidate for All Points Logistics’ management training program.
He appears to have all of the correct qualifications.
He is still missing the writing to this blog drunk and in his boxers part of the recruitment, but I’m sure he is working on it… just give him time.
http://www.youtube.com/user/danbeckham1
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:lcr4nxDW8m8J:www.mylife.com/danielbeck34234rh+daniel+beckham+marine&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
CIA? Really?
Green Thumb: really? No. But reality doesn’t stop him from making false claims about himself.
Oh, and don’t worry about deleting it, Danni-boi – that page has already been archived to PDF.
BINGO:
Bet this is him:
“Is it possible for a unit to discharge a marine in the reserves after not showing up to drills for a long period of time of let’s say 1 1/2 years? ”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XIJxItKftXoJ:answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid%3D20100912182033AAYziT0+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Could indeed be him or one of his “friends”.
To answer the question: yes – it is possible for the Reserve Components to discharge a reservist for non-participation. And an OTH discharge is sometimes the type of discharge the individual receives.
Reason I posted it is it may explain why he was discharged, if he indeed was. Also, his answers to other questions are interesting. I was going to post them all but I don’t want to be accused of spamming 😀
EdUSMCleg: another possibility is the guy royally f-ed up and was facing charges, but was offered an OTH in lieu of court-martial and accepted the offer. Don’t know how common that is in the USMCR, but it happens on occasion on the active duty side of the house.
When I was on the USAF Reserves, you missed one weekend, that was counted as 4 periods, Sat morning, Sat afternoon, Sunday morning Sunday afternoon. Part of the reason is that if they only counted Reserve days equal to one day active duty pay, no one would participate so they double up the periods to make it more equivalent. (BAQ/BAH and all that)
Once you had 12 periods unexcused in 12 months, you could be considered for discharge.
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To tell you the truth not all recruiters are bad. As far as boot camp I can tell you that its a walk in the ball park. All you need to do is make sure you can run and not fall behind, sound off as loud as you can when you are being ask a question or need to ask one, and try and be the best in the platoon. Don’t try to throw yourself out there too much because this can annoy the drill instructors and they’ll just **** with you. Be smart and make good decisions. Always make sure you use a lot of hand sanitizer and wash your hands because not maintaining clean hygiene can get you really sick. Many recruits do not wash their hands after taking a **** which can lead to you or someone else getting pink eye by picking your eye. Stay clean, make sure to make everything super tight, and do everything you are asked to do as fast as possible. The hikes are nothing dude. The real hikes are for recon marines which are 50 milers. The longest hike you’ll do is gonna be the Reaper Hike which is not that hard. Conserve the MRE’s that they give you and you’ll be fine. Depending on the drill instructors you have depends on the amount of MRE’s you may recieve. You may get up to three for three days or just one. My drill instructors only gave me one which was still enough as one MRE contains over 3000 calories. Everything is smooth sailing after you get done with the field which is PHASE 2. PHASE 3 is easier because your drill instructors have gotten accustomed to you and everyone, well almost everyone, should be able to do their **** without being told or to act fast without standing there looking stupid. Hope this kind of helps?
Source(s):
CPL Beckham, 2003-2008, USMC Retired
At some point around 2010 he was using the email addy of danbeckham@live.com. I would do a search on it but I’m in bed on phone.
Checked MOL… No Daniel Rodas or Daniel Beckham listed so all the mentions of him signing off as retired or whatever aren’t true.
I am sure this is no surprise to anyone..
The OTH for not showing up for drills sounds about right. The one shitbag ( Dana Morales) who claimed that customers stiffed her on the tip because she was a Lesbian had the same type of discharge,
I can say that the Army NG also puts dirtbags out on an OTH for “unsatisfactory participation”, i.e. AWOL, PT Failure,…
After I left Active Duty, I was in an Army NG unit that would swear out arrest warrants for folks that would “forget” to show for drill a few times. They only did this for the ones who hadn’t completed their initial terms of service, but it did serve to get and keep everyone’s attention.
I got sent out a few times as sort of shore patrol for dudes who didn’t show up at drill. One time in particular I remember being in a Vietnamese church in Annandale Virginia looking for a “Tran.” There wasn’t anything but Tran’s in there.
TSO: yeah, I can see how that might be a bit difficult. (smile)
We did the same thing in Massachusetts. I had a company commander who would have some of the soldiers who were also state troopers go snatch up the missing on Saturday morning and toss them in jail for the weekend. He was even nice enough to give the trooper enough MREs to cover their meals vice the commonwealth having to feed him. He’d get them back in the office on Sunday after drill, ask them how they liked their weekend, and when they were going to make up the two days that they had missed by sitting in jail. Amazingly, attendance increased while he was in command.
Had an experience, albeit indirect, with a RC unit many years ago that took a somewhat different approach. After someone missed enough drills, they got the individual ordered to active duty to fulfill their commitment.
In retrospect, perhaps that wasn’t the best course of action. One of their “problem children” ended up in our Bn during my first period of active duty. While I was there, he ended up court-martialed and doing time. He assaulted one of our CQs (or maybe the CQ runner) by pulling a pistol, pointing it at him, and “dry-firing” it (no bullets – thankfully).
Putting that guy out of the RC with an OTH might have been a better option.
OTH = Shitbag.
Green Thumb: yep. But that RC unit sending the guy to active duty so we could “straighten him out” could easily have cost another soldier his life. Only the fact that the idiot was too stupid/gutless to load his pistol prevented that.
IMO it would have been better if the RC unit had court-martialed the guy or given him the size-Chapter-10 boot in lieu of court-martial. “Some men, you just can’t reach.”
Wow. I didn’t realize all you had to do to get retired status was to not show up to work anymore. Why have I been here the last 22 years?
lol
…Why have I been here the last 22 years?…
Duty, Honor, Country.
–ghp
I thought it was the…. “Huge Paycheck, Paid Vacations, Great Food and Accommodations”….
;P
/see the world.
Wait . . . you mean it wasn’t all that? Holy crap, I’ve been scammed!!
(smile)
I’m gonna kill you, damn you! Where’s the great pay? Where’s the travel? Where’s the Winnebago, Goddamnit!
Don’t look at me, NHSparky. I got “taken”, too. (smile)
And here I was thinking all of this time it was about drinking beer and shooting guns….
I love seeing all these PX Rangers!