Bernath’s CPO claim
Editor’s Note: Apparently someone has broken into TAH past our multiple levels of defense. I assume it is satire, but we are looking into it. I only know that none of us did this. And Satire is apparently an absolute defense to all libels and slanders. One of the greatest legal minds of any generation told us that, so it must be true.
We’ll work on finding out who it is.
NOTE: Do not say anything that could even conceivably considered threatening. Bernath is allegedly filing restraining orders under this statute that Oregon has to protect disabled people. You could have a restraining order issued before you even get a chance at due process, and that could cause problems especially for anyone in the military if there is a Lautenburg problem. So, be careful in word selection.
I’ve received probably 100 emails from Daniel Bernath in the past 3 days. He’s threatening lawsuits that will go all the way to the Supreme Court. He’s alleged everything under the sun, including that we put a hit out on him. (Newsflash: we didn’t.) But some things are coming into focus.
He’s clearly a deeply troubled guy. Like, more than we even imagined. His wife filed a declaration that may put some light on it:
32. I sort out his VA supplied medication and give him 4 pain pills each day. Even with the many pain medications, Mr. Bernath fells such strong pain that he at times will fold his arms and rock back and forth until he can take the next course of pain meds and the results kick-in.
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34. Many of the medication he takes warn him that they will affect his mental abilities and warn him about driving, using machinery and making important decisions while on the medication. As he is so disabled, he has depended on me. I saw the need to step into his law office practice, educated myself to law office procedure, disability law and procedure and took over for him.
Now, ignore those issues, I only bring them up to point out this observation. I’ve actually come to the conclusion that he isn’t lying about being named an honorary Chief Petty Officer in the conventional sense. But only because he has such a tenuous grasp of reality that he actually believes it. (NOTE: Others are telling me that is bullshit and he’s just acting. I don’t know the dude, I can only base it on these erratic emails. You guys may be right and he’s just acting crazy. Sort of a retarded Murdock from the A-Team. Only Murdock usually checks fuel levels. I seen him do it.)
He’s not an honorary CPO, that is clear from what I will show you. No rational person could believe that he actually is an honorary CPO. Which is why when confronted with all this info, he can’t even recognize it for what it says, leaving me to conclude that he’s just not rational.
Over and over he keeps saying the he will prove in court that he’s an honorary CPO. He can’t. And I’m not overly eager to either wait for that to happen, or get dragged into a court halfway around the country. So, I am going to prove it now for all of you, with Bernath’s own documentation. I fully suspect he’ll delete all his stuff, so I’ve screen capped it. He’ll still drag us into court probably, but it will give me some peace of mind while I wait.
The graphic above shows that he is claiming to be a Chief Petty Officer (Honorary.) Additionally, he sent me pictures of a plaque to prove it. Here’s the problem, NONE OF IT SHOWS HE WAS NAMED AN HONORARY CHIEF PETTY OFFICER. As noted before, the only one with the authority to do so would be the MCPON, and he hasn’t done it. So, let’s go to the videotape here:
In 2006, Daniel A. Bernath was named “Photographer’s Mate Chief Petty Officer” (Honorary) by the US Naval Photography Association for his contribution to United States Navy Photography through the years. US Naval Photography Association
Both the plaque that he sent a picture of to me, and the memo from the US Naval Photography Association don’t use that language. Instead they SPECIFICALLY STATE that he was named an “Honorary Chief PHOTOGRAPHERS MATE.” You see what he’s done? Everywhere it says “Photographers mate” his mind translates it as “Petty Officer.”
What I am going to do now is highlight the stuff that proves what I am saying. Everything in bold is what Bernath self-identifies a document as. And then everything in italics is what the document from the person ACTUALLY says. So, Bold = Bernath, italics = actual document. Bold + Italics = prove he’s not in touch with the objective truth. All this currently located AT THIS LINK. I encourage you to click through and look at the original documentation before it gets deep sixed.
Chief Petty Officer Putnam Nominates Bernath to Chief Petty Officer
Because of all that Photographer’s Mate Bernath has done to support and honor our Country, our Navy, Naval Photography and Photographer‘s Mates, I unhesitatingly recommend him for selection as an Honorary Chief Photographer’s Mate.
Captain Potts Recomends Daniel Bernath to Chief Petty Officer
[Memo regarding] Honorary Chief Photographer’s Mate Nomination
Petty Officer Freund recommends Daniel Bernath to Chief Petty Officer
I heartily endorse the nomination to make Photographers Mate Daniel Alan Bernath, “Honorary Chief Photographer’s Mate.”
Lt. Commander Ralph Lewis Nominates Daniel Bernath to Chief Petty Officer
At the request of PHC Milt Putnam I heartily second Daniel Bernath’s nomination as Honorary Chief Photographers Mate.
Chief Petty Officer Giberson Nominates Daniel Bernath to Chief Petty Officer
His efforts with the USS Yorktown website, alone are enough to qualify him for the high honor of Honorary Photographer’s Mate.
But let’s even assume that these recommendations were for “Chief Petty Officer” which one of them appears to do, that honorific not only doesn’t come from the recommendations themselves, but doesn’t appear to have actually been awarded. Leaving aside the issue that the Naval Photographers Association doesn’t have the ability to actually grant honorary CPO status, both the plaque and the letter allegedly awarding the honorific specifically state that he’s being awarded status as “Honorary Chief Photographers Mate.”
In case you needed further proof, as if your lying eyes deceived you, here is CDR John W. White, USN (Ret), President of the National Association of Naval Photography:
The National Association of Naval Photography (NANP) has never conferred the title of “Honorary Chief Petty Officer” upon anyone. Therefore, we would have no official records substantiating Mr. Bernath’s claim concerning the title. Please note that only the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy has the authority to confer such a title.
Further, as we’ve shown before, Bernath then took another guy’s picture, and photoshopped his head on it. He is correct when he notes he doesn’t have a copyright problem (since the copyright is probably the US Navy’s, and the Gov’t can’t copyright pictures) but he later argued that the photoshop was a sort of joke which he only posted to a private blog to share with family. Except that is not what Bernath’s website is. in fact, what it does is shill various sight-seeing excursions in Portland Oregon. It’s not a private thing to keep family members in the loop, it is a commercial enterprise.
Bernath is a public person by his own admission on his website. He appeared on TV shows, was a radio talk show host, a hero who stands up for the little guy in Social Security Hearings in Oregon, and has been in the paper numerous times. (Usually for stuff like being a monumental jackass.) He’s also engaged in Stolen Valor (he’s pimping a fake military honorific on a commercial website) which is an issue in the public sphere.
But he’s also CLEARLY a very troubled individual. Enough so that in any other circumstance I might take pity on him. But he’s sending me the most truly bizarre and ridiculous demands that any pity has fallen by the way side. For instance, today he emailed to ask if I would accept service on a lawsuit against someone I have never heard of. He’s accused me of sending letters/emails to the VFW when I’ve never contacted them. He says we threatened to kill him, he’s allegedly filed restraining orders, he keeps calling me a “dickless lawyer” and says I will be disbarred:
You and others defamed me, committed the criminal act of solitation to murder or harm and you did it by sending a mail through your computer.
VFW is cooperative.
I’m filing a police complaint now as you and Hyatt encouraged murder/harming me. You admit the wanted poster is yours as part of the threat and menacing.
Wow, you didn’t stay a lawyer very long.
So, pity is running a little short.
I know people hate lawyers, and Bernath would be proof positive that some of them really do suck. But I’ve been on the phone with nothing but lawyers for two days now, and not a one of them has been anything but fully supportive. Not a one is asking for any payment, and all of them are offering their support.
I’d be tempted to just let this fade away, in fact, I wish it would. But Bernath sends me new legal threats every time I turn around. I’m pretty much done playing with him. I asked him repeatedly to stop contacting me, and to do his talking through the courts, but that didn’t work.
Some lady in the Oregon article I linked above refused to go in a room with him anymore. And she pegged him perfectly:
“His outbursts are unprovoked, explosive, and disproportionate to the proceedings,” she wrote. “He appears to have difficulty gaining control once his emotions escalate, and the escalation is rapid.”
Well, he’s forced us to fight now. Because if we cave on even one lunatic like Bernath, it will only give license to the rest of these Stolen Valor guys to act insane.
Category: Phony soldiers
Well that plane crash and the bump on the head excuse just ain’t working.
His little choo choo went round the bend and off the cliff WAY before that, it appears.
Kick his ass…legally in a court of law. 😎
He needs to be Section 12’d at the nearest VA Mental Health facility.
I agree entirely. I’d be shocked if local police weren’t acquainted with him and have considered trying to institutionalize him at some point.
I would not be shocked in the least to hear such a thing.
But has he been perma-banned from various bars and other establishments in the area, like Paul (of the Ballsack)?
The nearest VA mental health facility like that is Hillsboro. This is my neck of the woods, and unfortunately the squirrels around here aren’t the only things that horde the nuts in this state.
He sounds like he needs LOTS and LOTS of HUGS….maybe between Mark Wayne Tiemann and William Derek Church. 😀
Is it just me, or does he look a little like the character Daniel Hardman from “Suits”, a crooked lawyer with a dark past and sociopathic skill at manipulation?
Man…battier than a bedbug…
I’ve been accused a time or two of being a bleeding heart. But I have zero sympathy for someone that is not only the cause of their own problems but of many others people’s also.
This sounds like another case of a caregiver not controlling someone who is in their care and that is a danger to themselves and others.
He might be off his rocker, per se, but there is definitely a pattern of organized conduct.
Just an observation.
You’re right.
My thought too, GT.
TSO also sidesteps (for good reason I’m sure) the fact that all those ‘nomination letters’ appear by style and sheer verbosity to have the same author – probably the same one who stole Shep’s retirement photo and defaced it.
I know TSO has to take the letters at face value for purposes of the instant matter. But we know better.
I’m going to throw my $0.02 in this… I agree with GT that this is a pattern of conduct that he has shown for decades just look at his actions that were cited in the Oregon State Bar’s refusal on his license to practice law… his actions against Mr. Hyatt both at the hearing when he was asked if he was licensed to practice law in Oregon and his conduct afterward (the website that has the “cartoon” about the encounter in the elevator)… how he’s handled the plane crash last year (at first telling the police that he ran out of gas, then deciding to sue the manufacturer for $10 million, blaming them for the accident). He’s also been know to carry a weapon into court, which makes him a very dangerous person to confront. Finally, look at the lawsuits he’s filed and lost – it’s one of his ways to get back at people that he feels have wronged him, no matter how small the offense is.
I also want to put this out there… I knew someone while I was on active duty that behaved like Bernath… found out when he was admitted to the hospital that he was in “chronic pain” due to his health issues and “doctor shopped” when it came to getting narcotics to control his pain (his records were reviewed by the hospital’s board of medical ethics – the pharmacy printed up 7 pages of meds that he was prescribed over a 6 month period… all were for narcotics). If Bernath is a “legalized junkie”, then the meds would just be amplifying his hair triggered temper that much more, and his ability to see the difference between truth and fiction is that much more clouded. He needs help before the rage destroys him and his family.
Anytime someone mentions the regular and/or recreational use of pain meds, it reminds me of the Ex-Monster, a professional spouse/financial leech that was only dedicated to getting its next fix, and was a MONSTER until she/it got said “fix”. If Bernath has a pin medication habit, I think that spikes the possibility of extremely irrational behavior at the drop of a hat. Junkies rarely care about anything other than their next fix!
I have been on pain medicine for a relatively short time compared to what Bernath seems to have been using, IMHO not knowing the details of his life of taking them. Pre and post-op pain medicine for my knee replacement.
I will be the first to say they do what they are suppose to but I do not like them. They heighten my emotions, cloud my thinking, impair me from driving, (thankfully my son is here to drive me everywhere) and generally make me feel mentally “off” and out of it. That is just my experience of my short time taking them. I cannot imagine a life living for one dose to the next. That is impairment big time and I don’t care who you are. Once you build a tolerance to them your body just wants more. I am so very careful to never take more than needed and I do mean needed, not as much as is even allowed by the prescription. So Bernath or anyone else living on them has some serious problems with these medicines to contend with. I cannot imagine trying to drive, carry out important decisions, do functional work which requires mental clarity and focus. Much less practice law or God forbid, fly a plane. That is just ludicrous to even consider. I hope this helps anyone plagued with taking these necessary but awful medications. Get off of them as soon as you can!
Sorry TSO.
Man, after reading that article in the Oregonian you linked to, I’m of the opinion that this guy needs to be disbarred and placed into an institution before he REALLY kills someone.
I mean, when you are so outlandish in your behaviour that the court sees the need to place armed security in the room whenever you are present, then that goes WAY beyond the pale of “normal” behaviour.
But, IMHO, Bernath is a little man with a little dick and so little self-respect that he’s turned to bullying as a means to compensate for his shortcomings.
Was the wanted poster mentioned in the article one produced by Guy? I see that the original article is from 2010 but was updated in January of this year.
“but he later argued that the photoshop was a sort of joke which he only posted to a private blog to share with family.”
“private blog to share with family.”
Not true.
The photoshopped image of Bernath which was used for comparison to find the true uniform’s owner, was found in Bernath’s own VFW Tualatin Post 3452, Member’s Bios section. It has long since been removed.
The Tualatin VFW Post 3452 is a publicly available website. Not private at all. The whole world can see it through a simple Google search for their site.
That is true, Sparks. However, a copy of his bio page from that Tualitin VFW Post’s web site (as it existed on 24 Jan 2014) still exists, printed to PDF. (smile)
Hondo Thank you and THANK YOU my brother! I had failed to screen capture that as many times as I looked at it and I was feeling really terrible that the original evidence was gone and lost forever. Thank God for this.
I will even write it your way Hondo…(smile) (and I mean a big SMILE!) Yahooooooooooo!!!!!!!!
You’re welcome, Sparks.
Had a feeling that one just might get altered, since a few other things seemed to be “changing” about then.
I gotta say it again! Yahoooooooooooo!!!!!!!
You are da main MAN Hondo.
Like Marlon Brando said in “The Freshman” when Matthew Broderick’s character finally gave him the “yes” he wanted.
He said, “I’m just happy, I don’t know why I’m so happy!”
And the fact that he put his head onto the body of an honorable man with whom he’d previously been in conflict, in my opinion, takes it out of the realm of “just a joke” and closer to the realm of “being a jerk”.
TIJUFB!
This *IS* just that.
This is just unanimously fairly believeable
This Is Just Un-Freeking-Believeable.
(I think)
–ghp
Holy Hell!
So sorry TSO, That you have to deal with this…Please know we all have your 6 in whatever way we can help…
Isn’t there someway to get him restrained from filing so many baseless lawsuits..or at the very least some kind of harassment/stalking cyber law or something that can be done?
What about a “Baker Act”? Not sure what its called there but here in Florida, a person can be held at a minimum 72 hours if deemed to be a threat to themselves or others..Surely he must qualify for some kind of involuntary commitment no?
You beat me to it, Toasty, I was wondering that myself! The more I learn about Bernath, the more convinced I am that he is very mentally unstable, and could suddenly snap on someone. Part of me also thinks that he’s a manipulator, doing what he thinks he can in order to make people do what he wants, and he’s a failure at that like he is at everything else! As for his wife’s quotes, I doubt he’s even married, and if he is, she’s little more than his enabler!
He actually already snapped on someone. See the judge from the linked newspaper story.
@Flagwaver~
The article about Judge Hyatt?
@A Proud Infidel~
I’m leaning more towards a very fine manipulator who knows his game well but not his opponents…and yes about his wife…if what she alleges is true, then why hasn’t she had him committed for the safety of herself and others?
Oh, I don’t think he’s nearly as unstable as he acts. If anything, he’s learned how to game whatever system he’s in, whether it’s the civil judicial system or the Navy, and if gaming and cheating don’t work, then bluster and a P-A act come up next.
Plus, he’s big enough to intimidate someone who is easily frightened by the prospect of being sat on and squashed by a grossly overbearing rolling donut hole.
That’s not just Florida. In any state a doctor can commit you involuntarily for 72 hours if they believe you a threat to yourself or othes, after that though it takes the order of a judge. Happened to me more than once and not all undeserved. Not a fun experience, but definitely the right one the couple times I needed help.
@ CA_Sgt
I wasn’t sure…I know here, police can do it without a doc or judge, and of course Drs, can do it by discretion, just not all that familiar outside of Fl…
I hope you are doing better now. 🙂
How the hell did he get 90% for PTSD when the only traumatic stress he had was having someone turn the lights on in the dark room?
Good question Bobo…
I’d like to see that Rating decision.
I’m pretty good with the ins and outs of the VA so if we could get that along with his records, it “could” be possible to check to see if there is VA fraud and get a case opened into it via the VA OIG if we know where he applied and was awarded the rating.
Bobo, according to his own account, which someone copied and posted elsewhere, he was put on report for entering the Navy base at Subic Bay with spots of paint on his pants. And he didn’t like that, so he threw out the report chit.
So, having an MA or SP telling you to STFA once rates 90%? I’ll have to make sure to mention my enlisted escapades during my retirement physical. Those alone then should get me a 100% rating.
No crap Bobo! What about all the times I got smoked??!! All the abusive language from Senior NCOs who caught me walking AND smoking or standing around like a dim wit with my hands in my pockets. That’s it, I’m off to the VA tomorrow and filing some papers! 😀
I think, Bobo, it’s more like he learned quickly what he could get away with and milked it for everything he could get.
You must have seen this: lazy goldbrickers drinking coffee while other people were working, goof-offs disappearing when field day came up, etc. You know what I mean.
According to what the VA told me when I went through my Med Board and rating for PTSD, a rating higher than 70% requires proof of frequent hospitalizations (psychiatric). I know one guy of recent memory who receives more than 70 for PTSD and he practically lives in an inpatient treatment facility.
HCGFHITA!
MCPO~
I love your posts and passion…but your acronyms are killing me…is there perhaps a link where I could learn them? Please?
*big wide puppy dog eyes*
He can go “find” himself in the “arena”…a legal one that is.
lol Thank you Chip…♥♥♥
You are almost SO correct Sir!
I’m sure that he certainly could do exactly that….after many yoga classes.
http://snl.jt.org/caps/episode_sketches/2000-04-15-10.jpg
This guy saying he is an honorary CPO is like a virgin claiming he got an honorary STD.
Dead on Sniper.
This dude is slowly working his way into the rare (and putrid) air of Maggoty Phil and The APL Gang.
This is definitely a bad reboot of the Paul (of the Ballsack) inaction-hero franchise.
I would want a complete list of those medications to verify what he is taking. And a search through the PDR would quickly educate anyone on the side effects of specific prescriptions.
Even if his judgment is actually impaired by those pain pills, it still doesn’t excuse his behavior in things like taking a handgun to a courthouse, does it?
Nor does it excuse his scabrous efforts to stalk an individual who is not intimidated by his bullying and bluster.
That should be obtainable in the ‘discovery’ process. Goes to show all sorts of relevant things.
I’m trying to think of even one painkiller that would cause anything other than drowsiness. So far, I’ve come up empty.
I don’t know of any that will make you paranoid and delusional, either.
@Ex-PH2
Do you know or remember when he was allegedly “injured” That could help narrow down what type of pain med he would be on and when.
That’s a good question, because he was shuffled off the Yorktown to the Reserves with no record of medical treatment showing in his real record, which is the list of duty stations.
I think he found a way to successfully milk the system a long time ago.
I agree with you that most likely, he found a way to milk the system before he got out of the Navy, and has been perfecting new schemes and dodges ever since. Reliable witness accounts (i.e., Judge Hyatt and the other lawyers TSO has been networking with up there in OR, as well as the sport-plane manufacturer) would indicate his MO is to do very little work, and shoddy work at that – or have a convenient “slip and fall” – then shoot for a great big payday through bullying and bluster.
I will say in fairness though that various meds have different effects on different people. Big Pharma doesn’t exactly get all the bugs out before they get FDA approval for their concoctions. For example, I take a half-tab of Lexapro, an anti-anxiety med, daily or every other day. For me, it does what it’s supposed to do – it smooths out my manic peaks and valleys and takes me from being a screaming stress puppy to something approaching normal and even engaging (YMMV). For at least one friend of mine, it made him suicidal. Bernath may be having an adverse reaction that’s atypical. However (looping back into personal responsibility for the big ol’ toad), he may also be medicating irregularly, and going bonkers when he goes off his meds.
OK, I have a question for you Navy types, maybe you can educate this soldier:
Unlike the other services, where enlisted ranks are the same no matter what your job (a sergeant is a sergeant, whether he’s in administration of artillery), the Navy uses “rating”, basically job titles, along with a grade. So (again, please correct me if I’m wrong), a Bosun’s Mate who is an E-5 is a Bosun’s Mate, 2nd class. When he makes E-6, he’s a Bosun’s Mate, 1st Class. When the Bosun’s Mate makes E-7, he becomes a Chief Bosun’s mate, right?
The term “petty officer” (analogous to “Noncommissioned Officer” in the Army, Marines and Air Force) is a generic term, while the rating name is the specific term, yes?
IOW, while a Bosun’s Mate, 2nd Class might generically be a “PO2” (petty officer, 2nd Class), he and his chain of command would not normally use that term, instead they’d use his specific rating, which would be “BM2”, yes?
The reason I ask is that I’m struggling with the distinction between being an “honorary chief photographer’s mate” and an “honorary chief petty officer.”
Are those terms not interchangeable? IOW, let’s say a Photographer’s Mate (PH) is elevated from the rank of PH1 (E-6) and gets promoted to E-7, Chief Photographer’s Mate. Isn’t the generic name for that rank also “CPO?”
in USCG, When you hit Petty Office you are usually just refered too as PO *Name*
When you hit E-7 and up it would be either Chief, Senior Chief or Master Chief…
Your rate isn’t usually referred to unless in conversation or something…
IOW, “Hi I’m Petty Officer Toastie Coastie and I am an E-5 SS”.
Now this was many, many moons ago but from what I remember its universal to the Navy as well.
No. They are not the same thing.
Honorary Chief Petty Officer is a real title, and honorarium given by the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy. No one else has the authority to do that.
The title Honorary Chief Petty Officer is not a promotion in rank. There is no step-up in pay grade, no increase in pay, and nothing added to any retirement privileges. It does not convey any kind of authority or seniority, either.
Honorary Chief Photographer’s Mate was a title that was given out by a now-defunct group, the Chiefs’ Roundup, which disbanded in 2005. The certificates were handed out at annual meetings like candy and were printed on a color photoprinter. That is what bernat thought he was going to get but DID NOT receive because the Chiefs’ Roundup disbanded, as aforementioned, in 2005. Bernats did NOT ever receive any such title from them, no matter what he says.
A short while ago, I forwarded to TAH an e-mail from someone previously connected to the Chiefs’ Roundup who specified that the Honorary Chief Photographer’s Mate titles had ended before bernats ever got one.
The title Honorary Chief Photographer’s Mate was a nominative handed out by a now-defunct club and had nothing attached to it other than a handshake and a photo op.
martinjmpr- You are correct, although as already pointed out, in most conversation it would simply be ‘Chief.’
This is cut directly from the Naval Message for the FY-2001 promotion list:
PHC – CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER’S MATE
BROWN DALE JE
When I was in, the “Chief” usually came after the rate. IE: AW Chief, or PH Chief, etc.
Likewise, you might hear the slang of just “chief” as in, “Hey Petty officer Smith, there’s some Chief down to ops asking for you.”
Otherwise, when addressing them formally, you would use his full title IE: “Senior Chief Smith” or “Master Chief Smith” or just “Senior Chief” or “Master Chief”, IE” “Excuse me Master Chief, could you direct me to the Duty Office?” etc.
But that’s just my own experiences around them.
Yes, what AW1Ed says: when I was in, CPOs were addressed as Chief, Senior Chief or Master Chief. If someone was E-6 down to E-4, it was by the rate name, e.g., Hey PH, Hey Yeoman, Hey PN – that sort of thing. E-3 and below were by rating (rank), as in Airman or AA, Seaman or SN.
He has certainly been lucid enough recently to remove photographs and alter websites that someone might find problematic explaining in court. I’m calling BS on the meds made me do it defense.
That does raise some interesting questions, Bobo.
Here’s another one: assuming his wife’s statement above is accurate, a reasonable person might wonder why Bernath would be flying a plane under any circumstances.
I was thinking the same thing. And, if he is in that much pain constantly and disabled to the point of requiring a cane or crutches, how can he possible operate the aircraft’s controls?
Bobo: a reasonable person might also wonder if that amount of medication and/or pain would interfere with his ability to accurately read his aircraft’s instruments 100% of the time. As well as about the effect of such medications on his time perception, depth perception, reactions, and cognitive ability while flying.
Hondo~
Do you recall when his rating was awarded?
If he is taking Vicodin 10/335
4qd after a short period of time the side affects of the meds would wear off and only function as pain relief unless he is mixing it with alcohol or other drugs.
Have no idea when his rating was awarded, lady. Sorry.
Regarding the meds and their side effects, thanks for the info. I try and stay as far away from opiate-based pain relievers and their derivatives as I possibly can – frankly, they scare me. So I can’t say I have much personal knowledge of their side effects.
Hondo~
Yhanks for the response…
Post military, I had big trouble cooking/cheffing so went back to school and got my RN..Opiates are both at once good and bad…when used correctly they work well and usually have no adverse affects once the levels are achieved for maximum efficiency. If they are abused however, they can and do cause the “Wickre” syndrome especially if mixed with alcohol.
I believe his records show that he made PH2 late in 1969, which is, I think, LONG before Vicodin was available.
Did I misread his wife’s statement, or does it come off as she is representing herself as a lawyer? Is she?
“I saw the need to step into his law office practice, educated myself to law office procedure, disability law and procedure and took over for him.”
I don’t recall reading much about her..If she’s not a lawyer, but is taking on the duties of a lawyer, isn’t that practicing without a license?
My guess would be no. Helping in the office, doing research, etc, would not make her guilty of practicing w/o a license, unless she represented to clients or to the Court that she was a lawyer. I’m sure Bernath signs anything that requires a lawyer’s signature, and even if she prepares it, that’s legal AFAIK since Bernath is the one who would be legally responsible for the content and any consequences thereof.
More or less an unschooled legal secretary — those unthanked hordes who do the heavy lifting for the paralegals (airborne???) (^__^) and attorneys.
–ghp
Just checked http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Practicing-without-license.htm
Here’s what it says about practicing law without a license.
It does seem that the Mrs. Unfortunate Shaped Phallic Hedge just might fit the bill by the quoted paragraph in her filing…But i could be wrong…
Law
“Attorneys must also be licensed before they can provide legal services to other people. States have different definitions of what it means to practice law, though they typically include the same type of activity. Practicing law means providing legal advice, representing someone in court, preparing legal pleadings or legal documents, offering opinions about the validity of real estate titles or titles to personal property, or similar matters connected to the law. Anyone who engages in the unauthorized practice of law can face both civil and criminal penalties”.
Here’s my question from his wife’s comment. How did she go into his office and educate herself on the practice of law? Also, is she attempting to practice, not being a member of the bar?
Her words below.
“I saw the need to step into his law office practice, educated myself to law office procedure, disability law and procedure and took over for him.”
Took over what and how much? I think in most states to hold yourself out as a lawyer, especially to offer legal advice, without being a member of the bar is illegal. Certainly it is malpractice if the wrong advice is given a client and she is working under his given authority to do so.
Sorry for the above post, martinjmpr answered it for me. Thanks.
Sparks~
I asked the same question…
As a non-legal person, reading that would say to me that she was indeed “practicing” as a lawyer.
And if I was in distress trying to get disability and saw that and/or spoke with her, I would “assume” that she was the attorney unless she clearly stated she wasn’t.
If you are forced to come out to Oregon, drop me a line and I’ll take you our for beers/foods. I’m a stone’s throw from Portland and wouldn’t mind putting a face to the posts.
Flagwaver …. send me an email!
Jonn … Give Flagwaiver my email!
It is beer thirty here!
See ya on the BlackBerry!
I was in OR not long ago.
Beers and vineyards.
Actually stayed in Portland for a night.
Maybe he’ll sue me. I’m feeling in a particularly evil mood.
Then again, even the most incompetent “lawer” is familiar with the concept of the counterclaim.
I spoke with Mr. Bernath on the phone in mid January. He was very sure that he was a HCPO and he challenged both me and current MCPON. He was loud, quite rude and extremely unprofessional … traits not normally associated with Genuine or Honorary CPO’s I might add. Oh … and he hung up on me … I dislike that! Below is a response from the office of the MCPON after I notified the MCPON of the challenge. There is no record of a HCPO Bernath. Further, I spoke with MCPON Joe Campa, USN (Ret.) and MCPON Campa assured me that he did not and would not have conferred HCPO status on Mr. Bernath. In fact, MCPON Campa’s tenure was from 2006 – 2008. Mr. Bernath’s claim is he was conferred in October of 2006. The only HCPO conferred during MCPON Campa’s tenure was HCPO Eberhart: http://goatlocker.org/resources/cpo/eberhart.htm HCPO Eberhart died weeks after the HCPO pinning ceremony. Mr. Bernath is not, has never been, nor will he ever be a Genuine or Honorary Chief Petty Officer. PERIOD. —–Original Message—– From: Garrison, Jeffery D CMDCM MCPON, EA Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:37 PM To: MCPO Subject: RE: IMPOSTER US NAVY HONORARY CPO Dear MCPO, Thank you for your service Shipmate and thank you for your e-mail of 17 January 2014. MCPON shared your email with me and I wanted to provide you with a timely response. It is commendable that you have taken a dedicated stance against those who attempt to defraud service members and the service accreditations/awards for which they have served so faithfully. The authority in which MCPON bestows the Honorary Chief Petty Officer (HCPO) recognition is completely within his power and authority as the MCPON because he is the senior-most master chief in the Navy and has ratified such authority by Naval Guidance (please see attached MGM #2013-03 (3.) (a.)). I would like to make it abundantly clear; however, that HCPO recognition is not detailed in any law or statute, because it is NOT an award. Rather, it is an honorary recognition given out of gratitude and… Read more »
All well and good, but he’s still an Oregon Notary Public, right? Hypothetically, I am wondering if one can legally notarize while higher than a fucking kite, rocking back and forth, fantasizing about Lebanese pileups, etc…
Is calling the accuser in court a dickbutt proper etiquette or is there another term for this guy?
Yes FatCircle0311 there is a proper etiquette term for this in court. It is penis-anus. 😀
Maybe pecker-poop chute?
What the fuck did this guy do, drink his photo processing chemicals?
He is just a plain asshole that is playing the victim. You cant have it both ways Birdbath, you can’t try to say that you are totally looped out on pain meds that you arent responsible for your actions then turn around and say you are a competent attorney, pilot, etcetera. You put your bullshit claims out on public forums and blogs, and once you get called out and proven to be a lying sack of shit you try to shut those down who outed you,,, I am really wondering what fucking good will a retraining order do your dumb ass in this case? No one wants to be around your putrid ass, no one is directly contacting you via phone or email that you havent opened a channel with yourself. I already have a deep desire to never have any direct contact with your ignorant ass at all. What I will do is give my personal opinion on what a shitbag you are. You can say whatever you want about me. As a matter of fact you have made several negative comments on the followers and posters of this blog already. Your comments can be and are regulated by the owbers of this blog, as it is their right as the owners. Other than you being butt-hurt by the terms of endearment we use to give our opinions of you, there is no reason or grounds for any cease and desist on our part. You are a proven liar and a jackwagon of biblical proportions. Your asshattery is a matter of public record, and nothing has been fabricated to debase you. As to Birdbath’s disability, via the VA or otherwise, there is no telling what he gets or why he gets it. His medical history is considered personal information, and unless a court inquires into it, his medical records arent subject to examination. He claims 100% VA disability due to agent orange exposure and PTSD. There really is no way to prove or disprove that, and as long as he doesnt commit fraud to get a disabled veterans preference… Read more »
“Hopefully they will fix his little red wagon in court, bar him from filing stupid law suits and restaining orders and put his ass in a nursing home where he can be medicated properly.”
Please don’t say that. I work in a nursing home that has a VA contract and a locked wing for wingnuts and Alzheimer’s patients.
if he does come your way I will donate a box of crayons, a my little pony colring book and a drool bucket…
I’ve got nappies and a napping pad I can donate too.
I heard he likes to listen to John Denver on his headset while flying.
Now GD … that’s just cruel.
GDContractor I am a little slow these days but just got the reference. BWAAAHAAAA!!! Good one my man.
Amen and thank you. I have known this loser for 7 years , far better than I ever would have chosen. Just An Old Dog has nailed it. Now…I have received legal advice to stay out of the Bernath-TAH matter as I have my own case against him in the courts. So I will follow legal advice for now, but only as long as I can stand it! I will be reading all of your comments daily however and thank you in advance for the support and entertainment.
Judge,
You have the patience and restraint of a Saint. Birdbath has left his slimy trail throughout the legal system long enough. He is like a vile, hairy turd hanging out the justice systems ass. Hopefully he will be pinched off and flushed without leaving a huge skidmark.
Judge,
I have a question for you. Jonn can give you my e-mail addy.
Conflating a job and a rank – it’d be like giving a lawyer a cheap certificate saying “Honorary Staff Judge Advocate” and then he starts referring to himself as an “honorary Colonel”.
Personally, I see no evidence that this O2 thief is really legally batshit or crazy from his meds. Him flying a plane, running a functioning law practice, and managing to be allowed to do any kind of legal work in any court in the land doesn’t jive with the narrative that his cheese sprouted wings and flew off his saltine. I think he’s just a run of the mill phony sailor who’s trying the old John Giduck trick of SLAPPing aka throwing legal mud at a wall and hoping some sticks. And who has made the same mistake of underestimating the popular support, determination, funding, and lawyers the people outing him have. He’s hoping he can just give us so much hell that, even if he doesn’t win any court battles, he’ll make it so expensive and time consuming for us that we’ll take our ball and go home. It’s the legal equivalent of guerilla warfare; you don’t win any set piece engagements, you just make it so expensive in blood and treasure for the occupies that they throw in the towel and leave. I’m guessing he’s banking on a jury not understanding things like that only MCPON can confer Honorary CPO status, military ranks and designations (i.e., not understanding the rate/rank relationship or why being designated honorary chief photographer’s mate is not the same as being an Honorary CPO), how privacy does not apply-anything he can do to muddy the waters and prolong the process, he’ll do. He’s got to be trying to build some kind of a history with those letters to TSO so he can show a court he tried “being reasonable”, as well as putting on a show of force to think Jonn and TSO think, ok, we messed with the wrong guy (of course, this will not happen). There’s nothing here that will hold up; even if appeals are necessary, a court will reject his arguments eventually. But then his strategy isn’t centered around legal victories. Anyway, TSO, Jonn, if you want/need to start a legal defense fund, I’ll be the first to donate. Thanks… Read more »
@ HS … Day late and about 2k short, not including air fare, hotel, fine dining and beer. Fund is burning money already!
Really? We have that fund now? Did I miss something while I was gone?
No not really … no LDF yet, however what I expressed is real.
I committed the first donation of 2K!
There will be expenses.
I have my plan.
Carry on!
Hmmmm… I think I have an idea of what Master Chief has up his sleeve…
According to what the wife has written, unless his wife is a lawyer, she’s practicing law without a license. He is aiding another in the practice of law without a license.
By the way, if Bernath pursues the “I’m mentally incompetent due to meds/illness” angle, I’m wondering what a judge might think of him performing any kind of legal work, holding a pilot’s license, owning any kind of firearm, etc., even if he were to pull off the impossible feat of a legal victory against TAH 😀
Oh, you figured that out, did you? Clever HSSoph.
Would it be wrong to forward the email from his wife to the VA, to the Oregon Bar, to the Oregon State Police, and to the FAA?
I mean, his wife did say that he is incompetent. Would it not be prudent to let those people who may have given him a pilot’s license, concealed carry permit (or possibly registration–he is crazy, after all), and legal representation status?
I’m just saying.
Which is why I stated above that he should be Section 12’d at the nearest VA as well as having any and all firearms taken into custody. Not a proponent of gun confiscation, however if he is truly that incompetent he should not have access to firearms.
And another concern: at six-two and 240 pounds, this fruitcake could pose a significant physical violence threat to most people without any weapons being involved.
Very good observation. Those facts plus court ordered anger management sets the stage for anyone of us to argue that it is US that needs to worry not him.
But I believe all God’s creatures need to be dealt with equally and fairly.
Mr. Bernath claims special treatment because of disabilites and may blame his bad behavior on his meds or conditions or whatever … But he has failed to consider this.
He has grossly under estimated the Power and span of influence of the CPO Mess.
He has failed to see that for each 1 oz he ATTEMPTS to deliver … The CPO Mess will respond in kind with a ton of exacting blows of respectful and professionally delivered justice in strict compliance with the law.
No threats … No BS resumes … Just a great game of chess where he will not win … And the CPO Mess will be the victor!
Any questions?
I’m 6’3″ 260lbs and have the body of a God….Buddha. If he so desperately needs two crutches/canes to stay upright, then the easy thing to do would be to stay out of the swing circle of those sticks.
If there was one thing I learned from my stepdad, it was that Navy Chiefs ALWAYS win in the end. Those be REAL Navy Chiefs, not Phony Chiefs like Bernastyass.
HS Soph, have you ever thought about becoming an Ossifer when you join the Military? You’ve got a good head on your shoulders. That, and the coffe & billets are better in Ossifer Country!
Actually, in the navy the quality of the CPO mess is better and they are usually better staffed than the officers’ mess.
In the navy, Chiefs fund their own mess, so they only get the food that they want, and they have the power to retain the folks that know what the fuck they’re doing behind a skillet to cook it for them.
My division used to own a fuse panel inside of the GW’s CPO mess walk in cooler. It was like walking into Willy Wonka’s factory every time we took thermal images of it. Chocolate chip muffins, steak, crab legs and lobster tail piled higher than the sky.
Cardinal RULE of Chief’s Mess:
What you say, hear and see in the Chief’s Mess … Stays in the Chief’s Mess.
That is all!
Not all of it stays in the chief’s mess, MCPO. Some of it walks out in an empty thermal imager case, and is cooked up in a bearing oven down in the plant like a Dickensian take on “Ocean’s Eleven”.
That might be so on bird farms and other assorted targets, but on the boats it was the same shit, they just got to eat it at their own table, and they had their geedunk stash in the Goat Locker, but that’s about it.
And they got to eat first in the crew’s mess.
Yeah, I imagine it is a phenomenon unique to skimmers and shore installations.
Not an uncommon sight to see a truckload of chiefs selling donuts and shit in the hangar bay or down by where the carriers are parked at NOB. That’s where they get some of their mess fund.
TSO might need a para-legal to process paperwork and correct grammerectical errors.
I can do proofreading, editing and other, similar duties, including stapling and unstapling.
Wow! I have even more respect for you guys and what you do when you have to deal with that disaster!
I normally have a lot of sympathy for the mentally ill, even when they do something awful, but it’s hard to find it for this one. The people around him need to get him the care he is clearly crying out for.
Sorry Common Sense, but I have to disagree…I don’t think this guy is a bit mentally challenged/disabled or crying out for help.
Its a game for him and he’s looking for a pay day…
@ TSO … He IS NOT the only one disabled …
The law works both ways!
BTW ALCON,
PLAN your DIVE and dive your PLAN. It is a sure way to survive the deep.
I have skin in this game.
Heed the word of TSO.
There are many moving parts to a watch.
The watch makers are toiling!
Carry on!
I think we need to introduce this douche to Paul Wickre. Love at first sight.
Lots of similarities. Hatred of womenfolk and people of color: check. Coming here to rant while substance impaired: check. Likes to bully and bluster those he deems weaker than he (especially women): check. Has a history of getting banned from judicial and/or LE facilities: check. Gets into physical altercations: check. In love with “status” toys like luxury barges that have seen their best days: check. Makes boasts about his lavish lifestyle that are contradicted by boots on the ground: check, check, check. It’s almost like Wickre wrote his own sequel. A bad one.
psul the uncool and brittlebrain bernutsky were cloned in the same petri dish, but grew in different test tubes. They also belonged to the same misguidance club in the boys’ locker room in grade school.
psul the uncool and brittlebrain bernutsless were actually cloned in the same petri dish but grew in different test tubes.
They were members of the same misguidance club in the boys’ locker room in grade school, and memorized the manual for bad deeds and socially unacceptable behavior. In fact, they may have co-authored it.
Ex, we are almost always in harmony. But not this time. I guarantee you that neither Psul the Uncool nor the Phony Chief coauthored any original documents together. I have seen no evidence that either of those clowns has ever had an original thought in his life, and no evidence that Bernastyass has ever passed up an opportunity to plagiarize a better man’s efforts. Now if you told me Psul the Uncool stole someone else’s work and Bernastyass stole it from HIM and claimed it as his own … ah, now we’re back under the cold hard light of reality.
So, I did a little comparative research on Birdbath on the cruise book site.
1)Amazing that he only mentions the Apollo 8 recovery aboard the Yorktown, yet neglects to mention anything of being there for the filming of an episode of Get Smart or Tora-Tora-Tora. Unfortunately that particular cruise book does not give crew names.
2) I searched HS-6 and Operation Department for the 1967-68 deployment aboard the USS Kearsage. Nobody in wither the helo squadron or in the Photo shop were named Bernath.
3) I did another search for the same squadron (HS-6) and the Ops department for the 1964 and 1969 deployments, again nobody named Bernath.
I know there isn’t a complete list of cruise books for the website…but that fits the era…and this guy wasn’t there for those three cruises.
I was comparing his biography to the cruise books.
He actually was stationed on the Kearsarge, but briefly, after RTC at Great Lakes, as an E-2 (AA). He transferred to the Yorktown very shortly after being on the Kearsarge. It’s in his real records.
Mr. Bernath has documented his marginal career on his web site. By his own admission as a PH he did not spend a lot of time working in his rate. There is even a cute photo of him taking a bath in a deep sink. I imagine his fellow shipmates thought so highly of him that they MADE him bathe in the sink (that is probably the most traumatic event of his less than four year Naval career and perhaps the root cause of his PDST). But I could be wrong. Maybe he voluntarily bathed in a sink, to be cool and his source of PSDT are the non-combat, non-helicopter operations he was on where he did not see much at all … Unless of course it was all it his head.
OK … Back to the biginning.
IT IS ALL IN HIS HEAD and his head only!
Carry on!
MCPO_All in his head? Then that also makes it a rectal problem, does it not?
He sounds like some of the “Sick Call Rangers” and “Profile Riders” I’ve been stuck with in the past
HCGFHATHSWICTHABCOAR!
In the mean time stick to TSO instructions.
And … OSPDHCFAWLL!
One more … WIGTPO,HEWSAB!
That is all!
Stahp. Seriously.
OCOIAHFH!
WITHFDWHSMA!!!!!IETDYC!!!!
¿Que? ¿Que dice usted, chingador?
Master Chief why do I get the feeling you had a shit eating grin on your face as you typed that?
This guy is a dead ringer for Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet! Another weird-o who ended badly.
Thank you for that; been trying to figure it out.
But that dude wrote some good cookbooks.
He got caught. Tried to slicky boy out of it. That didn’t work ,so now he will use the crazy ploy. Not an unusual M.O. from these types.
It appears that way.
34. Many of the medication he takes warn him that they will affect his mental abilities and warn him about driving, using machinery and making important decisions while on the medication.
I’m sure the NTSB would like to know when he started on his meds, which is probably why he has so far refused to cooperate them.
Gee, color me shocked.
And of course, I’m on the up and up, but seriously, if his wife is enabling his act, she’s just as guilty as he is, and deserves no sympathy either.
The NTSB may be interested in Bernath’s medication regimen, but I don’t think they have much power or ability to compel him to talk as they are not a regulatory agency. Fortunately Another Agency is responsible for regulation of aviation.
No, but they can pull his ticket so he can’t fly anymore. If that hasn’t already been done.
That assumes he was flying with the proper certs to begin with.
The FAA has a “Do not issue / Do not fly” list of pharmaceuticals to guide doctors who are clearing pilots to fly. Here’s a particularly noteworthy excerpt:
Label warnings. Airmen should not fly while using any medication, prescription or OTC, that carries a label precaution or warning that it may cause drowsiness or advises the user “be careful when driving a motor vehicle or operating machinery.” This applies even if label states “until you know how the medication affects you” and even if the airman has used the medication before with no apparent adverse effect. Such medications can cause impairment even when the airman feels alert and unimpaired (see “unaware of impair” above).
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/avs/offices/aam/ame/guide/pharm/dni_dnf/
MCPO you have the CON standing by for orders.
Good Luck, Good Mission, Good Hunting,
As always kill a Commie for Mommie.
Senior Out
Dirt Sailor SCPO …
We have a team assembled and I formalized my plan with my team. The plan is solid, the team is strong and the team will execuute said plan at a pre-determined time.
It should be noted that the subject of this thread grossly under estimated the span of influence and power of the CPO Mess and the response from very Patriot Vets, concerned civilians and a growing team of SREYWAL!
That sounds like what an ambulance chaser would instruct their client to do to max out their VA claim.
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Let’s see if he can figure this code out!
If he figures it out … He will be able to read my coded emails.
Damn, and I left my Secret Squirrel Decoder book in my footlocker!
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
Dagnabit %^&*(**&^ sonsabitches Bumpasses!
I can reads it! It says:
“Yer a special stupid, Son. KMRIA!”
Sure would be interesting to hire a PI and find out what he sees about our boy Elroy, wouldn’t it?
NH,
We have all we need for now (essentially everything).
Everyone needs to stock up on popcorn and beer.
Strategery my friend!
Oh … And be nice to all God’s creatures!
@MCPO~
Even sparkly excrement?
I’ve got Chipotle Popcorn, Jameson and Guinness on hand..
Standing down and awaiting orders.
Speaking of Jameson Whiskey … I will be carry the Colors for a Pipes and Drums Band and marching in the Hibernians NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Monday.
As a Geniune and Initiated Master Chief Petty Officer, I will be wearing a Khaki Kilt, Dessert Blouse, knee highs, black boots, and a highly starched pointed cover!
You going Commando under the kilt? 🙂
You Irish guys always look so good in your kilts! But we Scots…look better and more manly! Just kidding with you here Mater Chief. 😀
And it’s Aberfeldy 21year, Single Malt Scotch.
That sounds pretty awesome, Master Chief.
Daniel-san claims he got PTSD from…well, I’ll copy and paste his words from the first three paragraphs on this page of his:
http://www.aspecialdayguide.com/shyster/hyattveteran.htm
Dear Sirs or Madams:
I am a disabled United States Navy veteran of the Vietnam War and the Cold War. I am rated at 90% disabled by the US Department of Veterans Affairs. I suffer from PTSD, Depression and neuropathy, to name a few because of my service during the Vietnam War and during the capture of the USS Pueblo by the North Korea Communists/show of force by the US Navy thereafter and other encounters with the Soviet Navy and Air Force in the Cold War, serving in both the Atlantic Fleet and Pacific Fleet of the US Navy. http://www.yorktownsailor.com/yorktown/pueblo.htm
I am a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the USS Yorktown Association and operate a website that is a tribute to the service of those great aviators and sailors in wartime. http://www.YorktownSailor.com
Because of my war times service and injuries I move much more slowly than before. I use one to two crutches at all times because if I do not I will fall over into a wall or onto the floor. My handwriting has deteriorated to the point where I can barely read it. Working on the flight deck of two aircraft carriers with screaming jet engines and no ear protection has affected my hearing, among other things.
OK … I will be nice!
I wish to raise the poppy cock flag on this … Please!
You do know how to expose a fake claim of hearing loss, don’t you?
I do.
I don’t. But I am half deaf.
According to my girlfriend I’m selectively deaf. I never hear her requests to put the toilet seat down no matter how loud she yells, but I can hear the bearings start to go out in the A/C air handling unit in the crawl space under the house.
“Working on the flight deck of two aircraft carriers with screaming jet engines and no ear protection has affected my hearing, among other things.”
Where was your ear protection sailor? Where? Wasn’t in the Navy but in the Air Force, they were pretty adamant, in fact INSISTENT about hearing protection on the flight line. Even as far back as WWII. Anybody who damaged their hearing due to lack of proper ear protection, DID IT TO THEMSELVES.
Yes some, even with protection had hearing damage as a result of flight line operations but not the way Bernath described himself in the comments above.
You can’t work on a flight deck without proper hearing protection. For one it is not permitted and two it is physically impossible. The noise levels are too high to permit proper brain to body control.
BLUF: Without hearing protection on deck, one would be walking around with hands over ears.
I say his statements, like every other issue we have disected is pure poppy cock.
He was not an airdale. He had little or no time on deck ,,,
PERIOD!
I’ll back you up on that Master Chief I used to work the the deck as a Plane Captain and with CAG Buddy Stores as a member of an Attack Squadron (hence my name). There is absolutely no way anyone in the modern jet era could ever work the deck without hearing protection. In fact we had to use double hearing protection: ear plugs & ear phones/Cranials. I have hearing issues, but only certain frequencies….such as the one the turbines within a jet engines operate at.
Honestly I would be embarrassed to claim any sort of disability…because to me the guys catching shrapnel and bullets are much more deserving.
Engineering spaces underway are the same deal. If you’re outside Maneuvering, you best have some hearing protection.
Does Birdbath really expect us to believe that the US Navy doesn’t issue hearing protection to people who work flight decks? Bernath, do you honestly think anyone here would not see that and call you on it? And if you’re so decrepit, you really think we would believe that you would want to work/fly? Numbnuts.
Chief OAE, it’s hogwash.
There are plenty of busy flight deck photos of aircraft carriers from the 1960s with the deck crews wearing the Mickey Mouse ears headsets to protect their hearing. I found and posted one of the Coral Sea from 1966 on another bernuts thread. Total BS.
EX-PH2 … Don’t say BS. It might be offensive. Say Poppy Cock.
Wink
Its curious that he was rated 90% for these “disabilities”. I really hope there is some discovery into these VA claims for Fraud…
Poppy cock?
How about completely embroidered fabrication?
Or excessively hyperbolic assertion?
Flamboyant fabrication?
An asssertion created out of a fevered imagination, wishful thinking and thin air?
After all, BS can and does stand for Blatant Speculation.
How ’bout “POOP STAIN”?
I wouldn’t believe Danny boy if he told me that the sun rose in the east.
Instead of the term BS, try Bovine Excretions 😀
I gave up trying to figure out how he managed to claim PTSD due to the Pueblo.
Perhaps he spend too long in the dark room or maybe his shipmates locked him in there. The result perhaps akin to an inmate being in solitary confinement. Arduous I tell you!
Just sayin’.
Plausible!
So could I claim PTSD for spending 9 months in the womb? It was dark in there too and must have been traumatic enough to cause me not to have any memory of it.
Me, too. As one PH1 said to me at the time, it could mean we were in ‘for the duration’. When I asked him what that meant, he said the Pueblo capture could be viewed as an act of war by the Norks.
I myself became somewhat dysphoric over that revelation. But I found some donuts in the coffee mess to alleviate my distress.
Take it for what it’s worth, but here is a link to an interview with him that talks about Pueblo.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.72600/transcript?ID=sr0001
100 emails in the past three days? Biggest most obvious case of Red Herrings I’ve seen in a long time.
Smacks of desperation. But at least, it keeps him busy.
I don’t think I’ve sent 100 emails in the last two years.
TSO, Master Chief & et all, you are in my daily prayer of asking the Lord to grant you guys victory and ignore Bernaths heathen prayers.
Not only does the fake Chief need his meds adjusted, he need a stay in a rubber room with an “I love me jacket.”
I wish he would file a restraining order against my anus.
There’s a nasty Bernath trying to attempt an unauthorized torpedo launch from the main tube.
/not really, I just wanted to say that.
Daniel A. Bernath has to be among the worst of the worst attorneys there is. He has been largely unsuccessful in about every endeavor in his life. He hasn’t advanced his reputation in the legal world, and don’t even know how to properly compute flight distances.
I know several attorney types who own a plane. To a man, each of them have laughed at this idiot, both for his lack of ability in the courtroom and in the cockpit of his plane.
They agree that he is nothing less than a MEGA CLASS PATHETIC LOSER
Submitted for your reading, Daniel-san has updated his resume page again:
http://www.aspecialdayguide.com/bernathresume.htm
Just a small snip from there:
Dear fellow photographers mates and veterans of the US Navy:
Because of what CDR White has told a group of mentally unbalanced combat vets, my life and the life of my family is in danger. I have obtained a restraining order against the federal employee, Dan R. Hyatt, who has whipped these crazed vets into a frenzy, promising to drown me, “head stomp” me, stick an object up my anus and break it off. They then published my and my families address, along with GPS coordinates stating, “I need this NOW.” 4 times on 4 different days there have been loud knocks on my door. When I get there, noone is there, no delivery, no message but the bushes are shaking with apparently someone passing.
Sounds like someone is having a little fantasy going on in his head.
That was almost painful to read, yet still funny.
Ya think that guy rustling in the bushes might have been this guy?
Well, golly gee, looks like he’s more desperate for attention than ever.
Pity.
I have a screen capture of the entire thing now.
As I posted above, he is not being narcotically influenced. He is just bat excrement crazy and lucid as the sun is hot.
Phony, faker, pompous poopy head.
WHO is mentally unbalanced?
You know, he’s kind of like that old fart 2-star admiral Bruce Dern played in ‘Down Periscope’. He thinks he’s being clever and alters the exercise without proper authorization. His career ends in an epic fail.
“Stow it, Yancy! He had higher orders. And you can forget about that third star.” ADM Winslow. – Down Periscope
Yeah.
I was thinking that he was more like Kelsey Grammers XO. The guy slips a gear, so the guys with nets come and take him away.
http://youtu.be/fNaQS3vDQc4
What a fucking loser. You dont stand a chance Birdbath, every lie you told there can easily be disputed. Your photoshopped picture, along with your bullshit LOR were on the VFW site, not your Private Family site, you piece of dried up goat splooge. Your ass was getting handed to you here long before Judge Wyatt posted anything, and he nor anyone else has threatened your ignorant ass.
As far as the term “break it off in his ass” its a figure of speech, well known to real veterans…. just like the term to “kick someone’s ass on the ball field, a card table, a chess board or a court room.
You get more and more pathetic every day Birthbath.
Question asstard,… How many veterans have answered your pussified plea for help? I will garuantee exactly ZERO, once they see what you did. Unless of course you create a sock-puppet.
Also how the hell do you think you can get the sympathy of a group of Naval Photographers when you call out the officers of the organization?
Not that anyone is interested in contacting you, or visting your hovel, but YOU have self-published your own address and contact information repeatedly.
Last of all, this blog is not the real problem you face. Although I’m sure any judge would find your stupidity, arrogance and stealing the images and works of others repulsive, you are not facing that in a courtroom. What you will end up owning up to is YOUR maliciuos attacks and outright lies against fellow professionals.
No one here wants to dirty their hands with a physical confrontation with you Birdbath. No one wants to hurt your family. We only have sympathy for them because they had to live with an asshole like you ( who by the way is documented as being less the responsible in paying child support at times).
Those knocks on your door and rustling in your bushes? Its probably whats left of your conscience trying to get in to tell you what a grifting, fsrt gobbling son of a bitch you are.
Um….yeah…….CHOOO CHOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Here we go: best quote of the day.
“4 times on 4 different days there have been loud knocks on my door. When I get there, noone is there, no delivery, no message but the bushes are shaking with apparently someone passing.’
A very large and fat Vietnamese potbellied pig in the bushes, perhaps?
A bunch of hobgoblins?
Those crispy critters from one of Bruce Campbell’s ‘Dark Knight’ movies?
I’m guessing here.
Bush 1: Dude, get a load of the crazy guy who lives in our house.
Bush 2: what is that fucking idiot doing now?
Bush 1: He keeps peaking out the window and yelling “get off my lawn.”
Bush 2: He’s got the IQ of that palmetto over there.
Squirrel Shit: And he’s nuttier than me.
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Laughed so loud I startled the cat.
Just hang in there, TSO.
Best laugh I’ve had all day!
And most likely true…
My cats didn’t run when I LMAO’d, Ex. But they are used to uncontrollable jags of hysterical laughter from their staff. After all, I do spend a lot of time on TAH and watching the Shipley Trinity.
Someone’s re-enacting a particular scene from Cool Hand Luke maybe?
“Shaking it up here Boss!!”
Police Blotter: Complaint of possible burglary attempt/ tressapassing investigated at residence of D. Birdbath. Officers on site discovered a pile of what appeared to be human feces beside a bush, plus 100 yards of string attached to the same bush and unwound down the street.
End of report.