Daniel A. Bernath; phony CPO

| December 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: Daniel A. Bernath passed away on January 21, 2018

Daniel Bernath

Scotty sent this to us over the weekend and I was holding on to it for a drought, but our own Ex-PH2 was excited that Daniel A. Bernath was a PH2, too. Just by looking at the rank on his sleeve, you can tell he’s a phony since, instead of laying out the bucks for new rank, he had a stripe embroidered on the sleeve. He has service stripes for twenty years of service, but his FOIA tells a different story;

3 years and change in active service, and a couple of years in the Reserves. Now let’s do some math – you’ll need most of your fingers, he’s wearing seven awards in the picture and the FOIA says that he has five. Well, finally we got a Navy phony who is not a SEAL.

Bernath portlandia medals

DSCF0759.jpg~original Bernath Caddy

Bernath portlandia medals close up

Bernath crash

ADDED: Look familiar? Courtesy of Sparks to whom I bow for his superior Google-foo belt.

John SheppardDaniel Bernath

From MCPO;

Bernath photos 3

Category: Phony soldiers

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Brownwolf

@48 Scotty,

It’s obvious he did the photoshopping himself since that pilfered image originates from his very own personal website. That photoshopped image is here; http://www.aspecialdayguide.com/danbernathchief.jpg – notice he has a white bar under the image with his name and title.

Also, he has this other image of a past mentor at; http://www.aspecialdayguide.com/yorktown/relleveportrait.jpg – with that same white bar with exact lettering and font that proves that Dan “the Barnacle” Chief photo-shopped these himself.

There is some more photo-shopping on this image (top image); http://www.aspecialdayguide.com/yorktown/chiefs.htm – it looks like he used one of those “hot filters” to enhance the colors and brilliance of the rank thread and ribbons.

Ex-PH2

This guy pisses me off.

Green Thumb

Dude is probably on the “secret” board of APL.

I can only imagine he probably has drinks with the Phildo as well.

Ex-PH2

He blames ‘someone else’ for photoshopping his head onto another ‘chief’s’ head. Doesn’t even recognize the faked job on the real portrait sitter’s crow.

Just waiting for him to show up here.

Doc Savage

@ 52…PH2

This brain trust must have learned his photoshop skills from the North Koreans and Iranians.

I would give a months pay to watch you school this toad in a darkroom for ten minutes with a baseball bat.

Consider it “continuing education”

Ex-PH2

Nah, Doc, just a verbal beatdown about basic darkroom and photo tech skills that any TRAINED photographer of the Old School can easily answer in a heartbeat, all questions on the 1968 PH2&3 test.

Fro example:
What is a gamma chart?
What is the Merck manual?
Define hyperfocal distance.
Define depth of field.
What is farmer’s bleach?
How do you calculate exposure when using a strobe flash?
What film do you use in a Speed Graphic?
How do you load a film pack?
How is a photographic image produced on a film emulsion?
What is used to develop black and white prints?
What is the correct name for hypo?
What is the composition of a stop bath?
What’s the difference between professional film and amateur film?
What was the original reason for RF2475 production?
What film can be processed with a safelight turned on?

And since it was the 1960s, what is the difference between E-2 and E-3 film?

This is just basic photolab knowledge. I’d bet he can’t even answer half of them.

Green Thumb

@56.

You should try out for Jeopardy.

John Robert Mallernee

I couldn’t answer even one of those questions.

When I was a soldier, my camera was a Kodak Instamatic.

Today, I have an obsolete Kodak Easy Share Z710 zoom lens digital camera with a MX2000 tripod.

Ex-PH2

Why, thank you, GreenThumb.

John Robert Mallernee

An E-2 is a Private, and an E-3 is a Private First Class.

So, I guessed the answer to ONE (01) of those questions!

Ex-PH2

Not in reference to color transparency film, John.

It seems that Bernath signed himself in on Scotty’s blog as yelpclassaction, so I looked that up. Someone nameless has repeatedly launched class action suits againts Yelp (the open site that lets people post comments about a business) and has been repeatedly dismissed from the court. I would hazard a guess that it’s someone currently being scrutinized for being a dickweed poser, based entirely on the verbal association.

HMCS(FMF) ret

Remember this Dumbass Dan,

Daniel Bernath:

We can project power anywhere we need to. One of the true questions is who said, “Where are my aircraft carriers?” Every president since Theodore Roosevelt “Where are my aircraft carriers?”

Aircraft carriers in TR’s time? You have to be shitting me, “Chief Bernath”. Timeline looks a little skewed…

National Association Of Naval Photography list him on their rolls as a PH2, not as an honorary PHC…

LIAR!!!!

HMCS(FMF) ret

BTW, Dumbass Dan – people that have been made Honorary CPO’s, have had it done through the MCPON, not some association. Just ask Gary Sinese and Bill Cosby… they never had to kiss ass to be made honorary CPO’s like you tried to do.

If this faker would have set foot in any mess that I was part of while I was on active duty, the mess would have made him bark like a fox before they were done with his sorry ass…

Green Thumb

This maggot looks like the type of clown that peeks in windows.

Keep your pants up, boys.

T-Money

Am I the only juan that noticed the pic in uniform is the SAME as his pic wearing a suit?? His head is photoshopped onto the uniform.

I know PH’s can be NACs, I’ve run across one or two in my day. His AC credentials are a lie, of course. As a former AO2(NAC) I take umbrage with his fakery. Pretend to be a SEAL or Ranger or SF, but do NOT fake the aircrewman wings!

Ex-PH2

I posted this on the Kerry/Vietnam thread by mistake, mostly because I’m not completely awake yet.

It’s too early in the AM to go all growly, but I was googling up some stuff last night.

I came across a ‘letter of recommendation’ that was undated, but has my old division offier’s name on it, recommending this twatwaffle for honorary CPO. This officer was my division officer at NAVPHOTOCEN (NPC) at the time this jerk was on the Yorktown. And his rank was not what is included on the LOR.

So, to be sure that I have backup, I dug into some of the odd bits of paperwork from my illustrious Navy career and found a leave chit (request) from April 1969, which clearly shows my DO’s signature on it. I doubt seriously that he knew this dipstick in any way at all.

Not going to get my Victoria’s Secret undies in a wad over this, but I can prove this clown is a lying sack of goat pebbles. And that’s being nice on my part.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

EX-PH2 … “Victoria’s Secret undies” … we love it when you talk dirty to us!

Ex-PH2

Well, Master Chief, he’s got every excuse in the book for being a liar and a fraud, but the idea that you’ll never ever run into someone who knew the guy whose name you put on a phony LOR just bites that big crap sandwich, big time.

Besides, this crapw weasel still has me pissed off.

MrBill

Bernath actually is – or at least was – a lawyer. He’s been licensed in California, and has practiced Social Security disability law in Oregon (he was presumably able to do this because in a federal practice, you have to be admitted to a state bar, but not necessarily in the state in which you practice). I found a reference to his attempting to get admitted to the Oregon state bar in the late 90s, but according to the reference this was denied because he lacked the requisite moral character to practice law in Oregon:

http://theevilgovernment.com/bernath.html

Finally, I checked the websites of the California and Oregon bars. He is still a member in CA but took inactive status in 2012 (he appears to have switched between active and inactive status several times over the years). He does not appear to be a member of the Oregon bar.

Ex-PH2

Low moral character: yes, he altered his birth certificate to get into the Navy. He admits to being a liar from the get-go. Here’s a quote, in his own words, from his ‘bio’:

Daniel Bernath:
Well, let’s see. I went in. I joined the Navy at 15. No, I must’ve been 16. I had a Michigan Driver’s Learner’s Permit. It was paper. So, I took an eraser and changed my date of birth and made myself 18 instead of 16. I’d joined the Navy and all the papers were signed and they were coming by. The Chief Petty Officer, the recruiter, was coming by the house at the last minute to have some further papers signed and I wasn’t there. They said, “How can Danny be joining the Navy when he’s 16?” So, that didn’t work.

>:}{ Still gnashing those teeth.

Brownwolf

After reading this website; http://theevilgovernment.com/bernath.html – it is obvious he was an unethical lawyer and a deadbeat father.

Ex-PH2

Oh, thank you for posting that article, you guys. I’ll go drop it in on Scotty’s site. <3

Hondo

Once again, Jonn’s principle that stolen valor is almost never the only thing going on appears to be proven. Let me propose a restatement:

“Stolen Valor – it’s almost always just the cherry on top of a sh!t sundae.”

Ex-PH2

If you bop on over to Scotty’s blog, you can see by Bernath’s comments that he is in complete denial that he’s done anything wrong.

Oh, while we’re at it, he’s a lawyer, so he can ‘lawer up’ himself and drop the threat of legal action on all of us.

We should get him a psulie-boi the toi-boi together. They’d make quite a pair, wouldn’t they?

A Proud Infidel

Now that you’ve mentioned it, it sounds like they truly deserve each other! Hey, he says he’s a lawer, doesn’t he?

Ex-PH2

Am I getting obssessed with this?

Ex-PH2

I still want to dump on this guy, but when he stopped commenting at Scotty’s when I posted that one of his ‘nominators’ was my division officer at NPC when Bernasty here was on the Yorktown. And I do have backup for that.

Pants down. Caught. Oops!

Still gnashing teeth a little: >:}{

Ex-PH2

Still gnashing teeth a little. Bernastypants hasn’t been back to Scotty’s place since I posted a rebuttal to his claim that my DO was at NPC during the entire time he was on the Yorktown and couldn’t possibly have known him. And yes, I have backup for that.

A Proud Infidel

Ex-PH2, I definitely think you’ve smashed his face in it, or as Jackie Gleason’s character, Ralph Kramden on “The Honeymooners” said, “POW! Right in the kisser!”

Ex-PH2

Then, Proud, I will crank back a bit to ‘reverse engines, quarter thrust’.

A Proud Infidel

NAAAH, you gave him the stomping he deserved!!

A Proud Infidel

OH, and looking at it from an FA Forward Observer’s perspective, you had your rounds right on target when you unleashed, “A perfectly executed Fire For Effect Mission”!

Ex-PH2

I bow to your feedback, Proud.

“Imagine your enemy, cut down again and again.” Miyamoto Murashi, samurai, ‘Book of 5 Things’

Ex-PH2

Sometimes, I don’t make clear statements. This ‘rebuttal to his claim that my DO was at NPC’ should read ‘rebuttal to his claim, stating that my DO was at NPC’.

Durn! Proofread!

Ex-PH2

I’m still not done with this guy, even if he has shrunk back into the woodwork and won’t come out of his little hidey-hole.

Now I know why Green Thumb follow phildo, paul(of the ballsack), Burrell, et al.

I will make this CLOWNDOG BASTAGEPANTS an SV poser in my second volume of B&B. I will enjoy it.

Ex-PH2

Bernastyputz, you stay back in your cubicle where I can’t see you.

Green Thumb

Shitbag.

Ex-PH2

Scumbag and stumpsucking drizzler.

Ex-PH2

Still haven’t shown up here, Bernath. What’s the matter? Afraid to show your face now?

I could go to the trouble of contacting the registrar at Oxford U to find out if you ever took classes of any kind there, even as an auditing student. Shall I do that?

Cheers!

Asshole!

Ex-PH2

Bernath the Boring, Jersey Tillson, the Round Marine, the Round Ranger — they’re all cut from the same cloth, you know.

Ex-PH2

Nice try, Bernastypants. Cheap trick, too. Didn’t work, did it? Did you actually think for one tiny second that it would?

Oh, yeah — and TAH knows what you did. If you want me to push it, I’ll tell everyone. What you said is a helluva a lot more heinous than me or anyone else saying you’re a liar.

Jonn is right: stolen valor has much more behind it than just a weak ego looking for attention. Much more.

3/17 air cav

@91……hey PH, have not seen your saucy comments for a while. Kind of missed them, have you been ill?

Ex-PH2

@92 No, AirCav, I took my computer to the shop for its free annual tuneup and a new software to protect it from cryptolocker and other nefarious critters, which was not free or cheap, and then got it home and it wouldn’t start up.

So I had to take it back to have the power source replaced, and now not only is it smoothly and quietly sailing ahead, it is also considerably faster on the Net. I also got several updates to my browser when I turned it off a couple hours ago.

Now, all is well in my itty bitty kingdom.

Except for Bernath…. he bumped himself down to the level of the people who used clean cesspits in castles in the Middle Ages. Pond scum is about six steps higher than he is.

3/17 air cav

@93……Worse than pond scum. Rumor has it he used a Kodak brownie.

Ex-PH2

@94 Now THAT is funny!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

I need supper! Long day!

Green Thumb

@95.

Stay after him.

Frankly Opinionated

I arrived quite late to the show, popcorn stand is shut down,but I will hang out anyway. I just got a new, upgraded photoshop program that I installed on my laptop, in my quest to become more mobile with my artwork. I ran that photo of Danny Bernasty through both my old photoshop and this new version, and agree that the head is photoshopped onto the body, and that the blue backround is “painted in”, and quite poorly at that. He is a rank (smelling) amateur, not worth a shit at photoshopping. As Kim Jong Un would say: “He is a genurine wooser, most prowerwy doing ower bad things”.
Could it be possible that he is the uniform advisor to Waddlin’ Willie, the Wound Wanger?
Daniel Bernath your name is up in lights and you are going up in smoke.

Ex-PH2

How about it, Bernath?

You threw down the glove, jerkwad. You gonna pick it up?

Or was all that nasty stuff just you running off at the mouth?

OldSargeUSAR

@ PH2

I missed you, too. Thinking of mac & cheese with bacon.
Nice work with Bernath the Bedwetter. Don’t stop now….

Green Thumb

Maggot.