Deadliest Warrior phony still fighting
We discussed Robert Daly the other day when our friends at Professional Soldiers sent us his records. The word seems to spreading throughout the gaming community.
The folks at POW Network sent us this link to an industry article in which Foundation 9, the video games developer says that Daly provided them with documentation that Daly was indeed assigned to a Special Forces unit;
Foundation 9 has issued a statement in support of Daly, saying that he had provided information that would prove his service in the tight-knit community of the Special Forces. Foundation 9 president David Mann reiterated his support for Daly, saying that “Foundation 9 is very proud of Robert, the leadership he provides his studio, and his service to this country.”
ProfessionalSoldiers.com founder Jeff Hinton, former member of the Special Forces, remains skeptical, along with the other members of PS.com. The website, who works closely with the Special Forces Association and United States Special Forces Command, has made it clear that they believe Daly has used his attachment with the group to profit.
JD stands by the original post and so do I. The folks at Foundation 9 need to talk to someone else besides Daley about this documentation they’ve received, which are apparently orders assigning Daley to Support Co, 3rd Battalion, 12th Special Forces Group, which no longer exists.
Category: Phony soldiers
Being attached to an SF Support company does not make one a Green Beret…
Here we go again with the “assigned to” and “in support of” crappola. Was Daley a Green Beret? No, no, a thousand times no!. Was he authorized to wear a green beret? Most likely.
The support guys don’t wear the green beret, they wear maroon berets. You are right, here we go again, but this time, its warranted.
@3 Was that true in 1990/91?
I imagine King will come along in a few mins, and get pissed about something.
EVERYONE is SF. I swear, every other day we find some SEAL, or SF or Ranger, who killed 1 million Iraqis, with just his cock.
Quote below with link to follow pertaining to support personnel wearing the Green Beret. Apparently prior to 2005 Support Personnel were authorized to wear the Green Beanie nut not the SF Tab above the SF patch.
“When I graduated the SFQC, Group Support Personnel were still wearing the Green Beret (that changed a few months later)” (Quote dated 12/2005)
http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=72027
Clarification so I don’t get anyone frothing at the mouth over the above comment……I am not now nor have ever been a certified Green Beret soldier or even a support person assigned to an SF Unit. Like someone else said I have WORKED with SF guys at various times throughout my career but other than that I am not a SPECOPS soldier.
Man….I was assigned to the 58th SOW as an aircraft mechanic. Wish I would have known that no wisp courses or anything else didn’t make me elite….now what am I gonna do about this huge spec. Ops tattoo on my forehead. LOL
Look at the replies to the link about the gaming industry. Those guys made me proud. *tear*
I *saw* green berets when I was stationed on Ft Lewis and in Honduras. Sometimes they even talked to me! That should qualify me for my own TV show!
My mom went to high school school with Jim Hutton, who was in the movie “The Green Berets” with John Wayne, does that make me qualified to advise the gaming industry?
I’ll give it to you straight, TC. No, you don’t qualify. But there is good news. Because your mom went to school with “Green Beret” Actor Jim Hutton, she can both advise the gaming industry AND the movie-making industry AND say that she was associated with SF! She meets all of the current standards for these claims.
“The conversation now seems to be around what a Green Beret is and what Green Beret isn’t,” said Foundation 9 in a statement to IndustryGamers. “There are some who claim that a Green Beret is only a Special Forces soldier who graduates from Q course and who is Operation Deployment Alpha.
*blink*
OK, I’m a knuckle dragging Marine that never went into Force Recon and whose knowledge of Army matters is through the Army website, About.com and Wikipedia. Even I know that you have to go through the Q Course successfully to have the right to claim being a Green Beret.
I look forward to the day we get a fraud who claims he was in Logistics and stayed stateside through his four years before getting out.
#12 2-17AirCav, d@mn, that means my mom is a bigger bad a$$ than I am. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to stick to being just an old Army boat guy…
He either qualified for the tab or he didn’t. If he was tabbed, he’s SF. If not, he was assigned to an SF unit. He can say he was assigned to the SF unit an an X. He cannot say he was in the special forces.
Sorry… “as an X”
@ #15/16…..the problem is they way he makes it sound he is a tabbed SF Operator. He does not actually come out and SAY this but to the average donut eating, COD/MoH playing fat bodied PS3/X-Box ownning pin headed punk is not going to know the difference between what he actually was and what they THINK he was.
Hey….I play box…..
I agree with Eleven_Bravo.
Clearly this is a different case than the infamous ‘lawyer’ one a few weeks ago.
Regardless of whether Daly was assigend to a SF unit, or authorized to wear the beret, he was NOT a Special Forces soldier holding the 18 series MOS. His records indicate he was an imagery specialist.
The fact that Daly himself apparently never clarified this issue speaks volumes. All he had to do was say, I was assigned to a SF group but was not a qualified Green Beret, or something to that effect. But he did not, and obviously the intent was to mislead the general public who may not know these things. “Indirect posers” like these count on the ‘ignorance’ of the general public.
Even from the context of this whole situation his tacit deceit is apparent. Being associated with a show like ‘Deadliest Warrior,’ don’t people think that producers and the public would give more ‘street cred’ to someone that was actually a SOF operator than someone who was a support personnel assigned to a unit?
Bottom line, Daly indirectly/tacitly misled the general public into thinking he was an actual Special Forces soldier, and used this misrepresentation to give himself ‘street cred’ and further his career.
Poser, end of story.
Jester please note I said AVERAGE fat bodied PS3/X-Box playing punk. LOL
Tman I guess we could toss in Dennis Haysbert and company from the CBS TV show The Unit. Hey they weren’t ACTUAL Delta shooters but they played ones on TV and worked with one who was responsible for the book that led to the show. “Inside Delta Force” by Eric Haney.
This is basically what the fucknut Daly is doing and fortunately we have people around that can call him for what he is…a shit bag poser.
As a young Marine Corporal in 1st Bn 7th Marines..I worked a mission where my CAAT section did cordon for ODA…does this mean I can say I was ODA once?
What a bunch of crap…I love DW, but Daly is laying it on thick…
FYI, to be grammaticly correct he should be saying he was assigned to an “operational detachment alpha, or bravo ect… Not that he was an “ODA” I’ve known some people who thougt they were an ODA all by themselves. That never ended well for anyone
@ #22 to be grammatically correct he should say he was ASSIGNED to the SUPPORT Battalion of 3/12 SFG and was not involved in an ODA of any kind.
Perhaps if he removed his head out of his 4th PoC and then kept this little incident on the QT we’d not have to worry about him doing any KP. (Ok so I stole it and modified it from Robin Williams in GMV) LOL
Eleven bravo, thanks bud. My wife will tell you I’m not an average anything. Lol
My buddy wrote that article you linked to on industry gamers’ website. He’s a big gamer guy and very happy to track down people who lie about military service.
I’ll have to let him know you guys have read one of his reports.
Tell him thanks.
He says the studios are pissed at him. I think it’s pretty funny, their golden boy got caught in a lie.
Golden boys are often too good to be true. five mins of fact checking will usually save a nightmarish headache down the road.
I was assigned to 5th and 10th group in 2001-2002 and support soldiers wore maroon berets. To the best of my knowledge it has been that way since the 90s when SF was made its own branch.
I was assigned (on a daily basis) to the Latrine Corps. Does that qualify me for employment at a big gaming company?
/sarc off
Daley is a poser… period. The “Lawyer”… poser as well. Period.
Long gone are the days of “One Tab- Ranger, One Beret- Green!” That made it very simple…but then… “Let’s make the Col. happy” and start issuing “candy stripes” on the berets so everyone will look the same in “group” formation.
Then comes the “flash qualified” era.
Well if that isn’t enough, let’s award a tab so when you leave “Group” (NOT FUCKING Regiment!) they’ll know you are “somebody”! Now that we are “somebody”, and some of use have to wear three tabs. But wait… what about the Green Beret? Hell full flash qualified doesn’t mean shit… dress right dress: EVERYONE will wear the Green Beret (including the pregnant B/F clerk walking down Ardennes St. (true story and sad to say my father witnessed it as well!). Since SF was a “career killer” for officers (glorified squad leaders) we need a branch like aviation. Well, now that “we” are somebody… down with the Green Beret for everyone unless you are wearing the new “tab”, and bring over the rasberry beret from Division, and put group’s flash on it. Airfuckingborne!?
There were posers in every time period… but one thing is for sure… so many want to be, but damned so few are.
PS-
In Poserville- omission of fact, is a lie as well! Period!
He lied, and needs to be confronted on it plain and freaking simple. Growing up, I loved to watch my old man bust out the poser Force Recon Marines, it is an art form for sure, and he perfected it. There was a Pentagon cop a couple years ago that was telling stories about when he was a company commander in Force Reconnaissance in the 1980’s, and dad asked him, which company? This poser actually told him the company that dad was the commander of at that time!! How embarrassing would that be to be busted out by the guy you are claiming to be?
Lifes short and the world is small
#13 NR PAx
“I look forward to the day we get a fraud who claims he was in Logistics and stayed stateside through his four years before getting out.”
Sorry, no fraud here. I was commo my entire time, 31E Field Radio Repairer on the old VRC-12 series radios (PRC25, PRC77, RT524, R442, AN-GRC106, MD522, etc), then the early SINGARS. Lot’sa stateside, and lot’sa overseas; Germany (prior to the fall of the Wall), Korea, Saudi (the day after the Kohbar Towers). Does Hawaii count as “stateside” or “overseas”? No shooting though, missed out on all of that.
Soooo, been there, done that, got the T-shirts and the records to prove it. And will NEVER claim otherwise.
Humble infantryman weighing in. I am SURE there are a couple TAH regulars who will know EXACTLY what I am about to relate. I was stationed at Ft. Kobbe way back when the SOA was still in Panama (1981-84 was my tour). Every now and again the 3rd of the 7th asked for a dozen reasonably squared away guys as the demonstrators for when the cadre were giving classes. It was a GREAT duty. We got to put away our maroon beanies and get candy striped berets for the duration. This usually ended with a field problem. When we did well, all the guys there would send letters to our CO. He would be thrilled since all the notes were coming from the 7th group. It was through my friendship with the cadre at the SOA that landed me a 4 month TDY as one of the rappelling instructors for JOTC. Why in the world would that make me claim to be SF? That would be like claiming my Steelers T-Shirt was proof I was a Steeler.
It got me tight enough with the 7th group guys to eat in the mess hall they shared with the MP/Prison guards. I imagine a couple read here regularly. I skipped some of the details as to not aid any posers. Anyhow, being attached to a unit is just that. I guess a better example is a very good friend who drove trucks for JFK. He knew the place inside and out, every detail. He could of BSed the commandant if he wanted to, let alone the dames at the VA. Did he ever? No, he was proud to have been support for the schools. To me, THAT is a soldier. It was his example that keeps me honest when talking about my hitch. I just wanted to toss that out there for those of us not so high speed troops who did whatever the Army told us to do.
Acording to the Phonys’s thinking. I can claim to be a Army SOF GB,CIA-Merc and a force Recon Marine. Naw,Iam a UH34D helo Crew Chief. Oh,I fired my M-60 in several of these LZ, a shooter too. If it did not PISS me off so much I would be laughting my ass off at the phobeys. HMM-362 a proud Ugly Angel Joe
“You ever kill Women! And Children!”
“Sometimes!”
“How can you do that?”
“Simple Don’t lead them as much”
~actual Vietnam War interview.
oh wait that was from a movie. Silly me.
“Ain’t war hell”
Whoa–small world. I was watching that on my phone a while ago.
“What we got here, my little yellow sister, is some prime Alabama Blacksnake–but it ain’t too goddamn beaucoup.”
“In Poserville- omission of fact, is a lie as well! Period!”
Excellent point! So many of these slippery SOBs will try to avoid the outright lie by the selective omission of facts that would stamp them as fakes.
So many Dalys, so little time.
That’s so exciting that you are almost set to reach another milestone! Congrats! Isn’t it funny how the less debt you have, the more anxious you are to pay it off? With that kind of motivation you will be debt free in no time!