Robert Duft, super sniper Pt. III
We wrote about Robert Duft last month here and here. He claimed that he was a Special Forces sniper in Vietnam, that he’d had a high draft number at the age of 16 and enlisted when he was 17 and spent his 18th birthday in Vietnam. This is from the article about him in his local paper;
“Special Forces are the first in for any situation. We’re intelligence gatherers, advisers. We go in covert; we don’t want anyone to know we are there,” Duft said. “We go in, get the job done, and get out without anyone knowing. Sometimes we stay behind enemy lines for months.”
He became a Green Beret in the early 1970s during the Vietnam War because of his precision in shooting firearms.
Well, the good folks at POW Network sent us his records this morning. If he was “in covert” he was so covert the Army didn’t even know that he was in the service let alone Vietnam;
And all of those medals he’s displaying in that picture? The Army doesn’t know about them either;
He spent 10 1/2 years and not the 22 1/2 years he claimed he served. In fact, it looks like his career was cut short during the Reagan purge when enlistments went up and they started booting the portly soldiers for not making the weight and PT standards. That’s just a guess, of course, but I saw decorated Vietnam veterans get chaptered during the year he left the service, so that might explain the early end of his career.
But he was a cannon-cocker for the first four years of his service and I’m pretty sure that Special Forces doesn’t have any organic howitzers that they can sneak in to their patrol bases. Then he spent the rest of his career as a supply clerk after a stint at Fort Lee, VA as a student.
No service in Vietnam. A year at Fort Hood, a few years at Fort Campbell, KY, Korea, then Germany and back to Campbell.
His special training was a one-week armorer course, field sanitation and a piss test class. That would probably not equate to sniper training…except the piss test course, maybe. So he was an ADAC Ranger.
Dick.
Category: Phony soldiers
He was, in fact, a sniper, sent deep behind enemy lines with a silenced 105mm piece. It was an experimental weapons system, of course, and that’s why his exploits are not contained in his official records. The blackest of black ops.
Looking at the khaki photo in the previous post, I’d also suspect fat boy or PT failure discharge. That’s also the same time drug use discharges increased dramatically from zero tolerance and THC testing. Perhaps he didn’t study hard enough in piss test school? Also just a guess.
He had a typical, unexciting length of service. I guess some people don’t want to say, “I was just a supply clerk” when they are asked about their service. Lacking sufficient explanation for being put out on weight control, he crafts this creative story in order to bring himself more fame and to enhance his fantasy of being this sort of Captain America guy. What this all is really indicative of is a sense of inadequacy and a desire for attention. Perhaps even lack of self esteem. He may think this is harmless, but it isn’t.
If you’re going to be a lying sack of shit, you might as well reach for the stars. Don’t just claim a BSM…be a Special Forces Sniper!
But the Sinai MFO Medal?? Really?
I bet it helped him get laid a lot.
Okay, so here he is, wonder boy himself or, as I prefer to think of him, the Bolivian Mouse, and he knows soooooo much that he can’t talk about it. I wonder why one of these Pulitizer candidates never asks these guys why they can’t talk about ancient operations. I mean, if they are going to say they know so much, and have their names and photos in a paper, isn’t it reasonable to assume that either the other side’s secret squirrels or the dark side’s death squads will snatch him or whack him?
I’m a little confused with his records how do you go from a 76Y10 on November 20 1979 to a 76Y30 on December 10, 1979, do supply people go from E4 to E6 in 20 days?
@7 – What is listed is his Duty MOS. It merely means he went from holding an E1-E4 position to holding an E-6 position. Duty MOS is irrelevant to your actual rank/grade.
The medals in his display case are out of order as well. The Siliver star comes before a Legion of Merit and the Soldiers medal comes before both a Bronze Star a Purple heart comes before a Meritorious Service medal, the NDSM comes before a Vietnam Service Medal, a humanitarian service medal comes before a Vietnam Gallantry Cross and a UN Multinational Force Medal comes before a Vietnam Campaign Medal. There are a couple of other medals that I cannot identify due to the resolution of the photo, but they also appear to be out of order. To me another dead give away of a Phony A@@hole. He should do some hard time.
The only thing he sniped at was way too many Golden Corral buffets…..a sorry phat POS
Another idiot cashing in on the unkowing fools in the media.
This is just too fabulous to not post:http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1448889271379&set=t.100000733473054&type=1&theater
Lol. I do know this clown very well; he still to this day tell every1 and any1 that will listen that he was special forces in Vietnam and shows of those metals. He was a joke in the army for 10 yrs. He even got a cheesy special forces tattoo on his arm a couple yrs ago and uses his stories to get free or discounted stuff. Pretty sickening