Robert Danny Hay; shortest USMC career in history
Scotty sends us his research on Robert Danny Hay of Helena, Montana who rides around with his Marine Corps career on the back of his pickup;
The word on the street is that he’s picking up a large VA check every month for his injuries in Vietnam that go along with all of those stickers. However, that’s not what the USMC says about his career;
According to Scotty, there’s going to be a knock at his door this morning.
Category: Phony soldiers
wow, lol. I spent more time in Iraq than this guy did in the Corps… looks like my last min trip to Iraq (Rapid replacement for an emergency that happened stateside) but at least I don’t claiming SS, BS w/V, PH and VNCM. Besides if you got a PH a Rigger: well damn Rigger was not where he was supposed to be. Besides the ball busting you get in small shop when you get home…
Asshole. Hope the knock on his door happened at 6:01 AM local and involved folks with badges.
He packed one hell of a military career into five weeks, didn’t he?
Since I’ve been here on this blog (And thank y’all for making me feel welcome, btw) I’ve run out of pithy expletives for shitbirds like this.
Wow, the Marines sure pass out a lot of bling for completing 36 days of boot camp and then washing out (sarc)…
Well, at least this turd lasted a few days longer in boot camp than Dan Rather, who washed out after less han a month…
D’you think he’ll have to sell his truck to pay back the money he collected?
ive always held the opinion that people that plaster their car with medals and military accolades generally never did shit. i see people with CIBs and airborne wings adorning their rear windows of their cars everywhere, im pretty sure most of them never saw anything. just my opinion based on no facts or study what so ever
@7: My personal policy is to not have ANY stickers of any kind on my POV. The more anonymous I am on the road, the better. I really wish I don’t even have to have the DOD base decals on my front car window, but I need that to get on post for my PX/commissary needs…
I have a ballcap from a squadron I served with. On it, I wear my crow, my aircrew wings, and my two 2500 hour pins. I wear it on two days: Memorial Day, and Veteran’s day. The only other times I’ve worn it are for funerals of shipmates.
I don’t get the need to bling a car with your awards. I admit to having one plaque and 3 mugs on a shelf inside my house, but on a car/truck? Nope. I can see having Veteran’s plates, but why the need to fill up the back window with awards?
I’m proud of my service, but I don’t talk about it unless someone asks, etc. It’s what I did, and now I’m doing something else. 🙂
I have friends with more time on a static line than this guy has in the Corps.
I have more respect for a dog turd on the sidewalk than i do for pissants like him. I hope Bubba & Thor have a ball with his ass, too!!
I have more respect for dog turds on the sidewalk than I do posers like him, I hope Bubba & Thor have a ball with his ass, too!!
Why don’t these guys ever just go with a believable and modest stack? They would get a lot further with their scam.
I really hope there is follow up on this. Like to see a picture of a scumbag like this being led away.
See you in the next stolen valor tourney, shitbag.
Agree with all the others who prefer not to advertise. Earlier this year I was attending an event at which someone was passing out “I served” decals. In the heat of the moment, I got one. It still sits here as I contemplate just where to put the thing. Anywhere but on the car, of course.
Meanwhile, what a silly man. I can kinda sympathize, sorta, but not really, with those who exaggerate their service a little. To actually defraud the VA, as if no one would even discover it, is just stupid.
Cool. Something to do.
Also, The VA in MT is a FUCKING JOKE organization.
What a bunch of horseshit… I would love to see the video of the knock on the door !!!
Please keep us updated !!!
@7.
201 file on their car or on their back.
Yeah.
I agree.
Gah. The only decorations I allow is the Marine Corps license plate holder and my lanyard. I’ll wear the tie tack for interviews as well but that is all.
Combat Historian, many bases/posts do not require a DoD sticker anymore since everyone shows ID to get on post. I have not had one on my car for the last two duty stations. It’s hard to be silent or unnoticed with decals all over your vehicle…
As others have stated, I myself cannot bring myself to display my awards and decorations on my vehicle or even on myself. The only time was a year ago when my public library did a display with at lest one veteran for each conflict that they could find. I represented Operation Iraqi Freedom. Their was one service member that was represented for the civil war. The descendants provided an actual uniform coat, hat, and a few actual documents. The display lasted for one month.
You don’t have to be a combat vet to be offended by scum like Robert Danny Hay. Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart, among others….just shakin’ my head in disgust.
We learned pretty quick in 1968 that you didn’t talk or display your veteran status….still sticks with me today.
Yeah, this is akin to the Madison Avenue approach: The product is secondary and what matters is how strongly one advertises it. I don’t have a specialty plate but I like seeing them. Once, on Baltimore’s beltway I was zippin’ along in the right lane and was muttering about the slower car in the middle lane. As I neared it, I saw that it had a Gold Star plate. I backed off quickly and declined to pass.
But when the driver has the sticker fever, it gets my attention–but not in a good way.
“The word on the street is that he’s picking up a large VA check every month for his injuries in Vietnam…”
That adds insult to the those who are denied or who are waiting (due to the backlogs) for their due compensation.
I hope someone can or will get to the bottom of this.
#5, funny you mentioned that. Out of the blue, I just read this the other day:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1221194/posts
@26: *snicker* Definitely a new definition of “washed out.”
I’d certainly love to know what the reason codes on his duty station sheet mean. Be pretty interesting, I bet.
I’m surprised that this jerk does not have MoH license plates on his truck. I wonder if he belongs to the VFW or the American Legion. Even if he was injured in boot camp and medicaled out, he has no right to claim awards or rank that he could not have earned during his three weeks of recruit training. Hell, he was in the Casual company almost as long as he was in training. I hope U-Tube gets a video of him scraping those decals off his truck.
Turd. Hopefully the authorities will go after his ignorant, phony faker ass and make him repay every damn penny before sending him for a long stay in Bubba’s house of a$$ pounding.
I look forward to an update.
This clown is not a Marine! You had to complete 13 weeks of boot camp to earn that title.
Hey, he would probably say, when pressed, that he has those decals in honor of “The Unknown Soldier”.
i have nothing on my car at all, no decals, special plates, or even plate frames. i dont wear battalion ball caps or pins, i do have a scale CIB and airborne wings tattooed on my chest. its under my shirt and can not be seen by any random person. we all know what we did, those that actually did their jobs with honor and pride dont seem to have that need to boast and show it off to everyone. all the decals and plates are is a “look at me, give me attention” plea
I have more time in the shitter in any given single year of service.
Asshat! I hope he gets pounded accordingly.
Yes, please keep us informed of further details.
Reminds me of this shit bag here. http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/19346820/2012/08/22/man-with-questionable-military-record-arrested
Not to derail this thread, but what is up with all the spamming lately?
I have PH plates with handicap decals. I felt like a tool doing it but its $2 to register your car with military decals.
PH plates have gotten me out of speeding tickets. btw, anyone who.gets a CIB tattoo.is.probably also.a limp dick who cant please a woman (looking at you, Shitty)
At #37 What state do you live in? I been my service in hippies face since 1066.
August 31st, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Even without graduating he could get a legitimate VA pension. IF you get seriously injured in boot camp, you get the same type of rating that a 30 year Vet would get for the exact same type of injury.
I ran the Seps Platoon at MCRD in San Diego. The vast majority of kids we discharged were fraudulent, erroneous or had pre existing conditions, as well as the Failure to Adapt. I also had a steady population of recruits that were injured to the point that they couldn’t train. They had to hang around 2-6 months waiting for a med board. They ended up with VA percentages just like everyone else.
In this guy’s case probably no way that happened, he went from being in training to completely discharged in about a week. There’s no way he got a med board or VA approval in that short of a time.
He has some ‘splainin to do.
By the way, the Silver Star data base for Marines in Vietnam list no one with the surname of Hay at all, and none of the Hayes had the first and middle name of Robert Danny, just in case there was a mix-up in the spelling.
Of all the Hayes listed 4 of 6 died winning the medal, and one other was seriously wounded.
This guy is a turd.
@ Smitty. I have a decal of the Navy Jack on my rear window and two plate frames that say, US NAVY (top) and MASTER CHIEF (bottom).
So stay with me for a minute:
I consider myself an outstanding driver so on the road and of course when approaching a military check point, I want everyone to know who is behind the wheel.
And if my wife is driving, let’s just say she IS the wife of a Master Chief.
We live and breath what we are and there is nothing wrong with giving prior notice should anyone want to dance or say a friendly hello!
ANOTHER FUCKING POS EXPOSED GREAT JOB
Comrades in Arms:
My white 2004 Ford F-150 XLT four wheel drive pickup truck (the nicest thing I’ve ever owned!) has a Mississippi “Bronze Star Medal” license plate on the rear, and a Confederate Battle Flag license plate on the front.
On my tailgate, I have magnets, NOT stickers (!), of the 101st Airborne Division shoulder patch, and the Republic of Viet Nam Service Medal ribbon.
I’m proud that Mississippi issued me that “Bronze Star Medal” license plate.
The clerk started to give me the “Silver Star Medal” license plate, so I had to explain the difference to her.
Unfortunately, because of my illness, my beloved pickup truck (the nicest thing I’ve ever owned!) now sits, covered in dudt, with the battery dead, and the tires flat.
On patriotic occasions, I do wear my full sized medals properly arranged, according to Army regulation, on my suit coat.
I also wear those full sized medals whenever I’m attired in my Scottish clan’s tartan kilt and plaid.
When I go to church, I wear a miniature ribbon rack, with miniature wings, on the lapel of my suit coat.
I do this for a couple or three reasons.
Terrible, unspeakably traumatic horrors happened to me when I was a kid, so this kind of help makes up for it, telling my shattered ego that I’m not a total failure at everything.
When I came back from the old Republic of Viet Nam, alive and with no parts missing, folks kept telling me what a fool I was, and strangers would throw things at me, and try to hit me with their cars.
Today, right or wrong, our country is at war, and us old, gray headed war veterans have a duty to set a proper example for the younger generation.
At least, that’s how I see it.
Thank you.
John Robert Mallernee
Armed Forces Retirement Home
Gulfport, Mississippi 39507
I have nothing on my truck that says Military. No Bronze Star plates or a CIB sticker. I prefer to be anonymous about my service and thank the older veterans for theirs.
I have Purple Heart license plates, but only because it’s about 60 bucks cheaper to renew every year than a regular registration.
Checked the Montana database for purple heart awards Montana, this person is not listed. Pisses me off. My uncle glen a carter shot in the head captured escaped at frozen chozen Korea. Never the same. Then this asshole claims all his bullshit for five weeks of service. My uncle lived in Missoula mt. Died young.
Twist–same here. Not even dolphins sticker.
I wish I had a rotating machine gun turret mounted on the cab roof of my beloved white 2004 Ford F-150 XLT four wheel drive pickup truck (the nicest thing I’ve ever owned).
Now, THAT says, “MILITARY” ! ! !
I have a couple of stickers on the rear window of my Pickup truck. One says “AFGHANISTAN CAMPAIGN VETERAN” with a pic of the service ribbon and the other is a drawing of a Soldier’s Memorial, boots, rifle with bayonet stuck in the ground, and K-pot helmet on the rifle butt with the dog tags hanging on the rifle. I’ve paid for the right to display those in blood, sweat, and tears, and I’ll make life suck as much I can face-to-face for every poser I catch in person!!
You can’t spell poser without POS!!