Barry Francis Hayden; a phony SEAL from down under
Our friends at the Australian/New Zealand Military Imposters website sent us a link to one of their phony SEALs, Barry Francis Hayden. They say that he’s been telling his tall tales for more than twenty years. It goes like this; he was in the Royal Australian Navy during Vietnam and then when he got out, the US Navy snatched him up, I guess because we didn’t have enough phony SEALs of our own, we needed to recruit some more.
According to our friends, he had pretty unremarkable career as an ordinary seaman for two years;
It is hard to believe that the United States Navy SEALs would recruit an unspectacular Australian Ordinary Seaman, who after nineteen months service of a nine year enlistment period, was discharged from the RAN as being “Unsuitable”, as indicated below on his official RAN file.
After being snapped up by US Navy SEALs and returned to Vietnam. He tells of his mission to extract Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Officers from the Australian Embassy in Saigon. He says -;
“We had to remove all identification and of course wear ‘civvies’ we made a high speed dash up the river to a pick up point. We got them, as it was pretty crowded, we did a hot extraction”.
Then in a secret RAN unit he did operations in Australia:
“We had to come up river to the New Farm area of Brisbane in the 1970s. Removed all identification and wear civilian clothes because if we were caught we were on our own. The mission was to remove documents from an office on the river bank, then do a high speed extraction down the river”
Whilst serving on HMAS Hobart
“He became inebriated in Singapore. His ship left without him. He had to ‘hitch hike’ to Vietnam to try to catch his unit. On the way he was caught up in a battle, but was rescued by the Green Berets”.
But you should click over and read the whole thing.
Category: Phony soldiers
International Stolen Valor. Dang! Wonder if that makes them even greater in their own eyes?
It never, ever ends does it. Even down under they are claiming to be American Navy SEALS. I can see Don Shipley shaking his head in frustration.
Has anyone here ever applied Munchausen Syndrome to these fake vets? I just picked this up on ACE- they supplied emphasis. I don’t recall seeing it applied to stolen valor types:
Münchausen syndrome is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves. It is also sometimes known as hospital addiction syndrome, thick chart syndrome, or hospital hopper syndrome. True Münchausen syndrome fits within the subclass of factitious disorder with predominantly physical signs and symptoms, but in addition they also have a history of recurrent hospitalization, travelling, ***and dramatic, untrue, and extremely improbable tales of their past experiences.*** There is discussion to reclassify them as somatoform disorder in the DSM-5 as it is unclear whether or not people are conscious of drawing attention to themselves.
I think this turd burglar needs to do a high speed extraction of his head from his ass!!!
Hey, now that the oizzieseal has spilled the beans, I can reveal that after an Aussie infantry company trained with my battalion back in ’81 at PTA, I so impressed the Aussies that I was secretly invited to join the Aussie SAS. It was so secret squirrel that I carried on as an average U.S. Army 11C mortar maggot during the duty week, but I carried out secret Aussie SAS missions in Borneo during the weekend. Believe me, the weekly weekend jetlag between Darwin and Schofield Barracks was somethin’ you don’t want to experience!!!!!!!
Really? You mean it would be difficult to become a SEAL while not only being a foreign adult national with no US citizenship in any way, shape, or form, but also a foreign military man in service of another country’s government? The SEAL’s need to adopt a multicultural approach. Not accepting foreigners? Tsk, tsk-xenophobia.
I’m guessing Hayden didn’t have many friends back in the day if he missed movement in Singapore. We had a few Aussies on an iteration of R&R to Taipei and while none of them missed the return flight one of them had to be carried on by his mates. I guess the stewardesses were used to it because they were completely non-pulsed by it all.
Saigon is SUCH a small town, you know. What quan was he in? Was he there in 1976 or 1977?
Gotta hand it to this clown….Phony twice over. He’s the Austin Powers of stolen valor: The International Man of Phoniness!
@3 these types are not “assuming the sick role” as the first part of the definition requires. Character pathology appears to be the reoccuring theme in all of these types.