Andy Prado in the news

| January 27, 2016

Andy Prado

Dave Hardin scored another media appearance for a valor thief, this time it was Andy Prado the phony Ranger, phony sergeant major.

Prado was disparaging us on Facebook a while back with folks who questioned him about our exposure of him;

Prado

So, Dave busted him out to the media, KTLA‘s Gayle Anderson mentioned him in this video because he conned another charity out of a service dog on Veterans Day.

Here’s the DD214 that Andre supplied to verify his service;

Prado DD214a

I went through that abortion the other day and picked out some stuff that was wrong with it;

I don’t recognize the form. Various fonts on the same document wouldn’t happen on a real DD214. “Command to which transfered” would be St Louis, not 75th Rangers (which, by the way, is at Fort Benning, GA not the misspelled Fort Bragg)

The “Primary Specialty” would be 11Z5V or 18Z5V not “Infantry (Airborne)” and there would be only one Specialty, not a list of jobs. I guess he was upset that there wasn’t a block for each of lies, so he just crammed them all into one block because it was big enough for all of them to fit.

In Block 12, there are no dates of service, no calculations for foreign service (but there are awards for foreign service) – no real math is listed. I’m sure the “Date Entered Service This Period” wasn’t November of either 2018 or 1918.

In Block 13; “Ranger Qualified” should read “Ranger Tab” He has a Combat Action Badge, but he was Infantry so he should have been awarded a Combat Infantryman Badge instead.

Block 14 Education; The CSM Academy is actually called the Sergeants Major Academy. He claims that he’s Ranger Qualified and Special Forces Qualified, but it’s not listed in Block 14, neither is the Basic Airborne Course which would be a prerequisite for either.

In Block 23, Type of Separation – Release from Active Duty is not an appropriate entry for a retiring soldier.

I’m sure that you can find things that I missed. Every time I declare a DD214 forgery the worst I’ve ever seen, the phonies take that as a challenge to produce a worse one.

Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures

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ChipNASA

I wouldn’t even wipe my ass with that. I’d be afraid I’d get a rash or something.
Ick.

The Other Whitey

What the fuck is a “duty to 15?” I’m guessing the result of some low-end voice recognition/dictation software. Of course, his grammar, punctuation, and Larsist spelling indicate that he’s damn near illiterate, so who knows?

Ex-PH2

I was trying to interpret that ‘duty to 15’, also. Then I realized that he has a duty to 15 dogs, to walk them and clean up after them.

Daisy Cutter

It must have been a ‘smart phone’ and it substituted ‘duty to 15’ for ‘DD-215″, the correction form for a DD-214 (for the few of you that don’t know this already).

Speaking of which, you all probably realized about the auto-correct and I just ruined it by pontificating.

Biermann

Did you mean “is the dooty of 15 dogs”?

Brown Neck Gaitor

I think he was using voice to write his response and SIri decided that DD-215 is “duty to 15”

Say it out loud.

MrBill

Very impressive. Not everyone is able to graduate from the Acadamy.

blaster

which academy are you talking about.? “BNOC” or “ANCO” ? The F’n jack wagon should have done just a little research as to the proper acronyms.

A Proud Infidel®™

JUST WHY the shiteatingmuddafuck do some of these Santorum-stained dingleberries have to involve dogs in their con games and I wonder what else this walking blob of taint jam has conned off of whom?

Fuck. Him.

SFC D

Attaboy, Dave!

2/17 Air Cav

I read over it the stained mystery form. And now I feel dirty–so very dirty.

MrBill

Looks like he may have converted a real DD 214 from PDF to a word processing document, then just filled in whatever the hell he wanted. I’ve converted PDF documents to Word, and often get crazy-looking documents in which the words are there but the formatting is all wrong.

Bobo

That would also explain the misspellings (Monflls for Months and Pays for Days). When I do OCR conversions on scanned documents, I have to go through and fix all the newly created words. The little red squiggly line in the word doc is usually a good hint, though.

Daisy Cutter

And you know he said to himself – “Shoot, the boxes and lines didn’t transfer over. Oh, well. Screw it.”

You just KNOW that happened.

Bobo

That is, by far, the worst fake DD-214 that I have ever seen. I could hand junior a blank piece of paper and a box of crayons, show him a real DD-214, and get back something better than that.

Any word on if he is actually receiving VA treatment?

OIF '06-'07-'08

He could have received a service related disability while on Title X orders, but I am not holding my breath over this.

If he did, then his records should indicate a “Med Hold” while recovering from his injuries.

Daisy Cutter

He probably claimed PTSD from non-existent combat. He was an MP that did crowd control and inspections.

Daisy Cutter

During ODS (I forgot to add).

HMCS(FMF) ret.

Isn’t that the “DD-214” that all “Call of Booty – Anal Buttsekks Warriors” get when they finished the series???

Andy Prado… just another shitstain in the Stolen Valor Hall of Dishonor!

OIF '06-'07-'08

What,,,,,,,the,,,,,,,FUCK?????

Do ya think dumbass could have went and downloaded a blank 214 to forge.

what a bag of stupid!

Green Thumb

Word.

This dude is a tool.

Where is Forgin’ Frank Visconti when you need him….?

Dapandico

All that is missing the certification as a true & accurate copy from Sammy the Secret Squirrel in the S1 hideout.

Sj

“This is S*1 Important Document” ?????

“Caution not to be used for …..”

HMCS(FMF) ret.

Here’s a few other typos that Shitstain didn’t catch:

– LQS ANGELES instead of LOS ANGELES
– Different fonts throughout the document
– Can’t figure out the difference in O and 0 in the year column
– Half of the blocks are missing the full titles for them

This is such a shitty effort at creating a document that Frank Visconti would be pissed off…

C2Show

He must have cranked that one out real fast or typed over this crap while he was drunk and photocopied that piece of shit which is why we see no lines or anything on that DD214.

No real answer for this madness.

A Proud Infidel®™

Maybe he cranked it out after his fifth Dutch Rudder Gang Cocktail with extra lead paint chips?

C2Show

Old Witless one probably served him a Michelada w/ paint chips and bleach out of stereotypes.

Surprised nobody posted on Prado’s fb yet lol.

Bobo

Those are all common when you make a PDF from a scan and then run the OCR recognition so that you can cut and paste from the scan. The recognition takes a best guess at each individual letter and it usually makes a bunch of mistakes.

C2Show

Jesus Christ, even that place is separation is jacked up. 9O020? LQS Angeles? He must have been shaking and panicking when he used some old typewriter to crank this crap out.

Brown Neck Gaitor

Put me in the OCR camp.

Item 2 – number missing.

Item 4a – I am not 100% on this, but shouldn’t this be SGM vice CSM?
Item 4b – OCR formatting

Item 11 no years of service nor MOS

Item 25 – AR635-200 (what is “OO?) chapter 5, section II is for Surviving Son/Daughter
Item 26 – LFF is Directed by Service Authority

AsksMarine

Dave, can we hire you to expose Michael Killam, Phony Vietnam POW in Texas as well as Edward William Rochards in Colorado and talk to their newspapers?
HOORRAY FOR DAVE!#!!####!!!

Combat Historian

Yep, it sure looks legit to me…///

Ex-PH2

Eeeeeekkkk! I hit the ‘report’ button by mistake!!! I did it! It was ME!

MikeD

I have an honest to God serious question. When the hell did it STOP being illegal to forge government documents? I mean, I understand that not all jurisdictions have Stolen Valor laws, but this is prima facie evidence of a forged federal document. And as far as I am aware, that’s still a crime, isn’t it?

Old Trooper

Dude; seriously.

That’s all I’ve got

Green Thumb

Yep.

He should be called “Turdo”.

Some Guy

Regarding the CAB instead of the CIB: while it doesn’t apply to this liar anyway, AFAIK it is possible to get the CAB instead of the CIB as an Infantryman. The award criteria for the CIB specify that one has to be assigned to an Infantry or SF unit during the combat engagement in order to qualify. If you are assigned to something else, tough cookies, you ‘only’ get a CAB. I was first alerted to this peculiarity when I saw the cover of a GX magazine last year (http://www.gxonline.com/sites/default/files/GX_12-1.pdf – notice the SGT on the left).
The more you know! 😉

PFM

Correct – had a prior CIB awardee earn the CAB my last deployment to Afghanistan in 2012 – he was an 11B4 in a trainer slot in our SFAT working with an ANA Kandak.

PFM

The Kandak were Engineers BTW.

Skippy

we had one with my last unit, a 11B was hit by a IED and was given a CAB and a AAM in Lin-lieu of a company grade art-15 for some other issues Lol..

Blue6

Actually, the Basic Airborne Course is not a prerequisite to being “Ranger Qualified.” It is a prerequisite to SF qualification and to be a Ranger in the Ranger Regiment. However, you can go to Ranger School, graduate, and be “Ranger Qualified” as a leg (or at least you could when I was RA in the 80s and 90s). Of course, most if not all who go to Ranger School as legs go right on to graduate Airborne School. I have never actually seen anyone with a Ranger Tab who did not also have jump wings, but it’s possible. It would be highly suspicious to see Ranger qualification on a DD214 without jump school, but it’s not proof of wrongdoing. However, as was pointed out, the the proper way to show “Ranger qualification” on a DD 214 is to have “Ranger Tab” listed under “Decorations, Medals, and Badges.” “Ranger Qualification” is not a decoration, medal or badge. “Ranger Course” should also be listed under “Military Education.” However, if there are muliple DD 214s for multiple periods of AD, I think the Ranger Course would be listed only on the DD 214 for the period of AD when the course was completed, but not on later DD 214s. So in that case, you could have Ranger Tab listed but not the Ranger Course. This guy’s alleged DD 214 is purportedly for 18 years 11 months of service, so he should have both listed. Notwithstanding any of that, this guy’s DD 214 is f’d up in more ways than you can count.

Blue6

Yeh, I’m pretty sure they haven’t had any leg CSMs.

Ex-PH2

Well, mebbe he done got his trainin’ with from this here USArmy trainin’ film.

https://youtu.be/tdRLfO9CU2U

IDC SARC

I went to Basic Airborne with a leg Ranger. He was an NCO…SGT if memory serves. He seemed legit anyway, but he was the only one I ever met.

Old Trooper

Hey!! Easy with the “stank-ass legs” talk, there, Jonn! Only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!!

Mike W

And General Aviation aircraft that run out of gas

Green Thumb

11G

Brown Neck Gaitor

In his yearly Veterans Day photo on FB, he is claiming 1978-1999, so no CAB for you!

13B/92S/02M

Block 8 – should say smoked some Panama Red while listening to Panama by Van Halen while typing this form.

David

Either bad voice recognition or really screwed up spellcheck – judging by the almost- homonym “duty to” vice DD-2 – I am going with the VR.

That 214 is so screwed up he should be (to use one of his obvious favorites) for defamation of caricature.

Keepin' It Real

Holy Mary Mother of God and her baby Jesus!

Some of this reads like a sick note from your mother so you can get out of school.

Love the line: “CSM Prado was also in Grenada, Panama, Desert Strom and Somalia.” It was like he was frustrated there was no place to account for that because he already claimed it, so found a place to squirrel it in the form.

Actually, this guy may be borderline genius. Since he claims he got shot in the head from imaginary combat, he acts like Rainman. If he invites any more scrutiny he may revert to being spoon-fed banana pudding with a bib on. Bobbing his head and drooling when asked a difficult question. He has stepped up his game and we just didn’t see it.

sbalm

They ought to make a video game for POSers.

“All for Dootie: Shootie Bangs”

I can see a first person shooter game that when you get called out the health starts to drain. You run and pick up things along the way: a forged DD-215, a lawyer to sue for defamation of character, picking off reporters as they encroach into your AOR.

Switch from a sniper rifle to a Brillo pad. Get the wife to be the first line of defense for any onslaught. When things get dicey, trade your service dog for a plane ticket to Amsterdam.

Get trophies along the way and receive a medal for achieving certain levels.

I can see it, I really can.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

That form of DD-214 is referred to as:

Premature Discharge

3E9

Desert Storm and no Liberation of Kuwait medal? Neither one? DIPSHIT

Ex-PH2

Well, I went back to the bureau, where my two DDs are buried under mounds of IRS stuff, and took a hard look at them. Now, granted, mine are 1966 versions, but even so, there is a consistency between 1966 and current versions, which are basically ‘fill in the blank’ on a desktop computer.

That said, I will add this to my previous statement:

I have never seen anything so obviously faked since Mongo the bull elephant wore ballet slippers.

It’s worse than – dare I say it? – that twaddle put together by several people in Florida.

And YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

The elephant slipper thing was fake??

Dammit!!!!

Ex-PH2

The elephant in ballet slippers thing was definitely faked! Mongo was outed for it by mahout Gunga Din, the waterboy for the 77th Bengal Lancers. Caught Mongo sniffing them with that trunk of his.

nbcguy54ACTUAL

Well at least I still have Santa Claus to believe in. You’re not taking that away from me young lady…

Hondo

Well, I hate to burst yer bubble, fella, but . . . . (Image is possibly NSFW and definitely unsafe around prudes, children, or clergy.)

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-349919648/stock-photo-portrait-of-a-bad-brutal-mature-santa-claus-with-mohawk-cigarette-showing-middle-finger-sign-on.html?src=r3-xSEhthUM25n6av_YhjA-1-16

(smile)

Slick Goodlin

I’d love to hear the Sergeant Major explain how he got through the NCO Advance Course and the Sergeants Major Academy without being able to write a coherent, grammatical sentence !!

Daisy Cutter

That was before he took an imaginary sniper’s bullet to the head. Keep in mind that he used to be bigger than “AHH-Nold” and after the 13 month coma he was only 76 pounds.

A Proud Infidel®™

I hafta ask is there ANYTHING right with that living abortion of a fake DD214?

jonp

Are you telling me I can roll into a Veterans Charity with a piece of made up shit like that and get free stuff? What have I been doing with my time.

Who the hell is running the charities and does it ever occur to them to actually look at stuff or have someone who knows what he/she is looking at take a gander? That abortion isn’t even friggen close

PFM

Good Lord, my 214s have been wrong for 30 years! I especially like the NCOES BNOC and ANCO – must be super duper high speed versions of BNCOC and ANCOC! 🙂

jonp

Yeah, and to think I’ve been spelling Bragg wrong for 30yr. Shit, just a few weeks ago I went down to visit my daughter and told the gate guard Bragg was spelled wrong on the sign. Now I feel like a doofus

A Proud Infidel®™

ANCO, as in Anco Windshield Wiper Blades? Wow, a special school JUST to be Windshield Wiper Blade qualified, NOT many people have THAT on their resume’!

Midnightguy

Why is it lately some A-Hole with a K-9 Unit sticker driving around who wouldn’t know which end of a dog to feed.. Man, I had 15 years of my 28 in LE with K-9 and it always amuses me to see these K-9 Training types with their stickers and jumps suits.. (Ususally always claim to be a Master Trainer of course )
When you see the dogs, you can tell they even know the jerk wad is fake and would tear him a new one if they could..

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

Ms.Prado has daddy issues!

Daddy did not kick her ass hard enough when she was blossoming.

Out!

A Proud Infidel®™

Next we’ll hear that Andy Prado’s parents hated him to the point that he only had a hair dryer and a toaster to play with when he was in the bathtub.

EODJay

I see that he’s Explosive “Ordinace” Disposal qualified as well.

Sigh…

EODJay

Wait, wait, wait. I am so wrong with my statement. Now that I look back, I see that he was assigned to Explosive “Ordinace” AND Disposal. We’ll friends, that seals it. He’s legit. That particular unit uses incorrect spelling and vernacular to throw off the ISIS. Therefore, he is in the know. So, legit.

IDC SARC

so much fail

NR Pax

Even Jesse Macbeth made a better effort than this.

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

I was not impressed with the news story about the POS until they said, “Dave Hardin”.

Now that Dave Hardin chap .. he is da’ MAN!

Wink …

Dave Hardin

I will get to the bottom of this and find out which one of you is using my name. Probably Jonn, I have been filling out requests for information on Man Bun sites using his info for weeks.

Maybe its HONDO, I did send the Gummy Dicks using his name.

Then again it could be any one of you ultra right wing, gun loving, loons.

Skippy

My Hero ^^^^

Skippy

Well Flush. Another down the drain

NEXT !!!!!

LocoLupus

Where the fuck did he learn to spell/type? My 10 month old can do better!

A Proud Infidel®™

WTF are the “Ralitives” mentioned in the bottm left corner of that shit? His is more fucked up than Jesse MacBeth’s!

Pineywoods NCO

Crumbled up, poorly written, multiple fonts, tons of missing information.

Looks like Dennis Chevalier’s Ph.D. certification from Sweaden or Daniel Benath’s legal briefs.

Mike W

Since when is a dd215 “a more detailed discharge papers in the DD-214”?