Daniel Dwayne Reed; phony Ranger

| July 5, 2018

Someone sent us their work on this Daniel Dwayne Reed fellow who claims that he was a Ranger with the 1st Ranger Battalion in Savannah, Georgia;

I don’t know how he thinks that people would believe that he was stationed with the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky and the Ranger Battalion at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, a few hundred miles apart, at the same time but there you go.

His Facebook photos contain little gems like this one;

Tineye says that the picture is at least four years old and it’s a stock photo. Also, Mr Reed claims that he was with the Rangers back in 1990 – the tan berets weren’t around until until 2001. All of the soldiers in that picture are wearing Ranger Tabs and Combat Infantryman Badges – Mr Reed has neither.

Here’s another picture that Reed claims is him;

Tineye says this stock picture has been around at least ten years – it’s a book cover and it’s been used 93 times on the web;

Mr Reed was in the 101st, he was a 5-jump chump, and his career in the Army only lasted 18 months and he left as a Private First Class (E-3).

No Ranger training, no Ranger assignments, no combat.

Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures

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Claw

There’s some hinky shit going on with this one.

Came on active duty as a PFC E-3, never made SP4.

Spent 18 months, then was sent home without any remaining Reserve Obligation (Name in File Cabinet Duty) time.

Too much time spent at the Family Drive-In there on 41A?

David

That actually makes sense. For various reasons you could enter as an E3, such high school ROTC, over 60 hours of college, etc. BUT to get promoted to E4 you had to do normal TIS/TIG requirements. So you could have 61 college hours, come in a an E3, then rot there till you finally made E4. Re the SQI letter at the last digit of the MOS, I believe if you acquired it by school or received orders for it (vice OJT or similar) that became permanent immediately. Been a few decades but think that was how it worked.

Sarge

Chickenfucker

NHSparky

Car Ramrod! Car Ramrod!

Steve

Don’t call me Unit 91, radio.

NHSparky

How the hell did he manage a good cookie after 18 months?

Charlie Six

Army regs (600-8-22, chapter 4) permit the first award of the GCM upon termination of service for periods of less than three years, but more than one year, asumming tge Soldier meets the other criteria.

Ex-PH2

Oooo! Green photocopies of stuffs??? How cool is that!

Gee whiz, he couldn’t even make a dent in a pickle with his time in the Army, so he has to make stuff up to make up for his inadequacies. I’m sure that it isn’t just the ‘less than 2 years’ part that makes him feel inadequate.

sj

If you’re referring to the 2-1, they were green. I have one.

rgr769

The original 2-1 form is printed on heavy green tinted paper stock. They were the original personnel record in one’s 201 personnel file that was hand carried from permanent duty station to duty station. Apparently the green color was to discourage photocopying and indicate it was the original.

26Limabeans

It’s the chlorine from trying to bleach his real records.

2/17 Air Cav

You’re right. That’s a helluva commute between Campbell and Hunter. 555 miles and over 8 hrs, if no stops are made.

91A1P

How do you know he was a 5-jumper?

509Trooper

His paperwork does show Parachutist badge as one of his awards.

Martinjmpr

That DD-214 raises some questions. First off, as Sparky said, the GCM makes no sense. Unless he was a mobilized reservist or guardsman, he could not have earned a GCM on his 18 month enlistment. Could he have prior service?

The other question is a little esoteric and aimed towards the S-1/PAC types: The MOS listed on his 214 – 11B1P. The “P” SQI is for Parachutist but since he didn’t serve in an airborne assignment I’m wondering why it wouldn’t show 11B10 (leg infantryman) instead of 11B1P (Infantryman Parachutist.)

From looking at my own DD-214’s, the only time it ever showed an SQI was when I was discharged from a unit that had that SQI as part of the duty position I was in. So it seems to me if he was not slotted in a “P” coded position (and according to the 2-1 he was not) then his DD-214 should show him as an 11B10, not an 11B1P.

Hondo

The GCM appears legit per para 4-5c of AR 600-8-22:

4–5. Qualifying periods of service

Any one of the following periods of continuous enlisted active Federal military service qualifies for award of the AGCM or of a AGCM Clasp (see para 4–9) in conjunction with the criteria in para 4–6:

. . .

c. For first award only, upon termination of service on or after 27 June 1950, of less than 3 years but more than 1 year.

He served a bit over 18 mo. As I read it, if his early discharge was for non-disciplinary reasons he’d qualify. And he left service as a PFC, so there’s a good chance his discharge wasn’t for disciplinary reasons.

Martinjmpr

Ah, got it. So more than likely either a medical or hardship discharge (medical would also explain the lack of a reserve commitment.)

I knew mobilized reservists could qualify for a GCM (1st award only) after a year of mobilization but I didn’t realize that AD soldiers could qualify too.

19D3OR4 - Smitty

SQIs are awarded just like ASIs. Your duty position is irrelevant.

Also it is an extremely common mistake, but there is no SQI of 0 (zero). Only O (oh). Which means no SQIs awarded.

rgr769

He had to be a five jump chump because the infantry battalion he was assigned to in the 101st Abn Div. was/is no longer airborne. Plus, his assignment/slot MOS does not have the “P” suffix.

5JC

I am a five jump chump too and I was assigned to “Airborne” units TWICE. Getting a slot in certain units back in the 90s involved being in exactly the right place at the right time or wearing out the knee pads with the battalion commander. One battalion I was in only had 20 slots and still called themselves Airborne. I don’t know how they got away with that.

Being in an Airborne unit is no guarantee of getting more jumps as I found out.

Hondo

I departed the 101st Abn Div at Campbell not long before this LSoS arrived there. If I recall correctly how infantry battalions in the division were assigned to the division’s brigades, this guy was in the 1st Bde, 101st Abn Div.

I was also in that brigade. It’s been over 30 years now, and my memory – while quite good – is not infallible. But as I recall there were NO jump slots in the entire brigade.

Zero. Zilch. Nada.

I think there were a some jump slots at Div HQ, and I also think the division had a Pathfinder unit that was on jump status. But as I recall, that’s it.

Based on his record of assignments, yeah: the guy was a “5 jump chump”.

509Trooper

I have seen the photo of the Ranger platoon marching in Class A and it is generally attributed to the Honor Detail at West Point for Wayne Downing’s funeral. The stock photo shows a Ranger NCO wearing the old 1st Battalion scroll on both shoulders and would have had to have been taken shortly after Grenada due to the fact that the 75th went to the WWII scroll style when the Regiment was activated in 1984 or 1985. Also, by 1989 the Rangers were wearing BDUs and not the OG 107 jungle fatigues. I am also wondering about the Good Conduct Medal.

Carlton G. Long

During my time in the Army, I pumped gas, so I don’t know a ton about Airborne…but I’m guessing they don’t let just anybody in, and Reed’s record says he completed the training…so apparently this fellow at least had the makings of being a great soldier but outsmarted himself at some point…am I right?

Frankie Cee

I left Daniel Dwayne Reed the following message:
“Read this carefully. Most of you who claim false military service, will block me, when they see my message. That will not only not do you any good, but it will cause even more people to know that you are a liar. There are posts written about your phoniness, and your phony claims. Every comment made there by those who can see that you are a liar will generate a google entry that will follow your name forever. As soon as I notice that I have been blocked, as long as this message goes unanswered, I will know for sure that you are a phony. What is this shit about being a Ranger? How about you offer me the class number that you went through, and be ready to answer follow up questions. Why do you search the internet for stock photos to claim as being you in them. Why do you claim that it is you wearing a tan beret when they didn’t come along until well over 10 years after you got out of the military. Ignore me if you care to, block me if you care to, but that will not help your situation.” Now to message some of his friends and followers with the link to this post.

Friend

DANIEL DEWAYNE REED:

The shitstain on the underwear of those who served with honor.

BTW fake Ranger REED..I’m not a C**T but you sure married one

Wilted Willy

Keep up the good work Frankie!

Jarhead

Among the multitude of military phonies found in every state, surely T A H must be the lessor known of all web sites on the Internet. As usual, another bytch slap please.

HMCS(FMF) ret

I wonder if he knows Mike Sleeper?

DANIEL DWAYNE REED is qualified to be a junior assistant associate towel fluffer AND rump riding ranger at Brucie’s Bath Hose (Entrance in the Rear).

A Proud Infidel®™

Or a Waiter/Busboy at The Blue Oyster.

26Limabeans

You said MIKE SLEEPER.
Now Google has another hit.

A Proud Infidel®™

DANIEL DWAYNE REED and MIKE SLEEPER are likely butt pals as well as Junior Towel Fluffers at Brucie’s Bath House (Entrance in Rear)
DANIEL DWAYNE REED and MILE SLEEPER have both made claims of being US Army Rangers that have been proven false.
Does DANIEL DWAYNE REED have a Boss Hogg type of FIL like MIKE SLEEPER does?

A Proud Infidel®™

Back alley cumbucket.

ChipNASA

Edited to add to the The Continent of Insults®™

“Massive, back alley, bucket of schlong fuck juice”

Bobo

Why basic airborne enroute to Ft. Campbell? It seems like a waste of a perfectly good school seat.

RGR 4-78

His enlistment looks like it was 11x, probably volunteered for BAC during OSUT, then went to his duty station at Campbell. If he had enlisted with an 11xopt4 he would have been sent to an airborne unit.

Claw

Sir, it looks like that after completing the Basic Airborne Course, he voluntarily waived (on 17 Nov 88) his Station of Choice (probably had been Bragg) enlistment option and was subsequently then shipped off to Campbell per the needs of the Army.

Currahee John

Not unusual in the post-Vietnam Army of the 1970s-early 80s. When I signed up for the Benning School of Applied Gravity the paperwork mentioned that I would subsequently get an assignment to the 18th AC, to which I assumed meant the 82nd ABN. Like a couple of others have mentioned, jump slots were very few and far between, and apparently medic slots didn’t have enough bodies to fill them, so I ended up with the 101st ABN (AA). Which is (or at least was) a part of the 18th AC, so everything so all copacetic paperwork wise.

A Proud Infidel®™

Are his “Real Records” in the same sooperdooperseekritskwirrel repository as Mike Sleeper’s?

RGR 4-78

“Are his “Real Records” in the same sooperdooperseekritskwirrel suppository as Mike Sleeper’s?”

Added a fix you might find amusing.

tin_can_grunt

Dammit Daniel! The details have escaped YOU. That’s not very bad ass of you! facts are stubborn.

AnotherPat

In his 25 September 2009 post, he wrote:

“I personally want to be buried here so I can come back as a ghost. Instead of Black Beard I will be known as the naked Ranger”

Claw

Yeah, I saw that. His Book of the Face has/is being purged as we speak.

Claw

And over on his wife’s Book of the Face page, there is a photo (from 2009?) of him wearing a desert style boonie hat with Ranger Scrolls/Crests on it.

He’s been playing this poser game for a good while.

Maybe somebody with more computer smarts than me can pull that picture and bring it over here for everyone’s enjoyment?

Claw

P.S. – the picture is way down on the photos section, the next to last photo and is dated 22 January 2009.

Claw

And now access to all photos on his wife’s Book of the Face page has been blocked.

Thank You for playing the Objective AF game today, Dumb Ass.

rgr769

Ooh. A fake Ranger chew toy. They have become somewhat less common of late. The actual photo of this turd was taken at BCT/AIT before he earned his jump wings. It is likely he was a medical or compassionate discharge, or he could have been given a general discharge for some reason. He had to have enlisted for at least three years as an RA enlistment. The fact that he stole valor using stock photos from the wrong eras from when he served shows he is not particularly bright.

Claw

Looking at the body type in that picture brings to mind the Army Weight Control Program and subsequent failure to progress to standards after enrollment.

Good a reason as any to be kicked to the curb after only 18 months service on a three year enlistment.

A Proud Infidel®™

That’s quite the possibility, the Army usually doesn’t waste time getting rid of fat boys! One of the questions I remember from past Boards is “What is one difference between a PT Failure and an Overweight Soldier?” to which the reply was “A PT Failure may receive an award while an Overweight Soldier can not.”

Claw

Yep, being put on the Fat Boy Program got you an automatic suspension of all favorable administrative actions and a bar to reenlistment.

The struggle was real for those who made Private Pyle and Dewey Oxberger look like beanpoles.

Martinjmpr

But if he had been flagged and booted for being overweight he could not have gotten that GCM could he? Seems to me an award of a GCM (especially an early award) would be a “favorable personnel action” that is not possible when a soldier is flagged.

So I’m still leaning towards medical discharge.

Claw

“medical discharge”

Could be, maybe his blood sugar went sky high and he was diagnosed as being diabetic. Can’t really tell since all the reasons for discharge are redacted on the DD214, it’s all speculation as to what lead up to him being discharged at the 18 month mark.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

REED between the lines Reed, you are a phony.

Dennis

He left at least one place on his FB page to fire at him, so I did.

Claw

And as of now, that entry and your comment has been deleted.

His Book of the Face Page is now as pure as a fresh snow fall.

m0311

I can understand wanting to be a ranger, but to be anything less than yourself is sad.

rgr769

He doesn’t look to have amounted to shit since his brief and truncated tour with the 101st as an infantryman.

m0311

Do you really feel that bad about yourself?

rgr769

No dipshit, why would I?