Mac McDuffee – Phony Recon Marine
The folks at Military Phony send us their work on this Raymond Leo McDuffee fellow, who commonly refers to himself as “Mac” McDuffee.
McDuffee apparently likes to dress up in his Marine Corps dress blues and sports a bunch of medals along with a USMC Recon scuba bubble and jump wings.
He even claims he was a Recon Marine in a post recently…
He also has an “I Love Me” display of his USMC accouterments… ah, er… “bling” or “stuff” or “flair.” As you may have learned from the movie “Office Space,” you can go with the minimum amount of flair or you can choose to go a little beyond… you know, so you can express yourself.
To complete the picture, an effort was made to identify the medals he was wearing.
He started crossing paths with some Recon Marines who did not remember him from back in the day.
McDuffee’s records were ordered to see what supported his claims.
From the summary at Military Phony…
McDuffee served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 31 MAY 1977 to 27 MAR 1980, or just shy of three years. He has a status of temporary retired, so there may have been a medical condition that came into play.
His records show that he was a Field Radioman (MOS 2531) and not Recon (MOS 0321). McDuffee’s records do not have any training as a Recon Marine. He has no scuba schools or jump school assignments nor does it state that he earned the scuba bubble and jump wing emblems. His records make no mention of having a Navy Commendation Medal, or
TwoSIX awards of the Navy Achievement Medal. Neither does he have a Meritorious Unit Commendation, Good Conduct, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. No NATO medal or any other medal for that matter are in his official records.The only thing he got right in those pictures of his is his rank and Rifle Expert Badge. He does not rate a hashmark on his sleeve for continued service in fact he did not even complete his initial enlistment.
He appears to have had perfectly honorable service and is a United States Marine…he should start acting like it.
Category: Marine Corps
I enlisted in 1977 on my 17th birthday and I am 58 so ding dong here is st least that old and it appears that after 40 plus years the only thing he has to hang on to in life is fake accomplishments in the Marine Corps.
All you need to know about this poser is to look at his work bench which is as phoney as his I love me wall.
I was thinking the same thing about his workbench. I was wondering who bought those Stanley screwdrivers. I tried to clean under my fingernail with a small flat one… it chipped.
No Vise? No Breakfree? No blood stains? WTF has this idiot been fixing? I don’t think this cucked sob is allowed to get dirty.
Bunch of screwdrivers and gearwrenches…could drop an engine with that. I suspect he couldn’t drop the front wheel on a bicycle.
Does he do anything with those tools other than dust them off twice a week?
I know what you mean about dropping the front wheel of a bicycle. Pinching the front brakes pads to slip off the wire cable can be a pain in the butt sometimes.
The Harbor Freight ‘bench grinder’ is where I lost it.
That’s his workbench… in his Mom’s garage.
A man’s work bench says a lot about him.
It’s too organized – something doesn’t smell right.
That is his poser bling assembly and repair bench
Why is there no claw hammer with a flower applique on the hammerhead?
Man, he sure does have an Altar of Esteem and Self-Absorption going there.
Don’t mean to pick on the fellow, but for Pete’s sake, if his hobby is building models of armored tanks, then why not show us the product instead of the production area?
When you purchase more than $250 worth of bling you get a free bench grinder and tool set as well.
What size bench grinder?
And a roll of duct tape too.
Cheap Harbor Frieght 4 1/2 inch, 1/16 Hp.
Harbor Frieght … ugh
I bought that exact same bench grinder at a going out of business Coast To Coast store for $19.95 and it’s sitting out in my garage right now.
But I play all fast and loose with it, cause I stripped off the wheel guard covers/tool levelers and just sort of free-hand anything that needs ground down.
McDuffee? More like McDumbAssee!
Looking at that work bench with all the tools hanging on the peg board and the grinder, we can rule out that he doesn’t repair watches.
There could be a lucrative career as a knife sharpener in your future.
I/Mrs. Claw already do that. One of the wheels is a knife/scissors capable sharpening wheel.
She likes making the sparks fly./smile
Someone call OSHA or NIOSH and tell them that there is no eye shields over the wheels. That happened at LBFD’S Station 1 when Osha came in and told us we needed the eye guard plastic shields over the wheels. They wheely did. (no pun intended)
He must of broken his anvil with that rubber mallet. Also, don’t see anything that he can use to “socket” to them. BTW Raymond Leo McDuffee is an embellishing lying POS, that had semi honorable service in the USMC and then shat upon same. ASSHOLE
True (and funny) OSHA story. They did a walk through of my PD. The night shift day before had done a little fish fry and left the Fry Daddy with oil sitting in the garage in the most convenient place, on the gun cleaning table.
Inspector asks what it is. When the deputy chief tells him it’s a fryer (complete with floating fish bits and making the whole garage smell like fish) the inspector doesn’t buy it. Says, “I’ve seen this before. That’s a gun cleaning machine.” Then proceeds to write us up for not having it covered, plugged into a proper circuit, blah, blah, blah.
So apparently in the eyes of OSHA a deep fryer can help clean your guns. I haven’t tried it myself to verify.
NEVER underestimate the stupidity of some Government Bureaucrats.
What ever happened to those good old made in the USA SK Wayne and Greene dropped forged wrenches that didn’t bust your knuckles when you tightened a bolt/nut down.
Utica, Millers Falls, Armaloy,
LS Starret…..
Have a Starret 6 in ruler, 1 in. digital mechanical micrometer plus a digital mechanical micrometer in Millimeters. And a mechanical digital depth gauge all Starret. And I forgot about the Starret mechanical inch dial caliper. Also have a Japanese digital caliper that has inch, fraction and millimeters. I use it mostly when I work on American Mechanical pocket watches. Another short story I just made long.
Is that a CIA emblem in the lower right-hand corner of his shadowbox?
Enlarge the workbench photo and you can see it more clearly.
Never see anyone mount their hashmarks like that in a shadowbox, either.
Looks like a CIA patch in there as well.
I’ll bet if you were to ask him the significance of the CIA patch, he’d say he wasn’t able to talk about it.
That would be after he talked about it…
…on the Book of the Face and in the bar at the local VFW.
Maybe the Culinary Institute Of America (CIA) doesn’t have patches so the other CIA patch should do it.
I was at a country and western joint with the wife and there was some asshole trying to pick up chicks (okay, actually broilers) with a hugely lettered CIA ball cap (no patch)…it occurred to me it could have been the cooking school so I let it pass…of course no one who is a professional spook goes around advertising it in a bar
Queefsquirt
Possible medical condition discharge? What, inflated ego?, headuphisaasanectomy?, steppingondicktitus? Those would be serious, wouldn’t they?
FTS – Fractured Taint Syndrome
Retrograde Amphibious Hesitation Dysphoria
….often suffered by those that desired to become Reconnaissance Marines but just never got around to it because, that shit’s hard yo.
I wonder if ol’ “Lyin’ Mac” here ever heard of the Recon Creed.
Probably not. It’s easier to just play dress-up as a phony Recon Marine. Prance around wearing all of that poser bling without having had to earn any of it the hard way.
https://www.2ndmardiv.marines.mil/Units/2nd-Reconnaissance-BN/
‘THE RECON CREED
Realizing it is my choice and my choice alone to be a Reconnaissance Marine, I accept all challenges involved with this profession. Forever shall I strive to maintain the tremendous reputation of those who went before me.
Exceeding beyond the limitations set down by others shall be my goal. Sacrificing personal comforts and dedicating myself to the completion of the reconnaissance mission shall be my life. Physical fitness, mental attitude, and high ethics –The title of Recon Marine is my honor.
Conquering all obstacles, both large and small, I shall never quit. To quit, to surrender, to give up is to fail. To be a Recon Marine is to surpass failure; to overcome, to adapt and to do whatever it takes to complete the mission.
On the battlefield, as in all areas of life, I shall stand tall above the competition. Through professional pride, integrity, and teamwork, I shall be the example for all Marines to emulate.
Never shall I forget the principles I accepted to become a Recon Marine. Honor, Perseverance, Spirit and Heart.
A Recon Marine can speak without saying a word and achieve what others can only imagine.’
That still makes my wee tingle.
There is a shot for that
nah, pretty sure it’s in my DNA at this point….unless you mean whiskey to enhance the effect, in which case…Cheers!
Celer Silens Mortalis
“Mac” McDuffee… Stolen Valor assclown.
6th award Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal is a nice touch – especially for a Corporal.
I’ll leave his remaining award claims for others to shred.
I rarely miss something like that, good eye. He is actually claiming SIX (6) awards of the NAM. Now that is indeed an achievement from back in the days when they did not hand them out by the dozen.
Considering his BS, how fitting/ironic that he has Flypaper hanging below his portrait in his workbench area.
So sad. What is sadder is that his family may now know the truth of his Military service.
McDuffee.
More like McStuffme in my ass.
I bet he loves to be McStuffed in the Squeakhole…
McDonalds has named a sandwich in his honor.
If you order a McDuffee, you get a small amount of meat inserted between two big buns.
That funny!
Is a McDuffee served up with any Special Sauce?
Yes, and tossed salad.
Pisspants duckfucker!
Serving as a 2531 Field Radio Operator in Marine Wing Communications Squadron 28 in 2nd MAW at MCAS Cherry Point, NC is just the same as serving as a Recon Marine in 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion in 2nd MARDIV at Camp Lejeune.
Everyone knows that.
His callsign was “Bench Grinder”
“Bench Grinder, this is Poon Doggie. You’ve got them coming up on your six.”
The late WW2 Vet who put on the shows at the Baywinds club house up in West Palm Beach was on one of the Jedburg teams as a radio operator. I saw his bio after he passed and he was the real deal.
I just got a copy of his letter of appreciation listed in the FOIA, it reads in part:
“For outstanding performance as a Field Radio Operator who continuously displayed an uncanny ability to polish hand tools, organize them by size, arrange in a aesthetically pleasing geometric shapes while ensuring the area was perfectly clean as though never used”.
“… and in so doing he reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.”
A wing pog. A fate worse than death.
What a bitch. Please self immolate you massive pile of shit.
He needs to work on his Book of the Face page. It says: “Sorry, this content isn’t available right now.” Wonder why?
The folded flag he cradles is when he buried his soul.
I understand the pride Marines have in earning the EGA. I once worked with a USMC veteran who served during the Vietnam Era but never in-country. Forty years later he still showed his pride with a huge Marine window tint decal and personalized license plate with his recruit training platoon number on his red pickup truck. This same Marine actually retired from the Army National Guard but always referred to himself first as a Marine veteran.
It’s sad to see Mac McDuffee embellish shamelessly. It seems he served honorably until a medical issue ended his career. The EGA alone puts him in the company of the few, the proud. Too bad he can’t be satisfied with what he actually did accomplish.
I agree. The Pathetic Old Gasbag stuff is ridiculous. Why not show us what his bench hobby produces, instead?
It’s a sorry way to come to the part of life that and say ‘mine was just ordinary, so I make up nonsense.’
Just plain sad.
what is really sad is that no one’s life is just “ordinary” unless they choose for that to be.
Do the hard stuff, work the hard job, accomplish your own wins and write your own story.
Of course, you will pay along the way, but what a ride!
And really, it’s OK if by ordinary you mean never causing undeserved problems for other people. Lots of people have successful and fulfilling lives without doing extraordinary things. It takes all sorts of small and large successes for society to function well.
But, your point is still valid – the choices we make determine how ordinary our lives are.
Silly fucker. Kind of sad, really. It must really suck to have such a low self-esteem that one has to embellish with unearned awards and quals that belong to others.
Speaking of the workbench – I’m going to guess that his first project was cutting a hole for the electrical outlet – because it looks like it was an afterthought… and he couldn’t remember where it was.
First rule of life is always be true to yourself and others; this douche did not and is not…
The photos posted above and over at the Military Phonies website show what appear to be family members (grandchildren?) in the photos with “Lyin’ Mac” in his dress blues.
If so, it looks like this embellishing assclown is going to have some serious ‘splaining to do when his family comes to the realization that he’s been lying to them on a massive scale about his military service for quite some time.
It’s sad, but “Lyin’ Mac” brought all of this down on himself through his mendacious bullshit, and he’s got no one to blame but himself.
This whole charade is just so stupid, and so unnecessary.
— sigh —
Poodle pecker puffer.
The E-4 Mafia is very unhappy with this guy. The backbone of the Corps will not take this kind of tomfoolery from one of its own, he better have eyes on the back of his grape!
Hoping for 15 minutes but instead got much more.
What does he make on that gay assed work bench…??…Penis Rings..??
Gas powered metal dongs.
He still chokes on every single one but can’t help but try.
Hah….!!!!
No combat action ribbon.
He’s showing the emblem of the CIA in his shadowbox. The CIA dooesn’t wear ‘patches’, at least none I’ve been around. They also don’t go around advertising.
Being a poser is a mental illness. Give him time and he’ll expand his history to include things like a Navy Cross and a few combat jumps.
I bet he’ll even claim to have been at Macho Grande, I’ll never get over Macho Grande.
uhhhhhhh…(shudder)Macho Grande.
Can anyone help? Can you all hear that little video clip from the movie “Ofice Space?” I can not seem to get it to work. I restarted YouTube, no helo, then restarted my browser, nope, then finally restarted my computer – samo-same. Anyone else experience this issue?
M1 Hound: The audio for the short clip for “Office Space” worked for me.
Have you tried other Audio Clips…or perhaps it was just a glitch when you tried on 1 September?
what is a “letter of apperciation”. not sure ive ever seen one of those. i have a couple of letters of appreciation, are they similar?
Call me a stickler for details, but can somebody explain this to me? Does the maggot attention whore have two left arms?
From the Internet: The Service Stripe, or “Hash Mark,” represents the length of service an Enlisted member has served. The stripes, which are worn down the left arm, represent each four-year stint that a member has successfully (honorably) served. That was in reference to the Marine uniform, as opposed to others which represent three years.