Richard Calvert, Green Beret… NOT!! – Guardians of the Green Beret

| February 19, 2020

This was reported to us the other day by someone:

Those were mighty bold claims coming from someone we had never heard of before.  We checked with our friends over at Guardians of the Green Beret and found out they already had his records and were ready to post their case on this guy.  They have already contacted American Legion Post 370 and it seems little Richard here has been disinvited.

Richard Calvert, Green Beret… NOT!!

Richard Calvert, fake Green Beret was sent to us about a year ago.

As with many of these guys, they get put to the side when other more pressing cases come in and then they slip through the cracks.

Well,  he was getting ready to be a guest speaker at a local American Legion Post and many saw his claims of 54 combats jumps as a huge red flag and reached out to us again.

?????Click here to hear his claims?????

Here is the initial email when he came back under peoples radar:

He states many things, A green beret with a death heads flash, Silver stars, bronze stars, 56 jumps with the 1 Division (RVN) as well as duty with LRRPS. “Goat school”. Some LRRPS I know got on to this one when he is announced as a speaker at the American Legion Post 370 in Overland Park Kansas.

Some other speaking engagements his bio is listed as: Tonight our featured speaker is Richard Calvert, who has earned five purple hearts. Richard was a Special Forces combat medic in the 8th Medical Brigade who was assigned at various times to many different fighting groups in Vietnam. Richard jumped 54 times in Laos and Cambodia. 

Here is a link to where he is profiled as a sponsor of the Red Tail Tuskegee Airman: Removed… Richard served in the Vietnam War as an Army Combat Medic and earned the Purple Heart. He completed Special Forces Training and then served with various groups and special operations in Vietnam including Long Range Reconnaissance, 101st Airborne and Dust Off Units. The South Vietnamese Army recognized Richard for making 54 combat jumps with their 1st Airborne Division. Richard followed in his uncle Robert Calvert’s footsteps, his uncle was an Army Combat Medic in WWII in the Pacific Theater.”

We received a 2nd email from a fellow Green Beret that actually had a sit down with him:

Backstory:

This guy came up on my radar in May of last year, 2019. A veteran friend posted his video on his 501 Facebook and honored him at a veteran event. The video struck me as full of problems, so I shared it with the SF List. 

The BS in this video is too much to list, but the high-points are:

  1. Claims to have been an SF medic.
  2. Claims to have 5 purple hearts.
  3. Claims to have done 54 combat jumps in Vietnam.
  4. Claims to have done LRRP missions.

His official records don’t seem to mention any acts of daring-do.

 

Well, he seems to have done ok at being a Cook/Typist.  The man should have been proud of what he actually did do.  Please visit the link below for the entire case.

Source: Richard Calvert, Green Beret… NOT!! – Guardians of the Green Beret

Category: Army Poser, Valor Vultures

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JTB

LOL…Speaking at a VFW 2 hours from Ft.Riley as fraud is probably not a good idea…

marinedad61

Not to mention (but I will)…
Jogging distance from VFW National Headquarters.

Comm Center Rat

Since I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member I don’t understand how this fraud wasn’t vetted by the VFW before being invited to speak at the post. 54 combat jumps, multiple Silver Stars. Nobody even remotely suspicious?

marinedad61

Looking again… it was NOT a VFW post,
but an American Legion post.

The article was just corrected minutes ago.

Dave Hardin

Ahh, nothing gets past the sharp steely-eyed crowd around here.

Comm Center Rat

So the AL wasn’t even remotely suspicious of Calvert’s valor claims? Remember Reagan’s maxim: trust but verify.

Side note: I met a now retired Army Major General who made two combat jumps: Grenada and Panama. Still a long way from 54 but more than anyone else I’ve ever met.

Martinjmpr

Hmmm…I wonder if it’s the same guy I met in 1995. He was a Major in SFOD-D at that time and I met him at the Aberdeen Training Facility on the West side of Fort Bragg at a planning meeting. He was the only guy I’d ever seen with two mustard stains on his jump wings.

Comm Center Rat

I’m referring to MG Clarence K.K. Chinn. As a BG he was the DCG-S for the 82nd ABN DIV when I was deployed to AFG. He was the Ranger Training Brigade Commander in the 2004-2006 time frame and the 75th Regiment’s Deputy Commander before that.

Anonymous

He should go to the Smoke Bomb Grille on Bragg or the Airborne & Spec Ops Museum in Fayetteville, start talking about cuttin’ off ears, smoking dope and terminatin’ civilians with extreme prejudice… might learn something from the folk there.

Anonymous

Of course, that’s once they’ve helped him up after he’s “fallen down” a few times. (Not saying some folk, even though they’re about 70 now, might not take kindly… )

ninja

Reference what Dave Hardin posted about his claims: If you need a good laugh, here you go (13 minute video):

Combat Historian

This douche makes Walter Mitty look like a piker…

OldManchu

@ the 3:01 mark it looks like someone is about to burn in hot.

OldManchu

“scrap metal” hit him?

WTF? I’d like to hit him with some scrap metal.

Anonymous

Oh, jeez, stop, my head hurts (at 3:00)… he’s joining in ’67 but the DD Form 214 says ’70, doing Airborne school ain’t all like that, doing SF Q course either, nor Master Jump whatever… aiigh!

Skyjumper

On his “Love Me” wall at the 12:34 mark, on his dress greens he has no “overseas bars” on his right sleeve. According to Walter Mitty II, he served 3 1/2 years in RVN which would have entitled him to seven bars.

Where I almost spit coffee on my keyboard, was at the 10:27 mark. While he explains that he got orders to Ft. Dix, in the video a Ft. Dix “hoagie truck” drives by. Since he was actually trained as a 98B20 (cook) it just seemed funnier than shit to see the truck as he talks.

The only “Hamburger Hill” he was on is when he was frying up burgers in the mess hall.

What a “DICK” you are Calvert!

Mason

@12:56 you can see his alleged ribbons. He says “I’ve got bronze stars, I’ve got silver stars, I’ve got purple hearts.” As the cameras pans over it.

No Bronze Star Medals, looks like claiming six Silver Stars (which would put him on a very small list of those with more than five) and eight Purple Hears (again, that’d be a near historic number). I guess with 54 combat jumps, he had to come up with a similarly unbelievable number of medals to complete the lie.

Combat Historian

So he was a cook/typist based in some kaserne in West Germany but on his own time off caught a MAC hop every weekend to Saigon to participate in combat jumps with the ARVN Airborne Division and serve as an SF medic to the CIDG in the Central Highlands. What a hero; this guy must be LEGIT!!!

Ret_25X

Yes…each Friday after formation his 1SG would drive him over to Rhein Main AFB to catch a C-141 to TSN AFB in RVN from which he would be flown out to the “hottest action in VN” and jump in wearing only his beads and blue suede shoes.

On Sunday evenings GEN Westmoreland himself would drive him back to TSN AFB for his private jet flight back to Germany.

I mean, what part of that story is not believable?

bwahahhahahahahahahaha

Combat Historian

I’m with you…

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….

Ret_25X

yep…I can see it all now….

Working weekdays in the red light district in Frankfurt, FRG and Saturday nights at Brucie’s in Saigon…..

“parachuting” into those private rooms…and “taking fire” from the patrons (embassy staff, mostly), and “caring” for the “wounded”.

Yeah, he was the bestest towel fluffer in viet of the nam…

HMCS(FMF) ret

He was trained by Lon Duc Dong (GONG) in the art of “fluffing, with sensation” and dined at the all you can eat Cream of Sum Yung Guy Soup at Brucie’s in Saigon.

A Proud Infidel®™

Maybe he was a sooperdoopermotherfuckerbadassairbornerangerSEALscoutsniperGreenBeretRecon that was busted down to Cook when he pissed the wrong Senior Ooficer off?

Ret_25X

Reading the article over at Guardians it seems this guy has been called out before and just keeps right on lying.

He will require more than the usual google fame…

I’m betting the stories are just the beginning…or as we say; just the rancid cherry.

Ret_25X

further, the fact that a medic was used as a cook and a clerk typist tells me something significant…he has always been a useless schmuck.

Combat units are always short of medics…they don’t get wasted on duty anyone else can perform.

I”m betting he has always been a slickie boy.

Mustang Major

It take a lot of stupidity to think you can tell BS war stories to a Legion post membership and not have someone question your story. Richard Calvert should have taken the Les Brown route and kept his talks limited to school kids.

I wonder if he also lies on his him income taxes.

Ret_25X

There is no doubt in my mind that he lies on income taxes, property taxes, to the VA, to his state VA.

I”m betting he is getting disability pay and reduced property taxes based on his BS story.

marinedad61

Speaking of Les Brown…
This year’s VFW National Convention is being held in
(drum roll) RENO, NEVADA, in July 18-23, 2020.

That’s the eve of the 1 year anniversary
of the national embarrassment of
Les Brown and the Elko POW*MIA Awareness Ass.

Some of us need to get thee selves to Reno in July.
Not for the pageantry. Not for the President’s speech (?).

This convention should have a cluster of Stolen Valor protestors,
holding up signs VETERANS AGAINST STOLEN VALOR,
and handing out leaflets telling the story of
Elko, Nevada VFW Post 2350 member Lester Kent Brown.

Comm Center Rat

I heard the rumor Les Brownstain will be speaking at the Convention on “How To Generate Non-Taxable Revenue Using a Stolen Valor Business Plan.”

marinedad61

LOLOL

Well, considering he had previously held a state level position
with the Department of Nevada VFW
(and talked “combat” at the State Assembly in Carson City),
and his post commander now holds a national appointed position
at VFW National in Kansas City…..

It wouldn’t be a bad thing to shine the light of Stolen Valor
on the sponsoring state’s Department HQ
and that little ol’ VFW Post in ELKO.

Comm Center Rat

This valor thief didn’t earn the highly coveted though rarely awarded NDSM. Instead, his summary sheet lists only the National Service Medal so you know he’s a bona fide shitbag!

I hated hearing him invoke his Christian faith while teary eyed over his fallen Vietnam comrades in the video. This buffoon couldn’t spell GOD if you spotted him the “G” and the “D”.

Anonymous

So uninspiring the FOIA clerk couldn’t even spell NDSM out… that’s sad.

Contractor1803

Damn, he’s got an NDSM. I’ve heard about those guys. They have the 100 inch stare.

ChipNASA

LOL. He’s got a 100 mm dick. If that, Maybe when it’s on the rare occasion, not limp.

Retired Grunt

I’ve got two, I’ve got the 200 inch stare.

Comm Center Rat

Me too, but my lazy left eye means I can’t stare too hard for too long. LOL

SFC D

I can see 200 inches, that’s within the range of my bifocals.

A Proud Infidel®™

IMHO he has a 1000 Yard Meat Gazer’s stare, just a-sayin’…

26Limabeans

My dog could spot this phoney a mile away
and I don’t even have a dog.
Five purple hearts? Combat jumps in Vietnam?

Anonymous

You mean he didn’t go home after 3 PHs like John Kerry did?

Comm Center Rat

Calvert didn’t have time to bleed. He just got back in the fight for another year of combat.

Anonymous

HooaH! Kicked ass at Hamburger Hill sixteen months before he joined, too!

RGR 4-78

Pre enlistment hubris, as it has been said here before, “the math always gets them”.

Cacti35

That photo of the two GI’s helping the wounded soldier was taken during Operation Baker in 1967. The man on the right was my Platoon Sergeant SFC Rollins Fontenot, from Louisiana. It was taken shortly before I got in-country. The men shown are Charlie Co. 2 Bn 35th Inf Bde, 3rd Bde of the 4th Infantry Division. It is actually made a magazine cover and the film footage can be seen on Youtube under “Operation Baker”

Cacti35

Correction…The unit was part of the 25th Infantry Division at the time of the photo, they switched us over the 4th ID in August 1967.

Green Thumb

Cacti!

ChipNASA

OK That’s pretty cool to know this.
You obviously have the BTDT Tee Shirt.

marinedad61

1 problem (error?)
1 coinkydink (hilarious)

Problem… The article says “local VFW”,
but the FLYER says “American Legion”.

Coinkydink… February 27?
That’s the SAME DAY an American Legion post in Texas
was going to hold the speaking engagement with Sheriff’s candidates
Leroy Foley and Rick Jowers.

What is it with American Legion posts
not having yellow or red flags when a phuny phuck shows up?

marinedad61

Credit the American Legion Post in Texas,
who took immediate action on first public awareness of Stolen Valor,
first by adding the requirement to bring along Form DD-214,
and second by postponing the February 27 event.

Ret_25X

most of them are like the one in my home town…not enough veterans to keep the lights on so they accept anyone.

If you think the AL and VFW are veteran’s service orgs, you don’t understand the money involved.

marinedad61

It’s not that bad in my area.
2 or 3 in the rural mountains, sure.
Otherwise, both VFW and American Legion posts
not only do much in the local community,
but ferret out the phonies when the flags go off..
which (unfortunately) can be years after membership was approved.

OWB

With you there. Must be a regional thing. All the VSOs in my area work together and do not take posers lightly. Too much real need around here to waste $$ on phonies.

Comm Center Rat

I think the local AL and VFW posts in my AO must be cracking down hard on POSers. Steep membership declines forced the AL to sell its historic, maintenance intensive 12,000+ sq ft building. The AL post merged with the VFW post into a small, decrepit 3,000 sq ft office space that doesn’t even have a BAR!

Not having a bar to fuel alcohol induced tales of bravery and valor will probably be the death knell of both posts. Military fakes, phonies, and POSers are willing to pay for their memberships, but most of them demand a bar in which to proclaim their heroic deeds.

The Stranger

No bar?!?!
Cotton Hill would not put up with that.

OldManchu

54?

FIFTY-FOUR Combat Jumps???????????

You need to be kicked in the nuts 54 times for that claim alone.

Ret_25X

what he meant to say was that he had seen car 54 reruns on AFN…

Anonymous

So, as there was only one (1) combat parachute operation in ‘Nam (by the 173rd Airborne Bde, if I’m correct), then he must’ve gone back and gotten on a plane fifty-three (53) more times to make that happen. (Not to mention gone back in time because it happened in ’67 and he joined in ’70.)

Poetrooper

My little brother was on that 173rd Abn jump and I once made a comment about it being the only combat jump in Vietnam in a discussion at the Drop Zone Cafe in San Antonio, a hangout for MOH awardee, MSGT Roy Benavides, and a bunch of his SF buddies.

A crusty old retired SF NCO smiled at me in that way that makes you feel like an idiot, and said, “Only combat jump in Vietnam, huh?” and laughed along with some of his equally crusty SF pals.

From that experience, I’ve always assumed that there were likely many small unit parachute insertions that may not have been officially designated as “combat” jumps, even if conducted under fire.

Anyone on this forum happen to know?

OWB

Heard rumors but can claim no particular knowledge from back in the day. Lots of things just didn’t make the news then.

On the AF side, I did serve with guys who were awarded Silver Stars and such for missions we never heard about. And they didn’t want to discuss. Only time you heard any stories was in a very select crowd usually with alcohol involved.

Ahhh. The “good old days,” when every moment was not photographed and shared with the world. You knew who you could trust to keep their mouths shut and only they ever got the real story, or parts of it.

Combat Historian

It would be correct to say that the 173d Bde battalion-level drop was the only U.S. conventional large-unit combat drop during the war.

And yes, there were indeed smaller combat drops made by 5th SFG(A) in support of CIDG and various special projects and operations not too well known even today…

rgr1480

I was in the 2/503rd in 1980 long after the 173rd was deactivated. Our battalion chaplain was a grunt on that jump.

The laughter might have been because the DZ was secured and might have de jure been considered a “combat jump,” but defacto … not.

SOCNET has a thread listing other smaller-unit combat jumps:
http://www.socnet.com/archive/index.php/t-48083.html

USAFRetired

My father a Marine who served in the 1st MAW told me that some Marine Force Recon types jumped in various place from OV-10 Bronco. The aft compartment had a removable tailcone to provide access.

I have one 2.1 hour sortie in an OV-10 and if they did travel there it had to be a tight fit

rgr1480

Yes, the OV-10 can accomodate about three jumpers as I recall. During my USAF stint I was assigned to Sembach AB, FRG — we had a bunch of OV-10s there and that’s where I heard about the jumpers. I didn’t believe it then, but have since learned it was true.

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Poetrooper

rgr1480, that is exactly what my brother told me–that the drop zone was secured before any trooper exited the aircraft. It was all public affairs–and my brother should know–he was part of the accompanying PIO unit.

rgr1480

Cool!

Anonymous

Usually, that’s filed under “hey, sh*t happens” because (beside, well, they do happen) who’s going to go into detail about TS/SCI-type stuff for a jump wing device that nobody else in your community is doing with their small tactical missions (just put it toward your Senior/Master wings) and, also, it would draw attention to said Don’t Talk About Fight Club stuff. But I’m just figurin’.

rgr769

There were a small number of HALO jumps by MACV-SOG recon teams. According to what I have read, they were all unsuccessful at infiltrating The Trail, mostly because of weather, terrain, and injuries.

rgr769

PS: As someone who was drawing jump pay for five months in the RVN, I can say I never heard of any combat jumps other than that one by the 173rd and those few by SOG. The parachute was not a viable means of getting soldiers into the fight, given the weather and terrain.

Combat Historian

Interestingly, before the massive U.S. intervention starting in 1965, the ARVN Airborne Brigade (it was still a brigade back then, not a division) made quite a number of combat jumps in support of ARVN ground operations mostly in III and IV Corps. They usually jumped to act as blocking forces during ARVN search and sweep operations. This was most prevalent during 1962-63, and was done out of necessity, because back then there were very few American helo units supporting the Viets, and even less local VNAF helos lifting the ARVNs…

Martinjmpr

Also don’t forget that time that Col. Kirby and a hand-picked detachment parachuted into North Vietnam along with ARVN Col. Kai to capture an NVA general.

It was a successful mission but they lost SGT Peterson on the way back.

I heard it was later made into a movie. Anyone know anything about that? 😉

Comm Center Rat

I hear that COL Kirby’s claymores are still being found at Ft. Benning today by young Soldiers in infantry training!

SFC D

Provo’s Privy is still in use today, a shining beacon of comfort.

Martinjmpr

It sings!

Combat Historian

I just wanted to hug that little orphan as he cried out for P-E-T-E-R-S-O-N!!!

But COL Kirby was there to comfort the little tyke and tell him that he was what that war was all about…

Claw

….as the sun sets in the East from their viewpoint there at Danang…….

Martinjmpr

Col Kirby was such a badass he could make the earth rotate the other direction just so the grieving Ham Chunk could reminisce about his Peter-San on the east-facing coast of South Vietnam.

rgr1480

I heard that “Col. Kirby” was patterned after CPT Kornie in the book ….. but Duke didn’t want to be only a captain, so they made him a Colonel.

CPT Kornie — in the book — was based on CPT Larry Thorne [Lauri Torne], recipient of the Mannerheim Cross and the Iron Cross 2nd Class (Finnish Captain; attended Waffen-SS Officer School; eventually became a Captain in the SF).

Some of the filming was at Ft. Bragg and my dad was on set a few times; got the Duke’s autograph which he still treasures.

He probably told the Duke that the real Kirby/Kornie/Thorne was a corporal on his team back in 1954 when my Dad was a Team Sergeant in the 77th.

marinedad61

What ever happened to kickedinthenuts (.com)?
BRB. searching…. searching….
Ahhhhh. Someone archived it…. on YouTube.

Richard Calvert, beware the orange hair.

ninja

From the Guardians of the Green Beret site:

“I told him that it is impossible that he had 54 combat jumps in Vietnam, he said that they all were with the ARVNs and thus not documented.”

“I told him that his 214 shows he was only in the Army for 2 years and all of it in Germany as a clerk he just shrugged his shoulders and said “I dont know nothin about that.”

“I asked him if he was an SF medic then why was he not put on an SF team when he got to Nam he gave me an explanation that I could not follow.”

“He said all his LRRP missions were with ARVNs so no US LRRPs would know him.”

“Calvert told me at the end of our discussion this morning that his wife is a lawyer so a suit will cost him nothing and to bring it on.”

😉😎

Anonymous

Top Secret hush-hush, his codename was Agent Orange, his records were lost in the fire too.

marinedad61

Cue the Eddie Murphy / Trading Places video “I got legs!”?
lol

Anonymous

Once you have a man with no legs, you never go back, baby!

marinedad61

“You and me, baby. We can make it, you and me. Bitch.”
lol

Combat Historian

His code name was actually Agent Mau Cam, since he only worked with the ARVNs, and his hush-hush secret squirrel records were kept only with the ARVNs and were lost when the NVA came to town in ’75…

The Stranger

Who was that knucklehead in Indiana who posted a video of his bullshit tales of derring do on his church’s website? I seem to remember that he also has a wife who’s a lawer…

Claw

That would be Michael Joseph Reagan from Trafalgar, IN.

The Stranger

That’s right. I should have remembered this clown since he profaned the name of one of our greatest Presidents.

HT3 '83-'87

Greed always gets ’em…

Not just was he a combat medic in ‘the Nam’
“I was a combat medic with a Silver Star…a Bronze Start…combat jump errr 54 combat jumps.”

“I’m so good that I was at Hamburger Hill”…not! The battle occurred 10-20 May 1969* and he entered service 16 Sep 1970.

He’s been going off “There I was…staring Victor Charles eye ball to eye ball as he blew his last breath in my face…” the last 30 years I’d venture to bet.

Enjoy the Google fame, Cookie!

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hamburger_Hill

Roh-Dog

Turd.

ninja

Information on the Unit that Richard Dwane Calvert of Kansas served in while stationed in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany as a Cook and a Clerk from 7 May 1971 to 18 April 1972:

4th Aviation Company:

https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=PublicUnitProfile&type=Unit&ID=69552&medals=Table

“On 1 April 1969, both units were again reassigned to Hdqs, USAREUR and 7th Army and further assigned to the 15th Aviation Group. On 1 May 1969 the 4th Aviation Company (Med Hel) identification was changed to 4th Aviation Company (Assault Support Helicopter).”

“During July, August, and September 1970, the 4th Co. retired their aging H-37s, received 16 CH-47As shipped from Vietnam, and transferred from Nellingen AAF to Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, APO 09025. This change of mission equipment establish another first for the Company–first CH-47 Chinook Company in Germany and another record–the last Company in the active Army to operate the H-37. On 25 November 1970, the 4th Avn Co was reorganized under MTOE 1-258HE700 with an authorized strength of 9 Officers, 30 Warrant Officers, and 159 Enlisted Men.”

ArmyATC

I believe they became or were replaced by the 180th Aviation Co.(CH-47), known by their call sign “Big Windy,” sometime in the early to mid-1970s. The 180th was at EDOP when I was there with the 59th ATC Bn in the early 1980s.

Jay

Im betting…as is usually the case…that he was probably a SHIT BAG clerk/cook in Germany all those years ago. Guys that put there heads down, turned the wrenches, kicked the boxes, and typed the orders usually are proud to say they did that. Guys who sucked at life then….usually suck at life NOW.

ninja

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but this is what I gathered from Richard Dwane Calvert’s FOIA:

* Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas from September-December 1970 or January 1971.

* Did he go to Germany in January, then returned to CONUS in February 1971?

* 15 February-27 April 1971: Duty at Fort Dix, New Jersey as a Cook or trained as a Cook?

* Arrive in Germany, most likely, Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, duty with the 4th Aviation Company, 7th Army.

* Served in Germany with that unit as a Cook from 7 May 1971-4 January 1972.

* Served in Germany with that unit as a Clerk Typist from 4 January 1972-18 April 1972.

* Returned to CONUS 18 April 1972. Released from Active Duty 19/20 April 1972.

Total Active Duty Service: 1 Year and 7 Months.

Total Reserve Time: 3 Years and 5 Months.

Combat Historian

All that is just cover for Calvert being the most decorated ARVN LRRP/Paratrooper of the entire Vietnam war. He is a legend among the South Vietnamese, who speak of him in hushed tones as “The White Marvin”…(sarc)

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

“Ohhhhh….I’m SO upset! Where is my Illudium PU-236 Explosive Space Modulator?”

(Marvin the Martian)

Skyjumper

The highly esteemed Caucasian version of “Marvin The ARVN”??

Combat Historian

The One and Only, the Legend…

Green Thumb

The Spoon!

rgr1480

Motto:
“Death From Within”

Distinguised Unit Insignia:
On a white field, a black skillet containing 2 eggs over easy [for eye sockets] and one strip of bacon [for mouth]; below the skillet, two crossed spoons, handles downward.

A semi-correct heraldic blazon:

Argent, a skillet palewise sable containing two eggs in chief and a strip of bacon in base of the pan, all proper. Below the pan two spoons crossed in saltire handles in base. Overall this motto, “Death From Within.”

Hondo

I’m pretty sure Field Medic training was longer than 8-10 weeks even back then, ninja. My guess would be that he (1) was sent to medic training, (2) failed out, and (3) was shipped to USAREUR with TDY enroute to Fort Dix for cook school. Just a guess, but it would make more sense than sending him to USAREUR, then back to CONUS for training, then back to USAREUR.

Of course, it’s also possible someone screwed up if he failed out of medic traiing and erroneously sent him to USAREUR without a valid MOS, necessitating his return to CONUS for MOS training. Given what else was going on at the time (a war), something like that could easily have gotten lost in the proverbial shuffle for a while.

ninja

Thank You, Hondo. Am thinking on the same lines that you shared: that he failed at Fort Sam.

Also scratching my head because I thought Army Cooks were trained at Fort Lee, VA, even during the Vietnam Era.

Am guessing he did On-The-Job-Training at Dix and Germany to become a Cook and Clerk Typist.

Perhaps he was a trouble Soldier? Going from training as a Medical Corpsman to becoming a Cook to a Clerk Typist before being discharged?

Perhaps he was injured and did not have a 11111 Profile?

It is so obvious that he is covering his Military past with his Bogus Story.

Poetrooper

Back in those days,McGuire AFB, adjacent to Fort Dix was the major East Coast air transit facility for Europe, as I recall.

So the TDY/OJT cook training enroute to a German assignment sounds plausible at least.

ninja

Poe,

Boy, do I ever remember McGuire AFB (as an Army Brat).

My Dad was already in Verdun, France 6 months before us. My Mom, Siblings and I waited to get on a MAC Flight to Paris.

Wait as in 2 Days wait. Priority went to Soldiers even though we had orders as Dependents.

My memory of that wait was reading a couple of Sad Sak Comic Books, DC Comics, MAD Magazine, etc. etc. No TV. Don’t remembered what we consumed for those 2 days. It was those Comic Books that kept our Spirits high as well as knowing we were going to see our Dad again.

Also remembered sitting next to a Soldier wearing a Khaki Shirt on the MAC Flight. I felt so bad for him when we started landing at Orly Fields France. The plane hit an air pocket and alot of folks got sick because of the rocking and rolling of the plane. Unfortnately for him, one Dependant Wife that sat on the other side of him lost her Lunchbox. On his uniform.

Thank goodness for those nice stewardness. They helped clean him up before we got off the plane.

Gotta Love It.

😉😎

Comm Center Rat

ninja I think you’ve cracked the code on Calvert’s “career.” After just a year and a half Big Army kicked his ass to the curb because Calvert couldn’t cook scrambled eggs or master paragraph indentation using his assigned typewriter.

A Proud Infidel®™️

Getting kicked out in that era says that he was either a triple shitbird, could barely remember how to breathe or any combo thereof.

Hondo

Not in the early/mid-1970s. By 1972, the Army was starting to downsize bigtime due to the Vietnam War winding down (e.g., the phaseout of US involvement in ground combat operations in conjunction with Vietnamization). The guy came in just as Vietnamization was beginning, served while that accelerated, and may well have gotten an early-out because of same. I think Claw may well be dead-on target in his comment below about the guy getting an early out.

Hondo

Geez, what a pathetic putz.

Like around 2/3 of the US military during the Vietnam War, he served in locations other than SEA. No shame in that; assignments for draftees were “luck of the draw”. Many would have jumped at the opportunity to trade places with him.

But now he lies his azz off about his “exploits” in Vietnam without even trying to make the lies sound plausible. There IS shame in that. Bigtime shame.

My guess is he’d literally sh!t himself if he ever heard a shot fired in anger, was close to incoming IDF, or found himself staring down the barrel of a rifle.

Claw

For all the Docs out there:

Calvert claims (as seen on the I Love Me Wall in the video) to be a three time recipient of the Combat Medical Badge.

Hondo

Claiming 3x CMB? Geez, this guy really is as dumb as a box of rocks.

Claw

Added: 2:49 mark on the video is where the 3xCMB shows up.

rgr769

I would think the CMB is the same as the CIB. You only get one for each war you fight in. Once one is awarded for combat in the RVN, you don’t get additional ones for service in subsequent firefights.

Claw

Especially since (based on all the info I have ever read about concerning the CMB) there have only been two confirmed individuals who were ever three time recipients. So it’s a pretty short list. There are rumors out there that there might be as many as five each three time awardees, but the other three could not be confirmed.

Added – My older brother was a Viet Nam CMB awardee, hence my interest.

5th/77th FA

?!?daHell?!? Man pulleaze. Drop out to take a nap during the Thunder Storm (yeah in Feb, go figure) and damned if we don’t get us a phony baloney lying, embellishing POS green bay raye in the form of Richard (Dick Head) Dwane Calvert. The only green bar raye this sissy punk may have he stole it off of a Girl Scout. Prolly stole her cookies too. This COCKSUCKER needs way yonder more Google Fame than he has. We got to use his name in every post to make sure he gets the love and attention that he the lying sack of sh^t, Richard Dwane Calvert, so richly deserves. Asshole may have done some medic stuff with Dr. Ben Dover. His covert name prolly listed as Dong Bin Gone. His cooking specialty musta been tossing salad and Soup of Sum Young Guy.

At the very least there needs to be a deployment of the Alphabet Assault, The Toilet Bowl of Taunts, AND The Staff Summary Sheet.

Going by his record and by what all I did, I should be a Green Medic Force Delta Ranger Seal Vet Air Jumping Jeepster. I’ve typed, clerked, cooked (bacon and cat heads this morning), jumped into a jeep to deliver ARS photos to the stockade and Camp Mack for wayward boys at Bragg, put on band aids, and given the dogs their pills.

ChipNASA

Oh I’m ready to drop (with Sarge’s help on The Staff Summary Sheet.) but I have the Alphabet Assault, The Toilet Bowl of Taunts, AND The Hemisphere of Insults®™

I don’t think that Richard Calvert is going to garner any public media attention as the Foley and Jowers case and subsequent Posts.

Just in case, before it should come up, and to allow a certain amount of time from this post being put up and then allowing it to percolate and rest, (like a good bread dough)

AW1Ed and/or Dave, anyone have any issues/concerns with dropping our TAH load Richard Calvertin the near future?

I don’t see it but as is now going to be my protocol, I’m adding before the vote as we have usually had, the Roberts Rules of TAH, just a check in with the Admins about dropping the HoI and the ToT, the AA and the SSS on an individual in a post??

Let us know and then we’ll press on (if approved) with the standard Roberts Rules for a vote on deployment of mission.

THANKS!

Sarge

Fire away!

ChipNASA

It’s been a day or so and I don’t see any reason not to consider the TAH Bomb drop on this fool, although this post seems to have cooled a bit.
Anyone else game?
Suggestions, Seconds etc??

A Proud Infidel®™️

FUCK that Turkey, FIRE FOR EFFECT!!!

Claw

Yeah, go ahead and fire away, Chip.

That would be a good way of thanking him for his cervix to this country./smile

“Thank You For Your Cervix” – Good enough for inclusion to the HOI®™ ??

Skippy

FYI Posers
Try claiming to be national guard
We screw up more shit by noon then
Any active duty army unit can in a year
Trust me I was a tac ops NCO
It would have been easier to cover up
aka sweep under the rug what the FBI
Did to trump then it was for me and two fellow
NCOs one Officer and multiple E-4 mafia
Members had to do
And believe me I was one who did both
Big army and NG

marinedad61

Not in 1991.
Activated National Guard units from several states
did a superb job (in maintenance)
preparing the tank battalions for the invasion of Iraq.
We then provided support roles (additional duties)
during the invasion itself, the cease fire, and mop up duty afterwards.

Believe me, I was one who did both.
lol 🙂

Skippy

It wasn’t all bad just funny as hell

A Proud Infidel®™

Cocksucker.

Slow Joe

I can’t imagine myself wasting my time driving to a place to hear a dude talk for two hours about his derring-do, regardless of whether is true or not.

I don’t get it.

I would rather expend my time trolling people here in TAH.

Roh-Dog

Point of order, it ain’t trolling if they’ve earned it.

ninja

Slow Joe:

To each his own and perspectives on listening to an authentic Military Guest Speaker share their stories as well as meeting them in person.

Personally, the long distance trips I have taken to listen and interact with authentic Military Veterans were worth it. Better than watching them on TV or reading books that covered their Military experience.

Who knows. Your perspective may change when you go down the path of getting older. Never turn down an opportunty when it faces you.

🤗

Slow Joe

“Never turn down an opportunty when it faces you. ”

That’s what she said.

That one, single, unique, time when I said I was too tired from training hard at the range, footmarching there and back.

ninja

SJ:

TMI.

F-O-C-U-S, AKA Stick To The Topic.

*What DO They Now Teach At Bennings School For Boys*

😉😎

Mason

For one, it’s not just for boys any more. Or girls. In accordance with recent DoD policy changes and court decisions, it’s now open to all 54,221.6 genders.

ninja

Mason:

THAT WAS HILARIOUS!

😂🤣😅😆😉😎

Poetrooper

Ninja,

Case in point: Back in the early 80’s, Miz Poe and I once took a divorcee who worked for me managing commissary accounts at Hurlburt, Eglin and Tyndall, out to a well-earned evening of fine dining in Pensacola. Her date was a retired AF COL who in the course of the evening mentioned that he had been in a flight of B-17’s approaching Hickam Field from the mainland during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941:

https://www.historynet.com/pacific-tramps.htm

Living in a new subdivision out west of NAS Pensacola, we had plenty of neighbors who were Navy and Marine aviators. I invited my dinner guests out to the house for late night drinks and asked the colonel, who was a natural raconteur, if I could invite a few flyers over to hear his WWII exploits.

Within a half hour my living room/den looked like the “O” Club bar and stayed that way for hours as the old guy regaled these young flight instructors with tales from the South Pacific air war. Knowing these guys as normally being hard-drinking, loud and brash to the point of arrogance, I was amazed at their quiet, deferential respect for this old warrior. Most of their questions were beyond my limited technical knowledge of aerial warfare but the old guy fielded them well.

I was later thanked many times by my aviator neighbors for that unique evening.

Cost me a small fortune in booze though…

The Stranger

Sounds like money well spent, though. That sounds like an awesome evening.

ninja

Poe:

Thank You so much for sharing this with us.

This is what I was trying to relate to Slow Joe. You all had a One on One with the Retired Air Force Colonel as he shared his WWII Military experiences. BETTER than watching him on TV.

It doesn’t get better than this…and I bet the cost of the drinks were worth it.

Thank You again!

5th/77th FA

Damn Skippy, I’d have thrown in a case or two of Class VI Supplies myself to have been there. And a few platters of shrimp cocktails. That was something I tried to impress upon and relate to some of the young troops way back yonder. The wealth of history and knowledge walking around that was there for the asking. When a person dies, no matter who it is, in addition to losing that Soul, you are losing an irreplaceable library. Some of them never got it. And some still don’t.

Just like this POS & SOS Richard Dwane Calvert. At the time he was supposedly serving he had a wealth of Veterans surrounding him that would have done anything to help him be a good troop. He made the decision to be a sh^tbird, prolly got an Honorable, “for the Good of the Service” discharge and sent on his way. As mentioned in this thread, there were thousands who would have traded places with him. And now, over the last coupla decades it has become cool to be a Veteran of the Viet of the Nam Times, he has rocked his lies to cash in. Phuque Heem.

Poetrooper

And the camaraderie of free-flowing booze in a smoke and testosterone-filled room full of warriors from three wars in the wee hours of the morning made it one of those special moments in life one remembers.

Slow Joe

Poe, but that’s the problem. Times have changed, and because of the posers I cannot take anyone at face value.

Dustoff

Hey Dude, big difference between 91A AIT and SF Medic Course with a Caprine Lab.

Martinjmpr

I have a question about the FOIA form.

Under “Military Education” it shows “MEDICAL CORPSMAN 91A10.”

Corpsman? Isn’t that a Navy term?

I’m not doubting the data on the FOIA form, but as I’ve said before, these FOIA forms must be handed to the most junior clerk in the records department at 4:55 on Friday because they have so many sloppy errors on them.

Must have been an ex-Navy or USMC clerk to use the term “Corpsman.” The 23 years I was in the Army we used the term “Medic” exclusively.

ninja

Martinjmpr:

Looks as if in 1970, Soldiers with the MOS of 91A10 were known as “Medical Corpsman”:

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/703317.pdf

Hope this helps.

Poetrooper

Took a look at that, Ninja, and one of the colonel’s names involved, Charles Pixley, in that Army report, niggled ol’ Poe’s fuzzy brain. Sure enough, when I Googled him, he was Army Surgeon General back when I was heavily involved in military medicine.

Also, I was gratified to see confirmation that the term “corpsman” was once applied to Army medics. That had been my recollection but I wasn’t certain so I kept quiet when that topic arose here occasionally.

You should know that I read all your comments as they are frequently a source of either new information or old memories.

Thanks.

Bruce A Revelle

“One hundred men, will test today. But only one, stole a Green Beret.” What a shithead.

RGR 4-78

Dick Lord Calvert.

Jeff LPH 3, 63-66

A cook???? Looks like his goose is “cooked” now

David

“just a lowly cook”

3/17 Air Cav

Dudes got everything on his wall, from a AK to a GI Joe doll! Needs to take it all down and replace it with a set of Revereware pots and pans! What a pathetic little man

The Stranger

I doubt he would know what to do with that cookware. He was probably a shitty cook.

ninja

As noted,Richard Dwane Calvert is a Volunteer with the CAF Red Tail Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen):

https://www.redtail.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/04-RTMe.pdf

“Richard served in the Vietnam War as an Army Combat Medic and earned the Purple Heart. He completed
Special Forces Training and then served with various groups and special operations in Vietnam including
Long Range Reconnaissance, 101st Airborne and Dust Off Units. The South Vietnamese Army recognized
Richard for making 54 combat jumps with their 1st Airborne Division. Richard followed in his uncle Robert Calvert’s footsteps, his uncle was an Army Combat Medic in WWII in the Pacific Theater.”

Combat Historian

MACV Advisory Team 162 served as the U.S. advisory team to the ARVN Airborne Division during the Viet of the Nam of War. Over a thousand U.S. paratrooper officers and NCOs served as advisors to the division, from division HQs down to battalion level. I’m sure many hundreds of these men are still alive today. If they are asked about Richard Calvert and his 54 combat jumps with the ARVN Abn Div, they will collectively shout back, “WHO DA FUCK IS RICHARD CALVERT!!!???”

NHSparky

Ain’t no bullshitter like an old bullshitter.

Dear DICK,

When you find yourself in a hole, stop. Fucking. Digging.

Green Thumb

He put down his shovel and picked up his spoon.

marinedad61

Does this Calvert turd have a current home of record?
Or a hometown?

Sure would be nice to see a path to Fakebook plops in his backyard(s).

Claw

Current HOR according to MyLife: Leawood, KS.

ninja

Facebook account:

https://www.facebook.com/richard.calvert.94

He also has lived in Oklahoma.

marinedad61

BONUS
Richard Calvert has 1 photo wide open for Like clicks AND comments.

It is visible on his Facebook page,
but the photo is not a post on his page.
It is actually a REVIEW, located at
REVIEWS for the Reno Air Racing Association.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2729553877057504&set=a.102143143131937&type=3

marinedad61

RENO?

I see a 2nd 1-sheet for my planned summer trip to Reno
for the VFW National Convention in July.

1 – Les Brown
2 – Richard Calvert

I suspect this list may grown into a stapled pack.

Skippy

Enjoy your forever google fame moron
You’ve worked hard for it
F$&@ Idiot

Claw

Disclaimer: No hard feelings about Draftees, but:

Calvert’s Lottery Number was 118, so it’s a good bet he was a two-year man. So here’s my theory:

Coming from Calif-Fruity Land, my bet is he claimed to be a CO (Conscientious Objector) and that’s why he was sent to Fort Sam. He found out that becoming a Corpsman would even put him too close to the shit, so he intentionally flunked out and was then sent to be a Cook. Wound up in Germany and even cooking got to be a drag, so he weaseled his way into a clerk-typist job at the Headquarters. The big shut-down was underway and he was REFRAD five months early from the two year commitment and went home.

Now years later, he’s become some type of “author” and re-invented himself as a super-duper soldier in an effort to massage his ego.

Okay, Rant Over./smile

ninja

Claw:

I think Ole Richard is originally from Oklahoma.

Found his Parents Grave Sites as well as information on his Sister and Brother (all live in Oklahoma).

Also found his Uncle Robert Louis Calvert, who also was from Oklahoma. He served in the US Army from 1942-1945.

Ole Richard’s Father was a Preacher. From reading his Mother’s Obit, he might have been a Preacher with Assembly of God.

It looks as if the majority of the Family was from El Reno, Oklahoma (Canadian County, OK). Ole Richard’s parents also lived in Houston, Texas in the 1940s.

Mother:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15663716/princess-irene-calvert

Father:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44016225/raymond-r-calvert

Uncle Robert:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45172335

Claw

Based my remark on Calif-Fruity Land from the opening of the video when he says “Grew up mostly in Sacramento, CA”, but if he has roots back to OK, then Thanks for the info.

ninja

Claw: You are absolutely 100% correct in what he said about Sacremento at the beginning of the video.

That is why I got suspicious and started the ninja research mission.

Ole Richard got married in 1972 in Sacremento. Could not find any other info on him before that timeframe.

Dude was born in January 1950, but NOT in California. Am thinking his place of Birth is Oklahoma.

Additionally, majority of folks born in 1950 graduated from High School in 1968. Ole Richard stated 1966, which could be a stretch.

Am thinking since he was a Son of a Preacher Man, that he & his Siblings attended a Bible-Faith High School or he dropped out, got a GED, then left OK and headed to CA (it WAS the 60s). 1966-1969=3 years. The years he did not stay in touch with his parents while living in CA.

His Draft Number came up as you shared and he was almost 21, so he went into the Army, perhaps as you stated as a CO.

After he was discharged, he returned to CA, where he got married (and I think divorced) in California.

Ole Richard has taken facts about his life and military service history and “changed” it to make his persona more appealing to others.

He is hiding something.

Don’t they all, i.e. those who lie or embellish their life?

Thank You for the feedback, Claw. You basically nailed it in your “rant.” 😉

Hondo

Don’t know for sure, but IMO you might be dead on target regarding “Lord Calvert of Bovi Scat” here.

FWIW: most troops have no idea what kind of hours many if not most Army troops cooks work. So yeah: cooking could well have gotten to be “a drag” pretty damn quickly while he was cooling his heels in Deutchland during the Vietnam War.

3/17 Air Cav

Now Claw, we all know some of your “bestest” buddies are draftees! Namely, me.

No hard feelings at all!

Claw

Roger ((Over))

Stacy0311

WTF is “goat school”? Sounds like Taliban Prom night.

penguinman000

More commonly called live tissue labs nowadays. I never heard it called “goat school”, it was always called goat lab. The 2 times (once in school and once in the fleet) I participated in them, we used pigs. It was still called “goat lab”.

You get an animal (goats were common back then), it has battle wounds inflicted on it, and the student has to keep it alive. Depending on the course you are attending the length you have to keep the animal alive varies. Being a Navy guy (SFIDC who spent half of my career green side) we only had to keep them alive a couple of hours at most.

Not sure how long it is/was for Army types. Being as 18D get veterinarian training in school the length of their lab may have been substantially longer. Keeping a trauma patient alive for a few hours is different than keeping them alive for a few days.

rgr1480

Damn! Penguinman000!!!

I thought you said “… 18D get vegetarian training.”

Laughed aloud a bit at that …

Break.

I posted the below link upthread:
6 Mar 2017
https://sofrep.com/news/goat-lab-and-medical-live-tissue-training-under-fire-again-with-new-congress/

penguinman000

Given the way things have been going over the last few years it wouldn’t surprise me if they added a block of “wokeness” in the form of vegetarian training.

Mason

Of all the things the military does that make liberal heads explode, that would probably top the list.

I’d hate to be the poor fuck that has to inflict combat wounds on the animals. Even goats. Now if they were cats or possums…

penguinman000

Better a goat or pig than one of my buddies. When the war first kicked off far too many of my Corpsman got to see their first real trauma when it was one of their buddy’s on patrol. Not a good idea when the first time someone gets to treat trauma is in the middle of an ambush.

The animals are sedated prior to the evolution. They don’t feel a thing and we get to save lots of lives as a result.

I’ve used simulators and live tissue labs. And I’ve treated my fair share of casualties (good, bad and innocent). A simulator does not give the same quality, depth, or reality to training. More importantly a simulator doesn’t have the same visceral impact on a person’s lizard brain that a living creature does.

We don’t just train surgeons with simulators. They actually perform surgery under direction and in tightly controlled scenarios before they are turned loose on the general public. Since we can’t go around shooting people and then fixing them (at least in a training environment), animals are the only available option.

This way they are prepared for things like the smell. You roll up on a casualty and it reeks of shit? You know to pay extra attention to his abdomen. You know what blood smells like, brains smell like, etc… Instead of trying to process that information when it’s one of your own or an innocent civilian.

The pea brained idiots who poke their heads up every couple of years bitching about this can go get bent. They don’t know what they are talking about.

I’ll take giving our guys every advantage we can to make sure they come home. I don’t care if costs 1, 10, 100, or 1,000 goats/pigs.

RGR 4-78

Goats, pigs, dogs are cheap, ground pounders pulling triggers ain’t.

Mason

I’m not disagreeing with you at all. I think it’s a great idea. I just hadn’t heard of it (outside of medical/vet schools). I’ve dealt with my share of trauma scenes and can see how it’d be beneficial. I know we gassed goats, ducks, and other animals with nerve and mustard agents because we got to watch those videos in the NBC course.

Penguinman000

Sounds right. On the Navy side of the house goat lab would go in and out of vogue at the school house and the fleet would pick up the slack. The training time of the lab varies but I suspect it’s longer because 18D also do veterinarian work as part of their insurgence/counterinsurgency mission.

We did it just for the trauma aspect. But I could see a more in depth curriculum being useful if folks are expected to help villagers keep the food train going.

Poetrooper
Anonymous

You said “Taliban”…

AW1Ed

Had to dust off the Ballad of the Green Bidet.

Dedicated to Richard Calvert, fake Green Beret’

Faking assholes, like this guy,
The fat slobs, who always lie.
Men who failed in every way,
Try to steal the Green Beret.

Unearned bling on pudgy chests,
Doo-rag and dog, check out the vest!
One hundred times, they’ll boast today
“Believe me man, I’m a Green Beret!”

Comfort dog, at his side.
Shiny HD, for his ride.
He will pose, another day,
Because he earned, The Green Bidet

The Internet, has found him out.
Gone his name, and his clout.
His own shit, upon his tray,
Served to him, a Green Bidet.

Tip ‘o the chapeau to 11B-mailclerk,
RCAF-CHAIRBORNE, A Proud Infidel®™, and 26Limabeans

marinedad61

Due to this Richard Calvert article
(the straw that broke my back),
and several other recent articles over the past year as well.

<< PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT

<< I am now planning on attending the VFW National Convention,
taking place July 18-23, 2020 in Reno, Nevada.

NOT as a representative of my VFW Post, District, nor Department.
NOT as a VFW conventioneer, either.

I am planning to spread awareness of STOLEN VALOR (in the VFW),
setting up an outside stand alone display,
wherever the VFW Convention foot traffic dictates,
with Stolen Valor signage,
and multiple printed 1-sheet hand outs
for anyone who will take one
from a war veteran VFW member wearing a VFW cap.

My first 1-sheet will be a home state example of Stolen Valor in the VFW,
Elko, Nevada's LES BROWN.

This will be a cordial, friendly, non-confrontational,
professionally conducted display of concerned veteran(s).

IF Military Phonies or Valor Guardians would like me
to display and distribute a 1-sheet for either website,
I would be happy to either display them separately,
or create stapled multi-sheet handouts.
Free o' charge. My pleasure.

If anyone else here has a hometown Stolen Valor phony,
a VFW member, who remains in the VFW, and has largely gotten away with it,
and you would like me to display and distribute a
1-sheet of their VFW Stolen Valor story as well,
please keep a close eye on my future blog posts about Reno,
most likely on future Weekend Open Threads.

I am shopping motels online now. Cheap. Really. ($37 in a Casino, $50 in a clean retro motel.)

Yes, I'd rather be on the east coast beach and shore,
watching my son fly.
But, for me, this is important.
The timing is right.
And, the location is perfect.

I have months to put this together, for myself, and for
anyone else who would like to join me in July in Reno.

Mason

Let us know if you start a donations fund.

marinedad61

Thank you.
Perhaps too much to ask the webpage admins to be a contact source
for sharing email addresses?
If too much, I understand fully.

Unlike a recently exposed Stolen Valor phony,
would a GoFundMe for this trip be appropriate?

Dave Hardin

Always willing to help.

admin@valorguardians.com

(202) 630-8468

marinedad61

Thank you, Dave.

I don’t want to put you to any extra work.
Possible email relay, forwarding Reno Stolen Valor incoming.

I will consider putting my email address out there,
knowing that will give away my name
(real life & Facebook).

Consider designing a 1-sheet 8 1/2 x 11 ad for your website,
that I can pick up (a bulk) on my way to Reno.

Again, thank you.

marinedad61

Good Fakebook page catch, JTB.

He has tightened down his FakeBook page from comments,
except for 1 photo.
Comments (and Likes, etc.) for Richard Calvert
can be left here…

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2729553877057504&set=pb.100000087558471.-2207520000..&type=1&theater

JTB

Ty..!!

marinedad61

YW, JYB.
BONUS
Richard Calvert has 1 photo wide open for Like clicks AND comments.

It is visible on his Facebook page,
but the photo is not a post on his page.
It is actually a REVIEW, located at
REVIEWS for the
Reno Air Racing Association.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2729553877057504&set=a.102143143131937&type=3

marinedad61

JTB – UPDATE

Dick saw that he got some love on his Reno Air Racing review.
Dick DELETED his review (and photo).

We know he’s on Fakebook.
No more photo.
No more love.
Richard Calvert, don’t be a Dick.

Sapper3307

The first fifty (50) combat jumps were the hardest.

Green Thumb

More like “Combat Pumps”.

Sapper3307

Was he SleRpManCommithz battle buddy?

Hondo

Give credit where credit is due. At least ThE pUrPlE tIgEr StRiPe WeArInG EmBeLlIsHeR actually had “been there, done that” before he started embellishing.

ninja

Ole Margaret “Maggie” Desanti and Ole Richard Dwane Calvert need to get together and swap Viet of the Nam Times “War” Stories since they both “served” in the US Army Medical Field and have a Silver Star.

*sarc on*

Better yet, they can have Push Up Contests between themselves.

No, I take that back. They can have a “Who’s The Biggest Liar” Contest.

A Fight To The Finish!

Time for KoB to bring out the BIG GunsZ and sic em on those two.

KA-BOOM!

😎😉

5th/77th FA

ninja, I wish I could bring a rolling barrage TOT full Battery Fire Mission down on the POS Richard Dwane Calvert and the Skankapotumos Saggy Maggie DeSanti. Or better yet, Bitch slap beat them down myself. By using Baby Sister’s Fake Page, I have helped make a number of them more Google Famous. Some of the local phonies have dialed their crap back cause the word is out that we are “gunning” for them. (see what I did there) I’ve also made the rounds of some of the Applebee’s and Buffet Bars giving the Managers heads up on how to spot the obvious fakes.

All of that, and mentioning the phony’s name in every comment makes me believe I’m helping in my own small way. One in particular here has his family convinced of all his fake daring do. His claims are very similar to todays phony, the POS lying embellishing Richard (dick) (head) Dwane Calvert. Imagine the surprise they are going to get when the VA is NOT going to pay for his Service Marker.

ninja

😂🤣😁😄😎😅😆😀😉😎!!!!!!!

Sparks

Cook/Typist. Pretty close to Special Forces but not quite. Lots of time to scam a pile of blank documents to work on at home. Plus he could fix himself a sammich while he’s typing them up all night.

Smj

Human garbage.

rgr769

Another example that there is a never ending supply of these faking 💩 (turds). His Viet of the Nam stories defy reason and history. Just another sad REMF with minimal service trying to look like a latter day Audie Murphy.

Comm Center Rat

As a real REMF I don’t consider Calvert worthy of being called even a “sad REMF.” Its not like he was actually in the Viet of the Nam or any other imminent danger or hazardous duty location.

As a Soldier who was “in the rear with the gear” in Iraq and AFG, I know I earned and richly deserve the title of REMF. I’m proud of it and I own it. And I’m not willing to share the title with a POSer like Calvert.

We REMFs categorically reject this shitbag and proclaim him as unworthy of membership in our brotherhood!!

Honor and Courage

I took Basic Training in B-4-1 at FTJSC in 1967. We had a cook that slept in our Barracks, he was old and drunk every night. He was a PFC, and on Pay Day we had to wear our class A uniform. This guy had ribbons and a CIB, he also had 3 gold stars in his jump wings. Some of the guys that did KP with him said he had been a PSG 4 different time and was just waiting for retirement. He left before we Graduated, and shipped out. Never seen anyone else that had a combat blast.