{"id":67158,"date":"2016-07-30T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67158"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:26","slug":"daniel-matthews-phony-combat-sniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67158","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Matthews; phony combat sniper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Matthews<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The good folks at Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on this Daniel Matthews<\/a> fellow who put his DD214 on his motorcycle sidecar;<\/p>\n

\"Booner\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

He told his story to a local journalist once<\/a>, too;<\/p>\n

\"Sniper<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Matthews, who splits time between Pembroke and Phoenix, was a sniper, an elite sniper. He served in the Marine Corps on a “recluse” mission.<\/p>\n

A young man named XXX was assigned as his spotter.<\/p>\n

On XXX third outing with Matthews, they were on a mission and XXX was working hard to do a good job. At one point, Matthews told him he needed to get his head down. He kept spotting. He didn’t move fast enough.<\/p>\n

“I inhaled bits of his brain,” Matthews said.<\/p>\n

He then added, “but I killed the other sniper.”<\/p>\n

Two days later, on another mission, he killed an enemy three-star general.<\/p>\n

But to this day, Matthews said, he still struggles with the memories of his time in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

When I showed him the picture I took of him touching Peter’s name, he said, “I can never touch the real Wall.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Conversations with him are useless, because he has a “bunch of DD214s, but they get updated as time goes on” because he thinks he still goes out on secret missions, or “black ops”.<\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Yeah, well, he was in the Marines from 1971 – 1975. He was a motor vehicle operator and never left the continental United States;<\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Then he joined the National Guard for 15 years;<\/p>\n

\"Daniel<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

He was a 68M, which looks like it was an Aircraft Weapons System repairman in the 1980s (it became a Nutritional Care Specialist recently). For some reason in his final days, they made him a cook in an aviation unit for a brief period, for whatever reason. But not a sniper and no deployments. His DD214 on his sidecar covers every place someone fired shots in anger during his career – but he wasn’t in any of those places.<\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

He does have two National Defense Service Medals, though, so he might be legit.<\/p>\n

\"Matthews<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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