David Oh Special Forces Fraud

[casey]

Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer

Pink text bro, we've got a whole bunch including some sweet LEOs. One of them threatened to have me chained to a statue of Frank Rizzo at the bottom of the Delaware River if I spoke another bad word about Chickie and Pete's crab fries! And some others still owe me on a bet . . .

Back to your cave ... vile blasphemer..........


Mysterious how that FOP action was floored.........

[mffjm]

I'll be back in Philly in a couple weeks and be more than happy to have a little "chat" with David Oh. (I'm TDY with the FBI down near Fort Campbell for 2 weeks.) Also, I was at Bragg for DS1 and know exactly what Oh was (and was not).
Dave

[Team Sergeant]

This is what happens when you mislead people and pretend to be a Green Beret.
Team Sergeant

Posted on Thu, Aug. 25, 2011

Green Beret claim threatens David Oh campaign
By Bob Warner
Inquirer Staff Writer
City Council candidate David Oh is struggling with allegations that he embellished his military record, threatening his campaign in a race in which he was considered a front-runner just a week ago.

The Philadelphia Daily News reported Friday that Oh's former commanding officer disputed Oh's claim that he had been an officer in an Army Special Forces unit and was a former Green Beret.

Oh immediately contested the story, promising "an official response" within days. But the controversy has festered for nearly a week without an official statement.

Oh, who admits having misleading references on his campaign website, called The Inquirer on Tuesday to read a statement in which he apologizes to the public and the Green Berets "for any confusion or misimpression I created." He offered to return campaign contributions to anyone wanting money back.

But before finishing the statement, he said it still needed changes and promised to call back with a final version. On Wednesday, he failed to return repeated calls.

The fallout has escalated, ranging from dozens of Special Forces and other veterans expressing outrage on Internet message boards to a decision Tuesday night by Philadelphia's Fraternal Order of Police lodge to rescind Oh's endorsement.

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http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pe...128360468.html

[greenberetTFS]

I think this is just the beginning of the end of Mr.OH's political future.... Well,that's one down but I'm sure it's not the end of the posers,they seem to sprout like weeds lately........ Good hunting TS...........

Big Teddy

[Team Sergeant]

David Oh's SF/GB claims may not have sunk him, but his lawyer speak, parsing his words and attempting to redirect & misdirect the Face Book and SOCNET conversation's clearly shows the type of person David Oh is and isn't. There's a reason David Oh deleted all the posts with us on his Face Book page, it was because he had a moment of clarity and realized we were the real Green Berets that came knocking at his door and that he was not going to fool us.

David Oh now has an understanding of how far we will go to defend the Honor of the Special Forces Regiment. And that will not allow some cheap politician to use our title and our reputation that we forged in blood for personal or political gain.

Some of David Oh's supporters think our treatment of David Oh is "harsh" and "mean". Those supporters make me smile. They have no idea how right they are.... There are plenty of others that think the same thing about us, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, dictators, drug cartels, terrorists, etc Yes, we can be harsh.

David Oh was given a chance to clear the air, instead he chose to delete, parse his words and attempt to redirect & misdirect our conversations with him.
That was very unintelligent.

This is how we respond.

Had David Oh actually gone through Special Forces training he would have realized one very important detail about us, "we never quit".

De Oppresso Liber,

Jeff Hinton
Master Sergeant
Special Forces (ret)

[Sonic03svtCobra]

Another TURD of a politician claiming to be something he is not, goes to show his true colors and that he cannot be trusted, those people would be idiots to elect a person like that.

[Jgood]

Whenever I read this post or the other post about posers I hear the line from "Young Guns"

Billy the Kid "I'll Make You Famous"


Good job TS

[Team Sergeant]

"David Oh apologizes for Green Beret 'confusion or misimpression'"

David Oh you are the master of confusion, misdirection and deceit.

After reading article after article (dating back years), endorsements, campaign literature, internet bios, etc etc etc it is crystal clear you got a whole lot of political mileage using our reputation.

David Oh, 'confusion or misimpression' doesn't cut it. Deliberate and calculated misrepresentation is more like it.

Good thing you sanitized your Facebook Politician page, we sure would not want the good people of Philly to see what was written there.

David Oh you have no Honor, no Integrity and I think you are as stupid as a Fox for using our reputation.

How you look at yourself in the mirror each morning is beyond me.
Jeff Hinton

Posted on Fri, Aug. 26, 2011


Oh apologizes for Green Beret 'confusion or misimpression'
By Bob Warner

Inquirer Staff Writer
City Council candidate David Oh issued a formal apology Thursday for what he described as carelessness in describing his five-year stint in the Army National Guard - an issue that led some veterans to complain he was embellishing his military record.
Although Oh was assigned to a National Guard Special Forces unit, he said he should have been more careful as a candidate in his use of the terms Special Forces and Green Beret, both used to describe elite units whose combat soldiers typically have endured months of rigorous training.

"I apologize to the public for any confusion or misimpression I created which suggests that I served as a Special Forces-qualified Green Beret or Special Forces officer," Oh said in his statement. "I did not serve in such a capacity. . . . I was not Special Forces-qualified."


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pe...128431878.html

[Jgood]

Screw him the more and more he talks the more and more angry I get...

[Richard]

This is what David Oh might have achieved if he hadn't been stopped - seems like similar personalities.

FYI - the article is a good read although the heading is misleading in that it makes it sound as if the issue is merely about wearing a uniform at a political event.

Richard

Senate Candidate McCalister Breaks Army Uniform Rule, Offends General And Vets
Miami Herald, 26 Aug 2011

Mike McCalister, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, violated U.S. Army regulations by wearing his uniform to a political fundraiser — a move that further fuels the criticisms of veterans and service members who say he’s misleading voters to seem like more of a soldier than he ever was.

A retired colonel in the Army Reserve, McCalister has made his military record central to his campaign, launching the political newcomer into the top tier of Republican candidates.

But his website and campaign speeches have been full of so many strong-sounding claims that he’s now drawing fire from former subordinates, a high-ranking general at United Special Operations Command in Tampa and the veterans group Stolen Valor. The group obtained photographs of McCalister wearing his ceremonial uniform at Feb. 16 fundraiser, the Highland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner.

“The retiree is not authorized to wear his uniform to political events,” said U.S. Army spokesman Troy Rolan. He cited regulations that say current and former service members should wear the uniform only to ceremonial events, such as Memorial Day.

“This is inappropriate,” said Ed Maxwell, a Jensen Beach Vietnam veteran and member of Stolen Valor, a nonpartisan group of vets committed to blowing the whistle on candidates who misrepresent their service.

“He’s exploiting his military service and he’s embellishing it. It’s improper,” Maxwell said. “It [the uniform] shouldn’t be used in a political setting. It shouldn’t be used for commercial purpose.”

Maxwell, like nearly all of McCalister’s military critics, is a Republican who’s not supporting one of the other candidates, including Adam Hasner, George LeMieux and Craig Miller.

McCalister, 59, has refused to answer specific questions from reporters and Stolen Valor about his record. His campaign called Stolen Valor a “front group” but failed to provide any evidence.

After vets complained, his campaign changed his website to no longer say he was a “special operations colonel” — a nonexistent title that could lead someone to believe he was in the Special Forces. He wasn’t.

McCalister had also claimed he once “testified before Congress” on a national security matter. He then claimed he never said he testified. After The Miami Herald noted the misstatement by producing video, he issued a letter to supporters saying he was being nitpicked.

“Although I didn’t recall saying it when asked by the reporter, I did say that I testified,” McCalister admitted. He went on to say that, when he served at SOCOM at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, he accompanied Lieutenant Gen. W. P. Tangney, to a hearing as an expert.

“I sat under the bright Capitol lights with General Tangney, who relied upon my research and counsel to give accurate testimony to Congress,” McCalister wrote. “Although I wasn’t the person sitting behind the microphone, my position on the team was integral to the mission and I considered it our testimony, and the testimony of the United States military, which I so proudly served in for 33 years."

Tangney, however, doesn’t remember it that way — and he barely recalls McCalister.

“He could’ve been in the back of the room someplace holding a briefcase. There were no ‘bright lights.’… It’s a gross embellishment and exaggeration, if he was indeed even there,” Tangney said. He said McCalister’s statement “sounds like he had a position of prominence and importance. And he didn’t.”

Tangney, now retired and living in South Carolina, said he didn’t remember McCalister, who noted in yet another press release that the general and others praised him in a 2002 evaluation report calling for his promotion.

Army Major Gen. Eldon Bargewell and Army Lieutenant Gen. Bryan D. Brown also said they barely recall McCalister, who cited snippets of their praise in the press release. Like Tangney, they said, they didn’t directly supervise McCalister. Two other generals, Marine Brigadier General Dennis Hejlik — whose last name McCalister misspelled in his press release — and Navy Vice Admiral Eric Olson, couldn’t be reached for comment.

Tangney said he heard McCalister’s name about a week and a half ago when a high-level officer in Tampa who served under the general told him that there was “this flake… apparently claiming he had done things that didn’t ring true with people in the community.”

For instance, McCalister has repeatedly said he was involved in “black ops” and has seen “scary things.” But he never served in combat and was really a “paper pusher,” said Jeffrey Shera, a former sergeant major who served in Special Forces. Shera said he worked with McCalister from about 2001 to 2003.

“Anything he said associated with black ops is not the truth,” Shera said.

He said McCalister was in charge of a team evaluating fire-and-training range capacity, and “most of that work was done by a Marine reservist major who worked for him. McCalister spent most of his time going to the MacDill Air Force Base gym and sitting at the juice bar at the time.”

On McCalister’s first day on the job at MacDill, McCalister wore the wrong cap to work, Shera said. He said the first time he met McCalister made him suspicious because the then-lieutenant colonel wore a name badge that said “Mike McCalister, PHd.”

Shera researched McCalister’s record and found he obtained the higher-education degree from a correspondence school.

Another co-worker, Kat White, said McCalister was good at delegating responsibilities and at climbing the ladder of promotions, going so far as to outmaneuver a well-respected colonel in the office.

“If you get in his way, he will step on you,” said White, who was then an executive assistant to McCalister’s supervisor. She also said McCalister was told to “stand down, cut it out” when he tried to describe himself as an office “director” of the team that oversaw range reviews.

When McCalister started making waves in the office, they said they checked to make sure he hadn’t served in Special Forces or in combat. Maxwell, the Stolen Valor vet, analyzed McCalister’s record and said there’s a good chance McCalister enrolled in the National Guard to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War in 1971.

Stolen Valor also noted that his active duty service was about 3½ years and was “extremely limited” to training, though he suggests on the campaign trail that he actively served for longer periods as a “combat arms officer.”

Maxwell and fellow members of Stolen Valor aren’t the only ones offended by McCalister’s decision to attend a fundraiser in his military uniform. Every former military officer interviewed by The Miami Herald said high-ranking officers should know better.

Though the regulations prohibit the wearing of the uniform to partisan political events, there’s no real penalty — unless McCalister continued to do it after an officer with higher rank complained.

General Tangney said he wasn’t too surprised with McCalister’s situation, however.

“It is not all uncommon with these guys in the reserve components to blow themselves up to be a hero that they never were and never could be,” he said. “This is just nothing but a case of someone claiming what they’re not for personal and political gain.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/2...er-breaks.html

[Pete]

Nice reading a story where I know two of the key talkers.

Gen Tangney was the Bn CO of 3/5th and Shera was a SSG on the same team with me.

I'd take their word over McCalister any day any time.

[Team Sergeant]

Funny that the only time these guys are "sorry" is when they get caught.
David Oh you are a liar and a fraud and have been caught red-handed using our reputation for political gain. And while you can fool the sheeple you're not fooling us. I'm not done with you yet.
Team Sergeant



David Oh’s Speedbumps, Courtesy of PhillyClout
By Brittany Foster, Contributing Writer

Thanks to PhillyClout’s Chris Brennan, everyone now knows that City Council candidate David Oh was not a Green Beret.

The Daily News reporter broke the news in mid August that despite Oh’s claims for the past eight years that he was a Special Forces Green Beret, his commanding officers state that claim is entirely false and a huge stretch from the truth.

Initially, Oh bashed the Daily News for publishing the piece and that due to prerequisite training that Oh received; he was indeed a Green Beret. Since then, he has apologized twice for his misstatements and Chris Brennan has covered every development. Now, there are whispers of a new story to break soon.

Update: Oh told PoliticsPA that the heart of the matter is an “honest mistake” that has been exaggerated by the press. In the late 1980s, Oh served in the 20th Special Forces Group, a reserve unit district from the U.S. Special Forces (the Green Berets). Oh says that the terminology by which Special Forces units refer to themselves has changed. He has made two public apologies to military officials that he believed to have offended with his mistake. He went on to say that Brennan has blown the Special Forces issue out of proportion.

“He photoshopped a green beret onto my head backwards. That’s not me. I’m not a faker.”

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http://www.politicspa.com/david-oh%E...lyclout/27489/

[greenberetTFS]

General Tangney said he wasn’t too surprised with McCalister’s situation, however.

“It is not all uncommon with these guys in the reserve components to blow themselves up to be a hero that they never were and never could be,” he said. “This is just nothing but a case of someone claiming what they’re not for personal and political gain.”.....

McCalister ia a Liar and Fraud........ These posers just prove that the more things change the more they stay the same........ MF's are like weeds,no matter how hard you keep trying to get rid of them,they just keep coming,and coming ,and coming!......

Big Teddy

Originally Posted by wet dog

But that would not make much sense, since any news is good news, and it allows someone to talk more about themselves, which is what every politico is attempting.

I'm quoting myself,...from a previous post.

but from the linked article recently attached, Oh is favored to win.


“I’m not rooting for or against David Oh’s campaign. I’m covering it in a political column.”

Oh, who placed first in May’s GOP primary for Council at-large, remains a favorite for one of the two spots. Featherman says that “it would take an act of God for David Oh to lose.”

[abc_123]

Originally Posted by greenberetTFS

General Tangney said he wasn’t too surprised with McCalister’s situation, however.

“It is not all uncommon with these guys in the reserve components to blow themselves up to be a hero that they never were and never could be,”

I am in the Reserve Component, and have not, am not, nor will not blow myself up to be a hero I never was or could be. I'm just serving like I have done for over 20 years.

Evidently people like me are uncommon in the Reserve Component. Wow, I never knew...

I for one, can hardly wait for the good General's next bit of wisdom.