{"id":108347,"date":"2020-12-14T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108347"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:31:13","slug":"duane-hoffman-phony-beirut-navy-cross-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108347","title":{"rendered":"Duane Hoffman – Phony Beirut Navy Cross Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on Duane Allen Hoffman<\/a> who is 58 or 60 years old.\u00a0 He has two different dates of birth listed, but it is more likely he was born in 1962 and is 58 years old at the time of this writing – December 2020.\u00a0 Hoffman lives in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n

On Twitter, he claims that he is a \u201cU.S. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER (\u201981 to 96).\u201d\u00a0 He implies being wounded making reference to having asked \u201cWHAT DID I BLEED FOR AS NAVAL INTEL. COMBAT OFFICER.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In another tweet, Hoffman can’t seem to decide if he was a CAPT (O-6), or a VICE ADMIRAL (O-9). These posts were within one day of each other so he must have rocketed up through the ranks.<\/p>\n

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In another Twitter post, Hoffman claimed that he was awarded the Navy Cross for Heroism from actions in Beirut, Lebanon \u2013 presumably 1983 or 1984.\u00a0 I say these two dates because there was a\u00a0bombing of the U.S. Embassy on April 18, 1983<\/a>\u00a0and another bombing of the\u00a0U.S. Embassy Annex on September 20, 1984<\/a>.\u00a0 The Annex was the facility that was designated after the first Embassy was destroyed.<\/p>\n

Although he does not distinguish between the bombings, Hoffman claims he was awarded the Navy Cross.\u00a0 He spells ‘Beirut’ incorrectly.<\/p>\n

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Duane Allen Hoffman – Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hoffman seems to be panhandling and leveraging the Navy Cross.<\/p>\n

He repeated the Beirut and Navy Cross claim again in another tweet.<\/p>\n

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Duane Allen Hoffman – Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the following Tweet, Hoffman claims to be a survivor of the Marine Barracks Bombing, which was a separate incident from the U.S. Embassy bombing.\u00a0 He is either claiming he is a survivor of both, or he has them confused.\u00a0 The POTUS response is standard for anybody that writes, so not unique to Hoffman.<\/p>\n

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Duane Allen Hoffman – Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Duane Hoffman\u2019s military records were ordered from both the Department of the Navy (DoN) and the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. As mentioned above, there were two dates of birth listed for him but both were accounted for in the FOIA requests.<\/p>\n

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FOIA RESULTS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY<\/strong>\u00a0(DoN)<\/p>\n

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The Department of the Navy responded saying they cannot locate a record for Duane Hoffman at BUPERS (Bureau of Naval Personnel).\u00a0 However, their database reflects that there is an OMPF (Official Military Personnel File) for this individual at NPRC in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

This means that he served and got out before the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

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Department of the Navy \u2013 Cover Letter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER<\/strong>\u00a0(NPRC)<\/p>\n

The NPRC provided the following records.<\/p>\n

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NPRC FOIA Results \u2013 Duane Hoffman \u2013 Summary Sheet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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NPRC FOIA Results \u2013 Duane Hoffman \u2013 Assignments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MANPOWER DATA CENTER<\/strong>\u00a0(SCRA)<\/p>\n

The SCRA database shows no records for Hoffman from September 1984 to present day.<\/p>\n

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OTHER RESEARCH<\/strong><\/h2>\n

HIGH SCHOOL<\/strong><\/p>\n

We were able to identify a photo from the Wilby High School yearbook in Waterbury, Connecticut where Hoffman spent his youth. This made us believe that the date of birth in 1962 was the correct one. This also places him in high school in 1981.\u00a0 He claims he was in the Navy in 1981 which is plausible if he joined right after High School. That appears to be the case because the official military records from the NPRC state that his date of entry was June 25, 1981.\u00a0 The point is he would not have sufficient time to go to college and graduate with a degree to allow for a commission in the Navy.<\/p>\n

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Duane Allen Hoffman \u2013 Wilby High School Yearbook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In fact, he could not have been in either of the Beirut bombings as an Intel Officer based on the timeline of high school if you factor in four years of college.<\/p>\n

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NAVY CROSS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hoffman is not in any of the official and non-official Navy Cross databases where we would expect to find him if he was awarded the Navy Cross.<\/p>\n

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CRIMINAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hoffman seems to have had an extensive career as a con artist as some have labeled him.\u00a0 Then, when in prison awaiting trial for theft and fraud, he successfully won a federal lawsuit allowing him to wear a yarmulke in jail.<\/p>\n

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Duane Hoffman \u2013 San Francisco Chronicle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n