{"id":86615,"date":"2019-04-29T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86615"},"modified":"2019-04-28T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T17:13:41","slug":"blast-from-the-past-rusty-berry-yet-another-phony-navy-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86615","title":{"rendered":"Blast From The Past: Russell “Rusty” Berry-Yet Another Phony Navy SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Blast From the Past is Russell Berry. He wore a vest with Navy paraphernalia such as a SEAL trident and the US Navy Polaris Badge. A records check was done on him. It turned out that the only thing that he earned was the Navy Sea Service Ribbon.<\/p>\n

The original posts on him could be found here<\/a> and at Military Phonies<\/a>. His latest updates can be read in the<\/strong> Times Union<\/a> and in<\/strong> Legacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Dave Hardin said in the original post:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The folks at MilitaryPhony<\/a> send us their work on Russell Dean Berry<\/a>, who goes by “Rusty” but has also been known as “Jimmy Lee Cooper.”<\/p>\n

Rusty sports a lot of U.S. Navy bling on his riding vest – U.S. Navy SEAL trident and a U.S. Navy Polaris Patrol Pin…<\/p>\n

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The sub pin can be seen more easily here…<\/p>\n

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Compared with…<\/p>\n

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It was also discovered that he went by Jimmy Lee Cooper. More about that in a minute.<\/p>\n

After Jimmy could not be identified in the BUD\/S – SEAL database, his records were ordered through a freedom of information act request.<\/p>\n

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No mention of BUD\/S or SEAL training. No U.S. Navy Polaris Patrol Sub duty. He was an FTG – Fire Control Technician, nothing wrong with that but it’s not anything like being a Navy SEAL.<\/p>\n

Rusty\/Jimmy supplied somebody with his DD-214 and it seemed to match the FOIA results summary page, but there is no indication of SEAL training on it either.<\/p>\n

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Russell Berry \/ Jimmy Lee Cooper has had some run-ins with the law. The name Jimmy Lee Cooper seems tied to him. He has a burglary charge around the time he went in the Reserve, but he was released from the Navy for having a mental condition. He didn’t earn the right to wear a Navy SEAL Trident – but he did earn himself a reenlistment code of RE-4, which means he could not serve in any branch of the military again.<\/p>\n

We wonder if there are any felony convictions in his past because we doubt he should be playing with things that go bangy – bangy.<\/p>\n

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