McDowell

Record shows service as USMC E-3 from June 29, 1972 to August 28, 1974; Honorable discharge.

Also USN February 13, 2002 to July 2, 2002 Grade: O-4 with an Other Than Honorable classification.

2005 - McDowell surfaced in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Amazingly, the high school principal who hired McDowell says McDowell's resignation is the only sanction he'll receive, because "he's been through enough."

2004 - McDowell scammed the Yeshiva of Greater Washington DC, claiming degrees he didn't have and military service he didn't perform to get hired as a teacher.

I am a prosecutor for the U.S. Navy ....... We are conducting a criminal investigation into Robert G. McDowell ......

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I am a Navy JAG Corps Officer prosecuting an LCDR reservist who had made a host of false claims regarding his military service, professional qualifications, and experiences.......

His resume that he gives the schools says he is a forensic pathologist, and has degrees he does not have. He left Maryland because Montgomery County school district gave him the option of being fired or retiring.

http://www.theunionleader.com/newsbanksearch.html
Nashua headmaster training reservists

Publication: New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH)

This is the opening of the December 26 story that got the ball rolling on McDowell's most recent resignation. In this article, McDowell lied by saying he was a retired Marine and he lied by saying he'd been hired to train Reservists.

NASHUA (AP) -- A ninth-grade headmaster with a strong military background is doing his part to help Reservists heading to Iraq.

Robert McDowell, a retired Marine, is in his first year as a headmaster at Nashua High School South. He's on a 12-day assignment in Florida training reserves to survive in Iraq. McDowell could potentially find himself in several places in the Middle East before returning to New Hampshire.......

After probe, city man leaves headmaster post

By Michael Brindley and Emily Aronson

news@seacoastonline.com

PORTSMOUTH - When city resident Robert McDowell applied for a job at Nashua High School South last summer, school officials said they had no reason to verify the military experience listed on his resume.

"We were concerned with his educational background. We were not as concerned with checking his military background," Principal Tim Kelley told The Telegraph of Nashua this week.

But it turns out questions over McDowell’s military past have lead him to resign as ninth-grade headmaster, after officials began investigating whether he fabricated parts of his military experience in an interview with The Telegraph.

According to Kelley, McDowell submitted his resignation on Wednesday, effective today. Kelley said the resignation letter cited personal reasons, but he would not comment further.

Although there was an investigation, Kelley said, McDowell had not been suspended from his job and remained working until his decision to leave. The school will not continue its investigation now that McDowell has resigned, Kelley said.

"As far as I’m concerned, it’s over," Kelley said on Thursday. "He’s been through enough."

In his interview with The Telegraph, McDowell said he earned Purple Hearts for being wounded in the Vietnam War and in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. McDowell was being interviewed about what he said was a 12-day mission to help train U.S. personnel in bomb deployment during winter break.

Kelley said he obtained a copy last Friday of a January 2002 letter signed by McDowell to the secretary of the Navy contradicting parts of his story. McDowell also admits in the letter to 23 offenses the Navy charged him with, the New Hampshire Sunday News reported this week.

In the letter, McDowell requested an "other than honorable" discharge and announced his resignation from the Navy, Kelley said. The Navy charged McDowell with wrongfully wearing three Purple Hearts and posing as a doctor and attempting to obtain prescription painkillers in Afghanistan, the New Hampshire Sunday News reported.

McDowell did not return a phone call to his Portsmouth residence made by The Telegraph. However, McDowell told the New Hampshire Sunday News he signed the letter to the Navy under "extreme duress."

I was really impressed with his energy," Kelley said of his decision to hire McDowell.

McDowell had moved to Portsmouth prior to being hired by the Nashua School District.

Kelley insisted McDowell was given as thorough a background check as any district employee and was satisfied with the information he received from administrators at McDowell’s previous employer, Albert Einstein High School in the Montgomery, Md., school system.

"Everything on his application checked out. He did not misrepresent himself to get a job in Nashua," Kelley said.

As far as McDowell’s performance thus far, Kelley said he has been impressed with McDowell’s willingness to work with teachers.

During the December interview, McDowell told The Telegraph he spent time working on the recovery efforts in Pennsylvania and at ground zero in New York City after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. But the Sunday News reported McDowell admitted that he, in fact, did not work at the site of the World Trade Center attack.

Brindley is a reporter for The Telegraph, which allowed the Herald to use portions of this story.

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	Note the Purple Hearts and all the Viet Nam medals. He is wearing a Seal pin, a Master Diver pin, and gold wings.	Record shows service as USMC E-3 from June 29, 1972 to August 28, 1974; Honorable discharge. Also USN February 13, 2002 to July 2, 2002 Grade: O-4 with an Other Than Honorable classification.
QUESTION EVERYTHING !!! at it again 2006 02/2006 Robert G. McDowell is now teaching forensics at New England University. Evidently NH and ME don't care that he has lied about his medical degree nor his military record. 05/2005 POW in the Philippines, a Navy SEAL, a senior EOD Tech in Afghanistan and Bosnia, and a forensic pathologist. Rec'd an OTH from the Navy, has "lied since late 2004 about his military exploits, and turns the stomach of every veteran that has heard these lies." State of NH may have finally taken away his Purple Heart plates. 2005 - McDowell surfaced in Nashua, New Hampshire. Amazingly, the high school principal who hired McDowell says McDowell's resignation is the only sanction he'll receive, because "he's been through enough." 2004 - McDowell scammed the Yeshiva of Greater Washington DC, claiming degrees he didn't have and military service he didn't perform to get hired as a teacher. ===== 2002 I am a prosecutor for the U.S. Navy ....... We are conducting a criminal investigation into Robert G. McDowell ...... One item which recently came up is that LCDR McDowell may have claimed to have been a POW in Vietnam (specifically in Laos). ========================== I am a Navy JAG Corps Officer prosecuting an LCDR reservist who had made a host of false claims regarding his military service, professional qualifications, and experiences....... ================= Claims he was in Viet Nam as a tunnel rat, won 2 Purple Hearts, went to the Philippines where he was a POW (covert mission, never acknowledged by the US), served in Lebanon (3rd Purple Heart), and the first Gulf War, claimed he was a Navy Seal, dove on the USS Cole to take out bodies, and finally went to Afghanistan in 2001 as a senior EOD tech. He claims a medical diploma (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology). He was sent to Afghanistan as a METOC officer (weather guesser) - told others he was going to look for bin Laden. While there, accused of conduct unbecoming.... The US Navy let him resign his commission, gave him an OTH, and he is eligible for his Reserve retirement pay in 2014. He is currently living in Portsmouth, NH where he teaches at McIntosh College, Hesser College, and the College for Life Long Learning (several campuses). He still claims he is a CDR in the Naval reserves and is getting ready to go "back" to Iraq. His resume that he gives the schools says he is a forensic pathologist, and has degrees he does not have. He left Maryland because Montgomery County school district gave him the option of being fired or retiring. He claims to have injuries (suspected of actually doctoring his own medical records) and claims the VA sends him $1000 a month for his "war" injuries. ========================================================================================================== http://www.theunionleader.com/newsbanksearch.html Nashua headmaster training reservists Publication: New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH) Page Number: A19 This is the opening of the December 26 story that got the ball rolling on McDowell's most recent resignation. In this article, McDowell lied by saying he was a retired Marine and he lied by saying he'd been hired to train Reservists. NASHUA (AP) -- A ninth-grade headmaster with a strong military background is doing his part to help Reservists heading to Iraq. Robert McDowell, a retired Marine, is in his first year as a headmaster at Nashua High School South. He's on a 12-day assignment in Florida training reserves to survive in Iraq. McDowell could potentially find himself in several places in the Middle East before returning to New Hampshire....... http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=50229 (see this link for the entire article) ==================================================================================================== School administrator's military record at issue By SCOTT BROOKS Sunday News Correspondent NASHUA — Robert G. McDowell’s job application notes his 30-year military career, ending with his July 2002 departure from the U.S. Navy Reserves as a lieutenant commander. But the first-year Nashua High School South administrator had requested an “other than honorable” discharge, admitting to misconduct including falsifying his military record, posing as a doctor and attempting to obtain prescription painkillers improperly. In an interview with the Sunday News, McDowell confirmed he signed a letter to the Secretary of the Navy in January 2002 announcing his resignation “for the good of the naval service and to escape trial before a general court-martial.” The Navy had charged McDowell with 23 offenses, including that he “wrongfully and dishonorably” stated: That he did two combat tours in Vietnam. That he earned Purple Hearts for disarming a SCUD missile in Desert Storm and for de-mining in Bosnia. That he is an expert in Soviet munitions and holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in oceanography. That he dove for the remains of the space shuttle Challenger. The Navy also charged McDowell with wrongfully wearing three Purple Hearts, Naval Parachutist Wings and various unearned pins on his uniform while in Bahrain. A subsequent letter, signed by U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Commander C.W. Moore Jr., says, “It is clear that he has dishonorably held himself out as a Vietnam War hero for the entire span of his Navy career.” McDowell’s resume and job application for ninth-grade headmaster have no references to tours of duty or war medals. But in an interview with Nashua’s local newspaper, The Telegraph, last month, McDowell said he had 14 tours of duty, including stints in Vietnam and Desert Storm.... [full article available] =========================================== http://www1.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/publishingservices/bulletin/1998-99/bulltn40.pdf#search=%22%22robert%20g%20mcdowell%22%22 This is a .pdf file of a Montgomery County Public Schools newsletter from 1999. It has an article on McDowell's fake award and also has some of his fake resume details, including that he commands a SEAL team, that he's going to Kosovo.... . ====================================== After probe, city man leaves headmaster post By Michael Brindley and Emily Aronson news@seacoastonline.com PORTSMOUTH - When city resident Robert McDowell applied for a job at Nashua High School South last summer, school officials said they had no reason to verify the military experience listed on his resume. "We were concerned with his educational background. We were not as concerned with checking his military background," Principal Tim Kelley told The Telegraph of Nashua this week. But it turns out questions over McDowell’s military past have lead him to resign as ninth-grade headmaster, after officials began investigating whether he fabricated parts of his military experience in an interview with The Telegraph. According to Kelley, McDowell submitted his resignation on Wednesday, effective today. Kelley said the resignation letter cited personal reasons, but he would not comment further. Although there was an investigation, Kelley said, McDowell had not been suspended from his job and remained working until his decision to leave. The school will not continue its investigation now that McDowell has resigned, Kelley said. "As far as I’m concerned, it’s over," Kelley said on Thursday. "He’s been through enough." In his interview with The Telegraph, McDowell said he earned Purple Hearts for being wounded in the Vietnam War and in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. McDowell was being interviewed about what he said was a 12-day mission to help train U.S. personnel in bomb deployment during winter break. Kelley said he obtained a copy last Friday of a January 2002 letter signed by McDowell to the secretary of the Navy contradicting parts of his story. McDowell also admits in the letter to 23 offenses the Navy charged him with, the New Hampshire Sunday News reported this week. In the letter, McDowell requested an "other than honorable" discharge and announced his resignation from the Navy, Kelley said. The Navy charged McDowell with wrongfully wearing three Purple Hearts and posing as a doctor and attempting to obtain prescription painkillers in Afghanistan, the New Hampshire Sunday News reported. McDowell did not return a phone call to his Portsmouth residence made by The Telegraph. However, McDowell told the New Hampshire Sunday News he signed the letter to the Navy under "extreme duress." I was really impressed with his energy," Kelley said of his decision to hire McDowell. McDowell had moved to Portsmouth prior to being hired by the Nashua School District. Kelley insisted McDowell was given as thorough a background check as any district employee and was satisfied with the information he received from administrators at McDowell’s previous employer, Albert Einstein High School in the Montgomery, Md., school system. "Everything on his application checked out. He did not misrepresent himself to get a job in Nashua," Kelley said. As far as McDowell’s performance thus far, Kelley said he has been impressed with McDowell’s willingness to work with teachers. During the December interview, McDowell told The Telegraph he spent time working on the recovery efforts in Pennsylvania and at ground zero in New York City after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. But the Sunday News reported McDowell admitted that he, in fact, did not work at the site of the World Trade Center attack. Brindley is a reporter for The Telegraph, which allowed the Herald to use portions of this story.
Robert MCDOWELL'S PROOF: Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Set 6 Set 7 Set 8 Set 9 It is believed he DOES have a PhD from George Washington in education. For a long time he told people he had a PhD in Oceanography from Cornell. The first Fitrep is partially true. ... most officers write their own fitreps, and most seniors that sign them, have done little or no work with the individual. The certificate you can send $$$ to and get one. The DMORT badge is true. He was a GG6 or 7 fingerprint person, not a forensic pathologist. He went there (to Shanksville) but there was very little for him to do. I believe he was finally kicked off the National DMORT team for his lies. The letter to the admiral was from his superintendent in Montgomery County Maryland. He wrote this letter after McDowell stated his job was in jeopardy.