What's the quickest way to find a Marine? To be honest, civilians dont belong around us. I was like, "Alright, roger that (laughs)." I could just always tell that he loved it and I was just drawn to it. Every weekend they offer free tutoring to students in the school who are struggling. It happens in every city, almost every fucking day, everywhere in the country. It was when I dropped a hellfire missile into four Taliban sitting cross-legged, indian style in a circle de-briefing their attack on us. But I would just think, "If this is that fucking intense for you bro, what are you going to be like in combat? And I was laughing like I havent laughed in a long, long time., Donny OMalley is a stage name. Actually I put two hellfires in the middle for good measure. DO: My most memorable moments were two that were almost identical. He was just like, "Look man, this isn't for you. Being in a rifle company is what I miss. At 18-years-old a ton of my friends joined the Marine Corps. I was fire support so I needed to understand the battlefield and every fucking inch of that battlefield. That's specifically why it's therapeutic to me I guess. The reason they are not doing that is cowardice. OMalleys mini-empire is based on the idea that there is a veteran market yet to be fully captured. Why is Frank McCourt really pushing it? Donny O'Malley, Embarrassing Confessions of a Marine Lieutenant: Operation Branding Iron 2.1A. It was the first time where I was thinking, "Fuck this place." Like I said before this ideology is disseminating so rapidly because they have nothing else to believe in, other than this idea. I couldn't take anything seriously. @DonnyOMalley. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Gloria Vanderbilt told Anderson Cooper not to expect a trust fund. I was born accidentally in Queens, New York to Irish and Colombian Catholic immigrants. I would say theres two people that actually have formal education in any job we have, he explains. Fucking singers and rappers are idolized. This guy had a vape pen that looked exactly like a gun, and he pointed it at cops. My civilian friends understand me. Scan this QR code to download the app now. I grew up with it and it's natural to me. You believed me, didn't you? That is part of the therapy. Nothing. It was different in WWII where you had to move a chess piece in order to accomplish a mission. The movement is tolerated by our politicians and that's a huge fucking problem. Im so accustomed to seeing the comedic side of skits and the comedy sketches that are now his calling card. I mean it didn't matter that much because I was going to do it anyways, but I finally convinced him. I am posting this AMA on behalf of Donny. Donny was born in Queens and raised by a Colombian mother and Marine Infantry / Naval Doctor father. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Donny O'Malley (Danny Maher) See Photos. What about comedy is so therapeutic for you and your brothers? Donny O Malley. That's an accessory to the problem. See Photos. He got the estate instead, Sara Gilbert dissects The Conners: If theres no conflict, its not funny, The North remembers: In Northern Ireland, Game of Thrones leaves a lasting legacy, For 40 years he blamed himself for a girls murder. This was O'Malley's goal when he created VET Tv.[6]. The mission there, as recently detailed in the Washington Posts Afghanistan Papers report, was perceived by many of those present to be almost entirely pointless. There's an awesome guy named Isaac here in Texas that did just that. Now if we can build even more of a pedestal for them through entertainment then we are doing good for the veteran community. Donny O'Malley does not fit the typical mold of a U.S. Marine. . Cowardice existed in Hitler's officers, Marine officers, and the leaders in the black community who don't step up and say, "You're all wrong. in Queens, NY, The United States Its wild.. Can you explain the complexities of our battle against terrorism? If OCS is this bad for you what are you going to do when you get overseas? I was ecstatic and the operation ended up turning out fine. Vira was one of those leaders that was an absolute joy to be around in the moments when things weren't serious. In case you were wondering, hes single. How dare you talk to me like that!" After 35 days and with the support of 3,609 backers, the campaign raised $296,331,[7] becoming the third highest funded campaign in the Comedy Category, behind Mystery Science Theatre 3000 and Flight of the Conchords. Donny O'Malley Entertainment 18 Episodes Donny's stuff from years of being mostly funny. One person brought up they were joining the Navy, then the next person Air Force, I was going Army, then we rolled around to the last guy. When it was time to go to work, he was a subject matter expert in every place he needed to be. I knew there was a Marine Corps officer there though and I wanted to see the veteran side of that officer. That was one of four moments like that. Official Unofficial USMC forum for anything Marine Corps related. Football players, basketball players, a large percentage of whom are pieces of shit I might add. However, he is 25 pounds leaner and of a slightly lighter skin tone and taller as well. While the Marine Corps ball shoot continues back in the warehouse, hes showing off the rest of the companys DIY production studio a substantial commute from the San Diego area, where most of the employees live, near Camp Pendleton. Back in the warehouse, an older man arrives late in the day, dressed neatly, with impeccable posture and toting a friendly golden doodle named Bella. [3], Prior to VET Tv, Donny OMalley wrote the best seller, Embarrassing Confessions of a Marine Lieutenant and started Irreverent Warriors,[4] a non-profit designated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization by the Internal Revenue Service. I was a part of something else thats hard for others to understand, an infantry unit. They said, "Tell them what you saw, son! I put a hellfire into the middle of them. . I know what I need to do for the time that I'm in." Founder of Irreverent Warriors,a veteran nonprofit and Veteran Entertainment Television. Cops who do the fucking wrong thing should be hammered on a case-by-case basis. You bring this veteran together with that veteran's family and before you know it you have six or seven veteran's families hanging out and sharing experiences. I just know that it is. So, we had five casualties that day. Your email address will not be published. Anyone who doubts the purity of our . OMalley insists that his own reentry into society wasnt particularly fraught (I never killed a civilian, so my conscience is clean, he says), but after a friend who was a veteran committed suicide, he redirected his writing career to focus on military mental health. In addition to removing entitlement, they need to get out and continue doing what they know, which is serving. If I had to pinpoint it, though, it might've been New York where we had over three hundred people at our hike and it was our second biggest event in one of the biggest cities in the entire world. It's that simple. The Irreverent Warriors team did all that. We are creating a sense of community. It's because my number one fan who had his legs blown off in Sangin (a part of 1st Battalion 5th Marines) told me that my writing was the only thing that could make him laugh hysterically in his entire life. It's much better than the alternative for one and for two who else do we sensationalize as a society? If you could tell a civilian one thing to change perception what would that be? That was it. There were a couple other things he told me that alluded to the fact that I provided him with an outlet to not think about how miserable he was. [8][9], During the COVID pandemic there was a 20% increase in veteran suicides. My grandparents had like ten kids and all of their kids had like five each. When I was able to be the Marine I was trained to be after that first month, it brought out the best in me. It just needs to come from patience and understanding. We looked and sure enough one of the trucks is smoking. I remember some of these tools would be making us run up and down through the squad bay in like 16 layers of clothing with the heat on blast and we'd just keep running back and forth. Identify a good cause, use outrageous, inappropriate, and dark humor to build an audience, and motivate them to rally around the cause. Reach out and text someone you served with, social connection saves lives. So it's really hard to identify a single moment as my best one post-service. He joined the Marine Corps in 2009 and became an infantry officer. All of these Marine's lives were on the fucking line and I needed to be my best. The story was, "Cop shoots unarmed black man.". The leaders in the Muslim community need to openly speak against extremism, fundamentalism, and terrorism. That's combat humor. He was bum-rushing the cop but their cowardice made them sit back. I was so bad dude. I dedicated the next year of my life to creating a large non-profit that could manage the Silkies Hikes and manage the messaging, keeping the intentions pure so that it was never forgotten. I would absolutely do the skit again, just not do the brownface. I felt a good sense of fear at that moment (laughs). "The United States now fights wars with more care, precision, compassion, and humanity than wars have ever been fought in the history of the world. Relationship Donny O Malley appears to be a single individual, although he is actually married. [Early on] I would talk to my chief, my HM1, all these senior enlisted, Maher remembers, and say, Check this out, my son is doing this stuff, does that make sense to you? And they would go, Oh my God, hes barely touching the surface.. VET Tv was founded by Donny OMalley in June 2016 and is based in San Diego, California. I'm fucked up. That closes the bridges. Don O'Malley. Why? They have loyalty to the Ranger flag, the Airborne flag, or the Rakkasan flag, or the 10th Mountain flag. DO: Nobody will disagree with this statement. If they did that more without throwing it in the faces of everyone else that they're a veteran, that would make a powerful statement. Chris Brown? Born Daniel Maher Jr. in 1983 in Queens, N.Y., to a military family (his father was a Marine officer, before he went to medical school and became a physician in the Navy), OMalley grew up enraptured by war epics like Born on the Fourth of July, Hamburger Hill and Platoon., These are all atrocious Vietnam movies, he laughs from a couch in a break room adjacent to what clearly used to be a kennel while the production takes lunch. His account name will be u/vet_tv_ and will be flaired as an official account.Feel free to ask any questions you may have and if you aren't subscribed to Vet TV you should check it out. Well, I can fucking raise awareness over veteran suicide." His father was a Marine infantry officer before serving for several. It sucks that this is turning into just a Muslim thing because it's not all Muslims. DO: When I first started writing the book (Embarrassing Confessions of a Marine Lieutenant: Operation Branding Iron) I did it because I knew I could make people laugh with it. DO: Afghanistan was my dream. It's easy to spread because it's spreading in areas that are very poor with no jobs. The various branches were represented by kids just slightly older than me, ready to experience their own edition of what I was about to go through. Donna Omalley. What needs to be done is at the center of Vet Tv programming. I get the chills thinking about it because the cowardice I speak of is an officer's inability to hold other officers accountable. The only ones you see that from are the fucking Army Rangers, Airborne, and the infantry units. However, throughout the course of my commitment to this project, I've become very good friends with a lot of Marines. And some of em are Oliver Stone, whos super antiwar. We basically learned through Google and YouTube while working in the company., Production coordinator Turner Fair, who is one of the few full-time staff members who didnt serve in the military and who would later be seen in costume as a rapper with a fake tattoo of a penis on his neck, joined because of those DIY ideals. The service, which has more than 50,000 subscribers at a rate of $5 a month, is marketed directly to members and veterans of the armed forces, particularly the extensive, web-savvy, post-9/11 generation. DO: It's really hard to identify my most memorable experience post-service. Instead of reading about some fucking piece of shit, no-name loser in Enquirer is doing with their lives, who was in one good movie I want to read about what Mat Best, JT, Rocco, Drew Hernandez (A Combat Veteran), and Rudy Reyes are doing. I talk about this a lot with other veterans, because I want to improve mental health, and talk through the frustration of knowing that my buddy just blew his legs off, and my other buddies just got shot, and my other buddies just died, for what? Like when a Captain is being a fucking idiot or when a Major or Lt. A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? DO: We popped two IEDs in one day. [11], List of VET Tv's original television series and episodes:[12], VET Tv's mission statement is to make entertainment that recreates and parodies the military experience in order to promote camaraderie and prevent veteran suicide.[13]. There were bombs going off in New York that day. Donald Omalley. Vet Tv is a streaming on-demand video subscription. Start accepting responsibility and take action to fucking fix the problem. Big deal (laughs)." On military message boards there is vocal disapproval from those who label it as boot, or immature (I thought I would like it, but it just comes off as a little cringy to be honest, says one user in the Veterans subreddit). I've been watching some of the vetTV stuff and and supporter of the silkie hikes, and he seems like a pretty chill guy. So everyone listening, "Stop posting thirsty fucking pictures on Facebook and get out there and fucking volunteer. And what does the community do? Then he became the Director of Medical Services at Balboa Hospital which was filled, for the last fifteen years, with blown up Marines and soldiers. It was cool being one of the oldest guys in my platoon. He really just didn't want his son to be one of the thousands of casualties in his hospital. Because some fucking officer in their command said they needed to maintain their presence in that area. Donald Omalley. Any officer that doesn't know that or doesn't think that's going on is a fucking tool. I love it. I knew there was a Marine Corps officer there though and I wanted to see the veteran side of that officer. A lot of the problem within the military is getting people to think like adults versus frat boys. The Corps is god. All of them are pieces of shit. After that happened it was like, "Nah, fuck this place." I remember as we were running I'd purposely trip guys in front of me and push them. Surgeries really fucked me. Trending. So are we going to do [brownface] again? After going to college at San Diego State, OMalley, against his fathers protests, became a Marine officer himself, eventually deploying in two tours, one of them in Afghanistan. There was joy in the stands, with his teammates, and obviously with me as the coach. I spent a lot of time with this kid just teaching him basic shit and he ended up scoring the last point of a game at the buzzer. No. They are very loyal to the project and have been some of the quickest to get behind me and my work. She has been married two times, has a daughter, and is currently in a long-term relationship with a new guy. Removing this book will also remove your associated ratings, reviews, and reading sessions. So how many Marines lost their lives or were injured horribly because some officer wanted their name on an operation? It has to come from them. And with veteran suicide at an epidemic rate of at least 17 a day, Vet Tv is also built on the belief that there is good to be done in the process of capturing this specific audience. That, from my viewpoint, is what needs to happen if we want to un-fuck this racial shit we have going on right now. A lot of guys saw a lot more tragedy than I saw, and their brains are not better than they were before. It's extremist factions of Islam. I'm pretty sure they targeted our route because it was on our route even though we hadn't posted our route. That's the most simple answer that I can give. He describes the experience of fighting to establish bases in Helmand province only to watch the bases immediately be retaken by the Taliban as soon as the U.S. tried to hand them off to local forces: As were still there, [the Taliban are] taking over! he says. The Brunswick character, whose first official appearance came in a 2017 episode of the webseries Kill, Die, Laugh titled Transgender Drill Instructor, is, ostensibly, a transgender woman, but the effect is deliberately extreme: OMalley, a Marine Corps vet, protrudes wildly from the dress with the build of someone who appears able to lift a small car. You may have heard the term A Marines Marine. If you read this blog youll have a better understanding of just what that is. A veteran who is dealing with mental issues and is on the same brink as those others, their reaction is to kill themselves. But now this is a movement that's seen as acceptable. He wasn't doing shit! I've been using those experience to help these organizations I've created and started running. I saw their experience and thought it was fucking awesome. My goal is to develop the ability to continue playing that character in a manner that transgender people who have felt that pain [of discrimination] can appreciate, he says. You go to some of the less poor parts of Africa like Tanzania where it's like 60/40 Christian to Muslim and they live happily with each other; because they have jobs and food. Don't be a Marine. I said, "Government, Marine Corps, DOD, this is what you can do to facilitate communication amongst veterans of the same unit." I thought to myself, "I know this book is going to be read by thousands of people and I'm going to have their attention. Donny doesnt care about that. I need to make sure that message is never lost. You are so fucking ignorant to the fact that 90% of black men are killed by black men. They were dealing with mental issues and their reaction was to fucking kill everyone else. I dont know that there is anything that can be done with the character, because the character is a caricature and being played by a cisgender person and in and of itself is problematic, she says. Donny O'Malley (born Daniel Peter Maher) grew up in Queens, New York, with the military in his Irish-Catholic blood. The material is extremely crass: Almost none of it could be aired on a channel like Comedy Central, and the platforms movie, A Grunts Life, was rejected from Amazon for being too offensive. The staff says its crude sense of humor is reflective of a large portion of the military whether civilians would understand it or not. His concentration, dedication, and hard work have assisted him to get this position. . We have to recreate our sense of community and that's what Irreverent Warriors has set out to do. Meanwhile, there were tons of other people that saw it too. If they had a better quality of life, they'd be less likely to be infected by this virus. The hardest part, for one, is that the ideology is like a virus and the virus is rapidly spreading because it's easy to spread. Check out Irreverent Warriors on Facebook. That's where a fucking bomb went off, and yet the day was flawless. The ceremony yesterday continued the O'Malley family's legal dynasty. Ive heard things I would never repeat to a civilian in those hallowed inner circles. We made our sacrifice; we dont owe anyone The campaign took in almost $300,000 $50,000 more than its targeted goal. It was such a joke. If you dont want to see inside the mind of a Marine, you probably shouldnt read this blog. Why? Seeing what we had the ability to create, plan, and execute on such a big stage was a really fucking humble experience. If you facilitate the connections between all those fucking people you reduce the number of suicides. A showcase for compelling storytelling from the Los Angeles Times. This is OMalleys father, Daniel Maher Sr. He asked me not to, Maher laughs, when asked if he calls his son Donny on set. I always knew that if I was their Platoon Commander I could take care of them. Fuck that. "MILITARY MAKEOVER: VET Tv (Veteran Television) Unveils a New, Modern Look & Grunt Style Collab", "At Vet Tv, 'don't expect anything to be politically correct, professional or honorable', "Marine vet creates VET Tv, the Comedy Central of the military", "Marines march in silkies to raise suicide awarness", "Does This Controversial TV Network For Vets Help Or Hurt Those Who Served? Passing through an unoccupied Devil Docs set, remnants of a recent shoot linger, with prop syringes and fake blood strewn across the counters. But, that right there was the best part of being a fucking Marine. They'd be trampled by the rest of the fucking platoon (laughs). You're around 150 men that you have the utmost love and respect for. I will crush Marine officers until the day I die for their selfish cowardice. The idea that trans people are simply men in dresses is a stereotype that is unhelpful, she says. He's always been that way and now he's doing it specifically for veterans and the result is a sense of community. Donny, a native of Queens, New York is the founder and CEO for VET Tv, also known as Veteran Television, a streaming video on demand (SVOD) channel that has often been referred to as the Comedy. If you are othering people, that makes things more difficult., Asked about the misogyny in past Vet Tv skits, OMalley who has responded defiantly to such questions in the past now expresses remorse: Thats all my mistake, he sighs. I was like, "No dad, I know exactly what I'm getting into. Something went wrong with your request. How do I know this? For more information, please see our He was like, "Look trust me. That was the single most joyous moment of my life until I killed those fucking pieces of shit. Doesnt the military have [15] percent of our budget? In the warehouse of an abandoned animal shelter in Riverside, Donny OMalley is getting ready to reprise one of his most popular characters. I grew up in San Antonio (Military City USA) and I'm very proud of my service to the United States Army. How do I know? A lot of the Officer Corps genuinely thinks of itself as the way the recruitment posters look. What was the hardest part of Officer Candidate School (OCS)? When this happened in San Diego the media story was not that, "Man commits suicide by cop." Its one of those long-standing boys clubs none can understand unless theyve been a part of it. Fat fucks (laughs).". The first event that I threw was the first Silkies Hike which then blew up all over the country. I get what hes trying to do, but its hard to watch it and not think of it as being anything other than really offensive, says Col. Don Christensen, former chief prosecutor of the Air Force and president of Protect Our Defenders, an organization dedicated to eradicating rape and sexual assault in the military.