{"id":114529,"date":"2021-06-13T09:06:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114529"},"modified":"2021-06-13T09:23:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T13:23:48","slug":"blaine-campbell-green-beret-not-so-fast-says-the-guardians-of-the-green-beret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114529","title":{"rendered":"Blaine Campbell, Green Beret.  &#8216;Not So Fast&#8217; say the Guardians of the Green Beret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blaine_campbell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-114530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blaine_campbell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blaine_campbell.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blaine_campbell-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/blaine_campbell-248x333.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/guardiansofthegreenberet.com\/blaine-campbell-green-beret-not-so-fast?fbclid=IwAR0OGUaEAcx6HQ4nI5ILnVux_eC_WYcuZANZIXMfSj3rOfLDZAv_17HZfxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardians of the Green Beret<\/a> partnered with the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saf.org\/\">Second Amendment Foundation<\/a> for a case involving this Blaine Campbell fella.\u00a0 Blaine was formerly known as Blaine Hardwick, and according to the post, he falsely claimed to be a \u201cSpecial Forces Weapons Sergeant\u201d and \u201cGreen Beret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article broke here at <a href=\"https:\/\/thegunwriter.substack.com\/p\/stolen-valor-gunmaker-with-dod-contacts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gun Writer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were extensive investigative efforts put into this to obtain documentation, interview people and get Campbell&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell did attempt the Special Forces Qualification Course, but for was dropped from the course.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of his claims in his own words.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blaine Campbell, Green Beret? No so fast\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y4k-qFQpWp8?start=181&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-13T02:40:14-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y4k-qFQpWp8?start=181&amp;feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y4k-qFQpWp8&amp;t=181s\" data-author_name=\"Guardians of the Green Beret\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@guardiansofthegreenberet\" data-height=\"281\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Y4k-qFQpWp8\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Blaine Campbell, Green Beret? No so fast\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>There is a plethora of information related to this case that we&#8217;d encourage you to read.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the posted case at Guardians of the Green Beret at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/guardiansofthegreenberet.com\/blaine-campbell-green-beret-not-so-fast?fbclid=IwAR0OGUaEAcx6HQ4nI5ILnVux_eC_WYcuZANZIXMfSj3rOfLDZAv_17HZfxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/guardiansofthegreenberet.com\/blaine-campbell-green-beret-not-so-fast?fbclid=IwAR0OGUaEAcx6HQ4nI5ILnVux_eC_WYcuZANZIXMfSj3rOfLDZAv_17HZfxg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardians of the Green Beret partnered with the\u00a0Second Amendment Foundation for a case involving this &hellip; <a title=\"Blaine Campbell, Green Beret.  &#8216;Not So Fast&#8217; say the Guardians of the Green Beret\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114529\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blaine Campbell, Green Beret.  &#8216;Not So Fast&#8217; say the Guardians of the Green Beret<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":114531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[617,616],"class_list":["post-114529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none","tag-fake-green-beret","tag-phony-green-beret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114536,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114529\/revisions\/114536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}