{"id":122168,"date":"2022-01-23T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=122168"},"modified":"2022-01-23T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T15:12:41","slug":"derek-hamm-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122168","title":{"rendered":"Derek Hamm &#8211; The Rest of the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122169\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/derek-hamm.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122169 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/derek-hamm-221x333.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/derek-hamm-221x333.png 221w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/derek-hamm-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/derek-hamm.png 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Hamm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted about Derek Hamm<\/a> just the other day.\u00a0 We were reporting on a news story and did not do any investigation other than pull up his military service dates using SCRA.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the Guardians of the Green Beret have been looking into Hamm since 2017.\u00a0 They obtained his military records because the request was made pre-COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes cases are put on hold until a stronger case is built &#8211; mostly the gathering of evidence that the individual is making claims.\u00a0 However, when a news organization runs with it, and TAH merely &#8220;reports on the report&#8221; we are not subject to investigative scrutiny and can be quicker on our feet by merely offering pointers.<\/p>\n<p>So, the media was all over this &#8211; too many articles to list &#8211; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/guardiansofthegreenberet.com\/derek-hamm-green-beret-not?fbclid=IwAR2GsuoDsyrk_hPeqpl2TIaxYr6FQAy0EB0P2lY4Qn3bIaI-8dvSCpgnpD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardians of the Green Beret published this case<\/a> to put frosting on the proverbial cake.<\/p>\n<p>TAH was not aware of the Green Beret claims since the media did not mention them.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Hamm&#8217;s NPRC Summary Sheet obtained from the Guardians of the Green Beret.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_122171\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122171\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hamm-derek-foia.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-122171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hamm-derek-foia-258x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hamm-derek-foia-258x333.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hamm-derek-foia-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hamm-derek-foia-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/hamm-derek-foia.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NPRC FOIA Results &#8211; Derek Robert Hamm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We posted about Derek Hamm just the other day.\u00a0 We were reporting on a news story &hellip; <a title=\"Derek Hamm &#8211; The Rest of the Story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=122168\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Derek Hamm &#8211; The Rest of the Story<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":122172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122168","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=122168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}