{"id":161699,"date":"2024-10-04T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=161699"},"modified":"2024-10-03T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:30:07","slug":"a-utah-national-guard-sergeant-major-interfered-with-snooping-chinese-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=161699","title":{"rendered":"A Utah National Guard sergeant major interfered with snooping Chinese nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chinese-owned-farmland-in-the-United-States.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-161700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chinese-owned-farmland-in-the-United-States-300x205.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chinese-owned-farmland-in-the-United-States-300x205.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chinese-owned-farmland-in-the-United-States-486x333.jpeg 486w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Chinese-owned-farmland-in-the-United-States.jpeg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five Chinese nationals were confronted by a Utah National Guard sergeant major after midnight. They were at Camp Grayling where thousands of servicemembers were conducting summer training. The Chinese nationals told the sergeant major that they were &#8220;press&#8221; and then they proceeded to collect their belongings to depart. These individuals subsequently lied about this event when interviewed by border officials.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Associated Press:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In summer 2023, the five were confronted after midnight near a lake by a sergeant major with the Utah National Guard. One said, &#8220;We are media,&#8221; before they collected their belongings and agreed to leave the area, the FBI said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI learned that the men had booked a room at a nearby motel a week before they were spotted outside Camp Grayling, 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Four months later, one of the men was interviewed by border officers at the Detroit airport before traveling to South Korea and China. He told investigators that he and others had taken a trip to northern Michigan &#8220;to see shooting stars,&#8221; the FBI said.<\/p>\n<p>A check of his external hard drive revealed two images of military vehicles taken on the same night of the encounter with the National Guard officer, the FBI said.<\/p>\n<p>The other four men were interviewed last March after arriving in Chicago on a flight from Iceland. They acknowledged being in northern Michigan in August 2023, but they said it was to see a meteor shower, the FBI said.<\/p>\n<p>They mentioned the National Guard officer but referred to him only as &#8220;the soldier,&#8221; a camper or &#8220;nice guy,&#8221; according to the criminal complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White, E. (2024, October 2). 5 Chinese nationals charged with covering up midnight visit to Michigan military site. <em>Associated Press<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chinese-students-michigan-military-camp-0f757785eb5eecb9e92ac89f99e96c2d\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Chinese nationals were confronted by a Utah National Guard sergeant major after midnight. They were &hellip; <a title=\"A Utah National Guard sergeant major interfered with snooping Chinese nationals\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=161699\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Utah National Guard sergeant major interfered with snooping Chinese nationals<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,387,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-international-affairs","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161699","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}