{"id":178621,"date":"2026-01-23T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=178621"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:53:47","slug":"steve-robinson-seal-and-stolen-valor-warrior-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=178621","title":{"rendered":"Steve Robinson, SEAL and stolen valor warrior, passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_178622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178622\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-178622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Steve-Robinson-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Steve-Robinson-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Steve-Robinson-256x333.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Steve-Robinson.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Robinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Snake noted the recent passing of a friend in the stolen valor community. Steve Robinson has passed at the age of 75. Snake worked with him on a few phony SEAL cases. Steve was the OG outer of fake SEALs in the days before Don Shipley brought his glorious hair and sardonic wit into the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson was a Vietnam-era SEAL, who spent about nine years in the service, was a government contractor and naval reservist, then became a blacksmith. He literally wrote the book on fighting fake SEAL claims, publishing <em>No Guts, No Glory: Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters<\/em> in 2002. He was on the board of directors for the POW Network.<\/p>\n<p>Steve is survived by Sharon, his wife of 34 years, five children, 11 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/us\/obituaries\/name\/steve-robinson-obituary?id=60605832\">His obituary can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read more about Steve and how he got into the stolen valor game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksmu.org\/2014-05-21\/navy-seals-imposters-exposed-by-ozarks-resident\">KSMU wrote him up<\/a> some years back for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snake noted the recent passing of a friend in the stolen valor community. Steve Robinson has &hellip; <a title=\"Steve Robinson, SEAL and stolen valor warrior, passes away\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=178621\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Robinson, SEAL and stolen valor warrior, passes away<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":178622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,712],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy","category-seals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178621","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/178622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}