{"id":18481,"date":"2010-04-08T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18481"},"modified":"2010-04-08T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:04:58","slug":"phony-seal-gets-a-year-of-snorkeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18481","title":{"rendered":"Phony SEAL gets a year of snorkeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barnhart-thomas-james.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18482 aligncenter\" title=\"barnhart-thomas-james\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/barnhart-thomas-james.jpg\" alt=\"barnhart-thomas-james\" width=\"264\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16541\">Thomas Barnhart back in January<\/a> when he finally admitted after 40 years that he isn&#8217;t really a SEAL According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/2010\/04\/navy_barnhart_fraud_seal_040810w\/\">Navy Times<\/a>, he earned himself a year in the hoosegow;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A retired Coast Guard chief warrant officer 2 who falsely claimed to be a decorated and combat-hardened SEAL was sentenced to a year in prison Thursday and ordered to repay $11,098 in veterans\u2019 benefits he fraudulently received.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/phonies\/phonies1150.htm\">our buddies at POW Net<\/a> who busted him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The case against him began when Mary Schantag of the POW Network got wind of the bogus claims. Her investigation led to the Virginia state attorney\u2019s office looking into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 25, 2008, Barnhart admitted his DD 214 was altered, and that he was neither a SEAL nor a combat veteran. By that time, Barnhart had received $13,923 for his fraudulent PTSD claim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Just A Grunt for the update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about Thomas Barnhart back in January when he finally admitted after 40 years that &hellip; <a title=\"Phony SEAL gets a year of snorkeling\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18481\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony SEAL gets a year of snorkeling<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}