{"id":18917,"date":"2010-05-02T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18917"},"modified":"2010-05-02T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T16:52:40","slug":"dave-airhart-oldie-but-goodie-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18917","title":{"rendered":"Dave Airhart; Oldie but goodie phony"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guy has been on the loose for at least five years, but the NPRC finally answered a POW Net<\/a> FOIA request over three years old on Dave Airhart. His main claim to fame while a student at Kent State was quoted in this reprint of a Stan<\/a> Goff (CounterPunch) article;<\/p>\n

\n

I spent 4 months in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and 6 months in Iraq and 7 months in Afghanistan, so I have a pretty well rounded perspective of everything that’s going on in this war on terror.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In another interview with Counterpunch<\/a>, Airhart said;<\/p>\n

\n

I was in the Marine Corps Infantry. I learned absolutely nothing of value in the rest of the world. I learned how to shoot guns and how to get yelled at a lot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, not according to the NPRC;
\n
\n\"airhart-foia-reponse\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He’s never been in the Marines or Reserves. Of course, no one at CounterPunch bothered to find that out before they published this defense of him against Kent State<\/a>. And none of people who sent him letters of support for the first article bothered either. Such luminaries as Cindy Sheehan, Camilo Mejia<\/a> (ED of IVAW at the time) and Ward Reilly<\/a>. Who cares if he’s really a veteran as long as he says what they want him to say.<\/p>\n

Other than the Mejia’s letter of support, I found no Airhart connection to IVAW.<\/p>\n

I was forwarded an email that described an encounter with Airhart in the past few years;<\/p>\n

\n

During a question period, he challenged the story of one of our Iraq vets about interacting with the locals. Our vet on stage asked him if he had been to Iraq to which he answered “Yes”. Our vet then asked him if he was junior enlisted, to which he answered “What”? Asked again if he was junior enlisted, he basically answered that he didn’t understand the question. Our vet then challenged him by asking very clearly, “What was your rank, Marine”? At that point he said he didn’t have to answer the question.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So his coaching has been very superficial.<\/p>\n

And, oh, yeah, a CA DA let him slide on a misdemeanor charge because he said was deploying to Iraq.<\/p>\n

\"airhart-arrest\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy has been on the loose for at least five years, but the NPRC finally … Dave Airhart; Oldie but goodie phony<\/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":[8,37,30,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917","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=18917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}