{"id":2023,"date":"2008-07-08T17:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2008-07-08T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:14:23","slug":"brit-phony-soldier-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Brit phony soldier busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doubleplusundead.mee.nu\/who_lies_fails\" target=\"_blank\">Doubleplusundead<\/a> emailed me this hilarious story of a middleaged British cadet instructor who bragged up his career on his MySpace page (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lep.co.uk\/news\/Sham-war-hero-caught-out.4264971.jp\">Lancashire Evening Post<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Mr McAuley, an adult instructor in the Lancashire Army Cadet Force, based at Fulwood Barracks, Preston, claimed that he had been a paratrooper at the battle of Goose Green in the Falklands War and that he was the second SAS man on the balcony of the London Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>In fact married Mr McAuley, who lives in Chorley, used to serve in the Army Catering Corps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest at <a href=\"http:\/\/doubleplusundead.mee.nu\/who_lies_fails\" target=\"_blank\">DPUD&#8217;s house<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As DPUD said, I respect his real service, which was honorable enough until now, but that&#8217;s quite a leap to go from a cook to SAS trooper. Even before the war, I used to run into all kinds of fake heroes which makes me suspicious of many of the IVAW&#8217;s claims.\u00a0 All military service is honorable, don&#8217;t besmirch your own service with outlandish tales.<\/p>\n<p>Did I ever tell you about the time I was a door gunner on the Space Shuttle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubleplusundead emailed me this hilarious story of a middleaged British cadet instructor who bragged up his &hellip; <a title=\"Brit phony soldier busted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2023\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brit phony soldier busted<\/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-2023","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\/2023","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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}