{"id":21889,"date":"2011-01-14T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21889"},"modified":"2011-01-14T17:47:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T21:47:35","slug":"phony-marine-wins-vegas-trip-and-two-glocks-for-his-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21889","title":{"rendered":"Phony Marine wins Vegas trip and two Glocks for his fairy tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bs-md-military-fraud-20110114,0,1108486.story\">every-**cking-where<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After being struck in the face and head by shrapnel while on patrol in Iraq in 2005, Aaron Joshua Lawless performed first aid on a fellow injured soldier and returned fire to the enemy from a damaged gun before being struck by an improvised explosive device, later winning a Purple Heart and Silver Star for his bravery.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s how Lawless recounted his time in Iraq to his employer, a Maryland gun store, and the Glock gun company, which decided to honor Lawless as their 2008 &#8220;Glock Hero,&#8221; awarding the 25-year-old and his wife a paid trip to Las Vegas, two Glock guns and a crystal glass trophy, a package worth $3,505.91.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Lawless did serve in the Marines, according to his military records \u2014 but for 35 days, discharged in June 2003 for not disclosing an injury to his right knee before joining the force, the affidavit said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t end with the tale, Lawless went on to claim that he earned four Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and two Bronze Star Medals and the VFW recommended him to his employer, Atlantic Guns in Silver Spring, MD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re every-**cking-where; After being struck in the face and head by shrapnel while on patrol in &hellip; <a title=\"Phony Marine wins Vegas trip and two Glocks for his fairy tale\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21889\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony Marine wins Vegas trip and two Glocks for his fairy tale<\/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-21889","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\/21889","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=21889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}