{"id":22227,"date":"2011-02-08T18:42:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22227"},"modified":"2011-02-08T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T22:45:02","slug":"skyler-whalen-ebay-recondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22227","title":{"rendered":"Skyler Whalen; Ebay Recondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of real Marines tracked down another pretend Marine named Skyler Whalen who claims to be a gunnery sergeant, but looks about twelve years old. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/01\/marine-fight-gunny-faker-in-arizona-012311w\/\">Marine Times <\/a>records some of their exploits;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like wildfire, a painstakingly researched PowerPoint presentation detailing Whalen\u2019s fantasies was e-mailed, posted, distributed and discussed on popular military forums and websites.<\/p>\n<p>Before long, \u201cGunny Whalen\u2019s\u201d Facebook and MySpace pages both vanished.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps confirmed in an e-mail that there is no record of Whalen, a teen who appears to live in Kingman, Ariz., a railroad town of 25,000 near the California border.<\/p>\n<p>Several calls to his family\u2019s home in Kingman were not returned and e-mails went unanswered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little disappointed that they didn&#8217;t email me, but better late than never, here&#8217;s the PowerPoint presentation;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px\" id=\"__ss_6190422\"><strong style=\"display:block;margin:12px 0 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ghostrider747\/skyler-whalen\" title=\"Skyler whalen\">Skyler whalen<\/a><\/strong><object id=\"__sse6190422\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=skylerwhalen-101216051255-phpapp01&#038;stripped_title=skyler-whalen&#038;userName=ghostrider747\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed name=\"__sse6190422\" src=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=skylerwhalen-101216051255-phpapp01&#038;stripped_title=skyler-whalen&#038;userName=ghostrider747\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:5px 0 12px\">View more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">presentations<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ghostrider747\">ghostrider747<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m always up for some phony soldier shit. These Facebook Rangers seem to be multiplying. I know I get a lot of hits from searches on how to fake a DD214.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of real Marines tracked down another pretend Marine named Skyler Whalen who claims to &hellip; <a title=\"Skyler Whalen; Ebay Recondo\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22227\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skyler Whalen; Ebay Recondo<\/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-22227","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\/22227","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=22227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}