{"id":22871,"date":"2011-04-07T17:58:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22871"},"modified":"2011-04-07T20:16:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:16:41","slug":"orma-commandant-is-phony-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22871","title":{"rendered":"ORMA commandant is phony Vietnam vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakridgemilitary.com\/\">Oak Ridge Military Academy<\/a> in North Carolina<a href=\" http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/NC-academy-head-suspected-of-posing-as-Vietnam-vet-1327270.php#ixzz1Is5fHzMe\"> discovered they had a phony soldier<\/a>, William Northrop, as a commandant after a student&#8217;s parent questioned his creds;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Northrop claimed in a 1992 book profiling veterans that he served as a Special Forces  officer in Vietnam and Laos and also saw duty with the Israeli military. He provided intimate stories about life in the war zone and told the author of &#8220;Saigon to Jerusalem&#8221; that the experience still haunted him. Oak Ridge&#8217;s archives, which Northrop helped develop, likewise say he served with the Army in Vietnam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Northrop and the school are engaged in a cover-up;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He refused to discuss his past or explain the discrepancies in his record to an Associated Press reporter. The academy&#8217;s president would not discuss Northrop&#8217;s background either.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How hard is it verify your employees&#8217; claims of former employment, especially as it relates to the job you hire them to fill? Especially when the previous employment is a matter of public record? And a dumbass like me can get records on pretenders. But, I&#8217;m hate these scumbags, but I hate their enablers even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oak Ridge Military Academy in North Carolina discovered they had a phony soldier, William Northrop, &hellip; <a title=\"ORMA commandant is phony Vietnam vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22871\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ORMA commandant is phony Vietnam vet<\/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-22871","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\/22871","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=22871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}