{"id":23333,"date":"2011-05-11T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23333"},"modified":"2011-05-11T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:30:53","slug":"seal-clubbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23333","title":{"rendered":"SEAL clubbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_SEAL_SLEUTHS?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2011-05-11-06-54-56\">Stars &#038; Stripes\/Associated Press<\/a> writes about some of our friends today &#8211; the guys who expose phoney SEALs. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A retired Navy SEAL from Virginia who devotes much of his time to outing the phonies said he&#8217;s receiving 40 to 50 inquiries a day from people suspicious of claims by friends, neighbors or colleagues who say they&#8217;re SEALs. Their doubts are usually confirmed with just a few checks.<\/p>\n<p>The Naval Special Warfare Command also receives a steady stream of inquiries about possible SEALs, the vast majority of which are debunked, said Lt. Cate Wallace, spokeswoman for the command in California.<\/p>\n<p>And Larry Bailey, a retired SEAL from Chocowinity, N.C., estimates he and friends who are former SEALs have exposed 35,000 phonies through the years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were about 500 SEALs that operated in Vietnam, and I&#8217;ve met all 20,000 of them,&#8221; Waterman joked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, I just contacted Larry Bailey the other day when one of you sent me a link to a guy who claimed to be a SEAL. Captain Bailey confirmed the guy was legit saving us some embarrassment. That&#8217;s happened several times over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes\/Associated Press writes about some of our friends today &#8211; the guys who expose &hellip; <a title=\"SEAL clubbers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23333\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SEAL clubbers<\/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-23333","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\/23333","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=23333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}