{"id":27708,"date":"2011-11-29T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27708"},"modified":"2011-11-29T09:12:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T13:12:59","slug":"cop-faked-ged-and-medals-for-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27708","title":{"rendered":"Cop faked GED and medals for Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Chase, a Cape Coral, FL police officer was forced to resign when it was discovered that he had faked his GED completion, and now, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/article\/20111129\/NEWS0101\/311290021\/Ex-Cape-Coral-police-officer-s-military-honors-doubt?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home\">News-Press<\/a> uncovers the fact that he had lied to them two years ago in an interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a 2009 interview, Stephen Chase told The News-Press he had received two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, among the nation\u2019s highest combat decorations, during tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The National Guard, however, said no documentation exists for the three medals or of Chase being deployed to Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me make this clear for the phonies out there, honorable service is sufficient. You sully your otherwise stellar military career when you make shit up. You shit on the rest of us who didn&#8217;t have the opportunity to do anything heroic or particularly valorous. We&#8217;re proud of our service regardless. Free speech, my pink, pimpled ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Chase, a Cape Coral, FL police officer was forced to resign when it was discovered &hellip; <a title=\"Cop faked GED and medals for Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27708\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cop faked GED and medals for Iraq<\/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-27708","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\/27708","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=27708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}