{"id":27959,"date":"2011-12-17T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27959"},"modified":"2011-12-17T09:14:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T13:14:05","slug":"robert-duft-super-sniper-pt-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27959","title":{"rendered":"Robert Duft, super sniper Pt. III"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robert<\/p>\n

We wrote about Robert Duft last month here<\/a> and here<\/a>. He claimed that he was a Special Forces sniper in Vietnam, that he’d had a high draft number at the age of 16 and enlisted when he was 17 and spent his 18th birthday in Vietnam. This is from the article about him in his local paper;<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecial Forces are the first in for any situation. We\u2019re intelligence gatherers, advisers. We go in covert; we don\u2019t want anyone to know we are there,\u201d Duft said. \u201cWe go in, get the job done, and get out without anyone knowing. Sometimes we stay behind enemy lines for months.\u201d<\/p>\n

He became a Green Beret in the early 1970s during the Vietnam War because of his precision in shooting firearms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, the good folks at POW Network<\/a> sent us his records this morning. If he was “in covert” he was so covert the Army didn’t even know that he was in the service let alone Vietnam;
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And all of those medals he’s displaying in that picture? The Army doesn’t know about them either;<\/p>\n

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He spent 10 1\/2 years and not the 22 1\/2 years he claimed he served. In fact, it looks like his career was cut short during the Reagan purge when enlistments went up and they started booting the portly soldiers for not making the weight and PT standards. That’s just a guess, of course, but I saw decorated Vietnam veterans get chaptered during the year he left the service, so that might explain the early end of his career.<\/p>\n

But he was a cannon-cocker for the first four years of his service and I’m pretty sure that Special Forces doesn’t have any organic howitzers that they can sneak in to their patrol bases. Then he spent the rest of his career as a supply clerk after a stint at Fort Lee, VA as a student.<\/p>\n

No service in Vietnam. A year at Fort Hood, a few years at Fort Campbell, KY, Korea, then Germany and back to Campbell.<\/p>\n

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His special training was a one-week armorer course, field sanitation and a piss test class. That would probably not equate to sniper training…except the piss test course, maybe. So he was an ADAC Ranger.<\/p>\n

Dick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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