{"id":28705,"date":"2012-02-11T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T13:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28705"},"modified":"2012-02-11T09:40:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T13:40:32","slug":"jacob-r-cruze-las-vegas-phony-colonel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28705","title":{"rendered":"Jacob R. Cruze, Las Vegas phony colonel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cruz2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cruz2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cruz2\" width=\"177\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28708\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at POW Network have another high-profile phony notch on their belt with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/phonies\/phonies214.htm\">Jacob R. Cruze<\/a>, who claims service in almost every conflict in recent memory, including three tours of Vietnam. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/army-vet-a-former-las-vegas-resident-charged-with-fraud-in-virginia-139136779.html?ref=779\">Las Vegas Review Journal<\/a>,  doubts were raised at a Ranger convention in LV; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2004 in Las Vegas, Cruze raised suspicions of former Army Rangers when he showed up at the Riviera for their annual conference wearing a dress-blue uniform bearing a colonel insignia and numerous ribbons and medals on his jacket. But when he was asked about his military career by attendees, his comments didn&#8217;t fit with events, locations and dates of military operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wading into a shark tank wearing a meat suit, I guess would be a good metaphor in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his actual records;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cruze1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cruze1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cruze1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-28706\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cruze2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/cruze2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cruze2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-28707\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, he was arrested in Virginia for using false documents to get special veterans&#8217; license plates, the weasel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at POW Network have another high-profile phony notch on their belt with Jacob R. &hellip; <a title=\"Jacob R. Cruze, Las Vegas phony colonel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28705\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jacob R. Cruze, Las Vegas phony colonel<\/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-28705","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\/28705","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=28705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}