{"id":29385,"date":"2012-04-04T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T10:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29385"},"modified":"2012-04-04T06:22:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T10:22:41","slug":"1sg-camacho-is-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29385","title":{"rendered":"1SG Camacho is a fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me this video on Facebook last night of a guy claiming to be First Sergeant Brian Comacho. You can see he&#8217;s wearing First Sergeant rank on his jacket;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/39127639?byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/39127639\">&#8220;1st Sgt. Camacho, USMC&#8221; is a fraud<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/rubiofilms\">Rubio Films<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/39127639\">&#8220;1st Sgt. Camacho, USMC&#8221; is a fraud<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/rubiofilms\">Rubio Films<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video was produced by a group calling themselves &#8220;Wounded Minds&#8221; who also flew Camacho from Pennsylvania to Toronto for treatment for his PTSD. The video had 20,000 hits in the first day. Wounded Minds posted this picture of Camacho;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/militaryminds.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bryan1.png\" alt=\"Comacho\" width=\"501\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure most of you Marines had first sergeants whose pants cuffs were dragging on the floor. Or not. According to Vimeo, Marines came out in droves and said this guy was no first sergeant and that he was a complete fraud.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAll indications point to fraudulent criminal misrepresentation and is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Early unconfirmed reports indicate an arrest has been made. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryminds.ca\/first-sgt-camacho-is-a-fraud\/\">Military Minds<\/a> seems upset that they were too eager to find someone who will tell them what they wanted to hear;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are a community of soldiers and civilians dedicated to PTSD awareness. The statistics on this terrible condition is both sad and alarming. When we heard an alleged US Marine cry for help, we saw no borders and offered assistance immediately.<\/p>\n<p>If the allegations against the validity of the claims made in the video prove to be true we will make sure that the person(s) involved are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. All monies will be reimbursed completely or paid forward at your request.<\/p>\n<p>We are immediately implementing safeguards to prevent such unfortunate eventualities moving forward. Our grassroots movement is strong, but far from perfect. We rely on our community more than ever. Help us through this.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank the impassioned few who voiced their opinions and thank those who stand by our side during these difficult times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, that&#8217;s all well and good, but someone should have asked for some paperwork before they leaped in with both feet. I&#8217;m sure there will be more instances of fraud like this because, as with IVAW, the do-gooders need poster boys for their particular cause more than they need actual people suffering from PTSD. There&#8217;s money involved, so there will be malfeasance involved in the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me this video on Facebook last night of a guy claiming to be First &hellip; <a title=\"1SG Camacho is a fraud\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29385\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1SG Camacho is a fraud<\/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-29385","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\/29385","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=29385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}