{"id":29569,"date":"2012-04-18T09:15:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29569"},"modified":"2012-04-18T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T13:15:48","slug":"la-state-fire-marshall-retires-when-caught-in-phony-finery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29569","title":{"rendered":"LA State fire marshall retires when caught in phony finery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/templates\/belo_embedWrapper.js?storyid=147862345&#038;pos=top&#038;swfw=470\"><\/script><object id=\"bimvidplayer0\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowfullscreen\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\"\/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\"\/><param value=\"true\" name=\"cachebusting\"\/><param value=\"#000000\" name=\"bgcolor\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/swfs.bimvid.com\/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=WWLTV\" \/><param value=\"config=http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/?j=147862345&#038;ref=http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/news\/4investigates\/State-fire-marshal-retires-amid-investigation-into-wearing-unearned-military-medals-147862345.html\" name=\"flashvars\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/swfs.bimvid.com\/bimvid_player-3_2_7.swf?x-bim-callletters=WWLTV\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" cachebusting=\"true\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/?j=147862345&#038;ref=http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/news\/4investigates\/State-fire-marshal-retires-amid-investigation-into-wearing-unearned-military-medals-147862345.html\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" quality=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><script src=\"http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/templates\/belo_embedWrapper.js?storyid=147862345&#038;pos=bottom\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Louisiana state fire marshall State Fire Marshal Butch Browning  has been allowed to retire when he was spotted on several occasions wearing military medals on his uniform when it was confirmed that he never served in the military. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been informed that Mr. Browning never served in the military, yet he was wearing military ribbons awarded to every branch of the military service that span World War II, the Korean war and the Kosovo campaign,\u201d [Rafael Goyeneche, president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission] said. \u201cThat&#8217;s problematic.&#8221; From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/news\/4investigates\/State-fire-marshal-retires-amid-investigation-into-wearing-unearned-military-medals-147862345.html\">WWLTV4<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>Browning&#8217;s departure was announced in a press release Tuesday afternoon by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. The statement did not address the state investigation, simply stating that Browning was leaving for a job in the private sector.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Browning says he received the medals while he was a fire chief at another department and that he&#8217;s not aware of any investigation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wafb.com\/story\/17516322\/butch-browning-retires\">WAFB9<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State Fire Marshal Butch Browning retired from his job Tuesday effective immediately.   Browning says he is not the target of any investigation and resigned to take a job as a superintendent at a plant in Ascension Parish.  Browning says he received the job offer several months ago and it was &#8220;too good to pass up.&#8221;  Browning told 9NEWS he was not aware that the Inspector General has an ongoing investigation against the Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These shitbags are everywhere, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana state fire marshall State Fire Marshal Butch Browning has been allowed to retire when he &hellip; <a title=\"LA State fire marshall retires when caught in phony finery\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29569\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LA State fire marshall retires when caught in phony finery<\/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-29569","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\/29569","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=29569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}