{"id":29787,"date":"2012-05-02T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29787"},"modified":"2012-05-02T19:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T23:06:50","slug":"david-groves-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29787","title":{"rendered":"David Groves update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristen Moulton of the Salt Lake City Tribune, who wrote the first article that Average NCO sent us<\/a>, does some research and just published her report of that research<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The record, obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune through a Freedom of Information Act request, shows David Jennings Groves, now 67, entered the Army in Sante Fe, N.M., and spent two years, Dec. 7, 1962 to Dec. 9, 1964 at Fort Bliss in Texas.<\/p>\n

Afterward, he briefly was in the Army Reserves and then served in the Army National Guard from Dec. 29, 1964 to Nov. 11, 1996. His highest rank was specialist.<\/p>\n

Groves had Army training as an automotive repairman, and received standard commendations for a stateside soldier during the war: a National Defense Service Medal, and a marksman badge with rifle and carbine bars. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Groves, you may recall claimed he was in the 5th Special Forces when he was ambushed, was the sole survivor of his unit, and was imprisoned by the Viet Cong and NVA for six months until he escaped. Of course, he denies that Army records are correct, and, as we mentioned before<\/a>, he has hired a lawyer. But, what we really need to find out is how he got on the VA’s role of POWs, because you’ll remember we did an investigation last month<\/a> about the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and their internal review of POWs. They claimed that they discovered only two.<\/p>\n

On Groves, the VA won’t tell us how he got on the roles;<\/p>\n

The VA refused to answer questions about how the VA comes up with its list of former POWs to invite, how Groves came to be on the list, and whether he will be invited again.<\/p>\n

“Privacy laws prevent us from releasing any other information in connection with Mr. Groves,” the VA said in its statement, provided by spokesman James Brown.<\/p>\n

Schow said that while his department co-sponsors the luncheon, We have relied on the lists that the federal VA has.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They say that Groves never applied for benefits, but there must be more out there who have.<\/p>\n

Thanks to someone in Utah who dropped the link to the Trib article on our Fan Page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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