{"id":30623,"date":"2012-07-03T17:42:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30623"},"modified":"2012-07-03T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T01:30:10","slug":"ken-aden-the-final-nail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30623","title":{"rendered":"Ken Aden; the final nail"},"content":{"rendered":"

JD from Professional Soldiers<\/a> sent us the final nail for Ken Aden’s coffin. Ken Aden<\/a> you might remember is\/was the Democrat candidate for Congress in Arkansas’ 3rd CD who had a perfectly honorable military career, but felt like he needed to lie and tell his prospective constituents that he was a “Green Beret”. Well, it seems that the Special Warfare Center got tired of all of his BS excuses and accusations that they didn’t know what they were doing, so they rescinded the orders he’s been flashing around with this explanation;<\/p>\n

Sir:<\/p>\n

Ken Aden attended and was selected during the Special Forces Assessment and Selection, Class 1-08, which ran Oct. 17, 2006 to Nov. 9, 2006. There he was selected for attendance to the Special Forces Qualification Course. He subsequently attended and completed the Warrior Leader Course, Class 5-07 April 26, 2007. Aden entered the SF Medical Sergeant Training June 12, 2007; however, he failed to meet the standards of the course and removed from the course on Oct. 9, 2007 for academic reasons. He completed Survival, Evasion, Resistance and escape training Sept. 16, 2007. He entered the 18B Weapons Sergeant Course, Class 8-07, and was recycled to Class 1-08 for academic reasons. He began Class 1-08 on Oct. 16, 2007 and was relieved from the course April 29, 2008 after failing twice to pass the Light Weapons Exam and Hands-on Mortar Exam.<\/p>\n

On June 12, 2008, an erroneous order was issued by the Installation Management Command awarding him the 18B military occupational specialty. After national media attention brought the orders to light, a thorough review of Aden\u2019s records was performed and a subsequent revocation order was issued rescinding the 18B MOS, Order 164-89 on July 3, 2012.<\/p>\n

Please see attached order. Note: the blocks are a redaction of Aden\u2019s personally identifiable information.<\/p>\n

V\/R
\nJanice Burton
\nDeputy
\nOffice of Strategic Communications<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a copy of the orders with his PII redacted;
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There are now questions being raised about his involvement in his not-for-profit, Citizens4Change, and it seems he was campaigning under an alias<\/a> while he was in Ohio, not a very good alias, Ken Wade (his middle name), but an alias, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

A former Aden supporter emails us;<\/p>\n

He basically dropped out of the sky into Dayton, tried to get C4C off the ground, then hit the ‘eject’ button in May 10. Then he starts ‘Residents4Arkansas’ sometime in the fall of ’10. <\/p>\n

I am well acquainted personally with Aden. I was a loyal supporter and a [redacted] for his campaign until [a few] months ago when I ran across the alias he used in Dayton. He gave me a lame ass excuse which I didn’t buy for a second. Then, another former staffer and I got together and started comparing notes… by the end of the meeting with him… I knew Aden was a complete fraud. <\/p>\n

As a [redacted] Vet, I share your disdain for people of Aden’s ilk. I saw the MOS months ago and thought it rather odd. After the other staffer and I met and compared the stories he had been told and the ones I had been told… we both knew we had made the right decision by resigning. Aden told me that he had completed GB training when I joined the campaign in Oct last year. Virtually everything the guy said was total bullshit. <\/p>\n

I tried to alert ‘the powers that be’ here […] months ago, but I was not listened to and told it was ‘nonsense.’ I feel vindicated but at the same time I feel that I and a lot of other people were conned. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Arkansas needs to run away from this clown.<\/p>\n

ADDED:<\/strong> Notice that the orders making him an 18B were cut after he left the JFKSWC, so he knew they were illegitimate the moment they were cut. Aden also convinced his platoon leader, who happened to be a Sergeant First Class to write him a letter to support his claim that he was an 18B. That Sergeant First Class has since retracted that statement on SOCNET after he discovered that his letter wasn’t being used for legitimate purposes. By the way, his campaign, when they released the letter, told the public that it was written by Aden’s “commanding officer” to give the letter more weight and to fool Aden’s perspective constituents. I thought I should add all of that for some more perspective on the candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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