{"id":31642,"date":"2012-08-19T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31642"},"modified":"2019-01-25T03:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T07:01:35","slug":"andre-vergara-another-sullied-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31642","title":{"rendered":"Andre Vergara; another sullied record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the photo that someone sent us<\/a> (I can’t find the email, so I’m sorry that I can’t remember who it was) of Andres Vergara as he saluted during a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery last month at a service commemorating the armistice signing for the Korean War;<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center>The Military Times<\/a> ran a cropped photo with this narrative;<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center>So, it was the four combat parachute jumps that caught my attention. There were four combat jumps during the Korean War and they were conducted by 187th Airborne Combat Team. Not by the 79th Army Band;<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center>Try as I might, I couldn’t find a Korean Medal of Honor. I did, however, find Vergara’s Bronze Star medal citation, but it doesn’t mention saving any Korean orphans, strangely enough;<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center>And, oh, by the way, those Master Sergeant stripes he’s wearing? NPRC says he retired as a Specialist 7, not an E-8;<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center>Even more awards here;<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/center>I think he must’ve earned the CIB in Vietnam, since I see he was in an infantry battalion in the 82d during those years, but I don’t see where he attended jump school, and there are no jump wings in his records, so I guess we’ll give him that one, for now. I also see that he earned another Bronze Star for Merit in Vietnam as an interrogator. His 2-1 cuts off during the Vietnam War, so I’ll just give him stuff like the CIB, but all of that Korean War stuff is bogus, unless being a tuba player in the band means something different now than it did then.<\/p>\n

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