{"id":34431,"date":"2013-03-06T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T14:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34431"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T14:27:09","slug":"soldier-smuggles-million-out-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34431","title":{"rendered":"Soldier smuggles $ million out of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/fayobserver.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/04\/1241261?sac=fo.military\">Fayetteville Observer<\/a> which tells the tale of 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Tonya Long who, in her job as a customs inspector in Afghanistan was able to smuggle out a million bucks that she and an unnamed cohort fleeced from the US government while it supported operations there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walker&#8217;s spokesman said Long and a co-conspirator, whose name is being kept secret, took the money in a double-billing kickback scheme. The co-conspirator collected the money and Long helped smuggle it to the United States in her customs inspector role, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonya Long betrayed her team and while other soldiers were fighting for our country, she was stealing money intended to support the mission,&#8221; Walker said in a news release. &#8220;Her conduct undermined her fellow soldiers and our nation&#8217;s reputation. This sentence demonstrates that conduct like this will not be tolerated.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2288758\/Female-soldier-30-smuggled-1MILLION-Afghanistan-deployment-spent-plastic-surgery-18-wheeler-truck.html\">UK&#8217;s Daily Mail<\/a> reports that she &#8220;spent the cash on plastic surgery, a vacation and an 18-wheeler truck and trailer&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston sends us a link to the Fayetteville Observer which tells the tale of 30-year-old Staff &hellip; <a title=\"Soldier smuggles $ million out of Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34431\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier smuggles $ million out of Afghanistan<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431","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=34431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}