{"id":35199,"date":"2013-04-19T16:31:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35199"},"modified":"2013-04-19T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:36:40","slug":"revisiting-melanie-gutermuthmelanie-going-phony-grifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35199","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Melanie Gutermuth\/Melanie Going; phony grifter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost two years ago, Sporkmaster wrote<\/a> about Melanie Gutermuth, a scam artist who has been taking her nilitary service to the bank. Gutermuth has popped up again, this time in Tampa, FL, according to a veteran who ran into her recently. She goes by several names, but the one she’s going by in Tampa is Melanie Going. She has a long arrest record, as evidenced by these mugshots;<\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Back when she still had her looks, she established herself in the veteran community, like in 2010 when she somehow got the Military Officers of America Association<\/a> to include her in an article about the shabby treatment of women veterans. And she even somehow convinced a Whataburger to welcome her home from her deployment;<\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

She shows up at local military and veterans events with whatever uniform is appropriate, along with her medals and rank;<\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

So, what’s her real story? Her DD214;<\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

If that’s not good enough, her FOIA;<\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Her 2-1;<\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

It looks like she got recycled four times in Basic Training then got booted after four months, and then she joined ROTC. The word is that she got kicked out of ROTC because she couldn’t pass the PT test after several months of “trying” whatever that word means to her. <\/p>\n

Basically, it looks to me like she’s been banking on her fairly good looks (in pre-meth days) to get by and now she’s scamming veterans’ organizations. The vet who called us said that she was lobbying for women veterans in Washington, DC recently. I hope that was part of her scam and not something that she really did with her meth-ridden body. <\/p>\n

Now, she’s trying to glom onto a group of veterans in Tampa, supposedly, that’s how she gets her creds, and the guy I spoke with got suspicious and Sporkmaster’s post popped up as a top search result. SO I thought I’d add another with complete documentation, since most of SM’s post was links to the old POW Network.<\/p>\n

At her Military.com profile, she says she’s a member of the VFW along with all of her phony awards;<\/p>\n

\"Melanie<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

So, hopefully, someone will see this that can do something about all of this crap and get her to stop playing veteran in public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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