{"id":35373,"date":"2013-05-01T08:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35373"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T14:55:44","slug":"tina-kersten-makes-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35373","title":{"rendered":"Tina Kersten makes the news (Video added)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/embed\/iframe?aspect_ratio=3x2&#038;auto_next=1&#038;auto_start=0&#038;page_count=5&#038;pf_id=9501&#038;pl_id=20531&#038;rel=3&#038;show_title=0&#038;va_id=4039396&#038;volume=8&#038;windows=1\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woai.com\/content\/troubleshooters\/story\/Stolen-Valor-part-two-Tale-of-Tina-Kersten\/-ALmW8RmxU2ICvaCvFCh7w.cspx\">Jaie Avila at WOAI <\/a>in San Antonio did his second part of his Stolen Valor report last night. We&#8217;re still waiting for them to post the video, because I want to watch the Weeble waddle out of range of the camera, but the print story is posted;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cShe wears a uniform that&#8217;s kind of a hodge-podge of several different units, worn improperly and just scammed a bunch of people around town,\u201d says Vietnam veteran Stephen Mellenthin.  <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The real clincher was Kersten&#8217;s heart-breaking story about how she got her Purple Heart and Silver Star medals.  She claimed to have been wounded in the scud missile attack that killed 29 U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia in 1991.  Kersten said her commanding officer died in her arms, and she rescued wounded survivors from the barracks.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a movie script.  However, Kersten&#8217;s military record, which we obtained through an open records request, shows a very different storyline.<\/p>\n<p>No purple heart.  No combat medals.  No time spent in any war zone.  Just three years active duty as a food service specialist.  The chilling account of the scud missile attack and her commanding officer&#8217;s death were all make-believe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how she infiltrated the VFW with her incredible lies and shitbag uniform. From her records, it looks as though she failed out of MP training and then got sent to cook school, not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that. But the folks killed in that SCUD attack were members of the Pennsylvania Army Reserve unit, so how could she have even been there?<\/p>\n<p>But the article mentions that the VFW commander was removed for allowing her in and that the post was inactive for a spell after she admitted that she had lied. But Stolen Valor is a victimless crime.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the video is posted, I&#8217;ll put it up. Jaie has been good about sending us the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jaie Avila at WOAI in San Antonio did his second part of his Stolen &hellip; <a title=\"Tina Kersten makes the news (Video added)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35373\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tina Kersten makes the news (Video added)<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373","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=35373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}