{"id":36358,"date":"2013-06-22T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36358"},"modified":"2013-06-22T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T11:49:44","slug":"donald-atkinson-phony-ranger-in-oregon-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36358","title":{"rendered":"Donald Atkinson; phony Ranger in Oregon, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone found this article in which local businessman, Donald Atkinson, in Oregon, Illinois claimed to be an Army Ranger. I&#8217;m guessing that he figures it will drum him up some more business;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Atkinson\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess he is a Ranger if you think that the Army training program for a Heavy Vehicle driver at Fort Dix, is as grueling as Ranger School;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Atkinson FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Donald-Atkinson-FOIA.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>His FOIA says the he was discharged in November of 1974, the 1st Ranger Battalion wasn&#8217;t activated until August 1974 at Fort Benning, GA, then they moved to Fort Stewart, GA. According to Atkinson&#8217;s records, he was at Fort Carson, CO that month;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Atkinson assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Atkinson-assignments.jpg 732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone found this article in which local businessman, Donald Atkinson, in Oregon, Illinois claimed to be &hellip; <a title=\"Donald Atkinson; phony Ranger in Oregon, IL\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36358\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Atkinson; phony Ranger in Oregon, IL<\/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-36358","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\/36358","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=36358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}