{"id":36417,"date":"2013-06-27T08:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T12:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36417"},"modified":"2013-06-27T09:13:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T13:13:40","slug":"dillard-carnivore-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36417","title":{"rendered":"Dillard “Carnivore” Johnson (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several folk sent us the records of Dillard Jay Johnson, the deadliest man in the history of the world, or something. The records seem to be missing a couple of years, and his Silver Star;<\/p>\n

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His FOIA shows that he served until 2006, but his 2-1, or whatever they call it these days, seems to stop in 2004;<\/p>\n

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

But he is listed on the DoD website<\/a> as a recipient of the Silver Star;<\/p>\n

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

Oddly enough, his kills aren’t listed in his records. I know this won’t clear up any of that discussion, but there it is for what’s it’s worth.<\/p>\n

This is from a Christian Science Monitor<\/a> interview with Johnson;<\/p>\n

I spoke to Mr. Johnson after this story was first published. He says his new book doesn’t claim that he killed 2,746 enemy combatants or that he has 121 sniper kills. He says while those numbers are on the book jacket, and in HarperCollins’ publicity for the book, that the claim is never made in the text of the book and that it is inaccurate. He says he is not responsible for the publisher’s writing. The 2,746 number he says is his battlefield estimate of those killed by both him and the men he was fighting with. Johnson says the he did kill 121 enemy combatants on his second deployment to Iraq, with M4 and M14 rifles, and that the choice of the term “sniper” was because average readers don’t understand the difference between a marksman and a sniper. He says that Mr. Spaid could not have read the book, that Spaid’s claim that dismounts were extremely rare during the invasion are inaccurate, and that Spaid wasn’t in a position to speak to what Johnson witnessed and experienced. Johnson says that while he once gave an estimate that he’d perhaps fired 7,000 depleted uranium rounds from his Bradley during the invasion of Iraq that he gave that estimate to an interviewer while wounded and at Walter Reed hospital in 2003 and that it was only an estimate. He is uncertain about how many rounds were fired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, OK. He goes on to say that the story about cutting the wire is true, and he regrets that he didn’t correct the Fox & Friends interview about the number of “kills” he had. Whatever, dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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