{"id":36530,"date":"2013-07-08T06:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36530"},"modified":"2013-07-08T06:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:35:27","slug":"vet-hunger-strikes-to-prevent-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36530","title":{"rendered":"Vet hunger strikes to prevent deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dean sends us a link to the Military.com<\/a> article about John E. Ferron, who Military.com calls a “Jamaica-born Vietnam veteran being held at the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona awaiting deportation” and to protest his deportation, he’s on a hunger strike. Well, as you read along in the story, he’s not a Vietnam veteran. He joined the Navy in late 1974 after he was ordered to be deported earlier in the year, which means that he finished his training at about the same time the Vietnam War ended. The awarding of the National Defense Service Medal for Vietnam Era veterans ended in August 1974. <\/p>\n

So Ferron, joined the Navy under an assumed named after he was ordered deported. the article doesn’t say whether he was honorably discharged or not, so let’s just assume that he was discharged under honorable conditions. He joined after he was ordered deported and didn’t use his real name. The article goes on to say that he was homeless and destitute at the time that he was apprehended. So why wasn’t the VA taking care of him. Well, he had a rather unsavory career after his discharge, according to the article;<\/p>\n

He continued to use the Steele name as late as 2005-2006. His conviction in 2008 on Social Security fraud, passport fraud, identity theft and aggravated identity theft not only got him three years in jail but resulted in the VA stripping him of his benefits after the Navy said it would no longer recognize his service.<\/p>\n

King concedes that Ferron is not a sympathetic case because he has had multiple run-ins with the law, though she believes much of that may be attributed to mental illness related to the head-trauma and PTSD.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, apparently everyone who went through basic training, whether they completed it or not, suffers from PTSD, I suppose, I mean that’s everyone’s excuse these days. He needs to go back to Jamaica because we’re all stocked up with crazy here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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