{"id":37538,"date":"2013-09-11T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37538"},"modified":"2013-09-11T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:11:19","slug":"kent-alwood-phony-sf-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37538","title":{"rendered":"Kent Alwood; phony SF dude at Pipe Hitters Tactical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37540\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Alwood\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-467x333.jpg 467w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;ve been around any gathering of Vietnam vets, most will tell you that they were Special Forces. You&#8217;d never know that were regular ground pounders in the entire war. Here&#8217;s another one; Kent Alwood. In the introduction to this video, he tells you how he was in Vietnam, got called back into service for Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Np-ulwqlUBM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But his FOIA gives a very different view;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-FOIA-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Alwood FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-FOIA-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-FOIA-362x333.jpg 362w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-FOIA.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>His records say that he was awarded the CIB and the Purple Heart, but I guess that wasn&#8217;t good enough for him;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37541\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37541\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-2-1-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"Kent Alwood 2-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-2-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-2-1-500x284.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kent-Alwood-2-1.jpg 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his imaginary career in 20 seconds;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tU6MQD_5e6k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/professionalsoldiers.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=43363\">Professional Soldiers<\/a> sent us the paperwork on him and they say that he runs one of those countless hitman schools that have popped up around the country lately. Alwood&#8217;s is Pipe Hitters Tactical and here&#8217;s his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pipehitterstactical.com\/charter-members\/kent-alwood.html\">pretend bio<\/a>. He also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentalwood.com\/\">website<\/a> where he claims he fooled people into buying two books.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, no one would go to his school if he&#8217;d been truthful &#8211; well, that&#8217;s what he thinks. I wonder how many people want to attend a school taught taught by a liar. Pipe Packers or whatever is also on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PipeHittersTactical?ref=profile\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you&#8217;ve been around any gathering of Vietnam vets, most will tell you that they &hellip; <a title=\"Kent Alwood; phony SF dude at Pipe Hitters Tactical\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37538\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kent Alwood; phony SF dude at Pipe Hitters Tactical<\/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-37538","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\/37538","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=37538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}