{"id":37751,"date":"2013-09-27T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37751"},"modified":"2013-09-27T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:24:32","slug":"contract-killer-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37751","title":{"rendered":"Contract killer vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=37752\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37752\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Rambo-Hunter.jpg\" alt=\"Rambo Hunter\" width=\"280\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37752\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pinto Nag, Green Thumb and Gregg all sent us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/09\/27\/20721219-team-of-contract-killers-led-by-ex-soldier-rambo-busted-prosecutors-say?lite\">NBC<\/a> in regards to a contract killer and veteran,  Joseph &#8220;Rambo&#8221; Hunter, I guess he gave himself the &#8220;Rambo&#8221; nickname. What a moron. He took a contract for a hit on a DEA agent from folks he thought were drug cartel members, but DEA agents themselves. Rambo had a team of four including another US Army guy and two Germans and a Pole.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cabal went to Thailand in March, the African nation of Mauritius in April, and the Bahamas in June to perform surveillance and soon signed on for a more nefarious undertaking: the murder of a law-enforcement officer, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter enlisted two of the men, German sniper Dennis &#8220;Nico&#8221; Gogel and U.S. Army veteran Timothy &#8220;Tay&#8221; Vamvakias for what he called a &#8220;bonus job&#8221; \u2014 a plot to murder a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and an informant in Liberia for $800,000.<\/p>\n<p>Visas and plane tickets were obtained, a submachine gun and .22 caliber pistols were ordered, and sophisticated Hollywood-style latex face masks, which could make someone appear to be of another race, were shipped to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>With Hunter &#8220;quarterbacking&#8221; the operation from Thailand, Gogel, 27, and Vamakias, 42, flew to Liberia earlier this week with plans to carry out the twin assassinations, Bharara said. By then, the DEA &#8220;had seen enough&#8221; and took them down, the prosecutor said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article gives Hunter the dates of service from 1983 to 2004 and they say that he is &#8220;highly decorated&#8221; but it&#8217;s hard to imagine someone highly decorated through that period, unless they think that 7 Good Conduct Medals and two National Defense Service Medals is highly decorated. They quote the indictment as saying that he was &#8220;serving as a sniper instructor and senior drill sergeant&#8221; and that he &#8220;earned awards for expert marksmanship&#8221; while he was stationed in Puerto Rico 2002 &#8211; 2004, so I&#8217;m guessing he missed the whole war on terror. There wasn&#8217;t much opportunity to be &#8220;highly decorated&#8221; from 1983 &#8211; 2004, if he was in Puerto Rico 2002 &#8211; 2004.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I &#8220;earned awards for expert marksmanship&#8221;, too. In fact, I&#8217;m pretty sure most of you did, too. It&#8217;s not a big deal to hit man-sized targets at various ranges  36 out of 40 shots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinto Nag, Green Thumb and Gregg all sent us a link from NBC in regards to &hellip; <a title=\"Contract killer vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37751\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contract killer vet<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37751","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=37751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}