{"id":38561,"date":"2013-11-23T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38561"},"modified":"2013-11-22T23:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T04:38:23","slug":"jonathon-cullifer-phony-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38561","title":{"rendered":"Jonathon Cullifer; phony Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meet Jonathon Cullifer, according to what he tells anyone who will listen, he was a Marine for 17 years, a sniper, Force recon and that he’s served in Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan, that he earned two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars. And his hands are registered in 48 states – I don’t what they’re registered as, probably earned Expert Pudpulling Badge. <\/p>\n

But, yeah, I know he’s wearing an Army uniform with Army badges and patches, even an Army name tape. Of course, that’s probably because Army stuff looks cooler than Marine stuff – I mean that 2d award of the Combat Infantry Badge looks pretty snazzy doesn’t it? Better than a crusty old Combat Action Ribbon.<\/p>\n

Well, according to Scotty<\/a>, none of that is true. Here’s his DD214;<\/p>\n

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And here’s his schooling;<\/p>\n

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In his assignments, I see that he was stationed at 8th & I as a guard in a security company, a clerk at 29 Palms, then a nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) specialist at 29 Palms. But, nope, nothing overseas. He has two Navy Achievement Medals, one for being a legal clerk and another for being an NBC specialist, but oddly enough, no Purple Hearts or Bronze Stars.<\/p>\n

That picture above was taken at a Memorial Day ceremony in Vacaville, CA, where he laid it on pretty thick with the crowd and the reporter<\/a> of the local rag;<\/p>\n

For former Marine Staff Sgt. Jonathan Cullifer, part of Memorial Day is about honoring the fellow Marine who was shot and killed while tending to the wound Cullifer had suffered while the men were fighting in the second battle for Fallujah.<\/p>\n

It was the roughest urban fight the Marines had seen since the Battle of Hue City during the Vietnam war in 1968. The Marines lost 107 in the battle to take Fallujah back from the insurgents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made it back here because of one such hero,\u201d said Cullifer of the Marine he described as \u201cthat young man and my best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cullifer, who served as a Marine for 17 years with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was the guest speaker for the Memorial Day ceremony held amid the flag-bedecked graves of veterans buried in the Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery.<\/p>\n

Looking out at the large crowd that didn\u2019t let the persistent light rain stop them from honoring the dead, Cullifer said \u201cIt was heartening that so many remember these heroes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is, however, disheartening that Cullifer forgot about honor in the thirteen years that he’s been out of the Marines. You should click over and read the rest at Scotty’s place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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