{"id":38585,"date":"2013-11-24T10:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T15:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38585"},"modified":"2013-11-24T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T15:44:40","slug":"robert-l-lawton-phony-beirut-bombing-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38585","title":{"rendered":"Robert L. Lawton, phony Beirut bombing survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38586\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Purple-Heart-300x195.png\" alt=\"Robert Lawton Purple Heart\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Purple-Heart-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Purple-Heart-500x325.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Purple-Heart.png 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Robert L. Lawton has twenty years as a Marine, spent time as a Drill Instructor and retired as an E-7 Gunnery Sergeant, but I guess that wasn&#8217;t good enough for him, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/scotty-stolenvaloroffendersexposed.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/robert-l-lawton-combat-wounded-beirut.html\">Scotty<\/a>. He decided that he needed a Purple Heart from the Beirut bombing in October, 1983. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38591\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Beirut-300x161.png\" alt=\"Robert Lawton Beirut\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Beirut-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Beirut-500x268.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Beirut.png 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to his FOIA records, when the bombing happened, he was at Camp LeJeune and a mechanic;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Assignments-300x73.png\" alt=\"Robert Lawton Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Assignments-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Assignments-500x122.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Assignments.png 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, that and a Purple Heart is not on his DD214, or his DD215;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38588\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38588\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-DD214-300x251.png\" alt=\"Robert Lawton DD214\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-DD214-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-DD214-396x333.png 396w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-DD214.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38589\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38589\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-LawtonDD215-300x180.png\" alt=\"Robert LawtonDD215\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-LawtonDD215-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-LawtonDD215-500x300.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-LawtonDD215.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, he did go to Beirut, but almost a year after the barracks bombing;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38590\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Beirut-assignment-300x149.png\" alt=\"Robert Lawton Beirut assignment\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Beirut-assignment-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Robert-Lawton-Beirut-assignment.png 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can see at Scotty&#8217;s place that he has scads of Merit Masts and letters of appreciation and commendations, so don&#8217;t ask me why he needed this one last phony award to make himself feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert L. 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