{"id":38674,"date":"2013-12-01T07:53:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38674"},"modified":"2013-12-01T07:53:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:53:13","slug":"stolen-valor-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38674","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Valor Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38675\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grant-Sutton-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Sutton\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grant-Sutton-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grant-Sutton-249x333.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Grant-Sutton.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mark sent us this link on Facebook to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/national\/grant-sutton-pleads-guilty-to-falsely-representing-himself-as-returned-soldier\/story-fnii5v6u-1226772297437\">The Advertiser News<\/a> in Australia about Grant Sutton who attended a Remembrance Day event with his buddies from Military Brotherhood, a military motorcycle club dressed as he is in the picture above. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When closely questioned that day by a true returned serviceman, who smelled a rat, Sutton even claimed he had served in East Timor with 6RAR.<\/p>\n<p>But Army records reveal Sutton was discharged from the Army in 2000 because he was &#8220;unsuitable to be a soldier&#8221; and was only ever in the Army Reserve, mostly part-time for 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran who confronted warehouse storeman Sutton later questioned him on Facebook and reported him to police after he admitted his deceit about his overseas service.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Sutton pleaded guilty to falsely representing himself to be a returned soldier and improper use of service decorations and was convicted and fined $2000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess Stolen Valor is the same in all countries. When questioned about his service, he doubled down on the stupid instead of coming clean, and he hid out in a veterans&#8217; motorcycle club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark sent us this link on Facebook to The Advertiser News in Australia about Grant Sutton &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Valor Down Under\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38674\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Valor Down Under<\/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-38674","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\/38674","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=38674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}