{"id":40263,"date":"2014-03-11T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T16:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40263"},"modified":"2014-11-18T16:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T21:29:50","slug":"james-d-sonny-baker-29th-marines-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40263","title":{"rendered":"James D. “Sonny” Baker; 2\/9th Marines phony"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"James<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Scotty<\/a> sends his work on James D. “Sonny” Baker who is a boxer with a record of 1-4-0<\/a>, all by knock outs, so you know when he talks to the media he’d rather talk about his military career in the Marine Corps, but he fails at that, too. Here’s the way he told a reporter at the Northern Express<\/a> about his derring-do in the 2\/9th Marines;<\/p>\n

\"Sonny<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

OK, he was in Panama, but according to Wiki<\/a>, it was nearly five years after our war against Noriega in that country;<\/p>\n

The battalion[‘]s next two deployments were to Fort Sherman, Panama during one of which they participated in the Javelin anti-tank missile evaluation program<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If they were going to participate in Operation Just Cause, it would make no sense to send them to Fort Sherman, because Sherman was on the Atlantic Coast and had no airfields or ports from which they could deploy to Chorillo, which is on the Pacific side and closer to Howard Air Force Base. And probably sending them to Fort Sherman in 1994, they were a little late.<\/p>\n

His tales were a little off on Desert Shield\/Desert Storm, too. 2\/9th Marines were in the Philippines. He has a Southwest Asia Service Medal, but I have to think, since there’s only one service star, he might have been in the area for Operation Provide Comfort, (June 1, 1992 – November 30, 1995) when 2\/9th Marines were operating in Somalia. If he had indeed been in Saudi Arabia during DS\/DS\/PC, he’d have more than one service star.<\/p>\n

\"Sonny<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I guess being in Somalia in the early days (there were casualties among 2\/9 Marines in Somalia) wasn’t sexy enough. And checking the interwebz is too hard for a journalist like Robert Downes. And those stories about being a gunfighter in Chorillo and lighting cigarettes from corpses on the Highway of Death were too good to check on. By the way, I spent a few weeks on the Highway of Death and I didn’t see any Marines there. Of course, the smoke from the oil wells made it hard to see all the way to the Philipines.<\/p>\n

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