{"id":53487,"date":"2014-07-08T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T17:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53487"},"modified":"2014-07-25T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:08:17","slug":"speaking-of-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53487","title":{"rendered":"Master Gunnery Sergeant James Wesley Bolden"},"content":{"rendered":"

My inbox has been filling up with this guy whose picture was taken by DeAngelo Williams<\/a> apparently a running back for the Carolina Panthers (yeah, I had to look that up – if they didn’t play football forty years ago, I don’t know them). He saw what he thought was a Marine and gave up his seat to the guy. I commend Mr. Williams for the unsolicited act of kindness that he apparently extends to all service members, but I don’t think this guy is legit (turns out that I was wrong);<\/p>\n

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

Aside from wearing his cover inside, I’m pretty sure the gloves look goofy in an airport setting. Unless he’s doing latrine inspections while he waits.<\/p>\n

But apparently, someone caught up with him in the Philippines recently and found him completely FOS. <\/p>\n

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

Folks say that his awards are out of out of order and that Marines don’t wear their weapons qual badge with full-sized medals. But, even I know the badge doesn’t go on the right side. But without even a last name, we won’t find out his identity and get his records. So, he just goes in the dumbass column for the time being.<\/p>\n

You have to admit that’s an awful lot of money to spend on scamming folks, though. It shows real commitment to the lie. <\/p>\n

I want to reiterate that this is not to demean Mr. Williams’ good intentions, and I hope the whole experience doesn’t taint the good deeds that he claims that he does for other real veterans. But that’s why we do what we do here.<\/p>\n

A better picture;<\/p>\n

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

UPDATE:<\/strong> Our friends at Guardian of Valor<\/a> got his records and it seems that James Wesley Bolden did serve and he was the rank that he said he was. His records don’t show a Bronze Star or Purple Heart, though. Here is his FOIA;<\/p>\n

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

There is more about his records at GoV. Yes, we doubted his service, but he certainly gave us reason to doubt it the way he was presenting himself and from eye witness accounts. We have been harder on phonies for less than a BSM and a PH, but the dude has problems, so I’ll just leave it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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