{"id":54111,"date":"2014-07-23T07:38:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54111"},"modified":"2014-07-23T07:38:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:38:58","slug":"fake-marine-lived-in-army-barracks-for-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54111","title":{"rendered":"Fake Marine lived in Army barracks for two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=54112\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54112\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Anthony-Phillips-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Internet grab for Liz - Facebook page for Anthony E. Phillips, who passed himself off as a member of the Armed Forces and got to live at Wellington Barracks This is his other Facebook page With Al Murray\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Anthony-Phillips-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Anthony-Phillips.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2698626\/REVEALED-Fake-Marine-lived-Army-barracks-TWO-years-just-yards-Buckingham-Palace.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reports what might be the best Stolen Valor case ever. In the UK, Anthony Phillips convinced the Coldstream Guards that he was an elite Royal Marine and he lived in their barracks for two years. they even called him &#8220;Tony the Marine&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Phillips, who wore a Royal Marines tie and a lapel button embossed with the Corps\u2019 globe and laurel insignia, first appeared at the barracks, on Birdcage Walk, in the run-up to the London Olympics in July 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when the UK was on high alert against a terror attack, Phillips convinced senior soldiers he was a commando sent to London to work at the Ministry of Defence (MoD).<\/p>\n<p>While a telephone call to the Royal Marines would have revealed Phillips was bogus, he was given his own room with a bathroom in a soldiers\u2019 accommodation block, which he lived in until March this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Coldstream Guards are the folks who guard the Queen and the royal family. It turns out that &#8220;Tony the Marine&#8221; was just a Ministry of Defense clerk with a real good story.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Duncan McDonut for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mail reports what might be the best Stolen Valor case ever. In the UK, &hellip; <a title=\"Fake Marine lived in Army barracks for two years\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54111\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake Marine lived in Army barracks for two years<\/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-54111","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\/54111","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=54111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}