{"id":54166,"date":"2014-07-25T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54166"},"modified":"2014-07-25T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T19:03:46","slug":"master-gunnery-sergeant-james-wesley-bolden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54166","title":{"rendered":"Master Gunnery Sergeant James Wesley Bolden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You probably remember the picture from a few weekends ago when DeAngelo Williams paid for this fellow’s plane ticket and the picture went viral. We wrote about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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 Medal with a Valor device or Purple Heart, though it does show service in Vietnam, a Combat Action Ribbon and a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with a Valor device. He served from November 1955 to his retirement in November 1985. Here is his FOIA;<\/p>\n

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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 mental problems, so I’ll just leave it here. maybe his family needs to straighten up his stuff if they’re going to let him fly like that alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably remember the picture from a few weekends ago when DeAngelo Williams paid for this … Master Gunnery Sergeant James Wesley Bolden<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54166","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=54166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}