{"id":54717,"date":"2014-08-23T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54717"},"modified":"2014-08-23T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:08:33","slug":"george-ferrier-vietnam-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54717","title":{"rendered":"George Ferrier; Vietnam phony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Scotty sends<\/a> us his work on George Ferrier, a fellow who claims that he’s been wounded 3 times, twice in Vietnam. He also claims that he was a POW in Afghanistan – a long and storied career, huh? The National Personnel Records Center claims that they’ve never heard of him, but I think they’re wrong on this one. Looking at that photo above, I don’t think anyone would take a portrait as a dirtbag SP4 with a dirtbag haircut in the 2d Infantry Division without having been there. But here’s what he claims to have earned;<\/p>\n

\"George<\/a><\/p>\n

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

He claims that he has three Purple Hearts, but that rack shows four (the ribbon is one and each star represents one more), so I don’t think he spent enough time in the Army to know that. He also claims that he was a POW in Afghanistan – there has only been one POW of the Afghanistan War <\/a>and you all know his name – and it’s not George Ferrier. <\/p>\n

He says that he joined the Army in 1965, but that picture of him he admits was taken in the 70s. So he spent about ten years in and only made it to E-4? The picture also doesn’t show any Vietnam Service medals. His Southwest Asia Theater Service Medal shows one service star, that’s not likely unless he arrived after Desert Storm, for Operation Provide Comfort, but he has the Saudi Defense Medal which doesn’t include the time frame for Operation Provide Comfort – so its one or the other, George, not both. And there’s no Kuwait Liberation Medal on his rack.<\/p>\n

He goes on to claim that he went to Vietnam in 1976 – well, he was the only one there, apparently, because the rest of the US Army left in May, 1975.<\/p>\n

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

So, here’s the FOIA;<\/p>\n

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

Here’s what I think happened; He enlisted in the Army during the Vietnam War and went to Korea, when the war was over he felt guilty about missing it, so he made up a story. He may have stayed in the Guard, but didn’t deploy.<\/p>\n

While the FOIA appears to be in error, he tells enough bullshit stories to bust himself even without a FOIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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