{"id":55062,"date":"2014-09-08T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55062"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:31:05","slug":"ken-braden-back-on-the-stolen-valor-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55062","title":{"rendered":"Ken Braden, back on the stolen valor pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=36209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Braden_Photo_Cropped-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"Braden_Photo_Cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Braden_Photo_Cropped-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Braden_Photo_Cropped.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36199\">Last June<\/a>, Hondo went and got the FOIA work done on this Ken Braden fellow who was actually wounded while deployed to Iraq as a member of the Tennessee National Guard. But, as you can see in the photo above, that wasn&#8217;t good enough for him. He has a Purple Heart, he has a CAB, but he doesn&#8217;t have a Silver Star or a Bronze Star.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55064\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55064\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-FOIA-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Braden FOIA\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-FOIA-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-FOIA-329x333.jpg 329w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-FOIA.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He also doesn&#8217;t have a Combat Infantry Badge, I guess he&#8217;s ashamed of the Combat Action Badge, so they should relieve him of that burdensome shame.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, someone mentioned the country song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yCSMCgqlc-0\">I Drive Your Truck<\/a>&#8221; by Lee Brice (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Drive_Your_Truck\">the story of the song at Wiki<\/a>), if you&#8217;re not familiar with it) in some discussion somewhere and Ken had to steal the valor, by claiming that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/medalofhonor\/monti\/profile.html\">SFC Jared Monti<\/a>&#8216;s platoon leader when he was killed, he just couldn&#8217;t resist;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55066\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55066\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-claims-169x300.png\" alt=\"Ken Braden claims\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-claims-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-claims-187x333.png 187w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-Braden-claims.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55067\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims-3-169x300.png\" alt=\"Ken braden claims 3\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims-3-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims-3-187x333.png 187w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims-3.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55068\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55068\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims4-169x300.png\" alt=\"Ken braden claims4\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims4-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims4-187x333.png 187w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Ken-braden-claims4.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The little prick can&#8217;t be proud of his own service, he has to dick around and steal from others. And, oh, yeah, not only did he steal valor, he can&#8217;t even wear his uniform properly. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our friends at Guardian of Valor for spotting the latest indiscretions and sending it to us. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Shitheel is standing by his story (surprise);<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55074\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DD214-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"DD214\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DD214-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DD214-187x333.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DD214.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last June, Hondo went and got the FOIA work done on this Ken Braden fellow who &hellip; <a title=\"Ken Braden, back on the stolen valor pony\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55062\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ken Braden, back on the stolen valor pony<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55062","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=55062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}