{"id":55468,"date":"2014-09-27T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55468"},"modified":"2014-09-27T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:03:17","slug":"charles-rood-the-records-of-the-wv-phony-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55468","title":{"rendered":"Charles Rood, the records of the WV phony SEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We talked about Charles Rood<\/a> last month, a fellow who convinced the Huntington, WV Herald Dispatch<\/a> that he was a Navy SEAL, and I suspect some of his mates in American Legion Post 93 believed him, too;<\/p>\n

He really enjoyed working for Jim Tweel, owner of Jim\u2019s Steak and Spaghetti Restaurant, but decided to join the U.S. Navy in December of 1959 and, this is where his story really begins to get interesting.<\/p>\n

What a lot of his neighbors don\u2019t know is, after boot training, he entered the Navy Seal Training Program. His Seal Training was done at the Navy Seal Training Center, in San Francisco. After completing training, he served on the USS Cincinnati SSN-693 until January 1970. As far as any missions he carried out as a Navy Seal, he won\u2019t say. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder why his neighbors wouldn’t know about that. Well except that he joined in December 1960 and he was discharged in January 1961. They probably never even missed him;<\/p>\n

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

It is not clear whether a fire at a National Records Archive in 1973 had anything to do with a delay in him getting a deserved medal but he was tracked down last year and presented the Navy Seal’s Trident pin which he now wears on his Honor Guard uniform. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, there were no Navy records lost in that 1973 fire. And the Navy doesn’t hunt you down to pin a SEAL Trident on you sixty years after you earned it. He was probably lucky that his service was through the Christmas schedule or he would have served even less time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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