{"id":55619,"date":"2014-10-06T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55619"},"modified":"2014-10-07T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:22:48","slug":"wallace-grey-rather-forger-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55619","title":{"rendered":"Wallace Grey Rather; phony SEAL with 7 Purple Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their research on this fellow, Wallace Grey Rather, who appears to have had an enviable career in the Navy. He did actually serve as a corpsman three times in Vietnam with the 1st Marine Division and with the Riverine fellows, it appears that he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his efforts, but apparently, that wasn’t good enough. His FOIA returns from his DD214 the award of a Special Warfare Badge (SEAL Trident), but Don Shipley reports that he isn’t in the database of folks who completed that course of study. So we looked at his records more thoroughly.<\/p>\n

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He has these two citations for Bronze Star Medals for actions in 1969 – according to his list of assignments, he was stationed in Vietnam with Coastal Riverine units 11 & 13 from February 1969 through February 1970. The two citations seem to be for the same action – neither of which has anything to do with Riverine operations, though. He has included in his file a Navy Commendation Medal which appears to be legitimate. <\/p>\n

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I don’t know how the Navy does Navy Commendation Medal, but the one above reads like an end-of-tour award and wouldn’t merit a “Combat Distinguishing Device” in the Army, but what do I know?<\/p>\n

Now on to his awards; There are two entries each for Purple Hearts and Bronze Stars. A good clerk, a mediocre clerk, or even a completely dumbass clerk would know to put one entry for each medal. For the Purple Heart, whoever typed it into the DD214, wrote “with one one silver star and one gold star” instead of the usual “(7th Award)”. <\/p>\n

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While we’re talking about the Purple Heart, here is the citation Mr Rather presents for doubters – one citation with all seven instances of his wounds;<\/p>\n

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For the record, if he had earned seven Purple Hearts, he’d have seven citations not one citation that is nothing but a list of dates. His assignments do show one hospital stay as a patient from June to September 1966 and afterwards, he returned to Vietnam, so I’m pretty sure that he has one Purple Heart.<\/p>\n

Of course, we’ve already mentioned his lack of training for the SEAL Trident as verified by Don Shipley. But, on to his Silver Star. Here’s his citation;<\/p>\n

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He was indeed in Vietnam with the Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company in 1972, but Elmo Zumwalt was a full admiral and the Chief of Naval Operations by then and had been in that office for two years by the time Mr Wallace Rather has Zumwalt’s signature on the Silver Star citation as a Vice Admiral commanding Naval forces in Vietnam. Mr Rather wasn’t a Navy UDT frogman, either, so I don’t know why he’d be disarming a bomb on the hull of a Korean transport ship. <\/p>\n

His last assignment is HCMS (senior chief hospital corpsman) and, although I’ve never been in the moister service, I think that’s an E-8, I think an E-9 would be an HMCM: Master Chief Hospital Corpsman.<\/p>\n

It looks to me that HCMS Rather edited his DD 214 before he left the Navy. The Navy has been informed of the above discrepancies, but apparently, HCMS Rather has some friends in the Navy Department who would rather brag that they know a 7-Purple Heart SEAL faker than get to the truth about him.<\/p>\n

You can Google around and find where he was convicted of insurance fraud, but we only care about military frauds here. Obviously, he’s been a fraud for a very long time, and it continues.<\/p>\n

PS: You people on Reddit are illiterate morons. He went to the CIA’s BUD\/S class? Really, which one was that? Don Shipley says he didn’t go to BUD\/S, so he didn’t go to BUD\/S – it’s that easy. They put all of his Purple Hearts on one citation because of OpTempo? Over a period of four years they found five minutes to put them all on one? Fucking idiots.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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