{"id":55826,"date":"2014-10-15T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55826"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:45:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T17:45:53","slug":"kenneth-joseph-strafer-needless-embellishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55826","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Joseph Strafer; needless embellishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been sitting on this one for more than a year hoping that we could find new information on him to exonerate him from any charges of stolen valor. Unfortunately, no one has been able to come up with anything to clear him. Kenneth Joseph Strafer was a Vietnam veteran according to his FOIA, he retired in 1992 with 23 years of service and he was a Lieutenant Colonel when he retired. But then this article appeared in the Washingtonian<\/a> last year;<\/p>\n

Psychologist Ken Strafer\u2014who goes by Dr. Ken\u2014finished 26 years as an Army Special Operations officer in 2004 after shrapnel from an IED blast landed him in Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Several surgeries put him back on his feet, but he decided he and his peers needed more aid than they were getting: \u201cAt night and on weekends, the professional staff would leave and we\u2019d have minimal exposure to help.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He claims that he went back on active duty during the war against terror, that he was promoted to a one-star general, that he was Special Forces and that he was wounded in an IED blast, but we can’t find anything to support any of that. <\/p>\n

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He has a CIB, an EIB, Ranger Tab, and graduated from Command and General Staff College. He had an infantry company command, so, you know with all of that in his past there was certainly no reason to tell folks that he’d been promoted to a Brigadier (one-star) General or that he participated in the War Against Terror.<\/p>\n

Another thing that makes this so difficult is that it appears that he does good work at Walter Reed, and I think that I’ve seen him there before, but the absolute needlessness for him to embellish makes him difficult to ignore. Of course, requests from us for documentation for his claims have gone unanswered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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