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{"id":56124,"date":"2014-10-30T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T16:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56124"},"modified":"2014-10-30T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:56:18","slug":"daryld-gil-gilbertson-embellishing-sheriff-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56124","title":{"rendered":"Daryld “Gil” Gilbertson; embellishing Sheriff in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"Daryl$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The folks at Guardians of Valor shared with us their paperwork for Daryld “Gil” Gilbertson, the sheriff for Josephine County, Oregon. He is a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, and according to his records, he spent more than 2 years of his 3 years of service deployed to the Pacific, first on the destroyer USS Rupertus (DD-851)<\/a> and then on the missile frigate the USS Dale (CG-19)<\/a> while both ships sailed off the coast of South Vietnam supporting the war efforts of troops on the ground there. Gilbertson was a radioman during his service. But, I guess that wasn’t good enough for the sheriff, because he told an interviewer<\/a> that he was also a Navy-trained diver and trained in ordnance disposal.<\/p>\n

$\"Daryl$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Well, not according to his Navy records;<\/p>\n

$\"Daryl$ <\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Daryl$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

I had to ask some of our members from the damper service, but they assure me that the training records indicate nothing but training as a radioman. No training as a diver, no ordnance disposal training. Enigma points out that training for radioman is pretty extensive and requires intense background checks as well, so it doesn’t make sense to get that person blown up after spending all that money.<\/p>\n

The good sheriff also did a stint at the Air Force National Guard in Iowa as a security policeman, but again, there’s no training beyond being a security policeman in the Air National Guard;<\/p>\n

$\"Daryld$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

He left the Air Guard as an E-5 in 1992, but he claims he was a contractor for the State Department and went to Kosovo and that he was a colonel in his campaign literature this year;<\/p>\n

$\"Gilbertson$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

In his LinkedIn profile he says that he was in Kosovo as a contractor from 1998 – 2004. He may be telling us that his position with the State Department was equivalent to being a Army colonel, but that’s not what he says.<\/p>\n

$\"Gilbertson$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

If that’s not what he’s saying, that’s a pretty slick career path from E-5 to O-6 in six years. He claims service in the Army Reserves, but the National Personnel Records Center couldn’t find those records, only the Navy and Air Force National Guard records. Out of all of that, I think making up stuff about being an ordnance disposal guy without the actual training is most egregious. But, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

$\"EOD\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Gil$ <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"