{"id":56268,"date":"2014-11-06T09:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56268"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T12:50:23","slug":"gary-jostandt-needless-embellishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56268","title":{"rendered":"Gary Jostandt; needless embellishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56269\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56269\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Gary Jostandt served in Vietnam and he was a 91A, a medic and it looks like he worked with air ambulances extracting wounded soldiers from the battle for about 18 months back in 1967-68, and he was discharged as a Specialist Five; an admirable career by any measure;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56270\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/GJ-201-file-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/GJ-201-file-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/GJ-201-file-500x253.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/GJ-201-file.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56271\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56271\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-FOIA-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-FOIA-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-Jostandt-FOIA.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But, as you can see in the photo, that wasn&#8217;t good enough for Gary. He had to add a Silver Star and a couple of Purple Hearts. He had a shirt embroidered with some more stuff that set off bells when he posted it on the internet;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56272\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-shirt-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"Gary shirt\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-shirt-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-shirt-354x333.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gary-shirt.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No one gets a CIB and a CMB in the same 18 month deployment, but Gary didn&#8217;t earn either, according to his records.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more of his tall tales at <a href=\"http:\/\/scotty-stolenvaloroffendersexposed.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/gary-jostandt-vietnam-silver-star-cmb.html\">Scotty&#8217;s place<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Jostandt served in Vietnam and he was a 91A, a medic and it looks like &hellip; <a title=\"Gary Jostandt; needless embellishment\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56268\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gary Jostandt; needless embellishment<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56268","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\/56268","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=56268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}