{"id":56384,"date":"2014-11-12T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56384"},"modified":"2014-11-12T12:11:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:11:21","slug":"james-jamie-frederick-frey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56384","title":{"rendered":"James “Jamie” Frederick Frey; phony who rescues POWs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"James<\/a><\/p>\n

Mary sends us her work on the James Frederick Frey, who goes by Jamie Frey these days. That’s Frey in the photo above. He was at the 18th Annual Military Gala & Banquet in Branson last weekend. For some reason, the reporters gravitate<\/a> to the people who have less military experience, but more willing to tell tall tales, like Frey;<\/p>\n

Frey served as a second class petty officer in the Navy during the Vietnam War from 1973-1975 and exited in \u201977. Young served as a \u201cgrunt\u201d in the Marine infantry beginning in 1963 and served in the Vietnam War from 1965-1967.<\/p>\n

Although the two had never met before, they connected instantly over stories about their time serving.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Frey said she and her troop were on equal footing, from them having her back during a tussle to saving 13 POW soldiers and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew they had my back and they knew I had theirs,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

However, as the night wore on, emotions rose as their stories became more difficult to share.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came home, we were called rapists, baby killers (and) murderers,\u201d Frey said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, Frey didn’t have far to “come home”. He spent a little more than 12 months on active duty from June 1973 to July 1974 and according to his records, he never left the continental United States. So, I’m not sure where he rescued POWs, unless he saved them from hippies there in San Diego;<\/p>\n

\"James<\/a><\/p>\n

As near as I can tell from his training, Frey was an avionics mechanic for a very brief period of time. In fact, he probably spent most of his military career in schools. And, as I’m sure you know, the Navy always uses airplane mechanics to rescue POWs, because they’re just so badass.<\/p>\n

I’m wondering about Mr Young, too, because he cleaves to the sad-ass stereotypes of Vietnam vets and those baby-killers stories. But we’ll probably have to wait a little longer for his records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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