{"id":56944,"date":"2014-12-08T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56944"},"modified":"2014-12-08T12:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T17:18:04","slug":"brandon-clinkscale-black-boot-ranger-faker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56944","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Clinkscale; black-boot Ranger faker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Clinkscale\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale-249x333.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our pals at <a href=\"http:\/\/guardianofvalor.com\/fake-ranger-spotted-staples-center-los-angeles\/\">Guardian of Valor<\/a> sent us a link to their work on this Brandon Clinkscale fellow who someone encountered at the Staple Center in Los Angeles. I guess the first problem they saw was his black boots (he later explained that he was on &#8220;kitchen duty&#8221;). Then he couldn&#8217;t produce his CAC card, and it all went downhill from there. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Clinkscale2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale2-249x333.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinkscale2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M16yXewLZnk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I guess they weren&#8217;t fooled by him carrying his beret in his cargo pocket. Turns out that he was assigned to 1\/75th but it took them about 18 months to toss him to the curb;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinscale-FOIA-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Clinscale FOIA\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinscale-FOIA-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinscale-FOIA-453x333.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Brandon-Clinscale-FOIA.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here he is seven years later still wearing the uniform. According to my reading of the Stolen Valor Act, wearing the CIB is illegal if they can find a way that he was wearing the uniform to get some &#8220;tangible benefit&#8221; at the Staples Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our pals at Guardian of Valor sent us a link to their work on this Brandon &hellip; <a title=\"Brandon Clinkscale; black-boot Ranger faker\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56944\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brandon Clinkscale; black-boot Ranger faker<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56944","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\/56944","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=56944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}