{"id":57742,"date":"2015-01-19T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57742"},"modified":"2015-01-19T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T18:25:04","slug":"reed-pacheco-phony-160th-soar-in-the-mog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57742","title":{"rendered":"Reed Pacheco; phony 160th SOAR in the Mog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The folks at Guardian of Valor<\/a> send us their tireless research on this Reed Pacheco, Junior fellow. He was the CEO of the vet charity organization Warrior Pointe<\/a> (that’s their Facebook link, their link on the web is down at the moment) until he started making claims about being a crew chief in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) during Operation Gothic Serpent in October 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia during the famous “Black Hawk Down” incident.<\/p>\n

Members of the 160th SOAR doubted his service there and they could find no record of him ever being assigned to the unit, so they sent the information off to Bulldog and his crew. Here’s a screenshot of some of his claims;<\/p>\n

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And a newspaper article in the Idaho Statesman<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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But here’s the truth;<\/p>\n

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He was in the National Guard during our Somalia operations and went into the Active Duty Army the following month. His only service overseas was a trip to Korea. he was discharged from the Army as a PFC, not as a staff sergeant as he had claimed. According to Bulldog, Reed was discharged for “serious offenses”. <\/p>\n

Well, after Bulldog and the crew danced with Pacheco yesterday, as well as the folks at Warrior Pointe, Reed finally apologized.<\/p>\n

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They tried to excuse Pacheco’s behavior by claiming that it wasn’t “Stolen Valor”, that stolen valor is just what the US Code defines as stolen valor. My response is this; stolen valor is what we say it is. This business is about the Truth<\/strong> and the Supreme Court said that the Truth<\/strong> didn’t need handcuffs and badges for enforcement, it only needed citizens willing to speak the Truth<\/strong>. Justice Kennedy wrote in US v. Alvarez “The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth….Society has the right and civic duty to engage in open, dynamic, rational discourse.<\/em>” We don’t need no stinkin’ U.S.C.<\/p>\n

The GoV folks have a ton more about this case at their link including a telephonic admission from Pacheco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Guardian of Valor send us their tireless research on this Reed Pacheco, Junior … Reed Pacheco; phony 160th SOAR in the Mog<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57742","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\/57742","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=57742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}