{"id":58175,"date":"2015-02-10T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58175"},"modified":"2015-02-10T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T14:24:17","slug":"troy-ridimann-phony-navy-vet-begging-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58175","title":{"rendered":"Troy Ridimann; phony Navy vet begging in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58176\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Troy-Ridimann-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Troy Ridimann\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Troy-Ridimann-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Troy-Ridimann-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Troy-Ridimann.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Carolyn sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2015\/02\/08\/cbs2-investigates-is-this-man-claiming-to-be-a-disabled-vet-scamming-people-for-cash\/#.VNn3bYPktZo.email\">CBS Los Angeles <\/a>which reports on this Troy Ridimann fellow who apparently pretends to be a disabled Navy veteran. The reporter says that the Navy has no record of Ridimann. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He told our undercover producer his name was Troy Ridimann. The same name and photo match to this Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>And he has stories to tell of his service, which he says took place on Coronado Island from 1983 to 1993.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a petty officer, first class, Navy diver and master diver,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ridimann says he was injured diving for a missile that misfired into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went down 433 feet below the ocean surface and recovered it; 1,500 pounds-per-square-inch pressure compressed my cartilage in my ankles, my knees and my hips to the point where I don\u2019t have any,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can still move. It just hurts. Mine\u2019s bone on bone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he ends his story with these words: \u201cThe only thing I can do is tell the truth. I don\u2019t lie about anything.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They also catch him on video jumping up and walking with no problem when he thinks he&#8217;s out of sight of the public.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we caught up with Ridimann, he was wearing a Navy sweatshirt and walking just fine.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the discrepancy, he began limping as he walked away, insisting he served in the Navy and was in fact \u201churting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also insisted he was not scamming people for money.<\/p>\n<p>He had nothing else to say and walked away briskly with no more war stories to tell. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSLA.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=321141;hostDomain=video.losangeles.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11116481;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.LA%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.losangeles.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn sends us a link to CBS Los Angeles which reports on this Troy Ridimann fellow &hellip; <a title=\"Troy Ridimann; phony Navy vet begging in LA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58175\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troy Ridimann; phony Navy vet begging in LA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58175","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\/58175","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=58175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}