{"id":58259,"date":"2015-02-16T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58259"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:12:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:12:35","slug":"delwin-ray-barnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58259","title":{"rendered":"Delwin Ray Barnett; the records"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Delwin<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

You might remember Delwin Ray Barnett<\/a> from our discussion back in November when he was featured in a Veterans’ Day article in his local newspaper, the Lawrence Journal. We speculated on his claim that he was a Vietnam veteran. He also claimed that he was a Special Forces Captain and that he earned “two Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, three Purple Hearts and the Distinguished Service Cross” during his service in Vietnam. Well, he was in Vietnam, according to his records, but unless a Specialist 4 was the same as a Captain back then, and running pavement equipment was the same as Special Forces, then no.<\/p>\n

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

\"Delwin<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

It looks like he was a draftee (2 years of active duty and four years in the Reserves) and he has a Vietnam Service Medal with 2 campaign stars. Honorable enough service, but I guess it wasn’t good enough for him. November ’69 – November ’70 in Vietnam. One year, not the four years that he claimed in the article. There’s no mention of him being a POW, either.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Hondo for going the extra mile. The journalist, in the updated article says that he believes that Delwin believes his story, but I don’t think it’s possible to “misremember” things that different from reality.<\/p>\n

Barnett continued to tell me that he was a Vietnam POW and had received the medals that he claimed. But I didn\u2019t find the assurances I was seeking. For example, I was unable to see his medals because he says he became involved in a dispute that involved someone setting his car on fire. The medals and many other possessions were in that car. He said a former colonel of his is working to get the medals reissued, but he couldn\u2019t provide me the name of the colonel. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll replace his medals for him, he doesn’t need a colonel. I can find the change for a Vietnam Service Medal and he can have my NDSM. I’ll throw in my Expert Rifle badge, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might remember Delwin Ray Barnett from our discussion back in November when he was featured … Delwin Ray Barnett; the records<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58259","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\/58259","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=58259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}