{"id":60536,"date":"2015-06-24T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60536"},"modified":"2015-06-23T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:52:57","slug":"mark-kaufman-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60536","title":{"rendered":"Mark Kaufman revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You might remember Mark Kaufman from a few months ago when a local news source busted him for pretending to be a retired Special Forces, demolitions expert, diver, Ranger, Jungle Expert, well…here read this;<\/p>\n

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He was trying to get folks to buy him a service dog. When the media got wind of his pretend service, his tin cup website went away. Well, one of our readers decided to go digging to find out exactly what Kaufman’s military career looked like. It took him months of FOIA requests, but here it is;<\/p>\n

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He spent some time in the Pennsylvania National Guard as a 12B engineer and then moved to Texas and became a nurse. Oddly enough, I don’t see any service in Grenada or the Falklands (you know, the war between England and Argentina). I don’t see Ranger or Special Forces training – hell, there’s not even any parachutist training. Unless there are jungles in Texas, I don’t see any training in that either. And, oh, yeah, he left the Guard as a sergeant, not a Master Sergeant. <\/p>\n

Kaufman blames Bill Clinton for making him leave the active force for the Guard, but, it looks like he was in the Guard through the whole Clinton terms of presidency except for a year in 93-94 when he was on Federal duty. I blame Bill Clinton for a lot of things but forcing this youngster into the reserve service isn’t one of them.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is, the good folks who were donating for his dog probably would have donated their money anyway without his tall tales. Now he’s just SOL. Dumbass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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