{"id":60814,"date":"2015-07-12T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60814"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:15","slug":"florida-times-union-calls-bs-on-john-james-lavoie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60814","title":{"rendered":"Florida Times Union calls BS on John James Lavoie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We discussed John James Lavoie last month<\/a> when he was pretending to be a highly decorated Marine Master Sergeant. He was indeed a Master Sergeant and he had an eviable career in the Marine Corps, but he decided that he needed some non-existent Vietnam combat service and some awards to go along with it. When we first exposed him, he came back with a tearful story<\/a> in First Coast News about how he forced to defend himself with a forged DD215<\/p>\n

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Our buddy, Clifford Davis, at the Florida Times Union<\/a> writes about that DD215 today;<\/p>\n

However, the very characters used on the DD 215 to write the date, as well as list all the medals, were written in a font \u2014 Calibri \u2014 that didn\u2019t even exist until 2004.<\/p>\n

Jenn Contois is a font designer for Monotype, a company that has designed fonts for more than a century. The company created New Times Roman for the London Times newspaper in 1930.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just heard back from our senior type director,\u201d she said. \u201cHe said, \u2018It\u2019s 100 percent Calibri.\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of our readers<\/a> made the same observation in the comments on the last article that we wrote about Lavoie. But that wasn’t it with the document;<\/p>\n

Lavoie\u2019s name is misspelled as \u201cLavoe\u201d at the top of the document. As stated, the DD 215 is supposed to correct errors of this kind. A misspelled name would render the form nearly useless if a veteran attempted to use it to obtain veterans benefits like the GI Bill, or Department of Veterans Affairs benefits.<\/p>\n

Second, every acronym listing Lavoie\u2019s medals is wrong as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Things that we also noticed when we saw the DD215, too. Of course, the overarching fact of the DD215 is that if it had been written in 2009, it’s contents would have been part of the 2015 FOIA – those DD215s become part of the official record. <\/p>\n

Lavoie had no service in Vietnam, nor did he earn any of the valor medals that he claimed. Even if the DD215 was accurate, it didn’t support his parachutist wings or his scuba bubble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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