{"id":61111,"date":"2015-07-31T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61111"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:13","slug":"todd-patrick-golding-phony-marine-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61111","title":{"rendered":"Todd Patrick Golding and his phony Marine career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOLDINGTODD613--Todd<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The folks at Military Phonies<\/a> send us their extraordinary work on this Todd Patrick Golding<\/a> fellow who has been loving this whole anonymity of the internet thing. He claims that he retired as a WO5 in Marine Corps and he’s been trolling a bunch of discussion forums related to military service using the screen name \u201cTPGUSMC\u201d, \u201ctpg USMC (RET)\u201d and \u201cTPG\u201d and the longer he’s on the internet, the bigger his stories have grown. <\/p>\n

He started out being a Beirut veteran, which is comical because he was 11 years old when the barracks were bombed on October 23, 1983. But he claims that he was injured in Beirut in April, 1983 and got his first Purple heart and the first Bronze Star with “V” device.<\/p>\n

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

His only award that year was when he earned the Boy Scout rank of Tenderfoot, according to the Winchester Virginia Star;<\/p>\n

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

He claims the he earned Purple Hearts in Beirut, Somalia and in Afghanistan. He earned a Silver Star in there somewhere. He also claimed that he served in Desert Storm. His career in the Marines came to a sudden end when he lost both of his legs – well, actually he began claiming that he lost one leg, and then the other came off after a while when no one called him out on the one leg thing. But, ultimately, he claimed that he lost both legs in an IED explosion while riding in a “command HMMV”;<\/p>\n

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

Well, he praised the medical folks at Walter Reed for working so hard on him, and I have to agree, they did wonderful things for him, because, apparently, they grew his legs back for him. Here’s a 2013 photo of him;<\/p>\n

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

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

Amazing, isn’t it? A medical f***ing miracle. Well, the truth is that he spent about six months on active duty in the Marines. He claims that he was injured in a rappelling accident in the Winchester Star;<\/p>\n

\"tpg-tws-rappelling-accident\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Yeah, well, he didn’t get out of the Marines in 1998 like the article claims. He was busy committing grand theft and stalking in Winchester;<\/p>\n

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

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

In all of the years that I spent rappelling, I’ve never seen or heard of a snap link that “snapped”, so I doubt that story, too. Regardless, here’s his FOIA;<\/p>\n

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

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

Yeah, no service during any of those wars, no Combat Action Ribbon, no Purple Hearts, no Silver Star. There is an NDSM, though. <\/p>\n

You should click over to the Military Phonies link because I just hit the highlights of his assbaggery. He even dragged his dead father-in-law into the whole stolen valor thing, too. His claims are so extensive, you’ll wonder why the Taliban aren’t begging us to leave them alone. And the worst part of it all is, it looks like he did it just to get unearned praise from other forum members.<\/p>\n

I leave you with some photos of him in case you’re ever in Winchester, VA (looking at you Brown Neck Gaiter and Sniper).<\/p>\n

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