{"id":61412,"date":"2015-08-16T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61412"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:12","slug":"erik-whelan-phony-paratrooper-busted-in-montana-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61412","title":{"rendered":"Erik Whelan; phony paratrooper busted in Montana Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61413\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erik-Whelan-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Erik Whelan\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erik-Whelan-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erik-Whelan-250x333.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erik-Whelan.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to our friends of <a href=\"http:\/\/guardianofvalor.com\/erik-whelan-busted-by-airport-police-at-glacier-airport-in-fake-uniform\/\">Guardian of Valor<\/a>, at Glacier International Airport, two police officers noticed this Erik Whelan fellow wandering around the airport wearing his DCUs with Captain rank, a Ranger tab, Combat Infantryman Badge, Jump Wings and Air Assault Badge, and a Coca-Cola which was supposed to be for Jennifer.<\/p>\n<p>The officers took his patches into custody when all Whelan could produce as ID was an expired card and sent him on his way. GoV ended up with his information and they used their connections to determine that he had deserted from Basic Training after six months in the Montana National Guard, not a corporal or captain in the 82d Airborne Division as he claimed in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/erik.whelan1?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a> profile (he dumped his FB profile last night);<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61416\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erik-Whelan-3-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"Erik Whelan 3\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erik-Whelan-3-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Erik-Whelan-3.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He also claimed to have deployed to Desert Storm when he was 15 years old, so yeah, he&#8217;s a hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to our friends of Guardian of Valor, at Glacier International Airport, two police officers noticed &hellip; <a title=\"Erik Whelan; phony paratrooper busted in Montana Airport\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61412\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Erik Whelan; phony paratrooper busted in Montana Airport<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61412","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=61412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}