{"id":61469,"date":"2015-08-20T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61469"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:12","slug":"tony-gallagher-is-not-a-korean-war-or-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61469","title":{"rendered":"Tony Gallagher is not a Korean War or Vietnam vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61470\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Gallagher1\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher1-187x333.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher1.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this Tony Gallagher person has been busted before, but, of course, he claims that the National Personnel Records Center records are false because he&#8217;s a secret squirrel. <a href=\"http:\/\/americancountryside.com\/2010\/03\/25\/behind-enemy-lines-as-a-cia-agent\/\">At this link<\/a>, you can hear him tell how he was on the East Berlin side of the wall when President Reagan called for the Soviet Union to &#8220;tear down this wall&#8221;. He says he was wearing an East German uniform and him and one other agent were there to protect the President in case the East Germans chose that moment to attack. Totally believable.<\/p>\n<p>But, he also claims to be a Korean War veteran and a Vietnam War veteran with two Purple Hearts. The NPRC says differently;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61472\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61472\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Gallagher FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-FOIA.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61471\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61471\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-Assignments-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Gallagher Assignments\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-Assignments-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-Assignments-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Tony-Gallagher-Assignments.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He spent two years active duty and four years in the reserves, mostly before the Vietnam War saw committed combat unit soldiers. He was discharged as a Sergeant E-5 and it looks like his active duty time was spent as a chaplain&#8217;s assistant and a clerk. It also looks like after 1963 he was in the Ready Reserves.<\/p>\n<p>There are several articles about what a great job he does for active duty service members in Missouri and veterans, but he&#8217;s not doing anyone any favors by pretending to be something he isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, this Tony Gallagher person has been busted before, but, of course, he claims that the &hellip; <a title=\"Tony Gallagher is not a Korean War or Vietnam vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61469\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tony Gallagher is not a Korean War or Vietnam vet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61469","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\/61469","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=61469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}