{"id":62177,"date":"2015-10-06T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62177"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:09","slug":"manuel-knight-phony-sf-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62177","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Knight, phony SF in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62178\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3021468_1200_675-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"3021468_1200_675\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3021468_1200_675-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3021468_1200_675-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/3021468_1200_675.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I guess we have fans around the world because some folks in Sweden wrote to us about this fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manuel.knight.73\">Manuel Knight<\/a>, a motivational speaker who has been going around the land of my ancestors telling them that he&#8217;s a former special forces soldier;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62179\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-claims-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Knight SF claims\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-claims-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-claims-443x333.jpg 443w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-claims-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-claims.jpg 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our Swedish friends tell us that he is doing speaking tours and he disparages US foreign policy of the last two decades claiming that it&#8217;s from the perspective of someone on the bayonet point in Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm and the War Against Terror;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B0LkC8CsrlI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the only picture of him in uniform, wearing the old Graf rain jacket;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62180\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62180\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/193fe7435497783-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"193fe7435497783\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/193fe7435497783-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/193fe7435497783-291x333.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/193fe7435497783.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s another one of him with his unit in the desert, you see him, right?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62181\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-desert-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Knight desert\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-desert-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-desert.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, according to the National Personnel Records Center, no;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62182\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62182\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Untitled-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Untitled-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Untitled-431x333.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Untitled.jpg 1607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He was a 31V radio repairman\/operator for eight years in the 3rd Armored Division in Germany. It looks like he made it to sergeant in all of those years and he got out of the Army after Desert Storm, and, of course, there are no deployments to Grenada or Panama no special forces training. He was assigned to 5\/18th Infantry during Desert Storm and they deployed, but it doesn&#8217;t look like he did for whatever reason.<\/p>\n<p>No chance to get the two or three Purple Hearts that he claims to have earned. But he does have a coin;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62184\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62184\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-coin-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Knight SF coin\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-coin-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-coin-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Manuel-Knight-SF-coin.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess we have fans around the world because some folks in Sweden wrote to us &hellip; <a title=\"Manuel Knight, phony SF in Sweden\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62177\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manuel Knight, phony SF in Sweden<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62177","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\/62177","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=62177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}