{"id":62219,"date":"2015-10-07T12:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62219"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:09","slug":"staff-sergeant-justin-druskis-and-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62219","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sergeant Justin Druskis and stolen valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MrBill sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/10\/07\/questions-over-purple-heart-claim-derail-ots-commissioning\/73459538\/\">Military Times<\/a> in regards to this Staff Sergeant Justin Druskis fellow who was busted on Facebook for telling a Marine that he had a Purple Heart. The problem is that Staff Sergeant Druskis was in Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afoats.af.mil\/OTS\/\">Officer Training School<\/a> and now his commissioning is on hold while the investigation continues. The original content is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StolenValor\/photos\/pb.194891727267099.-2207520000.1444234889.\/911238038965794\/?type=3&#038;theater\">Guardian of Valor&#8217;s Facebook<\/a> page (I won&#8217;t steal it). <\/p>\n<p>It all started with a Facebook discussion where Druskis was conversing with Marine John Irwin wherein Druskis told Irwin that he couldn&#8217;t wear his Purple Heart for his commissioning because of some nebulous VA problem and Irwin offered to talk to his command about that. Eventually, Drukis came clean, but too late.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that I would have taken it that far &#8211; I probably would have called him out and threatened to tell his command about it if he didn&#8217;t stop. I&#8217;ve done that more times than any of you will ever know. <\/p>\n<p>But, that&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MrBill sends us a link to the Military Times in regards to this Staff Sergeant Justin &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sergeant Justin Druskis and stolen valor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62219\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sergeant Justin Druskis and stolen valor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62219","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=62219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}