{"id":62433,"date":"2015-10-24T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62433"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:34:09","slug":"62433","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62433","title":{"rendered":"Mark Joston; phony hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62434\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Joston-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Joston\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Joston-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Joston-260x333.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Joston.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62435\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62435\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mark-Joston-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Joston\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mark-Joston-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mark-Joston-221x333.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mark-Joston.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/popularmilitary.com\/fake-navy-seal-busted-wearing-distinguished-navy-cross-at-college-convocation\/\">Popular Military<\/a> posted this video of a fellow who calls himself Mark Joston, a Navy SEAL Rear Admiral at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Of course there is no Mark Joston in the flag officer registry, nor is there anyone by that name with a Silver Star on the Department of Defense&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/valor.defense.gov\/Recipients\/NavySilverStar.aspx\">Valor page<\/a>. Nor is there anyone by that name with a <a href=\"http:\/\/valor.defense.gov\/Recipients\/NavyNavyCrossRecipients.aspx\">Navy Cross<\/a> in either Iraq or Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sk1_3BOYx_4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some folks think that this Joston fellow is really <a href=\"http:\/\/wtvr.com\/2015\/02\/06\/louisa-pastor-allegedly-shot-for-being-good-samaritan-now-arrested-for-making-false-statements\/\">George Hunley<\/a>, a former pastor from Louisa, Virginia who made up a story earlier this year about being mugged by a mixed race couple when he was being a Good Samaritan. He claimed that he was shot, but there were no wounds. I have my doubts that this Joston is Hunley &#8211; if it is, he&#8217;s lost a few hundred pounds this year;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62436\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/George-Hunley-300x223.png\" alt=\"George Hunley\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/George-Hunley-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/George-Hunley-448x333.png 448w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/George-Hunley.png 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Popular Military posted this video of a fellow who calls himself Mark Joston, &hellip; <a title=\"Mark Joston; phony hero\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62433\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark Joston; phony hero<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62433","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\/62433","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=62433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}