{"id":62654,"date":"2015-11-06T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62654"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:55","slug":"ray-barrera-phony-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62654","title":{"rendered":"Ray Barrera; phony Vietnam vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62655\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62655\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Barrera\" width=\"279\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62655\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professionalsoldiers.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=49842\">Professional Soldiers<\/a> send us their work on this fellow, Raymond Barrera, Jr, who claims to have been a Special Forces captain in Vietnam. In his Amway magazine, Achieve, he tells of rescue operations he participated in while he was in Vietnam and how he made a freefall jump once and his chute didn&#8217;t open;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Berrera-Article1-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"Berrera Article1\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Berrera-Article1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Berrera-Article1-232x333.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Berrera-Article1.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, according to his records, he wasn&#8217;t a captain when he left the service as a Reservist in 1980, and even though he served in Special Forces units, he never left the Continental United States, there are no Vietnam service medals or campaign medals. I see where he went to the Basic Airborne Course, but I don&#8217;t see any free fall training &#8211; although his 2-1 isn&#8217;t complete, it still doesn&#8217;t appear in his &#8220;Training&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62658\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Barrera FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-FOIA.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Barrera Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments-431x333.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments.jpg 1607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62661\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments2-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Barrera Assignments2\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments2-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments2-431x333.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Assignments2.jpg 1607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62659\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Training-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Barrera Training\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Training-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Training-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-Training.jpg 1608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It looks like his Special Forces training was the correspondence course, too. But, he had Special Forces hair;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62660\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-ID-card-photo-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Barrera ID card photo\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-ID-card-photo-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ray-Barrera-ID-card-photo.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Professional Soldiers send us their work on this fellow, Raymond Barrera, Jr, who &hellip; <a title=\"Ray Barrera; phony Vietnam vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62654\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ray Barrera; phony Vietnam vet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62654","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\/62654","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=62654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}