{"id":62754,"date":"2015-11-12T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62754"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:54","slug":"james-h-bales-phony-pow-phony-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62754","title":{"rendered":"James H. Bales; phony POW, phony Vietnam vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us this fellow, James Harold Bales, who claims to be a retired Marine First Sergeant with 21 years of service (from 1966-1987). He claims that he was a POW of the North Vietnamese for nine months in 1968 (even though he doesn’t appear on DPAA’s list of POWs). He claims SIlver Star Medals, Purple Heart Medals, that he’s paratrooper and scuba trained. Almost all of that is true, well, maybe not;<\/p>\n

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He was a Reservist for 13 years – he didn’t join until about two years after ground forces were withdrawn from Vietnam. He never left the United States, he never engaged in any combat, anywhere. He does have that grueling Defensive Driving Course, though. <\/p>\n

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He’s another one who was busted by the old POW Network, but figures he can go back to his misbehavior now that the website is gone. Nope!<\/p>\n

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