{"id":63090,"date":"2015-12-05T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63090"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:53","slug":"brad-parfitt-stolen-valor-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63090","title":{"rendered":"Brad Parfitt; stolen valor down under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63091\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Brad-Parfitt-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Brad Parfitt\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Brad-Parfitt-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Brad-Parfitt-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Brad-Parfitt.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mary sends us a link to the story from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/brad-parfitt-is-in-the-sights-of-exdiggers-and-researchers-from-the-australian-and-new-zealand-military-imposters-website\/news-story\/2beb5b483f16e2869171a7b0c621224b\">Australian Courier-Mail<\/a> about this fellow, Brad Parfitt, who claimed that he a Special Air Services hero and he laid claims to medals that he did earn. According to our friends at the Australian and New Zealand Military Imposters, Parfitt was in the military from 1977 to 1994, but that he never served overseas. He claimed that he trained about a quarter million Iraqi policemen as a private security contractor, that also seems manufactured. <\/p>\n<p>He blames his competitors for the rumors, the pictures of him in medals that he didn&#8217;t earn were taken &#8220;as a \u201csubterfuge\u201d to hide his role as a mercenary in Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Documents, which appear to bid for security work in Iraq in 2004, falsely attribute Mr Parfitt with experience he never had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Parfitt has served in the Elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment of the Australian Army as an Executive Specialist for 15 years,\u201d read the documents, obtained by The Sunday Mail. \u201cBrad held command positions within Australian state police forces in Special Emergency Response Teams and Counter Terrorist Squads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Parfitt yesterday confirmed he had never been in the SAS or in SERT but said the document was a forgery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s a Australian version of the Dutch Rudder Club, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link to the story from the Australian Courier-Mail about this fellow, Brad &hellip; <a title=\"Brad Parfitt; stolen valor down under\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63090\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brad Parfitt; stolen valor down under<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63090","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\/63090","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=63090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}