{"id":63097,"date":"2015-12-06T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63097"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:53","slug":"mark-ransford-phony-beirut-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63097","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ransford; phony Beirut veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63099\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Ransford\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2015\/12\/05\/mark-ransford-u-s-marine-beirut-injured-sta-38-embellishments\/\">Military Phonies<\/a> send us their work on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mark.ransford.9\">Mark Ransford <\/a>fellow who claimed that he was wounded and that he was at the Beirut bombing in October, 1983 like in this <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sun-sentinel.com\/2011-03-10\/sports\/fl-outdoors-wounded-warriors-0311-20110310_1_fishing-boat-veterans-fishing-dolphin-and-bonitos\">Sun-Sentinel<\/a> article; <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63102\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63102\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-claims-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"Ransford claims\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-claims-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-claims-500x178.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-claims.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The problem with that is, according to his records, he was assigned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mag26.marines.mil\/\">26th Marine Aircraft Group <\/a>at Jacksonville, North Carolina as an maintenance clerk.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63098\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63098\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford-FOIA-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Ransford FOIA\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford-FOIA-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mark-Ransford-FOIA.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63100\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63100\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ransford Assignments\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63101\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments2-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ransford Assignments2\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments2-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Assignments2.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>he claimed that he was in a 3\/8 STA (Surveillance and Target Acquisition) unit, but there&#8217;s nothing in his trining that he would have been in that unit (which includes snipers).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63103\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Training-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ransford Training\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Training-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Training-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ransford-Training.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63104\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ransford-sta1-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"ransford-sta1\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ransford-sta1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ransford-sta1-370x333.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ransford-sta1.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Be proud of what you did in the military. if you were a maintenance clerk, be proud that you were a maintenance clerk, for Pete&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Military Phonies send us their work on this Mark Ransford fellow who claimed &hellip; 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