{"id":63113,"date":"2015-12-07T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63113"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:53","slug":"ronnie-joseph-seaton-phony-pow-phony-vietnam-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63113","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Joseph Seaton; phony POW, phony Vietnam vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63122\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Seaton\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton-213x333.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we discussed a little about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63107\">phony chef, Ronnie Joseph Seaton<\/a> who claimed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mchefrseaton?hc_location=ufi\">a White House chef<\/a> and who was spilling the phony beans about presidents he never served. He also claimed to have been a POW and a Vietnam War veteran. He claimed that he had a Purple Heart, too. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/12\/06\/white-house-chef-dishes-big-secrets-and-a-crazy-surprise\/\">New York Post<\/a> story;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63125\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63125\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Claims-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton Claims\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Claims-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Claims-500x259.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Claims.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>DPAA had no record of a Seaton in any of the four services listed as a POW. Well, probably because he was never in Vietnam, according to the National Personnel Records Center;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63121\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63121\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Seaton FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Seaton-FOIA.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63119\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-FOIA2-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton FOIA2\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-FOIA2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-FOIA2-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-FOIA2.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63115\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments-431x333.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63116\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63116\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments2-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton Assignments2\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments2-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments2-431x333.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Assignments2.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63120\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63120\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Training-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton Training\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Training-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Training.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63114\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Randy-Joseph-Seaton-Training2-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Randy Joseph Seaton Training2\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Randy-Joseph-Seaton-Training2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Randy-Joseph-Seaton-Training2.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63117\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Awards-300x39.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton Awards\" width=\"300\" height=\"39\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Awards-300x39.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Awards-500x65.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Awards.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63118\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63118\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ronnie-Joseph-Seaton-Awards2.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton Awards2\" width=\"228\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63118\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He enlisted in the Army in May, 1973 and by the time he graduated from artillery Advanced Individual Training, combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam. He stayed in the active Army until 1980 and then spent a few years  more years in the National Guard getting out of the service as an E-7, Sergeant First Class with a General Discharge, as opposed to an Honorable Discharge. No time in Vietnam, so no Purple Heart, no time as a POW.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been emailing with Larry Getlen from the New York Post this morning and he says that Seaton also claimed to have earned a Bronze Star Medal, too, but, no, not according to his records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we discussed a little about the phony chef, Ronnie Joseph Seaton who claimed to be &hellip; <a title=\"Ronnie Joseph Seaton; phony POW, phony Vietnam vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63113\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ronnie Joseph Seaton; phony POW, phony Vietnam vet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63113","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\/63113","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=63113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}