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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nOne of our ninjas sent us a four-year-old story of this Robert Boyd fellow who was the subject of a Memorial Day feature in a local news story<\/a>. Boyd claimed that he had been trained as a mechanic for C-130 Hercules aircraft, but then the CIA saw what a great mechanic he was, that they trained him as a sniper and sent him to Vietnam to take out “high value” targets, and because he was so secret squirrel that they never put it in his records.<\/p>\n Officially, Boyd was never in Vietnam. But unofficially, the Puyallup resident had 173 kills (unconfirmed) including several targets he called \u201chigh value.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no record of my ever being in Vietnam,\u201d he repeated, \u201cso we can\u2019t verify the kill count.\u201d<\/p>\n But Boyd tells his story in his new book, \u201cCodename Litefoot,\u201d a title taken from his actual code name during the two tours of duty he never officially did in \u2018Nam.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of different things happened in Vietnam that no one really knows about,\u201d he said. \u201cMy book is full of them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, it didn’t take long for the local reporter<\/a> to learn from real veterans that the story he was told was BS;<\/p>\n But after the story was published, enraged Vietnam veterans \u2013 both local and throughout the country \u2013 as well as concerned military experts and others familiar with and skeptical about Boyd’s past delivered a steady flow of emotional emails, online comments and phone calls.<\/p>\n Some responses were too nasty for print, others too sordid to explain. But they each made a substantial and persuasive point.<\/p>\n The man is a fake, they claim.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n We found little to support Boyd’s claims of being a special ops sniper who worked under the cover of an airman mechanic who never turned a wrench while stationed in the Philippines during his ‘Nam missions. His military record indicates no special training or evidence of his covert duty.<\/p>\n Boyd’s explanation is simple and direct. His service record remains sealed, classified. Boyd said those documents are not even available to him, adding that even his public military records are incomplete, and don’t include all the aircraft training he received.<\/p>\n His service records indicate he received a small arms expert marksmanship ribbon and National Defense Service Medal, but nothing else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Robert](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Robert-Boyd-FOIA-320x333.jpg\")
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