{"id":63873,"date":"2016-01-15T12:26:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63873"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:49","slug":"alan-merkleine-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63873","title":{"rendered":"Alan Merkleine; phony Vietnam Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63874\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine1-264x300.png\" alt=\"Alan Merkleine1\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine1-264x300.png 264w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine1-293x333.png 293w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine1.png 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2016\/01\/15\/alan-merklein-us-army-phony-vietnam-combat-wounded-special-forces-ranger-blog-of-shame\/\">Scotty and the boys<\/a> were teasing us with this fellow on Facebook last night. His name is <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101877821505230505928\/about\">Alan James Merkleine<\/a> and of course, he&#8217;s from Florida and yes, he rides a motorcycle. The only reason to have a vest;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63875\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63875\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-vest-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Merkleine vest\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-vest-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-vest-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-vest.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63879\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-Motorcycle-boy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Merkleine Motorcycle boy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-Motorcycle-boy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-Motorcycle-boy-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-Motorcycle-boy-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-Motorcycle-boy.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63876\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63876\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-119x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Merkleine\" width=\"119\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-119x300.jpg 119w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-132x333.jpg 132w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 119px) 100vw, 119px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely, you&#8217;ll notice his Combat Infantry Badge has a star (he&#8217;s claiming two awards), and his service medals don&#8217;t support that &#8211; he would have had to be in Vietnam and Korea. But that&#8217;s the least of his problems.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Personnel Records Center, he was a body and fender metal worker in Germany. Never set foot in Vietnam. His only award was a National Defense Service Medal.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=63877\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63877\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Merkleine FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Alan-Merkleine-FOIA.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p> No Ranger, no Special Forces, no Purple Heart, no Bronze Star. Actually, none of that shit, just a filthy liar with more money than brains.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alan.merklein\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/My-two-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"My two\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/My-two-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/My-two-347x333.jpg 347w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/My-two.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty and the boys were teasing us with this fellow on Facebook last night. His name &hellip; <a title=\"Alan Merkleine; phony Vietnam Veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63873\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alan Merkleine; phony Vietnam Veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63873","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\/63873","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=63873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}