{"id":63921,"date":"2016-01-20T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63921"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:49","slug":"gordon-duff-was-not-marine-special-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63921","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Duff was not Marine Special Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

We haven’t written about Gordon Duff in a while. He’s the head crank at Veterans Today<\/a>, a website that says it’s for veterans, but not really. It’s funded by PressTV, the Iranian government media, and lately they’ve gotten cozy with the Russian media – you know, whoever ponies up the dough. Very few veterans write over there – most are Vietnam-era draft dodgers and various academics whose opinions can be found in a thousand other sources.<\/p>\n

Usually, they’re too busy warning their crank readership about aliens who have taken over the shadow government, but now, there’s a story going around that Gordon wrote about how the US military is always on the “wrong side” of history. I guess that he thinks that we should have been supporting the Communists of North Vietnam instead of the democratic South. But this particular article has been picked up in a number of anti-American websites, including the Democrat Underground<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gordon Duff, a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War and a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, has recently been very critical of the US military and its top commanders.The reason for his frustration is the incompetence and the either intentional or deliberate delusion of the country\u2019s top military commanders.<\/p>\n

For a better understanding of what is going on in the US military, Duff recalled his personal military experience while serving in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

\u201cI served in the US military in Vietnam, in a Marine special operations unit. There was a general consensus that America was clearly on the wrong side in Vietnam,\u201d he recalls in his article for the New Eastern Outlook website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, no, Duff was not in a special operations unit. We got his records almost six years ago<\/a>. He spent eighteen months in the Marine Corps. He was an S-3 administrative clerk in the 9th Division in Vietnam. He went to Boot Camp in February 1969 and by the time September 1970 rolled around, he was on the street.<\/p>\n

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Now he pretends that he’s some kind of expert on the military – he fetched coffee for a major as a TOC Rat. He likes to tell people that he’s a disabled Vietnam veteran, and he might be disabled, but not from anything that happened in Vietnam. He stepped off the boat from Vietnam on August 5, 1970 and by the 21st he was outside the gate at Camp Pendleton – straight to the Inactive Reserves.<\/p>\n

If he’d lie about being some sort of special operations guy, what else is he lying about? But, then the Russians aren’t really worried about that, are they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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