{"id":63956,"date":"2016-01-22T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63956"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:48","slug":"richard-william-figueroa-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63956","title":{"rendered":"Richard William Figueroa; phony Vietnam Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Richard<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

On this last Veterans’ Day, our own MCPO was wandering around the parade route in New York City and ran into this Richard W. Figueroa<\/a> fellow (here’s a more recent Facebook page<\/a>);<\/p>\n

\"Richard<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

\"Richard<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Looking at his patches, he’s claiming to have been in Vietnam from 1967-1970 and he had a Purple Heart, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star pinned to his hat;<\/p>\n

\"Richard<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Nine million Americans served on active duty during the Vietnam War, of those, 2.6 million Americans served within the borders of Vietnam – Mr. Figueroa wasn’t one of the second group. His FOIA says that he was in the Marines for about 2 1\/2 years, that he served at Parris Island, Camp Lejeune and Quantico, but not Vietnam. His only award was the National Defense Service Medal and he was discharged as an E-1. I also don’t see any mention of parachute or dive training;<\/p>\n

\"Richard<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

The FOIA says that he was an infantryman, but I’m not aware of any infantry units at Quantico, so I guess he was there for other reasons that are up for speculation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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