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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThis is a weird story – you may need to diagram it as you read. There was once a sergeant major by the name of Gregory Owens who retired from the Army after 23 years of service in 1998. He took a girlfriend in addition to his wife. His girlfriend lived in Wisconsin and his wife lived in New Hampshire, so he made up stories about secret missions to Pakistan and Afghanistan to split his time between the two women. When the woman in Wisconsin found out about the woman in New Hampshire, she threatened to tell the wife about their affair. So Greg Owens decided to kill his wife, you know, because he had told everyone that he was a special forces-trained sniper with mad killer skills. His wife was staying with friends in Maine, so he broke in the house, shot at her four times (striking her thrice) and then shot the husband of his wife’s friend in whose house his wife was staying. No one died, you know, despite the fact that Owens had claimed to be a sniper. Well, the Army denied<\/a> to the media that Owens was everything he claimed to be. <\/p>\n So we went to find out for ourselves. He had never been in Special Forces. He was stationed in Korea and Panama early in his career and he was in the Old Guard at Fort Myers, Virginia. he’d been a drill sergeant at Fort Dix, New Jersey, an ROTC instructor at Boston University, but no special forces training, no sniper training. I noticed in his awards, it lists the Combat Infantryman Badge, but I don’t see where he could have earned it and there are no service medals for any time in a combat area, so I’m thinking his lies began while he still in service.<\/p>\n His claims prior to his arrest were of Purple Heart Medals and Bronze Star Medals, but there are none in his records.<\/p>\n Owens was convicted <\/a>about ten days ago and he’s looking at a life sentence. I doubted his claims when he said he was a sniper, but shot at his wife four times, striking her three times and not killing her. What sniper would miss a shot in the confines of a bedroom?<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> He was sentenced to life in prison on July 12, 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Gregory](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gregory-Owens-FOIA-232x300.jpg\")
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