{"id":64578,"date":"2016-02-28T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T14:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64578"},"modified":"2016-02-28T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T14:18:33","slug":"dear-fox-news-mario-rubio-is-not-a-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64578","title":{"rendered":"Dear Fox News; Mario Rubio is not a Vietnam veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Let me be clear that I don’t think this is Mario Rubio’s fault at all. It’s completely the fault of the Fox News producers who didn’t do their research. But, Greta Van Susteren did an interview with Marco Rubio’s older brother, Mario, and the on-screen banner said that he was a Vietnam veteran;<\/p>\n

\"Rubio-Garcia<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Mario Rubio did serve during the Vietnam War, he was a Special Forces-qualified Sergeant and he was assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, but he didn’t serve in Vietnam. I’ve read several articles this morning about Mario and his military service and in none of those other articles does it state that he was a Vietnam veteran, so I have to think that this is a Fox News error, not Mr. Rubio being deceptive.<\/p>\n

\"Rubio-Garcia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Rubio-Garcia<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

According to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, more than 9 million Americans served during the Vietnam War (Aug. 5, 1964 – May 7, 1975) but only 3.4 million Americans served in the theater of operations (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Flight Crews based in Thailand, and sailors in adjacent South China Sea Waters). Only 2.5 million of them served within the borders of Vietnam (Jan. 1, 1965 – Mar. 28, 1973). It was pretty much the luck of the draw. I have many friends who served during that period in places like Germany and Newfoundland. They don’t call themselves Vietnam veterans.<\/p>\n

Mario Rubio says that he was injured in training and that he was discharged in 1971 before he could go to Vietnam and I can find no reason to doubt that. <\/p>\n

We salute his service as a Cuban-born American citizen who served in a time when many American-born citizens wouldn’t serve.<\/p>\n

The media should do it’s research better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me be clear that I don’t think this is Mario Rubio’s fault at all. It’s … Dear Fox News; Mario Rubio is not a Vietnam veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64578","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=64578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}