{"id":64836,"date":"2016-03-16T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64836"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:11","slug":"william-blake-beirut-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64836","title":{"rendered":"William Blake; Beirut &#038; Grenada Phony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64841\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64841\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bill-Blake-300x230.png\" alt=\"Bill Blake\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bill-Blake-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bill-Blake.png 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>About three-and-a-half years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32050\">we first wrote<\/a> about Bill Blake who claimed to be a Beirut and a Grenada Marine Corps veteran. At the time, we posted an National Personnel Records Center &#8220;no service&#8221; letter. In that time since then, we and our partners have gone back to the NPRC four more times and finally <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2012\/09\/18\/william-bill-blake-marine-poser-blog-of-shame\/\">Military Phony<\/a> finds out that that Blake had indeed served in the Marine Corps, but, still, he didn&#8217;t serve in Grenada or in Beirut. His last fifteen days in the Marine Corps was spent in the brig and he left the Marine Corps just three weeks before the Beirut bombing and the invasion of Grenada;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64838\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blake FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-FOIA.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64837\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64837\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-Assignments-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blake Assignments\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-Assignments-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-Assignments-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Blake-Assignments.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64839\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64839\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Blake Training\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64840\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training2-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"William Blake Training2\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-64840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training2-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/William-Blake-Training2.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think he was happier when we couldn&#8217;t find a record of his service than discover the fact that he was discharged as an E-1 straight from the brig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About three-and-a-half years ago, we first wrote about Bill Blake who claimed to be a Beirut &hellip; 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