{"id":65201,"date":"2016-04-10T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65201"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:10","slug":"vinnie-at-the-daytona-flea-market-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65201","title":{"rendered":"Vinnie at the Daytona Flea Market today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65202\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65202\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vinnie1-300x277.jpg\" alt=\"Vinnie1\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vinnie1-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vinnie1-361x333.jpg 361w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Vinnie1.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of our fans sent us this video he took today of Vinnie. Vinnie was General Swartzkopf&#8217;s body guard during Desert Storm. He was also wearing the 3rd award of the Combat Infantryman Badge. Our fan tries to explain to him that there have only been 324 of those awarded. They were only awarded to veterans of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. Vinnie says, &#8220;Oh, now, maybe!&#8221; hinting that back in his day, it wasn&#8217;t awarded like that. You know, being Swartzkopf&#8217;s bodyguard, he probably got a special dispensation. He also has three Purple Hearts. His store is Night Fire Tactical, but there&#8217;s no internet listing for him, otherwise, I&#8217;d find those three Purple Hearts for him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zWZoe-75D8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CIB3.gif\" alt=\"CIB3\" width=\"219\" height=\"87\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65203\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m fond of explaining; If you had served as an infantryman in Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm and Somalia, you would have only one award of the CIB. If you had served in Afghanistan and Iraq, you&#8217;d have only one award.<\/p>\n<p>If you had served in Desert Storm, the second Iraq War and Afghanistan, you&#8217;d get a 2d award (one star).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our fans sent us this video he took today of Vinnie. Vinnie was General &hellip; <a title=\"Vinnie at the Daytona Flea Market today\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65201\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vinnie at the Daytona Flea Market today<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65201","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=65201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}