{"id":65204,"date":"2016-04-11T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65204"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:10","slug":"dave-cox-phony-combat-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65204","title":{"rendered":"Dave Cox, phony combat veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65205\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-5-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Cox (5)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-5-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-5.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2016\/04\/10\/dave-cox-us-air-force-combat-controller-vietnam-and-operation-desert-storm-blog-of-shame\/\">Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100011383223989\">Dave Cox<\/a>, a homeboy from down the road in Keyser, WV. Dave was on the Facebook telling folks how he was a combat controller and &#8220;saved asses like yours&#8221; in Vietnam and Desert Storm;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65206\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65206\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-9-300x57.jpg\" alt=\"David Cox (9)\" width=\"300\" height=\"57\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-9-300x57.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-9-500x96.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-9.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65207\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65207\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-1-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"David Cox (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-1-404x333.jpg 404w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-1.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Cox (4)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-4-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-4.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The truth is a little different than Dave&#8217;s version. He spent 23 years in the active Air Force and the Army National Guard and Reserves, including service during the Vietnam War. He retired as a Master Sergeant three years before Desert Storm. His only deployment was to Japan. He began his career as an aircraft mechanic, but switched over to an admin desk and some recruiter time;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Cox FOIA1\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA1-257x333.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA2-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"David Cox FOIA2\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA2-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA2-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA2-500x161.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/David-Cox-FOIA2.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It takes all kinds of people to keep the military in fighting shape. It takes recruiters, mechanics, cooks and clerks as well as trigger pullers. Just be proud of whatever job you did and stop trying to alter history. If you want to pull triggers and guide attack aircraft to their targets, then do that. If you want to fix those aircraft, do that, but stop telling stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Military Phony send us their work on Dave Cox, a homeboy from down &hellip; <a title=\"Dave Cox, phony combat veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dave Cox, phony combat veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65204","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\/65204","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=65204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}