{"id":65979,"date":"2016-05-25T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65979"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:07","slug":"craig-carroll-phony-vietnam-marine-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65979","title":{"rendered":"Craig Carroll; phony Vietnam Marine veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65980\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-369x333.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Carroll\" width=\"369\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-369x333.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Craig Lee Carroll lately from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Folks in the Appomattox, Virginia area were curious about him ten years ago when he tried to join the VFW in the Virginia area, but he couldn&#8217;t produce a DD214 discharge certificate. Apparently, he&#8217;d been telling folks that, aside from being a Vietnam veteran and a former Marine, he was also a CIA agent, who, at the age of 68 was still involved in the Global War Against Terror.<\/p>\n<p>Just last Veterans&#8217; Day, he was still balancing balls on his nose for the <a href=\"http:\/\/fox43.com\/2015\/11\/10\/50-years-later-vietnam-veteran-uses-calling-to-help-cope-with-pain-of-war\/\">local media<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65982\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65982\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-Headline-500x67.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Carroll Headline\" width=\"500\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-Headline-500x67.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-Headline-300x40.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-Headline-768x103.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-Headline.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65981\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65981\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-article-394x333.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Carroll article\" width=\"394\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-article-394x333.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-article-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-article-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Carroll-article.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retired Lance Corporal in the Marines Craig Carroll served on the front lines in the Vietnam War. &#8220;You&#8217;re scared to death, you&#8217;re dealing with an unknown and once the shooting starts and all the chaos begins, all of a sudden I don&#8217;t hear anything. There&#8217;s no sound, everything is slow motion,&#8221; recalls Carroll of being in battle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He operates the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettysburgmilitariaandantiques.com\/\">Gettysburg Militaria and Antiques<\/a> to soothe the injuries of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, no. POW Network busted him ten years ago for lying. When that website came down, he thought it was safe to start telling his lies again, i suppose. But, nope, no military service anywhere;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65983\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Carroll-POW-Network-500x86.jpg\" alt=\"Carroll POW Network\" width=\"500\" height=\"86\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Carroll-POW-Network-500x86.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Carroll-POW-Network-300x52.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Carroll-POW-Network-768x132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Carroll-POW-Network.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65984\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65984\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Caroll-FOIA-318x333.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Caroll FOIA\" width=\"318\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-65984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Caroll-FOIA-318x333.jpg 318w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Caroll-FOIA-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Craig-Caroll-FOIA.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Maybe he&#8217;ll stay busted this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent us their work on this fellow, Craig Lee Carroll lately from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 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