{"id":66302,"date":"2016-06-13T08:30:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66302"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:06","slug":"hans-rudolph-gresham-another-phony-special-forces-officer-at-national-vietnam-veterans-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66302","title":{"rendered":"Hans Rudolph Gresham, another phony Special Forces officer at National Vietnam Veterans Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66303\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66303\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham.jpg\" alt=\"Rudi-Gresham\" width=\"150\" height=\"212\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66303\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The folks at Guardian of Valor got suspicious when we outed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65892\">J. Thomas Burch<\/a>, CEO of the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation for being a phony special forces officer last month. They decided to check into <a href=\"http:\/\/guardianofvalor.com\/hans-rudolph-gresham-posed-special-forces-alongside-thomas-burch\/\">Hans Rudolph Gresham<\/a> who was on the board of that fine organization. Rudi even convinced Lt. Gen. William P. Yarborough that he had served with the general in Vietnam. You can read that whole story over at GoV along with how he had insinuated himself into the George W. Bush Administration. But for our intents and purposes;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66304\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-linkden-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Rudi Gresham linkden\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-linkden-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-linkden-500x260.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-linkden.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66305\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66305\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Capture3-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"Capture3\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Capture3-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Capture3-768x854.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Capture3-299x333.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Capture3.jpg 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/gresham-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"gresham\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/gresham-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/gresham-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/gresham-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/gresham.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, special forces, if being a supply clerk, a chaplain&#8217;s assistant, a personnel clerk and about four months in a line company in the 82d Airborne Division before a trip to Germany makes you a special forces soldier in Vietnam. He never set foot in Vietnam and he was discharged as a private first class, not a lieutenant colonel.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66308\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rudi Gresham FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-FOIA.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66307\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66307\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-Assignments-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Rudi Gresham Assignments\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-Assignments-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-Assignments-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-Assignments-431x333.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rudi-Gresham-Assignments.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Guardian of Valor got suspicious when we outed J. Thomas Burch, CEO of &hellip; <a title=\"Hans Rudolph Gresham, another phony Special Forces officer at National Vietnam Veterans Foundation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66302\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hans Rudolph Gresham, another phony Special Forces officer at National Vietnam Veterans Foundation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66302","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\/66302","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=66302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}