{"id":67104,"date":"2016-07-27T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67104"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:26","slug":"christopher-piro-phony-wounded-combat-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67104","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Piro; phony wounded combat veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christopher<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Our friends at Guardian of Valor<\/a> send us their work on this Christopher Piro fellow who was an Air Force veteran after nearly four years of service as a communications guy with service in Korea among other places. But I guess that didn’t give him the leg-up that he thought it would.<\/p>\n

He began by convincing a US Senator that he had been wounded during his service in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

\"Piro<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

You can see at the GoV link that Piro altered that letter and used it as references for all kinds of stuff. But that wasn’t good enough either. He forged a letter supposedly from his Air Force supervisor to attest to his military derring-do, this time in Libya;<\/p>\n

\"Christopher<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Piro eventually parlayed his forged letters into an acceptance at Johns Hopkins University. But then, along comes GoV with their pesky FOIA requests;<\/p>\n

\"Cristopher<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

From GoV;<\/p>\n

According to PIRO\u2019s official military records he did not serve 6 years in the USAF; there were no multiple deployments to Afghanistan. PIRO apparently served in Korea and Germany, however there is no confirmation that he was in a combat zone. Additionally there were no \u201cselfless heroics\u201d, no documented \u201cBronze Star with Valor device\u201d and no record of him receiving a Purple Heart; and further there is no evidence that he received the Air Force Commendation Medal. PIRO forged all of the letters from Senator Boozman (excluding the one marked original; this letter was filled with the same lies\u2026all told to the Senator by PIRO. The Senator was innocent in all of this and lied to by PIRO), all of the letters from professors, and all of the letters from a nonexistent Master Sergeant. PIRO even wrote a fictitious letter for a brother in arms to get into college; where PIRO claimed to be the NCOIC of the Special Operations unit. He even polished his skills in photoshop as he created all of the headers and footers from scratch. All to advance his hopeful career in politics and to further his acceptance into prestigious schools across the nation; most recently the University of Tennessee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They say that Johns Hopkins canned his ass, too, because of his fraud. Four years in the Air Force and he exited as an E-3 Airman First Class. Even for the Air Force, that progression is a little slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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