{"id":67208,"date":"2016-08-01T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67208"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:26","slug":"richard-arlington-phony-combat-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67208","title":{"rendered":"Richard Arlington; phony combat hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67209\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-ss-300x333.jpg\" alt=\"arlington-ss\" width=\"300\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-ss-300x333.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-ss-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-ss.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/militaryphony.com\/2016\/07\/31\/richard-dana-arlington-iii-usmc-sgt-silver-star-combat-action-ribbon-blog-of-shame\/\">Military Phony<\/a> send us their work on this fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richard-arlington-b7796625\">Richard Dale Arlington<\/a>, an author of a self-help book and a motivational speaker;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-speaking-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"arlington-speaking\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-speaking-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-speaking-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/arlington-speaking.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Arlington claims to be a Sergeant of Marines and a Silver Star Medal recipient, presumably from Beirut or Grenada the only two instances of the application of Marine Corps force during his service.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67213\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-FOIA-288x333.jpg\" alt=\"Arlington FOIA\" width=\"288\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-FOIA-288x333.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-FOIA-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-FOIA.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments1-283x333.jpg\" alt=\"Arlington Assignments1\" width=\"283\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments1-283x333.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments1-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments1.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67212\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67212\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments2-286x333.jpg\" alt=\"Arlington Assignments2\" width=\"286\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments2-286x333.jpg 286w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments2-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Arlington-Assignments2.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The National Personnel Records Center disagrees with his version of events. They say that Dick was a Corporal when he got out of the Marines in 1987 and there are no valor medals in his records, not unusual for a fellow who fixes airplanes and has little chance to be valorous. I see he does have the Basic Nutrition Course which indicates that there may have been some violent encounters when someone got between Dick and the chowline. It ain&#8217;t easy maintaining that distinctive potato shape;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67214\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rarlingtonpigeyed-245x333.jpg\" alt=\"rarlingtonpigeyed\" width=\"245\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rarlingtonpigeyed-245x333.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rarlingtonpigeyed-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rarlingtonpigeyed.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Military Phony send us their work on this fellow, Richard Dale Arlington, an &hellip; <a title=\"Richard Arlington; phony combat hero\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67208\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richard Arlington; phony combat hero<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67208","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\/67208","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=67208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}