{"id":68528,"date":"2016-10-21T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68528"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:30:20","slug":"chuck-palazzo-phony-vietnam-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68528","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Palazzo; phony Vietnam veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68267\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VietnamChuckPalazzoAO-1475425884_660x396-239x333.jpg\" alt=\"VietnamChuckPalazzoAO-1475425884_660x396\" width=\"239\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VietnamChuckPalazzoAO-1475425884_660x396-239x333.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VietnamChuckPalazzoAO-1475425884_660x396-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VietnamChuckPalazzoAO-1475425884_660x396.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For several years, this fellow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chuck.palazzo\">Chuck Palazzo<\/a> has been exploiting the stank-ass hippies claiming that he was a Vietnam veteran who went back to Vietnam to deal with his PTSD. He&#8217;s been living in Da Nang where he claimed that he patrolled the outskirts of that city as a Recon Marine in the early 70s, like in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/50-years-veterans-find-healing-returning-vietnam-help\/\">PBS<\/a> article;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68268\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Palazzo-Claims-500x135.jpg\" alt=\"Palazzo Claims\" width=\"500\" height=\"135\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Palazzo-Claims-500x135.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Palazzo-Claims-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Palazzo-Claims.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also written a number of articles on the effects of Agent Orange on the local Vietnamese for those cranks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/author\/palazzo\/\">Veterans Today<\/a>. His crowning achievement, though, seems to be fleecing <a href=\"http:\/\/vfp-vn.ning.com\/\">Veterans For Peace Chapter 160<\/a> in Vietnam for several thousand dollars according to <a href=\"http:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/news\/american-advocate-of-vietnam-s-agent-orange-victims-accused-of-fraud-embezzlement-3477426.html\">Vietnam Express<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> This July, Drew Brown, a photographer, journalist and veteran of the U.S. invasion of Panama sent out a letter to members of the Veterans for Peace Chapter 160 accusing Palazzo of lying about his experience in the U.S. Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalazzo&#8217;s a total fraud,\u201d Brown told VnExpress International when reached on his cell phone in Byron, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Brown wrote that he decided to share the findings of his investigation into Palazzo&#8217;s military record after receiving a letter from two VFP 160 members announcing that Palazzo had \u201cstolen practically all of chapter 160&#8217;s money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown wrote that he first met Palazzo in 2012 while writing a story on him for McClatchy newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalazzo told me that his recon team had been sent regularly into North Vietnam to locate and &#8216;take out&#8217; surface to air missile sites,\u201d he wrote in his letter. \u201cHe also told me that he had been exposed to Agent Orange when a U.S. helicopter sprayed defoliant nearby while his team was on a mission in the hills near Da Nang [\u2026] Palazzo later claimed in a February 2013 interview, for which I shot the pictures, that he had also parachuted into combat on several occasions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Profiles offering a similar account of Palazzo\u2019s life have appeared in the Guardian, Bloomberg, The New Yorker and in the Vietnamese media.<\/p>\n<p>Brown says that Palazzo duped them all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteransforpeace.org\/pressroom\/news\/2015\/8\">a VFP bio<\/a> for their annual trek to Vietnam;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68533\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68533\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VFP-300x90.jpg\" alt=\"VFP\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VFP-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VFP-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VFP-500x150.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/VFP.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the real truth is that Palazzo was a Marine 1971- 1975. From his enlistment until September 1972, he was a General Warehouse Man at Camp Lejeune. In September 1972, he went to the Support Company, Support Battalion, 3rd Force Service Regiment Fleet Marine Force, Pacific as a legal clerk. By the time he got there, 3rd Force Service Regiment was in Okinawa. In October, 1973, he returned to El Toro, California as a legal chief where he stayed until he was discharged &#8211; no Vietnam;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68532\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Palazzo FOIA\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68529\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68529\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Assignments-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Palazzo FOIA Assignments\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Assignments-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Assignments-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Assignments.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68530\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68530\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Duties-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Palazzo FOIA Duties\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Duties-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Duties-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Duties.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68531\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68531\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Training-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Palazzo FOIA Training\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-68531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Training-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Training-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Charles-Palazzo-FOIA-Training.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No Marine Recon training, no parachute training, no service in Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, finding a phony veteran among the stank-ass hippies of the VFP is nothing new for us. We&#8217;ve been doing that for a decade;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Brown says he initially planned to keep the information to himself for fear that he might cause strife among the veterans community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad I come forward a year ago, when I finally realized that my project with him had really been nothing more than a vehicle to fund his living expenses for a year, then perhaps his embezzlement of Chapter 160\u2019s money might have come to light sooner,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI sincerely regret not doing so.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>VFP isn&#8217;t really the &#8220;veterans community&#8221; <em>per se<\/em>, they&#8217;re just a bunch of stank-ass hippies who love people who will say that which is politically expedient for them. Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28611\">Jaymond Polk<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no Vietnamese prosecutor to get Palazzo arrested, so the only thing Brown could have done was expose him and cut off his funding &#8211; but that&#8217;s a tough decision to expect from a stank-ass hippie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, this fellow Chuck Palazzo has been exploiting the stank-ass hippies claiming that he &hellip; <a title=\"Chuck Palazzo; phony Vietnam veteran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68528\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chuck Palazzo; phony Vietnam veteran<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68528","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\/68528","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=68528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}