{"id":68782,"date":"2016-11-05T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68782"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:53:24","slug":"rick-nolan-phony-reservist-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68782","title":{"rendered":"Rick Nolan; phony Reservist in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this seated Congressman, Rick Nolan<\/a> in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District who made the claim<\/a> in July to a group of veterans that he was a Reservist during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

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The claim was made twice<\/a> in two different publications and appeared on Nolan’s website without correction even though he’s never made the claim before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The National Personnel Records Center and the FBI disagree with his claim;<\/p>\n

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

Alpha News<\/a> contacted Nolan’s office about the claim;<\/p>\n

Nolan\u2019s press secretary responded to our inquiry stating, \u201cRep. Rick Nolan was in the United States Army Reserve Officers Training program from the Fall of 1962 until the spring of 1964 while he was a student at St. John\u2019s University in Collegeville, MN.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United States Army Reserve Officers Training program is better known by its abbreviation, the ROTC program.<\/p>\n

Speaking with an ROTC enrollment officer at St. John\u2019s University, where Nolan attended, the officer explained he did not have records dating that far back. However, the ROTC program is an elective which has courses open to any student who is a freshman or sophomore in college. Anyone willing to make the commitment to serve their country could serve in an official capacity known as simultaneous membership program (SMP) in their junior and senior year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They wouldn’t have transcripts of his credit courses? College students nationwide should be scared of that revelation. <\/p>\n

Being in ROTC isn’t like being in the Reserves. If he had gone to even basic training, the NPRC would have a hit on his active duty service. <\/p>\n

Alpha News requested clarification from Nolan\u2019s D.C. office about these findings. The request for clarification was not returned. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Added 11\/09\/2016; It looks like Nolan won his reelection<\/a> by just 70 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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