{"id":71181,"date":"2017-03-30T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71181"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:44","slug":"matthew-gajdys-lies-to-hometown-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71181","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Gajdys lies to hometown newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greg sends us a link to the Scranton, Pennsylvania Times-Tribune<\/a> in which they explain to their readers how Matthew Gajdys<\/a>, a local veteran told them tall tales about his war-time experiences;<\/p>\n

An Army veteran profiled in The Sunday Times lied to the newspaper about his military service.<\/p>\n

After the story published Sunday, the newspaper received messages from soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with Matthew Gajdys and said he lied about being in combat.<\/p>\n

When a reporter confronted Gajdys about the accusations on Monday, he admitted he never fought in combat and lied when he told a reporter he was shot in the chest but his bulletproof vest saved his life. He also said he embellished his role in killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Gajdys, 35, of Dickson City, served in the Army from 2006 to 2012, including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, repairing attack helicopters, said Valerie Mongello, an Army spokeswoman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The original story is posted here<\/a> with some redacted phrases. Here are the redacted phrases rescued from the cache copy of the article.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t know that it\u2019s a bad guy until he starts shooting at you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gajdys shot and killed people. He took a bullet to the chest, but his body armor saved him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not fun to get shot at,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter you do it long enough, you kind of get immune to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the first time I ever accidentally killed someone,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The comments for the original article are still posted. It seems that his mates busted him out. For example;<\/p>\n

I was in his squad for both Iraq and Afghanistan. Though we worked our butts off (on post mind you), We saw ZERO combat. If we had, he’d be wearing a combat action badge in the above photo. He did indeed do ONE dart mission but it was uneventful. They actually extended his enlistment so they could punish him for failing a drug test. That should say enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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