{"id":71205,"date":"2017-04-01T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71205"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:44","slug":"randy-scott-the-phony-sf-operator-and-pow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71205","title":{"rendered":"Randy Scott; the phony SF operator and POW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Early last month we wrote about Randy Scott<\/a> who claimed in his local town newsletter to be a Special Forces soldier and a former POW of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

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Randy Scott has been a resident of Des Plaines for over 32 years. Having served in the Army Special Forces (Green Beret) from 1967-1969 and spending 4 months as a POW, Randy admits that he \u201cwent through hell and lived through it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well the Journal Online<\/a> says the town supervisor, Mike Sweeney has issued an apology for “factual inaccuracies” in the news letter (emphasis is mine);<\/p>\n

\u201cI was extremely troubled when the township received multiple calls from individuals that questioned the validity of Randy Scott\u2019s statements,\u201d said Sweeney. \u201cThese claims were taken very seriously and when confronted, Mr. Scott admitted that the account of his military service was patently false<\/em>.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweeney said he attempted to access military databases to confirm Scott\u2019s account when questions arose. But without detailed identifying information, he was unable to so and confronted Scott directly.<\/p>\n

Sweeney said members of Scott\u2019s family told him Scott was in the military, but left after being injured in basic training. Sweeney said he had no way of confirming or denying the validity of those statements.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The DPAA doesn’t list anyone with the last name of Scott from the Army on their list of “accounted for” POWs of the Vietnam years.<\/p>\n

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Elk Grove Township Supervisor Mike Sweeney told the Journal Online that he was having trouble getting Scott’s records.<\/p>\n

So we ordered his FOIA and the Army doesn’t remember any of his blathering bullshit either;<\/p>\n

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Two months in the Army, he didn’t even finish basic training, and it wasn’t during the Vietnam War years. He was born in 1954, so he wasn’t even old enough to serve the years that he claimed that he was in Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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