{"id":71392,"date":"2017-04-11T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71392"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:43","slug":"david-gentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71392","title":{"rendered":"David Gentry is not a “special forces Marine”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Someone sent us their work on this fellow, David Gentry<\/a>. He came to everyone’s attention last year when he did this Tin Cup thing at GoFundMe<\/a> where he described his career thusly;<\/p>\n

HIS SERVICE!
\nDave Lee Gentry, who lives in Hendersonville , TN was a Marine in Special Forces who served in 32 countries as a part of the 22nd and 26th MEU. After 9\/11 he re-enlisted in the Army to defend our country. Both his mom and dad were in the Army (his parents are both deceased). He and his wife Samantha, and son “Little David” are originally from Huntsville, Alabama are relatively new to Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Dave suffers from life altering PTSD, traumatic brain injury and other medical conditions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of that is true. He was in the Marine Corps for an honorable four years of service, but as near as I can tell, he never left Camp Lejeune, there’s no “special forces training”, whatever that is for Marines;<\/p>\n

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It looks like the only time he left the Continental United States while he was a Marine was on a four week trip to Fort Sherman, Panama for attending the Jungle Operations Training Center.<\/p>\n

And then he joined the Army;<\/p>\n

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In the comments at GoFundMe he made comments about jump school and sniper school;<\/p>\n

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There is no airborne or sniper school in his records. He spent less than 13 months in the Army. The 2d Brigade of the 101st deployed to Iraq in February 2003, The Iraq War started on March 20, 2003 and by April 8th, Dave was in Fort Living Room – I doubt he deployed to Iraq with the 2d Brigade.<\/p>\n

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I’m sure the people who gave him money would done so no matter what he said about his military career. If his injuries were service-connected, the VA would have paid him some sort of financial assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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