{"id":71456,"date":"2017-04-13T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71456"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:48:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:48:43","slug":"jim-calhoun-phony-cwo3-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71456","title":{"rendered":"Jim Calhoun; phony CWO3 still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71459\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vest-bike-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vest-bike-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vest-bike-2-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vest-bike-2.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53866\">Back in July 2014<\/a>, we wrote about an Army Times article which was about this fellow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.calhoun1\">Jim Calhoun<\/a>. It seems that CW2 Calhoun had written a letter to the Army Times about how he was still rolling up his sleeves and that no one could make him stop. Here&#8217;s that article;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71457\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71457\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CW3-still-rolling-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CW3-still-rolling-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CW3-still-rolling-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CW3-still-rolling-485x333.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CW3-still-rolling.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well, readers were so upset at Calhoun that Army Times thought it was necessary to look into Calhoun&#8217;s background and a few days later they wrote about him again in this article; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71458\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71458\">Army Times July 21 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The administrative elimination board found Calhoun wrongly wore the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 3, and unspecified &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; badges and ribbons, according to the documentation, which included Calhoun&#8217;s discharge papers, a personnel memorandum authorizing his separation and the findings and recommendations of the board.<\/p>\n<p>The board also found he submitted a falsified DD 214 in 2008 before returning to service and went AWOL nine months later; he had falsified a mobilization order as well.<\/p>\n<p>The board also found Calhoun failed a qualification course for the UH-60 Black Hawk, according to Army records. He was a UH-1 pilot.<\/p>\n<p>It cleared him of allegations of conduct unbecoming an officer and failure to maintain a valid security clearance.<\/p>\n<p>Days after the article was published, Army Human Resources Command spokesman Bill Costello said Calhoun never achieved the rank of chief warrant 3, never served in the SOF community and was not serving in any component. He confirmed Calhoun&#8217;s CW2 rank and April separation date and declined to comment further on Calhoun&#8217;s record.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Calhoun is still at his tomfoolery. If you look closely at the picture at the top of this post, you&#8217;ll notice that he&#8217;s wearing a patch claiming to be a Desert Storm veteran. Well not according to his FOIA, which I&#8217;ll admit doesn&#8217;t have his 2008 &#8211; 2014 enlistment, but it does cover the Gulf War period and he wasn&#8217;t there;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71460\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71460\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jim-Calhoun-FOIA-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jim-Calhoun-FOIA-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jim-Calhoun-FOIA-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jim-Calhoun-FOIA-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jim-Calhoun-FOIA.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his business card where he still tells folks that he was a CWO3 despite the Army&#8217;s statement to the Army Times that he wasn&#8217;t. Notice that the helicopters on his card aren&#8217;t anything that he was authorized to fly &#8211; the Army said he failed a qualification course for Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71461\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71461\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/business-card-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/business-card-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/business-card-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/business-card-2-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jim-calhoun-8656b212\/\">LinkedIn profile<\/a> still makes his claims of being a CWO3 and that he flew special operations aircraft &#8211; both of which the Army denies are true.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=71462\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71462\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Calhoun-LinkedIn-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-71462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Calhoun-LinkedIn-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Calhoun-LinkedIn-768x740.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Calhoun-LinkedIn-346x333.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Calhoun-LinkedIn.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in July 2014, we wrote about an Army Times article which was about this fellow, &hellip; <a title=\"Jim Calhoun; phony CWO3 still\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71456\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jim Calhoun; phony CWO3 still<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71456","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\/71456","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=71456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}